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http://www.kansascity.com/115/story/162711.html
If your a bank robber or a crook the law is against you, right.
If we took over the illegals country like they are ours they would be throwing a fit. Illegal is illegal no benefits and go home and get in the rear of the legal immmigration line. We don't need to support your mother,brother,sister,father,uncle,aunt because you should support them at home not here.
If your a bank robber or a crook the law is against you, right.
If we took over the illegals country like they are ours they would be throwing a fit. Illegal is illegal no benefits and go home and get in the rear of the legal immmigration line. We don't need to support your mother,brother,sister,father,uncle,aunt because you should support them at home not here.
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Why not post the article?...My virus protection went off like crazy when I went to the site...as well as the pop up blocker, so needless to say, I aint going back.. 0 -
America ... to the tune of 'Slip Slid'en Away' ....[:(] 0 -
It's a article from the Kansas City Star and it's about 2 1/2 pages but it's about the minuteman and the illegals. I'm running two security systems and mine didn't go off or you can go on line to the Kansas City Star and look into todays articles and about minuteman 0 -
Just for you BR.
CONTROVERSIAL ACTIVISTS | Group began as a border-monitoring organization
The Minutemen's varied faces
Uproar over a KC political appointment highlights widely divergent public opinion: Where some see law-enforcing patriotism, others see racist extremism.
By LYNN FRANEY
The Kansas City Star
So who are the people who belong to the national Minuteman Civil Defense Corps?
Patriotic Americans who publicly protest illegal immigration and want to help enforce immigration laws, as supporters say?
Or vigilante extremists who harass hard-working immigrants out of ethnic bias, as opponents say?
With perceptions so far apart, it's easy to see why the appointment of Minuteman member Frances Semler to the Kansas City parks board sparked such a furor.
Civil rights groups slammed Mayor Mark Funkhouser's choice, and tried - unsuccessfully - to get him to change his mind. Others countered that Semler's opinions on illegal immigration and her membership in the group shouldn't block her from public service.
All the impassioned debate focused attention on a group that has expanded beyond its origins - small groups of armed men monitoring the U.S.-Mexico border. It now has chapters across the country, including in Kansas, where Semler helped organize an anti-illegal immigration rally recently.
The tussle over whether the Minutemen are good or bad for democracy goes on.
"Vigilante means `watchman,'#8194;" said Ed Hayes, Kansas chapter director for the Minutemen. "Call me a vigilante. We're a national neighborhood watch group, that's what we are."
But Angela Ferguson, an immigration attorney, disagreed.
Minutemen "want to keep America white," she said. "They want to keep the power for the status quo. They want to keep it the way it is and protect us from all those `hordes of Mexicans' coming across. It's scary, isn't it?"
Minuteman perspective
Recently, about 40 people hoisted placards at a Minuteman-led rally near the Kansas Capitol in Topeka. Not all were Minuteman members.
The men and women walked up and down the sidewalk with their signs or chatted in lawn chairs.
This is the public face of the Minutemen's Kansas chapter. They've also protested outside construction sites where they believe illegal immigrants are working.
The chapter formed last May, when Hayes, a former Johnson County sheriff's deputy, decided to do something about illegal border-crossing, which he considers a national security threat.
He had seen pictures of illegal immigrants running across the border from Mexico and recalled angrily the many illegal immigrants he had arrested during his years of law enforcement.
The original Minuteman organization, which formed to watch for illegal border crossers and to try to build some border fencing, was led by Jim Gilchrist and Chris Simcox.
But by last May, when Hayes wanted to get involved, the group had split into two factions - Gilchrist's Minuteman Project and Simcox's Minuteman Civil Defense Corps.
Hayes called both groups to offer his help combating illegal immigration, and eventually he paid $50 to join the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. Minuteman leaders chose him to be chapter director.
He's never been to the U.S.-Mexico border, although he supports the corps' "Border Watch" efforts. He says his main goal is to educate the public about problems he says comes with illegal immigration - loss of American jobs, overloaded emergency rooms and hospitals, and schools and social services offices serving illegal immigrants and their children.
He also suggests that chapter members call authorities to report people they think are in the country illegally.
"My passion is my country," he said. "They're coming across this border - (estimates are) there's 12 million but (I think) there's 37 million."
He thinks the number would grow to 100 million if all illegal immigrants brought their families with them.
"This is not a racial thing. It just so happens 80 percent of them are Hispanic."
Roger Thompson, a retired utility company worker who lives in Roeland Park, joined the Kansas chapter eight months ago.
He also says racism does not underlie his opposition to illegal immigration.
Many of his neighbors are legal Asian immigrants. He was thrilled recently when his next-door neighbor, who is from Tibet, became a naturalized citizen, he said.
"I've got other things to do than be in some hate group, because I don't hate anybody," Thompson said.
He's angry that the construction industry is rife with subcontractors who hire illegal immigrants, but the government rarely prosecutes employers for hiring illegal workers.
"We ought to enforce the current laws that are on our books that our government has promised us for 20 years they would enforce," he said. "The jobs will dry up if we jail and fine the employers who utilize this illegal labor and don't pay the taxes."
He's helped the Minutemen picket a Johnson County construction site, saying Mexican workers on the site admitted being in the country illegally.
The Minutemen tried to take pictures of workers on the site and held up protest signs. Hayes boasts that a couple dozen apparently illegal immigrant workers didn't come back the next day and that an additional 15 stayed away the third day.
"If I can get out here and do a peaceful protest with my little signs and I get ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and the IRS to come out and enforce the laws, I'll go home at the end of the day happy," Thompson said. "I really have no hate for anybody."
Civil rights perspective
But civil rights groups believe picketing construction sites in the hope that workers will flee is harassment. So, too, is scouting the U.S.-Mexico border to find people who appear to be in the country illegally and then turning them in to the Border Patrol, they say.
Those actions prompt civil rights groups to claim the Minutemen's philosophy stems from xenophobia - unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners.
"I consider their focus on brown-skinned immigration a threat to pluralism, and I believe their aim is to strike fear into the hearts of brown-skinned people," said Judy Hellman, who has fought bigotry in Kansas City for years. "I think their approach is designed to be confrontational and abusive by nature."
Devin Burghart studies the various Minuteman factions as director of the Building Democracy Initiative at the Center for New Community in Chicago.
In his view, the Minutemen have "toxified" the discourse around immigration, contributing to a rise in the number of attacks on day laborers across the country.
Rita Valenciano, who leads Kansas City's Coalition of Hispanic Organizations, opposes the groups' focus on the U.S. southern border.
"If people feel that strongly about protecting our borders, we have four borders," she said. "We have the Canadian border, we have the Mexican border, and we have both coasts. All the furor is because their focus is on the southern border, and to me that's racist."
Lynda Callon leads the Westside Community Action Network Center, where day laborers - regardless of immigration status - wait to be hired.
She hopes the Kansas chapter will remain focused on peaceful protest.
Looking at the organization nationally, she said, "I don't think they're as benign as the people want people to think they are. .
"I understand having political differences of opinion. I understand being active in advocating your personal tenets. But when it transgresses into physical violence, I don't think they need to be justifying that."
To reach Lynn Franey, call 816-234-4927 or send e-mail to 1franey@kcstar.com.0 -
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If we had more guys just like you this broken immigration system would have never happened. Thank you for caring for our best interests.0 -
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