Joe Arpaio Announces Sweep October 16, Helping Phoenix Become the Capital of Hate
Sheriff Joe's just announced the when, if not the where, of his next anti-Hispanic dragnet in Maricopa County, despite the limitations of his new Memorandum of Agreement with the feds. You know, the one he's already in violation of. The one that's so far signed only by him and some flunky at the County Attorney's office. The one the Board of Supervisors won't sign until ICE signs off on it. The one that leaves him with 287(g) in the jails (potentially) and snatches from him the street enforcement, which gave the sweeps their patina of federal legitimacy.
And yet, the sweeps will roll on, according to the MCSO's latest press release, which reads, in part,
"Sheriff Arpaio stated that he plans to conduct another crime suppression operation in the Valley on October 16."
Guess this means the activists who dog his deputies' moves, and videotape 'em too, will get a weekend off to rest up.
Later today on Wolf Blitzer's CNN show The Situation Room, Arpaio crowed incoherently that he had "fooled" ICE and its number two guy, Alonzo Pena, formerly chief of Arizona ICE.
Blitzer, puzzled, wondered how he'd fooled them. Arpaio said it was because they didn't think he would sign both the 287(g) jails agreement and the street enforcement part of it, but he did, just to spite them. Then they deprived him of his field ops.
Ha-ha! Brilliant, Joe. You really showed them. It's just too bad they didn't ask you to sign a resignation letter. Maybe next time. Throughout the show, Arpaio did his Captain Queeg impersonation: Sullen, dyspeptic, bitter, with a W.C. Fields nose so red it could serve as a night light, and phrases right out of a mobster's playbook.
"I don't need the feds," said Joe, and, a little later, "It doesn't mean nothin'," referring to the loss of his 287(g) street team. (According to ICE, Joe has about 60 287(g)-men for the jails, and around a hundred for the street.)
The performance would be absurd, comical even if greater Phoenix were not on the verge of becoming a roiling lava-pit of hate (I know what you're thinking, "Becoming?"), what with the neo-Nazi Oi Fest music festival in Tonopah to take place October 24, an anti-immigration National Socialist Movement rally taking place at the capitol on November 7, along with what seems like a new bias incident or hate crime in this county every time you turn around.
One day, it's an African-American family in Chandler being left an anonymous note, telling them to "Go back to Africa." The next day, it's a white woman being shotgunned to death in a Phoenix park, apparently because she was walking with a black man. Or it could be a Mexican-American family that returns home from vacation to find their home ransacked, and spraypainted with swastikas.
In the context of Maricopa County in the year 2009, Sheriff Arpaio's vow to continue his round-ups of suspected illegals in defiance of the feds -- even if it means busing undocumented brown folk down to the border -- is like pouring gasoline on dry brush while smoking a cigar.
Given these circumstances, why there is any question in the minds of the Obama wonks over whether or not Arpaio should be denied 287(g) in his jails is puzzling. It's like they're offering to buy Bull Connor another water hose, or P.W. Botha a shipload of whips. Granted, such comparisons are imperfect, but they are close enough for discomfort.
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What a frigging moron! Joke should go back and finally get his GED!
This clown is losing it, big time! "I fooled them", yeah right Joke!
Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 8 2009 @ 1:02AMOMG, Apraio looked like a damn fool! I think he is trying to save face because he got punked by DHS.
He rambles like an idiot.
Thanks for the time off Joe.
Can't wait to see your new secret tool.
Given the rise in hatecrimes within Nazicopa County, prompts one such as myself to take extra measures to protect thyself from a possible confrontations. Many of them are not native Arizonians who came here to breed the vermin created by arpaio's policies of terror. Where the rise in hate incidents here is alarming for an average city, yet not surprising. One would remember the SPLC/ADL meeting w/ the mayor and other figures, a while back. It was stated by them that arpaio was a proving factor in contributing to the elements of hate as we are currently seeing these days. One can also agree to it that arpaio is a part of this growing problem, yet not the solution. If they can some how remove arpaio from the throne, the hate that is ingrained, could decreased by X%.
GENO--
Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 8 2009 @ 5:05AMGo JOE. We need men who understand the law even when our government disrespects the law and our nation. We The People are behind you BIG TIME. Welcome all who come legally and want to become AMERICANS. Give 'em what for if they sneak in and try to occupy our country.
Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 8 2009 @ 5:43AMYou forgot Arpaio's lame explanation away of the spray painting of swastikas and anti-Jewish epithets on resident vehicles in his own town of Fountain Hills by saying effectively "it's just kids having fun."
So Joe Arpaio thinks hate is "fun."
He is the textbook definition of a power-mad, past-his-prime, egotistical politician who really abuses power and is so immersed in his own sick world that he has no concept that he is becoming a laughingstock.
Require Arpaio. You're no longer effective or funny. You're a cartoon character. You're a has-been.
Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 8 2009 @ 6:32AM"They've" arrested and detained 33,000? Really? Seriously, really? That statement ranks right up there with "I did not have sexual relations with that woman...." Joe and MCSO hasn't arrested anywhere near that number; but, it sure sounded good on TV.
Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 8 2009 @ 6:41AMI just finished watching the CNN clip. One point that Arpaio makes every chance he gets needs to be challenged: he lies through his dentures when he says "we've arrested or detained 33,000 illegal aliens." That's pure fiction.
OTHER law enforcement agencies bring them in, but because HIS staff have to process them into the jails, they simply run administrative checks. Arpaio's intake staff did NOTHING to bring these people into custody. His deputies had NOTHING to do with their arrest. But because he has to give the false impression that "he's the 'only one' doing anything about illegal immigration," Arapio insults --to their faces-- every other agency who is bringing these people in by claiming HIS deputies "arrested" them.
They did no such thing. They had the easy part. They did the "Nickle Bag Joe" part.
I wish the media would call him on this point so the public could really see how completely ineffective the MCSO is in immigration enforcement. It's just another one of Arpaio's frauds on the citizens of Maricopa County.
Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 8 2009 @ 6:54AMBy disowning the Fud's, MCSO has actually extended their capabilities. Now the State laws, trespassing (like outside Home Depots, DLC' and those aiding and abetting illegal aliens etc, will be enforced. Ooop's big mistake Fud's
Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 8 2009 @ 7:02AMGiven the fact that entire families are involved, it brings me no pleasure to say; I hope Benito "Il Duce" Krapaio goes completely rogue in his next "Hispanic suppression sweep" - in open defiance of the U.S. authorities (Feds).
Let him carry another "Hispanic suppression sweep" - and even drive captured undocumented immigrants to the border in MCSO vehicles!
Sure, it will play well in Maricopa County, where hatred for brown people is par for the course - but Arizona is only one state out of 50. After Benito "Il Duce" Krapaio goes completely rogue, the national media will literally tear him to shreds in the public square - except perhaps Fox 'News'.
U.S. authorities (Feds) have the power to strip him completely of ANY power to enforce immigration laws by simply concluding in any of the NUMEROUS inquiries into racial profiling that MCSO is guilty - or whatever else they decide once pissed off by open defiance.
Unlike everyone else who challenges this bully, Benito "Il Duce" Krapaio cannot 'launch an investigation' into the U.S. Government itself.
Whether he likes it or not, the U.S. Government is the ultimate authority here, not some loud mouthed contemporary Bull Conner who has the audacity to cry it's 'all politics' while prancing (again) before the cameras.
Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 8 2009 @ 7:23AMKeep cracking down on the illegals! Please!
Almost half of all uninsured in CA are illegals (or their children, who are now citizens - another scam).
http://www.cpehn.org/pdfs/LCHC-%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf
Yea, Bozo Joe is the poster boy alright...
Poster boy for total corruption and malfeasance.
What a joke he is.
Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 8 2009 @ 8:19AMThe FBI just needs to move in and take this demented idiot of a Sheriff to the slammer. Enough with the games. The man is not fit to -- has never been -- be in elected office. He's just too stupid. And his fat friend needs to go to jail, too. God knows he is probably the brains of the operation and has become filthy (well already was) rich on the backs of taxpayers. F. that.
Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 8 2009 @ 8:37AMIf Napolitano would once and for all come out of the closet, then that 'top drawer' where Sheriff Stalin keeps his 'top secret' file on her to rein her in would be useless.
J. Edgar Hoover did it to more than one politician to shut them up when they dared to question his tactics or authority. Does anyone here really believe that the sheriff has no such thing in his back pocket?
He would be gone in a nickel bag minute if all of these politicians and their appointed minions put the civil rights, welfare, and ending abuse of both the innocent and guilty ABOVE their own selfish political agendas.
