Thread: An Illegality not Created Equal (Columnist Opinion)

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All illegality not created equal
Tuesday, Aug 9, 2005
By John Brummett

What part of illegal do you not understand? That's what the foes of illegal immigrants always ask. They think illegality is the trump card.

If you remind them that they, too, came from immigrants, they'll say their ancestors followed the law.

If you call them selfish about wanting to keep this country to themselves, they'll say they support legal immigration.

If you suggest they might be racists, they'll cry low blow.

If you tell the more extreme that their professed devotion to the law hardly jibes with their vigilantism by which they engage in citizen patrols of the border, they'll say someone has to enforce the law, since the government won't.

So, I thought I'd tell them the part of illegal I don't understand.

It's the part by which smoking marijuana is illegal. But some authorities pay no attention to it, and hardly anyone goes to jail for it anymore because law enforcement is busy with dealers and with epidemic abuse of more insidious drugs. Even for meth addicts, we've set up drug courts to emphasize helping them instead of punishing their law-breaking.

It's the part by which the sign says the freeway speed limit is 65. But I'm going 75 and people are passing me, and the trooper on the side of the road lets all of us breeze past. He's only interested in someone going even faster than the law-breaking normal traffic flow.

Yes, the law is the law. But there always are priorities and practicalities. We don't have enough jail space for simple pot smokers. There aren't enough hours in the day to cite every driver who fears squashing by an 18-wheeler if he stays within the speed limit.

So, the feds convicted a woman for selling stolen identities to illegal immigrants who'd come from Mexico to handle poultry entrails for little more than the minimum wage at an Arkadelphia plant. It's better than no job at all, which is what these Mexicans had at home.

The woman stole people's identities. She reaped illicit profit. I say throw the book at her.

Just don't round up all the 119 gainfully employed illegal immigrants in Arkadelphia trying to make a better life for themselves and relying on the woman's fraudulent documentation.

It's a simple principle with established precedent: Prosecute the dealer; spare and rehabilitate the individual user.

Are you thinking I shouldn't equate pot smokers and speeders with illegal aliens? I suspect you're right. Pot smokers and speeders don't perform vital functions for the American economy. I apologize to illegal aliens.

Let these hard-working people continue to get their American-born kids ready for American schools, and to cheer them at Little League. Let the plant run at full production.

Tell these workers and others similarly discovered that they may remain in the country so long as they stay employed and out of trouble. Make that arrangement contingent on their following a clearly prescribed and well-assisted path to naturalization.

Something akin to that kind of amnesty was how the Reagan administration handled the matter. It's how the Bush administration seems at times to lean, recent police work to the contrary, such as last week's in Arkadelphia.

Feds raided the plant and rounded up all the illegal workers for a trip to a detention center to await deportation hearings.

They left 30 children separated from their parents, banished to charity or to be wards of the state, or hidden with friends or relatives because their parents, scared by the ordeal out of their unsophisticated wits and fearing similar trauma for their innocent children, denied having them.

If we want to enforce the immigration law, the place to do it is the border, not the poultry plant. If we want to make the country safer, we'll have to separate mass murderers from their caves, not hard workers from their jobs and children from their parents.


John Brummett is a columnist for the Arkansas News Bureau in Little Rock. His e-mail address is jbrummett@arkansasnews.com; his telephone number is (501) 374-0699.

It looks like the employees of Big Chicken, from the Governor on down, are going to pull out all the stops on this one.

That column perhaps supports the opinion, not necessarily my belief, that the law is an ass.

The time of the rule of law is over.

The time of sleazy police bribes to do even the basic day to day operations is here.


The law is just to keep dupes like us in line.


Contracts will soon be meaningless.

Our society will regress into the shitholes from which our "new society" arrives from.


"Racist" is actually a battle cry, used to foretell an attempt to take everything you have, or kill you.



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The reporter forgot to mention the illegal that stole a car so he could get some beer money.
He also forget about the illegal that was drunk while driving that stolen car and plowed into a car of a mother that was driving home from her min wage job as a waitess killing her.
He forgot about expense of housing that illegal while he waited for the judge to set him free because it was only his third offence.
He fogot about the boarder patrol agent that gets shot by this illegal when he gets caught bring a group across the boarder .
I will grant you that there are some that are just looking for a better way of life, they sneak in, get jobs, become part of the community, and never cause any trouble.
But then again there are many more that are sneaking in just to get something for nothing. That will deal drugs, drink and drive, steal, rape & kill without reguard for the law.

That article is the most nimble-headed collection of Alien Lovin' Wussy Words, I've read yet.

I wonder why he focused on "pot smokers"?

I've yet to see a "pot smoker" steal someone's job, steal their livelihood, steal their elections, steal their representation, steal their hospitals, steal their schools, steal their housing, steal their benefits, steal their futures, or END THE UNITED STATES!!

Oh well....what can you say about this writer other than HE'S been Eatin Too Much Arsenic Copper Laced BIG CHICKEN!!

That Arsenic's makin' its way to his Brain Cells!!

Oh yeeeah, takes a long time to die from Arsenic Poisoning so Cluck Away Fool While You've Still Got Some Cluck In You Because BIG ROOSTER is Comin' After You!!

Cluck!! Cluck!! Squawk!!!

I have done chicken plucking and degutting. If you are doing it chatting and singing songs with friends it is a lot of fun. I did it as a teen and can speak first hand.

As an adult I know that the job is lowly paid but it is paid worse by having an unlimited number of workers from Mexico with phoney papers competing with Americans for jobs. The jobs pay better here than in Mexico and the kids can get American taxpayer supported educations.

It gets even worse without 119 jobs the Americans are still here. Any housing, health and education programs are also being used by them. We thus now have a double burden the immigants with phoney documents and the Americans forced into lower pay or unemployment.

Oh by the way what besides pollos or chicken processors do the smugglers run over the border from Mexico. Meth

People like this reporter make me sick! I bet he would be singing a different tune if he had 20 illegals move next door to him and ruin his quality of life. Of course the only illegals he will see are the ones cutting his grass, cleaning his pool, or watching his children for next to nothing