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Rats? Not Rats…..
Bredesen slams Rep. Curry Todd’s immigrant “rats” remark
Gov. Phil Bredesen on Friday said it was a “very poor choice of words” for a Republican state lawmaker to liken pregnant illegal immigrants to rats multiplying.
Yeah…rats isn’t exactly the right critter. Perhaps he should have said cockroaches?
“That’s certainly a very poor choice of words, and I would never refer to any human being in that way,” Bredesen said.
While Bredesen might not (he’s actually an almost tolerable Dem), members of his party have said MUCH worse about their opponents. When said human beings consistently engage in criminal activity daily, like breaking into our home – the U.S., staying without permission, concern for their sensitive feelings goes out the window.
Rep. Curry Todd of Collierville made the comments at a legislative committee meeting earlier this week after being told that federal law requires the state to extend prenatal care to women regardless of their citizenship status because all children born in the U.S. are citizens.
Do said criminal invaders foot their own hospital bills? Doubtful. So, why should we have to? The 14th Amendment (ratified 1868) does NOT state that criminal invaders children should become American citizens automatically, and has, possibly, become one of the MOST misused amendments in our Constitution.
The 14th was designed to ensure that all former slaves were granted automatic United States citizenship, and that they would have all the rights and privileges as any other citizen.
It says NOTHING about granting citizenship to babies of criminals. (And no, it doesn’t say that it’s ok to murder babies either.)
Todd said he still wants to find ways for the state to deny care to illegal immigrants.
“I don’t want to see any child not have care, but I feel they are abusing our system here because they know they can get these kids services, and the taxpayers in Tennessee are the ones having to pay for this,” he told WHBQ.
Why are the taxpayers FORCED to foot the bill for people who don’t give a damn about this country, or her LEGAL citizens? How many children of LEGAL citizens are forced to do without because there just isn’t enough money in the coffers because of so much being spent on the criminals? There’s an old saying…Charity begins at home. We take care of ours….FIRST AND FOREMOST! If there is any left over, we can share. There is never any left over. If a private, charitable organization, funded by private donations, wants to pay the bills, then they are more than welcome to do so. It does not fall to the federal or state government to provide charity! Charity does NOT come from government, it comes from the heart of the individual!
Bredesen said he supports the current rules.
“Why would you ever put any tiny or unborn child into this debate about illegal immigration?” he said. “Let’s not make children pawns in this issue. It’s a grown-up issue.”
Because, Governor, the so called grown ups have thrust these babies into the fray, and use them as pawns! If you support the criminal activities of their parents, then you are just as guilty. If your concern about the babies is genuine, then YOU donate YOUR money to support them.
Immigrant rights group Conexion Americas on Friday called on Todd to respect the “worth and dignity of all people, including immigrants and our children.”
“We are tired of being dehumanized in our own communities,” the group said in an e-mail. “We are tired of politicians who classify our children as less than human.”
There is a HUGE difference between immigrants, those who come through the front door, go through the proper, LEGAL channels, and those who sneak across the border….CRIMINALS! Todd did not say a word about LEGAL immigrants, did he? No. And if these so called immigrant groups support criminal activity, then they, too, are CRIMINALS! You aren’t a legal immigrant, it’s not YOUR community!
Came here legally, as did my grandparents?
WELCOME!
The Republicans are so funny, when the economy is good you say let’s all celebrate “Cinco de Mayo, my brothers” but when the economy is down “it’s all your fault, you damn immigrant”.
The GOP has went on a nationwide rant in proposing and passing several anti-immigration legislation (that our US Courts continue to strike down) and have continue to blame the immigrant for the flat economy or worse.
Plus the more radical of the GOP are now attacking our Constitution (with all Amendments), and the Declaration of Independence, in their crazy notion of wanting to take away rights that all of us take for granted in their misguided attempt to garner some much needed votes (how is that working, of course I mean the Senate), they really are fools, and leading the GOP towards obscurity because they are no longer a party of ideas, just of empty suits.
When most Americans (of Latin America roots) went to the polls this November we all remembered who stood with us, our children, aunts and uncles, brothers and sisters, our parents and grandparents, in one word our families and who stood against us, so trying to make amends now is somewhat funny, but go ahead, you did not change our minds. Your hate made you do it, and you found out that you reap what you have sown. I wonder what Abraham Lincoln would say about todays GOP, he unlike the current GOP was a man of ideas.
Do you have a reading comprehension problem, Benito?????? Does the word ‘WELCOME” to LEGAL immigrants have a blind spot in your brain? I don’t give a flying flip where you were born, as long as you come in the front door! I, like most anyone with an ounce of common sense, am sick of people sneaking in! It’s called BREAKING THE LAW! Have you bothered to read the federal laws concerning ILLEGALS? No, I don’t guess you have. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be spouting such nonsense. FYI, I will stand by you, your sisters, brothers, etc., AS AN AMERICAN. I will NOT support criminals!