Arpaio stays because they all go along to get along. Otherwise he would be toast.
Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 8 2009 @ 9:58AMThe only way to stop Arpaio is by changing current laws that enable him to do what he does.
Instead of protesting for months outside his office, suing Arpaio, protesting and marching, use that same energy and resources to write Bills that will help change the laws currently in place.
Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 8 2009 @ 10:04AMAnd therefore, it only takes common sense for one to realized that arpaio is wholly problematic to the point of almost no return. In terms of restoring the badly corroded integrity. For the damages done by endless KKKorruption, whose superiors are demagogic thugs, bent on atrocious means. And for what I wonder? Whatever arpaio is tyring to gain through the next suppression operations, is beyond reason.
But it isn't done in the vain law enforcement, but rather a ploy of sorts.
Joe Arpaio has not got the brains that GOD gave to the earthworm, he's a hate-monger not a professional law-enforcement officer, and a NAZI
Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 8 2009 @ 10:45AMI can't wait to see the new "Secret Tool" either, because the old tool doesn't work.
Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 8 2009 @ 10:57AMThis Sheriff doesn't pander for campaign contributions from the business communities, globalists or Internationalists? So because he doesn't comply with their demands, as they do, they desire him out of office? He is an ongoing danger and worst nightmare to the corporate agenda for illegal discount workers. Now he has a free hand to arrest and not no longer restrained by 287 G federal law, but can use the powers of state laws detain illegal aliens and the criminal elements amongst them. We need more Joe's tent cities and his inmate cuisine of bologna sandwiches, since being subjected to this type of incarceration will deter the most ardent inmate? Nationwide we need more inflexible officers of the law, who will not prostrate to the open border lunatics? Not the soft clean hands of manipulated cops who don't make waves, as they are contemplating looking towards an easy road to retirement. SEEING THAT OUR OWN ELECTED GOVERNMENT, REFUSES TO ENFORCE THE 1986 LAWS (IRCA), THERE OATHS TO PROTECT US FROM OUR ENEMIES FOREIGN & DOMESTIC. THEN COURAGEOUS POLICE OFFICERS MUST CARRY OUT DUTIES OF WHICH AMERICAN'S VOTED FOR?
However the corrupt lawmakers around the nation, have not been able to undermine E-Verify? AS YET? YES! Legal Immigration matters? We should announce to the world that newcomers are welcome, if they come through the front door? We only need those immigrants with specialized skills, such as computer engineers, scientists, doctors and those with highly recommended credentials as developed nations? America has a sovereign right who we choose to settle here? What we don't need is pregnant women slipping across our border, for instant citizenship of their child or destitute illegal aliens whose cannot exist without taxpayer welfare, chain family migration? We don't need in these country illegal recipients who need free health care, education when we already ignore our own people who live in poverty? We need to enforce the 1986 immigration reform law (IRCA), not cripple it for the sake of parasite businesses that live of the slavery of millions of foreign national workers. Seeing that the business world are screaming for more Guest Workers, they should take on the responsibility of paying for their health care and education, instead of dropping sick illegal labor of at the emergency room. to, leave the hospital bill for taxpayers. Instead of expecting the American people to pay for the enormous burden, they should pay separate expenditures for every illegal foreign national and their families.
We need to execute now, a complete war immigration chest containing mandated E-Verify for every worker--NOT REPRESSED--, or 287 G, local police arrest of foreign workers, the Rep.Duncan Hunter original national fence, instead of chopping it down to single line. We need enforcement of our laws, with harsh penalties for violating them. We need politicians we can trust, instead of those elected such as Sen.Reid, Speaker Pelosi, Feinstein and a whole list, who can be graded as Anti-American worker, anti-sovereignty, pro-illegal immigration and compromiser's of the Rule of Law. Submerge them in your anger and frustration at 202-224-3121 Find out the buried truth at NUMBERSUSA, JUDICIAL WATCH & CAPSWEB, for overpopulation facts.
Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 8 2009 @ 11:57AMWell I hope Left Phoenix did so because of an inability to read and comprehend English. If LP would read his link closely, it actually says 54% of all latinos are without health coverage. It makes no reference to undocumented immigrants at all.
Just more careless arguments from the Arpaio camp.
Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 8 2009 @ 2:20PM
The Associates respond,
"In addition to Joe Arpaio's use of state and local laws to alleviate the many egregious problems caused by illegal immigration, the citizens will invoke private nuisance abatement and other actions against employers and harborers of illegals.
In certain cases, the illegals themselves will be sued.
Frankly, who needs 287(g)?"
HMG on the blog.
Cooper, in Left Phoenix's mind, there's no difference between undocumented and documented Latinos. Great comments, by the way.
I also agree with AZ Temoc - you get the sense that Joe is either so drunk on power or in such a bunker mentality that he is going to do something absolutely insane that will finally outrage the rest of the country so much that the Feds will shut him down. Good post, Temoc.
P.S. Britannicus, no one reads your long winded rants. Save the space.
Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 8 2009 @ 3:10PMSome thoughts:
(1) Just because MCSO announced a sweep for the 16th, doesn't mean they will actually do anything on that date. The 16th is next Friday, a week from today. MCSO normally does their 'sweeps' on Wednesday or Thursdays, because they typically are overlap staffing days, meaning that's when they have the most people scheduled and they don't have to borrow from Pinal County or elsewhere.
(2) If ICE is no longer continuing their 287(g) authorization for these sweeps then what happens to the funding that has already been paid to MCSO? I would expect ICE to request a refund for the balance of the fiscal year, since the original agreement is no longer in effect, apparently as of October 15th or before.
(3) If ICE is no longer funding the patrol sweeps that means WE, the taxpayers of Maricopa County ARE. This also means that for every sworn officer, support staff (civilian), or posse member used for the 'sweep', some other service to the public cannot happen during that time.
Such as violent crime prevention and suppression, or something as simple as assisting a stranded motorist (which is rare, but happens).
(4) How, exactly do WE, the taxpayers of Maricopa County, benefit from the results of such a sweep? How does the arrest of landscapers and candle makers make our county a safer and more attractive place to live?
(5) Is it possible the MCSO sheriff has escalated this power, this authority, this illogical and failed reasoning, to the point that it's now nothing more than a personal vendetta?
(6) Why did this same sheriff change his attitude from 2005, when he said his agency was not in the business of immigration enforcement, to his status of October 2009 where he presents himself to the world as the "only one doing immigration enforcement"?
(7) Why does it seem that MCSO no longer has a professional working relationship with any other law enforcement agency at any level, city to national (other than free training for Honduras for some reason or another)?
I would encourage one of the New Times staffers, if not already done or in the works, to explore these questions.
Some of them can be answered easily:
The MCSO sheriff is mentally ill. Very ill.
Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 8 2009 @ 4:05PMTommy,
I think its fair to say that we all know that no one here in Maricopa County benefits from these sweeps. Which is probably why the growing opposition movement against arpaio has increased 2 folds since last year. But over all, you make some good points, but the sad reality of it all, if what you said can never be understood by the lesser zombies who so boldy stand by their KKKorrupt hero. Their pea brains isn't designed to swallow the truth that is told copiously in the Feathered Bastard's blog.......
Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 8 2009 @ 4:46PMPlease add CNN's Rick Sanchez interview, we missed it.
Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 8 2009 @ 8:19PMwhat a total IDIOT!
and we are paying this bag of hot air. ? when time to move, corruption at its finest.
Are you kidding me! Arpaio ROCKS send all illegals back where they came from. He's a true american hero! You liberals have your heads up your asses. WAKE UP AMERICA!!!! Your country is slowly being taken over.
Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 8 2009 @ 9:14PMCrime rates are down, 50,000+ illegals have departed the Phoenix metro area. Win, win situation.
Anyone who states "no one here in Maricopa County benefits from these sweeps" is a moron.
TommyC,
You brought up some of the same things I've been thinking about.
I could be wrong on this but ICE has given the training but it is the County who pays the 287(g) officers in MCSO. MCSO has received some money but I imagine it is easily pissed away on these sweeps. It's certainly us that will pay the lawsuits. I don't see DHS coming to pick up the computers, etc..
But your point was never brought up at yesterdays BOS meeting by the members or those that addressed it.
Hope you're happy-you just opened a can of worms.
Chad,
I've never read Britannicus's comments and doubt if anyone else has either.
I saw the Sheriff on Fox News today here in New Zealand. How lucky we are that illegal aliens can only enter our isolated country by plane or ship. Having 60 million poor people living in a Narco State at the US border defies imagination as to how to stop the infiltration.
