D.A. King
Rosas, a three-year United States Border Patrol agent, was mercilessly gunned down while on patrol on the U.S. - Mexico border near Campo, Calif., in July.
Agent Rosas was tracking suspected illegal border crossers who were headed north from Mexico looking for a better life when he was killed by multiple gunshots. According to the Border Patrol, seven people have been arrested in the U.S. and Mexico in connection with Rosas' murder, but the suspected shooter is still at large.
Maybe he made it into the interior of the United States. Maybe he is right now taking a job from an American worker in Georgia. Maybe he will be given a traffic ticket for a broken taillight by an American policeman and then sent on his way, as the ACLU demands. Maybe you will see soon him marching with other illegal aliens in American streets demanding "justice," legalization ... and U.S. citizenship.
Killed at age 30, Rosas was one of more than 100 Border Patrol Agents who have died in the line of duty. He leaves behind a wife, Rosalie, a 2-year-old son, Robert and a now 1-year-old daughter, Allysa.
Rosas' murder came to mind again while reading numerous reports about the nationally reported outrage from "immigrant rights" organizations over an illegal alien Halloween costume. The trick or treat costume consisted of a space alien mask, an orange jumpsuit emblazoned with the words "illegal alien" and a hand-held "green card."
In various e-mails of protest to merchants, Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, called the costume "distasteful, mean-spirited and ignorant of social stigmas and current debate on immigration reform."
Another coalition spokesman, Jorge-Mario Cabrera, said the costume "perpetuates this idea we have about undocumented immigrants as alien foreigners, strangers, scary." According to Cabrera the jumpsuit was too similar to what many captured illegal aliens wear in detention centers, "where they can spend months at a time, and where there is a lot of suffering."
Rosas' death should also be remembered when we consider a recent Zogby International opinion poll conducted in Mexico on American immigration policy.
The survey finds that people in Mexico think that granting legal status to illegal aliens in the United States would encourage more illegal immigration to the United States. As happened with the 1986 amnesty.
As the top immigrant-sending country for both legal and illegal immigrants, views on immigration in Mexico provide insight into the impact of another amnesty, as well as other questions related to immigration.
Among the findings taken from a report on the poll from the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, D.C.:
"A clear majority of people in Mexico, 56 percent, thought giving legal status to illegal immigrants in the United States would make it more likely that people they know would go to the United States illegally. Of Mexicans with a member of their immediate household in the United States, 65 percent said a legalization program would make people they know more likely to go to America illegally."
More from CIS:
* Interest in going to the United States remains strong even in the current recession, with 36 percent of Mexicans (39 million people) telling Zogby they would move to the United States if they could.
* A new Pew Research Center poll also found that about one-third of Mexicans would go to the United States if they could.
* An overwhelming majority (69 percent) of people in Mexico thought that the primary loyalty of Mexican-Americans (Mexico- and U.S.-born) should be to ... Mexico. Just 20 percent said it should be to the United States. The rest were unsure.
Like most Americans, Robert Rosas was sure of his loyalty. He died trying to protect his country. His dedication to duty represents the pro-American side of the "immigration debate."
Radical anti-enforcement, amnesty-again groups that demand "dignity" for the illegal aliens who make it past the Border Patrol and howl that deportation would "tear undocumented families apart" should be reminded of Robert Rosas and his American family.
D.A. King is a nationally recognized authority on illegal immigration and president of the Cobb-based Dustin Inman Society. On the Web: www.TheDustinInmanSociety.org.
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The immigration issue is much more complex and goes beyond the rage of someone whose property lost value because of the invasion of a bunch of workers.
I believe that you are smart enough to disagree the arguments of my charming,old, white southern neighbors who believe that it is possible to expell 11 million people.
I follow closely your opinions ang agree with you in very few of your articles.
Facts: The people is already here.
-The demographic face of this country is already changing.
-In 2050 the white population will be a minority if this tendencies continue
Do we all want to stop a terrorist smuggling from the 3000 kilometers line we share?
I am a law believer..but I also believe that we have to be smarter and stronger than our prejudices
to find a solution of a historical,complex and difficult subject like this.
Please Ms. La Raza - stop calling us names while you operate your racist shill game for politcal power?
