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That will be a cold day in Hell.  This man is becoming more incredible by the day.

I can say with the utmost certainty right now that I will not be fingerprinted by the Federal government and treated like a common criminal just so I can have a job and if Lindsey Graham thinks that the people of this state are going to stand for this he is sorely mistaken.

Lawmakers working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill have settled on a way to prevent employers from hiring illegal immigrants: a national biometric identification card all American workers would eventually be required to obtain.

Under the potentially controversial plan still taking shape in the Senate, all legal U.S. workers, including citizens and immigrants, would be issued an ID card with embedded information, such as fingerprints, to tie the card to the worker.

The ID card plan is one of several steps advocates of an immigration overhaul are taking to address concerns that have defeated similar bills in the past.

The uphill effort to pass a bill is being led by Sens. Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.), who plan to meet with President Barack Obama as soon as this week to update him on their work. An administration official said the White House had no position on the biometric card.

“It’s the nub of solving the immigration dilemma politically speaking,” Mr. Schumer said in an interview. The card, he said, would directly answer concerns that after legislation is signed, another wave of illegal immigrants would arrive. “If you say they can’t get a job when they come here, you’ll stop it.”

The biggest objections to the biometric cards may come from privacy advocates, who fear they would become de facto national ID cards that enable the government to track citizens.

“It is fundamentally a massive invasion of people’s privacy,” said Chris Calabrese, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union. “We’re not only talking about fingerprinting every American, treating ordinary Americans like criminals in order to work. We’re also talking about a card that would quickly spread from work to voting to travel to pretty much every aspect of American life that requires identification.”

The Wall Street Journal

Damn right it will. That’s the same thing that happened with Social Security. Your Social Security number was only supposed to be used within the parameters of that program and it ended up turning into a national identifier for just about every aspect of our lives, credit, employment, loans, etc. This proposal is a back door to the National ID that people have been pushing back against.

We don’t need an Orwellian government tracking program to stop illegal immigration. We just need to enforce the existing laws on the books.

Lindsey Graham needs to be stopped.  He is morphing into an oppressive fascist who no longer has any respect for our Constitution nor the freedom of the American people.

He’s at it again.

Reporting from Washington – Despite steep odds, the White House has discussed prospects for reviving a major overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws, a commitment that President Obama has postponed once already.

Obama took up the issue privately with his staff Monday in a bid to advance a bill through Congress before lawmakers become too distracted by approaching midterm elections.

In the session, Obama and members of his Domestic Policy Council outlined ways to resuscitate the effort in a White House meeting with two senators — Democrat Charles E. Schumer of New York and Republican Lindsey Graham of South Carolina — who have spent months trying to craft a bill.

According to a person familiar with the meeting, the White House may ask Schumer and Graham to at least produce a blueprint that could be turned into legislative language.

The basis of a bill would include a path toward citizenship for the 10.8 million people living in the U.S. illegally. Citizenship would not be granted lightly, the White House said. Undocumented workers would need to register, pay taxes and pay a penalty for violating the law. Failure to comply might result in deportation.

Los Angeles Times

This sounds like the same stupid idea Bush trotted out a few years back.  Who is going to register and pay all of these penalties when they can just stay here under the radar and milk the system?  Notice that there is no definitive punishment for not complying.  It says who do not may get deported, not will.

With 16.8% unemployment nation wide and South Carolina’s unemployment rate over 12%, why in the hell is Lindsey Graham trying to legalize another 10 million people and bring them into the mainstream work force?  American citizens can’t even find a job right now.

Additionally, with all the problems the Obama administration has had with health care, Cap and Trade, spending, and everything else they’ve tried to do, why would Obama even want to go anywhere near this political hot potato?  Does he not remember the backlash that occurred around this country when Bush brought up his amnesty bill?  People are already seriously pissed off at this administration and the overall government in general.  The Democrats are already plenty damaged over the health care bill.  Can you imagine what is going to happen once they start pushing forward with amnesty again?  Sometimes I am convinced this man wants his party to get obliterated in November.  Is he really this obtuse?

According to the Baltimore Sun, the Obama administration has already begun laying the groundwork to accomplish something the Bush administration could not, sweeping immigration “reform.”  The president allegedly wants a bill to create a pathway for citizenship for the estimated 12 million illegals across the country.  New York Senator Schmuck Schumer (D) has already started working on a bill and according to his office has enlisted the help of Mr. Grahamnesty himself.

