Illegal Protest

What great news! I heard this in passing on the local news (I live near Philadelphia) and found the details on a google search. I’m not sure why the local patriots were not informed of his hearing or we would have been there. I suspect it was the court’s intentions to make it difficult to give advance notice because they didn’t like all the Joey Vento supporters there the last time.

So here are the details are reported by World Net Daily only an hour ago:

A Philadelphia restaurant has been cleared of a discrimination complaint triggered by the owner’s sign telling patrons, “This is America. When ordering, please speak English.”

“This is a great victory,” owner Joey Vento told WND today after the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations ruled his sign could stay in the window of Gino’s Steaks South Philadelphia landmark store.

The controversy began in October 2005 when Vento put up a small bumper-sticker size sign.

On June 12, 2006, the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations launched on its own initiative a discrimination case against Vento. It alleged the sign violated the city’s Fair Practice Ordinance by discouraging the business of non-English speaking people, including, most importantly, Hispanic-speaking immigrants.

“Joey is now totally vindicated,” his lawyer Al Weiss of the Philadelphia firm Blinder & Weiss told WND in a telephone interview. “The Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations found Joey was within First Amendment rights to post the sign at his business.”

Weiss told WND he was surprised Vento won at this level.

“We fully expected to lose the case before this commission,” Weiss said. “The commission itself brought the complaint and heard the complaint. We thought we were going to lose and have to appeal, but the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations did the right thing.”

“There was no testimony in the eight-hour hearing that found Joey or Gino Steaks did anything that violated the law,” he said. “Joey never turned away anybody from any protected group from getting served at the restaurant.”

During the controversy, Vento got national print media coverage and publicity that included multiple interviews on talk radio and appearances on Fox News.

“This is the sign that woke up the United States of America,” Vento proudly proclaimed.

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I just KNOW there’s some celebrating in South Philly tonight over this one. And to all the people who attacked Joey Vento’s and Geno’s for the sign - hoo ha how’s it feel to be WRONG? This gives me a very strong feeling the 2008 will be the year that common sense returns to the illegal immigration situation.. Hazelton will win it’s appeal and the Border Agents will have their convictions overturned and they will be released. I just feel it .. you know?

More good news for your Friday! We certainly have been getting a LOT of good news lately and that is twisting the pants of the pro-illegals in a BIG way. Nothing makes me happier than seeing this country start to exhibit some COMMON SENSE and some SELF-PRESERVATION! Down with Sanctuary Cities and UP with cities and states which support our LAWS!

The Salt Lake Tribune - Governor signs bill cracking down on illegal immigration

Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. signed a comprehensive anti-illegal immigration bill into law on Thursday.

The new law will allow local law enforcement agencies to enforce immigration laws and forces some employers to verify the U.S. documentation status of their workers. It goes into effect July 2009.

“It’s a good step forward on addressing immigration,” said Lisa Roskelley, a spokeswoman for Huntsman.

Earlier in the legislative session, Huntsman had said he didn’t believe states should be passing anti-illegal immigration laws to deal with a federal issue. Roskelley said Huntsman changed his mind on the issue because he’s hopeful the illegal immigration problem will be resolved by Congress and a new administration in early 2009 before the Utah law goes into effect.

Antonella Romero Packard, a Republican and Utah Hispanic/Latino Legislative Task Force spokeswoman, said she isn’t surprised Huntsman signed SB81, but she can’t believe lawmakers passed such a detrimental law that affects so many Utahns - legal and illegal - without studying its repercussions on the state. The people it will affect the most are people who don’t look white and will have to justify they live in Utah legally, even though many were even born here, she said.

“I’m disappointed,” Packard said. “I don’t think [Huntsman] understands the implications of it.”

Supporters of the law had said it was a good start but a compromise, especially pushing back the effective date more than a year.

The law will force public employers and their contractors to verify the legal status of workers, and enlist local law enforcement agencies to help enforce federal immigration statutes. It will also be a Class A misdemeanor to conceal, harbor, transport or shelter undocumented immigrants, though church, charitable and humanitarian assistance groups are exempted.

Here is the group which Antonella Romero Packard represents in Utah:

Honduras Maya de Utah
Address: 284 E. Pavilion Circle
Saratoga Springs UT 84045
Contact Information: Antonella Packard
Telephone: 801-651-1262
E-mail: antonella2005@gmail.com

See other “multicultural” groups in Utah here!

Oh and read here where Antonella Packard apparently seized the shooting in Trolley Square as a platform to urge “more assistance for refugees”. Excerpt:

To wit: Check out the Salt Lake City shooting story. Those of you who read my blogs already know that the murderer has been positively identified as a moslem. If you go to the Salt Lake Tribune’s website, you will read the official response from the Utah Islamic community. They want money. Not only that, they insist that moslems would not do these things if we would just give them more money.

And here’s the kicker. The Salt Lake Tribune is actually sympathetic to this position, and printed the following official response from representatives of the Utah Consortium of Minority Groups:

“Antonella Packard, president of Honduras Maya de Utah, and Renetta Coppard, executive director of the Latin-American Chamber of Commerce, both asked for more assistance for refugees. Packard said more inclusion of refugees in the community is needed.

“We came to Utah to be Americans,” Roth said. “Instead, we’re isolated and afraid.”

Sounds like your boy just murdered a bunch of innocent people and you’re politicizing the murder as an excuse to ask for handouts. Amazing. Pardon my French, but fucking amazing!!!

Need I say more about the loyalties of this Antonella Packard retard? Yeah we care about what you have to say.. NOT!

A little good news for a Friday!

WASHINGTON —  State lawmakers around the country are proposing hundreds of bills this year aimed at curbing illegal immigration, but experts say the cost and public opposition will keep many from becoming law.

Uh.. no.. it is more like.. judges are FINALLY ruling in favor of the Constitution and proving that State laws to fight illegal immigration are NOT pre-empting Federal Law but Sanctuary Cities ARE pre-empting Federal Laws by choosing NOT to uphold immigration laws!

Lawmakers in at least eight states are now sponsoring legislation similar to Oklahoma, which last May passed the nation’s most comprehensive anti-immigration law.

It restricts illegal immigrants’ access to driver’s licenses and other IDs, limits public benefits, penalizes employers who hire them and boosts ties between local police and federal immigration authorities.

The bills are among more than 350 immigration-related proposals unveiled in state legislatures in the first two months of this year, according to a count by The Associated Press.

Sharma Hammond, staff attorney for the legal arm of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, believes states have been galvanized by the collapse two years running of a congressional solution.

“They feel like they have to take it into their own hands because the federal government is doing nothing,” said Hammond, whose group helps states write the comprehensive bills and favors a freeze on nearly all immigration.

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This just in from Associated Press. Now if only once we can keep them from just moving to another employer and if only we can actually SECURE the border, we’d be in great shape!  H/T to Kathleen Appel for the story.

Feds to Raise Fines for Hiring Illegal Aliens

By EILEEN SULLIVAN – 3 hours ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government says it will raise by 25 percent the fines it will levy against employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants.

Attorney General Michael Mukasey and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced the increase, which is the first boost in fines in nearly a decade.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the federal agency responsible for investigating illegal hirings, has stepped up its enforcement of the employer sanctions law in the past year, leading to a dozen major busts. Currently, fines range from $2,000 to $10,000 depending on the offense. The agency says some penalties could include at least six months in jail.