A Progressive Game Changer: Immigration Reform In 2010
By Douglas Rivlin
Editor’s Note: Photo courtesy of Clarissa Martinez (2006)
Success in politics requires moving people to act. Unless people are motivated, mobilized, and given something to fight for, they stay home, they don’t vote, they don’t participate. In that scenario, the status quo goes merrily along unchanged and unchallenged or those few who are motivated and mobilized win – even if they carry misspelled signs and have an incoherent and backwards policy prescription for the country.
Progressives need a game changer before November if the Democrats are going to hold on to their Congressional majority. Why bother, you ask? Because for progressives, even disunited, spineless, cautious, incremental, career Democrats are better than obstructionist, enraged, and enraging career Republicans, no matter what issue you care about. If progressives take the reins and mobilize voters around key issues that define the agenda this year, their position is much stronger to drive the policy outcomes for the next two- to six-years of an Obama administration.
And let’s be honest, a Republican Party drunk on tea with an empowered extreme right-wing is downright dangerous. No matter which issue or issues you have selected as your own off of the progressive menu, it only gets worse if that element within the Republican Party takes over. America is still recovering from the damage done by the Gingrich revolution of the mid-nineties and the more recent serial misadventures of the Bush years. If you want a repeat, sit on your hands, complain about the Democrats, talk to each other on Twitter, laugh at the Daily Show, and watch Sarah Palin’s influence and power grow.
Progressives, I have a game changer for you and it is immigration reform. I invite you to get on board or at least hear me out as I make my case.
As a political issue at this moment in time, immigration has three distinct advantages over most of the other issues I see: 1) It builds coalitions on the left; 2) It divides coalitions on the right; and 3) It mobilizes a key constituency of voters – Latinos and immigrants – who are decisive in the future of politics in America.
For years, immigration reform has been seen as a wedge issue to be wielded by Republicans against Democrats, when in fact, it is an issue that works in exactly the opposite way. Immigration reform could be the difference between an honorable tie in November –where Democrats hold onto their majority, don’t lose too many seats, and live to fight another day – or a serious defeat that wounds the Party and the policies progressives care about for years to come. But in order to win, the Democrats must lean into the issue and be aggressive, and progressives have to help show them the way.
Mobilizing Immigrant and Latino Voters
At a press conference on Monday, Janet Murguía, President and CEO of the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the nation’s oldest and largest Hispanic civil rights group, told reporters that for the Latino community, immigration reform is a matter of “Respect. That is why immigration reform –and how it is debated and too often maligned – is so important to us.”
The nastiness of the immigration debate has come across to Latinos – rightly – as a discussion about whether they are welcome in this country, even for those who have been here for generations. Latinos are literally being beaten to death as a result of the vitriol in this debate and when your community is under siege, you remember who helped and who stood on the sidelines.
At the press conference at which Murguía spoke, America’s Voice released a study of Latino voters and the 2010 political map, The Power of the Latino Vote in the 2010 Elections (They Tipped Elections in 2008; Where Will They Be in 2010?). The report crystallizes the growing power of this community:
In the 2008 presidential election, approximately 10 million Latinos voted, a growth of about 2.5 million voters nationwide compared to 2004 and a nearly 4 million person increase since 2000. From 2000 to 2008, Latino voter registration grew 54 percent and turnout grew by 64 percent.
Texas and Florida, which have significant Latino populations going back generations, saw Latino voter turnout grow by 31percent and 81 percent respectively between the 2000 and 2008 elections. However, as Latinos increased their presence in “new immigrant” states, Latino voter turnout between 2000 and 2008 exploded by 157% in South Carolina, 164 percent in Nevada, 250 percent in North Carolina, and 392 percent in Georgia. — The Power of the Latino Vote in the 2010 Elections (They Tipped Elections in 2008; Where Will They Be in 2010?)
As the Miami Herald reported, 40 or more congressional races could tip one way or the other based on how – and whether – Latinos vote. Murguía said of Latino voters “We are not firmly Democratic, and we have not been definitively pushed away by Republicans yet.”
