ACLU = Anti-Civil Liberties Union

Or, How the Organized Left Subverts the U.S. by Privileging Illegal Immigrants


Wonker has a brilliant notion. Let's let the ACLU use its traditional call letters, but let's rename these 5th columnists, whose origins can be traced back to the Popular Front Communists of the 1930s, the Anti-Civil Liberties Union.

In addition to continuously undermining our legal system and working 24/7 to remove organized religion from public discourse (except for Islamofascism), they're now attempting to break apart the whole controlling metaphor of American jurisdprudence: the protection of Americans themselves and their traditional way of life. How? In the case we're about to explore, by placing illegal aliens above the law and by attempting to force the U.S. to treat them better when arrested than the Feds are required to treat you or I:

The American Civil Liberties Union alleged yesterday that overcrowding at a San Diego corrections facility run by Corrections Corporation of America for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement poses an unconstitutional risk to detained illegal immigrants' health and safety....

ACLU lawyers said the lawsuit, for which they seek class-action status, is the first to argue that illegal immigrants should be treated better than convicted criminals or pretrial inmates because they are held on civil-administrative, not criminal, grounds. Detained illegal immigrants are not appointed counsel, for example, and many have not been convicted of a crime. The case is Kiniti v. Wagner.

These barely closet Marxists have gotten so cocky that they're even bragging about their own audacity in arguing "that illegal immigrants should be treated better than convicted criminals." The constitutional argument they're making is lame as usual. But do note that the ACLU gets away with this sort of constitutional deconstruction all the time, as it takes great care to choose complicit lefty judicial districts to peddle its Gramscian wares.

The ACLU has a few literal fellow travelers. They've also been getting in on the constitution-busting action, this time with a ballsy move to switch legal responsibility for illegal immigrant detention from the Department of Justice, where it obviously belongs, to the Department of Homeland Security, which would presumably render immigrant detention not a matter of law but a matter of easily-manipulated government policy:

Separately, six immigration-law and advocacy groups led by the National Lawyers Guild announced they will petition the Homeland Security Department today on behalf of 83 detained immigrants requesting that the department formally regulate immigrant detention. Advocates said U.S. standards set in 2000 are not enforceable.

In case you weren't aware, the socalled National Lawyers Guild remains today a Communist front organization—one which, as usual, hides behind a name that sounds vaguely patriotic. But like the ACLU, they work 24/7 to eviscerate our system of laws which they hope will lead to the eventual collapse of American capitalism and the rise of a socialist paradise. Just like the Soviet Union, no doubt, to which they apparently still swear allegiance.

What's the strategy? What's the real agenda here? Both groups are obviously anxious for the United States to become steadily more destabilized by the unstemmed flood of illegal immigrants flowing in from south of our borders. Not only will this serve to further weaken American cultural institutions. It will also have the cumulative effect, as each successive "amnesty" is approved, of permanently installing the malleable, leftist-loving Democrat Party in the driver's seat of U.S. domestic policy. The bulk of today's illegals, used only to functioning under socialist governments, will instinctively vote, once they have the vote, for the closest thing the U.S. has to a Socialist Party, which happens to be the Democrats. This, in turn, will move the Revolution, delayed by Newt Gingrich in the 1990s, toward its inevitable Socialist dictatorship.

The Clintonistas actually encouraged this sort of thing in California in the 1990s. Don't believe us? Read it and weep:

A report issued by the Justice Dept. in 2000 detailed a program run under the auspices of then Vice President Gore's "Reinventing Government" project to streamline government services. In a successful effort to clear a backlog of 1.2 million applicants, the INS engaged in this crash program called "Citizenship USA" to naturalize the immigrants between October 1995 and September 1996, not coincidentally, just in time for the presidential election. Douglas Farbrother, an official on Gore's team, is quoted in the report saying he "believed that the (citizenship) program had a deadline that was directly connected to the upcoming election." The Clinton administration bypassed the customary FBI background check for these new citizens demonstrating that creating new Democrat voters was a much higher priority than national security. It is estimated that tens of thousands of applications were approved without FBI review. The Justice Dept. report documented 1,000 cases in Miami; 1,300 cases in Chicago; and an astonishing 2,500 cases in Los Angeles.

Clinton's enablers took the hint and made things even worse:

...thanks to the political pandering of [former California Governor] Gray Davis, millions of illegal aliens will soon have the opportunity to take part in the electoral process. The issuance of driver's licenses to all Californians regardless of immigration status has opened up the door to voter registration fraud and weakened the sanctity of the franchise. As California election officials have admitted, an alien who applies for a license need only lie about their immigration status and they are able to register. Thanks to the Motor Voter law, this affront is possible in 13 other states with similar statutes. As a recent Washington Times article points out, a "stealth amnesty" is underway by the states that accept Matricula ID's, non-regulated ID’s issued by the government of Mexico, and grant driver’s licenses to illegals. A Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) report reveals that "The Matricula card is accepted as a valid form of identification by police departments, banks and 12 states for driver's license applications." This disregard for immigration law has no positive impact for Americans except those who seek to grant Democrats additional power.

Even today, Clinton's hacks are not given nearly enough credit for encouraging the endless tide of law-flouting illegals that has now put California's once-conservative leaning 53 electoral votes permanently out of Republican reach. In Ronald Reagan's home state, no less. Give 'em credit. This was brilliant Tammany Hall-style politics. But disastrous for the rule of law, not to mention the ever-increasing burden for America's taxpayers.

It goes without saying that we here at HazZzMat have absolutely no problem with LEGAL immigration. Nor do we oppose in any way the accepted path to legal American citizenship. This was the path taken by Wonker's granddad early last century and by Mrs. Wonker herself in the 1960s. We have had a workable system in place for a long, long time. It's just that today's Democrats and the longtime front-organizations that support them, hungry for another 50-year run in power, will stop at nothing to insure the eventual successful conclusion of their socialist revolution. Follow the dots.

Just thought you'd like to know.