ABOUT THAT LIST OF UTAH ILLEGALS ...
There’s one aspect of the Utah list that no one’s mentioned.
You’ve heard about it, haven’t you?
In recent days, a detailed list containing the names of some 1,300 people has turned up in the mail boxes of federal agents and news media in Utah.
What the names have in common is that they are all Hispanic and that they are all illegal.
Or at least that’s what the list’s originators claim.
As the state of Utah wrestles with its response to Arizona’s efforts to fight illegal immigration, an interesting dance is going on. A good majority of the people want to crack down in illegals; a good majority of the politicians don’t.
The attorney general – who once told a mass demonstration of illegal aliens, in Spanish, that he had a “Latino heart” – has directly challenged the Arizona law and mocked those who support it or want to replicate it in Utah. The Salt Lake City police chief has been almost rabid in his denunciation of those who oppose illegal immigration. He claims all opposition to illegal immigration is racism.
And the governor, seeing that momentum was building behind a legislative effort to craft a Utah version of the Arizona law, has tried to thwart it by convening a kumbaya summit of activists in favor of the status quo.
And the status quo is that Utah is one of the most illegal alien-friendly states in the Union. The only state to give illegals both in-state college tuition and driving-privilege cards, Utah has taken the grab-your-ankles approach to welcoming illegals.
Part of the price of that is unchecked gang violence and the cold-blooded murder of a female sheriff’s deputy, allegedly by an illegal-alien drug dealer.
But Utah is too polite to mention things like that and its official illegal-alien policy is Look The Other Way.
Which gets us back to the list.
Out of the blue, while upstart state legislators were being told that polite people don’t pass laws like Arizona’s, there came this list.
Reaction was swift and predictable.
The media, being 1. incompetent, and 2. in bed with the left, ran with quotes from hyperventilating activists that put this matter on the same level with apartheid and Kristallnacht. The word “racist” was used several million times. Indignation was all around. The sky was falling.
I’m surprised Obama didn’t go to the United Nations and apologize.
The cynical part of me wonders, given Utah’s penchant for political double dealing, if this list might not have been leaked by an illegal alien supporter, trying to embarrass the effort to crack down. It comes at a perfect time to shame the effort into silence.
Best bet is that the list came from someone with access to the computer database of the state’s Department of Workplace Services.
That’s what Utah calls the welfare office.
Which gets us closer to the point.
Without regard to how offended we’re supposed to pretend we are by this list, it might be useful for Utah and America to look at what’s on this list. Not individuals, if that offends you, but trends.
For example, with each name, there was a Social Security number.
Which is interesting, because illegal aliens don’t have Social Security numbers.
That means that for every illegal alien on that list whose name is beside a Social Security number, there has been an act of identity theft or Social Security fraud.
It can’t be any other way.
And that might be important to you if 1. your Social Security number is beside one of those illegal-alien names, or 2. you pay into Social Security.
So that’s point one: Rampant use of stolen or fabricated Social Security numbers.
And here’s point two: It’s a welfare list.
This is a list of some 1,300 people, claimed to be illegal aliens, who went into Utah welfare offices and signed themselves and their families up for welfare benefits.
Do you know what they call the Mexican welfare system?
America.
Specifically, the American taxpayer.
In this case, the Utah taxpayer.
This list is being called an invasion of privacy. In reality, it is a window into how things work.
The illegal-alien community is dependent on widespread identity theft or fraud, and welfare.
And neither of those things are good.
Both of those things are in this list.
And that’s the aspect of all this that no one is going to mention.
- by Bob Lonsberry © 2010
