Marietta Daily Journal

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Inger Eberhart/Letter to the Editor: Illegal aliens debase sacrifices of civil rights leaders

The late Barbara Jordan was the first African-American Congresswoman elected from the Deep South.

She stated, “‘We, the people.’ It is a very eloquent beginning. But when that document was completed on the seventeenth of September in 1787 I was not included in that We, the people. I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation and court decision I have finally been included in ‘We, the people.'”

How appropriate that the first black congresswoman elected from the Deep South would have this sentiment. During Black History Month, we celebrate the contributions and accomplishments of African-Americans. A people sold into slavery by fellow countrymen whose ancestors survived the Middle Passage to arrive in a foreign land. In the span of 300 years we have gone from the birth of a race to an integral part of the U.S. culture.

As part of Black History Month, we also celebrate the Civil Rights Movement. The movement that caused institutions to recognize African-Americans as citizens of a country that we helped build, fought and died for.

For more 300 years we were considered strangers in our home. We were citizens of a nation that did not recognize us as citizens. Finally, in 1965, we were granted the rights and privileges of citizenship. Civil rights granted to citizens of a nation.

Advance 21 years to 1986. The US grants “one-time” amnesty to 3 million illegal aliens within our borders. With that amnesty, these illegal aliens received the rights and privileges of citizenship, including civil rights.

Fast forward to the 21st century. More than 3,000 are killed in the terror of 9/11, some 1.2 million illegal aliens are apprehended at the border while more 4 million cross without apprehension each year, businesses are basing their financials on an illegal alien workforce, 12 Americans per day are killed by illegal aliens and thousands of illegal aliens are marching in the streets of some of the nation’s largest cities demanding the rights and privileges of full citizenship.

Ms. Jordan was also the Clinton-appointed Chair of the Commission on Immigration Reform. She stated that, “To make sense about the national interest in immigration, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it.”

Illegal aliens have violated the law by choice. Illegal aliens chose to leave their homeland, separate from their families, and enter the U.S. illegally. They are, then, caught, jailed and subsequently deported. As such, they are treated as the non-citizen criminals they have chosen to become. They have chosen to leave a place where they have civil rights to a place where they have none.

As an African-American conservative, I value and appreciate the strength of the civil rights movement activists. They fought for civil rights for citizens. It debases the sacrifices of these civil rights activists for illegal aliens to demand something that does not belong to them.

Inger Eberhart

Acworth

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Houston Chronicle

Illegal alien charged in girl’s abduction

An illegal [alien] accused of abducting and molesting a 4-year-old girl at a northeast Harris County apartment complex is facing a kidnapping charge, authorities say. — Jorge Gonzales Hernandez, 23, is being held without bail in the Harris County Jail, sheriff’s Lt. John Legg said…

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American Border Patrol / BorderInvasionPics.com

New video from Border Invasion Pics

A new video taken February 12 by borderinvasionpics.com shows a group of fourteen people invading the United States. Watch this one minute video and answer the question at the end. Click here to visit BorderInvasionPics.com

THE INVASION CONTINUES! HERE

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Editorial

The state of illegals: A distressing verdict…

A federal appeals court can do what a U.S. District Court jury in Tucson failed to do — establish a zero tolerance policy for illegals trying to cash in on American justice. — There must be no consolation prize for any of the 16 Mexicans — or their lawyers — who sued an Arizona rancher and others for $32 million…

To its credit, the jury on Tuesday ruled that rancher Roger Barnett, owner of a 22,000-acre ranch about five miles north of the Mexican border, did not violate their civil rights when he detained them at gunpoint after they had illegally entered the U.S. in 2004. HERE

http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/statistics/yearbook/2007/table34d.xls

