March 12, 2009

Treason Lobby Triumphant: Speaker Pelosi Boards Gutierrez Amnesty Express

By Brenda Walker

St Anthony's Catholic Church in San Francisco's Mission district rang with chants of "Si se puede" Saturday evening, as Rep. Luis Gutierrez's Magical Amnesty Tour rolled through town, featuring illegal alien sob stories in an open bid to undermine American law and sovereignty.

I was there.

And a surprise guest showed up to join in the message of "No more raids!"... none other than Speaker Nancy Pelosi, appearing in her home district.

Apparently the #3 person in Washington values a worker amnesty enough to spend her valuable time supporting foreign lawbreakers.

She hugged the appealing kiddies who told family sob stories, chanted along with "Si se puede", and condemned immigration officers doing their jobs.

The audience, which I estimated to be around 300, about 90 percent Hispanic and Spanish speaking, was thrilled.

The kids were the opening act of the evening after preliminary prayers in Spanish for the long-suffering "undocumented." Little nine-year old Ivan Torres led off, saying that he wanted to be an FBI agent when he grows up…so he could catch the "real criminals."

That argument was a main theme—that the kids' parents were not bad guys, but were hard-working and valuable members of society. The topics of job thievery, identity theft and the astronomical employment loss of citizens did not come up.

Incidentally, Ivan's father has not actually been deported. But the family worries that its breadwinner, an office janitor, might be repatriated someday.

Even an imaginary sob story counts big in today's victimology-crazed liberal talking points. Ivan "lives in fear" according to the press—but whose fault is that?

Rep. Gutierrez delivered his spiel (well practiced on his 16-city tour), promising to appeal to President Obama about the plight of mixed families, as if plopping out a couple of anchor babies should put lawbreaking parents outside the bounds of immigration justice.

That notion would surprise the many inmates of prisons throughout the country, who have been separated from their children because of criminal prosecutions.

There was little local reporting of the event. Pelosi's appearance earlier that day promoting a few dozen green jobs that might come from Washington stimulus money got more attention.

Without workplace immigration enforcement, thousands of citizens and legal immigrants would be out of work. But honesty about the illegal influx is rare among local journalists of the Left Coast. Remember that the San Francisco government makes city ID cards available to foreigners, and a supervisor (David Campos) brags on his official website about being an illegal alien.

Last year, the city advertised its official sanctuary status, so that more lawbreakers would be aware of the generous taxpayer-funded benefits available to them.

But even given the ultra-liberal environment, isn't it news when the Speaker declares her disdain for the laws and sovereignty she has sworn to protect?

With more than 4 million jobs lost since December 07, the Speaker should reasonably be expected to support citizen workers first and foremost. But she does not. Her constituents and the rest of America have a right to know why not.

The San Francisco Chronicle produced the requisite puff piece about the event, Pelosi: End raids splitting immigrant families. [By Kelly Zito, March 8, 2009]

"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi joined hundreds of families Saturday evening at a church in San Francisco's Mission District demanding an end to the immigration raids and deportations that separate parents from children across the United States.

“Pelosi, who has said securing U.S. borders is a top priority, used the forum to call for a comprehensive immigration program that recognizes the broad contributions immigrants have made to the fabric of the country.

“'Our future is about our children,' Pelosi told a crowd of mostly Latino families at St. Anthony's Church.â€