Please Mr. Illegal Alien, PLEASE stop sneaking over our borders, and taking our nation while you scream that you somehow have that right because you happen to be Hispanic or poor?
PLEEEEASE?
How's that there anonymous...feel better? To "extereme"
Advice: go look at California genius.
My issue is that EVERY mass immigration, legal or otherwise, that has occurred in the United States (and other countries) is met with moderate to extreme rhetoric. I don't think it adds anything to the debate, and attracts those from groups who would do harm.
To follow up with some of you:
Mary J - no, I do not depend on "illegals" for my living, nor have I ever done so.
Roger H - no, my feelings are not hurt, and please do call your congressperson.
Robert Valdez - I don't choose that anyone come here illegally.
Darcy - Earth.
American worker - I did admit that illegal immigration is a crime, when I said I was "willing to admit that King's spot-on with respect to what the law says." I also note that yours seems to be the most extreme voice here.
King reports th etruth here, and the libs below ignore it to talk about something else.
Great column Mr. King. Too bad it is wasted on the non thinkers who would rather appear more "noble" than others that save thier children's future and language.
I think maybe you depend on illegals for your living? "America First" is not "hate speech."
Peeeeeuuuu.
I hope he writes soon about illegal border aliens swarming his house instead of his country. Holy cow.
I am out, but now determined to be more vocal. Stop the madness. Stop illegal immigration, And NO MORE AMNESTY! (thanks King)
I am amazed that this blog is not front page news. who knew people were so ...silly? I will be calling my congressman. King is right and the truth must hurt more than A's feeling$.
I came legally. So did my family. Who do you choose to come illeagly?
I come from Mexico. Not all of us immigrants are for open borders. Who illegals should not be deported pleasee? I am asking to know.
What planet is this anonymous from?
THEY ARE CRIMINALS AND STEALING OUR NATION! SO ARE THE EMPLOYERS!
Please just say, as RICH SO RICH does, so mindlessly, that we should welcome anyone who isn't caught. Try harder.
We are not debating "immigration". Like we are not debating banking. Bank robbers are not the same as bank customers.
you are a fraud. And boringinggggggly slow.
Your hipper than thou mindless nonsense is beyond exhasting.
Or is that your intention?
I thought the illegals came here to work, to better their lives & feed their famolies! So wouldn't it be logical for them to go where the next industirial & economic boom will be??? And that will be CHINA! The truth is the truth, not rhetoric!
And I supposre the Koran doesn't teach -'kill the infidel".
Poor PC America!!!
They can make more money here than in the third world.DUH!
They can get an assortment of free stuff here while they refuse to adopt to an America and force us to adopt to their culture and language.
This is really not that difficult to figure out..and King has been saying this for years.
Pls stop thinking out loud here (we can almost see you lips move) until you do some basic research?
BTW it is called "Attrition Through Enforcement" ( Google it)...the reality that illegals will go home if we actually enforce our employment and immigration laws.
As King says: "LIKE THEY DO IN MEXICO!"
We already take in more immigrants than any other nation. ONE MILLION A YEAR! Largest donor nation to American immigration? Mexico.
That fact is mentioned in the King column.
This is great insight into the level of intelligence of these mindless libs! Arrrrrugggghhhhhh!
I have two issues. One is that the federal government should have dealt with this 20 years ago. They dropped the ball, and clumsily reacted by shifting the work to municipalities and states.
Second, the tone of response, by parts of the electorate, frankly, is that of hatred toward a group of humanity. This has occurred in response to almost every large immigrant "invasion," as King calls them. Whether it's the Chinese or Irish or "illegal aliens," the rhetoric is identical.
Do what you will, you can't convince me that the tone of rhetoric is justified. For instance, America's gone, your "illegals to China" suggestion is not far from the extreme rhetoric that I know you all have heard with respect to this issue.
So, King suggests slow deportation, using 287(g) as the driver to identify those here illegally. Did it occur to anyone that this will likely never accomplish a final result of no illegal immigrants in our country?
Logic tells me that until the issues of border control (which I know that King supports heartily), real penalties for businesses who hire them, AND ALSO figuring out what to do about the WHY of the uncontrolled migration (poverty, etc. in those countries), you're not going to solve the problem.
So, what are your solutions? The status quo is not acceptable, since it never solves the real problems.