Monday, May 7: Attention, Maryland readers. An organization that receives taxpayer funds is encouraging illegal aliens not to cooperate with federal authorities during illegal alien raids. Some of these illegals have stolen – stolen – other people’s identities.
Michelle Malkin cites federal law, which clearly states that encouraging and inducing illegal aliens to break the law is itself a crime:
“Any person who . . . encourages or induces an alien to . . . reside . . . knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that such . . . residence is . . . in violation of law, shall be punished as provided . . . for each alien in respect to whom such a violation occurs . . . fined under title 18 . . . imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.”
Just FYI…Section 274 felonies under the federal Immigration and Nationality Act, INA 274A(a)(1)(A):
A person (including a group of persons, business, organization, or local government) commits a federal felony when she or he:
* assists an alien s/he should reasonably know is illegally in the U.S. or who lacks employment authorization, by transporting, sheltering, or assisting him or her to obtain employment, or
* encourages that alien to remain in the U.S. by referring him or her to an employer or by acting as employer or agent for an employer in any way, or
* knowingly assists illegal aliens due to personal convictions.
In that regard, churches that harbor and assist illegal aliens (felonies, by the way) also are violating the law. Just a heads-up. 
Could it be possible that some people who assist illegal aliens really don’t know the law? Since proper civic education is a thing of the past, it’s quite possible…
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Update: This post will no doubt bring out the La Shawn-haters. Here’s a reminder: You have no “first amendment” rights on someone’s blog. Mind your manners and accurately represent what I wrote, and I’ll allow you to join the discussion.
Otherwise, it’s into the troll ether you’ll go…
…and depending on my mood, I may send a copy of a particularly nasty comment (time- and date-stamped) to your boss.
I forgot to mention Lou Dobbs’s recent remarks. Check it out.
Long rant alert! Read at your own risk.
I don’t write about illegal aliens as much as I used to, especially the ones with the gall to demand rights they’re not entitled to, because the topic makes me angry. 
Time and again I’ve broken my pledge to write about this issue “as a concerned citizen, not a ranting, angry blogger.” Oh, well. May as well be hanged for a dragon as an egg…
Trivia: Where did I steal that line?
For the past couple of days, I’ve seen this headline on Drudge: “CRACKDOWN, OKLAHOMA: Illegal immigrant bill nation’s toughest.” This morning I followed the link and felt a familiar stab of anger as I read the story. The idiotic governor of Oklahoma is reluctant to sign a bill that would protect his own citizens. (Also see this story)
The bill is similar to bills proposed by other states attempting to take up the federal government’s slack. While only feds are authorized to kick illegal aliens out of the country, states are well within their rights to crackdown on businesses operating within their borders that knowingly hire illegal aliens. If I ran things, businesses would be under strict liability for hiring illegal aliens; that is, just the presence of an illegal on the payroll means the company is in violation of the law, whether or not it “knowingly†hired the illegal.
But since I don’t run anything but this blog, I’ll use it to share my disgust at what my country is becoming: a balkanized, third world, uncivilized, rule of law-shamming mess. (Y’all better pray I don’t get elected to office.)
It seems the governor is just another pantywaist politico. Said Brad Henry’s mouthpiece: “Gov. Henry supports responsible and effective immigration reform, but he will withhold judgment on this particular bill until he has had an opportunity to review the final version.”
I echo the sentiments of “Don,†a guy who commented on the article: “If any of you in Oklahoma are reading this, take it from a San Diegan, you won’t know what hit you in a couple of years. You want all of these illegals to do your yard work and fix things on the cheap, but when their kids become teenagers and you have gangs and shootings in your schools, you’ll wonder what happened!â€
You see, white people with the means to insulate themselves from illegal aliens can afford, physically and financially, to favor an influx of poor, Spanish-speaking, non-assimilating, under-the-radar Central Americans. They hire these people to clean their yards and toilets, and, unbelievably, take care of their children. But they don’t nor would they ever send their kiddies to schools with a mixture of poor Central Americans. Or blacks, for that matter.
