Hinderaker Asked A Question — But He’s Lost — On The Answer.

Overnight, imagining that he had been clever — Hinderaker asked a rhetorical question “In What Sense Are Illegals… Illegal?”

What is so sadly telling about John — is that he hasn’t even read, let alone comprehended the relevant in-force US treaties on the topic. A protocol dating to the early 1970s sets out the clear rights of any human who claims asylum, regardless of country of origin, or how or where they enter onto US soil (wading the Rio Grande, crossing a mountain range or coming into a harbor by boat — even as a stowaway — or riding in a panel van, and delivered into San Diego or Brownsville)… they are here LAWFULLY, until a credible fear hearing is held and the INS decides otherwise.

So each one of them — by simply standing on US soil and uttering the magic words/phrase… “I claim asylum…” becomes, at least for a time… a legal temporary resident of the United States. 8 USC § 1158(a)(1).

L A W F U L — under US law.

[John then proceeded to complain about the ways that all the federal laws protect them from discrimination — in lending and banking, and Drivers License issuances and so on.]

But they are… lawful temporary residents in every states’ eyes save Texas and Mississippi and Alabama and Florida. These local red governments openly disobey federal law on a host of immigration related topics, as we well know — and have documented here, for over a decade.

So — geez John — your cute question… simply offers us unending evidence of your… ignorance of the applicable law.

Cheers.