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Jewish World Review August 9, 2010/ 29 Menachem-Av, 5770 It's ‘Only’ One Dead Nun By Arnold Ahlert
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It reads like a Hollywood script: one nun killed, two critically injured by an illegal alien driving drunk. Perpetrator Carlos A. Martinelly Montano has been here for several years. He has two prior drunk driving convictions, for which he received a 30-day jail sentence for the first--and served no time--and served only 20 days of an approximately one-year sentence for the second. He is turned over to federal immigration officials after the second conviction, but they release him twice while he's awaiting deportation hearings. So what's the major concern of pro-illegal alien types? Montano's uncle, Luis Ronald Montano, put it best: "He's getting used to crucify all the illegal aliens in the United States."
Sorry, but this is one American who couldn't give a rat's rear end about prosecuting law-breakers. Uncle Luis might have a scintilla of a point if this were nothing more than an isolated incident, but it's not--and every American knows it. According to FoxNews.com, "(N)early half of the 292,663 people deported or removed by ICE this year through July 22 were considered criminals."
And that number reflects only the illegals ICE caught, processed--and deported.
In fact, Montano's crime probably doesn't even make the Top Ten list of egregious crimes committed by illegals. That particular "honor" was likely snagged by one Rodolpho Godinez who, along with five other border-busters, attempted to execute four college students in Newark, NJ three years ago. Unfortunately for him, one of them, Natasha Aeriel, survived a gunshot wound to her face and fingered the killer. He was the first of the six gang-banging illegals convicted of that atrocity.
And make no mistake: atrocity is precisely the word. Prior to their murders, both women in the group were sexually molested. The perps also hacked their victims with machetes, or as murder victim Iofemi Hightower's great-uncle described it, "they cut my niece's face off. They cut her from cheek to cheek. They left her head hanging."
Still want to talk about crucifixion, uncle Luis?
The Obama administration's latest tack on the subject? With regard to Arizona, the FBI has just released statistics showing a "steady decline in crime" in all major metro areas of Arizona. Translation: things aren't as bad as people who support Arizona's get-tough law claim them to be.
Try selling that crap to the relatives of murdered rancher Robert Krentz or any of the other victims of the thousands of crimes committed every day by illegals. Try telling them that, for all intents and purposes, a "certain level" of violence or mayhem committed by people who shouldn't even be here is perfectly acceptable. Try telling them that it's acceptable for the federal government to ignore its Constitutionally-mandated requirement to "provide for the common defense."
Try telling them the government can't seal the border.
On the other hand, spare me the sob stories about our inability to deport the "11 million" illegals we hear so much about. First and foremost, how do we know that isn't a completely bogus number? How many of the hand-wringers--on both sides of the aisle--would be equally sanguine about amnesty if it concerned legalizing 30 or 40 million illegals?
Second, and equally bogus, is the scenario of "mass deportations." Solving that problem is a piece of cake: take away the incentive to be here, aka jobs, welfare, free education, free medical services, drivers' licenses etc., and illegal aliens will deport themselves. The timeline is completely irrelevant. Pretending they would all be forced to leave all at once on some giant bus caravan headed south is as intellectually dishonest as it gets.
But for the amnesty brigade, intellectual dishonesty is their stock in trade. Only such people could possibly contend that "illegal" and "legal" is an irrelevant distinction for classifying immigrants. Only such people could blithely ignore the reality that our current crisis is a direct consequence of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986--which promised exactly the same kind of "compromise" proposed by the open border crowd today:
Grant amnesty first, and then we'll make sure that we enforce the laws regarding hiring, securing the border, etc.
The law enforcement part was an utter lie then, and it's still a lie today. But not because I say so. Because illegal immigrants themselves say so. The 1986 Act legalized approximately 2.7 million people. Today, using the low-end number, we're talking about granting the same amnesty to 11 million illegals. If the law enforcement provisions in '86 act had been implemented properly, a four-fold increase (again using the low-end number) in the number of illegals living in this country would have been impossible.
Bottom line: the overwhelming majority of Americans refused to be played for suckers by the ruling elites--again.
I am sick for the condition of our nation. There are substantial numbers of Americans for whom anything remotely resembling historical knowledge, intellectual consistency, emotional maturity or respect for our laws, traditions and culture have been trumped by an ideological rabidness that transcends common sense and common decency. It is a rabidness in which "anything goes as long as I agree with it," and anyone who doesn't is racist, homophobic, xenophobic, etc., etc. ad nauseam. It is the hallmark of people trapped in extended adolescence, most of whom couldn't make a cogent argument if their lives depended on it. It's unbridled emotion or nothing, and woe to those who dare to challenge their sacred worldview.
You're either with them--or you're mean-spirited and uncaring.
Such a worldview easily explains Immigration and Customs Enforcement head John Morton's statement last May that his agency "might not process" illegal aliens turned over to him by Arizona.
Translation: I don't like your law, you're not going to make me enforce it, so there--nah, nah, nah, nah-nah.
Once you toss serious arguments regarding illegal immigration in the garbage can, everything else becomes easy. It becomes easy to say illegals are "doing the jobs Americans won't do"--even in a country where fifteen million citizens are out of work. It becomes easy to say illegals are a "net plus" for our economy--until you realize, that even if it were true, you could make the same argument about convicted felons working on road gangs or pounding out license plates.
Would Americans be OK with greater numbers of murderers or rapists if they were a "net-plus" for the economy?
It become easy to say enforcing the law amounts to "racial profiling"--even as one ignores the reality that it isn't overwhelming numbers of Canadiens flooding over our northern border that's the problem, it's overwhelming numbers of Hispanics flowing over our southern border, but we're supposed to pretend it isn't. It becomes easy to say America should "open its arms to everyone who wants come here"--until you realize it's a complete mockery of the law and a big contributor to bankrupting the nation.
The real problem here is that America's elites--most of whom are leftists--insist on getting their way, irrespective of the wishes of ordinary Americans. Americans they consider terminally stupid for their failure to embrace the obviously superior values of American progressivism. The rule of law? A minor impediment to be tossed aside by their fellow travelers in the judiciary whenever necessary.
All for our own good, of course.
It isn't flying. The country is a boiling stew pot of resentment due almost exclusively to the recognition by most Americans that many of our institutions, including government, media, our schools and the economy have been hijacked by people for whom the "consent of the governed" is one of those quaint anachronisms that no longer applies. To them, most American are nothing more than lab rats to be manipulated by our betters. Betters for whom social engineering--leading directly to "social justice"--is a concept far better suited to running the country than such "messy" things as freedom, capitalism and individuality.
No one is more responsible for turning America into a nation of "us versus them" than our ruling elites. Let's put them out of our misery in November--and every other chance we get.
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