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Anti-immigrants solution: Don't enforce real laws to enforce immigration law

Dr. David Rubi writes:

A recent New York Times editorial ("Blazing Arizona," Dec. 18, 2007), makes an interesting observation that questions the law and order fervor of the anti-immigrant crowd: "many hard-line defenders of workplace enforcement show a lopsided devotion to federal laws; they seldom complain when employers abuse undocumented immigrants and steal their wages, even though those violations worsen job conditions and pay for American workers, too."

But anti-immigrants, who portray themselves as law-abiding do-gooders who only want our country's laws enforced, show their hypocrisy time and time again. They only want those laws enforced that remove individuals from this country because of the color of their skin, the accent they have and the religion they might practice. On the other hand, we have witnessed anti-immigrants break other laws--in their insistence that the "law" be upheld--which just shows their hypocrisy and undermines their concern for "enforcing the law."

If the anti-immigrants want don't laws to be broken, then they should not break the law. If they want the law enforced, then they should be willing to have the law enforced against all their illegal activities.
Take a look at two video clips from last Saturday's Pruitt's Protest. As you may know, an anti-immigrant motorcycle gang has been organized to show their support for Sheriff "Gestapo" Joe and his brown shirts and contempt for us. Now take a look at these two clips on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWnGkzIqBYI
Pruitt's Immigration Protest Motorcycle Biker 12-15-07

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WlO-W9vv4s
Pruitt's Immigration Protest - Bikers and Hogs

Okay, what did you see? The anti-immigrant motorcyclists have been riding east on Thomas road in front of the protesters at the last couple of protests. They then turn around and head westbound making loud noises with their motorcycles in front of the pro-immigrant protesters. But to turn around and keep in their group, they were using the parking lot of a local business as their private driveway and to avoid the traffic light at 36th Street and Thomas.

"So what," you may ask? What the videos show is them breaking the law. Everyone who has had to study for a driver's test knows that it is illegal to cut through private property to avoid an intersection or traffic: A.R.S. 28-651 states: "A person shall not drive on or through any private property, road or driveway to avoid obedience to traffic rules or traffic control devices."

If they want the law obeyed, these hypocrites should obey the law; if they want people to be punished for breaking the law, they should be punished.

When we informed one of the lead officers of the Phoenix police what was going on, he said, "I wondered where they were turning around. Now I know," and sent police to the private property that the anti-immigrant motorcycle gang had been using as its private driveway to avoid the traffic light at 36th Street and Thomas. And, miraculously, the motor cycle gang didn't show back up! Perhaps they did not want to get a ticket because the had to know what they were doing was breaking the law. They broke the law when the police were not present and did so with no concern for the property owner.

Another case in point: at last week's immigration town hall at South Mountain High School, an organized clique of anti-immigrants came into the auditorium and from the beginning had a chip on their shoulders and were looking for confrontation. I saw this myself. We all know what happened next, Mary Rose Wilcox started the meeting and this group stood up and started shouting. She and the rest of the audience told them to sit down and be quiet. (At the beginning of the town hall, she had instructed everyone to act in an orderly manner and to not have outbursts, or they would be expelled). As the town hall continued, they did it again!

And at this point, the private security, with the Phoenix police behind them removed them. Why? Because they were committing disorderly conduct, also against A.R.S. 13-2904, which states:

"A. A person commits disorderly conduct if, with intent to disturb the peace or quiet of a neighborhood, family or person, or with knowledge of doing so, such person:

1. Engages in fighting, violent or seriously disruptive behavior; or

2. Makes unreasonable noise; or

3. Makes any protracted commotion, utterance or display with the intent to prevent the transaction of the business of a lawful meeting, gathering or procession;"

So the anti-immigrants are more than willing to break the law to insist on the enforcement of the law.
And what law do the anti-immigrants want enforced (while others are ignored)? an unjust, inhuman law, as unjust and inhuman law as Jim Crow laws, segregation laws, and even up there with laws that supported slavery.

Some laws were designed to be broken and Congress, because it has always based immigration law on racist ideology, designed the perfect law for business and laborers alike to ignore. The ancient Romans understood that for a man-made law to be valid, it had to be in accord with Natural Law, those God-given laws inherent in the nature of things. Now why can't these anti-immigrants realize this?

A reporter for the New York Times, Lawrence Downes, summed up the anti-immigrant movements hypocrisy towards law enforcement best when he states:
     "I am a human pileup of illegality. I am an illegal driver and an illegal parker and even an illegal walker, having at various times stretched or broken various laws and regulations that govern those parts of life. The offenses were trivial, and I feel sure I could endure the punishments вЂ” penalties and fines вЂ” and get on with my life. Nobody would deny me the chance to rehabilitate myself. Look at Martha Stewart, illegal stock trader, and George Steinbrenner, illegal campaign donor, to name two illegals whose crimes exceeded mine.
     "Good thing I am not an illegal immigrant. There is no way out of that trap. It's the crime you can't make amends for. Nothing short of deportation will free you from it, such is the mood of the country today. And that is a problem.
     "America has a big problem with illegal immigration, but a big part of it stems from the word "illegal." It pollutes the debate. It blocks solutions. Used dispassionately and technically, there is nothing wrong with it. Used as an irreducible modifier for a large and largely decent group of people, it is badly damaging. And as a code word for racial and ethnic hatred, it is detestable.
     "'Illegal' is accurate insofar as it describes a person's immigration status. About 60 percent of the people it applies to entered the country unlawfully. The rest are those who entered legally but did not leave when they were supposed to. The statutory penalties associated with their misdeeds are not insignificant, but neither are they criminal. You get caught, you get sent home.
     "Since the word modifies not the crime but the whole person, it goes too far. It spreads, like a stain that cannot wash out. It leaves its target diminished as a human, a lifetime member of a presumptive criminal class. People are often surprised to learn that illegal immigrants have rights. Really? Constitutional rights? But aren't they illegal? Of course they have rights: they have the presumption of innocence and the civil liberties that the Constitution wisely bestows on all people, not just citizens." (New York Times, "What Part of Illegal Don't You Understand?" Oct. 28, 2007)

So what the anti-immigrants propose is that we use local police resources to enforce federal immigration laws, to hell with the other laws. This seems to be in concert with their attitude towards laws they feel it is okay to break.

So they want police and sheriff's deputies to arrest someone and have them deported, which means these officers will not be able to go after drug traffickers, rapists, murderers, drug pushers, child molesters. They will not be able to do anything but spend their time doing ethnic cleansing, so other laws, really more important laws, cannot be enforced.
I guess in the anti-immigrants' minds the threat of dark-skinned, Spanish-speaking, Catholics who look like Indians--the kind their great-great-gran' pappy killed off long ago--and who cook, clean, pick crops, deliver goods, tend their gardens, care for their children, are far more of a threat than the rapists, murderers, drug pushers, dope addicts, child molesters, crooked politicians and the rest in their midst.

Well, one thing is for sure: if the police and sheriff's deputies are busy doing immigration work, that means they won't be giving tickets to motorcycle gang members who violate the law!

Who knows? Maybe that's the real reason they want the police to do immigration work! It will get the police off their backs!

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