Texas: U.S. Citizenship to be Checked During Emergency Evacuation
May 16th, 2008I knew there were going to be different camps. Look back at, Texas: Background Check Required Before Evacuation; Different Buses for “Criminals”:
What do you want to bet that the thought criminals will wind up on the buses with the wanted felons, and that those buses will go to different camps. Surely, if there are going to be different buses for “criminals,” there are going to be different camps. Right? Of course, the article doesn’t get into that.
Well, They admit it now. Different camps for illegals.
Sadly, even now, some Cryptogon readers are thinking, “I’m not an illegal alien, I’ll get to go to the ‘nice’ camp.”
Be VERY VERY careful about getting herded into a situation where Homeland Security is sending one group of people to one set of camps and another group of people to another set of camps. I hope people reading this are smart enough to know how that’s going to wind up.
Via: Houston Chronicle:
Ending speculation about the fate of the Rio Grande Valley’s undocumented immigrants during a hurricane evacuation, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has confirmed it will check the citizenship both of people boarding buses to leave the Valley and at inland traffic checkpoints.
Those determined to be in the country illegally will be taken to detention centers away from the hurricane’s path and later processed for deportation.
“It’s business as usual at the checkpoints,” said Dan Doty, spokesman for CBP’s Rio Grande Valley sector. “We’ll still check everybody.”
Locals responded with predictions of humanitarian disaster.
Dehumanize the enemy, divide and conquer. Same old bag of dirty tricks.
Well, the way I tend to look at it, if they want to get you, they’re going to get you.
Somehow I don’t think too many Cryptogon readers are stupid enough to willingly go with Homeland Security anyway.
You’d be safer stealing a car to get out of a disaster zone.
But we won’t give them the satisfaction of NOT calling them what they are: The New Nazis.
With the right papers you always went to the ‘nice’ camp” right up until the very end.
What makes this hideously worse is: no one will be able to know, in advance, to which you will be sent. Rather like Chile under Pinochet.
Swell.
@ Larry Glick:
I don’t think they are the NEW Nazis, at all. They are the OLD nazis, just as the nazis themselves were the old nazis. Ce plus ca change, …
One would hope that the day might come when a better sociology would be invented. It’ s all been said before:
“Show me a man or a woman alone and I’ll show you a saint. Give me two and they’ll fall in love. Give me three and they’ll invent the charming thing we call ’society’. Give me four and they’ll build a temple. Give me five and they’ll make one an outcast. Give me six and they’ll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they’ll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.” — The Stand
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Personally, I don’t think that the new fascism is going to bear much resemblance to what occurred in the 20th century, and that dissenters will for the most part be allowed to continue to shout into the wind. The trick is to ensure no one listens, and I think they’ve been quite successful.