While Trump & Co would have us believe that most of our undocumented are gangsters, murderers, and rapists, Sotelo is representative of the prevalent hard working immigrant that does his share and more in contributing to our American society both with his hard labor and paying his share of taxes, which is way more than what can be said of our Dear Leader and his ilk. In a rational society, our government would be placing Sotelo on an expedited path to citizenship, and not just hauling him off as if he were some kind of dangerous criminal.
I heard a guy interviewed on NPR (going to miss that too, damn), who said he had a cherry orchard in Washington and believed the stories about ICE grabbing honest hard-working folks were fake because it hadn’t happened to any of his workers or those of his friends. That’s the kind of head-in-sand attitude that allows ICE thugs to get away with their disgraceful actions.
Please tell your members of congress to support The Dignity Act HR4393. The full text can be found here: https://salazar.house.gov/dignity-act. This would allow families like this to come out of the shadows and stop living in fear. It would stop these raids on hard working people and block ice from continuing to hunt down undocumented humans like they are feral animals. It would stop them from continuing to imprison innocent people without due process. Please tell congress to act. It is not a perfect bill, but it would substantially improve the lives of people having to live in fear and give them dignity.
What enrages me is when the ICE thugs kidnap someone who is going through the steps to become a citizen. That shows exactly what their agenda really is - not criminals but anyone with brown skin.
This is heartbreaking, but an important time to note: even criminals deserve due process in immigration courts. People tend to turn a blind eye to injustice until it affects the “good people”, and by then, it’s too late.
He's been arrested before for illegal immigration in 2006, and has a criminal conviction for DUI on his record. As Arnold said a few days ago, you've gotta do things the legal way. He should have come clean. No borders, no country. Period, end of story.
Obviously you don’t understand how f*cked up our system is for hard-working people trying to obtain citizenship. Take your holier than thou attitude and shove it. I will pray for your cold soul.
I am beginning to understand why Rump pardoned all the Proud Boys. They are now employed by Rump Gestapo also known as ICE. Who else would take a job treating others in such cowardly manner. I hate what is happening to our poor Hispanic population. And they are not taking the gangs, the criminals, they are taking the ones Miller and Rump don't like - successful people.
Anyone with sense realized that the vast majority of undocumented persons in this country are here because they are needed and are hardworking people who contribute to our society and our economy.
Of course, anyone with sense excludes all the Magaites.
Rollin Soles even contradicted himself in the same breath when he said Sotelo, "is by all accounts an upstanding member of his community with no criminal record".
Except for the inconvenient fact that he's in the country illegally.
I'm not a fan of Trump. I believe his need for attention may border on the psychotic. But, by God, he's certainly exposed your country's psychosis too.
Either you want illegals or you don't.
Either you get cheap groceries or you don't.
It doesn't take a genius to know you can't have both.
Need for attention: Absolutely ridiculous. Regardless of this man's flaws and foibles of which WE ALL HAVE.... Anyone who has watched him as closely has I have for the last 8 years, knows.. without a shadow of a doubt.. that his commitment to the health and well being of this country is priority ONE in his life. Absolute paramount to everything else. Until you understand that, you've missed the mark entirely. God bless him and his family.
John, obviously you've figured it out, so you must be the genius. So maybe you can explain why this issue has been debated in Congress for decades and has largely been left unresolved. Bipartisan attempts to solve the problem generally fail, because of polarization. The AG community has communicated clearly to Congress about the problem to both sides, but it falls on deaf ears. Seems easy to solve, except it isn't easy to come up with a solution that voters fall behind. Decades have passed, and Congress has led us to this. So again, what is the easy solution?
Assuming US elections are fair (big assumption), the politicians who currently control all three branches of the US government have a base that believe their jobs are being taken by undocumented workers.
Nothing you say or do will convince them otherwise. In fact, articles like this, which are being promoted on Facebook by people like "Sierra Wine Guy" with lurid prose like "cruelty with a clipboard" probably do more harm than good. (Has he not read about the Milgram experiment?)
So let the price of everything go up. Money talks in your country and until Trump's base is hurting (and making the coastal elites hurt plays well right now with Trump's base), nothing will change.
There may be light at the end of this tunnel of madness. I read that Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has been lobbying Trump hard to pull ICE off the meat packing plants.
I know enough of them to know that they understand that immigrants aren't taking jobs they would ever apply for. That is true for the vast majority right-wing voters. Maybe they just don't like "The Others". I do think Trump is heading into a disaster that will open some of their eyes. But I think there is a solid base for Trump, maybe 25%, for whom this is just all about White Nationalism. They will persist in their political views at all costs. Let's just hope that upcoming elections are truly free and fair. I'm concerned.
Can you get that story into a short video that could be used in place of political advertising? It could sway some of those "in between" voters. Someone like Robert Reich and his Inequality Media could be a path, perhaps. This sort of thing might grab at least some of those people, and every one counts right now.
You make it sound so simple, and so easy to be outraged at those who hire migrant workers. I would suggest that you are engaging in faux outrage yourself. I doubt you know many of those "1%" owners of nurseries, wineries, farms, restaurants, etc. I've known many and they are neither part of the 1% or oblivious to the plight of their workers. Many go beyond their obligations to employees, who are migrant, to help them and their communities where they came from. They are all human and they all pay a big price if those jobs go unfilled.
While Trump & Co would have us believe that most of our undocumented are gangsters, murderers, and rapists, Sotelo is representative of the prevalent hard working immigrant that does his share and more in contributing to our American society both with his hard labor and paying his share of taxes, which is way more than what can be said of our Dear Leader and his ilk. In a rational society, our government would be placing Sotelo on an expedited path to citizenship, and not just hauling him off as if he were some kind of dangerous criminal.
