September 2013 Archives

Assembly Bill AB 4, introduced by Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) would prohibit local law enforcement agencies from detaining people for deportation if they are living in the country illegally and are arrested for a minor crime.

"Innocent people have been deported," says Sen. Kevin de Leon (D-Los Angeles), and "seven of every ten immigrants deported under the program were not convicted of any major crime."

This kind of logic leaves us to wonder how these seven out of ten illegal immigrants happen to be in the U.S. in the first place?  Were they somehow forced across the border against their will . . . or otherwise placed in some sort of bondage such that it did not occur to them they were in violation of U.S. immigration law

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and pursuit of happiness" - this, from the Declaration of Independence, has been called one of the best-known sentences in the English language.  This passage came to represent a moral standard to which the United States should strive.  It was said that Abraham Lincoln considered these very words to be the foundation of his political philosophy.