Illegals to Get GPS Locators, CA Rep Introduces Enforcement Bills
Posted on January 7, 2007
This comes from Release the Hounds:
Today it became official. The pro-immigration crowd has officially lost its mind. However, the worst part is that this completely ridiculous and counterproductive idea will most likely be implemented. What am I talking about? It’s in the Mexican government’s plan to issue GPS locators to “migrants†in the event that they become lost or disabled in their efforts to illegally cross the border between Mexico and the United States.
This is not my poor attempt at satire. This is the absolute truth. According to proponents, the GPS locators would be used to contact US border patrol agents and therefore could save hundreds of lives. The plan, according to these same people, would not in any way encourage illegal immigration into the United States.
The article has more:
The locators would be given to migrants who are thinking of crossing the border, and would give U.S. Border Patrol agents the location of those in trouble. The U.S. government has yet to sign off on the project, which is still in the planning stages.
Hundreds of Mexicans are killed each year trying to sneak illegally into the United States. Many are lost or succumb to heat exhaustion in the desert, while others are killed trying to swim across the Rio Grande or hide in vehicles.
Supporters of the initiative argue that it could save hundreds of lives. Among those looking at the possibility is Jesus Torreblanca, who works for Puebla state’s Commission for the Attention of Migrants.
“This won’t guarantee that they won’t be detained by the Border Patrol or face deportation, and it won’t keep them from facing risks in the desert,†he said today. “It is simply an effort at rescuing people while they are still alive.â€
He denied that the locators would encourage illegal migration.
“Our main purpose is to show people the enormous dangers they risk in crossing rivers, canals and deserts … but the phenomenon of immigration is something that can’t be stopped overnight,†he said.
Mexico’s Monterrey Tech University is developing the locators, which would be cheap and easy to carry and activate. They would be handed out for free to migrants.
Do you have the words to describe this? I don’t.
However, at least one person in California has a clue.
WASHINGTON, DC—Congressman Elton Gallegly (R-Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties) today introduced six bills to fight illegal immigration in the United States.
Gallegly’s bills address the issues we all care about, and actually has a plan to enforce it all.
Gallegly’s Identity Theft Notification Act of 2007 would require the Social Security Administration to investigate if it receives W-2 forms with the same Social Security number but different addresses. If the Social Security Administration finds evidence of fraudulent activity, it is required to notify not only the Department of Homeland Security, but also the legal possessor of the Social Security number. This will enable innocent people to take steps to protect their credit, identity and good name.
In addition, Gallegly’s Employment Eligibility Verification and Anti-Identity Theft Act would require workers to resolve discrepancies if their names and Social Security numbers do not match. Employers would have to terminate workers who do not resolve discrepancies. The Social Security Administration also would be required to notify the Department of Homeland Security so it can investigate whether a crime has been committed.
Gallegly’s third bill also removes a major incentive for people to come to this country illegally.
Gallegly’s Citizenship Reform Act of 2007 would bring U.S. laws into line with virtually every other nation by requiring that at least one parent be a citizen or permanent resident for a child to automatically become a citizen.
Additionally, Gallegly introduced a bill that will make current U.S. immigration law fairer. Under current law, an illegal immigrant who leaves the country faces a bar of up to three years if he has been in the country illegally for more than six months, and a 10-year bar if he has been here illegally for more than a year. However, if an illegal immigrant never leaves the country but applies to adjust his status, he faces no re-entry prohibitions. This is fundamentally unfair. Gallegly’s legislation provides that all illegal immigrants face the same penalty—even if they are eligible for a change in status.
Finally, Gallegly introduced two bills that would criminalize actions common among illegal immigrants.
Many illegal immigrants who are apprehended and agree to voluntarily depart either fail to leave or leave only to return. Gallegly’s bill would make it a felony, with a mandatory one-year jail sentence, for illegal immigrants to agree to leave and then either fail to leave or return illegally.
The sixth bill would make it a felony, with a mandatory one-year jail sentence, when illegal immigrants ignore the law and refuse to appear in court when ordered. This bill would eliminate the “get out of jail free card†illegal immigrants receive when they are given a notice to appear and then disappear into society.
I guess we’ll see how long this man’s bills last in the Socialist Congress. My guess? Not very.
Kit Jarrell writes at Euphoric Reality, and also hosts The Front Line, a talk radio show. Tune in on Wednesday, January 10th, when Jayme Evans from War of Wits will be on to talk about the immigration threat.Â
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What’s wrong with the Mexicans buying GPS locators? Don’t they work both ways? They seem to be pretty good at navigating the terrain anyways, so the GPS signals would probably help us more than them.
Gallegly’s Citizenship Reform Act of 2007 would bring U.S. laws into line with virtually every other nation by requiring that at least one parent be a citizen or permanent resident for a child to automatically become a citizen.
This one is guaranteed DOA. The 14th Amendment says that anyone born in the United States is a US citizen, period. Immigration status of the parents doesn’t matter.
Actually, wolfwalker, that widely-held belief is false. The 14th Amendment was not written to ensure blanket citizenship to anyone born here regardless of parental immigration status. You can read more here.
http://euphoricreality.com/2007/01/07/the-bastardization-of-the-american-constitution/
In the meantime, just read this part:
In 1866, Senator Jacob Howard wrote, “This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors, or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons.†Senator Howard wrote the addition phrase specifically because he wanted to make it clear that the simple accident of birth in the US is not sufficient to justify citizenship.
The US Supreme Court recognized this when they ruled in 1873 that the phrase (and subject to the jurisdiction thereof) excluded “children of ministers, consuls, and citizens of foreign states born within the United States.†Since the court recognized that the children of foreign citizens and diplomats should not be granted US citizenship, why should anyone think that the children of those that enter the US illegally are subject to the jurisdiction of the US government? The simple answer is no thinking person would. The anchor baby parents are neither US citizens, subject to US jurisdiction, nor do they owe any allegiance to the US. Federal immigration laws require aliens to renounce all allegiance to any foreign government and to support the US Constitution to become citizens. The parents of anchor babies never fulfilled this obligation and were never “subject to the jurisdiction†of the US.
Both the author of the 14th Amendment and the US Supreme Court recognized that an alien mother and her baby are subject to the jurisdiction of their native country - not the US. The 14th Amendment wasn’t created to provide an end run for aliens to defy US immigration laws. But politicians have subverted the Constitution and allowed citizenship to any child born in the US. This misinterpretation is not accidental - it is intentional. An error of this magnitude could not be accidental.
Kit Jarrell,
Thank you for the information.
Kit Jarrell wrote:
The 14th Amendment was not written to ensure blanket citizenship to anyone born here regardless of parental immigration status.
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Since the court recognized that the children of foreign citizens and diplomats should not be granted US citizenship, why should anyone think that the children of those that enter the US illegally are subject to the jurisdiction of the US government?
Children of foreign diplomats are covered by international treaties on the rules of diplomatic relations, which have equivalent weight to the 14th Amendment. It’s true that the 14th Amendment was aimed primarily at former slaves and their children. But that isn’t what it says. It simply says “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.” No limits in either time or ancestry. In simple terms, that means “born here = citizen here.” And that’s the way it’s been enforced for a hundred years. No legislature or court is going to change that now.