https://ethicsalarms.com/2017/05/30/from-the-good-illegal-immigrant-files-if-you-want-to-enforce-our-laws-against-illegals-apparently-you-deserve-to-die-and-democrats-will-get-you/
From “The Good Illegal Immigrant” Files: If You Want To Enforce Our Laws
Against Illegals, Apparently You Deserve To Die, And Democrats Will “Get
You”
Texas state Rep. Philip Cortez (D) told the Washington Post, “We were just
on the floor talking about the SB4 protests, and [state Rep.] Matt Rinaldi
came up to us and made it a point to say, ‘I called (ICE) on all of them.
And this is completely unacceptable. We will not be intimidated. We will not
be disrespected.”
Who is “we”? It Cortez an illegal immigrant? I hope not, because that would
be illegal and a violation of the Texas Constitution. Why would he be
intimidated and disrespected by an elected lawmaker reporting law breakers
to appropriate authorities? It is clear that he wasn’t intimidated or
disrespected. What kind of elected official feels disrespected when he is
told, “I just reported those people who are holding signs that say, ‘I broke
the law, and I’m proud of it, nyah nyah nyah!.“? This is just the
unconscionable rhetorical slight of hand being habitually used by
open-border advocates and unprincipled Mexican-American lawmakers to pander
to their constituency.
It is not “completely unacceptable” to report illegal immigrants to ICE. It
is completely unacceptable for an elected official to make the nonsensical,
rule-of-law rejecting statement that doing so is unacceptable.
The protesters in question were chanting and waving signs against Senate
Bill 4, the controversial Texas legislation that Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed
into law this month that bans sanctuary cities, allows police to question
anyone they detain about their immigration status, and compels local
officials to comply with federal requests to detain individuals in state and
local law enforcement facilities. Ethics Alarms has discussed the
deportation of illegals who trumpet their illegal status in public. Doing so
is openly defying the law, undermines lawful conduct, and essentially dares
law enforcement to do its job. This is breaking the law in front of
officials as if there is nothing that can be done about it, just like
speeding past a police car on the highway.
Elected officials swear to uphold the law. Rinaldi did the right thing, and
the Democrats that confronted him are irredeemably wrong, even without
considering their threats. Democratic Rep. Justin Rodriguez said that
Rinaldi was threatening as well, and saying he was prepared”to put a bullet
in one of my colleagues’ heads.” (In the tweet above, Rinaldi claims that
was in response to the threat to “get” him.) Even assuming Rodriguez’s
version is accurate, the issue isn’t incivility. The issue is whether it is
“unacceptable” to report people to ICE who are saying, “Look at me! I’m here
illegally, and you can’t touch me!” in public.
Contrary to the increasingly bizarre civic stance of Democrats, enforcing
the law is never “unacceptable.”
Another one of Cortez’s colleagues, the alleged assaulter Rep. Ramon Romero
Jr., made this unacceptable and unethical statement:
“[ Rinaldi] saw the crowd, and he saw illegals. He saw people that,
whether he likes to accept it or not, in his heart, he has hate for those
people, and he wants to see them gone. He wants to see them gone so much, to
the point that he called ICE.”
This is the Left’s baseline justification for illegal immigration now: pure
emotion and race-baiting. It’s all personal and based on bigotry; that’s the
lie. The argument that it is wrong to enforce laws is untenable on its face,
so the current tactic is to claim it’s wrong because of the motives behind
enforcement. It must be prejudice, it must be hate. “He wants to see them
gone so much, to the point that he called ICE” is an astoundingly unethical
statement, as it suggests that alerting authorities to flagrant illegal
conduct is an extreme act that must be the product of malign motives.
I don’t hate illegal immigrants at all, though I intensely object to the
intellectually dishonest and civically irresponsible arguments for ignoring
their defiance of our laws. I sympathize with the plight of illegal
immigrants, but it is not my job nor America’s to solve their problems after
they have broken our laws. Like Rinaldi, I do want illegal immigrants who
arrogantly flout the law and then flaunt their violations gone. They deserve
to be deported.
Whatever a “good illegal immigrant” may be, if there is such a person, an
illegal who publicly advertises his disrespect of our laws as a badge of
honor doesn’t qualify.