Cuba Denounces Arizona Immigration Law; Democrats to Give Castro a Standing Ovation in 3… 2… 1…
**Posted by Doug Powers
Can it be long before Raúl Castro is invited to speak before a joint session of Congress?
HAVANA (AP) – Cuban lawmakers have passed a resolution denouncing Arizona’s new immigration law as “racist and xenophobic,” recalling an old dispute in the process: the argument that the United States’ purchase of Arizona from Mexico in the 19th century was tantamount to theft.
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Several U.S. cities including Seattle, Los Angeles, San Diego and Austin, Texas, have passed resolutions against the law or urged outright boycotts, and President Barack Obama has denounced it as “a misdirected expression of frustration.”But the denunciation of the law by Cuban lawmakers, who called it a “brutal violation of human rights,” is sure to raise anger among U.S. backers of the law.
From Human Rights Watch:
Raúl Castro’s government has locked up scores of people for exercising their fundamental freedoms and allowed scores more political prisoners arrested during Fidel Castro’s rule to languish in detention, Human Rights Watch says in a report released today. Rather than dismantle Cuba’s repressive machinery, Raúl Castro has kept it firmly in place and fully active, the report says.
The 123-page report, “New Castro, Same Cuba,” shows how the Raúl Castro government has relied in particular on the Criminal Code offense of “dangerousness,” which allows authorities to imprison individuals before they have committed any crime, on the suspicion that they are likely to commit an offense in the future. This “dangerousness” provision is overtly political, defining as “dangerous” any behavior that contradicts Cuba’s socialist norms.
But who cares about that, because Cuba, like Mexico, is being critical of Arizona, the real criminal. Cue the Democrats!
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What’s with all these guest blog posts? Is MM working on something new? New book, maybe?
(NOT complaining, just curious).
John Horton from DHS/ICE says he may not cooperate and may refuse picking illegals up if AZ makes the arrest….fire the twit!!!
I guess there are 2 Americas: The Anti-USA crowd (CUBA, Mexico, Democrats) and the Pro-USA crowd (conservatives).
I’ll fight for truth and preservation of this great nation. I will also fight against the criminals that seek to destroy this nation, no matter their position. The LAW is the LAW and Americans have the right to enforce Federal law (even citizens).
I hope he does. I truly do. He would make my day.
We the People of the United States of America have the right to have our borders and our laws respected and enforced.
Citizens of other countries illegally in our country have no right to demand anything from our government. They most certainly have the right to petition the governments of their home countries for change if they are unhappy with their home country. If they want to be Americans, we have a path to citizenship, more generous than any other nation, and it starts in their home country.
We need to insist on the equal protection, application and enforcement of the law or devolve into anarchy. Our Republic only functions if everyone follows the same rules. We should not change the laws to accomodate those breaking them.
If America annouces to the world “We can’t stop you, so come on in” with another amnesty, the deluge will be overwhelming. If 3,000 a day didn’t get your attention, then wait until it’s 10,000 a day. We cannot sustain this influx and survive as a nation. We must speak up and speak to each other about this and not let false claims of racism or bigotry be used to intimidate us into silent assent. America is not Congress’ to give away. America belongs to We the People. Speak to your neighbors, speak to your coworkers, but please speak up to your Congressmen and Senators. It’s O.K. for us to enforce our laws, no really, it is.
Someone please tell Sen. McCain and that Calderone fella, whoever he is…..
If the Dems keep this up we should draft Jan Brewer for 2012 and draw the Democrats into a decisive engagement.
Our candidate does not need to be a handsome guy or a philosopher. We need a gunfighter. Brewer and Palin at least are fighters. We are up against thugs. This is no time for high brow rhetoric.
We need to get at their throats and bite hard.
I think one way to proceed is this. Truck hundreds of illegals to liberal open-borders Senators homes and crash through their expensive driveway gates, leaving the hordes of illegals in their front yard, each with a note in Spanish saying, “Free food and lodging for you in this house.”
They like open borders and don’t seem to mind when illegals invade other people’s property. Make it a non-ending problem for these senators. Oh yeah. Give Al Gore the same treatment. Just because….
Is this illegal? Seems legal vs illegal is old hat these days. Anything goes people.
Why use Yucca Mountain when you can just use Cuba.
I can’t blame Castro; He sees a sucker, calls out a sucker. And most Americans right now are suckers about preserving their own culture, forget jobs.
