Thursday, May 18, 2006

A Rights Comparison

I saw this news item and it got me thinking.

SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y.

A Honduran teenager faces deportation after being charged with stealing an anti-immigration protest sign.

Joel Martines, 19, was arrested May 11 on charges he stole the sign outside a convenience store where day laborers seek work. The store has been the scene of protests supporting stricter enforcement of immigration laws.

While Martines was in custody, immigration authorities determined he entered the country illegally last year through Texas.



America can do this but our Left-wingers get all upset about this policy:

The Supreme Court ruled today that the State may continue to prevent Arabs of the Hamas Authority who married Israeli-Arabs from receiving automatic Israeli citizenship.

MK Zahava Gal'on, of the extreme left-wing Meretz party, expressed great disappointment at the decision. She dismissed the demographic and security considerations governing the majority decision, saying that a democracy must allow citizens certain basic rights.

The law in question states that PA Arabs who married Israelis shall not receive automatic Israeli citizenship merely for having married Israeli.

Arab MK Ahmed Tibi said, "The Supreme Court has stabbed the Arab citizens in the back." Speaking with irony, he said, "Israel is truly both Jewish and a democracy: democratic towards the Jews, and Jewish towards the Arabs."

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