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January 28, 2008
Oklahoma Accused of Killing Baby, Compared to Nazi Germany
MSM propagandists have no shame when it comes to tugging on heartstrings to undermine support for defending our borders. To attack an Oklahoma law that can lead to illegal aliens getting deported, AP dug up the story of Edgar Castorena, a 2-month-old baby who died after 10 days of diarrhea because his illegal alien parents wouldn't take him to a hospital. Apparently they preferred letting their baby die to risking the minor inconvenience of being deported and having to travel all the way back to Oklahoma after bouncing back across the border.
Naturally, Oklahoma's law is held to blame. How dare the Government place our country's sovereignty and best interests before the convenience of illegal colonists?
Snivels Laurie Paul, who runs the clinic they brought the baby to after it was too late anyway:
The sad part of it was the child didn't have to die if House Bill 1804 didn't ever come around. It was a total tragedy because the bill was there to create the myths and untruths and the fear.
No, the sad part is that the child didn't have to die if the parents had refrained from invading our country, or if they had been responsible enough to make their kid's survival a priority.
AP found someone willing to spew even sillier rhetoric. Illegal alien Maria Sanchez gripes:
I feel like I'm in some kind of Nazi country where if they see your color, you'll be stopped. I can't work, I can't study, I can't go out, there's no point of me staying here.
Here's an idea, Maria: If you don't like our Nazi-esque country, why don't you go home? Nothing doing, though she has threatened to leave Oklahoma.
Other interview subjects denounce Oklahoma for being xenophobic and unchristian. At least with AP, you always know where they stand.
By the way, Edgar Castorena died months before the law even went into effect.
Hat tip: NewsBusters, on a tip from Cheetah.
Posted by Van Helsing at January 28, 2008 7:46 AM
Comments
Big difference here: Jews in Nazi Germany were citizens and their rights as citizens were taken away in preparation for the "final solution." It even got to the point where Jews were forbidden from fleeing the country and avoiding a terrible fate.
Illegal aliens in America HAVE no rights as citizens, but no one is stopping them from going back to where they came from or threatening to put them into concentration camps where they will either die of disease, overwork and poor nutrition, or the gas chambers.
This kind of argument is not only specious, but trivializes the horrors experienced by the Jews under the Nazis. Pathetic.
Posted by: Pam at January 28, 2008 8:02 AM
How much do you wanna bet that the reporter went around looking for a tragedy affecting illegals in OK around the time of the bill and this was the best they could find: Negligent parents who let their bay die due to their own selfishness or stupidity. Then they spun it to look like the parents did this as a reaction to the bill?
Of course in Moonbat minds the government is our parent and ultimately in charge of and responsible for everyone's life. Big daddy state failed to protect a child he didn't even know was sick because his caretakers(formerly called parents) didn't bring it to his attention. He should have known that criminals would react in such a way and thus refrain from instituting policies that might hurt such criminals.
Posted by: mandy at January 28, 2008 8:29 AM
The same liberals who decry the admittedly tragic death of this single 2-year old, openly applaud, celebrate, revere, and worship the wanton murders of millions of babies each year. This is, indeed, moonbattery at its best. (Worst?)
Posted by: Jimbo at January 28, 2008 10:03 AM
Moonbattery at its most illustrative, anyway. (A better example is moonbats who demand that AIDS patients be given subsized erectile dysfunction medication.) If the parents had subjected the baby to partial birth abortion at 8 and a half months, the moonbats would be cheering on the mother's "choice."
Posted by: V the K at January 28, 2008 10:11 AM
It's a tragedy that this baby had to die, I feel sorry for the parents, I'm sure they're grief stricken.
It's also a tragedy that social-democrats exploit things like this for their own agenda. I can't see them being really interested in this family other than as a weapon in their arsenal.
As for the parents, they made a terrible decision. Their thoughts on the matter are apparently of no concern to the AP, as they were not interviewed or quoted at all. What counts is you find like minded people and interview them.
Then they bring in someone on the other extreme who says the parents should be in prison. Gimme a break.
The parents DID take the baby to a clinic, but apparently too late. Yes, they should still be deported since they're illegals, but no the child's death is not the fault of that law, or of Bush/Cheney, and it's not indicitive of a Nazi state, it's just a tragic mistake.
Posted by: NudeGayWhalesForJesus at January 28, 2008 10:11 AM
Oh... and Self deportation works, just read between the lines of this AFP propaganda
'Hispanic panic' as Arizona immigration crackdown bites
One month after Arizona introduced a law cracking down on businesses which employ illegal immigrants, Latino workers are fleeing the state and companies are laying off employees in droves, officials and activists say.
...with companies driving up wages to attract labor while being forced to part company with prized employees.
...
Ironco has raised steel fitters' wages 30 percent from a year ago, according to Bailey. "We've raised wages, competing for a diminishing supply (of workers)," he said. "We?ve been on a campaign of quality improvement, training, scouring the waterfront, so to speak, for American vets, ex-offenders trying to find their way back into society."
Posted by: DANEgerus at January 28, 2008 1:36 PM
feel like I'm in some kind of Nazi country where if they see your color, you'll be stopped. I can't work, I can't study, I can't go out, there's no point of me staying here.
Oh wow. She fulfilled Godwin's law in the very first sentence.
Posted by: BUUUUURRRRNING HOT at January 28, 2008 6:50 PM
I can't work, I can't study, I can't go out, there's no point of me staying here.
As they say in your home country "Adios, muchacha"
Posted by: Bandit at January 29, 2008 9:21 AM