An immigration bill was introduced in the House earlier in the month and Sen. Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat who chairs a subcommittee on immigration, is heading the effort to cobble together a coalition in the Senate.

Bipartisan support is possible. Schumer’s office said he is working with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) to develop a bill and wants Graham to sign on as a co-sponsor. Graham’s office did not return calls for comment.

So like the Bush immigration bill and his support for Cap and Trade, will Senator Graham again bend over us folks in South Carolina and give it to us up the wazoo?  You’d think with South Carolina counties suffering from unemployment rates in excess of 20% the last thing Graham would want to do is flood the market even more with additional job seekers.  Then again, Graham is usually more concerned with Beltway politics than the people he’s been elected to represent so I guess it’s not that crazy of a thought.

In the past year, more than 500 illegal immigrants have been deported as a result of a fingerprint system at the Wake County Sheriff’s Office that automatically tells federal immigration agents they are there, according to Department of Homeland Security records.

Wake County joined the federal Secure Communities program about a year ago, along with Durham, Orange and seven other counties across the state. Since then, Wake has put nearly 700 aliens into federal custody – about three out of every five turned over through the program across the state.

About 50 of those had committed major drug offenses or violent crimes such as murder or robbery. Most had committed property crimes or misdemeanors.

The N&O

Remember all the hubbub about Joe Wilson exclaiming “You lie!” to the President during the State of the Union address earlier this year?  Of course you do.  Despite the chastising he has taken since then by the left and even some on the right for his outburst there is one little problem hanging over the heads of Wilson’s critics.  He was right.  Both the House health care bill and the Senate health care bill still do not encompass provisions to screen out illegal immigrant workers from the mandate on businesses that they provide health care coverage for all of their employees.

The House bill mandates, and the Senate bill strongly encourages, businesses to extend health care coverage to all employees. But the bills do not have exemptions to screen out illegal immigrants, who usually obtain jobs by using false identities and are indistinguishable from legal workers.

A rough estimate by the Center for Immigration Studies suggests that the practical effect of the mandates would be that about 1 million illegal immigrants could obtain health insurance coverage through their employers.

Democrats who wrote the House bill said that employer coverage for illegal immigrants is not intentional, but rather the outcome of people breaking the law.

The Washington Times

Technically, that may be true.  People are breaking the law by hiring illegals, but let’s stop playing games here.  Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans have taken serious steps to crack down on the hiring of illegals.  In fact, under this administration and the direction of Janet Napolitano, INS raids on businesses known to employ illegals have all but stopped.  The Feds aren’t going to do anything about this problem and the Democrats who wrote this House bill know that full well.  Hence, they know they are to blame for the coming crisis if this bill becomes law so they are trying to pass the buck now.

The longer this drags out and receives more attention, the more Joe Wilson may turn out to be a hero to his district rather than an embarrassment.

You can guarantee that California will fight this tooth and nail.  They have about five more seats than they should due to the population of illegals in their state.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Aaron Groen

October 14, 2009
202-225-2071

Foxx introduces bill requiring Census to determine number of illegal immigrants

Legislation will ensure fair congressional apportionment

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (NC-5) today introduced the Fairness in Representation Act (H.R. 3797), legislation that requires the Census Bureau to determine the number of illegal immigrants present in the United States in its decennial census. The census count currently does not distinguish between illegal immigrants and citizens or those legally present in the U.S.

“Accurately counting the number of illegal immigrants in our country is a matter of equity and justice for American citizens and those legally present in the U.S.,” Foxx said. “This bill is a commonsense proposal to require the Census Bureau to ask about citizenship status on the same census form that already asks recipients’ race, age, and sex.”

Foxx’s legislation aims to prevent unfair distortions in the distribution of House of Representative seats among the 50 states caused by large populations of illegal immigrants in certain areas.

By counting illegal immigrants the Census Bureau will be able to provide accurate data for the reapportionment and redistricting process. Without this data some states will receive fewer Congressional representatives than they should due to other states’ high illegal immigrant population.

“The census is a lynchpin in the proper functioning of America’s democratic and legislative process,” Foxx said. “Ensuring that the final tally is accurate and fair will mean everyone’s vote counts equally after congressional districts are redrawn in the coming years.”

