What’s the difference between an illegal alien stealing an American job, and Martin Luther King Jr. fighting for American rights?Don’t know? Congratulations, you too could be on the Boston City Council!Led by Councilor at Large Sam Yoon, the council passed a resolution last week endorsing something called the “Welcoming Massachusetts Pledge.” No, it’s not an effort to promote tourism – unless the word “tourist” has replaced “undocumented worker” as the amnesty crowd’s euphemism of choice.The pledge is instead a document declaring that every illegal immigrant has the “unalienable right” to come and live in Massachusetts. As a result, enforcing immigration laws “violates civil and human rights of immigrants.”

All immigrants? No, just the “undocumented tourists.”

Do our city councilors really believe that illegal immigration is a “civil rights” issue? If they have any vague familiarity with the English language, surely they know that “civil” issues are those that relate to “citizenship.” Citizens have civil rights. Foreign terrorists in Guantanamo Bay and off-the-books Brazilian painters in Jamaica Plain do not.

Well, actually, Brazilian, Mexican and Irish illegal immigrants do have civil rights. To claim them, they need only return to (respectively) Brazil, Mexico and Ireland.

What made the Jim Crow era so offensive was watching American citizens being turned away from American ballot boxes. Citizens from Maine to Malibu didn’t march for black people; they marched for American people.

Bull Connor took from Dr. King his rights as an American. Illegal immigrants steal across our border to take the privileges of America, and jobs, from Americans. http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view.bg?articleid=1072934

The pledge is instead a document declaring that every illegal immigrant has the “unalienable right” to come and live in Massachusetts.
Do they also have the unalienable right to steal other people’s social security numbers and ID’s to get jobs there too