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By Chris Rowan
Originally puslished at NewsRealBlog.com

Barack Obama is the nation’s first-ever Affirmative Action President. It should come as no surprise that President Obama’s pick for Attorney General, Eric Holder, would dispense Affirmative Justice.

Affirmative Action, simply put, seeks to correct past negative discrimination with positive discrimination. Call it “racial preference,” “employment equity,” “smiley-face discrimination,” or whatever, but Affirmative Action is basically a form of government-sanctioned discrimination that favors a particular group of people on the basis of some quality other than merit. This is not necessarily bad. Private employers do it all the time. My own father hired me on the basis of some quality other than merit – namely, the fact that I was his son. But he was not forced to hire me on the basis of some arbitrary federal quota, goal, or “guideline.” Such coercive measures are inevitably harmful both to people and institutions. The rule of unintended consequences applies.

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This is how one citizen from the state of Arizona views the illegal immigration issue in his state. 

On August 21, I posted a series of questions in the form of an open letter to Blake Farenthold, the Republican candidate for Congress in District 27. 

Much to my surprise, he responded.  Blake and I are Facebook “friends,” and I received a brief message from him that his comment was awaiting moderation. 

Here are my questions and Blake’s responses:

Are you a leader of a follower?

I consider myself to be a servant leader, one who has come to lead not for self but for others. As an elected official one must constantly balance ones core principles with the desires of those who elected him. The concept of a servant leader, and the best test as explained by Robert Greenleaf, Stephen Covey and others, when applied with conservative principles like a hand up not a hand out closely define my decision making process.

How often will you visit the lower Valley?

Right now I’m spending about 1 to 2 days a week in the RGV meeting with people and attending as many events as I can. A supporter has provided me with aplace to stay in Brownsville. I have hired a RGV Campaign Manager, David Polin, to be my eyes and ears on the ground there and keep me up on what is happening. We have found a Brownsville headquarters location. After the election, I will maintain an office there and will continue to spend as much time as possible there. The RGV is just an important part of District 27 that has its own needs that must be addressed.

What, specifically, will you do about reversing the leftist tide ushered in by Obama and the Democrats?

ObamaCare must be repealed. I doubt we will have enough votes to override a veto, but we can de-fund it. The massive government regulation, much of which is created by un-elected bureaucrats must be brought under control. It is the private sector, not the government that will bring us out of our economic slump by creating jobs and wealth. We have to create an entrepreneur friendly environment with lower taxes, less regulation and a predictable tort system. We must not cripple our industries, especially the oil and gas industry with punitive regulations and oppressive.

Do you support SB1070, Arizona’s anti-illegal immigration law?

Had the federal government been doing its constitutionally mandated job of establishing and enforcing an Uniform rule of Naturalization, Arizona never would have had to take matters into its own hands. Our Immigration law is broken and does not take into account the reality of Immigration. America was built by immigrants. Our economy needs immigrants. Most people who come to this country do so to build a better life for themselves and their family. We must make it easy for those who want to work and have jobs lined up to come into America legally. Once we have done that we must seal the boarders to keep out criminals, terrorists, drug dealers and those who want to take advantage of our generosity by cheating our welfare system. We must also then punish employers that hire and exploit illegal immigrants. I am against amnesty for people that are currently in our nation illegally. Your first act in American should not be breaking the law by sneaking across the border. The people here illegally need to go back to their nation of origin and get in line. When I’m elected, I will fight to strengthen and enforce federal laws so states won’t need laws like Arizona’s.

What will you do to support traditional marriage?

I feel marriage a biblically defined union between one man and one woman.

What will to do to combat rampant fraud and waste in government and education?

First, I believe the federal government needs to get out of the education business. It’s not a power granted the government in the constitution. Education is a state issue. De-regulation and decreasing the size of government will take care a lot of waste. So will reforming (or eliminating) the earmark system. Improving the use of technology will also streamline government. I also think the overall budget process is broken. We need an incentive system for agencies and bureaucrats to save money.

Go ahead, click over to the City of Brownsville website, you’ll find Mel Gibson on it’s front page.

ACTOR MEL GIBSON FLIMING NEW MOTION PICTURE IN BROWNSVILLE!
Posted by bplswebadmin at 6:00 pm, June 10th 2010.