Note: For more information on the Fairness in Representation Act or to schedule an interview with Foxx please contact Aaron Groen at 202-225-2071. To read the legislation please click here.

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Obama did lie, but that’s nothing unusual.

Senate Finance Committee Democrats rejected a proposed a requirement that immigrants prove their identity with photo identification when signing up for federal healthcare programs.

Finance Committee ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said that current law and the healthcare bill under consideration are too lax and leave the door open to illegal immigrants defrauding the government using false or stolen identities to obtain benefits.

Grassley’s amendment was beaten back 10-13 on a party-line vote.

The bill, authored by committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), would require applicants to verify their names, places of birth and Social Security numbers. In addition, legal immigrants would have to wait five years, as under current law, after obtaining citizenship or legal residency to access federal healthcare benefits such as Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program or receive tax credits or purchase insurance through the exchange created by the legislation.

But the would not require them to show a photo ID, such as a drivers license. Without that requirement, the bill “remains dearly lacking when it comes to identification,” Grassley said. “Frankly, I’m very perplexed as to why anyone would oppose this amendment,” he said.

The Hill

There is nothing perplexing about it.  The opposers of this ammendent want American citizens to pay for the health care of illegal immigrants in the hopes that some day they can grant amnesty to those illegal immigrants and they will vote for their political party.  It’s not hard to understand.

Did y’all hear Congressman Joe Wilson stand up and yell “You lie!” to Obama tonight when he said illegal aliens won’t get covered under government health care? It was clearly audible on the television and it made the Dalai Bama pause for a second or two. It’s already hit YouTube.

A few weeks ago John Baker of Louisiana State University and Louisiana pollster Elliott Stonecipher published an article in the Wall Street Journal about the effects illegal aliens have on the Census and Congressional apportionment. Their claim is that the inclusion of illegal aliens in the Census for the past 30 years has improperly skewed the distribution of Congressional districts throughout the country as well as the number of electoral votes each state is given for the presidential election. By their calculations, California currently has six more Congressional seats than it rightly should and could reach nine extra after the next Census in 2010. How does this effect North Carolina?  Franco Ordonez wrote about this in the Charlotte Observer.

Baker and Stonecipher write in a recent Op-Ed for the Wall Street Journal that California could get nine House seats “it doesn’t deserve” because illegal immigrants will be counted in the 2010 Census.

They charge that several states, such as Iowa, Louisiana, and Michigan, will likely lose one seat in the 2010 reapportionment because of this.

For a story on illegal immigrants threatening to boycott the Census, we reported in May that North Carolina could lose its coveted 14th seat in the House of Representatives.

Ordonez approaches this from a different angle from Baker and Stonecipher.  Those two are up in arms that certain states are being over represented in Congress because of the inclusion of illegal immigrants.  Ordonez, on the other hand, is concerned that North Carolina will not receive an expected 14th Congressional seat following the 2010 Census because of illegal aliens not being counted due to a threatened boycott of the Census by the National Coalition of Latino Clergy and Christian Leaders.

So is North Carolina being helped or hurt by this practice?  The truth is we don’t really know, but in my opinion people who are here illegally, thus meaning they shouldn’t be here at all, shouldn’t be counted as part of the enumeration because they are not voting citizens and should not receive Congressional representation.  A friend of mine brought up a point, however, asking whether or not non-citizen immigrants, legal or illegal, have always been traditionally included in Congressional apportionment or not.  When all the European immigrants came over and settled in much of the northeast back in the early 20th century were they included in the Census?  If they were, then is this really a problem as it’s business as usual?  That was a great question to which I don’t have the answer, but I think if I were the governor of a state that is projected to lose a Congressional seat after 2010 I might consider getting the state lawyers ready for a battle in Federal court to stop the practice regardless of history and protect the interests of my state.

The amendment was agreed to 54 to 44 earlier today.

Mark Lyttle expected to return home after serving a few months in prison for inappropriately touching a woman’s backside.

Instead, he says, the U.S. government deported him to Mexico, Mexican officials deported him to Honduras, and Honduras deported him to Guatemala – even though he is a North Carolina-born U.S. citizen who speaks no Spanish.

