The Morristown City Council has finally decided that illegal immigration is enough of a problem in Morristown and Hamblen County to call on our State and federal Governments to take action to relieve the community.
Is it just us here at T-FIRE, or are these resolutions-which were courageously brought forward by Councilman Mel Tucker-long overdue?
Showing posts with label Sovereignty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sovereignty. Show all posts
Monday, December 10, 2007
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
The Railroading
By now, those following the issue of immigration law enforcement have heard about the Border Patrol Agents who were sentenced to prison for shooting those trying to cross our borders in violation of the law.
Now we learn that the men those agents shot at were scoundrels of the worst sort who were trying to smuggle drugs across the U.S. border. What was suspected has been confirmed.
So these men (who are Hispanic Americans) who have done their duty in protecting the sovereignty of the United States are put into prison where they are beaten (probably by illegal alien criminals), while the career criminal they shot might get 40 years, or might be deported only to return again.
Now we learn that the men those agents shot at were scoundrels of the worst sort who were trying to smuggle drugs across the U.S. border. What was suspected has been confirmed.
So these men (who are Hispanic Americans) who have done their duty in protecting the sovereignty of the United States are put into prison where they are beaten (probably by illegal alien criminals), while the career criminal they shot might get 40 years, or might be deported only to return again.
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
What We are Really Looking For
Investors' Business Daily's Michael Barone hits the nail on the head as to what the real impetus is for those of us who are concerned about the threat of illegal immigration into this country-and it isn't race:
You don't have to be a racist to be bothered by such things. You just have to be a citizen who thinks that massive failure to enforce the law is corrosive to society. That was apparent to me as I listened to a focus group of Republican voters in suburban Richmond, Va., conducted by Peter Hart for the Annenberg School of Communications.
One voter after another complained that the immigration laws were not being enforced. None of them made any derogatory remarks about Latino immigrants — two said they admired how hard immigrants work. They don't want to see Latinos banished from this country. They want the immigrants here to be legally here.
Here at T-FIRE, this is our collective sentiment-word for word.
You don't have to be a racist to be bothered by such things. You just have to be a citizen who thinks that massive failure to enforce the law is corrosive to society. That was apparent to me as I listened to a focus group of Republican voters in suburban Richmond, Va., conducted by Peter Hart for the Annenberg School of Communications.
One voter after another complained that the immigration laws were not being enforced. None of them made any derogatory remarks about Latino immigrants — two said they admired how hard immigrants work. They don't want to see Latinos banished from this country. They want the immigrants here to be legally here.
Here at T-FIRE, this is our collective sentiment-word for word.
Monday, November 5, 2007
Alien Sits on Local Jury
Now here is a question to be asked...
According to this Citizen-Tribune report, the woman in question claims to have a Green Card, which if true means that she is legally entitled to live and work in the United States of America, but is NOT a citizen of said United States, or of the State of Tennessee. As a non-citizen, this woman should not be voting.
Perhaps she isn't voting...but as a non-citizen, if she is not on the voter roles of Hamblen County, she should not have been summoned for jury duty.
How did she get a jury summons? It stands to reason that she is on the roles somewhere in the County, and we have no way to know if she is voting or not.
If she is, how many other non-citizens are illegally casting ballots and influencing the process of election that is reserved for sovereign citizens alone? How many illegal aliens are voting? Is it any wonder that members of a certain political party in Nashville oppose mandatory identification for voters, lest a part of their voter-base be suddenly ruled illegal?
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By Robert Moore, TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
The inadvertent inclusion of a non-U.S. citizen on a Hamblen County grand jury Thursday required an extraordinary legal solution Friday afternoon that averted a complete do-over, officials say.
What was at stake was the integrity of 124 cases against 56 defendants, not counting the secret indictments, which are called presentments.
Criminal Court Judge John F. Dugger resolved the matter and found that all of the indictments and all but one of the presentments the grand jury returned Thursday were valid.
Dugger says state law requires that only 12 votes are required to indict an individual for a crime. The 12-member grand jury also had a voting foreman, June Zeigler, who was sitting in for regular foreman Sam Moore.
After questioning Ziegler under oath, Dugger learned from the grand jury foreman that the votes on all the indictments were unanimous.
That means that even without the non-U.S. citizen’s vote, the district attorney’s office has the necessary 12 votes to proceed with the cases.
A grand jury will consider the presentment that didn’t get 12 votes at a later date.
At one point Thursday morning before an attorney located the 12-vote state law, court personnel feared that the entire day’s work would be lost.
The non-U.S, citizen, a woman with a Hispanic surname, reported that she has a "green card" and has been working legally in the United States for seven years, according to Kathy Mullins, Hamblen County Circuit Court clerk.
Mullins says the woman speaks English well, but apparently didn’t understand that by taking the oath to serve on the grand jury the woman was affirming that she is a citizen and a resident of Tennessee.
Potential grand jurors are randomly chosen from a list of licensed Tennessee drivers supplied by the state Department of Safety, not from voter-registration information.
The court clerk says there was no intentional deception, and the woman will face no charges. Mullins says this is the first and last time that a mix-up of this nature will occur while she remains in office.
"It won’t happen again because we will be more specific in the future," Mullins said. "It caused a great deal of pain because she didn’t say anything (Wednesday)."
What’s not clear, Mullins says, is how the woman learned that her residency status could impact grand jury results. The woman phoned the clerk’s office Friday morning and volunteered the information that she is not a U.S. citizen.
According to this Citizen-Tribune report, the woman in question claims to have a Green Card, which if true means that she is legally entitled to live and work in the United States of America, but is NOT a citizen of said United States, or of the State of Tennessee. As a non-citizen, this woman should not be voting.
Perhaps she isn't voting...but as a non-citizen, if she is not on the voter roles of Hamblen County, she should not have been summoned for jury duty.
How did she get a jury summons? It stands to reason that she is on the roles somewhere in the County, and we have no way to know if she is voting or not.
If she is, how many other non-citizens are illegally casting ballots and influencing the process of election that is reserved for sovereign citizens alone? How many illegal aliens are voting? Is it any wonder that members of a certain political party in Nashville oppose mandatory identification for voters, lest a part of their voter-base be suddenly ruled illegal?
___________________________________________________________
By Robert Moore, TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
The inadvertent inclusion of a non-U.S. citizen on a Hamblen County grand jury Thursday required an extraordinary legal solution Friday afternoon that averted a complete do-over, officials say.
What was at stake was the integrity of 124 cases against 56 defendants, not counting the secret indictments, which are called presentments.
Criminal Court Judge John F. Dugger resolved the matter and found that all of the indictments and all but one of the presentments the grand jury returned Thursday were valid.