It’s sober that beyond dismay that illegals being leaches on our financial infrastructure, countries like Cuba and Mexico literally hope to see the U.S. turn a Hispanic nation by sheer attrition — and it’s working. You can regularly ride buses and subway cars here in NYC where ALL the ads are in Spanish. Not Italian, not German, not French, and Chinese (and God no English) but 100% Spanish on your whole commute. We can always recover jobs after booting illegals out, but how do you get back your original culture after it’s been diluted and altered? And it’s coming to your town like stealth freight train in the night.
James Greenidge
Queens NY
Embarrassing. …not for me, but for Congress.
That used to be called sedition.
And if you hate Arizona so much STOP COMING HERE ILLEGALLY!!!
The Dems (The D stands for Divisive) gave a rounding, insulting slap in the face not only to the law enforcement personnel and voters of Arizona, but to the American people too.
If that’s not a grand show of unpatriotic behavior, then I guess I’ve not seen any before.
To cheer condescending remarks about one of our states by a foreign head of state is despicable at best.
I cannot believe that Texas has not followed suit in enacting a very similar law to Arizona’s. I was hoping Rick Perry was above playing politics to get re-elected and stand on principle to support a conservative state dealing with the same illegal alien problem.
With New Mexico, led by Dems, and California too, I can understand their joining the insulters. But Texas? I guess their pious slogans and bravado are nothing but West Texas hot air blowing across the scrub brush of American Patriotism.
Forget the Alamo!
Ah, the ol’ “la la la, I can’t hear you” gambit.
In addition to San Diego, Arizona should fund free one-way bus rides to DC, no questions asked.
When Americans are swimming to Cuba for freedom, then I’ll care what Cuba has to say.
Strange, you would think that, of all people, they would know one when they saw one.
My freaking bank in Hawaii just put in English/Spanish ATMs in a state where English, Korean, Japanese, Chinese and Tagalog make sense. Idiots. Maybe Castro needs cash when he’s on vacation.
I am upset beyond words that we have angered Cuba so.
I believe that the U.S. should immediately send the Congressional Black Caucus back to Cuba in order to properly apologize for our country’s appalling civil rights record and beg Raul’s forgiveness.
I also believe that the Congressional Black Caucus should stay in Cuba in order to show solidarity with Cuba’s superior government.
Wrong bank. University of Hawaii FCU has ATMs with:
1 for English
2 for Tagalog
3 for Da Kine
If someone in the academia is looking for a PHd thesis on “The great divide between the voters and the Politicians”, here is an opportunity.
Go do the research at taxpayer’s expense.
Majority Voters did not like Health Care overhaul, do not approve amnesty to illegal immigrants, do not like borrow and spend (or tax and spend).
Politicians keep passing legislations backed by the special interest groups, or they simply pander to the future voting bloc.
STILL, the voters keep electing the same CROOKS election after election!
If the current Tea party rage truly represents the voter dissatisfaction for Washington DC, there should be NO safe seat for anyone in the Congress – RATS or RINOs. Without TOTAL turnover of the Congress, things are not going to change much in Washington.
Republicans have lost passion for the conservatism, and have become Democrats Lite. Many like Mccain are shameless opportunists, changing their tune just to get re-elected.
If we don’t shake up the entranched political class in Washington this November (power must be wrested from Pelosi/Reid’s hands), then the best we can hope is a slower descent to Socialism, instead of the accelerated one Obama is driving.
Let’s adopt Cuba’s immigration policy if it’s so good. It is utterly amazing to see the extent to which our cultural elites have lost their way. Let’s put them out of their misery. Vote them ALL out.
“brutal violation of human rights” … What?
Hey Cuba…I do not think it means what you think it means.
I guess the Marxists will only be satisfied when all working Americans are relegated to living in caves and using stone implements. But how will the multiculti communistas get their jewelry, flat screens, McNuggets and cell service? Such a tradeoff…
Ironically it’s American Savings Bank. I guess America is neither a country nor a continent but a dual language belief system.
Incredible – it’s as if a few hundred Jimmeh Cottah’s have taken over Congress. Oh wait…
I agree completely. If our elected officials can not be in touch with the voters, then they should be sent home, where they may feel free to touch themselves.
I have no doubt in my mind that if Adolph Hitler showed up today, alive and well, at the White House, Obama would bow deeply to him and invite him not only to speak to Congress, but to have a national televised speech as well.
Let me get this straight:
Congressional Democrats cheer the condemnation of a law which mimics Federal law – which, in itself, was passed by Congress.
Does this mean that Democrats are cheering the condemnation of their own work?
Why are these people still in office?
Here’s one story on the ICE Morton story regarding AZ.
Ironically, Fidel and Raul Castro would be “moderate Democrats” in America…
If the Feds “refuse to process” illegals then let the lawsuits begin. The Feds don’t have the right to choose to enforce or not enforce Federal immigration law.