I heard a guy interviewed on NPR (going to miss that too, damn), who said he had a cherry orchard in Washington and believed the stories about ICE grabbing honest hard-working folks were fake because it hadn’t happened to any of his workers or those of his friends. That’s the kind of head-in-sand attitude that allows ICE thugs to get away with their disgraceful actions.
Please tell your members of congress to support The Dignity Act HR4393. The full text can be found here: https://salazar.house.gov/dignity-act. This would allow families like this to come out of the shadows and stop living in fear. It would stop these raids on hard working people and block ice from continuing to hunt down undocumented humans like they are feral animals. It would stop them from continuing to imprison innocent people without due process. Please tell congress to act. It is not a perfect bill, but it would substantially improve the lives of people having to live in fear and give them dignity.
What enrages me is when the ICE thugs kidnap someone who is going through the steps to become a citizen. That shows exactly what their agenda really is - not criminals but anyone with brown skin.
I say Let Moises go & replace him with felon47.
Heartbreaking to hear Dave...
This is heartbreaking, but an important time to note: even criminals deserve due process in immigration courts. People tend to turn a blind eye to injustice until it affects the “good people”, and by then, it’s too late.
He's been arrested before for illegal immigration in 2006, and has a criminal conviction for DUI on his record. As Arnold said a few days ago, you've gotta do things the legal way. He should have come clean. No borders, no country. Period, end of story.
Read the Declaration of Independence. It says to welcome immigrants.
And Moises probably pays more in taxes than you do.
Obviously you don’t understand how f*cked up our system is for hard-working people trying to obtain citizenship. Take your holier than thou attitude and shove it. I will pray for your cold soul.
I am beginning to understand why Rump pardoned all the Proud Boys. They are now employed by Rump Gestapo also known as ICE. Who else would take a job treating others in such cowardly manner. I hate what is happening to our poor Hispanic population. And they are not taking the gangs, the criminals, they are taking the ones Miller and Rump don't like - successful people.
Vote Blue.
He was arrested for DUI, convicted, and deported in 2006. Why isn't that mentioned in the article?
Anyone with sense realized that the vast majority of undocumented persons in this country are here because they are needed and are hardworking people who contribute to our society and our economy.
Of course, anyone with sense excludes all the Magaites.
Trump wants to…..
DESTROY 💙💙💙 CITIES & STATES!!!!
Your comment is a stellar example of the depths of ignorance the rest of us have to cope with in this country.
There's a contradiction in all of this.
Rollin Soles even contradicted himself in the same breath when he said Sotelo, "is by all accounts an upstanding member of his community with no criminal record".
Except for the inconvenient fact that he's in the country illegally.
I'm not a fan of Trump. I believe his need for attention may border on the psychotic. But, by God, he's certainly exposed your country's psychosis too.
Either you want illegals or you don't.
Either you get cheap groceries or you don't.
It doesn't take a genius to know you can't have both.
Need for attention: Absolutely ridiculous. Regardless of this man's flaws and foibles of which WE ALL HAVE.... Anyone who has watched him as closely has I have for the last 8 years, knows.. without a shadow of a doubt.. that his commitment to the health and well being of this country is priority ONE in his life. Absolute paramount to everything else. Until you understand that, you've missed the mark entirely. God bless him and his family.
John, obviously you've figured it out, so you must be the genius. So maybe you can explain why this issue has been debated in Congress for decades and has largely been left unresolved. Bipartisan attempts to solve the problem generally fail, because of polarization. The AG community has communicated clearly to Congress about the problem to both sides, but it falls on deaf ears. Seems easy to solve, except it isn't easy to come up with a solution that voters fall behind. Decades have passed, and Congress has led us to this. So again, what is the easy solution?
Assuming US elections are fair (big assumption), the politicians who currently control all three branches of the US government have a base that believe their jobs are being taken by undocumented workers.
Nothing you say or do will convince them otherwise. In fact, articles like this, which are being promoted on Facebook by people like "Sierra Wine Guy" with lurid prose like "cruelty with a clipboard" probably do more harm than good. (Has he not read about the Milgram experiment?)
So let the price of everything go up. Money talks in your country and until Trump's base is hurting (and making the coastal elites hurt plays well right now with Trump's base), nothing will change.
There may be light at the end of this tunnel of madness. I read that Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has been lobbying Trump hard to pull ICE off the meat packing plants.
Money talks.
I know enough of them to know that they understand that immigrants aren't taking jobs they would ever apply for. That is true for the vast majority right-wing voters. Maybe they just don't like "The Others". I do think Trump is heading into a disaster that will open some of their eyes. But I think there is a solid base for Trump, maybe 25%, for whom this is just all about White Nationalism. They will persist in their political views at all costs. Let's just hope that upcoming elections are truly free and fair. I'm concerned.
Can you get that story into a short video that could be used in place of political advertising? It could sway some of those "in between" voters. Someone like Robert Reich and his Inequality Media could be a path, perhaps. This sort of thing might grab at least some of those people, and every one counts right now.
This is criminal.
You make it sound so simple, and so easy to be outraged at those who hire migrant workers. I would suggest that you are engaging in faux outrage yourself. I doubt you know many of those "1%" owners of nurseries, wineries, farms, restaurants, etc. I've known many and they are neither part of the 1% or oblivious to the plight of their workers. Many go beyond their obligations to employees, who are migrant, to help them and their communities where they came from. They are all human and they all pay a big price if those jobs go unfilled.