Dugger says state law requires that only 12 votes are required to indict an individual for a crime. The 12-member grand jury also had a voting foreman, June Zeigler, who was sitting in for regular foreman Sam Moore.
After questioning Ziegler under oath, Dugger learned from the grand jury foreman that the votes on all the indictments were unanimous.
That means that even without the non-U.S. citizen’s vote, the district attorney’s office has the necessary 12 votes to proceed with the cases.
A grand jury will consider the presentment that didn’t get 12 votes at a later date.
At one point Thursday morning before an attorney located the 12-vote state law, court personnel feared that the entire day’s work would be lost.
The non-U.S, citizen, a woman with a Hispanic surname, reported that she has a "green card" and has been working legally in the United States for seven years, according to Kathy Mullins, Hamblen County Circuit Court clerk.
Mullins says the woman speaks English well, but apparently didn’t understand that by taking the oath to serve on the grand jury the woman was affirming that she is a citizen and a resident of Tennessee.
Potential grand jurors are randomly chosen from a list of licensed Tennessee drivers supplied by the state Department of Safety, not from voter-registration information.
The court clerk says there was no intentional deception, and the woman will face no charges. Mullins says this is the first and last time that a mix-up of this nature will occur while she remains in office.
"It won’t happen again because we will be more specific in the future," Mullins said. "It caused a great deal of pain because she didn’t say anything (Wednesday)."
What’s not clear, Mullins says, is how the woman learned that her residency status could impact grand jury results. The woman phoned the clerk’s office Friday morning and volunteered the information that she is not a U.S. citizen.
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Spineless Republicans and the La Raza War
Why are Republicans so spineless? Love them or hate them, at least thecrazy left is willing to fight for possession of this country.
Look at "LaRaza"-they are openly calling for war against European-Americans. (They don't like blacks much either).
Then there are the attacks by the left against Michael Savage, Bill O'Reilly, and Rush Limbaugh. Name the Republican that has stood up against these attacks. It certainly wouldn't be Hatch, Graham, McCain, Spector, Martinez, Lugar,Lott, Kyl, Craig, Hagel, Brownback or Ensign. Ten of these twelve are outright turncoats. They would all fit comfortably in the Democratic partyand love giving America to the illegals. So, at best, you have 36-37 Republican Senators and even some of them are suspect.
When you study the numbers you realize why we can't get sensible legislation and why we have to fight like hell to stop a cloture (60+) vote on bad legislation. So will the Republicans have enough votes to sustain a veto of the S-CHIP legislation that increase the current cost from $9 Billion to $32-60Billion? It will be nip & tuck because most of the spineless politicians will not stand up to reign in spending. They will simply vote to buy thevotes they need to get re-elected.
However, there is one hope. If they can convince 22 million non-smokers people to smoke at least a pack a day, they can hold the excess spending to about $20 billion. Guess they're all silent salesman for the cigarette companies. Remember: The major concern with CHAMP & SCHIP (respectively from eachchamber) is that this bill increases illegal immigration costs to Americans.The R. J. reported that 2/3 of the state's children on this program are Spanish Speaking.
Look at "LaRaza"-they are openly calling for war against European-Americans. (They don't like blacks much either).
Then there are the attacks by the left against Michael Savage, Bill O'Reilly, and Rush Limbaugh. Name the Republican that has stood up against these attacks. It certainly wouldn't be Hatch, Graham, McCain, Spector, Martinez, Lugar,Lott, Kyl, Craig, Hagel, Brownback or Ensign. Ten of these twelve are outright turncoats. They would all fit comfortably in the Democratic partyand love giving America to the illegals. So, at best, you have 36-37 Republican Senators and even some of them are suspect.
When you study the numbers you realize why we can't get sensible legislation and why we have to fight like hell to stop a cloture (60+) vote on bad legislation. So will the Republicans have enough votes to sustain a veto of the S-CHIP legislation that increase the current cost from $9 Billion to $32-60Billion? It will be nip & tuck because most of the spineless politicians will not stand up to reign in spending. They will simply vote to buy thevotes they need to get re-elected.
However, there is one hope. If they can convince 22 million non-smokers people to smoke at least a pack a day, they can hold the excess spending to about $20 billion. Guess they're all silent salesman for the cigarette companies. Remember: The major concern with CHAMP & SCHIP (respectively from eachchamber) is that this bill increases illegal immigration costs to Americans.The R. J. reported that 2/3 of the state's children on this program are Spanish Speaking.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
The Reconquista?
(Note: The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect the views of Tennesseans for Immigration Reform and Education-T-FIRE. However, this piece does present an alternative view-the notion that the Mexican Government has another reason for encouraging so many of its people to come across the U.S. border illegally. It is worth pondering...)
This is tough news for all peace-loving Americans. But after the illegal immigrant protests over the last year or two, any American who doesn’t now recognize that we are engaged in a war of sorts with Mexican Reconquistas is either practicing aggressive ignorance or has sided with the Reconquistas against the USA.
This state of war exists now just as a state of war existed between the United States and the terrorists before September 11, 2001. Most Americans were too naive to see we were at war before the World Trade Center attacks burned that message into the national consciousness. The terrorists had been making war on the United States for years before 9-11, but we were too comfortable in our illusions to recognize that fact. However, we are no longer so naive.
As Americans, we have relearned a hard lesson since those attacks. We have relearned that we do have enemies in this world.
FIGHTING A WAR IN THE WRONG PLACE?
Thousands of our Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Airmen and Coast Guardsmen are currently serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. These volunteer heroes are fighting to bring the refreshing waters of Stability, Democracy and Freedom to peoples who before have only known the parched deserts of tyranny and despotism. But while our own current ‘Greatest Generation’ fights across the sea, a foreign occupation force, the Reconquistas, are busy invading the United States of America. War has come to our homeland through our backdoor. We need our heroes to come home to defend us now!
VIVA LA AZTLAN!
Reconquistas are ‘illegal immigrant’ invaders from Mexico who, with their government’s support, are swarming northward, posing as itinerant, slave-wage workers.
The Reconquistas believe that California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas and other Southwestern states were ‘stolen’ from them in the First Mexican-American war of 1846. Using history as their excuse, the Reconquistas believe that they can grab undefended American territory for Mexico through policies of ‘illegal immigration,’ invasion, infiltration, intimidation and eventual re-conquest (thus the name ‘Reconquistas).
The Reconquistas already have a name for their future captured American lands… AZTLAN.
