State arrests Illegal Immigrant for Trespassing

Some people just need to Lighten Up!

These police chiefs are back-woods buffoons... nothing more.

You will notice that all of the towns where this is happening are pearly white middle class towns. I grew up in Southern small town New Hampshire. These are the same towns where black drivers routinely get pulled over (and I have personal experience with this).

Imagine what would happen if this kind of "enforcement" happened a diverse community, let's say Manhatten. Do you think it is to the benefit of law enforcement to alienate a significant proportion of the people living in the community? Do you think making people fear and distrust police makes it easier to fight terrorism.

This is pure white upper-middle-class hypocritical idiocy.

We all are willing break laws in cases where we aren't breaking our own moral code-- especially in cases where we are helping our families (or defending the Iraq policy of our boss).

I used to live a half hour from the tiajuana border in San diego(the busiest border crossing in the world). theres mile long stretches of nothing and I mean nothing.No border patrol, no fence,no kidding.Theres so many mexicans in california even the mexicans think theres to many mexicans.My own grandfather crossed the border alone as an orphan his brothers and sisters were starving.His dad died fighting the revelution then his mom died leaving him to do what he had to do,head for the U.S.. I don't think I would be alive today if it weren't for the U.S..I definitly wouldn't chatting on a forum drinking a hot cup of coffee. P.S. Don't tip toe around me ,were adults. I dont get insulted easily you could call me a beaner and tell me to go back to mexico and we could still talk.My family is from East L.A.

whose gonna pick your fruit.You want to pay five bucks for an apple.Your higher ups would never let cheap mexican labour go.Our weakening economy won't allow it.you have no say in the matter your only a consumer like me

Why do you utterly ignore the other side of the equation? The person involved was guilty of illegal immigration and the federal authorities couldn't or wouldn't do anything about it. If it is wrong that the local authorities overstepped their bounds, is it not also wrong for a lawbreaker to be able to act with utter impunity?

Brandon wrote:

I don't ignore it. I kind of laugh at it.

I have broken the law many times. For immigrants to survive here many citizens break laws. I bet you have broken the law on occasion.

Look at our history. Early patriots dumped tea in Boston Harbor. People hid runaway slaves. Prohibition came, people drank and prohibition went. Homosexuals fell in love. Blacks rode at the front of the bus.

I am free. I live my life according to what I think is just. My family and friends come first. If this makes me an outlaw... so be it. I am just glad we live in a country where outlaws have rights.

I respect the laws I believe in, but immigration laws are not only hypocritical and unenforceable, the are often inhumane. If the choice is defy a law in a way that hurts nobody, or send a hardworking immigrant with a family back to certain poverty, I will choose to defy the law any time.

Call me a criminal if you want. It makes me feel kind of rugged.

Au,

We have been through this before. And I have shown before that our history is full of selective enforcement on many issues-- from prohibition to runaway slaves to homosexual relationships to integrated lunch counters.

Unreasonable laws have always been ignored by Americans until they are changed.

Our country seems to have survived.

This "law abiding society" argument is hypocricy. The real issue is that many of you feel that the US should be primarily an English-speaking European nation.

If this were not the case, there wouldn't be such opposition to our efforts to change our immigration laws to a way that is enforceable, meet the needs of business and above all humane.

So you blame the local police for charging the illegal immigrant with trespassing when they found that the INS wouldn't act, but advocate general disobedience to the immigration laws?

You believe all laws attempting to regulate immigration into the US should be repealed and, if not repealed should be ignored?

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So you blame the local police for charging the illegal immigrant with trespassing when they found that the INS wouldn't act, but advocate general disobedience to the immigration laws?

You believe all laws attempting to regulate immigration into the US should be repealed and, if not repealed should be ignored?

I didn't blame the local police for anything. I simply called the "back-woods" buffoons and pointed out the fact that all of these police officers happen to be protecting communities that are 99% white.

I am not saying that all laws attempting to regulate immigration should be repealed. I am saying the immigration laws as they are now are illogical and inhumane.

I am willing to defy such laws... as Americans before me always have.

Fix the law and it will have my support.

Ebrown the outlaw..... (hey I do kinda like that!)

1. So you do advocate that all laws attempting to regulate immigration should be repealed, and if not repealed, disobeyed, right?
2. Please show any post by anyone on this site which supports the idea that he is concerned with the ethnic composition of the US rather than the right of the government to oversee immigration and have its laws respected. Or have you now attained the status of someone who may post any irresponsible assertion without bothering with evidence?
3. That's "hypocrisy," not "hypocricy."

Brandon.

In my opinion "buffoon" is a perfect word for these officers.

I went to high school in Peterborough NH (which is right next to Jaffery and a short drive to New Ipswich or Hudson). I know the area quite well. A black woman I am close to will tell you stories of being repeatedly pulled over for making a "rolling stop" on stop signs in these towns (I have never been given such a warning).

This article says that in Hudson (the little Hudson I am familiar with) there have been 10 such arrests of Mexicans for trespassing. That number is simply remarkable. I have never once been questioned about my citizenship and if I weren't a citizen, I would be able to slip in and out unnoticed. But, it seems easy to protect little Hudson from brown skinned illegals invading the town when the rest of the populace is so white. It seems like this is the effort that they are making.

And the guy featured in the article-- he was questioned by police for using a cell phone. Good God!

It seems lthat these officers are targeting brown-skinned people in a crusade to defend their towns. But who would blame them for that? I certainly wouldn't.

What is happening is they are putting their towns in the center of a national political maelstrom. There political campaign can't be good for the towns they are supposed to be serving.

The slap from the INS is an appropriate response to buffoonery.

I am saying the immigration laws as they are now are illogical and inhumane.