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Maybe we need a Zero Tolerance Policy for Racist

I'm sure it'll never happened though we can still dream

I had come across a heartbreaking video earlier this week that I wanted to share with everyone here, however I of course didn't save it so I had to search for it and you know how that can go. While trying to locate the video that I wanted to share I came across the following video. Needless to say it is a clear-cut reminder of the never-ending ignorance of racist idiots.

The video in itself is rude to say the least and rather low budget with zero creativity. It merely plays a song with the same picture in place throughout. No surprise there, after all the racist mentality usually does lack not only intelligence, also creativity.

The thing that caught my attention, beyond the utter rudeness of the video was the caption under the video which read, "You will not take our country, You will not take anymore jobs from us, you will not kill our familys, you will not sell drugs to our kids, You will not dirty up our houses, you will not drink our beer, WE will not eat your food. We americans have let this go on for way to long. It takes us americans to fix this problem. We must not give up on the war to protect our country. It takes more than one to get rid of them."

Sadly, the comments were more of the same or opposing viewpoints that were brought down to that same level. It's sad that this YouTube video received so much attention. The only good point is that it has only been viewed 735 times, which is 735 times too many. That being said, in the grand scheme of internet activity 735 is next to nothing. This I take comfort in, at least this hatred hasn't gone viral.

I'm very torn, I'm so disgusted by the undertones of this video that I'm outraged that it has remained. At the same time if it were to be taken down I would believe within my core that someones freedom of speech was taken and when it comes to someones right to freedom of speech it's not suppose to matter whether someone is discussing historical events, puppy dogs or racist beliefs. So as much as I am angered and disappointed and even shocked with this hate inducing video created through ignorance I am almost trapped by it for everything in me protects it, though that is not to say that I can't make my own private protest to the single-mindedness that went into this YouTube video.

Nazi’s fight immigration with extreme measures

Unnamed Nazi hints at illegal operations that led to a decaying Mexican woman and Sheriff Deputies do nothing

Modern day Nazi’s appeared in downtown Duluth earlier this week on March 3^rd, everyone should be happy to know that Duluthians came out in large numbers to defend this small town and the rights of others and the mere 6 NSM Nazi’s ran inside behind police to seek refuge. Following this event I sought out to discover exactly where these Nazi’s came from, my discoveries sickened me. Their goal, aside from hating all nonwhites is to fight immigration and their extreme measures go beyond normal rationality. I was fortunate enough or should I say unfortunate enough to uncover an unnamed Nazi who splattered a decaying Mexican woman who had crossed over the border in Arizona.

The Nazi belonging to the (NSM) National Socialist Movement hinted to his unlawful involvement with these statements in his “report” and apparently to the Pinal County Sheriff deputies, “I didn't just randomly stumbled on this corpse.” And “…not at liberty to divulge this information as it pertains to our method of operation.” Surprisingly, the sheriff deputies didn’t seem to mind that a full on Nazi was wandering through the desert armed with an assault rifle on what is referred to as “desert patrol”, nor did they mind or see a reason to investigate this particular Nazi for possible wrong doing. Then again, maybe this poor woman left to rot under environmental elements just wasn’t worth their time.

The proud Nazi then goes on to warn all Mexicans of crossing into America by leaving the colorful statement, “This should be a message for Mexicans to stay on their side of the border. The person we found this morning learned this lesson the hard way.” This horrible crime received minimal media attention and minimal investigation and to my knowledge the NSM Nazi who had proudly hinted yet didn’t completely confess walks free today. Judging by information provided on the NSM website, this group has worked its way into major cities and small towns throughout the nation, their numbers are growing and immigration is at the center of their success. It appears that the extremist have come out.

Note: I will not place photos of this woman’s decaying body on this site, however if you need to see them you can locate them and the “report” at NSM.