This is tough news for all peace-loving Americans. But after the illegal immigrant protests over the last year or two, any American who doesn’t now recognize that we are engaged in a war of sorts with Mexican Reconquistas is either practicing aggressive ignorance or has sided with the Reconquistas against the USA.
This state of war exists now just as a state of war existed between the United States and the terrorists before September 11, 2001. Most Americans were too naive to see we were at war before the World Trade Center attacks burned that message into the national consciousness. The terrorists had been making war on the United States for years before 9-11, but we were too comfortable in our illusions to recognize that fact. However, we are no longer so naive.
As Americans, we have relearned a hard lesson since those attacks. We have relearned that we do have enemies in this world.
FIGHTING A WAR IN THE WRONG PLACE?
Thousands of our Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Airmen and Coast Guardsmen are currently serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. These volunteer heroes are fighting to bring the refreshing waters of Stability, Democracy and Freedom to peoples who before have only known the parched deserts of tyranny and despotism. But while our own current ‘Greatest Generation’ fights across the sea, a foreign occupation force, the Reconquistas, are busy invading the United States of America. War has come to our homeland through our backdoor. We need our heroes to come home to defend us now!
VIVA LA AZTLAN!
Reconquistas are ‘illegal immigrant’ invaders from Mexico who, with their government’s support, are swarming northward, posing as itinerant, slave-wage workers.
The Reconquistas believe that California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas and other Southwestern states were ‘stolen’ from them in the First Mexican-American war of 1846. Using history as their excuse, the Reconquistas believe that they can grab undefended American territory for Mexico through policies of ‘illegal immigration,’ invasion, infiltration, intimidation and eventual re-conquest (thus the name ‘Reconquistas).
The Reconquistas already have a name for their future captured American lands… AZTLAN.
Monday, September 17, 2007
No to the DREAM
Tell Your Senators to vote NO on the Durbin Amnesty Amendment!!
Summer is over and the grassroots victory on immigration seems like a distant memory to some Senators. The open borders crowd failed to push through their grand amnesty and now they are trying to do it piecemeal.
Illinois Senator Richard Durbin (D) will offer an amendment (S. Amdt. 2237) to the Defense Authorization bill ( H.R. 1585) next week that would grant amnesty to illegal aliens who came here before age 16 and have lived here at least five years. Though supporters claim this bill is "for the children," adults are eligible as well. Aliens aged 30, 40, or 65 are eligible as long as they meet the amnesty requirements and their "initial" illegal entry was before they were 16.
The bill sets "no numerical limit" on the number of illegal aliens who can apply for the amnesty. Conservative estimates, including those published by the Migration Policy Institute, put the number of those granted amnesty to at least 1 million people.
The bill will also grant in-state college tuition to illegal aliens. In addition to reduced tuition fees, which millions of U.S. citizens are not afforded, this bill also allows federal aid in the form of loans and work-study to help subsidize tuition for illegal aliens.
Congress and the Administration should continue focusing on enforcement. Adding in any kind of amnesty will immediately shift the focus of Homeland Security to processing the amnesty, instead of beefing up enforcement.
Senators are expecting they can push this amnesty through without you noticing. Prove them wrong! Just because your senator voted correctly on the grand amnesty, doesn't mean they will vote correctly this time. Be sure to call and get your friends and family to call as well.
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Senate Passes Amendment to Halt Mexican Trucks on U.S. Highways
Washington DC - The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) congratulated Senators Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) and Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) for sponsoring an amendment to the Transportation Appropriations bill that cuts-off funding for a program that would have allowed hundreds of Mexican trucks to haul cargo on U.S. highways. The amendment was approved Tuesday by a 75 to 23 margin.
The program, promoted by the Bush Administration, would have cost many Americans their jobs and endangered motorists on our interstate highways because of laxer safety standards for Mexican trucks. The Mexican trucking program would also have posed a threat to homeland security, compounding the already difficult task of inspecting cargo entering the U.S. Fittingly, the vote on the amendment took place on the sixth anniversary of 9/11.
"FAIR joins everyone who is concerned about protecting the jobs of American workers, protecting the safety of people who drive on our highways, and protecting the security of our nation, in congratulating Sen. Dorgan for putting these interests ahead of the desire of large corporations to cut their trucking costs," said Dan Stein, president of FAIR. "It seems it is finally dawning on members of Congress that the American people believe there are important national interests that must take precedence over the desire of some to save a buck."
The overwhelming approval of this amendment, combined with the support of organized labor, is a hopeful indication that a new coalition that supports border and immigration enforcement may be developing. "People are becoming aware that ill-conceived trade policies and unenforced immigration policies are a threat to national security and to our embattled middle class," Stein noted. "Whether by default - because we do not enforce laws against illegal immigration - or by design, such as policies that open our highways to foreign truckers, there are actual American workers and their families who pay a heavy price for some businesses' insatiable thirst for lower cost labor.
"Likewise, whether we have people and goods moving across our borders illegally, or whether we institute policies that allow people and goods to enter with little or no inspection, the consequence is the same. America's homeland security is compromised," declared Stein.
The same principles that were applied to the decision of Congress not to allow Mexican trucks to haul good across the U.S., must be applied to our border policies in general. "The basic litmus test for determining immigration policies should be, Will American workers be harmed? Will public safety be compromised? Will homeland security be put at risk? If the answers to any of these questions is yes, then the policies need to be reconsidered," concluded Stein.
Friday, September 7, 2007
Lawyer Harasses Citizens Who Report Immigration Crimes
DESCRIBE YOUR COMPLAINT IN DETAIL. Use the back of this page or attach other pages for more space.
Jeffrey Dale Ridner, Esq. was retained by our landlords Chris and Karl Chmelar who live in the Netherlands, E.U. By certified letter Mr. Ridner attempted to intimidate my wife and me with the threat of eviction if we did not turn a blind eye to a possible federal immigration crime and associated conspiracy involving him, his clients, their relatives and the roofing company (a copy of his certified letter dated August 24, 2007 is attached herewith as Exhibit A), to wit:
That 6 - 8 men of Central American descent arrived at our (leased) home at approximately 2 PM Wednesday afternoon (August 22, 2007) and commenced stripping the slate off the roof with the intention of re-shingling the house. None of the workers could speak English and there was no supervisor present with whom I could communicate.
That because of the clear and present danger posed by illegal immigrants to our national sovereignty and security, I was suspicious of these workers and immediately began soliciting help to determine their immigration status by contacting: 1) the Grundy County Sheriff’s Department, 2) U. S. Congressman Lincoln Davis’ Washington office, 3) the Department of Immigration’s Immigration & Custom Enforcement task force (ICE) and finally the roofing company that sent the questionable workers (Porter Roofing of McMinnville, Tennessee).
