tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8037574845472013477.post9012836143542364760..comments2024-03-13T09:54:31.962-05:00Comments on The Legendary: New law gives state cops the right to jail illegalsThe Legendaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10057766663620656222noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8037574845472013477.post-30727801679504746522010-04-28T17:39:16.068-05:002010-04-28T17:39:16.068-05:00The Legendary wishes to thank Sgt. Hernandez since...The Legendary wishes to thank Sgt. Hernandez sincerely for his analysis. He is a veteran of the U.S. Army Special Forces, General Manager of Bird-Kultgen Ford at Waco and serves the City of Woodway as a police officer.<br /><br />He is well-versed in this subject and eminently qualified to comment.<br /><br />What's more, Mr. Hernandez is a naturalized citizen of the U.S. His family came here from Mexico when he was in grade school and patiently went through all required procedures to qualify themselves to become naturalized U.S. Citizens. If anyone knows that this is a possibility to all who come to America with the proper qualifications and the ability to make diligent efforts to become citizens, it's Mr. Hernandez.<br /><br />The truth is that if illegal aliens are performing work that Americans will not perform, then their employers are perfectly free to sponsor them for a work visa under immigration regulations. This makes the process of naturalization - which consists primarily of learning and demonstrating proficiency in English, governmental knowledge similar to that taught in high schooll civics, and some simple history lessons - completely available to all those who are so privileged.<br /><br />This is precisely the route followed to citizenship by workers sponsored by great railroads such as Southern Pacific, Santa Fe, and Florida East Coast, as well as automakers such as Ford Motor Company and manufacturers of the stature of U.S. Steel.<br /><br />Once again, The Legendary Jim Parks thanks these two Hispanic gentlemen for their cooperation. Mr. Machado is President of the Hispanic Republican Club of McLennan County and Mr. Hernandez is Vice President.<br /><br />The Legendary<br />Jim ParksThe Legendary Jim Parksnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8037574845472013477.post-79515390990557199962010-04-28T17:03:51.530-05:002010-04-28T17:03:51.530-05:00I believe the Arizona law will be found constituti...I believe the Arizona law will be found constitutional. And this is why -- when state law and federal law coincide, then state law is valid. For example -- bank robberies. After 9/11 the FBI switched gears and poured resources into anti-terrorist activities. Agents wen to local police departments and told them that for the time being, treat bank robberies as state cases -- they were too busy to work them.<br /><br />A second point -- one that is deliberately lied about by leftists. Police officers in Arizona will not be able to make a stop and an investigation in to one's status without there being a prior reason for a stop. So skin color, dress, accents, will not factor into making the stop. Speeding, getting in an accident, engaging in criminal behavior -- that will be the cause for the stop, just as it always has been. <br /><br />The question that Duke poses at the end of his post is a big one. Every day that our borders are unsecured, the number of cases like that grows. Now here is something that I wonder about in those cases -- are the parents of the American children gaming the system to use our sympathy for their children to ask us to look the other way when their status comes up? They were willing to break the law to come here. Are they also willing to use their children as pawns to stay here? If so, do they hold us hostage to implementing the law when they are discovered to be illegal and their children are not? Would people who do that be good citizens? Or would they be cynical exploiters of our goodwill?<br /><br />This isn't the forum for me to launch into my family's own experience, but I will say that those folks who manage to get to immigrate here legally have to be respected for all the trouble they went through to do it according to US law. It isn't easy and for sure it's not fast. And it is why I sometimes wonder in amazement that those who were lucky enough to be citizens by virtue of an accident of birth, don't understand how valuable their birth right is.Bert Hernandeznoreply@blogger.com