Navarrette: Dialing Up Disobedience - Enabling Illegals To Break The Law (illegal immigrants, soldiers)

[Benicar]

Hell must be freezing over, because I actually agree with Ruben Navarrette. And, he even called them "illegals."

Several readers have asked what I think of a new cell phone dubbed by its inventor as a "trans-border immigrant tool."

I have mixed feelings. I would generally approve of instruments that help people survive dangerous situations. But when those people are illegal immigrants who brought their plight upon themselves by opting to enter the United States through a back door, I become less sympathetic. In fact, I become suspicious and I begin to question whether the makers of the gadget retrofitted with GPS technology are encouraging unlawful activity.

First, if individuals do have such a right, then why does it supersede the right of sovereign nations to control their borders? On its southern border, Mexico asserts its right to keep out Guatemalans, Salvadorans, Hondurans and anyone else from throughout Latin America. Wouldn't people in Central and South America have the same "trans-global right" to cross into Mexico that Mexicans assert with regard to the United States? If Dominguez really believes in a right to cross borders, maybe he should ship some of his GPS devices all the way to Guatemala so people there can use them to sneak into Mexico?

Latinos in the United States have it tough enough already. People are always assuming that when it comes to the immigration issue, our loyalties lie on the other side of the border. I usually dismiss those fears as flashes of paranoia. But this gadget says that, at least in some cases, those concerns aren't totally unfounded.

Ruben Navarrette: Dialing up disobedience: enabling illegals to break the law - Press-Telegram

[zacatecana]

I have to agree with Navarrete. Those tools should be banned and outlawed.

I'm suprised no one has commented on this thread.

Thanks OP.

[chicagonut]

"Latinos in the United States have it tough enough already. People are always assuming that when it comes to the immigration issue, our loyalties lie on the other side of the border. I usually dismiss those fears as flashes of paranoia. But this gadget says that, at least in some cases, those concerns aren't totally unfounded."


I agree with Navarette on most of what he said accept for this last paragraph. There are far too many Latinos both citizen and non-citizen who still consider themselves Mexicans in every way no matter how long they have lived here. There is a reconquista movement by the Chicanos and the illegals are their little foot soldiers. Not saying that this agenda exists on a large scale but it is there and must be squashed. There is no paranoia but facts.

[Kele]

Wow! Hell has indeed frozen over. Navarette rarely ever takes any view that is not sympathetic to illegal aliens....wait a minute....is he planning on running for office or something?

Great find, Benicar!