That the Sheriff’s Department was at a loss of what to do regarding the matter although they sent a Deputy the following morning who agreed with my concern about possible undocumented workers continuing the roofing job (see Exhibit B).
That Congressman Davis’ Washington assistant asked me to memorialize the facts and fax them to Washington and to Mr. Davis’ Rockwood, Tennessee office where his Immigration Specialist was assigned (Beth Hickman, phone: 865-354-3323). I complied with this request and received an email from Ms. Hickman Monday morning (August 27, 2007) stating that ICE had logged the possible crime which would trigger an investigation.
I had already contacted ICE on Wednesday (August 22, 2007) and related the facts to them.
That while the workers were still on the roof Wednesday afternoon (August 22, 2007) I called Porter Roofing in McMinnville and asked them to either provide proof of legal status for these men or in the alternative to put “Tennessee boys” on the roof. I was told by “Miguel,” an individual with a very thick Hispanic accent, “this is none of your business” and in effect, “go fly a kite.” Shortly thereafter Mrs. Chmelar’s sister Julia Ray (of LaFayette, GA) also told me over the telephone (screaming) that the matter was “none of my business.”
That in a letter sent by certified mail on Monday (August 27, 2007) Mr. Ridner laid out erroneous facts relating to the events that had transpired the preceding Wednesday (August 22, 2007) including the false accusation that I had ordered the workers off the roof and that I had forbidden them from returning to complete the job (Exhibit A). I addressed these misrepresentations in my return certified letter to him attached as Exhibit B.
That in his letter Mr. Ridner - by implication - threatened my wife and me with eviction if we did not ignore the possible illegal status of the workers and allow them to continue roofing. In effect his demands were designed to bully us into ignoring the possible violations of federal immigration law including a conspiracy between him, his clients, their relatives and the roofing company.
That I was in no way responsible for any work stoppage. I merely requested that Porter Roofing obey federal immigration law or use local workers.
That Mr. Ridner knew or had a duty to know that a potential crime - including a conspiracy - was being committed by Porter Roofing and his clients yet he chose to intimidate my wife and me by threat of eviction if we did not ignore the potential federal crimes being perpetrated.
That Mr. Ridner’s oath as a lawyer includes reporting crimes and not encouraging that state and federal laws be broken.
That my wife and I feared retaliation from Mr. Ridner and it arrived by certified mail Friday, August 31, 2007 (Exhibit C). We have leased this property at 448 Wonder Cave Road; Pelham, Tennessee for 25 months. Our lease payment has never been late and we have had no complaints from the Chmelars until this incident which triggered the lease termination by Mr Ridner. It is intuitively obvious to the casual observer that Mr. Ridner’s termination of our lease was to punish my wife and me for reporting a possible crime.
Mr. Ridner’s actions have been unscrupulous and designed to bully while ignoring a serious violation of federal immigration law at a defining moment in our nation’s history. His conduct has been at least unethical and certainly not in keeping with the high standards demanded by his oath before the bar.
I request that this matter be investigated and if my recitation of the foregoing facts prove to be true, that Mr. Ridner be severely reprimanded and/or suspended if not disbarred.
I declare under penalty of perjury that the information given in this complaint is true to the best of my knowledge, understanding and belief. I am aware the the lawyer may be notified of my complaint.
DATE: September 1, 2007
cc: Jeffrey D. Ridner, Esq.
***************
August 26, 2007
Jeffrey D.Ridner
Haynes, Hull, Rieder, Ewell & Ridner, P.A.
214 NE Atlantic Street
Tullahoma, Tennessee 37388
Re: Tenancy at property on 448 Wonder Cave Road, Pelham, Tennessee and the possible commission of federal immigration crimes including a conspiracy.
and my DECLARATION under penalty of perjury
Dear Mr Ridner,
This is my response by way of DECLARATION under penalty of perjury to your letter dated August 24, 2007 to clarify the facts in this matter (this letter & enclosures will be faxed and mailed to all parties by USPS certified mail).
I will address the erroneous points in your letter, to wit:
“It is my understanding that when the contractor arrived at the property, Mr. Mauldin voiced an objection to the presence of certain workers unless identification was provided to him”
FACT: The 6-8 workers arrived at our house by storming over the front fence rather than walking through the open gate. No one could speak English and the promise of a “supervisor” to oversee the initial work to insure that care was given to the newly installed gutters was not kept (I had cordially discussed the re-roofing at length with Mr. Dennis Ray, the Chmelar’s brother-in-law, and was aggressively looking out for the Chmelar’s interests by telephoning Mr. Ray on more than one occasion alerting him to problems with the delivery of the roofing material, etc.)
FACT: The above mentioned workers appeared to be of Central American decent and my wife who is from San Antonio, Texas and has 50+ years experience with Mexicans voiced her concern regarding their rough appearance especially since no supervisor was present to act as a go-between. Furthermore, one of the workers took my shovel up on the the roof without my permission and used it the rest of the day shoveling slate into their trailer.
FACT: I said nothing (made no “objection”) to these workers - if for no other reason than I don’t speak Spanish. The workers did not arrive until approximately 2 PM Wednesday afternoon August 22nd and worked until the end of their self-determined workday. They left on their own motion. At no time did I order them off the property.
FACT: On Wednesday afternoon August 22nd while the workers were on the roof, I contacted the Grundy County Sheriff's office and reported the possibility of illegal aliens on the property and the possible commission of a federal immigration crime including a conspiracy.
FACT: On Wednesday afternoon August 22nd while the workers were on the roof, I contacted the U.S. Department of Immigration and their Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) office to report possible undocumented workers on the property and the possible commission of a federal immigration crime including a conspiracy.
FACT: On Wednesday afternoon August 22nd while the workers were on the roof, I contacted my U.S. Congressman Lincoln Davis’ office in Washington to report this possible crime and to enlist his assistance. His office agreed to help and asked me to memorialize the facts and to fax the letter to them which I did. My letter to Congressman Davis requested an investigation of Porter Roofing, the contrator in question, and if an immigration crime was discovered that the parties who were responsible be prosecuted including anyone aiding and abetting the possible crime and/or any co-conspirators (as you know, a conspiracy is simply the agreement to commit an illegal act followed by one overt act in the furtherance of the agreed upon crime).
Mr. Mauldin voiced an objection to the presence of certain workers unless identification was
provided him.