U.S. immigration officials confirmed this week that they wrongly deported Lyttle, 31, who his family says is mentally ill and suffers from mild retardation, in December after finding him in a North Carolina prison. He and his lawyer say he spent four months bouncing among Latin American prisons and homeless shelters before ending up this month at a U.S. embassy in Guatemala, where officials confirmed his citizenship.

The N&O

Wow. I guarantee this poor guy will NEVER touch a woman again.

Lyttle returned to his family on Friday, but only after immigration officials at the Atlanta airport tried to deport him again. He said that, throughout the process, federal agents repeatedly ignored his assurances that he was a U.S. citizen and native of Rowan County, about 125 miles southwest of the Triangle.

“I said, ‘All I know is the United States.’ I said, ‘I was born here in Rowan County,’” said Lyttle, who is now staying with his brother in Kentucky. “They just totally ignored it.”

Keep in mind- immigration enforcement is something the Feds should be doing. They can’t even get their actual constitutional obligations right, and there are people who want them to be put in charge of MORE stuff?

I shudder to think of what’s going to happen when these dudes are put in charge of your health care!

Compliments of Civitas:

The admission of illegal immigrants to public institutions of higher education is an issue North Carolinians oppose in significant numbers. However, strong public sentiment hasn’t stopped Sen. Charles Albertson (D-Duplin) from introducing legislation (SB-848) to admit illegal immigrants to the state’s community college system.

North Carolinians know there is something inherently wrong with offering educational benefits — paid for with the hard-earned money of law-abiding taxpayers – to individuals who are in this country illegally and who are oftentimes accessing more in services than they are paying in taxes.

Taxpayers are already asked to provide illegals with free public education and public health care via Emergency Medicaid. Allowing illegals to access to higher education will only provide even more incentives for illegals to come to our state and tax our social services.

SB 848 provides benefits for individuals who have violated immigration laws. In so doing, the bill disrespects our nation’s laws and as well as the plight of other immigrants. It trivializes the efforts of millions of law-abiding immigrants who have endured financial hardships and years of waiting to comply with our nation’s immigration and employment laws.

Sen. Albertson may represent Duplin County, but it appears that he’s actually a resident of Candyland. There, among the candycane forests and gumdrop mountains, Sen. Albertson doesn’t have to worry about what happens when you use taxpayer money to reward illegal behavior. He doesn’t have to worry about the consequences that will follow when you treat illegal aliens and U.S. citizens equally. Nor does he need to give a damn about what might happen when an illegal alien, thanks to taxpayer money, graduates college but is unable to repay society because they can’t legally work in the United States.

If Sen. Albertson is so insistent on applying his naive Candlyland mentality to North Carolina, may I suggest he run for office there rather than here.

Former Congressman Tom Tancredo, a leading critic of U.S. immigration policy, will be in Chapel Hill next Tuesday to speak against illegal immigrants admissions to colleges and universities.

Tancredo, who unsuccessfully ran for president last year, will talk at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Bingham Hall at 6:30 p.m.

His talk is being sponsored by a student group called Youth for Western Civilization. It is a new group that opposes mass immigration, “radical multiculturalism,” and affirmative action. Several campuses have chapters of the group.

The N&O

Oh, he’s gonna be real popular up in Chapel Hill. I agree with him more than I disagree though, so I hope he makes it out alive.

To the Rev. Les Puryear, a prayer without Christ is not a prayer.

So when Puryear, the pastor of Lewisville Baptist Church, recently offered a prayer at a meeting of the Forsyth County commissioners, he prayed in the name of Jesus Christ.

Prayer to a specific deity is at the heart of a lawsuit against Forsyth County and a controversy that has dragged on since 2006. The issue could, however, be coming toward an end. A judge could rule on the lawsuit next month.

The lawsuit is supported by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of two county residents. The county hired, at no cost, a conservative organization called the Alliance Defense Fund, to defend against the lawsuit after being contacted by the fund.

The W-S Journal

For cryin’ out loud! Honestly, if you get all heebie-jeebie when a Reverend invokes Jesus in a prayer, you’ve got some real issues you need to work out. Personally, I don’t think we ought to have any sort of prayer -Christian, Hindu, Non-Sectarian, etc.- at these meetings. Prayers are for home and church; government meetings are for taxpayers to get screwed. Actually, maybe a few prayers before the bureaucrats meet isn’t a bad idea after all…

Anyways, I happen to believe that government meetings are an inappropriate forum for religious displays. I keep my religion private.  But I also don’t freak out and start suing people when someone else prays. These two plaintiffs need to get a freaking grip.