Table 34.
DEPORTABLE ALIENS LOCATED BY COUNTRY OF NATIONALITY:
FISCAL YEAR 2007

Total 960,756

BY COUNTRY

Afghanistan 28
Albania 259
Algeria 49
Angola 13
Anguilla D
Antigua-Barbuda 23
Argentina 227
Armenia 60
Aruba D
Australia 26
Austria 8
Azerbaijan 15
Bahamas 62
Bahrain D
Bangladesh 182
Barbados 28
Belarus 12
Belgium 8
Belize 113
Benin 10
Bermuda D
Bhutan D
Bolivia 189
Bosnia and Herzegovina 60
Brazil 2,902
Bulgaria 71
Burkina Faso 12
Burma 18
Burundi 3
Cambodia 79
Cameroon 79
Canada 767
Cape Verde 48
Central African Republic 6
Chad 6
Chile 135
China, People’s Republic 1,623
Colombia 1,893
Congo, Democratic Republic 28
Congo, Republic 50
Costa Rica 377
Cote d’Ivoire 26
Croatia 13
Cuba 4,932
Cyprus D
Czech Republic 42
Czechoslovakia (former) 42
Denmark 12
Djibouti 4
Dominica 34
Dominican Republic 2,118
Ecuador 1,771
Egypt 269
El Salvador 19,699
Equatorial Guinea 7
Eritrea 100
Estonia 13
Ethiopia 144
Fiji 45
Finland D
France 55
French Guiana D
Gabon 10
Gambia 87
Georgia 59
Germany 84
Ghana 239
Greece 16
Grenada 15
Guadeloupe 13
Guatemala 23,907
Guinea 86
Guinea-Bissau D
Guyana 156
Haiti 1,004
Honduras 28,263
Hong Kong 21
Hungary 44
Iceland 3
India 795
Indonesia 536
Iran 128
Iraq 138
Ireland 27
Israel 226
Italy 60
Jamaica 804
Japan 19
Jordan 318
Kazakhstan 35
Kenya 160
Korea 1 310
Kuwait 57
Kyrgyzstan D
Laos 117
Latvia 16
Lebanon 195
Liberia 99
Libya 8
Lithuania 55
Macedonia 40
Macau 21
Madagascar D
Malawi 7
Malaysia 58
Mali 80
Marshall Islands 3
Mauritania 62
Mauritius 6
Mexico 854,261
Micronesia, Federated States 18
Moldova 46
Mongolia 54
Montserrat D
Morocco 183
Mozambique D
Namibia D
Nepal 44
Netherlands 25
Netherlands Antilles D
New Zealand 19
Nicaragua 2,118
Niger 115
Nigeria 351
Norway 7
Oman D
Pakistan 654
Palau 3
Panama 112
Papua New Guinea 3
Paraguay 21
Peru 944
Philippines 500
Poland 309
Portugal 70
Puerto Rico D
Qatar D
Romania 196
Russia 194
Rwanda 8
Samoa 25
Sao Tome and Principe D
Saudi Arabia 67
Senegal 92
Serbia and Montenegro 2 223
Sierra Leone 98
Singapore 14
Slovak Republic 23
Slovenia D
Somalia 98
South Africa 83
Soviet Union (former) 43
Spain 28
Sri Lanka 47
Saint Kitts-Nevis 10
Saint Lucia 37
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 10
Sudan 38
Suriname 10
Swaziland 3
Sweden 19
Switzerland 12
Syria 101
Taiwan 34
Tajikistan 15
Tanzania 45
Thailand 117
Togo 43
Tonga 27
Trinidad and Tobago 210
Tunisia 60
Turkey 221
Turkmenistan 9
Turks and Caicos Islands 3
Uganda 49
Ukraine 177
United Arab Emirates 8
United Kingdom 169
Uruguay 109
Uzbekistan 96
Venezuela 314
Vietnam 212
Yemen 106
Zambia 25
Zimbabwe 44
Unknown 113
D Data withheld to limit disclosure.
1 Korea includes North and South Korea.
2 Yugoslavia (unknown republic) prior February 7, 2003.

Note: CBP Border Patrol data are current as of May 12, 2008. ICE data are current as of July 29, 2008.
Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Office of Border Patrol (OBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office of Investigations (OI) and the Office of Detention and Removal Operations (DRO). HERE

A legal permanent resident (LPR) or “green card” recipient is defined by immigration law as a person who has been granted lawful permanent residence in the United States.

Permanent resident status confers certain rights and responsibilities. For example, LPRs may live and work permanently anywhere in the United States, own property, and attend public schools, colleges, and universities. They may also join certain branches of the Armed Forces, and apply to become U.S. citizens if they meet certain eligibility requirements. This Office of Immigration Statistics Annual

Flow Report presents information obtained from applications for LPR status on the number and characteristics of persons who became LPRs in the United States during 2007.

In this report, years refer to fiscal years (October 1 to September 30).

In 2007, a total of 1,052,415 persons became LPRs of the United States (see Table 1 and Figure 1). The majority of new LPRs (59 percent) already lived in the United States when they were granted lawful permanent resi-dence. Two-thirds were granted permanent residence based on a family relationship with a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident of the United States.

The leading countries of birth of new LPRs were Mexico (14 percent), China (7 percent) and the Philippines (7 percent).

CLICK HERE to see very informative charts and more info from DHS

Jerome R. Corsi, Ph. D. — WorldNetDaily.com

Obama tells Spanish radio: Immigration reform coming

President Obama affirmed in an interview with a Spanish-language radio show that his administration is preparing to push for a new round of “comprehensive immigration reform.” — The White House confirmed to WND Obama was a guest on the Univision show “Piolin por la Manana,” or “Piolin in the Morning,” hosted by Eddie “Piolin” Sotelo.

HERE

Charlotte (North Carolina) Observer

Stimulus dollars may end up helping illegals

Thousands of N.C. jobs and millions in wages created from the federal economic stimulus package could wind up going to illegal immigrants. — Congress stripped language from the $789billion package that would have required employers to verify the legal status of workers paid with stimulus money…

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Fox News

Justice Department: We Fail to Enforce Deportation Orders

An internal Justice Department study found that despite spending $20 million or more last year to litigate deportation orders, only one-fifth of illegals who reached the circuit courts and were ordered out have been shown the door.
By Mike Levine

The U.S. government spends tens of millions of dollars each year persuading federal circuit courts to uphold orders for thousands of illegal immigrants to leave the country, but those orders have been enforced in only one-fifth of the cases, according to sources familiar with a recent Justice Department study.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a branch of the Department of Homeland Security, is responsible for “removing” illegal immigrants who stay in this country against the law. But the study found that more than 80 percent of the illegal immigrants whose deportation orders were upheld by a federal appeals court last year were still in the country as of five weeks ago, according to an internal Justice Department memo obtained by FOX News.

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Associated Press

More Good News: Rancher didn’t violate illegal aliens’ “rights,” jury says

A jury in Tucson has found that a southern Arizona rancher didn’t violate the civil rights of a group of illegal [aliens] who claimed he detained them at gunpoint in 2004. — The federal jury also found Roger Barnett wasn’t liable on claims of battery and false imprisonment… HERE