Have you ever had a “speed trap” in your neighborhood? That’s an example of selective enforcement on a “agenda” oriented level. The cops writing tickets are getting money for their boss to make a new addition to the county or city buildings or getting extra money for new equipment. But the agenda still reflects a lack of fair distribution of the area’s LE resources. They could be out there distributing their resources on things like domestic violence, etc. But that’s lousy duty: writing tickets is easy & fast. It also yield good money per the amount of time involved.
Catering to enforcement where illegal aliens are involved (or giving lip service to it) is [an attempt to] catering to a voting block. It’s easy & less legally risky than many other issues.There is less of this problem than there was some many years back. One of the biggest reasons is that the employers are being targeted as well!

ICE has stats that indicate that the level of illegal boarder crossings are actually going down due to lack of jobs available here. Where once the day labour pool could demand $15 an hour, now, people are just not interested in pulling out that money. Less & less people are coming over.
What’s more when an illegal gets detained they often go to a ICE detention center instead of the country lock-up. That’s real bad news, as they will sit there for about 6 months waiting for their consulate to get around to sending someone. Waiting for the Mexican Legal attache to show up is a long wait, I’d bet. The days of plane rides back to Mexico are over.
Where a citizen can skate on a simple multiple shoplifting beef w/ O.R. & probation, an illegal can expect to do 6 months just as a warm-up. This is not uncommon in boarder states with fairly strong enforcement levels of repeat misdemeanor arrests. It most likely won’t happen in California but it happens in AZ , NM, & TX..
A lot of people who work for ICE say we are going to see a great deal less illegal entry in the coming months or years due to a poor economy & a stiffening of consular obligations. In AZ there is a pretty big new holding facility in Florence for just this purpose.
I have a feeling that the “illegal alien problem” will lessen of it’s own accord. Being in the country illegally is not a fun thing or a tasty meal ticket.
The point being is that there is no reason to target them. They gave enough laws waiting for someone in that position to get caught.

One thing I have noticed is that some people think that using the word “Mexican” is somehow derogatory. They substitute the word “Spanish”…..People w/ a Mexican ancestor are not from Europe. Spaniards are from Europe: Mexicans are from Mexico. Mexico may be a lot of things but it’s not Spain.

Yeah sure pal, except for the fact that the “publicity” you were receiving is adamantly *negative*….
Let me rephrase that for ya—i said NEGATIVE.
The ‘publicity” that has brought your syndicated domestic terrorist group into the 15 minute of famed spotlight, does not neccessarily grant your hategroup exactly the kind of influence you were hoping for, but instead, it exposes the mentality, and the logics behind it, that is generally assoiciated with a typical hategroup such as the CCC. It informs the public of the sheer hypocrisies within the so called conservative based right-wing fringe nuts. And the folks you *claimed* are seeking membership as a result of this “publicity”, are the very same folks who are the usual suspects connected to white extreminisms and anti-Government militias. In given any case such as these, they usually are monitored by both the Federal Government and hatewatch groups nationwide.
In hindsight, the “publicity” is nothing to be excited about. That would be a idiotic to begin with.

As for coming to join us legally, it’s near-impossible for some people. If you have relatives here, a university degree, special talents, or wealth, you can get here. Being European doesn’t hurt any, either. This doesn’t mean it’s easy. A couple of my relatives recently arrived — it takes years of waiting and thousands of dollars to get here legally.

If you’re not rich or educated, the application fees alone are way beyond you. If you make $5 a day, how are you going to come up with a $900 and whatever it is to file the application? Not to mention several hundred for the medical exam. And if you do manage to get your paperwork together and filed, you have to wait years and your chances of success are riduculously low — I mean under 1%.

Our legal system is an arcane, crazy mess. It’s really exclusionary — and yes, it is biassed against non-white people — and it doesn’t work very well. It needs to be reformed.

As for “Borders,” I’m not so convinced. Those silly walls offend our neighbors a whole lot more efficiently than they keep undesirables out.

I don’t think Americanness is defined by exclusion. It’s been a shifting and evolving identity, and that’s just fine. The people who worry about undocumented folks now are using the same set of attitudes as the folks who said “No Irish need apply” to my great-grandmother, or who told my Italian-American stepmother she “wasn’t really white.”

I was blown away when MSNBC.com picked up the story.

The past week has been among the top five weeks for website traffic and new members in the history of cofcc.org.

Keep up the good work. Get us more publicity!

Thanks,
Kyle Rogers

You’re either a rogue cop or you’re not a cop at all.