Obviously, green
card holders aren't American citizens. Why then did Rosa Ortega of
Grand Prairie, TX, 37, assume she was entitled to vote? Further, why
did she foolishly sign
government forms attesting to U.S. citizenship? Unfortunately
for this Mexican-born, Texas-raised mother of four, ignorance of the
law is no excuse.
Perhaps taking a
page from D.C.'s “new sheriff” President
Trump, the Lone Star State's penalty—imposed by Ms. Ortega's
jury—shows startling backbone: eight years in the pokey and a $5000
fine for voter
fraud. Beyond her stiff sentence, she also defies the
expectations of a political stereotype: reportedly she voted for
pro-law enforcement Republicans. There's some delicious irony in
that.
Given this
nightmarish scenario, Ms. Ortega's understandable reaction is very
human one:
“Why me, God?
Eight years for signing a piece of paper wrong. I didn’t know what
I was doing. I don’t have any criminal record. Why am I the
example?”
Notice how her words denote false
victimization. An almost lawyerly evasiveness to diminish her
illegal acts, perpetrated since 2004. Specifically, Ortega had
voted in five elections in Dallas County before her voter
registration was nixed in April of 2015. Per Fox 4 News, her
identity was scrutinized after she tried to register to vote twice in
Tarrant County. Those applications were both denied.
Doesn't this pattern of wrongdoing
indicate willful ignorance? Hers
is a total
denial of personal responsibility for her choices—and their
unexpected
consequences. Indeed, Ortega is swiftly discovering a new
paradigm like so many others in the shadows. Unlike Obama's
lackadaisical regime, in Trump's America laws and legal status
matter—again.
Despite Ms. Ortega's sympathetic
protestations, voting by non-citizens is not a meaningless crime.
Its stealthy practice is actually an insidious
assault upon our country's soul. After all, what's more
fundamental than diluting the all-important voice of We the People?
In most cases (not Ortega's: she's a
permanent resident), this “thievery”
is perpetrated by an unknown segment of an invisible, squatting
underclass of foreign invaders with no legal standing. Perhaps
assisting matters, per Pew
Center statistics, voter inaccuracies are rampant. They include:
dead
people still registered and/or voting, the same person registered
in two or more locations, and largely faulty or completely invalid
registrations. How many of those permit illegals to vote?
Moreover, do they yet exert enough
influence to tilt an election? What of a 2015 survey that indicates
that 13%
of illegals confess to fraudulent voting in California with its
treasure trove of 55 electoral votes? Election results there show
that since 1992, to the present, the nation's most populist state has
voted solidly Democrat. Is it just coincidence that the outspokenly
pro-illegal Democratic
Party dominates there? These are the pressing, unanswered
political questions of our age.
Elections aside, it's beyond naive to
believe that the bushels of bad apples among the undocumented don't
have a harmful impact upon our society. What of the tragic murders
of Kate
Steinle and Jamiel
“Jas” Shaw II at the violent hands of illegals? Their
premature deaths would not have occurred otherwise. More recently,
neither would the
bathroom gang rape of a 14-year old ninth-grader
by two older illegal teens in Maryland's Rockville High School in
March of 2017. Based on 2014 government data, the Pew Research
Center estimates approximately 3.9
million kindergarten through 12th-grade students in
U.S. schools—or 7.3% of the total—are children of illegal
aliens. At minimum, how is that not a cultural disruption and a
logistical nightmare? Likewise, how is a suspected 11 (or is
it 30?) million strangers freely adrift within our borders—with
no incentive to assimilate—never anything to be concerned about?
Insulated
from danger, the powerful and moneyed families of Washington's
elected officials are safe. As the establishment of both parties
remains unaffected, their nonchalance on these related issues is easy
to understand. For decades, why not act like metaphorical
ostriches with heads buried in sand while an abetting
MSM happily plays along? Yet, ignoring these glaring problems
doesn't change their reality. For context, contrast that high school
child's brutal sexual assault—or the killing of innocents—to Rosa
Ortega temporary loss of freedom (and potential deportation). To
borrow the catchphrase from the 1970's TV show “Baretta”: “Don't
do the crime if you can't do the time.” Her
unlucky
fate broadcasts an important social and political message:
lawbreakers, big and small, beware.
Twitter: @DavidHunterblog
http://patriotpost.us/commentators/446
http://www.americanthinker.com/author/david_l_hunter/
http://canadafreepress.com/members/74987/DavidLHunter/976
http://newstex.aci.info/authors/15977720f5100100002
No comments:
Post a Comment