FACT: On Wednesday afternoon August 22nd while the workers were on the roof, I contacted Porter Roofing (McMinnville, Tennessee) by telephone. A worker with a thick Spanish accent at their office returned my call. His name was “Miguel.” I told him that Thursday (August 23rd) I wanted to be shown proof that their workers had legal immigration status (not “identification” as you suggested) or in the alternative to put “Tennessee boys” on the roof. He told me it was none of my business and to effectively “go fly a kite.” I was also screamed at over the telephone by Mrs. Chmelar’s sister Julia Ray who also told me “it was none of my business.”
“As a result of the objection, the contractors left the property.”
FACT: See above... and
FACT: At no time did I order the workers off the roof nor did I forbid them from returning. I did ask Porter Roofing to comply with federal immigration laws or to use local workers.
FACT: Thursday morning August 23rd Grundy County Sherriff’s deputy Wiley drove into our driveway. I went out to greet him thinking it was in response to my call the previous day. He stated he was there on behalf of the Chmelar’s to say it was okay for the workers to continue re-roofing. I related the facts to him. He stated that he agreed with me, got in his cruiser and drove off.
“In accordance with the Default provision of the Annual Rental Agreement, letter is a demand by the Chmelars that the two of you allow the contractors to do the work.”
FACT: I have not and do not intend to physically or verbally prevent the work from continuing .
FACT: As a former Commander in the U.S. Navy who repeatedly swore to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, I have witnessed a potential federal crime and I fully intend to pursue its possible prosecution including all involved parties. To quote Edmond Burke, “all it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” I love my country and I have a solemn duty to report the commission of a potential crime.
If within three (3) days of your receipt of this correspondence the default is not cured, then Mr. and Mrs. Chmelar will have no alternative than to explore additional remedies available to them under the agreement.
FACT: I can only construe this statement to be the threat of eviction because you are suggesting that I turn my back on the commission of a possible federal crime and associated conspiracy.
I suspect that like my oath as a Naval officer your oath as an attorney requires you to report possible crimes known to you. I have identified a possible crime that you may want to look into so the Tennessee Bar Association and the United States Attorney will be satisfied with your due diligence in this matter.
I join you in “hoping” that it will not be necessary to explore additional remedies and that no additional measures will be necessary.
I look forward to hearing from you within the three (3) days you laid down to resolve this matter as we may get the rain we so badly need and part of the subject roof only has tar paper on it.
For the soverignty of the United States of America and for the prosecution of federal immigration crimes & conspiracies... under penalty of perjury I declare that the foregoing statements are true and correct to the best of my knowledge, understanding and belief,
Davis Mauldin
cc: Congressman Lincoln Davis (with copy of your letter dated 8/24/2007)
Tennessee Bar Association (with copy of your letter dated 8/24/2007)
Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) (with copy of your letter dated 8/24/2007)
United States Attorney, Nashville, Tennessee (with copy of your letter dated 8/24/2007)
Senator Bob Corker (with copy of your letter dated 8/24/2007)
Senator Lamar Alexander (with copy of your letter dated 8/24/2007)
Jeffrey Dale Ridner, Esq. was retained by our landlords Chris and Karl Chmelar who live in the Netherlands, E.U. By certified letter Mr. Ridner attempted to intimidate my wife and me with the threat of eviction if we did not turn a blind eye to a possible federal immigration crime and associated conspiracy involving him, his clients, their relatives and the roofing company (a copy of his certified letter dated August 24, 2007 is attached herewith as Exhibit A), to wit:
That 6 - 8 men of Central American descent arrived at our (leased) home at approximately 2 PM Wednesday afternoon (August 22, 2007) and commenced stripping the slate off the roof with the intention of re-shingling the house. None of the workers could speak English and there was no supervisor present with whom I could communicate.
That because of the clear and present danger posed by illegal immigrants to our national sovereignty and security, I was suspicious of these workers and immediately began soliciting help to determine their immigration status by contacting: 1) the Grundy County Sheriff’s Department, 2) U. S. Congressman Lincoln Davis’ Washington office, 3) the Department of Immigration’s Immigration & Custom Enforcement task force (ICE) and finally the roofing company that sent the questionable workers (Porter Roofing of McMinnville, Tennessee).
That the Sheriff’s Department was at a loss of what to do regarding the matter although they sent a Deputy the following morning who agreed with my concern about possible undocumented workers continuing the roofing job (see Exhibit B).
That Congressman Davis’ Washington assistant asked me to memorialize the facts and fax them to Washington and to Mr. Davis’ Rockwood, Tennessee office where his Immigration Specialist was assigned (Beth Hickman, phone: 865-354-3323). I complied with this request and received an email from Ms. Hickman Monday morning (August 27, 2007) stating that ICE had logged the possible crime which would trigger an investigation.
I had already contacted ICE on Wednesday (August 22, 2007) and related the facts to them.
That while the workers were still on the roof Wednesday afternoon (August 22, 2007) I called Porter Roofing in McMinnville and asked them to either provide proof of legal status for these men or in the alternative to put “Tennessee boys” on the roof. I was told by “Miguel,” an individual with a very thick Hispanic accent, “this is none of your business” and in effect, “go fly a kite.” Shortly thereafter Mrs. Chmelar’s sister Julia Ray (of LaFayette, GA) also told me over the telephone (screaming) that the matter was “none of my business.”
That in a letter sent by certified mail on Monday (August 27, 2007) Mr. Ridner laid out erroneous facts relating to the events that had transpired the preceding Wednesday (August 22, 2007) including the false accusation that I had ordered the workers off the roof and that I had forbidden them from returning to complete the job (Exhibit A). I addressed these misrepresentations in my return certified letter to him attached as Exhibit B.
That in his letter Mr. Ridner - by implication - threatened my wife and me with eviction if we did not ignore the possible illegal status of the workers and allow them to continue roofing. In effect his demands were designed to bully us into ignoring the possible violations of federal immigration law including a conspiracy between him, his clients, their relatives and the roofing company.
That I was in no way responsible for any work stoppage. I merely requested that Porter Roofing obey federal immigration law or use local workers.
That Mr. Ridner knew or had a duty to know that a potential crime - including a conspiracy - was being committed by Porter Roofing and his clients yet he chose to intimidate my wife and me by threat of eviction if we did not ignore the potential federal crimes being perpetrated.
That Mr. Ridner’s oath as a lawyer includes reporting crimes and not encouraging that state and federal laws be broken.
That my wife and I feared retaliation from Mr. Ridner and it arrived by certified mail Friday, August 31, 2007 (Exhibit C). We have leased this property at 448 Wonder Cave Road; Pelham, Tennessee for 25 months. Our lease payment has never been late and we have had no complaints from the Chmelars until this incident which triggered the lease termination by Mr Ridner. It is intuitively obvious to the casual observer that Mr. Ridner’s termination of our lease was to punish my wife and me for reporting a possible crime.