The problem of 12 million illegals just goes to show what happens when you stop "walking tall and carrying a big stick". Good on the Sheriff for doing his job, and as for the weakness of the Feds, unfortunately it parrells a the weakness that the country in general.I remember when the ex Chairman of GM was the Secretary of the Treasury and the country was cooking with gas! Oh, what a different world we live in today.
Here's the one with Rick Sanchez:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i20nQXrHt_U
TommyC,
One more thing I forgot to mention. You are correct on the days Arpaio does Sweeps with a few exceptions: The last one, his first 2, his second Mesa one (done on a Monday)
and the one in Fountain Hills which was a complete Farce
and not really a sweep at all even though he called it one.
He would plan them around certain events
1) First was the week Saban announced his campaign.
2) When Saban went to Sun City to hold a Town Hall meeting-he had one to steal press.
3) When Gascon had his fair-well dinner.
I'm certain there are more that happened to divert attention away from his many scandals, etc..
Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 8 2009 @ 10:33PMDiverting attention is a standard operating tactic used by the politicos. The people are fooled but alerted to look elsewhere for what they are trying to hide.
We're learning and getting smarter....
Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 8 2009 @ 11:00PMRichard, Thanks for the link to the Rick Sanchez interview of Arpaio. Rick did an outstanding job in getting to the core of the issue and obviously has done his research.
Keep up the great work, Rich Sanchez, CNN. Not afraid of Third World dictators!
Posted On: Thursday, Oct. 8 2009 @ 11:17PMWhat a great interview by Rick Sanchez..
He totally make Bozo Joe look like the lying, corrupt clown he is...
It's a classic.
Posted On: Friday, Oct. 9 2009 @ 8:45AMWow, what a compelling video interview.
Kudos to Mr. Sanchez (who DOES NOT look to be Hispanic, by the way).
So, what happened to this A+ audit that DHS supposedly conducted? Just another figment of an old man's imagination, I would guess.
The Wrinkled Winkle said they've made 1,600 apprehensions of criminals for identity theft. This, with the funding of $1.6 million, means they've spent $1,000 per apprehension to arrest landscapers and candle makers. Not to mention an occasional housekeeper armed with mops and brooms, snagged in the dark of night by SWAT personnel with automatic weapons and wearing ski masks. In Mesa city hall, of all places.
The Geriatric Goon falls flat with each and every lie he tells, and the more his mouth moves the more he lies.
Dennis, thanks for your clarification on the 'sweeps'. I appreciate it.
Yes, I am happy any time I can open a can of worms that involves the MCSO shurf and his gang of miscreants.
Once more, folks, let me point out that MCSO has many fine and professional employees who work hard and don't fit into the category of the shurf and his miscreants.
As an organization MCSO is squeaking by and doing what it can under the misguided leadership, and those professional employees are just waiting for the day when leadership will change and their agency reputation can be improved. In the mean time, it appears they have to slog along daily, just getting by with getting by. Hoping the Wrinkled Winkle will retire, or die.
Obviously, they are not really hoping ill will on the old fellow, but if that's what it takes for him to go away, then maybe it's all for the best, eh?
Posted On: Friday, Oct. 9 2009 @ 9:39AMI can't even listen to Arpaio, he makes me physically sick. How can his own people take him seriously when he is so full of shit?
Dennis, how can you say that the Fountain Hills sweep was a "farce". That's the one where they picked up the 14 year old girl who was ditching school. Big time stuff!!!
Great questions, Tommy.
Posted On: Friday, Oct. 9 2009 @ 9:44AMI guess Rick didn't get the memo about lobbing softballs to the old senile fucker........talk about a lying sack of shit.......the best was when bozo joke dropped the "we get 5 months of training from ICE to learn how to talk to people".....what a fucking joke......you got to love his gun tie tack....it's the only gun they will let him have.
The sheriff is really mentally ill.
Hey lard ass, here's something you might actually be good at:
www.tour-de-fat.com
Posted On: Saturday, Oct. 10 2009 @ 7:58PMTommyC, among your "some thoughts" post, I was particularly appreciative for number 6:
"Why did this same sheriff change his attitude from 2005 when he said his agency is not in the business of immigration enforcement to his status of Oct. 2009 where he presents himself to the world as the "only one doing immigration enforcement."