Latino voters are a diverse group but share strong bonds and common interests. Like most voters, they care about jobs that pay a living wage, good schools and opportunity for their children, access to affordable health care, safe streets, and basic rights of liberty and social justice. Like other working class Americans, many Latinos live in the neighborhoods that have the polluting power plant or the toxic dump. Their kids are in the military and serving and dying in America’s wars. Name an issue on the progressive agenda and Latinos have a stake in it and progressives have a self-interest in connecting with them.
Latino voters, especially naturalized immigrants, are also highly religious, more likely to live in families with children, more likely to work and shun public assistance programs, and have been known to respond positively to the GOP “family values” agenda. Right now, the biggest thing keeping these voters away from the Republicans are the Republican positions on immigration.
The fact that they are not solidly in any political camp ought to light a fire under progressive groups, even if Democrats have been slow to see the light. The Party seems to be thinking “What? Will they really vote for Republicans?” But ignoring the top priority of voters considered safely in their base is a bad habit for Democrats and not one they can afford to continue through 2010. But beyond the obvious self-interest of immigrants and Latinos – and the smaller but still significant other immigrant and ethnic communities – immigration reform can mobilize other voters as well.
Building Coalitions on the Left
Many analysts start and stop with how the immigration issue mobilizes Latino and immigrant voters. It does. These voters are a key reason to move forward on immigration reform legislation, but not the only one, from a political perspective.
Labor unions, that have had a love-hate approach to immigrants and immigration over the decades, are in a unified and very constructive place on the immigration reform issue. The AFL-CIO and Change to Win unions support moving legislation that gets millions of immigrants here into the system and legal. Labor also supports a process for determining future immigration based on the actual needs of the domestic workforce. This is a worker’s rights issue that puts working people on a more level playing field when it comes to standing up for better wages and working conditions across the economy. And let’s face it, Employee Free Choice and health care reform have not gone the way the unions would have wanted and they need a good, pro-labor issue to mobilize their considerable troops this fall and immigration could help do that.
Similarly, if you care about jobs and the economy, the middle class, and opportunity for working class families, you should be on board with immigration reform. Immigration reform is not a fight over more or less immigration into our country; rather it is a fight over whether the immigrants who are coming and already here are welcomed, protected by legal rights, governed by our labor laws, taxed like everyone else, and integrated and assimilated into our communities the way immigrants always have been. What ensures the rights of my neighbor protects my rights and that’s why the civil rights community, including the NAACP and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights broadly support the pro-immigration reform agenda. So does the faith community driven by Christians for Comprehensive Immigration Reform, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and a broad range of Christian denominations and other faiths spanning the political spectrum. The moral force behind immigration reform is strong.
Immigration reform is an issue that brings business owners and entrepreneur to the table. It resonates with younger voters and appeals to the basic social justice instincts of liberals. And it reaches a broad centrist audience that wants their government to solve tough problems. Americans want an immigration system where rules are established and people follow them, and comprehensive immigration reform is the only practical way to get from here to there.
The progressive approach to immigration reform is “a uniter,” despite all the misconceptions that it is as “a divider” as an issue.
Breaking Coalitions on the Right
The one place the immigration issue is a divider is on the right. Nativists like Tom Tancredo and Joe Farah stand before the Tea Party convention and make liberals, the civil rights community, and progressives – and most Americans – wretch, but these guys make many Republicans even madder. The National Review’s Rich Lowery used words like “embarrassment” and “cringe-inducing” to describe their remarks in Nashville. Tom Tancredo, the former Republican Member of Congress ran for President in 2008 on an exclusively anti-immigration platform, dropped out before the Iowa caucuses. The main reason was that his polling numbers and fundraising totals were only slightly better than mine were, and I was not a declared candidate.
Polls by advocacy groups and independent media and research outfits have consistently shown strong support, among Republicans, Independents and Democrats, for a policy that provides some form of legal status for undocumented immigrants. GOP voters oppose “amnesty,” but support a process that gets immigrants on-the-books, on tax rolls, and registered with the government. The “no amnesty” caucus in the Republican Party is driving the rest of the GOP over an electoral cliff.
