During the 2011 Texas State Legislative Session, Antolin Aguirre with the Austin Immigrant Rights Coalition, was giving testimony on Senate Bill 9 that would allow law enforcement to question a suspects immigration status. Aguirre, who has been in the United States since 1988 does not speak English.
Senator Chris Harris (R) from Arlington stopped Aguirre’s testimony by asking his interpretor, “Did I understand him correctly that he has been here since 1988? Why aren’t you speaking in English then?”
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Yes! Technically this article could have had a betetr headline; however, the ICE directive accomplishes the exact same thing as the DREAM act. Even Sheriff Arpaio’s office has complained now that the illegal immigrants they catch are being released as soon as they are in ICE custody. This is a classic case of shooting the messenger. The Main Stream Press blew this under the rug and were it not for this article you would not know anything about this. This article was written by someone who lives in Arizona where there are 500,000 illegals blowing through the state every year, where there are beheadings in Phoenix, where the city of Phoenix is dubbed the kidnap capital of the world, where immigrants are stored 30-40 in a house at a time, where the Federal government is flooding the border with thousands of gun.You people complaining are all high and mighty about the technical inaccuracies but the fact is that Obama has enacted a back door DREAM act and Arizonans are being slaughtered, police officers are being killed by the dozens, innocent immigrants are being brutalized all because THE FACT IS THAT OBAMA HAS ENACTED THE BACK DOOR DREAM ACT. Meanwhile you people do not look at the killings by the hundreds Arizonans have to endure. Did you know that close to 40,000 people have been killed on the US Mexico borders because of the drug wars in the last four years. Arizona police officers are being assaulted and killed because criminal elements from Mexico know that Obama does not enforce immigration laws. This latest back door ICE directive known as the back door DREAM act is what is make Arizona a very unsafe place to live. Hundreds of thousands of guns have been purchased recently by Arizonans because they are scared.So while you are all offended because of the article people are dropping like flies here because Obama won’t enforce immigration law. It is so typical of the critics to look the other way as thousands of people are being killed and throwing fits for nonsensical reasons.The next time all you critics of this article have your two week vacation come down and take it on the Arizona border and visit the devastation and fear. You won’t do it will you? That would be much too real. You would rather complain on this column and pretend that is reality. You are all fooling yourselves!
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