Immigrant rights activists said Friday they shut down a court in Tucson, Ariz., preventing authorities from processing illegal immigrants who were to be sentenced to jail and eventually deported.
The activists had chained themselves to bus tires and to the court entrance early Friday morning and had been there for three and a half hours just after noon local time.
They said they’d been told the court canceled its proceedings for the day as a result of their protest.
“Anyone who witnesses Operation Streamline will come away convinced that it is both unconstitutional and immoral,” said activist Roberto Cintli Rodriguez. “There is no justice in that courtroom. It violates every principle the U.S. claims to ascribe to. When humanity is confronted with unjust laws, it is our responsibility to challenge them.”
Friday’s move was a precursor to next week, when the activists plan to try to shut down the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Phoenix.
The Washington Times
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We owe them Arizona, the right to vote, continued untrammeled access, and a whole lot of future entitlements. Half the country appears to cheer this on too, predicated on political survival.
That's the message that's coming through loud and clear.
Tea parties would not disrupt a court like this, but, could you imagine?
This calls for an army of white people with lawnmowers trimming nearby green areas, if Arizona has green areas.
They think they are going to disrupt and interfere with ICE. Some folks will get hurt in this. Mark. My. Words.
I guess some Laws of the Land are more equal than others.
rhhardin said...
This calls for an army of white people with lawnmowers trimming nearby green areas...
It would be so much more imposing if that army of people were all equipped with Scythes.
This is not the way to win support for your cause.
Aridog said...
They think they are going to disrupt and interfere with ICE. Some folks will get hurt in this. Mark. My. Words.
I thought the government was shut down!
You mean it isn't?
Barry lied?
edutcher ... Barry did nothing that isn't endemic in government today, everyone lies and everyone is expected to lie.
Now as for ICE...it is NOT shut down, and the ICE officers I know are required to report for duty, and no leave, of any kind ..not even sick, is authorized.
Yeah, you might say there is some unhappiness in those ranks. I truly want to be notified when the great unwashed decides to bump up against those officers. I get a kick out watching idiots get their faces ground in to and dragged over rough concrete.
One thing this "shutdown" has demonstrated clearly....that we could do without 17% of government and never miss it.
You start the terminations at the top, not the bottom...and trust me, there really is 17% of senior management that could disappear today and you'd not notice it tomorrow. I've heard tell that we now have more Admirals that we do ships...fascinating since ships are commanded by Captains (Navy equivalent to a Colonel) not Admirals. That is just one of the symptoms to too much on top.
"It would be so much more imposing if that army of people were all equipped with Scythes."
Good one.
Let me clarify my comments on senior executives in government, including the military flag ranks.
1> There are over 950 Admirals and Generals (Flag Ranks) in the USA military, which is made up of approximately 1.4 Million people. That is roughly 1480 people per general or admiral...a number normally commanded by a Colonel or Lieutenant Colonel....which are equivalent to Civil Services grades of GS-15 or 14 respectively...neither are "flag" ranks.
2. At present our government has approximately 7000 SES (Flag Rank, just like generals they have their own special flag) executives and it seeks to grow larger, of course. With federal employment at 1.9 Million, each SES "oversees" about 270 people, just slightly more than what a Captain would oversee in the military. Remember a Captain is a "junior" officer, while an SES executive is flag rank, like generals and admirals.
3. If we reduced military flag ranks and SES flag ranks by a mere 17% that would cut a paltry 1343 people or so...leaving still far more "executives" than any ordinary organization would need.
4. I am not imagining all this duplication and overlap and redundancy. The Wall Street Journal on 26 April 12 put up an article on this very issue. It showed that between 1961 and 2009 the management layers in an average agency grew from 7 to 18. Further, the average number of executives in each layer grew from 457 to 2600. And those numbers do not count the 7.5 Million contractor employees of the federal government, let alone the civil service grades, who actually oversee and perform the work of government.
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