Sherrif, mayor at odd over illegal immigration

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24097966



Read the article at the above link.



First let me say that I live in Maricopa County. This issue has been in the news for months now.



I am a registered Republican. Sherrif Joe is Republican, but I can assure you that I will never vote for him and have not in the past few elections.



Now with that being said, this is one issue in which I support Sherrif Joe.



Let me provide a little background into how these patrols began. A local businessman contacted the Sherrifs office to see of off duty officers could begin to patrol his business as "day laborers" were hanging out and tresspasing on his property. If you are not aware of what day laborers are, they are mostly illegal immigrants who camp out on street corners etc and wait to be picked up to do work. They get paid under the table in cash in exchange for thier services. They do not pay taxes on thier wages. They most often harras women as they walk buy, the litter, they even urinate on the property. I have had to go into my old daycare where the day laborers are hanging out and have seen the mess they leave. I've been wistled at, and had rude comments directed at me. That is why I no longer use that daycare or businesses where these people hang out. They are mostly men and yes mostly hispanic.



These people and the ACLU had the NERVE to portest against this businessman because he asked off duty Sherrif Officers to patrol his business and keep these day laborers away. They said their rights were being taken away. Really? What about this man's right to earn a living. He was losing business.



So that was how the patrols and the protests all began.



Sherrif Joe and his Sherrif's are only pulling people over who have commited a traffic violation. SO they have already broken the law and are being pulled over for that. What this article is not telling you is that people of all races are pulled over in these saturation patrols. Not just hispanic people which is what it wants you to beleive. And everyone is being asked thier immigration status. There have been illegals of other races that have been arrested. Again not just Hispanic or Latino which is what the media would like you to belive.



Sherrif Joe is doing what the Federal and local government have been to lazy to do, and that is enforce our laws.

While there is a lot about Sherrif Joe that I dislike (his huge waste of tax payer money, his constant need to have his ugly mug in the news and on camera and how everything sems to be about him), this is one issue that I am 100% behind him on.

I hope he does not stop them.

This does not make me racist, or a hatist.

I am sick of our laws being ignored and not enforced. I am sick of people making immigration a race issue. it's not, its a law enforcement issue. If you are here illegally, I don't give a rats ass where you are from. You are in the wrong. You do not have the protection of our laws so stop trying to hide behind the Constitution. You ignored that document to come to this country illegally but want to use it for your benefit to try and stay here illegaly.



Is our policy on immigration perfect. Oh hell no. I hate the fact that families can be and are ebing ripped apart because the children were born here and are citizens and the parents are here illegally. It sucks and something better needs to be done about it. I am not sure what that something is though. I admit that I don't know the best way to fix it, but it needs fixing.



We need securer borders, but we need to make sure we are allowing people in. This country was founded on immigration and we need to not lose sight of that. Immigration is not a bad thing. Illegal immigration is.



This past summer we had 2 police officers lives cut short by illegals. A few summers ago, an illegal immigrant killed his ex wives family and kidnapped the kids and went back to his home country. Luckily he was caught but the only way his government would turn him over for extradition to the US was if the death penalty was taken off the table. Night after night on the news there are reports of crimes and the people arrested. And night after night, the majority of them are here illegally.



It's getting old and something needs to be done. Sherrif Joe is finally doing something.

For this alone I commend him. ALthough he still doesn't have my vote :-) Sorry Joe.

You have to be kidding me:

This is my first official blog. I read a great many blogs each day and finally decided that instead of leaving comments all over the place I would start my own.

I saw this article at gateway pundit...check the link out below.

Gateway Pundit: Veteran Sentenced For Desecrating Mexican Flag at UNM Campus#comments

I cannot beleive that in this day and age we can sit back and allow someone to desecrate and American Flag in the name of Freedom of Speech but will prosecute someone for taking down a Mexican flag flying solo on a college campus. That act is a signal of war or that a territory has been taken over when it is not flying alongside an American flag.

This veteran did the absolutely right thing in taking that flag down and ripping it up. It had no place flying solo on American ground. The fact that the college did nothing about this is cowardly in my opinion. This veteran should not be prosecuted. And shame on whomever it was that found this man guilty and shame on the judge for sentencing him.

The saddest part of this is that if this man had done the exact same action to an American flag not only would he never had been prosecuted, it would been praised by many as a brave show of Freedom of Speech.

There is something seriously wrong with this picture.

I'm ashamed.