Student Scholarship Essay based on Immigration Reform Questions

Have you ever wondered how to get your high School student or young college student to start thinking about immigration reform? By getting students to stop and think about immigration and the issues surrounding immigration they have the potential to automatically start evaluating how immigration affects individuals, both immigrants and those affected by immigrants. This can include both positive and negative effects.

Oregonians for Immigration Reform is a nonprofit organization in Oregon that raises awareness of illegal immigration and looks at the environmental effects of legal immigration. They aren’t in any way against immigration, they simply try to perceive the overall effects. In an effort to get young people to take a deeper look into immigration they are putting up an essay based scholarship.

Scholarships questions – “Do you believe that unchecked illegal immigration and excessive legal immigration will have a negative impact on your future? If so, why and in what way?”

“What could you do, as a US citizen, to ensure immigration laws are enforced, strengthened or changed?”

Two scholarships will be awarded, the first for $1000 and the second for $750. In order to apply for the scholarship, each student must answer specific thought provoking immigration reform questions. The questions are designed to get students to look at societal issues and how immigration will affect society as a whole and on an individual level.

In many ways this scholarship chance will be great at adding awareness and promoting political and societal thought patterns. By reading the specific questions that these students will be answering, you can clearly see the single sided view. This isn’t necessarily shocking, in fact you could even say that it’s typical. Agendas and views are often tied to financial rewards that are generally aimed towards gaining agreeing viewpoints to further push single sided agendas.

Sen. Steve Fischmann proposes new Guest Worker Program

Real immigration reform that restores our humanity

Immigration reform laws seem to always be unreasonable at best. It’s with a bit of surprise and relief that I have finally come across a recent report where New Mexico Sen. Steve Fischmann is proposing a new kind of immigration reform. The kind of immigration reform that comes from considering that illegal immigrants are still human beings and should be treated as humans, with respect and kindness.

Sen. Steve Fischmann a law that would place illegal immigrants into a “guest worker program”. Under this program illegal immigrants will have a chance to stay in America without the threat of incarceration and deportation as long as they are accepted into the program. Being accepted into the “guest worker program” is actually rather easy. Each illegal immigrant who wishes to remain in New Mexico needs to pay for a criminal background check. As long as the criminal background check is passed they can be part of the guest worker program, it’s as simple as that.

Considering that one of the biggest complaints of illegal immigrants is the chance that they just might be criminals, this should put the minds of small minded people to rest. Sadly, this may never make it, simply due to its unpopularity among most people and politicians. If Sen. Steve Fischmann can get his guest worker program passed it could be a guide for other states to follow. We would once again be a nation that accepts immigrants, our reputation of hatred would disintegrate and as a whole we would begin to once again find our humanity.

Mississippi Reform Bill mimics the Racist Alabama Reform Bill

Are they just seeking a return to their racist past?

Failing to learn from Alabama, Mississippi has introduced an immigration reform bill that is eerily similar to the immigration bill that Alabama Governor Bentley openly admitted to the media that it may need to be revised. You would think that with Mississippi’s less than stellar past they would steer clear of this racist led disgrace. Then again Mississippi has never really cared about public image or for that matter, equal rights.

For the sake of giving Mississippi the benefit of the doubt, they are claiming that they have only created this bill to ensure that immigrants are legal. It has nothing to do with attacking a select group, they simply want to ensure that a select group is legal. Under the Mississippi the same problems that Alabama faced has a potential to surface.

Business may be forced to release workers, students can be pulled out of class and let’s not forget the burden of landlords that were forced to displace Latino tenants, including legal ones that lacked the long list of documentation that was required. A list of documentation requirements that I may not even be able to produce at any given moment and I was in fact born here.

The Astonishing thing is that Mississippi has had a long road recovering from their past history of racism. The fact that they are so willing to return back to that image is surprising at the very least. You can even say that maybe they never truly progressed, that just maybe they’ve been sitting quietly waiting for their time to step forward and show their true colors.

