Excuse Me, Let Me Clarify

Yesterday, one day before filing their lawsuit against the Oklahoma State Government, Rev. Miguel Rivera of the National Coalition of Latino Clergy issued a statement where he accuses the state of, get this… ETHNIC CLEANSING due to HB1804 being signed into law.

He claims that we have scared off thousands of American Citizens and kept children home from school because they fear for their safety in the state.

Excuse me Mr. Rivera (I refuse to call you Reverend because you have yet to show any behavior that would suit a clergyman), but I have an idea for you. Translate HB1804 to Spanish and pass THAT around to your cowering “citizens” and see if they’re still afraid. Here’s a big problem with your agenda and the ACTUAL law.

The law sets forth laws that would punish those who harbor, or hide illegals. It prevents illegals from getting jobs and bars them from public programs like Welfare, normally aimed at assisting LEGAL citizens. It also provides the police and sheriff’s departments with the ability and right to carry out the federal laws pertaining to illegal immigrants.

Now, how could someone who is a LEGAL US Citizen, or a child think that HB1804 is an open door for law enforcement to sweep anyone of Hispanic decent off the streets and send them packing? Couldn’t be a mixed message sent to them via your sermons and public appearances in Spanish could it? It wouldn’t take much effort on YOUR part to tell them in a language they understand, that we’re out to hang them from trees and eat their children, would it?

Oh, and let me clarify things a bit further for all of you out there who seem to think “Illegal Immigrant” means “Mexican”… An illegal immigrant is ANYONE, of ANY race/nationality/sex that crosses our border with no intention of leaving, under the ‘radar’ of legal immigration procedures. An Irishman, German, Canadian, Frenchman, Russian… ANYONE, who flies under the radar to live and work here without legal documentation… is BY DEFINITION, an Illegal Immigrant.

Nowhere, in HB1804 does it set a guideline for Hispanic discrimination.