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Rep Wm Snyder rolls out "his" draft Immigration legislation for a public airing
in Palm City, Jan. 7th 2011.
Snyder strove in his halting way, to urge a tone of civility, explaining in vain; it would seem to his supporters, that boorish behavior would backfire and make their opinions seem foolish. The curious Legislation that both compels and simultaneously denounces racial profiling.
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Again and again he stole minutes from the long list of speakers repeating the need to keep the discourse civil and respectful. Curiously enough the booing, and jeering came only from his supporters, who often hissed and booed loudly drowning out speakers with whom they disagreed. These "so-called patriots" had little respect for either the democratic process or the "do-gooders", who dared demand human rights for people a shade browner, than themselves.
The audience seemed evenly divided among the bill's supporters, a bill that has been touted as stricter than Arizona's foreign policy which has been largely set aside as unenforceable, unconstitutional and from a law enforcement perspective both expensive and counter productive. The benefits for the corporate for-profit penal-industry not withstanding.
We heard from the Tea-Partiers present in droves, that they didn't want to pay taxes for the failed federal immigration policies. I'm sure truth be told many on the opposite side felt equally passionately that they'd prefer not to pay taxes for failed federal WAR POLICIES.
Were the First Nation's Immigration policies
too compassionate?
A local chieftain of of the Minute Men of Florida gave a passionate speech calling for respect for law, and concluded with the statement that if you are outside the law you are by your own actions a criminal. Another equally passionate speaker reminded us that while we should obey laws, bad laws must be broken. She reminded us, that child labor, bond servants and slavery were once legally sanctioned too.
When the subject of the economic effect of criminalizing every tan Floridian, and every brown and black tourist was raised, and the costs to the state of Arizona for lost federal revenue and lost conventions and visitors were raised, our good Congressman was visibly moved. A mother's tale that her own husband has been subject to repeated police challenges due to tha fact that while he is a person whose skin is a deep brown, his child's skin color is quite different, reflecting his mother's heritage. Won't this get worse she asked? Her husband has even been detained by peace officers, suspicious of his possession of a child who OBVIOUSLY doesn't belong to him.
There were angry shouts and catcalls, when the ethnic cleansing and re-locations of America's past were raised. Wouldn't this new legislation exacerbate racial and ethnic tensions? It seemed to more than a few in the audience that this was a continuation of mistreatment of peoples of color. This new law and its many new criminalizations seemed aimed more at incarcerating economic victims than searching for a non-existent JUSTICE.
This legislation seems to stem from the same parentage as Arizona's Immigration legislation; crafted by the pens of the Penal Industry lobbyists.
When the cruel immorality of this and similar laws were raised and the inherent damage that will follow brought calls for Representative Snyder to forgo the filing of this obviously flawed and unconstitutional legislation. He quietly said, there are plenty of others waiting to file similar bills.
"Why shouldn't I get the credit?" he seemed to say, with a visible shrug.
PreACHER rEMINDS US OF JAMESTOWN
Several students explained that they have come to love this country and only want to serve it, and better themselves and their families. They touted achievement after achievement and asked the question, are the mere incidences of their birth an absolute bar to their American Dream? They wish to contribute like so many immigrants from the past, to this great country. When one young man admitted he had arrived without proper papers to an audible gasp from the audience. He explained his case was in process, although he had been illegal, now he is working on becoming legal. He wondered could his interim status still get him deported?
Yes, Representative Snyder, there is an alternative, while it might mean, fewer profits for the COMMERCIAL PENAL CORPORATIONS, waiting just offstage for all those HOT-FRESH NEWLY MINTED CRIMINALS. Waiting impatiently to cram these human beings into their deep dark portfolios. There is an alternative to this racial profiling that will cost BIG money and further hurt the most victimized families among us, preventing them from ever reaching out to law enforcement to help stop the real criminals. The alternative congressman is standing up for law enforcement, who broadly oppose this legislation. Oppose the demogoges, stand for the Constitution and for the weakest and neediest among us. Be the best public servant you no doubt hope to be.
The ACLU of Florida's opposition to this bill:
* there is no Constitutional way, to use,
reasonable suspicion, a legal standard, in the application of immigration law.
* There is nothing that indicates a human being's immigration status by simply looking at them. 2004
Remember Jamestown and Plymouth, you immigrants - whose seeds are you planting?
A preacher and a farmer closed the public forum, and they both raised crucial issues, the preacher reminded us of those undocumented aliens who came ashore in Jamestown and Plymouth who were by and large economic refugees and people unprepared to survive on these shores. How they were welcomed and literally saved from destruction by the compassion of the first peoples.
The farmer had a more fiscal argument, it will destroy Florida's agriculture and drive these industries also offshore. The Congressman promised more meetings and described the legislation as a work in progress. We will be watching, Congressman Snyder we will be watching.
More Activists receive Grand Jury summons across the midwest in an attempt to further stifle dissent.