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05-08-2010
No Human Rights for U. S. Citizens
Our Lawless Mexican Border
Americans who do not live along the Mexican border often assume the
antipathy to illegal immigration arises from racial or cultural
concerns. But talk to people on the ground, and what they fear most is
the loss of personal security. They are angry that the federal
government is unable to provide them with this most basic of human
rights.
Leo Banks - Mr. Banks covers the border for the Tucson Weekly.
Leowbanks@aol.com
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AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry today issued the following statement regarding
border security, the recent debate over immigration policy in Washington
and what has been implemented in Arizona:
“Texas
has a rich history with Mexico, our largest trading partner, and we
share more than 1,200 miles of border, more than any other state. As the
debate on immigration reform intensifies, the focus must remain on
border security and the federal government’s failure to adequately
protect our borders. Securing our border is a federal responsibility,
but it is a Texas problem, and it must be addressed before comprehensive
immigration reform is discussed.
“Recently, there has been much debate over immigration policy in
Washington and what has been implemented in Arizona. I fully recognize
and support a state’s right and obligation to protect its citizens, but
I have concerns with portions of the law passed in Arizona and believe
it would not be the right direction for Texas.
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Contact the governor with your thoughts on what he thinks about the
implementation of the AZ legislation in TX:
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out-of-state callers] :(512) 463-1782
Office of
the Governor P.O. Box 12428 Austin, Texas 78711-2428
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/US/tom-ridge-criticizes-arizona-immigration-bill/story?id=10499817
Texas lawmaker to introduce anti-immigration bill -
Texas Rep. Debbie Riddle Introduces Similar Anti-Immigration Bill as
Arizona's.
Riddle Says Her Proposed Bill Is Not Racially Motivated
Commentary: Immigrant profiling? Don't worry
By RICK CASEY HOUSTON CHRONICLE May 6, 2010, 9:45PM
I'm not worried that State Reps. Debbie Riddle of Tomball and Leo Berman
of Tyler will get the Texas Legislature to pass and Gov. Rick Perry to
sign an Arizona-style law turning Texas police officers into La Migra.
Not only is Texas more enlightened than Arizona, but too many of our
legislators, as well as the governor himself, have a tradition of
receiving large contributions from homebuilders and chicken magnates who
are very humanitarian when it comes to hiring immigrants.
But in the unlikely event that such legislation is passed, I'm even less
worried that our Lone Star constabulary will engage in racial profiling
to determine whose papers are checked.
Our officers of the law are far too creative to need such vulgar
techniques. The defense lost the appeal, but in his dissent Judge Wiener
offered a stunning catalogue of rationales police had successfully
offered to justify stopping vehicles in South Texas — proving that they
never resorted to racial profiling.
Read on . .
Schumer Asks For Delay Of Arizona Law
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Senate Judiciary Immigration Subcommittee Chairman Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.,
today asked Arizona's Republican governor to delay implementation of a
state law that gives police the power to detain and question anybody
suspected of being in the country illegally.
In a letter, Schumer asked Gov. Jan Brewer to call on her state's
legislature to delay enactment of the law to give Congress sufficient
time to pass a comprehensive immigration bill that would secure the
nation's borders, give an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the
country a path to citizenship and create a framework to bring foreign
workers into the United States.
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05-12-2010
Read what the Chairman of the Mexican American
Legislative Caucus said about Rep. Riddle's plan to introduce a bill on
the line of the AZ immigration bill?
"...the Chairman of the Mexican
American Legislative Caucus has said this: " he
doubts the bill would pass in Texas.
"I
think I can get more support for legislation to have Leo Berman and
Debbie Riddle deported to Arizona," said Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer,
D-San Antonio. "We have enough work to do and our time is better spent
working on issues that we can actually solve."
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From: "The Peter Morrison
Report" <info@petermorrisonreport.com>
Sent: 2010-05-12 09:19
Subject: Rep. Debbie
Riddle Speaks Up Against Illegal Immigration
Summary of this week's report:
Texas State Rep. Debbie Riddle created a firestorm when she told a left
wing talk show host discussing the recent Arizona bill that the reason
race-based Hispanic groups aren't in favor of a crackdown on illegal
immigration is that they're used to entitlements and want to keep them
coming. Questioning entitlements going to illegal aliens is an
unpardonable sin in politics. We need to commend Rep. Riddle and thank
her for speaking up on this issue and for refusing to back down in the
face of numerous personal attacks on her character.
Send a fax to Rep. Riddle,
http://www.morrisonreport.com/fax_test/index.php?faxID=88
Full report:
Texas State Representative Debbie Riddle (R-Tomball) found herself in
the middle of a firestorm the other day after she gave an interview to
an obscure left wing talk show host in Houston. An attorney named Geoff
Berg hosts a weekly talk show called Partisan Gridlock on station KFPT
which, just like Berg's politics, is on the far left end of the FM
dial. KFPT is affiliated with the notoriously radical Radio Pacifica
network. For an idea of where Berg and KFPT are coming from, just look
at a few of the programs on the station's schedule: Queer Voices,
Proyecto Latino Americano, Uprising, Arab Voices, Nuestra Palabra and
Voz de la Tierra.
Berg was interviewing Rep. Riddle about her call for a crackdown on
illegal immigration. Rep. Riddle has promised to introduce legislation
this year that will be very similar to the recent bill passed in
Arizona; in other words, she wants a law on illegal immigration that
will actually be effective. During the interview, Berg employed a
typical left wing tactic - he prefaced his question with "Without making
it a racial issue...", and then proceeded to bluntly make opposition to
illegal immigration into a racial issue.
