Illegals Willing to Vote, but not Serve!
Even Illegal Aliens know how to get out of jury duty!
Coming to Already in a town close to you!
Review shows illegal immigrants likely voted in Bexar County
SAN ANOTNIO — Federal and local authorities have launched investigations after a Bexar County elections official reported dozens of non-U.S. citizens voted in recent elections.
A report by Bexar County Elections Administrator Jacque Callanen included the names of 330 non-citizens on the voter rolls. Those named had received jury duty summonses but told the court they weren’t eligible to serve because they were not U.S. citizens.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, part of the Department of Homeland Security, requested Callanen’s report in an administrative subpoena. And the Bexar County district attorney’s office is investigating whether up to 41 of those non-citizens voted in more than a dozen local, state and federal elections since 2001.
“You bet your bottom dollar we’ll prosecute … if we find people voted illegally in violation of the state election code,” Bexar County District Attorney Susan Reed said.
The 330 names have since been removed from voter rolls, Callanen said.
Investigators with ICE are trying to locate and interview those named. ICE is looking into false citizenship claims, said agency spokeswoman Nina Pruneda.
Federal authorities also requested similar voter data from election officials in Harris, Tarrant and El Paso counties, Callanen said. But Pruneda, the ICE spokeswoman, declined to discuss the scope of the federal inquiry.
It wasn’t immediately apparent if the questionable voting influenced the outcome of an election, Callanen said.
A bill to require voters to show photo identification or two other forms of ID before casting ballots died in the state Senate without a vote.
Democrats claimed the identification requirements would suppress poor and minority voters and vowed to filibuster the bill — and threaten other bills — if it ever came up.
Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and other Republicans argued the measure is needed to combat voter fraud. It had already passed the House.
Prosecute? Even if they do, that is just the ones that admitted they weren’t and only those who were summoned for jury duty. What about all the rest who voted illegally?
Let’s follow up on this story in a year to see how trivial it ended up being. Voter fraud has been at the top of the Justice Dept. agenda for a while now, and while it has produced plenty of articles like this one (otherwise known as ‘chum’), there have been very few prosecutions…
ZERO prosecutions of a conspiracy to commit voter fraud.
So– AL-
NON citizens participating in our voting is trivial?
thank you for making your view clear…
so now- we trust YOUR JUDGEMENT on ANYTHING?
yup- there’s a true American who cherishes his citizanship over party politics…
but- hey at least we know where you stand.
Jan-
pay no attention to the illegal voter behind the amnesty curtain!
Correct eeevil. And I believe that millions vote all the time in local elections that decide the way cities and school boards and other services are run.
I have a friend that lives in L.A. and the horror stories he shares of crime, fraud, catering to illegals, etc. is a sad commentary of the changing condition of that area of our nation.
Some are definitely willing to serve (really serve) and give the ultimate sacrifice:
José Antonio Gutierrez
He was an American hero. Now he’s an American.
BY BRENDAN MINITER
Friday, April 4, 2003
One of the first U.S. soldiers to die in Iraq was not an American citizen. He’d come here illegally as a teenager. His name was José Antonio Gutierrez. He was killed on March 21 by enemy fire while trying to secure Umm Qasr, a port vital for humanitarian aid. He was a 22-year-old lance corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps.
It’s easy to discount talk of the American dream as hyperbole, a cliché carelessly tossed about. But then there are people like Gutierrez, whose whole life proved that the naysayers were wrong. It is possible to escape the oppression of your circumstances. It’s no coincidence that he joined the Marines, whose motto is “semper fidelis.” Gutierrez remained always faithful to the dream that inspires the best within us. And for this he is an American hero.
Gutierrez was born in Guatemala, but he told his American foster family only an outline of his life there. It’s easy to see the pain in the omitted text. His mother died when he was three. Five years later his father was dead. He left school to work a series of odd jobs to buy food for himself and his sister, Engracia. He learned about the U.S. from an American aid worker at a shelter.