Mr. Ridner’s actions have been unscrupulous and designed to bully while ignoring a serious violation of federal immigration law at a defining moment in our nation’s history. His conduct has been at least unethical and certainly not in keeping with the high standards demanded by his oath before the bar.
I request that this matter be investigated and if my recitation of the foregoing facts prove to be true, that Mr. Ridner be severely reprimanded and/or suspended if not disbarred.
I declare under penalty of perjury that the information given in this complaint is true to the best of my knowledge, understanding and belief. I am aware the the lawyer may be notified of my complaint.
DATE: September 1, 2007
cc: Jeffrey D. Ridner, Esq.
***************
August 26, 2007
Jeffrey D.Ridner
Haynes, Hull, Rieder, Ewell & Ridner, P.A.
214 NE Atlantic Street
Tullahoma, Tennessee 37388
Re: Tenancy at property on 448 Wonder Cave Road, Pelham, Tennessee and the possible commission of federal immigration crimes including a conspiracy.
and my DECLARATION under penalty of perjury
Dear Mr Ridner,
This is my response by way of DECLARATION under penalty of perjury to your letter dated August 24, 2007 to clarify the facts in this matter (this letter & enclosures will be faxed and mailed to all parties by USPS certified mail).
I will address the erroneous points in your letter, to wit:
“It is my understanding that when the contractor arrived at the property, Mr. Mauldin voiced an objection to the presence of certain workers unless identification was provided to him”
FACT: The 6-8 workers arrived at our house by storming over the front fence rather than walking through the open gate. No one could speak English and the promise of a “supervisor” to oversee the initial work to insure that care was given to the newly installed gutters was not kept (I had cordially discussed the re-roofing at length with Mr. Dennis Ray, the Chmelar’s brother-in-law, and was aggressively looking out for the Chmelar’s interests by telephoning Mr. Ray on more than one occasion alerting him to problems with the delivery of the roofing material, etc.)
FACT: The above mentioned workers appeared to be of Central American decent and my wife who is from San Antonio, Texas and has 50+ years experience with Mexicans voiced her concern regarding their rough appearance especially since no supervisor was present to act as a go-between. Furthermore, one of the workers took my shovel up on the the roof without my permission and used it the rest of the day shoveling slate into their trailer.
FACT: I said nothing (made no “objection”) to these workers - if for no other reason than I don’t speak Spanish. The workers did not arrive until approximately 2 PM Wednesday afternoon August 22nd and worked until the end of their self-determined workday. They left on their own motion. At no time did I order them off the property.
FACT: On Wednesday afternoon August 22nd while the workers were on the roof, I contacted the Grundy County Sheriff's office and reported the possibility of illegal aliens on the property and the possible commission of a federal immigration crime including a conspiracy.
FACT: On Wednesday afternoon August 22nd while the workers were on the roof, I contacted the U.S. Department of Immigration and their Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) office to report possible undocumented workers on the property and the possible commission of a federal immigration crime including a conspiracy.
FACT: On Wednesday afternoon August 22nd while the workers were on the roof, I contacted my U.S. Congressman Lincoln Davis’ office in Washington to report this possible crime and to enlist his assistance. His office agreed to help and asked me to memorialize the facts and to fax the letter to them which I did. My letter to Congressman Davis requested an investigation of Porter Roofing, the contrator in question, and if an immigration crime was discovered that the parties who were responsible be prosecuted including anyone aiding and abetting the possible crime and/or any co-conspirators (as you know, a conspiracy is simply the agreement to commit an illegal act followed by one overt act in the furtherance of the agreed upon crime).
Mr. Mauldin voiced an objection to the presence of certain workers unless identification was
provided him.
FACT: On Wednesday afternoon August 22nd while the workers were on the roof, I contacted Porter Roofing (McMinnville, Tennessee) by telephone. A worker with a thick Spanish accent at their office returned my call. His name was “Miguel.” I told him that Thursday (August 23rd) I wanted to be shown proof that their workers had legal immigration status (not “identification” as you suggested) or in the alternative to put “Tennessee boys” on the roof. He told me it was none of my business and to effectively “go fly a kite.” I was also screamed at over the telephone by Mrs. Chmelar’s sister Julia Ray who also told me “it was none of my business.”
“As a result of the objection, the contractors left the property.”
FACT: See above... and
FACT: At no time did I order the workers off the roof nor did I forbid them from returning. I did ask Porter Roofing to comply with federal immigration laws or to use local workers.
FACT: Thursday morning August 23rd Grundy County Sherriff’s deputy Wiley drove into our driveway. I went out to greet him thinking it was in response to my call the previous day. He stated he was there on behalf of the Chmelar’s to say it was okay for the workers to continue re-roofing. I related the facts to him. He stated that he agreed with me, got in his cruiser and drove off.
“In accordance with the Default provision of the Annual Rental Agreement, letter is a demand by the Chmelars that the two of you allow the contractors to do the work.”
FACT: I have not and do not intend to physically or verbally prevent the work from continuing .
FACT: As a former Commander in the U.S. Navy who repeatedly swore to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, I have witnessed a potential federal crime and I fully intend to pursue its possible prosecution including all involved parties. To quote Edmond Burke, “all it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” I love my country and I have a solemn duty to report the commission of a potential crime.
If within three (3) days of your receipt of this correspondence the default is not cured, then Mr. and Mrs. Chmelar will have no alternative than to explore additional remedies available to them under the agreement.
FACT: I can only construe this statement to be the threat of eviction because you are suggesting that I turn my back on the commission of a possible federal crime and associated conspiracy.
I suspect that like my oath as a Naval officer your oath as an attorney requires you to report possible crimes known to you. I have identified a possible crime that you may want to look into so the Tennessee Bar Association and the United States Attorney will be satisfied with your due diligence in this matter.
I join you in “hoping” that it will not be necessary to explore additional remedies and that no additional measures will be necessary.
I look forward to hearing from you within the three (3) days you laid down to resolve this matter as we may get the rain we so badly need and part of the subject roof only has tar paper on it.