Andrew Lorenzen-Strait Named as ICE New Public Advocate

A small step for immigration reform

ICE has announced that Andrew Lorenzen-Strait will become the new and for that matter first public advocate for individuals facing immigration problems whether they are currently being detained or facing possible deportation. This has been a long time coming and may possibly be a step in the right direction. Hopefully Andrew Lorenzen-Strait will be the man for the job.

The practices of ICE that have taken place in the past may be more than just a little difficult to get ICE officers to break away from. In the past there have been severe beating, deaths and even mistaken deportations. I would imagine that any new public advocate will need to be ready and willing to go to battle with officers who just may be a little resistant at setting aside old unethical bad habits.

Andrew Lorenzen-Strait has a challenging yet certainly rewarding career in front of him. Hopefully with time he can have more public advocates at his side and real changes can begin to take place. The past actions of ICE have been a crime against humanity in the eyes of any decent person. You could even safely say that aside from being crimes against humanity, they should also be considered race crimes considering that the bulk of ICE detainees were and are other races aside from Caucasians and anytime that you take groups of people within specific races and treat them with less respect than you give a stray dog, including the addition of violent acts then you are more than likely following racist actions either on a conscious or subconscious level.

Brewer and Obama: Who Was Condescending to Who?

Jan Brewer: How Much Respect Does She Deserve After Signing Her Anti-Immigration Laws into Policy?

Remember Arizona Governor Jan Brewer? Friend to the masses and immigrants? The governor who initiated the most draconian immigration laws within the United States? When she met President Barack Obama on an airport runway, the two actually spoke.

The conversation between Jan Brewer and Barack Obama might have been a little bit awkward since he is suing her over the restrictive legislation which targets immigrants within the state of Arizona.

As the LA Times reports, there is some dispute as to how cordial the conversation between the two politicians actually was. The Obama camp describes the conversation between the president and Jan Brewer as cordial while Jan Brewer claims that she was left “breathless” by the conversation and felt that Obama was condescending to her.

I would be breathless if I had a conversation with Barack Obama, too. And I’m guessing that it would be next to impossible for Barack Obama not to condescend to a woman with that much vitriolic racism in her. (Do you think that Jan Brewer was left breathless because it was the first time that she had spoken to someone who was black?)  Unlike Barack Obama, I would find it difficult to be cordial to anyone like Jan Brewer. The immigration policy, if you recall, was signed by Jan Brewer in 2010 and specified that immigrants in Arizona were required to carry around immigration papers. The problems with the law are fairly obvious; the police can stop the immigrants with probable cause to check for papers.

What’s the probable cause?

The color of the immigrant’s skin. In effect, anyone without white skin, a funny accent, or who looks suspicious can get asked for their papers in the state of Arizona.

The original writer/architect of the law just came back into the political spotlight in the state of Arizona and is now the chair of the Republican party. (The voters kicked him out of office after his controversial law.)

Not everyone is on the same side about the Arizona Immigration law, this BLOG post written by PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY claims that Jan Brewer was almost laudable for shaking her finger at President Barack Obama.

“Shame on you, Obama. Shame on you for supporting the American, people.” (That’s not exactly what Phyllis Schlafly said, but I’m sure that’s what she really meant. Don’t you think?)

How Much Does the Economy Play into Immigration Concerns?

Panic leads to a racist mentality yet again...

For as long as I can remember, I have heard people complain about immigrants. The largest complaint that I’ve heard is the ideal that Americans are making less money as a result of an increase in immigrant labor. Looking back through the years, I’ve noticed that those complaints seem to increase and decrease at the same rate of economic hardships.

Consider the facts we know in US history, such as the fact that immigrants weren’t welcome and were treated rather harshly during the great depression. This trend continued as time progressed. In more modern times, during the 1980’s when we were in a recession you probably heard more complaints about immigrants lowering labor costs. This subsided as the economy returned to normal and people were once again able to afford to live a comfortable life.

