Congratulations to Oklahoma for having judges who actually stick to the rule of law! Could it be that the tide is turning in our favor at last? We MUST enforce immigration laws if we are to get this country back on track. I don’t care if little Jose has been living “in the shadows” for 10 years. If Jose got here in the back of a truck and our government did not do its job for 10 years.. he must leave when they START doing their job. No amount of crocodile tears from law breakers is going to sway me or the majority of law abiding Americans.
Amnesty for illegal aliens in the Senate - DENIED - THRICE!
Injunction against Oklahoma law - DENIED!
Next stop - injunction against Hazleton - DENIED!
TULSA, Okla. (AP) _ A federal judge denied late Wednesday a request by Latino groups to block the implementation of a new state law targeting illegal immigrants, paving the way for the bill to take effect in a matter of hours. In a two-page ruling, U.S. District Judge James H. Payne wrote that the plaintiffs failed to introduce evidence in support of their motion.
The Latino groups sought the preliminary injunction to stop the new law, which would bar illegal immigrants from obtaining jobs or state assistance and make it a felony to harbor or transport illegal aliens.
Payne threw out an earlier attempt by the group to stop the measure, saying the plaintiffs could not show they were harmed by a law that hadn’t taken effect yet.
In its second filing, the group added several unidentified illegal immigrants who have been told they must move from their rent homes because of the new law.
Both sides assembled outside the federal courthouse for an often tense news conference following Wednesday’s hearing. The Hispanic leaders were interrupted at least twice by residents who supported the new law, and a driver in one car yelled an ethnic slur at the group.
The Rev. Miguel Rivera, president of the National Coalition of Latino Clergy and Christian Leaders, said that a decision to prevent the law from taking effect would help bring calm to the Latino community. Rivera also pledged to fight the law to the U.S. Supreme Court if he had to.
Umm.. no… if Latino groups keep trying to stop the majority of Americans from having immigration laws ENFORCED it will come to CIVIL WAR.. it will NOT bring calm if the law is squelched. We WILL prevail.
“I know 25,000 or more of my Latino people have been afraid and they have left this state,” Rivera said.
“MY” Latino people? You mean those illegal alien types? Isn’t that called.. umm .. aiding and abetting? And gee I wonder which state is the lucky recipient of 25,000 illegal aliens from Oklahoma?
He said the eyes of the nation are watching to see what action the state takes regarding the new law, which is billed by its backers as one of the toughest anti-illegal immigration laws in the country.
Hispanic activist Victor Orta said, “Our families have been receiving eviction notices that, beginning tonight, if they cannot prove their status here, they will be evicted.”
GOOD - GET OUT NOW! (only if you are here illegally of course)
Orta also said he was astonished at the silence of other Anglo churches on the matter.
Umm.. separation of church and state.. ever heard of it? These “Anglo” churches know their limits when it comes to POLITICS unlike the LATINO clergy.
Supporters of the new law said state legislation was needed because federal authorities had failed to act.
“They want to move Mexico here. They do not want to assimilate. I have a problem with that,” said Tulsa resident Dan Howard, a former Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper.
You GO Dan Howard! A fine example of what more Americans need to do.. stand up, speak out, make a DIFFERENCE!
Howard began his news conference by saying he would address the crowd in English, because “I’m standing in the USA.” Hispanic leaders earlier spoke to the audience in English, then Spanish.
Carol Helm, director of Immigration Reform for Oklahoma Now, said the bill restates the importance of following labor and tax laws.
“It just seems that every month, the rate of illegals just continues to grow, and that’s a stated fact by the Hispanic organizations,” Helm said. “Common sense says how many, how much, what is the break-even point which the state can absorb?”
Immigrant rights groups have long decried the legislation, saying it unnecessarily repeats federal law, dehumanizes people and panders to people with racial biases. They say tens of thousands of Hispanics have already fled Oklahoma ahead of the law taking effect.
Ok let me get this straight.. it REPEATS Federal law so they admit these people are breaking the law. They also say the Federal government is not doing its job.. so… what is wrong with the states doing that job for them? Let me remind these traitors that our country was founded on STATE SOVEREIGNTY and it is only in the last 40-50 years or so that the FEDERAL government has become bloated and stuck itself into every corner of our lives. We did NOT start out that way but with any luck we will get BACK to THAT.
Some churches have also come out against the law. On Tuesday, a representative of Catholic Charities delivered more than 1,000 signed pledges of resistance to H.B. 1804 to Gov. Brad Henry’s office.
Catholic = pedophiles and traitors to America - I don’t know why ANYONE listens to or attends a Catholic church these days. What a bunch of creepy HYPOCRITES the Catholic church is.
Nina Perales, Southwest regional counsel for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, said there was more puffery to the law than substance.
Even so, she said many at the community level are concerned it will unleash immigration raids, increase racial profiling and split up families.
Oh.. here we go again with the “split up families” line… FACT is , illegal immigration itself is what splits up families because many of the illegal alien men have LEFT FAMILIES BEHIND IN MEXICO OR GUATEMALA to come to America for a “better life” and they send REMITTANCES home to that FIRST family. Then they start a NEW family here in the US. Furthermore, there is NOTHING stopping illegal aliens who get deported from taking their families BACK with them - even their ANCHOR BABIES. It will do them good to see what life is like in Mexico so when they come BACK to the US as adults later they will APPRECIATE the US instead of denigrate it’s language, flag and culture.
“It is a ridiculously redundant piece of legislation,” Perales said. “These are all federal laws that are already on the books.”
Yeah - the federal laws that are on the books and not being enforced.. are those the ones you mean? Well we are gonna SHOW this Federal government that STATES can do the job that the Federal Government CAN’T and WON’T do and it’s like a STEAMROLLER going through the states.. just TRY to stop us!
The Rev. Luis-Carlos Sanchez, vice president of the Coalition of Hispanic Organizations, said the bill has already “opened the doors for every kind of prejudice and every kind of racial profiling.”
El wrongo… just because the majority of illegal aliens DO have brown skin does not mean it is profiling. It is just a simple statistical fact. There are Asian and Black and even WHITE illegal aliens and they will get deported TOO.
“If we call them criminals, we can abuse them and take advantage,” he said. “We have done this with the Native Americans, calling them savages, and African-Americans, calling them less than whites, and we are doing this again.”
Umm… illegal aliens.. are.. ..by their very definition… illegal.. as in …criminals… soon as they set foot into the US illegally…and … MOST illegal aliens from Mexico and South American DO happen to have at MOST 6 years of education tops.. so… they are poor, uneducated laborers.. pretty close to primitive by anyone’s definition.
The bill’s author, Republican state lawmaker Randy Terrill, has said the people of Oklahoma support meaningful immigration reform and repeatedly stated he was confident it would hold up if challenged in the courts.
To learn more about House Bill 1804, click here.
Jorge Alberto Mendez, 42, was arrested Saturday while trying to cross into Mexico from El Paso, Texas, where he lives, said regional Deputy Attorney General Alejandro Pariente.
