LEAVE HER ALONE!

LEAVE HER ALONE!
YellowStars blog
Posted by ESLaPorte
31 August 2006
http://yellow-stars.com/blog/2006/08...her_alone.html

Down in Chicago, a mother with young son problems faces deportation, and has
been force into a church, which is under threat by the Department of
Homeland [In]Security.
The case of Elvira Arellano illustrates two things beyond the issue of
immigration: The first is that human rights, which persons with "criminal
records" are also supposed to have, are never placed before "national
sovereignty." The second is that persons with so-called "criminal records"
lose their humanity and are placed in a category that makes them subhuman.

Now, are the jackboots in the Department of Homeland [In]Security actually
going to go jackbooted, with machine guns, into the Aldalberto United
Methodist Church. Yep - given the state of American government toward
fascism and legalized criminality, there could be Homeland [In]Security
thugs crashing into a Christian Church. Would the jackbooted thugs of
Homeland [In]Security also do the same to a mosque, where real terrorists
might very-well be hiding? I doubt it.and remember, these are the same
rational, sane people in the same civil rights-conscious agency that placed
elderly, peace promoting nuns on "no fly lists" and deemed them "threats to
aviation."

Second is an issue that I have visited before, that is, when is comes to
so-called "criminal record" (especially from country of origin) and
migration. There are several problems and an argument against disqualifying
a migrate based on "criminal record" can be developed first from the
over-generalization of "criminal record."

First, as I always have to do, the presence of a "criminal record" does not
mean that the person is a murder, child molester, or the worst possible
violent offender. What come up are generalizations about an immigrant's
"criminal record" as being the worst possible criminal acts, and this
generalization, it can be argued, violates basic human rights. The effect is
that a migrant is then placed in a category of "criminal" and he or she does
not, ever in their lives, have the same status as other human beings. This
goes along with the permanent stripping of the basic humanity and dignity of
a person found to have a "criminal record." Also, it should be a violation
of human rights to deport a migrant with a "criminal record" just to be mean
and punitive.

Also, most people that want to migrant to the United States and other
nations with "criminal record" exclusion rules, what I have called Scarlet
Letters laws, have minor and dated "criminal records." For example, if a
young college student at the University of Toronto gets into minor trouble
in 1987 college prank and acquires a "criminal record" as a result. The
fellow goes on to get a Ph.D. in a high tech field and is a bright star in
his field. He is then invited to come to the United States or a European
country to teach at a technical university. Well, because of his arrest
wayyyyyyy back in 1989, he will be refused a residence permit for most
European countries and would have extreme trouble getting into the United
States. Now, let's say that the prestigious MIT, the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology wanted this guy, but are out a high valued prospect just
because of a minor "criminal record" from the man's young and dumb days.

This situation is a crime in and of itself - and as a result of foolish
Scarlet Letter policies that many nations with regard to migration and
"criminal record," the nation is out a valued scientist for absolute stupid
reasons.

The only humane solution is to examine, one a case by case basis, the
migrants' "criminal record" and whether the migrant with a "criminal record"
really poses a threat to public safety and security. In the example above,
the nation was robbed of a high valued and productive potential citizen
because of stupid Scarlet Letter laws. It is doubtful that Elvira Arellano
is a threat to safety and she is NOT Ted Bundy or Jeffery Dahlmer. Now -
doesn't the jackboots at the Department of Homeland [In]Security have
something else better to do - like catch real terrorists?!

Let's help the Department of Homeland [In]Security discover its real mission
by first telling them in loud voices to LEAVE Elvira Arellano ALONE!!!