Get Out, Brown Trespassers!

Watch out for this to become the new way to enforce immigration law:

NEW IPSWICH, N.H. -- The police chief of this tiny whitewashed New England town has crafted his own border-control policy -- he has charged illegal immigrants from Mexico with trespassing in New Hampshire.

The novel legal strategy has made a minor celebrity of W. Garrett Chamberlain. The 36-year-old police chief hops to his feet and deposits a pile of letters on his desk, from Alaskans and Californians, Border Patrol agents and soldiers in Iraq, all applauding his initiative. Fox News commentators have called, too, seeking his views on national immigration policy.

..."I'm just saying: 'Wait a minute. We're on heightened alert and it's post-9/11, and I'm going to let an illegal immigrant who I don't know from Adam just walk away?' " Chamberlain said. "That's ridiculous. If I find you are in my country illegally, I'm not going to worry about political correctness. I will detain you."

Only there's nothing novel about it. They're taking a law that was developed for private property and now they're applying it to public spaces. It's ludicrous that in what's supposed to be considered the epicenter of freedom and democracy on the planet, that you need to be licensed to be out in public. Of course, Fox News will promote the hell out of this.

Comments

[Joe]

Ridiculous you are, once again. A quick qoute from a random googling on trespass: "The law makes a distinction between criminal trespass and civil trespass; a criminal trespass is an offense against the state and is punishable as a crime, while a civil trespass is an offense against a private party."

You do know the meaning of the word 'illegal' right? OK, so if an immigrant status is 'illegal', then it doesn't take too much of your imagination to say that the illegal immigrant is committing an offense agaist the state, i.e. trespass.

See, Desi the legal immigrant (so you keep saying), in this county, unlike your beloved Pakistan, we have laws. Laws are enforced. If someone wants to apply for entrance into the USA, let them follow the legal procedure.

Unless you have something against following federal law? Do you?

[Kumar]

This is just a way for a local government to authorize draconian racial profiling. Every non-white person in this town can be stopped, questioned and asked for identification, while the white people can enjoy their public space freely. It is outrageous and reeks of the policies of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and the Taliban Afghanistan.

[Joe]

Kumar, if USA policies even actually remotely resembled those that you mention, you and Desi would have been packed off in a crate and shipped whence you came a long time ago. The fact that Desi and his ilk can spew forth against America, while availing themselves to all the great things this country offers, is proof that our policies here in the USA are anything but fascist.