As for the Constitutionality of this, I remind our dear readers that there is no such thing as a “separation between church and state”. The 1st Amendment states that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion”. Inviting a reverend to give an invocation before a meeting does not violate that.

Meanwhile, as we continue our journey through the world of the stupid…

The N.C. American Civil Liberties Union says programs that allow local sheriffs to help deport illegal immigrants need more scrutiny, and it is demanding scores of records from the 13 state departments that are checking their inmates’ immigration status.

Legal Director Katy Parker says the ACLU wants to see whether departments with immigration programs are arresting more Hispanics and setting up more driver’s license checkpoints than in the past.

“All of the sheriffs will tell you that [the program] doesn’t affect how law enforcement is operating on the streets,” Parker said Monday. “But what we’re hearing is that the tail is wagging the dog, that checkpoints start going up and immigrants are being arrested for things like driving without a license and minor traffic issues.”  

The N&O

Sometimes I feel like the entire world, except me, is taking stupid pills.

Let me explain this slowly and in small words for the ACLUeless: If you are arrested, police can ask if you are here illegally. If you are here illegally, you have broken immigration law and the law you were originally arrested for. The 287(g) program is not an excuse for Deputy Do-Right to break down some random dude’s door and check his citizenship status. It IS a way to determine if people who have already been arrested for other crime are here illegally.

To be fair, however, I agree with the ACLU in one area- I don’t like license or DWI checkpoints. Forget the racial or immigration component of this- checkpoints are just wrong. Period.

South Carolina legislators are pushing a bill to cut workers’ compensation benefits for illegal immigrants in an effort to strengthen what’s already one of the nation’s toughest laws aimed at keeping those workers off state payrolls.

On Wednesday, a Senate Judiciary subcommittee debated a bill that says illegal immigrants can have medical costs covered, but would be barred from collecting disability benefits when they’re hurt on the job. One of the panel’s members said he’s also looking at denying illegal immigrants access to state courts.

None of that sits well with one of the state’s leading Hispanic advocates.

“We can be nannies. We can be translators. … We build houses. We build hospitals,” said Diana Salazar, president of the Latino Association of Charleston. “But we cannot get benefits if we get hurt on the job because we don’t have a piece of paper? … I think it’s unfair.”

The Greenville News

All that talent and yet they can’t seem to be LEGAL.  Diana Salazar took a wrong turn and ended up in “bimbodome.”  You see there are two realities.  There is the reality that people like me are grounded in and then there is the Candyland reality of Diana Salazar and her followers made of ice cream floats and gumdrop mountains.  She doesn’t realize that there is no sympathy for her in this state and that she and her merry band of felons are resented here.  She can’t seem to grasp the concept of following the law and she thinks it’s unfair.

You know what I think is unfair Diana?  I think it’s unfair that people sneak into my country ahead of others who are following the rules.  I think it’s unfair that they take up residence in my state, enroll their children in the schools that I, not they, are paying for.  I think it’s unfair they go to our hospitals and get treated on the taxpayers dime.  I think it’s unfair that they stole my 84 year old grandfather’s Social Security number and our government doesn’t give a damn.  And I think it’s unfair that moonbat sphincter twats like yourself run around complaining about how unfair it is.

Meanwhile, State Sen. Tom Davis, R-Beaufort, questioned whether illegal immigrants should see benefits at all.

Yeah, that same question crossed my mind as well.  Exactly why should these people get anything and why do we need a law to stop it from already happening now?  How is it allowed to happen as it stands today in the first place??

Only in America……..

MYRTLE BEACH — Dayana Rodrigues carries a bucket of cleaning solutions and a vacuum with her to work. She used to clean houses to pay for college. Now, she is a career maid who speaks three languages.

Rodrigues, 20, graduated in the top 5 percent of her high school class in 2007 and completed nursing prerequisites at Horry-Georgetown Technical College — all A’s and one B.

In January, the college refused to enroll the returning student because she is an undocumented immigrant. “You know it’s not personal. But it is,” she said.