For the soverignty of the United States of America and for the prosecution of federal immigration crimes & conspiracies... under penalty of perjury I declare that the foregoing statements are true and correct to the best of my knowledge, understanding and belief,
Davis Mauldin
cc: Congressman Lincoln Davis (with copy of your letter dated 8/24/2007)
Tennessee Bar Association (with copy of your letter dated 8/24/2007)
Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) (with copy of your letter dated 8/24/2007)
United States Attorney, Nashville, Tennessee (with copy of your letter dated 8/24/2007)
Senator Bob Corker (with copy of your letter dated 8/24/2007)
Senator Lamar Alexander (with copy of your letter dated 8/24/2007)
Thursday, September 6, 2007
The New Slave Traffic
Back in 2003, Professor Victor Davis Hanson of Cal State Fresno wrote a book called Mexifornia that caused a sensation. It was the issue that, as Hanson put it, is "the 800-pound gorilla that nobody wants to touch." The cultural Mexicanization of the Southwest:
I got interested in the issue because I’m a fifth-generation farmer and I’ve watched changes in my community. The local school that I used to go to, which was about 60 percent Mexican or Mexican-American, [featured] assimilation, no ideology of “the border crossed us, we didn’t cross the borders”; no bilingual education, Chicano history, just simple assimilation. Those products of that school are quite successful; they run our hometown now. However, just before I came I looked at the rates of schools that are meeting California achievement levels, and in that same school – it’s a mile and a half – it’s 100 percent Mexican, and 9 percent met the minimum level of reading competency, and about 7 percent in mathematics, so something radical has happened.
But the key to it all in history is that the people who join this society must do it in numbers or in a fashion that allows them to be fully integrated and assimilated. Helots in Sparta didn’t work. Metics in Athens didn’t work. Resident aliens in Rome didn’t work, but people in the Empire who were given citizenship did work, and when they were assimilated with Italian culture, it worked.
Hanson is right, of course. Many people like to say "the border crossed us, we did not cross the border." The great difference between the days of the Texas Revolution and the Mexican War, and our day today is that the Tejanos and the Californios of that time were thrilled to be free of Mexican rule, they were very proud of their new country, and they wanted to be Americans. Today, many Hispanic children aren't being taught in the English language in American class, and are being taught as if they are Mexicans or Latinos before they are Americans. In some cases they are told that they aren't Americans at all. Part of this is because of the environment and the labor that migrants and their children are subjected to as much as it is the education system.
One way I wanted to write the book, then, is to say, how did this system perpetuate and will it continue and who benefits and who loses? So I looked at each different group. Ostensibly, a person who comes from Mexico and makes $10 an hour in cash feels that he’s reached a bonanza compared to $10 a week, let’s say, in Oaxaca, and it looks great. But I’ve noticed a tragic life cycle: that we and the Mexican government almost traffic in human capital. While it looks good in the beginning, somebody typically – and again, I’m generalizing, but I’ve seen empirically, over my lifetime – people will come from Mexico at 18, 20, usually single males predominantly, they’ll work very, very hard, they’ll be delighted that they’ve had more money in their life, they can send money back and become almost heroic in their village for doing so. But if you follow that work in concrete, hotels, restaurants, landscaping, agriculture, that’s not a rite-of-passage job for people who are here illegally and who don’t know English. It becomes a permanent position, and human nature being what it is, your body cannot withstand that type of work.
So ultimately, at the age of 40 or 50, that dream has sometimes turned into a nightmare because a person may have a bad back, a bad shoulder, and then the employer who either paid cash or low wages or didn’t have a health plan says, well, go to the neighborhood clinic, workman’s comp, Section 8 housing, and the entitlement industry then picks up that added cost. Meanwhile, the children of that immigrant, whose father or mother may not know English and may not be documented, then develops a very different idea. Often he has not, or she has not, been to Mexico. She doesn’t speak Spanish in the same fluency as her parents did, doesn’t read Spanish necessarily, doesn’t know English to the same degree that people that he or she will have to compete with, and has a very different view of America. Often rates of incarceration or gang activity are higher commensurately with the population. But more importantly is the reaction to the employer, and they will tell you, don’t bring anybody onto the cement crew who speaks English because the second generation will not work like the people from Oaxaca. This is the standard – and so then we just renew the cycle and traffic in human capital.
So employers who hire illegals are not interested in bringing new Americans here and melding them into our larger cultural mosaic of peoples from all over the world (as many on the Left say), but are more interested in trafficking in human beings in what has become a modern version of the slave trade.
How are we treating American citizens of Mexican heritage who are here legally and who have done everything right according to the law? In Dr. Hanson's example, pretty crappy:
And this whole illegal universe ripples in very strange places. For example, when I'm teaching a class in the humanities, a student will come to me, often Mexican, of Mexican heritage, who’s a citizen, or a person from any heritage, from Nevada, Arizona, and say, why do I have to pay $5,000 for tuition when somebody who’s here illegally from California pays two thousand? And I usually use the standard argument, well, perhaps their parents – well, no, no, he’s only been here five years, or he doesn’t pay California State income tax. And often they’ll say, well, should I go down to Mexico and come in illegally and then perhaps I’ll get a discount?
And Californians, says Hanson, have come to depend on the new slavery to maintain their wealthy way of life.
In between it’s the California suburban average citizen who likes the idea of cheap food, going to a restaurant pretty cheap, and has developed the lifestyle of the 19th century aristocrat in some ways. Whoever thought that a Californian who was middle class, perhaps with a combined income of $100,000, could have somebody from Mexico here illegally to cut his lawn, clean his home, watch his children? And then at the same time that’s happening, he’s upset that if he goes and he looks at certain statistics of poverty, incarceration, education, that some of these groups who come from Mexico are represented in proportions that are higher than their representation in the population. So there’s all of this strange political mix, and the result in California, which we’re always a therapeutic society, is simply not to talk about it.
We have it pretty good here in Tennessee. We have a low cost of living, pay no income tax, and in East Tennessee many-if not the majority of us, are landowners. With the thousands upon thousands of people who are now pouring into our towns and hamlets from south of the Border each year and who are performing backbreaking labor at a menial wage, are we endanger of becoming dependent on a "new slave traffic," just as Hanson says has happened in California?
I got interested in the issue because I’m a fifth-generation farmer and I’ve watched changes in my community. The local school that I used to go to, which was about 60 percent Mexican or Mexican-American, [featured] assimilation, no ideology of “the border crossed us, we didn’t cross the borders”; no bilingual education, Chicano history, just simple assimilation. Those products of that school are quite successful; they run our hometown now. However, just before I came I looked at the rates of schools that are meeting California achievement levels, and in that same school – it’s a mile and a half – it’s 100 percent Mexican, and 9 percent met the minimum level of reading competency, and about 7 percent in mathematics, so something radical has happened.
But the key to it all in history is that the people who join this society must do it in numbers or in a fashion that allows them to be fully integrated and assimilated. Helots in Sparta didn’t work. Metics in Athens didn’t work. Resident aliens in Rome didn’t work, but people in the Empire who were given citizenship did work, and when they were assimilated with Italian culture, it worked.