If ICE declines to take illegals off the hands of Arizona, I suggest that they start busing them to Los Angeles.
Flyoverman said:
I just read that article. This guy, John Horton, and those like him… are the problem.
“HE” doesn’t think these laws are the solution. Well I’ve got news for this PoS… IT’S THE FRIGGIN LAW!
Who the hell does he and others like him, think they are? They don’t get to decide what laws are “the solution” and what laws are not.
I’ve had it with these people.
Compare this loser to the people who landed on Omaha Beach.
It’s too hard to try. No its jsut an excuse you vote pandering Democrat.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/05/21/official-says-feds-process-illegals-referred-arizona/
Wow. This displays a collective concerted effort – a policy – by the President and government officials of the United States to:
1. Ignore or deliberately fail to enforce federal immigration law (presumably for political reasons)
2. Circumvent or obstruct state immigration laws (again, presumably for political reasons)
3. Collude with multiple states and federal officials to accomplish 1 & 2 above.
mmmmmm jeeze. High crimes and misdemeanors. Not good. If this is not grounds for a criminal grand jury investigation, I don’t know what is. Between this and the Sestak and Blago affairs, it appears Obama has gotten his tit in a wringer.
This is America and he is allowed to have his opinion, but as an official his job is to enforce the immigration laws . If it is too conflicting for him he needs to step down and if he refuses to step down then he needs to be legally removed from his position.
This is a dangerous precednet he is trying to set by deciding which laws he will and will not enforce or obey. What’s next criminals using this as a defense in court…
Judge: “why did you murder your wife”
Criminal: “I didn’t agree with the law so I decided not to follow it just like that Horton guy.”
This should be all that the hate America democrats and the RINO’s need to destroy our country. How much do you think the taxpayers will have to pony up for Cuba in this this endeavor?
Excellent question. These people all seem to be Manchurian Candidates competing for the prize of most effective traitor. Gobsmackingly, jaw-droppingly insane.
I wish we had public canings in the United States.
In order to speed the discussion along, why don’t we just assume that North Korea, Syria, Libya, the Somali Pirates, most of the Screen Actor’s Guild, California, Thailand, Qatar, UAE, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Hamas, Chavez, all former Democratic Presidents and Presidential Candidates, Iran, and the Emir of Lower Slobbovia all disagree with Arizona’s new immigration law also. . .as if anyone really gives as much as a Zimbabwe dollar.
“One of these days……One of these days, Morton………..POW! To the moon!”
One thing is clear. It is not that the feds just aren’t enforcing existing laws. The feds are damn sure working to prevent anyone from taking any action to enforce any immigration laws!
They clearly want the crisis to continue and grow. They are actively working toward increasing the chaos and growing the crisis.
It is not that they don’t want Arizona to enforce one specific law. THEY DON’T WANT ANYONE TO ENFORCE ANY LAWS ON IMMIGRATION!
If you have Cuba denouncing you then you have done something right.
Keep it up Arizona!
I’d submit they have been selectively NOT enforcing it for decades….
Boom goes the dynamite! Dere’ go ‘da Lorna Doones!
Bottom Line: Morton made the comment he made, because he knows full well that if the laws we enforced they would be dramatically effective.
If he is so sure, have him enforce the laws for a year and then if he’s right I’ll buy him a car. If he’s wrong well……he can keep enforcing.
Who gives a hoot in hell what the Cuban dictator says? Oh yeah, the traitorous Dems do. Sheesh, we’ve got to get these jerks out (and all those who support them in the various gubmint agencies). This is beyond belief!
Seattle, Los Angeles, San Diego, Austin, Texas and now Cuba? Oh dear I have never been so hurt. The pain, the shame.
Our dear and beloved Congressional Black Caucus cheered Mexican President Calderon although OUR immigration law says nothing about race while Mexico’s law certainly DOES mention race. Our dear and beloved Congressional Black Caucus might be just a tad taken back by their treatment in Mexico.
But to celebrate the bashing of Arizona by the LeftOsphere I shall open a bottle of Arizona Sun Tea-made in New Jersey.
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An Armed Society is a polite society.
and the freaking atm was made in china.
I’m with you, rambler. Don’t hear much about Florida fishermen washing ashore in Cuba seeking asylum.
Democrats and Communist dictators are joined at the DNA.
I am sure that all liberals making the rounds on the weekend political TV circuit will have their Cuban talking points ready. Democrats now have far more in common with socialists and communists than they do with the Founding Fathers and the Constitution of the US.
165 days until election day…