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Black Alliance for Just Immigration Just Rode Into Town; Excuse Me While I Whip This (Post) Out

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

It should be easy to spot the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI) when they arrive on the border soon to “investigate the human rights violations against documented and undocumented immigrants crossing the border into the United States as well as the violations against U.S. citizens.”

I like that last bit. Gotta throw that in to be PC.

Why is it easy to spot African-Americans on the border? Because not many live here. El Paso County, for example, is 3.1% black.

None of the African-American invaders, who have stolen native land alongside the white devils, have said to date, as BAJI reps state, “”We are appalled by the increasing militarization of the border areas and the reports of rising migrant deaths, detentions of immigrants without due process, and violence against people attempting to cross the Mexican desert into the United States.” So said Phil Lawson, co-founder of BAJI said.

For those who don’t know, BAJI is a progressive, Berkeley-based organization of, by and for African Americans and Black immigrants (whatever that latter means). It’s been around since April 2006, and Berkeley isn’t big enough for its aspirations.

I’d have hoped BAJI would agitate, as we all know the NAACP does, for more conservative, white migrants to Berkeley, Alameda County and the East Bay. But so it goes.

Welcome to the Southwest Border, BAJI friends, I guess. It’s a big place — there’s room for us, and you and all the koo-koo leftist donkeys you rode in on.

Will be interesting to see the outcome of this visit. The IntarWebs doesn’t give an agenda, which suggests BAJI hasn’t got enough clout to have scheduled one. Maybe it’s a big secret. Maybe it’s play as you go. Maybe it’s pay as you go.

Now, hold your nose and read this statement by an outfit calling itself the national network for immigrant and refugee rights [sic]. That’s right, they are too shy to capitalize their name. NNIRR is in bed with BAJI.

And here’s a puff piece on BAJI. Most interesting is BAJI’s stated aim to forge relationships with immigrant groups. Meaning those immigrant groups who’d rather not face the letter of the law.

Hey, avoiding the law in Mexico works just fine. Why not adapt that here?

BAJI would no doubt agree, as those East Bay crime rates unfairly target Blacks.

Over at the loathsome IndyMedia, BAJI “Gestapo” turned up denouncing “Gestapo” dententions of illegal aliens in the Bay Area. Gestapo. SS. What’s the dif, to a group for whom the Constitution is now an emotional issue rather than a guiding light and an ideal for personal behavior?

For what amounts to yet another shitbird Berkeley activist group, BAJI sure gets a lot of publicity. Maybe everyone’s afraid to call a rock a rock, on account of the rock being black African-American a nappy-headed ho stupid yet politically-correct.

Stupid this:

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Hazleton, PA: The Selma of the Immigration Fight

Friday, March 16th, 2007

Digger’s Realm is covering the Lozano vs City of Hazleton, Pennsylvania case. DR alludes to the core of current immigration debate: is enforcement of immigration policy only a federal issue when the impact of immigration is at the state and local governmental levels?

If it is an exclusively federal issue, then what does the federal government do to support state and local institutions (hospitals, police and fire departments, DMVs) that deal with illegal immigrants on a day to day basis as much as the federal government (USBP, ICE)?

Hazleton has much larger implications for immigration reform than it’s motley crew of minor politicians and simpering ACLU lawyers probably think.

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Reason’s Angle on Illegal Immigration on the Southwest Border

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

Malia Politzer writes on illegal migration in Reason Online. It’s a feature story, so there is the obligatory human-interest intro, but it gets better.

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Mexico: Addressing Illegal Migration at Last

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

Mexico is going to crack down on migrants crossing the border, create a guest worker program and improve conditions for migrants on the move. Sounds like a Minuteman’s dream, right? Except it’s happening on Mexico’s southern border.

For some time, Mexico has engaged in a remarkable political hypocrisy — it complains about the US stance on illegal immigration, yet it is a felony to be in Mexico without papers, punishable by two years in prison. Now that’s a hard stance. Mexicans are upset about Central Americans taking their jobs (!), and those migrants are treated quite poorly while in Mexico.

When you think about it, it’s no wonder Central Americans are trying to get to the US — illegals get better treatment here than they do from brutish Mexican policies and Mexican attitudes.

Calderon is smarter than Fox, and he knows that he can’t make any headway with the US over the border fence or new immigration policies while his own house is not in order.

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Sanctuary, Signs and Spring in the Pacific Northwest

Sunday, February 18th, 2007

The Seattle Times reported on Saturday that immigrant advocates and two local religious leaders would create a local sanctuary at the end of March if the government doesn’t stop worksite raids without fixing the immigration system. They spoke in response to last Wednesday’s raid of a UPS warehouse in Auburn, Washington, where 51 suspected illegals were detained.

This is a change from last year’s militant stance by clergy. Back in the day, as they say, Catholics were throwing open parish doors and hanging up signs saying, “Y’all come” in several Spanish dialects. There was a large one on the cupola of a Catholic Church in El Paso — too bad it faced the I-10, instead of Mexico a mile or so away. Had it done so, it might have given courage to wanna-be illegals, instead of being what it was: a marketing ploy aimed at Americans.

But over time, that attitude faded. That big sign in El Paso flapped in the wind until a couple of strings broke and it crumpled onto the roof.

Now there’s a new feel to proceedings, an elevation of conscience supporting a kind of amateurs revolutionary rhetoric. All that is lacking in Washington state are the T-shirts; liberals like T-shirts.

[Hat-tip: The always useful Bender's Immigration Bulletin.]

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Operation WRANGLER: All You Need to Know About a State Response to Border Security

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

Howdy ho! Let the money flow! West Texans will soon have showered upon their heads the amount of 400,000 US dollahs in support of Operation WRANGLER.

WRANGLER, you say, wassat? Why, it’s an initiative by the Texas Guv to combat crime along the border with you-know-who. NO, not New Mexico. That other Mexico.

Perry better hope the armed thugs who did this don’t move east.

On account of our Southwest border will be shown to be the terrorist-inviting empty expanse that it is.

I’m gonna have an Operation WRANGLER this weekend, too. Need some new boot-cut jeans, since the board shorts are wearing out and it’s darn cold here.

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EFF: Trouble Entering or Leaving the US?

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

Something’s afoot at Electronic Frontier Foundation. They want to hear from folks who have had trouble entering or leaving the US. Given EFF’s litigous nature and expanding-to-ACLU-like-proportions, methinks a legal action is in the works. But the action may not be that well-grounded, since EFF are trolling for personal experiences.

Hell, ask the robbed, beaten, raped, starved, dehydrated, chilled, scorched illegals who stream north across the Southwest Border about “trouble.” Somehow, I don’t think EFF is focused on them. I also don’t think EFF is focused on why illegal immigration is bad for all involved. [Hat Tip: Boing Boing, even though they didn't link to anything useful.]

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