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undergroundpanther Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-16-08 09:46 PM
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U.S. citizenship to be checked in event of a storm
BROWNSVILLE — Ending speculation about the fate of the Rio Grande Valley's undocumented immigrants during a hurricane evacuation, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has confirmed it will check the citizenship both of people boarding buses to leave the Valley and at inland traffic checkpoints.

Those determined to be in the country illegally will be taken to detention centers away from the hurricane's path and later processed for deportation.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/5784300.html

This is fucking INsane..
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whoneedstickets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-16-08 09:49 PM
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1. Consequently undocumented immigrants will not evacuate....
..for fear of being deported and instead try to ride out the storm, leading to a human tragedy.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-16-08 10:05 PM
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2. Unintended consequences will fk up the plan...foisted on us by whom????
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-16-08 10:09 PM
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6. "Un?"
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undergroundpanther Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-16-08 10:06 PM
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3. and it's foisted on us by
Edited on Fri May-16-08 10:09 PM by undergroundpanther
The rich.The rich who pay no taxes and live off dividends. Yeah,bush won't help anyone not in his crony club without strings of control attached ..Just like he let blacks in New Orleans die from automobile apartheid ,no way out ..Like wise the immigrants will die for fear of deportation and possible detention and forced drugging.

I hate the rich.They have too much.They take too much from everyone else. Their idle lives are spent justifying their own obscene existence ..They rationalize their selfishness and lifestyles with their bigoted elitist bullshit"philosophies"..While real people who can't afford cars die or real people trying to improve their lives die.These rich fucking pigs worry about papers.Fuck the rich.Let the rich suffer and die like they think the poor'deserve' to for once.
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-16-08 10:08 PM
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4. Naomi Wolf was right, pretty soon that net will take in more people.
this has got to stop.
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undergroundpanther Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-16-08 10:16 PM
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10. first they came for...
Edited on Fri May-16-08 10:18 PM by undergroundpanther
that poem comes to mind..


When the Nazis came for the illegal immigrants in the storm , I refused to help them get out of harms way...
I had to go, I had my car,and I had packed all my things,that filled it up, so there was no room for anyone else.I wasn't going to leave my STUFF behind.

.........................

When the Nazi's came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews, I remained silent; I wasn't a Jew.

When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-16-08 10:09 PM
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5. I wonder if we truly need lessons from the Mexican Army
and yes, they were in the US during Katrina

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=17205

And yes, this will lead to people NOT evacuating PERIOD

and that is what these mother fuckers want
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magellan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-16-08 10:11 PM
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7. Well, at least we aren't burning them out like they are in Italy
We great Americans let Mother Nature do our dirty work and just mop up afterwards.

Hurray for us.
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Caria Donating Member (241 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-16-08 10:12 PM
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8. It would serve them right if those who support this
Forget their IDs or lose them on the way to the bus.
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drmeow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-16-08 10:14 PM
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9. Please have your passport
or birth certificate ready before attempting to evacuate. Please do not be concerned about the additional delays getting away - its only a storm severe enough that we are requiring evacuation. What's the worst thing that can happen if the traffic jam doesn't break up before landfall?
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undergroundpanther Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-16-08 10:22 PM
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12. I don't have a passport
I got a birth cert,I can't afford 300 bucks for a damn passport.
Yep the poor will be screwed right along with the immigrants,especially the homeless.

Some rich psychopaths really do want to create paper and transportation or other kinds of stumbling blocks that will endanger people,The psychopaths in this mis administration want to murder people but do it in such a way they aren't directly held accountable for it, personally.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-16-08 10:19 PM
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11. Good grief
We are becoming inhumane.
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alarimer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-16-08 11:06 PM
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13. Can we call this fascism YET?
Or are we still "keeping the powder dry"?
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KatyaR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-17-08 08:30 AM
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14. So if you don't have your "papers" because they were washed
away in the storm or you were away from home when it hit, you're shit out of luck?

This is fucking ridiculous.

Face it, folks, we're on our own now. You'll get no help from the government, and they've planned it that way.
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Elspeth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-17-08 09:06 AM
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15. This is just evil.
And I don't use the word lightly.
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