In fact, some Republicans have already broken ranks with the GOP orthodoxy on immigration. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a key ally of John McCain’s on the campaign trail and in the fight for immigration reform in 2006 and 2007, recently laid down the gauntlet for pro-deportation Republicans. He told Brian Goldsmith of The Atlantic that:
“When it comes to the illegal alien population, if the definition of amnesty is you got to deport twelve million people, or put twelve million people in jail, then we’ll never have a comprehensive solution, because that’s just not workable, it’s not practical.” (emphasis mine)
Sarah Palin, the darling of the tea party set, has hedged her bets on immigration, striking a softer tone in her first appearance as a Fox News analyst with Glenn Beck in January. Even uber-immigration hawk Lou Dobbs, is changing his tune.
Progressives, Lead the Democrats to Immigration Water, Make Them Drink
If you’re a Democratic candidate this fall you’ll face one of two types of Republican challengers: 1) A Republican who embraces sensible immigration reform and gets severely mauled by the anti-immigration wing of his/her own Party; or 2) A Republican that embraces the anti-immigration wing of his/her Party and ends up facing the general public with an extreme immigration position that is indefensible because it is based on mass deportation or the fantasy that more than 10-12 million immigrants in the US illegally are (ever) leaving. Beyond America’s Deep South, this is a fantastic scenario for Democrats.
But Democrats need to keep the issue moving. If they unite around legislation that keeps the issue – and the stark choice for voters – in focus, they can bludgeon hardliners on the issue. In Massachusetts, Sen. Scott Brown received the endorsement of restrictionists that support mass expulsion and oppose legal immigration. He did not pay a price for this association. Among the many weaknesses of his opponent, Martha Coakley did not clearly articulate a vision for immigration reform and did not drive the issue. Could she have won if she had leaned into the immigration issue? There were too many deficits in her campaign for one issue to make the difference, but millions of voters who had only voted for Sen. Ted Kennedy in their lifetimes didn’t vote for her in sufficient numbers to hold his seat. Many of them were immigrants and many more would have been repelled by the immigration positions of Brown’s associates if Coakley had bothered to lean into the issue. At the very least, voters would have found their position silly and impractical.
To paraphrase Rummy, we can’t always fight for our nation’s future with the Democratic Party we want; we have to fight for the future of America with the Democratic Party we have. Progressives can drive the process of leading Democrats to victory while strengthening and broadening the progressive coalition that will hold Democrats accountable. Getting over the feeling among many progressives that immigration is someone else’s issue and someone else’s fight is a good way to start.
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For nearly nine years, Douglas Rivlin served as the Senior Director of Communications of the National Immigration Forum, one of the nation’s preeminent pro-immigrant advocacy organizations and one of the leading groups in the national Reform Immigration FOR America campaign. At the Forum until October 2009, Rivlin was responsible for helping reporters and the public understand the immigration issue and what is at stake in the comprehensive immigration reform debate. Prior to joining the Forum, Rivlin served as a Senior Advisor to the Director of the Voice of America and was the Washington Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. He began his career in advocacy and communications at the Children’s Defense Fund and the Advocacy Institute. Douglas earned an MA in communication at the Annenberg School for Communication of the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in economics from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
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I agree 100%
The Republicans Crashed America, now they want to play “Spin Doctors”!
Tea Party People want less Wastful Government Spending, and still want the same out of Control Government Anti Constitutionsl Spying under the False pretense of National Security?
In short they don’t know what they want? They are Bewildered.
Sarah Palin in her recent Rambling, simply removed All Doubt!
(Does she dye her hair Dark?)
For the Record on Immigration/Economy:
January 2008 = The start of Deportaion/Starvation of America’s Hardest most devoted Workers. ( “Humans” with Citizen children and Human Rights?)
January 2008 = Start of the “Worst Recession in U.S. History”!
This is no “Co-incidence”!
A wise 1840′s French Historian said: ” America is great, because it is good, when it ceases to be good, it ceases to be great.”
I agree.
P.S. The U.S. Border Patrol usded to maintain water stations in the U.S. Desert to help Immigrants on their de4adly journey here.
Now they prosecute Humanitarians, trying to leave water for the dying. (Possibly Deported Humans with no where to go?)
To: Good and Brotherhood.