ACTOR AND FILM DIRCTOR MEL GIBSON, center by phone, being prepared for a take during filming of “How I Spent My Vacation”directed by Adrian Grunberg from a screenplay by Gibson and Grunberg.  Production filmed over several days at locations in and around Brownsville.  The photo above was from the filming at the corner of 11th and E. Levee Street in the downtown area.

Gibson is playing the role of a career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities and sent to a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a nine year old boy.  The film is currently scheduled for release in 2011.

According to media outlets like the Huffington Post, Mel Gibson referred to Mexican Americans as “wetbacks.”

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Back in the 1990s a popular cable television cartoon dealt with illegal immigration in a very special episode of Beavis and Butthead. You might be surprised to learn that the star of the show was deported to Mexico all because he was addicted to caffeine and mistaken identity.

Is this what Liberals and the Brownsville city commission believe Arizona will become?

Content warning! You might be offended so click and watch with caution.

Will Commissioner Melissa Zamora, Commissioner Ricardo Longoria, or Mayor Pat Ahumada put forth a resolution condemning Rhode Island for doing pretty much what Arizona wants to do?

What’s that you say, Commissioner Melissa Zamora? You don’t know what I’m talking about, Commissioner Ricardo Longoria?

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The Tip of Texas Tea Party website already told you about the plans of the city commission to “acknowledge” the Texas Border Coalition’s resolution against the Arizona anti-illegal immigration law. Mayor Pat Ahumada and Commissioner Melissa Zamora, District 3, placed that item on the agenda.

Tonight the city commission will also discuss adding over 5 million dollars in debt for more streets in the form of Certificates of Obligation. Fixing streets is a good thing, but whatever happened to the money from the most recent street debt? Either way, Brownsville voters must consent to debt according to our city charter.

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We’ve been through this before. Something tells me we’ll go through this a few more rounds until these liberals are voted out of office. In spite of repeated attempts by this website to set the record straight, these open-border liberals will once more opine on the subject of illegal immigration and the racist state of Arizona.

It was not enough they spent time two months ago to condemning Arizona with no real purpose. It was not enough Commissioner Ricardo Longoria, who co-sponsored the condemnation did not have the proverbial cojones to show up and cast his vote. It was not enough Commissioner Edward Camarillo seemingly painted one of our fellow tea party member as a racist.

They will follow their illustrious record of condemnation with another resolution to “acknowledge” the Texas Border Coalition’s resolution questioning the Arizona law.

Personally, I do not believe the ink used to pen either resolutions are worth any time and money spent especially on such ridiculous, ill-advised chest-beating exercises. So why are Mayor Pat Ahumada and his co-sponsor Commissioner Melissa Zamora wasting Brownsville’s time on this? Is this another opportunity for our Mexican flag wearing mayor to express solidarity with his Mexican compadres and attack Arizona and their law?

The Arizona law states race cannot be used as a reason to inquire into immigrant status. A detained individual is presumed legally in the country if they provide some form of identification like a driver’s license. That immediately prevents any questioning of immigration status. So why the fuss over carrying identification?

Brownsville requires identification of street wandering cats. Nevertheless, our commission is against identification of humans in Arizona. Under our code of ordinance, Article IV Section 10-91

(c)   A cat that is allowed to run at large by the owner must be surgically altered (nonreproducing cats), must have an identification tag with the owner’s name and correct phone number listed on the tag, must be currently vaccinated against the rabies virus, and must not become a nuisance to other citizens in the city.

Moreover, speakers before any city board or commission must identify their name and address according to Section 38-96 of the municipal code. The city recognizes domestic partners when it comes to identification.

Article IV Sec. 38-97.  A person who represents, orally or in writing, the interest of another person, other than his spouse, minor children, or domestic partner, before the city commission, a city board or commission, another city body, or a city official or employee shall disclose the identity of the person represented.

Identification is not a problem here in Brownsville, so why your feigned concern for Arizona?

Do not forget the feds require premanent residents to cary identification at all times.

The to-be-acknowledged resolution essentially pronounces immigration is solely a federal issue. However, the Obama Department of Justice website calls for more local involvement in immigration issues.

A rising immigrant population in the U.S. has led to a dramatic increase in local, state, and tribal law enforcement encounters with both legal and illegal immigrants during routine police duties. As immigration continues to affect interior communities, there is an increasing demand for law enforcement officers to have a working knowledge of immigration law and policy.