[White elites have to share the highways with drunk illegal aliens like the rest of us. And they end up dealing with the consequences like the rest of us.]
Working- and middle-class Americans are the ones suffering. While illegal alien scourge-supporting elites are living it up in gated communities in California, for instance, everyone else is dealing with hispanic gangs. While the elites are working the kind of jobs that put them in contact with zero illegal aliens (well, maybe the janitor), working class folks have to compete for jobs with people who aren’t supposed to be here. Forget that illegal aliens are working for less money. I’m a staunch supporter of the free market, and if legal aliens were driving down wages, I’d complain less loudly. But since the market is being manipulated by illegal means, that’s a problem. (Understatement of the year!)
Brain cell-challenged black politicians are selling their own people down the river by coming out against immigration enforcement (perhaps “rule of law” is too complex for them to grasp) and scheming to form a black-brown coalition with hispanic politicians. Nitwits. Politicians care about lining their own pockets and picking up perks. Period. Blacks would be wise to speak out – instead of wimp out – against illegal “immigration.†I’m sure blacks living in dangerous neighborhoods in California or those who’ve lost jobs to illegal aliens can tell you some stories you’d never hear from the likes of career politician John Lewis.
By the way, sometimes, every now and then, leftist journalists make me want to puke. The way they slant stories to reflect their opinions is sickening. For instance, this article’s headline, “Black lawmakers combat anti-immigrant attitudes,” should read, “Black lawmakers combat anti-illegal alien attitudes,†but the reporter skews the story to make it sound as though we racist Americans hate “others†in general. I don’t know anyone who is against immigration per se or against Central Americans entering the country legally. It’s border jumpers and their entitlement attitudes, enabled by white elites who don’t have to live and work with them, we don’t like. It’s the traitorous American companies that hire illegal aliens that get our blood boiling.
And mine is boiling already, and it’s not even 9 o’clock!
My only consolation is that once hispanics start voting in a way that reflects their presence in the population, black politicians will be history. They can pander all they want right now, but it won’t do them a bit of good later. Hispanics are just as race conscious as blacks, if not more so. Once they become powerful enough, they’ll vote their own into office.
If black politicians think for one minute that hispanics are going to bend over backward for them and grovel the way white people do, they’re dumber than I thought.
And so are black people who think aligning themselves with any anti-white group is in their best interests. What a delusion! Controversial as this may sound, I’ll say it anyway: black Americans had better start looking on white Americans as they’re [this typo was here all weekend...curses!] their best friends. Forget past injustices or present-day petty prejudices. Yes, it was whites who enslaved blacks, but it was also whites who made amends for that enslavement. Whites are still making amends.
You think “brown” folks would do the same? What do they have to make amends for? They’re immune to guilt-tripping and whining, so black Americans addicted to living off the government via white guilt are in for a rude awakening.
I know which side my bread is buttered on, so to speak, and nowhere else in the world have blacks had it so good. And the gifts keep on coming: freedom, justice, opportunity – you name it, we’ve got it. The fact that some people are too lazy or stupid or apathetic to take advantage of opportunity or appreciate freedom or respect justice for all doesn’t detract from America’s greatness one bit. Each of us is free to live his own life, no matter how sorry or unproductive or wasteful.
If any of you “minorities†harbors fantasies of an America run by race-obsessed factions of a white people-hating, black-brown coalition, keep dreaming. America’s cultural decline would accelerate, and the country we know will cease to exist. Think about what I’m trying to tell you, and smarten up.
I’ll just keep praying and voting and hoping that people as frustrated as I am will tell the freakin’ truth about why America is what it is and stop being afraid of labels like “racist†or “fascist.†What’s it to you if people call you names? Don’t be such weaklings. Stand up and speak up for what you know is right, and deal with the consequences as they come.
OK, I’m tapped out. Have a nice day.
Update II: More spineless locals aid and abet lawbreakers.
Related:
- News Flash: Border Security Works
- Rosanna Pulido: American Patriot
- This Christian Isn’t “Torn” Over Illegals
- What “Birthright Citizenship” Actually Means
- Secure Our Borders Campaign