David Nichols,
Either you are simply ignorant or you’re intentionally being deceptive with your comments. The United States had been deporting illegal aliens for many, many years, long before the current recession started. To try to create a cause and effect relationship between deporting illegal aliens and the current recession is overly simplifying a situation that had many issues influencing it.
Agree 100%.
And Congressional Ds better get it before Rs start mending course.
Voters are tired of hearing “it’s hard” to this issue and everything else.
That’s why we are where we are — members always want to wait “until next year,” and next year never comes.
immigration reform is a matter of “Respect. That is why immigration reform –and how it is debated and too often maligned – is so important to us.”
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Illegal aliens DISRESPECT America and Americans, so why should they expect, nay, demand, respect from us?! What hypocrisy.
As for the Latino vote, dream on. Latinos were only 10 million of 131 million voters in the last Presidential election. Except for the states where they are concentrated, such as California, they matter little in comparison with the votes of non Hispanic Whites. Without the White vote, Obama would have lost the election even with ALL Hispanic and ALL Black votes.
well and the other 10 million were immigrants from Asia, another 50 million immigrants from Europe etc., etc. You just showed how close minded and pathetic little person you are. Latinos and here and get use to it. I am not Latina, but I am sick and tired of Americans picking on those people. They work hard for you for very little money, so you can enjoy cheep stuff and cheep service. You let them in, so no stop the discrimination and let the hard working people to become a part of this country. The first Americans came to this country illegally as well, so why don’t you deport yourselves as well. The Indians (that you exterminate, which =genocide) did not invite you here either and you stayed anyway!
In the last 15 years millions of legal immigrants from Mexico have followed their dream to America. They respect our laws, culture, freedom, opportunity and people. They have gladly submitted to extensive criminal background checks and health checks. They have paid $1,000s in fees, proven financial responsibility, agreed to not be a financial burden on our nation, learned English and waited patiently to become citizens of the U.S. and pledge their allegiance to our nation. They are honest, have integrity and good character and are welcome additions to our community.
During the same time millions more have come from Mexico illegally to make more money. They have overstayed visas and stolen across our borders like sneak thieves, disrespecting our laws, culture and citizens. They are anarchists, further breaking our laws by using stolen Social Security numbers, fraudulent identity documents, driving without valid licenses or insurance, lying on I-9 forms and taking American jobs in an unholy alliance with criminal employers. They suck services and tax dollars from our economy and could care less about the very real and very extensive economic damage they have caused to American workers through lost jobs and reduced wages. They are dishonest with poor integrity and tarnished character. They have proven themselves to be unworthy of the most valuable citizenship in the world. Now the same deficiencies hold true for illegal aliens from any nation in the world. These people all have a major honesty flaw.
To assert that Latino Americans will side with illegal aliens rather than with fellow Americans on immigration policy, based on a racist affinity for those who share their ethnicity, is, in my view, both a hateful and a false smear of Latino Americans.
Note that the emperor has no clothes. Even very few progressives share the wacko views of the “destroy the middle class” anarchists like David Nichols.
Even a large number of progressives recognize that open-borders policies are the biggest threat to a fair and equitable society.
The racist element among the left, including La Raza and similar hate groups, has virtually zero support at the grassroots level, and the only weapon at their disposal is the use of hate. And they use it to the hilt, but it is far too weak a weapon against reason and the best interest of the people.
Yes please do push hard for Comprehensive Immigration Refrom (amnesty). Make a big deal of it, demand all Democrats co sponsor the Gutierrez bill and publicly support it. When half of them are voted out in November as a result, then in 2011 maybe we can finally have true equal opportunity, non-racist immigration reform that benefits legal immigrants and Americans instead of illegal aliens and their criminal cheap labor employers.
I totally disagree. The Democrats that I know are dead set against an amnesty.
There is no worker shortage in America.
23 million Americans out of work and 20 million illegal workers. Do the math.
America simply can not afford amnesty and the American people will turn on the Democrats. We see states all of the nation that are implememting their own form of illegal immigration control.
WHY? Because the American people are demanding it.
Say what you like, you are not speaking for the American citizens. I have been a Democrat for 25 years and will support the Republicans or the Tea Party if they fight for jobs for their citizens.
I believe there are actually 10.8 million undocumented immigrants, not 20 million.
