Using his strongest language yet on US immigration policy, Governor Deval Patrick lambasted the controversial immigration laws in Arizona and Alabama during a speech at Tufts University Monday. “The actions of various states to take matters into their own hands have been ham-fisted, self-defeating and even racist,” Patrick said. Patrick’s address, at the Aidekman Arts Center, was part of the “Moral Voices” lecture series sponsored by Tufts Hillel, the university’s center for Jewish life.
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Anybody who criticizes advantageous immigraion procedures awarded to Khazaks or Australian aborigines would be an apparent racist in the mind of the nitwit that takes up space in the Massachusetts State House corner office. "Give me your tired poor, etc." just has to be sculpted on a rock near every highway and roadway accessing Massachusetts... And Deeval, the Chicago Demohack, will almost certainly file legislation demanding that every immigrant that makes it to MassaChusetts will be given all he/she needs to live the American dream, asylum included.
Deval Patrick was in Massachusetts??
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We should give illegal aliens Massachusetts drivers licenses and let them work in liquor stores. Oh wait, we already do.
Governor Deval Patrick ought to stop and ask himself if he knows his title. It appears he has some high-falooting idea that he is working on behalf of Obama, but the Massachusetts tax-payers are paying his salary. But, wait a minute - he is working for Obama. Too much roaming the nation and speaking on behalf of Obama has caused him to forget his responsibilities. Someone needs to remind him that he is getting his salary from the same state that gave him his title.
"After initial waffling, Patrick refused to embrace the Secure Communities program." CORRECTION: After PROMISING, during his re-election campaign to sign on to the Secure Communities Act, he now disavows his former promise and continues to allow individuals ARRESTED for other CRIMINAL acts to hide their ILLEGAL status from the ICE, and then has the unmitigated gall to say the Federal government is to blame. No doubt the parents of the young man dragged to his death in Milford by an ILLEGAL ALIEN who had been arrested previously are not comforted by his outrageous speech. And the same can be said for the relatives of the Ecuadoran mother and child who were murdered by a fellow Ecuadoran who then fled to his homeland (and has since been convicted of the murders there). Here's a possible solution: we extend the same treatment to any illegal alien apprehended in the U.S., as that their home country extends to illegal aliens there. Fair's fair.
The jerk wants us all to be victims of rape, robbery and identity theft. We are going broke paying for these unwanted people, if the fedral govt. can't help us you have to help yourself. This guy should keep his mouth shut because every time he opens it he shows the world what an idiot he is.
How ironic. Illegal immigrant labor competes directly with native-born African-American workers. Does Patrick care that illegal immigration depresses the wages of African-Americans who are less educated?
Bravo! You are so right.
He is becoming more like Obama everyday. Makes these loud propaganda speeches everywhere he goes that require him to do nothing but blame everyone else for getting nothing done. He also manages to try to deflect his own racism by insisting that every white person must be a racist because the criminals were black or Hispanic. He is an embarrassment.
Is Deevalue the Patrick now setting himself up as an arbiter of how other states' laws are enacted and enforced if he decides there is some sort of racial question involved? For example, how would he decide the appropriateness of enforcing Arizona immigration law against a white Mexican. Same question against a Mestizo from Panama? Finally, who gave this minihack of a governor the status to set himself up as a one man supreme racial court?
Governor, What is you opinion on areas in AZ that are basically closed to US citizens becuase they are too dangerous?
It becomes clearer and clearer that Gov. Patrick has no respect for the law whatsoever. We are talking about ILLEGAL immigrants. People who are breaking the law. If even the leadership in our state is allowed to pick and choose the laws that we follow, what is to prevent the rest of us from doing the same? What if I decide it is ok to take other people's money. I don't want to work anymore, I want to stay at home, but I want to have designer clothes, a nice car, a nice house and take luxurious vacations. If I did, in fact, take other people's money I would have to go to jail - wouldn't I? Would I be able to use as a defense that as illegal immigrants have little to no consequence for their daily illegal activites, why should I be held accountable for my illegal activities which occur intermittently? I mean, I won't steal everyday, that's better than what illegal immigrants do, isn't it?
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About 3,500 acres of southern Arizona along the Mexican border is closed to U.S. citizens due to increased violence in the region. The closed off area stretches 80 miles along the border and includes part of the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge. It was closed in October 2006 "due to human safety concerns," the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Wednesday in response to news reports on the closure.
Deval is perfect candidate for Obama's admin as they do not care about the rule of law or the Constitution either
Of course Deval wants the illegal's to stay. Without them he would have never been elected. The layabout crowd who contribute no taxes and buy crack, booze, tattoo's with their EBT cards and illegal's all vote Democrat and why wouldn't they because people like Deevalue and Obozo enable them.
Democrats want to recall Scott Walker, Gov of WI. They claim that Walker is discriminating against unions. But they are NOT complaining that Walker violated his campaign pledges or that he is not doing his job as governor. In MA Deval wants to have illegal immigrants take the jobs of American workers, union and non-union. He gives his speech in front of naive college students, who don't thinh of asking him "Governor, you state that Arizon's immigration law is RACIST. Do you have any legal PROOF that this is so? Can you name ANYBODY in AZ who was discriminated against because of his race?. Did the police ask any driver what his race was?" If he could, he would have given the illegal immigrant woman accused of vehicular homicide a pass. He's spending taxpayer money campaigning for Obama. And like Obama, he sees no problem in violating his campaign pledges. In MA there there should be a recall election for Governor Patrick. Reason: He has no intention of actually doing the job he was paid to do.