Re-think your obligations lady

Oh the backlash from the advocacy groups over the raids of last week are surfacing.

Rights group exploring a challenge to Swift raids
Centro Legal believes worker detentions may have violated constitutional amendments

"You notice the agents readily dismiss your fair-haired, light-skinned colleagues. The agents tell you — among those with a Latino surname and darker skin — to stick around."

Oops, racial profiling.

"News stories inform us that the workers were questioned, detained and arrested as part of a criminal investigation under U.S. federal identity theft statutes and not for immigration law violations," Centro Legal stated in a news release sent out Friday. "In that event, all constitutional and due-process rights would be required to be given to the workers prior to their detention, questioning and arrest."

Oh, they were committing lesser crimes, I get it. Ahh well, no big deal then right?

"Tim Counts, spokesman for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Bloomington, confirmed the raids in Minnesota and elsewhere were carried out under civil search warrants."

"This enforcement operation was conducted fully within the law," Counts said. "All of the arrests were made on administrative civil law violations for being in the country illegally."

Eeks, these raids were conducted within the law? Wait a minute, LAW? Does that term apply to those who come into this country illegally, steal people's identities, who don't keep up with their paperwork to maintain citizenship, commit murder, rape, molest American children. Oh, I guess not, it's only a problem when someone in authority dares to right the wrong.

"I'm not advocating that people should be here without documentation or that they break the law," said Edin. "But as a lawyer, I'm obligated to protect the constitutional and due-process rights that everyone should be afforded. If we give up those rights, we compromise the rights of all Americans."

Hello! Not advocating? What the hell is this woman talking about? It's because of people like her, lawyers like her, that this country is so busy fighting to remain solid! And protect the rights of those who are not even legal citizens? That upholds the rights of us American citizens now doesn't it, like super glue holds together that broken vase.