Then “the mentor left,” explains Lillian Cardenas–one of his foster sisters–so Gutierrez decided to head for America by stowing away on freight trains. He got stuck in Mexico for a couple of years, crossing into California when he was 14. He was determined to see Los Angeles. Somehow he ended up in Hollywood.
He slept on park benches and got food from a shelter. An alert social worker enrolled him in a program that helped him gain legal residency and placed him with a foster family. The first placement didn’t work out. Neither did the second or the third. Finally in 2000, he came to live with Nora and Marcelo Mosquera (themselves immigrants from Costa Rica and Ecuador).
The Mosqueras have three “biological” children, but have cared for more than two dozen foster children over the years, some of whom they’ve adopted. They never adopted Gutierrez, but on Mother’s Day last year he wrote home and “formally” asked if he could call them mom and dad.
He never forgot Engracia, often calling or sending her money. But he reached new heights with the Mosqueras. They pressured him to learn English (in frustration he’d say he just wanted to learn enough “to get by”). He had a strong faith in God and would urge his siblings to go to church–they were all Catholic. He was a private person, but would jokingly tell the family that someday “people will know my name.” After high school he was recruited to play soccer for nearby Harbor College. There he began studying architecture.
Gutierrez loved America and talked about giving something back by enlisting in the Army. A few months after Sept. 11, he surprised everyone by announcing he’d joined the Marines. The Army recruiter just wasn’t as convincing, he told them. After he graduated from Parris Island in March 2002, the Marines became another family for him.
“You always had to take the big car when you picked up José,” Mrs. Cardenas recalls. “I have a little Acura, and once drove it the 90 minutes to Camp Pendleton to pick him up,” she said chuckling. He was waiting there with five buddies. “Honestly, I have to tell you that you’re not all going to fit.” Sometimes he’d show up for dinner with as many as 30 Marines. “There were Marines everywhere,” she said, but they were all welcome. “Whenever you’d have him around, you didn’t have a worry in the world.”
He knew the danger that awaited him in the Gulf. Before leaving, he asked his foster family to take care of Engracia. “You’re her family now,” he said. But Mrs. Cardenas also remembers why he was willing to go to war. “From what I’ve seen,” Saddam has to be confronted, he told them. “It’s my job. It’s also my duty.”
Gutierrez, along with José Angel Garibay–a Marine killed on March 23 battling for Nasiriyah–has now been awarded citizenship posthumously.
Mr. Miniter is assistant editor of OpinionJournal.com. His column appears Tuesdays.
Bart
I agree some illegal immigrants would serve the military.
But I do find it strange you back illegal immigrants voting?
John,
Show me where I have written or spoken in favor of illegal immigrants voting.
Bart
The post was about illegal immigrants voting and you right away defended the immigrants and said nothing about the issue!
Also if you read your comments or hear you on our radio show it is clear to most you are a wink wink Bush open border guy!
Why do must people think that about you after you talk about immigration if I am wrong?
John-
Bart and his buddies are admitting that they CANNOT enforce the laws…
exactly why they need to be replaced with people who CAN and WILL!
21 years eeevil, 4 presidents, many congressmen, increased spending, increased manpower and the border could not be protected under your panacea of current laws. It is time for real change…something I know you status quo folks cannot comprehend.
John,
Show me where I have written or spoken in favor of illegal immigrants voting.
You can’t because it did not happen and I do not support illegals being allowed to vote. As usual, you attempt to subvert the question after making a false accusation based on nothing but your inadeqate ability to respond in an intelligent manner.
Bart
21 one years of them NOT doing the right thing…
I love you using the words “could not”–
you make my point-
time for people who CAN and WILL…
call us status quo all you like…you miss the boat.
We are against status quo on NON-enforcement, AND against status quo on electing folks into DC that fill there pockets like prostitutes and WON’T enforce the laws…
You will see how NON-status quo we really are…
great blog
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