Arpaio has done a TOTAL 180-degrees flip-flop.
What prompted all his assertive public statements back in 2005, the complete opposite of what he's been pontificating about since 2007, was his arrest of that guy who, at gunpoint, held about 5 or 6 illegals hostage at a rest area along I-10. (Supposedly the illegals were being smuggled into Arizona.) There was some public outcry about Arpaio's action of arresting the self-appointed "do-gooder" and I think Arpaio's case against the guy was dismissed or thrown out of court.
From one extreme to the other extreme. I believe Arpaio's foremost reason for being is driven by his craving for the limelight. No deep seated convictions about anything, just expediency of the moment, exuding self importance to gain maximum public attention by any and all means.
Posted On: Sunday, Oct. 11 2009 @ 9:15PM
Why is it "hate" to oppose 20,000,000 foreign criminals in the USA?
Posted On: Tuesday, Oct. 13 2009 @ 5:14AMYep, it's a real crime upholding the laws of our country. It's not Joe's fault they are Hispanic, and Mexico is on our border. I guess when one smuggles in a bomb or nuke then if Joe arrests them it will be ok.
Posted On: Tuesday, Oct. 13 2009 @ 7:56AMLove the way the Law is used as a thinly veiled excuse to try to hide these peoples prejudices. If it really was a LEGAL issue, then they should have no qualms about CHANGING the law. Give them a process by which they CAN come here legally and work, because as it stands now, there really isn't one. If we stuck with "the law is the law", then women would still be little more than chattel and Blacks would not have the right to vote.
No wait, it's an "economic" issue. OK, the amount of money used by illegals in health services, entitlement programs, education and prisons is MINISCULE compared to what they contribute in SS taxes, FICA, employment taxes, sales txes, property taxes, higher corporate profits and consumer savings. You see, most illegals have SS#'s. They may be fake, but the employer still filled out that I-9 and took out FICA, SSI and Unemployment every payday. BTW, the SS, FICA and employment taxes...they'll probably never get to see a penny. Who will? Older white Americans currently on Social Security.
No wait, it's a question of "security". Where was the only legitimate terroristic bombing threat to this country from? The CANADIAN border. You see Canada has way more Muslims than Mexico. You REALLY think some Taliban is gonna trek hundreds of miles through the desert to come blow up your Starbucks? They don't NEED to. They have passports. They have plane tickets.
I just wish all the bigots & xenophobes would say what they REALLY feel. You don't like them because they put "Sanchez" or the Virgin Mother on their back windshields. They get drunk in their FRONT yards instead of in the back.
He’s an... Illegal Eh-lien
He’s stealing our jobs and our women. Plus, he talks funny.
http://wweek.com/editorial/3415/10425/
On a construction site in North Portland, an illegal immigrant pounds nails and cuts two-by-fours. With each swift motion, he’s breaking the law.
He could be the poster child for anti-illegal immigrant zealots: He’s nonchalant about his status for the most part, unconcerned about not paying U.S. taxes and indifferent to the fact that he’s “stealing” the job of a U.S. citizen.
But he passes through Portland mostly untouched by the spittle spewing from the seal-our-borders-now camp.
Why? Because he’s not Mexican.
He’s an illegal Canadian. A Canuck. An iceback. A frostback. A canalien.
Morgan’s been in the United States—undetected and unbothered by federal immigration authorities—since fall 2002.
One could argue that Morgan’s reasons for coming to the United States are less understandable—perhaps even less admirable—than those of the immigrants who come to the United States illegally from south of the border. Morgan’s just a single guy with a GED who’s looking to clock his 40 hours a week, spend time with his friends and pursue his art. He’s not escaping crime-filled cities or harsh economic conditions at home. He’s not “homeless, tempest-tossed” in search of higher wages to feed his family. He’s not yearning for a better education for his future children.
He says he has no aspirations of buying a house in the United States. He doesn’t want a bank account, a credit card or even a movie-rental membership, all of which he currently lacks. Compared with the estimated 6 million undocumented immigrants from Mexico in this country today, his goals are much more modest—perhaps even a tad selfish.
Unlike Mexican citizens who enter the United States, Canadians aren’t required to obtain visas. (They have six-month “visa waivers” instead.)
Posted On: Tuesday, Oct. 13 2009 @ 3:09PM