Now that we’re back into a difficult economic time, we’re once again hearing terrible remarks. Of course now it goes beyond negativity as a stream of immigration laws have been passed that should be considered racism in its fullest form. I’m actually confident enough to predict that once our economy again changes, people will return to normal. Whether or not we’ll survive the economic induced crazed racism is another story.

It’s definitely understandable, after all people feel threatened when they can’t see how they’re going to survive. People can even become unpredictable and in some cases violent when they watch as their children suffer. This point however, doesn’t excuse inappropriate behavior. I have watched news coverage where seemingly respectable people have behaved like idiots and have even taken part in violent acts. If each person can learn to face panic with strength and a few politicians can avoid scaring people then there just may be hope, in fact maybe immigration reform wouldn’t be the hot budding issue that it is.

Select Cities across the Nation Provide a Sanctuary by Protecting their Community from Harsh Immigration Laws

Finally proof that the entire United States hasn't resorted to unethical treatment

Immigration laws are commonly known, however today I came across an interesting page that has details on Sanctuary laws. Sanctuary laws are individual city laws that help to protect immigrants. Some cities have actual written sanctuary laws whereas others unofficially follow a set of guidelines that protect immigrants.

To see an example of a sanctuary law you can visit OJJPAC. Additionally they have a list of each city that has some form of a sanctuary law in affect whether officially or unofficially. As you can imagine these laws are often attacked by both politicians and often misguided citizens within the community.

Regardless of political opposition most of the cities that have sanctuary laws have been able to hold onto their right to have laws set in place to protect their citizens. The actual laws are really just a matter of protecting the rights of others and preventing officials from strong arming people within their community. These laws allow people to live their lives and protect them from unethical treatment.

As of today’s date there are 34 states that have at least one city offering some form of a sanctuary law, however Nevada is included with only Reno listed. Reno was disputed in 2008 and OJJPAC has yet to get a requested copy of that dispute. Chances are that Reno should no longer be listed as a sanctuary city, which would also remove Nevada completely off the list.

Often the point of a city being considered a sanctuary city comes down to a simple “don’t ask don’t tell” practice. In fact many of the unofficial sanctuary cities are listed for that reason alone. Sometimes that practice is announced officially even if there isn’t an actual law in place, this was the case in New Orleans, where police officials made a public announcement to their “don’t ask don’t tell” intent.

Teenage Runaway gets Deported through Our Flawed Immigration Laws

ICE Agents fail to do their job, Grandmother found Jakadrien Turner by mere chance.

In case people didn’t already realize that immigration laws are flawed we have yet another reason to make our case. When runaway teens are deported without proper clarification it’s clear that procedures aren’t always followed. This is exactly the case with Jakadrien Turner, an African American teenager that doesn’t even speak Spanish.

Jakadrien had run away at the age of 14 and was eventually picked up for shoplifting, at which time she gave a fake name. As it so turns out, the name she gave belonged to someone who happen to be from Columbia and have warrants and therefore the deportation process was started. The problem is that investigation apparently stopped once the deportation process began.

Her fingerprints were initially taken yet never verified. No one seemed to question the fact that she didn’t speak Spanish. In fact no one seemed to question anything at all.

The only thing immigration officers seemed to see was an illegal immigrant that they no longer had to deal with. They didn’t notice that she spoke English or that she couldn’t possibly be the 22 year old woman that she was supposed to be. They just saw a victory for deported one more person, lessening the amount of immigrants on US soil.

The one thing that sticks out for me is that even if they deported her before verifying her fingerprints, her fingerprint search had to eventually confirm that she wasn’t who she said she was. So why is it then that it took until now from her initial deportation in April 2010 to realize that she was in fact a US citizen? I can’t even credit immigration officials with that, for it was her Grandmother finding her on Facebook that led to her location. It makes you wonder how many other runaway teens might end up in another country, scared and alone.

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