November 21, 2009
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Shelf Life: Immorally Detained in the Immigration Raids

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January-February 2009
by Danielle Maestretti 
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Scores of passionate writers and activists are working to put immigration reform back on the agenda. I like to direct people to New America Media (newamericamedia.org), whose editors have equipped immigrants in the post-raid community of Postville, Iowa, with video cameras. One woman shows her black, bulky ankle monitoring device, which hovers above a hot-pink Croc. “I know that coming here and trying to find a better life for my family is not a crime,” she says.

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  • Name Withheld 4/10/2009 3:02:48 PM

    Ok, I have to say it.. I am just sick of this whole argument. Here is the bottom line for you whining supporters of criminal behavior. You people are lucky I am not the president. Because this is how it would go down.

    1. If the person is in the country illegally, then they take their chances like any other criminal. If they get caught, they go.. to jail first, then back to the country of origin. You are acting in a criminal fashion, entering and working in the country illegally. Don't cry to the world when you end up in jail like any other criminal.

    2. Just because someone who is in this country illegally manages to drop a kid while here shouldn't give the parents an anchor to the country. If they are here illegally, then so is their kid. If they go, so does their kid.

    3. Having big rallies waving mexican flags and demanding your civil rights only pisses us off. GET IT INTO YOUR HEADS YOU FRIGGING MORONS! IF YOU ARE HERE ILLEGALLY, YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS UNDER OUR CONSTITUTION. IF YOU DID, WE WOULDN'T BE ARGUING THIS ANYMORE. THE COURTS WOULD HAVE ALREADY RULED IN YOUR FAVOR! Future rallies of this nature will be met with INS bus tours with national guard escort. You idiots want to make it easy for us by all gathering in one spot, be my guest.

    Now, go ahead and call me a bigot. Tell me that I am a racist. Tell me how I am only saying this because I hate mexicans. I will laugh in your face.. Because you see, I don't hate my own race, only the criminals living within it.

    Name withheld
    American Citizen since 1976 originally from Guadalajara.

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