Berg said that the vote on the tough illegal immigration bill in Arizona
broke down along racial lines - with almost all of the> white
legislators voting for it, and almost all of the non-white legislators
opposing it. He then asked Rep. Riddle how she planned to generate
support for her bill from "people of color." That's how liberals talk
when they supposedly want to avoid "making it a racial issue." They
love to play the race card themselves, and then turn around and accuse
their conservative opponents of injecting race into the discussion.
Clearly, Berg was being disingenuous; he was hoping to goad Rep. Riddle
into either making a verbal "gaffe" that could be twisted and denounced
as "racist" by leftists, or shaming her into backing off of her tough
stance on immigration by playing the race card.
This time, though, it didn't work. Debbie Riddle simply stated things
matter-of-factly. She told Berg that it would be hard to generate equal
support for action on illegal immigration from every group: "When you
have people that are used to entitlements, then they like the
entitlements and they want the entitlements to keep coming." That may
not be politically correct, but it's true that illegal aliens do get
entitlements and they want to continue to get them. Of course, there
are many conservative Hispanic Americans who are strongly opposed to
both illegal immigration and free handouts from the government, but, if
voting patterns are any guide, then they are unfortunately in the
minority, and pretending otherwise is nothing but intellectual
dishonesty. In 2008, Hispanics voted 2-1 for Obama, even after John
McCain shamelessly pandered to them. They didn't vote overwhelmingly
for Obama and the Democrats because they want to see a reduction in
entitlement spending.
It's even more dishonest to pretend that entitlements aren't one of the
main reasons illegals are coming here by the millions. In just one city
in America, Los Angeles, the local government is spending nearly fifty
million dollars per month on welfare and food stamps for the children of
illegals. Educating them may be even more costly - the Supreme Court
ruled decades ago that it's somehow unconstitutional to deny free public
schooling to the children of illegals. For all the problems facing our
schools, they are far superior to the average school in Mexico and we
spend billions of dollars a year on educating the children of illegals.
The same goes for health care - politicians in Washington have ruled
that hospitals must treat illegal aliens in emergency rooms, and they
take advantage of this entitlement to the tune of billions more each
year. In California alone, over eighty hospitals have closed down
because they went bankrupt treating illegal aliens who don't pay. In
Houston, illegals constitute nearly twenty percent of patients in the
Harris County Hospital District, and officials there are warning that
the county hospital system may not have a viable future if they don't
attract more paying customers to cover the costs of treating illegals.
Even though she spoke the truth, and didn't come close to committing a
"gaffe", liberals immediately denounced Debbie Riddle as a "racist." Of
course, it's becoming clearer every day that anyone who opposes illegal
immigration is a "racist" in the eyes of liberals. It's been said that
a racist is simply a conservative who's winning an argument with a
liberal. If left-wingers can't refute someone, they simply resort to
calling them vicious names. It didn't stop with "racist", either -
she's been called "an idiot" and "a Nazi", and many other names too
crude to repeat here. Thankfully, Rep. Riddle not only has the
courage to speak the truth, she also refuses to be intimidated. Most
politicians would have backed off and groveled an apology in the face of
this onslaught, but not Debbie Riddle. She's standing firm, and issued
a statement defending her remarks about why race based groups like the
Mexican-American Legislative Caucus oppose enforcing our immigration
laws:
"...I gave my honest answer: I think that those lawmakers believe that
illegal immigrants are entitled to services that we reserve for our
citizens, services that must be paid for by the tax dollars of our
citizens, and are too often given to illegal immigrants instead of our
citizens. I think this is not just wrong, not just unjust, but truly and
utterly immoral in every sense of the word.
As our state deals with the largest financial crisis we've seen in
recent memory, lawmakers have unpleasant and unpopular decisions that
must be made. We must choose to provide for the safety and security of
our citizens before we make concessions to those who do not have a legal
right to be here in the first place.
I will not send our citizens to the back of the line in order to appease
the politically-correct left."
It's extremely heartening to see a politician speak the truth and let
the chips fall where they may. Not to mention Rick Perry's name, but
unfortunately, some of our politicians have "concerns" about an illegal
immigration bill that would enforce our laws and say that it "would not
be the right direction for Texas."
Meanwhile, Debbie Riddle simply pointed out the obvious - it's the
organized liberal Hispanic groups that openly base their policies on
race when it comes to illegal immigration, not conservatives.
Politicians like her are a rare specimen these days, and she is to be
commended for putting American citizens first, and for having the
courage to speak the truth and not back down when liberals go on the war
path.
Send a fax to Rep. Debbie Riddle and thank her for her bold stand, and
let her know that you support her one hundred percent in her efforts to
stop the invasion by illegal aliens:
http://www.morrisonreport.com/fax_test/index.php?faxID=88>
The Peter Morrison Report
http://www.PeterMorrisonReport.com
http://www.facebook.com/morrisonreport
Sources:
http://www.partisangridlock.com/
http://www.kpft.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=60
http://www.texastribune.org/blogs/post/2010/may/05/tribblog-riddle-responds/
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1024/exit-poll-analysis-hispanics
http://threewisemenblog.com/2010/04/28/rep-debbie-riddle-continues-to-be-an-idiot/
http://halfempth.blogspot.com/2010/04/will-texas-out-nazi-arizona.html
http://www.alipac.us/article4463.html
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/health/6927229.html
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