My Quiet Life

Great, just what we need: more people in PRISON:

Middle Tennessee’s top federal prosecutor says he’s stepping up cases against illegal immigrants who are deported and return to the U.S., hoping prison sentences will deter offenders next time.

Beginning in March, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement started asking U.S. attorneys around the country to prosecute immigrants who repeatedly enter the country illegally. The charges can carry a prison sentence from two to 20 years.

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“These are the worst of the worst that we are talking about here and people for whom we can see that deportation will not keep them out,” said Ed Yarborough, U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. “It’s probably too early to tell if there’s been a deterrent effect. But we think we might, over time, see fewer … returning to Nashville.”

Yes, the “worst of the worst” — people that like our country so much that they really want to be here. Those bastards. Immigration law and public opinion in this country is so fucked sometimes I wonder if we can ever recover to something sensible.

I took this picture a few years ago during the big rally downtown. I can’t begin to explain how much it still cracks me up. I mean, the general surreality of it is one thing, but I just absolutely love the guy on the right. Everyone else is all like “SPEAK ENGLISH OR GO HOME!!”, “HELL NO TO MEXICO!!”. This guy, though — it’s not that he hates the mexicans. He just doesn’t want to learn Spanish.

“I don’t want to learn Spanish.”

I can’t stop laughing.

I didn’t think much of Buck Dozier in the debate, as I mentioned, but one thing I neglected to give him credit for was his firm, forceful and eloquently stated opposition to the “english first” bill.

I took my time replying to some of Bob Krumm’s posts, because I wanted to be sure what I said was measured and civil, and so that I could decide specifically what I wanted to say. Bob’s post here has appalled me. He tells the story of encountering two men of “obvious Middle Eastern descent”, which of course doesn’t really mean anything, so we’re left to assume what he means here is “brown”. They asked him where Al Gore’s house was. Bob, assuming they were terrorists, gave them wrong directions, and proceeded to run home and call the police to report their license plate. As justification, he provides:

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