1862- LOVE THE ALIEN- FOR YOUR
WERE ALIENS IN THE LAND OF EGYPT- Deuteronomy 10:19
The Supreme Court came out with a
few rulings yesterday- the big one was their decision about the Arizona Immigration
law.
Most of you know that the
governor [Jan Brewer] has been fighting with the Justice Dept. [Holder] over
their stringent immigration laws.
Arizona- like other border sates-
has had a problem with illegal aliens for some time.
So- they passed new state laws
that made it tougher if you were an alien in the state.
If you applied for a job- and you
were an illegal- you would get arrested.
If you got stopped by the cops-
they could ask you for your papers.
A couple of other things that
went beyond the federal law.
So- Eric Holder [attorney
General] did what he does best- he sued Arizona.
[As a side note- this is not a joke- he has
sued states/cities ever since coming into office. He just threatened to sue the
Fire Dept. here in Corpus Christi. They settled for hundreds of thousands of
bucks- why?
We were ‘discriminating’ against women.
How?
Some of them could not pass the
physical exam- you had to do things like pull a dummy- the weight of a person-
to show that if you were in a fire you would be able to rescue either your
partner or a victim.
Many times women would fail this
part of the test.
Okay- so some depts. changed the
test.
But lots of women do- by nature-
have a hard time passing this requirement.
If you ‘dumb’ down this part of
the test- you are putting people’s lives at risk- both the woman as well as
those she would need to rescue.
Holder threatened to sue- Corpus
settled.
He also sued 2 north eastern
depts. a couple of years back.
He said they were not hiring
enough Blacks- he told them to change the exam.
They spent about a million bucks
redoing their exam.
Some Black applicants failed.
He then ordered the dept. to
lower the passing score to 60.
Finally- the BLACK firefighters
union said ‘ENOUGH- YOUR GOING TO GET US ALL KILLED HERE- Blacks and Whites!’
So- Holder does have a penchant
on suing cities/states when he perceives a racial issue.]
What did the court do?
They struck down some of Arizona’s
law- but upheld the most controversial part- the cops can still ask for your papers
at a stop.
I found it interesting that Justice
Kennedy- who wrote the majority decision- seemed to side somewhat with the more
liberal argument.
One thing he mentioned was when
dealing with illegal immigrants- we need to keep in mind that we are dealing
with people.
I know this seems obvious- but
when issues become politicized- we have a tendency to forget this.
I live in an area where over the
years I have seen lots of Illegal’s coming thru.
The Fire Dept. that I worked at
had calls where illegal’s would accidentally start a brush fire- they maybe had
a camp under a bridge and lit a fire to stay warm- stuff like that.
I had friends- Mexicans- whose
families gave them food and water when they saw them in the fields.
The point is- the immigration problem
is a real problem- and it is true that all countries need to be able to control
their borders and have a system of legal immigration.
At the same time- we need to also
look at the person issue- the above verse was a reminder to the Jewish people
that they too were illegal at one time- when they were staying in Egypt.
In all these debates- we tend to
forget that we are all ‘aliens’ in a sense- our country is made up of immigrants
[the American Indian is the only group that can claim non immigrant status].
I personally have a problem with
the amount of lawsuits that Holder has launched against the states.
He is suing Florida over their
voter registration ‘purge’.
The governor- Rick Scott- has
made an attempt to get non citizens off the voter rolls.
Okay- should we be letting non
citizens vote?
Of course not.
Then why is Holder suing?
He sees [like others] this as a
racially motivated purge.
He argues that what Florida is
really trying to do is get the minorities to not vote.
Okay- the governor simply asked
the justice dept. to give them a list of non citizens- those they know to be illegal.
Holder refused.
Why does Holder- and others think
that Scott is anti minority?
Because after they checked the
data base- the majority of those who were non citizens were indeed minorities.
So- according to Holder- this is
racist.
But who else would be on a ‘non
citizen’ list?
I mean do we have a massive
migration of say- polish folk who are washing up on our shores?
Not yet- unless this E.U. thing
gets out of hand.
So- if you are ‘purging’ the
voter list of people who are not citizens- by its very nature you are going to
get more minorities on the list.
Yet Holder sees this as racist.
So- both sides need to be honest-
and fair.
The Right side of the aisle needs
to keep in mind the above verse- that in the end we are all aliens- yes- our grandparents
came legally and it’s not the same as those who are coming illegally- I hear that-
but we are still dealing with humans [Kennedy].
And the left- if Holder keeps
suing fire dept’s- and thinks that his role in life is to use the justice dept
to accomplish some type of political agenda- then I think the words of my
fellow Black firefighter should be kept in mind.
If you keep this up- ‘your going
to get us all killed’.
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