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Thanks.
When you use the phrase “labor shortage” or “skills shortage” you’re speaking in a sentence fragment. What you actually mean to say is: “There is a labor shortage at the salary level I’m willing to pay.” That statement is the correct phrase; the complete sentence and the intellectually honest statement.
Some people speak about shortages as though they represent some absolute, readily identifiable lack of desirable services. Price is rarely accorded its proper importance in their discussion.
If you start raising wages and improving working conditions, and continue doing so, you’ll solve your shortage and will have people lining up around the block to work for you even if you need to have huge piles of steaming manure hand-scooped on a blazing summer afternoon.
And if you think there’s going to be a shortage caused by employees retiring out of the workforce: Guess again: With the majority of retirement accounts down about 50% or more, most people entering retirement age are working well into their sunset years. So, you won’t be getting a worker shortage anytime soon due to retirees exiting the workforce.
Some specialized jobs require training and/or certification, again, the solution is higher wages and improved benefits. People will self-fund their re-education so that they can enter the industry in a work-ready state. The attractive wages, working conditions and career prospects of technology during the 1980’s and 1990’s was a prime example of people’s willingness to self-fund their own career re-education.
There is never enough of any good or service to satisfy all wants or desires. A buyer, or employer, must give up something to get something. They must pay the market price and forego whatever else he could have for the same price. The forces of supply and demand determine these prices — and the price of a skilled workman is no exception. The buyer can take it or leave it. However, those who choose to leave it (because of lack of funds or personal preference) must not cry shortage. The good is available at the market price. All goods and services are scarce, but scarcity and shortages are by no means synonymous. Scarcity is a regrettable and unavoidable fact.
Shortages are purely a function of price. The only way in which a shortage has existed, or ever will exist, is in cases where the “going price” has been held below the market-clearing price.
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“Note that the emperor has no clothes. Even very few progressives share the wacko views of the “destroy the middle class” anarchists like David Nichols.
Even a large number of progressives recognize that open-borders policies are the biggest threat to a fair and equitable society.”
Couldn’t have said it better myself!
Its imperative that–YOU–don’t let your state fall into the same financial quagmire, as the illegal alien SANCTUARY STATE OF CALIFORNIA. E-Verify, the foreign labor removal system has been ignored by the Sacramento assembly, because they have been overwhelmed by corporate lobbyists. The payoff is large campaign contributions and likely undisclosed cash gifts. This is why California has been in political turmoil for years, unable to pass any worthwhile legislations. California is America’s largest population of illegal immigrants, and likely illegal voters as there is no true ID oversight to who votes? California bears a huge cost to provide basic human services for this fast growing, low-income segment of its population. NumbersUSA website indicates 43 percent of all illegal aliens live in California as of 2006. According to U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (CIS), an estimated 2,209,000 illegal immigrants resided in California in 2000, up from 1,476,000 in 1990. More than 66% of all births in California are to illegal aliens from South of the border on Medi-Cal and CalWorks. 40% of all workers in L.A. County ( L.A. County has 10.2 million people) are working for cash and not paying taxes.
This was because they are predominantly illegal immigrants, visa over-stayers border jumpers are working without papers or with fraudulent documents, drivers licenses or Social Security Numbers. E-Verify should be mandated by Homeland Security and ICE in California, no longer as a preference to parasite business.Every business within thew state should be forced to use E-Verify, with appropriate severe punishments. E-Verify must be a countrywide law, not at the whim of company owners. GOT A PROBLEM WITH YOUR STATUS, GO TO THE SOCIAL SECURITY OFFICE FOR JOB CLEARANCE. Instead of underfunding National Security as Obama has done, this should be of the highest priority. Eventually terrorists will slip across the perforated border, if they are not already planning deadly attacks inside cities now. We cannot as a country be dictated to by corrupt politicians, because of the exaggerated need for cheap labor. Before ICE raids were compromised by Janet Napolitano and the open border fanatics, hundreds of real Americans lined-up for jobs, we have been indoctrinated in the old, tired statement, “Jobs that Americans wont do..? ” Its been a conspiracy from the start by open border extremists, through three presidents that we have secured our borders, when laws have been derailed. Including the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act that to this day has never been enforced.