Hanson is right, of course. Many people like to say "the border crossed us, we did not cross the border." The great difference between the days of the Texas Revolution and the Mexican War, and our day today is that the Tejanos and the Californios of that time were thrilled to be free of Mexican rule, they were very proud of their new country, and they wanted to be Americans. Today, many Hispanic children aren't being taught in the English language in American class, and are being taught as if they are Mexicans or Latinos before they are Americans. In some cases they are told that they aren't Americans at all. Part of this is because of the environment and the labor that migrants and their children are subjected to as much as it is the education system.
One way I wanted to write the book, then, is to say, how did this system perpetuate and will it continue and who benefits and who loses? So I looked at each different group. Ostensibly, a person who comes from Mexico and makes $10 an hour in cash feels that he’s reached a bonanza compared to $10 a week, let’s say, in Oaxaca, and it looks great. But I’ve noticed a tragic life cycle: that we and the Mexican government almost traffic in human capital. While it looks good in the beginning, somebody typically – and again, I’m generalizing, but I’ve seen empirically, over my lifetime – people will come from Mexico at 18, 20, usually single males predominantly, they’ll work very, very hard, they’ll be delighted that they’ve had more money in their life, they can send money back and become almost heroic in their village for doing so. But if you follow that work in concrete, hotels, restaurants, landscaping, agriculture, that’s not a rite-of-passage job for people who are here illegally and who don’t know English. It becomes a permanent position, and human nature being what it is, your body cannot withstand that type of work.
So ultimately, at the age of 40 or 50, that dream has sometimes turned into a nightmare because a person may have a bad back, a bad shoulder, and then the employer who either paid cash or low wages or didn’t have a health plan says, well, go to the neighborhood clinic, workman’s comp, Section 8 housing, and the entitlement industry then picks up that added cost. Meanwhile, the children of that immigrant, whose father or mother may not know English and may not be documented, then develops a very different idea. Often he has not, or she has not, been to Mexico. She doesn’t speak Spanish in the same fluency as her parents did, doesn’t read Spanish necessarily, doesn’t know English to the same degree that people that he or she will have to compete with, and has a very different view of America. Often rates of incarceration or gang activity are higher commensurately with the population. But more importantly is the reaction to the employer, and they will tell you, don’t bring anybody onto the cement crew who speaks English because the second generation will not work like the people from Oaxaca. This is the standard – and so then we just renew the cycle and traffic in human capital.
So employers who hire illegals are not interested in bringing new Americans here and melding them into our larger cultural mosaic of peoples from all over the world (as many on the Left say), but are more interested in trafficking in human beings in what has become a modern version of the slave trade.
How are we treating American citizens of Mexican heritage who are here legally and who have done everything right according to the law? In Dr. Hanson's example, pretty crappy:
And this whole illegal universe ripples in very strange places. For example, when I'm teaching a class in the humanities, a student will come to me, often Mexican, of Mexican heritage, who’s a citizen, or a person from any heritage, from Nevada, Arizona, and say, why do I have to pay $5,000 for tuition when somebody who’s here illegally from California pays two thousand? And I usually use the standard argument, well, perhaps their parents – well, no, no, he’s only been here five years, or he doesn’t pay California State income tax. And often they’ll say, well, should I go down to Mexico and come in illegally and then perhaps I’ll get a discount?
And Californians, says Hanson, have come to depend on the new slavery to maintain their wealthy way of life.
In between it’s the California suburban average citizen who likes the idea of cheap food, going to a restaurant pretty cheap, and has developed the lifestyle of the 19th century aristocrat in some ways. Whoever thought that a Californian who was middle class, perhaps with a combined income of $100,000, could have somebody from Mexico here illegally to cut his lawn, clean his home, watch his children? And then at the same time that’s happening, he’s upset that if he goes and he looks at certain statistics of poverty, incarceration, education, that some of these groups who come from Mexico are represented in proportions that are higher than their representation in the population. So there’s all of this strange political mix, and the result in California, which we’re always a therapeutic society, is simply not to talk about it.
We have it pretty good here in Tennessee. We have a low cost of living, pay no income tax, and in East Tennessee many-if not the majority of us, are landowners. With the thousands upon thousands of people who are now pouring into our towns and hamlets from south of the Border each year and who are performing backbreaking labor at a menial wage, are we endanger of becoming dependent on a "new slave traffic," just as Hanson says has happened in California?
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
No Border Under Hillary
Want a good reason to make sure that New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton isn't elected President?
Here's one from an address to the National Council of La Raza in 2005:
Clinton touched on nearly every issue that was important to Hispanics, the nation's largest ethnic group and a crucial voting bloc. She said she wanted to make sure Hispanic children got a fair education, and that families had medical insurance to ward off health problems such as asthma and lead poisoning that affect kids. She also talked of supporting legislation that would make it easier for immigrants to send money back home, which Hispanics do at a rate of about $200 per month.
Gosh Hillary, you might as well hang a big sign on the Southern border that says "Lawbreakers and Border Ruffians Welcome."
To be fair, Ms. Hillary said this while addressing the National Council of La Raza (The Race), a left-of-center Hispanic racist organization, so of course Hillary had to pander to this racist group because they are predominantly made up of Democratic voters.
La Raza is actually pretty tame compared to the militant anti-American Marxist group MEChA, which seeks the return of the entire Southwest to Mexican sovereignty, or the formation of an autonomous state that they call Aztlan. Of course, some members of La Raza are also members of MEChA.
Hillary said this back in 2005-who will Hillary protect-America or "Aztlan"?
Here's one from an address to the National Council of La Raza in 2005:
Clinton touched on nearly every issue that was important to Hispanics, the nation's largest ethnic group and a crucial voting bloc. She said she wanted to make sure Hispanic children got a fair education, and that families had medical insurance to ward off health problems such as asthma and lead poisoning that affect kids. She also talked of supporting legislation that would make it easier for immigrants to send money back home, which Hispanics do at a rate of about $200 per month.
Gosh Hillary, you might as well hang a big sign on the Southern border that says "Lawbreakers and Border Ruffians Welcome."
To be fair, Ms. Hillary said this while addressing the National Council of La Raza (The Race), a left-of-center Hispanic racist organization, so of course Hillary had to pander to this racist group because they are predominantly made up of Democratic voters.
La Raza is actually pretty tame compared to the militant anti-American Marxist group MEChA, which seeks the return of the entire Southwest to Mexican sovereignty, or the formation of an autonomous state that they call Aztlan. Of course, some members of La Raza are also members of MEChA.
Hillary said this back in 2005-who will Hillary protect-America or "Aztlan"?
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