Thread: Senator Kennedy: Your Hypocrisy Is Showing

Exclusive: Senator Kennedy: Your Hypocrisy is Showing

Mike Cutler
Author: Mike Cutler
Source: The Family Security Foundation, Inc.
Date: March 14, 2007



It seems that even our most experienced politicians need a refresher course in learning about the laws that govern America, particularly our immigration laws. FSM Contributing Editor Mike Cutler offers some help to Senator Ted Kennedy.



Senator Kennedy: Your Hypocrisy is Showing




By Mike Cutler




Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) recently wrote a letter to Michael Chertoff, the Secretary of Homeland Security, demanding that the illegal aliens arrested for working illegally in the United States at the Michael Bianco, Ltd., leather goods factory in New Bedford, Mass., be released pending the outcome of their deportation hearings. This raises a couple of very interesting thoughts.



First, I find it interesting that Border Patrol Agents Ramos and Compean did not receive similar demands from Senator Kennedy when they were ordered to surrender, even while their appeals were pending. Bail and custody decisions are based on a couple of significant issues. Danger to the community and likelihood of flight are the two biggest areas of concern. Since Agents Ramos and Compean are law-abiding citizens and well-known members of their communities, they represent neither danger nor likelihood of flight. And while I am not aware that any of the illegal aliens in question are alleged to be involved in violent crimes, the issue of likelihood of flight among illegal aliens is of particular concern.



A number of these illegal aliens are facing serious charges. They used false and/or stolen identities. Such violations constitute felonies that, upon conviction should they be prosecuted, subject the violator to years of incarceration and a significant fine. The fact that they used false names means that it is entirely possible that their true identities remain unknown and unknowable. The use of false identities raises the issue that they may have used other false identities and would therefore be very difficult to locate should they decide to abscond. ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) lacks the resources to attempt to search for illegal aliens who fail to appear for deportation hearings or who fail to surrender when they are ordered deported. It is currently estimated that a shocking 85% of aliens who are not remanded ultimately fail to appear as required and add to the rapidly growing population of illegal alien absconders. Why Senator Kennedy would advocate for such a risk is, in polite language, strange.



Second, in his letter Senator Kennedy refers to the "insensitivity of ICE agents” who (by arresting illegal aliens who violated our nation's borders, immigration laws and other laws involving the use of stolen identities including Social Security Numbers - a crime commonly referred to as identity theft) separated these alleged felons from their children. Every day of the week, law enforcement officers throughout the United States, indeed, throughout the world, arrest suspected criminals for their violations of law. Would Mr. Kennedy change our criminal statutes to prohibit suspected criminals from being arrested by law enforcement officers merely because they claim to have children? Our prisons are loaded with parents who commit crimes. Would Mr. Kennedy spring them all from jail?



Third, I want to clarify what must be a remaining question in Senator Kennedy’s head: those arrested in Massachusetts are illegal aliens, a legal term describing people who are not citizens of our country and who are here illegally, having broken our laws to get here; they are NOT immigrants, another legal term describing who come legally to our country and would be worthy of some of the respectful treatment the Senator espouses. The difference between an illegal alien and an immigrant is the equivalent of the difference between a burglar and a houseguest. By arresting a burglar, the police do not show disrespect for him. The same principle applies to an alien who enters our country by violating the law.



While we talk about children being separated from their parents, I can think of a couple of fathers whose children and wives are devastated by being separated from them while they sit in jail cells as they await the outcome of their respective appeals of their convictions. These men are Ramos and Compean, formerly of the United States Border Patrol. I suspect that Mr. Kennedy is happy that these valiant Border Patrol agents have been imprisoned because they took an oath to uphold laws he clearly does not like, laws such as the immigration laws of the United States.



Senator Kennedy, your hypocrisy is showing!



Lead, follow or get out of the way!



FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Michael Cutler is a Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies and a well-respected authority on immigration and border security issues.

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Sen. Kennedy, you have got to be the biggest insane idiot that has ever exisited on the planet earth!!
Then again maybe you are one of the migrant aliens from another planet!! You know the ones the ACLU and other such groups are so worried about us getting confused with the illegal aliens entering our country from other nations on this planet!!

Where's Oliver?

Originally Posted by 2ndamendsis

Where's Oliver?

Oliver went on vacation to a sanctuary city!!
Will be back next week, but sneaks on here every once in a while to leave a post( is adicted to ALIPAC) . Oliver is down in Palosi's area so she is going to leave her a piece of her mind while she is in her area. :P

I'm here! Would somebody tell me how anything that comes out of this bloated whale's mouth is taken seriously??? Let alone he's writing legislation for this country that is likely to be made into some form of law... If this doesn't reflect the serious state of affairs in our government, nothing does!

(Sorry for the rant--still angrier than all get out at Cornyn and this post isn't helping!!!)

Kennedy is the only Senator who's required by law to carry a traffic cone with him at all times.

Originally Posted by olivermyboy

I'm here! Would somebody tell me how anything that comes out of this bloated whale's mouth is taken seriously??? Let alone he's writing legislation for this country that is likely to be made into some form of law... If this doesn't reflect the serious state of affairs in our government, nothing does!

(Sorry for the rant--still angrier than all get out at Cornyn and this post isn't helping!!!)

Bush praised Kennedy up and down today and how great he was
and how much confidence he has in him to get a coprehensive immigration bill done!! PUKE!!!

LOL That was good count!!!

SOSADFORUS,

Where's that article??? Just make my day worse!

Oliver

It's right here: http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=F ... ic&t=57323

Here's the quote: "Bush called Kennedy "one of the best legislative senators there is" and noted he had worked with Kennedy in 2001 in winning bipartisan support for the No Child Left Behind education bill, one of the hallmarks of Bush's first term. "

Originally Posted by SOSADFORUS

Originally Posted by olivermyboy

I'm here! Would somebody tell me how anything that comes out of this bloated whale's mouth is taken seriously??? Let alone he's writing legislation for this country that is likely to be made into some form of law... If this doesn't reflect the serious state of affairs in our government, nothing does!

(Sorry for the rant--still angrier than all get out at Cornyn and this post isn't helping!!!)

Bush praised Kennedy up and down today and how great he was
and how much confidence he has in him to get a coprehensive immigration bill done!! PUKE!!!

LOL That was good count!!!

They were kind enough to announce it on cnn news when they were talking about Bush in Mexico telling the whole population down there we were going to get a comprehensive bill though, What a JERK!! Maybe they are related!!