It’s virtually the same blueprint for SB 1070. Why does this Basic Immigration Enforcement Training even exist if not to foster racism?  We await your condemnation of the federal government.

Two men shot earlier this week could be the result of the ongoing battle between Mexican drug cartels now spilling over deep into Arizona, officials say.  Pinal County investigators say an area known as the smuggling corridor now stretches from Mexico’s border to metro Phoenix.  The area, once an area for family hiking and off road vehicles has government signs warning residents of the drug and human smugglers.  Night vision cameras have photographed cartel members with military arms delivering drugs to vehicles along Highway 8.

“We are three counties deep. How is it that you see pictures like these, not American with semi and fully automatic rifles. How is that okay?” asked Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu.  Babeu said he no longer has control over parts of his county.

“We are outgunned, we are out manned and we don’t have the resources here locally to fight this,” he said at a Friday news conference.  Five weeks ago Deputy Louie Puroll was ambushed and shot as he tracked six drug smugglers.  Sheriff Babeu said the ambush mirrored military tactics.

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Michael Medved thinks conservatives should stop engaging in “angry conservative rhetoric” with regard to illegal immigration:

Medved is most likely referring to the political fallout surrounding SB1070, Arizona’s Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act that goes into effect in a few weeks.

Most Americans support the law. A search for “Arizona” on the polling site rasmussen.com yielded the following results:

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Clearly, there is widespread public support for the Arizona law.

But that doesn’t mean that Medved is wrong. A few days ago, Harold Meyerson wrote an Op-Ed in the Washington Post in which he credited Latino political advocacy groups for their “get out the vote” efforts over the years, and this probably accounts for the dramatic shift away from the GOP in California. The political Left, always on the look for the next cudgel with which to pummel conservatives, was handed the Holy Grail of political truncheons by the citizens of Arizona – SB1070.

Opposition to the law was swift and decidely left-of-center. The velocity and sheer volume of intentional misrepresentations, unabashed demagoguery, and outright lies concocted by New Media Propogandists on the Left is mind boggling. It is the willful self-propogandization of a huge proportion of the American electorate. We are, in effect, brainwashing ourselves.

People today have easy, instant access to news and information, but many either cannot or will not analyze it critically. Information is useless, even dangerous, in the absence of meaningful context. The reason why so many people are unfazed by President Obama’s manic lurch toward socialism is because they have no frame of reference. As a result, seemingly rational people decry the enforcement of federal immigration law in Arizona as “racist,” “anti-immigrant,” and even “fascist.”

Since many do not have a historical perspective that is fact-based and ideologically-neutral, the Left is free to frame the narrative thus: You are either a bigoted fascist who supports the racist anti-immigrant law in Arizona, or you are an enlightened humanitarian who fights against the racist anti-immigrant law in Arizona.

Facts and figures illustrating the negative effects of illegal immigration are BORING. Accusations of racism, however, elicit a raw and visceral reaction. Conservatives can drone on about the violent crimes committed by illegals; the moral abyss of human trafficking; the huge burden to taxpayers associated with caring for and educating the children of illegals; the threat to life and property posed by the endless stream of illegals – many armed, dangerous, and desperate; the gaming of the welfare system; and so on, but all of it is drowned out by the Left’s debate-ending charge of “RACISM!”

Conservatives should therefore focus on securing the border. Regularization of illegals can be discussed later, but right now the border needs to be secured. Texas Congressman John Carter wrote an article for the Texas Insider recently that explains how the border could be secured immediately and references several times in the past when our southern border was secured to prove his point. So it’s not about how to secure the border, but rather whether we should. Conservatives can easily win that argument, and should not allow themselves to be drawn into a discussion about “comprehensive immigration reform” until after the border is secure.

(From Quinnipiac University)

Quinnipiac Poll

Michelle Malkin recently posted “Yet another reconquista photo album the MSM won’t print,” which documents some of the photographs taken by Donald Douglas, author of American Power Blog, who attended the anti-anti-illegal immigrant law rally and march in Phoenix, AZ, on May 30.  I’m reposting the photos here, without captions or commentary.  Visit American Power Blog for Douglas’s informative commentary.

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