The South Carolina Illegal Immigration Reform Act became law in June 2008 and, among other measures, banned illegal immigrants from attending colleges and universities that receive state money.

The Post and Courier

It is personal.  I agree.  I don’t like my tax dollars being used to pay for people here in this country illegally.  She already went to high school of the backs of American citizens.  Does Jill Coley think that by telling us about this girl’s grades and the job she does that we are somehow supposed to feel sorry for her?  What she needs to do is become an American citizen like everyone else or go back to her country of origin and attend school there.

CARRBORO — A local civil rights group, The Orange County Bill of Rights Defense Committee, plans to meet Thursday to discuss the decision of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department to join an Immigration and Customs Enforcement program that will quickly identify illegal immigrants.

The Secure Communities program, will alert immigration officials when an illegal immigrant is at the county jail. When deputies routinely send fingerprints to the FBI’s criminal ID system, which is linked to ICE’s database, they will learn whether a suspect is wanted on criminal or immigration violations, and ICE agents will know whether an unauthorized immigrant is in custody.

The News & Observer

Carrboro, what a shock.  I’m fairly certain that the concern to be discussed by the Orange County Bill of Rights Defense Committee will be racial profiling.  I can almost guarantee it.  Anytime there is discussion about cracking down on illegal immigration the alarmists begin chirping about racial profiling.

There is nothing wrong with the Secure Communities program.  It simply alerts the local authorities that they have an illegal alien in custody, more than likely with a criminal record or there wouldn’t be fingerprints available in the first place.  Why anyone would be opposed to knowing that information is beyond me but there are always people out there aghast at any kind of enforcement of criminal activity.  The victims be damned, just don’t disturb the criminals.

What an absolute joke…

A man who was placed under a federal detainer earlier this month says he was coerced into answering questions about his immigration status by being left in a cold room for hours.

Marcelo Pimentel Bornios, 25, was arrested by the Burlington police at 2:42 a.m. on Dec. 14 and placed in the Alamance County jail on a charge of driving while impaired.

Shortly after being processed by the officer and jail personnel, and after telling the officer that he was born outside the United States, Pimentel-Bornios was interviewed by a locally based Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.

Pimentel-Bornios said the ICE officer asked him if he was in the country illegally or if he had paid someone to bring him to the country illegally. According to Pimentel-Bornios, when he did not answer those questions, the officer left him in the room and told him he was going to stay there until “he was ready to talk.”

The room only had a small bench and was so cold that he started shaking, Pimentel-Bornios said in Spanish during an interview with the Times-News. In all, he said, he was kept in that room for six to seven hours without a blanket. He was only wearing his jail suit at the time, he added.

From time to time, he said, the officer would come into the room to check if he had changed his mind. He said he was given a meal during that time and was told that he had the right to get an attorney and that he could contact his consulate, though he was not given information on how to do that.

Pimentel-Bornios said he eventually got so tired that he agreed to answer the questions.

“I wanted to get out of there; I was so cold,” he said, adding that at one point he laid on the floor to get some rest.

The Times News

Well gee, it sounds to me like he could have gotten out of there whenever the hell he wanted if he would have simply answered the damn question!  Are you here illegally?  Yes or no?  He didn’t answer because he obviously isn’t supposed to be here!

FOR ATTORNEY Ehber Rossi, cases like these are violations of a person’s civil rights.

“These allegations are troubling,” Rossi said. “There seems to be a pattern of possible abuse that seems to be affecting one specific group in the county.”

He added that though it’s convenient to say that the only group being targeted by the 287(g) program is the illegal population, these cases show that the common denominator is not immigration status but rather race.

“No matter what way you look at it, these are troubling allegations that should be looked into,” he said.

What needs to be looked into?  Him being a little chilly??  Oh, boo hoo hoo!  Oh, it was so cold!  Well maybe if you didn’t sneak across our border and then careen down the road drunk as a skunk where you could have almost killed somebody you wouldn’t have been sitting in that cold, stone room.  You know what your country does to illegal aliens they catch?

As for this Rossi guy, he is just another scum lapping puss bag lawyer exploiting our legal system trying to make a buck with this frivolous complaint.  Troubling my ass.  The guy made the decision to stay in the cell on his own.  Period!