Well after watching American Indians recruited by the US Border Agency, to patrol their own land. That the border is still wide open, to drug traffickers, gun runners, heinous criminals and large groups of illegal aliens crossing each day. American Patrol, a resilient pro-sovereignty group has proved beyond a shadow of doubt that–THE BORDER IS FAR FROM SECURE. Amazed that Napolitano would lie to Congress, because what I have seen along the international border is neglected stretches of simple rusty barbed wire. I am amazed with such a few BP officers, covering massive areas of open land manage to capture the amount of elicit drugs and illegal aliens that they do. Nothing could be far from the truth, that even the millions of dollars spent on border, does not represent the original conception of Rep. Duncan Hunter’s two layered fencing. You will–NEVER–find the truth in the Liberal Press, such as Los Angeles Times or the New York Times. We have been lied to? Unless we are willing to drive to the border and observe the fencing, the American Public will remain completely ignorant.
Key findings in a report by Judicial Watch, that the state’s already strangled K-12 education system spends approximately $7.7 billion a year to school the children of illegal aliens who now constitute 15 percent of the student body. Another $1.4 billion of the taxpayers’ money goes toward providing health care to illegal aliens and their families, the same amount that is spent incarcerating illegal aliens criminals. Stated Dan Stein, President of FAIR. “California’s addiction to ‘cheap’ illegal alien laborers and their extended families has near bankrupted the state and posing enormous burdens on the state’s shrinking middle class tax base,” Californians, who have seen their taxes increase while public services deteriorate, already know the impact that mass illegal immigration is having on their neighborhoods, but even they may be alarmed when they learn just how much of a drain illegal immigration has become.
California was subsidizing illegal immigrants to the tune of about $1.1 billion (1994) annually. Intentional US population numbers have been sterile for years, because our government doesn’t want–THE PEOPLE–to know the truth? A large percentage of foreign women have deliberately illegally entered our nation, to deliver their babies. Our overwhelmed welfare system has attributed to highest number of pregnant women, receiving free natal treatment for “Anchor Baby Children. The enormous rise in the costs of illegal immigrants over the intervening eighteen years, is due to the rapid growth in illegal settlement. It is reasonable to expect those costs to continue to rise if action is not taken to turn the immigration tide.” In 1994 was the year that California voters rebelled and overwhelmingly passed Proposition 187, which sought to limit liability for mass illegal immigration. As I have mentioned before, that the 187 law was intentionally engineered to terminate its course, to the highest court in the land where its constitutionality could have been proved.
Since then, state and local liberal majority assembly have blatantly ignored the wishes of the angry voters and continued to shell out publicly financed benefits on illegal families. The costs of illegal immigration have grown demographically across this nation, while border states has spiraled into a fiscal catastrophe that has brought many to the edge of bankruptcy. Nothing could more starkly illustrate the very high costs of ‘cheap labor’ than the SANCTUARY STATE of California’s current unresolved situation. Numerous numbers of powerful special interests in the state reap profits, while the average indigenous-born family in California gets handed a nearly $2.000 a year bill with more to come?
Learn more from NUMBERSUSA, JUDICIAL WATCH about the corruption in California’s Capitol, the open border lobbyists, the illegal immigration occupation, welfare expenditures, pandering politicians such as Sen.Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi. Secret talks on a trillion dollar AMNESTY. Read how HSC Nopolitano has suppressed 287 (G) local and state police training programs to detain illegal immigrants and complicity in stalling ICE raids and starving the Immigration & customs Enforcement needed extra funding, while awarding ACORN , $3.5 million dollars, a staunch ally of the illegal alien invasion. Turn the tables and demand more enforcement from your state and Federal representatives at 202-224-3121
Listen to this pathetic article “Latinos are literally being beaten to death as a result of the vitriol in this debate and when your community is under siege”. Yeah right. Latinos / Illegal Immigrants kill American citizens 63:1, but of course in your twisted backwards mind you would say “Nativists” are the oppressors. You are literally insane, there is no other word for how your mind thinks. You have constructed a false reality and I think you should sacrifice your life at the hands of an illegal immigrant in the name of justice. Dolt!