Proposition 200
June 14th, 2005Proposition 200 must be having an effect, as it was intended to, because MALDEF is the chief whiner about it to the 9th circuit court of appeals. Just another reason that it should remain enacted and enforced to the fullest extent of the law.
In an Arizona Republic article today Arizona Deputy Attorney General Mary O’Grady urged the court not to tinker with the law that denies monthly general assistance payments, assistance in paying utility bills, and help with vision benefits.
She told the judges that the law is not pre-empted by Congress because it does not dictate who can enter the U.S. lawfully.
“This isn’t a regulation of immigration,” she said. “We are simply verifying eligibility.”
I would like to take just a second to speak on this, because it is one of my “pet peeves”. And that is “because” they are “illegal aliens” they have no “rights of citizenship” period! Nowhere in The Constitution of the United States of America is there a single article that gives a foreigner the same rights and protections as a lawful United States Citizen.
If you don’t believe me go read it for yourself, NARA “The United States National Achieves and Records Administration” has arguably the easiest copy of the Constitution to navigate that I have come across, though there are some others that are also fantastic, sites like Constitution Society which not only have the Constitution and Bill of Rights but also have a history of recorded incidences of the different articles being enacted or used as they where intended to be and The U.S. Constitution Online goes into great detail to describe these articles to us.
Many people today do their best to try and reinterpret the “meaning” of our founding documents in a light that is “pro” to their cause and that is wrong. If you’re going to interpret any historical document of any kind it has to be done by what the authors of that document meant “and not what you’d like it to mean”.
Ok now that I’ve said my piece on that let’s get back to the Proposition 200 issue.
Two judges appeared to question why MALDEF was even in court. They noted that the main plaintiff in the case was a private social service organization, Friendly House, and was not a person denied benefits or deported.
Note when you’re in court and two out of three Judges ask you “Why are you here?” then you should shut up and stop bitching at them and quietly as possible leave the room. Apparently MALDEF’s representatives are not quite that bright.
Villagra, of MALDEF, said Friendly House was being injured because it was besieged by illegal immigrants too afraid to seek government assistance. Since the passage of Proposition 200 in November, he added, illegal immigrants are less frequently using emergency room services and baby delivery services - areas not covered by the law.
Note the text in red “it was besieged by illegal immigrants”. How about this thought, we put a large effort into rounding up and deporting all of the “illegal immigrants” i.e. Illegal Aliens and then the “besiegement” of not only “Friendly House” but every hospital and emergency room in every border state mind you would be over.
Wow what a concept! Round up the illegal aliens i.e. criminals against our nation, and send them back to wherever they came from. Of course we would have to screen them first for any “terrorists” that might be within their midst but basically that’s a plan I think we could achieve. Some of you may say we do not have the manpower to pull that off but I say we have a crap load of unemployed people that could readily be employed and trained to do this work, as a matter of fact I think if we were to publicly ask for a show of hands across the country that are in favor of this idea we would quite probably start a great number of tornados just by the simultaneous movement of arms!
After the 45-minute hearing, Villagra said in an interview that MALDEF didn’t have illegal immigrants as plaintiffs because they feared being deported if they were part of the lawsuit, and their incentive to sue would be nonexistent if they were deported.
A federal judge declined to block the law and MALDEF appealed to the 9th Circuit. The three-judge panel did not indicate when it would rule.
The measure also prohibits undocumented immigrants from registering to vote.
These guys just don’t get it “they have no rights provided to them under our countries constitution” they are here “illegally”, they have become “criminals” just by entering our nation illegally, the only right they have is to be treated humanely while they await either trial or deportation or both, and they definitely are not entitled the right to vote period!
But how much do you want to bet that there are some of our politicians out there secretly helping them to do so, just so they can remain in office.
