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February 27, 2006
Those "Anti-Immigrant Extremists"
Like a lot of other conservative Texans I bristle when the MSM applies the term "immigrant" to illegal aliens: the distinction between legal and illegal immigration is so plain that media blurring of the terms is cannot be explained away by mere journalistic sloppiness.
Now the director of a Maryland organization runs day labor hiring centers is invoking the term "anti-immigrant" against protesters who simply want the law enforced, and this director is advocating the stalking of the protestors' children in retaliation.
John Hawkins at Right Wing News highlights the latest campaign by the Minutemen border security group, who are covertly taping employers who hire illegal aliens from the hiring centers run by Casa de Maryland in Takoma Park.
A Maryland organization that runs four government-funded day-labor hiring centers is training volunteer "legal observers" to videotape members of the Minuteman border security group and to picket their homes, places of work and their children's schools."We are going to target them in a specific way," Gustavo Torres, executive director of Casa de Maryland told the Maryland Gazette, speaking of the Minutemen volunteers who have set up a surveillance site across the street to discreetly photograph contractors who pick up day laborers at the center.
Going out with their own cameras will only be the first step his group takes.
"Then we are going to picket their houses, and the schools of their kids, and go to their work," Torres said. "If they are going to do this to us, we are going to respond in the same way, to let people know their neighbors are extremists, that they are anti-immigrant. They are going to hear from us."
Mr. Torres is just a little confused. He doesn't seem to realize that one side here is breaking the law, and the other isn't.
Torres' labeling the illegals as "immigrants" doesn't affect the basics of this equation--they are in this country illegally. He could label them "Nobel Prize-winners" and it still wouldn't change a thing.
Is mass deportation of all illegals the answer? Maybe not, but this premeditated misinformation campaign about the fundamental status of illegal immigrants is nonsensical.
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