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    Tom Campbell: Immigration witch hunt must end

    Tom Campbell: Immigration witch hunt must end
    Published: Friday, August 8, 2008 at 11:20 a.m.
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    The emotional fervor over illegal immigration is reaching the status of the famous Salem witch hunts, and the irony is that our law enforcement officials appear willing to circumvent basic human rights to justify the discovery and exporting of illegal immigrants. Two recent instances, both in Alamance County, illustrate the point.

    OK. We get it. We've got a serious problem with people who are undocumented coming into this country.

    Our federal government has known this problem existed for years and has done little to fix it, primarily because these immigrants are coming here to work in jobs that many of our citizens don't want, or don't want to work at the wages being paid. There are now more than 350,000 of these people here illegally in North Carolina.

    As long as they have jobs, they aren't going back and we aren't going to send them back. The business community wouldn't tolerate it even if we could logistically and financially accomplish such a mass deportation.

    We can understand the rationale in deporting undocumented immigrants who commit crimes and are a threat to society. But that is far from what is happening in Alamance.

    In the latest incident, a librarian, here since childhood, was taken from her job, arrested, taken to court in shackles and is standing trial. Authorities obtained public health records, confidential information, to learn that the woman was using the Social Security number of a dead person. Because of this revelation her sister, who worked in a local law firm, was also arrested, as were their parents. The librarian is facing jail time. All will likely be deported.

    There is also the story of an illegal immigrant stopped at 2 a.m. in the morning, driving without a driver's license in a car with illegal plates.

    Whisked away to jail, her three children, ranging in age from

    14 to 6, were left alone beside

    the road for eight hours. Yes, she was breaking the law. But do these infractions warrant the

    risk of danger to innocent children?

    We afford thugs in drive-by shootings more rights than we are affording these here illegally.

    This is reminiscent of Nazi Germany and Hitler's reign of terror, only this is Alamance County, North Carolina. It is impossible to believe that we started a revolution on the premise that every person has rights, yet we are eager to deny any rights to people who don't have a piece of paper saying they are here legally.

    Every single one of us, with the possible exception of Native American Indians, is an immigrant or descendant of one. I thank God my Scottish ancestors who came in search of a better life didn't face such hatred.

    This has gone too far. It is time that people of all political parties, religious affiliations and racial persuasions cried out for these witch hunts to end.

    We should demand that the members of our Congress immediately formulate and pass an immigration policy that is sensible and realistic. It is time for all people to tone down the emotional rhetoric and raise the principles of fairness and respect for human rights, resolving these problems without being hateful and uncaring.

    We are better people than we are currently demonstrating. Let's take a stand, but one that is humanitarian and just for all.

    Tom Campbell is creator/host of NC SPIN, a weekly statewide television discussion of N.C. issues airing Sundays at 6:30 a.m. on WILM-TV.
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    This one again. I have been posting on blogs all day on this one. How dare he compare being deported to the extreme mental and physical cruelty inflicted by the Nazis! This is one of the most anti-semitic pieces I have read in a long time.

    As for the the comparison to the witch hunts, there is one huge difference here, the illegals are actually guilty. Here is a response I posted to this same article on Topix:

    There is so much to say, but I will stick to the topic at hand. The writer compares the enforcement of our immigration laws to two horrendous historical injustices. first, the Salem witch trials. Let us compare/contrast these two situations.

    Guilt:
    The witch trials began with a group of girls who got caught dancing naked in the woods. They made up a story to get out of trouble, made false accusations, and many innocent people were tortured and put to death.

    The story of Illegal Aliens began when somebody decided they coveted what the US had. Feeling somehow entitled, the knowingly and willingly ignored our immigration laws, broke into our country, stole ID's and jobs, Demanded MORE rights then citizens have, then cried when our laws were enforced. Nobody has been tortured or falsely put to death. But like a 2 year old child not getting his way, the typical illegal is throwing a tantrum about how unfair it is that they can't have everything they want.

    I would say a closer analogy would be comparing Illegals to Al Capone. Both broke US laws to better their circumstances. Both feel that they are above the law and entitled to have their own way. Both believed they could dictate to the people how they should behave.

    Comparing our Law enforcement to Nazis is the most anti-semitic statement I have ever heard. How dare you compare the horrors that Nazi Germany bestowed upon the jews to enforcing our laws? How many illegals have we gassed? tortured? ran cruel and unusual experiments on? Illegals broke our laws and need to be deported. If they don't want their families broken up, they can take them with them when they go home now. If they stay, ICE will get them, and I hope it is unpleasant. Punishment for a crime should never be like a day at the park.
    I would invite anybody who wants to come out to play to post their opinions on Topix also. Here is the link:

    http://www.topix.com/forum/news/immigra ... 4/p45#c956
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    THERE ARE SO MANY MORE TO DEPORT;

    SOME PEOPLE DON'T GET THE OVER POPULATION PROBLEMS, YET.

    NC, VA, SC, AND OTHERS DON'T NEED TO BE LIKE TEXAS OR CALIFORNIA;

    TAXPAYERS HAVE NO MORE MONEY TO GIVE TO THE ILLEGALS.
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    Good Work, Cayla.
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    OMG!!! There are 2,193 comments on Topix regarding this article!!!
    http://www.topix.com/forum/news/immigra ... 4#comments
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    This idiot fantasy journalist says,

    Our federal government has known this problem existed for years and has done little to fix it, primarily because these immigrants are coming here to work in jobs that many of our citizens don't want, or don't want to work at the wages being paid.
    Yes our federal government has known about this problem for years and has done virtually nothing to ENFORCE OUR IMMIGRATION LAWS! That is why Americans are demanding that their federal government STAND UP!

    These illegals are coming here to TAKE the jobs of American citizens and TAKEOVER American society. Our citizens DO WANT and DID HAVE most of those jobs but are being supplanted by non-citizen lower, cheaper earners.

    This is reminiscent of Nazi Germany and Hitler's reign of terror, only this is Alamance County, North Carolina. It is impossible to believe that we started a revolution on the premise that every person has rights, yet we are eager to deny any rights to people who don't have a piece of paper saying they are here legally.
    Jackass! These people must have that piece of paper to receive ALL AMERICAN BENEFITS that we pay for with our taxes! And it is NOT NAZIism to enforce our federal laws!

    "Witch hunt"? No valid comparison here. A witch hunt was a persecution of mostly women who were suspected of aberration by a small sect of a religious denomination in a localized area of Massachussets.

    There has NEVER in the HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY been approx 20 million persons of one ethnicity flood into this country illegally and it is WRONG of our government leaders and liberal media to condone this!

    My humanitarian sympathies go to the Americans who were killed, maimed, forced out of their schools and communities, and lost their jobs as a result of illegal aliens.

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    Quote Originally Posted by zeezil
    OMG!!! There are 2,193 comments on Topix regarding this article!!!
    http://www.topix.com/forum/news/immigra ... 4#comments

    There are few illegal supporters on this site make Dee look sane. This particular thread is interesting as a number of posters are calling Caucasians ethnic slurs right and left. For those documenting the true hate speech, this thread is a goldmine.
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