Like the majority of Americans, I welcome immigrants.
Legal immigrants. Always have, always will, as long as they come here in accordance with our law.
“Immigrant” was mentioned in two recent news stories.
First, the Inquirer carried a story about an electronic billboard in South Philly near the sports complex that applauded the contributions of immigrant ball players.
The sign almost suggests we wouldn’t have a World Series without immigrants, which is ridiculous, because we have had many.
One thing for sure, the Dominican pitcher who no-hit us, Cristian Javier, is here legally, and he is not being paid under the table. He is not taking a job Americans won’t do — he just does it better. He wasn’t hired for “diversity.” He was hired because he can throw a baseball at 100 mph and hit a spot the size of a dime.
The story quotes an “organizer” I happen to know, a full-blown Open Borders type. “There would be no World Series without those players, without those immigrants,” said Erika Almiron, a Philadelphia-based senior organizer for Mijente, the Latino rights group that put up the billboard,” said the Inquirer.
Sorry, Erika, there would be a World Series without these legal immigrants. My favorite Philly is shortstop Jean Segura, who is from the Dominican Republic, an amazing pool of baseball talent. But if he weren’t playing for the Phillies, it would be someone like Jimmy Rollins, from Oakland.
Like all zealots, dear Erika, formerly of the Open Borders group Juntos, can’t let facts speak for themselves, she must exaggerate. But she can’t throw her fast ball past this batter.
Dear Erika has often called me a “racist” because I oppose illegal immigration. Dear Mayor Jim Kenney said I “don’t like brown people” because I oppose Sanctuary Cities that protect even convicted foreign felons from being deported by ICE. That is a fact, Kenney puts the welfare of foreign felons over that of Philadelphians.
Both dear Erika and Jimmy are actually building a racist trope with their notion that all illegals are brown-skinned.
As I have reported before — and as Kenney knows — Philly has a lot of illegal Irish. Also illegal Russians, Israelis and Canadians. All, you know, white.
Which brings us to David DePape, the guy who crashed into the home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and viciously attacked her husband Paul with a hammer. He’s an illegal from Canada, who overstayed his visa, which is true for the majority of illegals.
I have heard some people argue they are not truly “illegal” since they did have a visa.
That’s like saying an expired driver’s license is still valid. DePape was here illegally.
Had this illegal been rounded up and deported, Pelosi would not be recovering from a fractured skull. But California is a Sanctuary State that finds it downright cruel to observe U.S. immigration law. It refuses to cooperate with ICE, as if it were the Gestapo, rather than a U.S. agency enforcing the law passed by Congress.
And Pelosi paid the price. Maybe Nancy will give sanctuary another think, but I doubt it.
Kenney didn’t knock down Philly’s sanctuary even after an illegal man sexually assaulted a child. And don’t try the sophistry that no person is ”illegal.” They are ”illegal” just as some are ”criminal.”
When you are a social justice warrior, you can live with other people paying the price for your beliefs.
Right On,100%
HAPPY SUNDAY !!!
pallie,
Here we go again ! legal/illegal immigration. Many people just don’t get it. Those people are just starting to understand inflation. When it hits home as the saying goes, ‘you now have my complete attention’.
We spoke of illegal immigration many times. I believe that most of those times, the subject falls on deaf ears. My constant complaint is the corrupt and useless government that we have. President Trump was right to build the wall and keep EVERYBODY out that was illegal. The problem was/is that Mexico doesn’t have the means to stop the illegal immigration wave crashing its southern border, yet Trump got Mexico to work with the US by putting their army at our border.
I argue that for all of those years that we gave away monies to these countries in South America and elsewhere, that we didn’t make sure that the money went where it was designed to go. That would be to help the poor and impoverished in those countries.
The solution is quite obvious to me. Clean out Washington D.C.. Get rid of all of those useless paid politicians and their useless civilian government workers. Bring in people that will do the job that they were hired to do. In this day and age, THAT is asking a lot.
Tony
Why do we have a federal government anyway? Like a worthless watchdog, it merely sits on its ass and barks.
Folks who are in the country illegally are by very definition breaking laws. This is drastically different from those seeking asylum here from dangerous situations in other countries. There are, of course, extenuating circumstances when children of illegals are born here, and those sold be looked at individually. Regardless of these things, all us nasty liberals want is for people to be treated with compassion. Yes, uphold the laws. Yes, deport criminal elements post haste. Yes, give hard-working immigrants the opportunity and a path to citizenship. I have no fear of immigrants. The vast majority of crimes committed in this country are committed by Americans. And the biggest danger we face comes not from immigrants, but from white supremist assholes, like Donald Trump and his minions.
Almost all those seeking asylum are not entitled to it, under our law, and they KNOW it. The law is specific: You have to be a victim of state persecution for reasons of race, religion, gender, political affiliation. Poverty is not a qualification, nor is crime in your home country. I was happy and surprised to hear Fareed Zakaria agree with this column of mine. https://stubykofsky.com/the-big-fat-asylum-fraud/
Too often “compassion” is used as a catch all to break our laws.
well said, Stu. Space keeps you from continuing with ‘reasons’. SOROS is thee bigest reason that we need walls !
I think the biggest danger comes from deluded fools like you as witness from your last sentence.
Well said, Stu. I agree 100%.
My wife, a recent surprise follower of baseball (I thought it was boring, she said), also proclaimed Segura her favorite. After all these years we watch together ❤️
Lucky you, but Jean come up small in WS
er…um Segura is a second baseman
Mental error, you are correct.
Stu,I actually had a fairly nuanced comment regarding illegal immigration..but I left the page …came back & it was gone before I could send it.
In a nutshell illegal is what it says…and there is a limit to compassion- when the big people dont know what the people doing the work are really faced with.
Maybe tomorrow.
Good luck.