SandBoxBlogs: Glenwood Springs Post Independent/Your Letters "Undocumented workers have already broken law"

(To read 'Ted Hess's latest motion filed in the court of public opinion', click here)

Voldemort.  There you go....say the name.  VOLDEMORT.

"He who must not be named"....no longer has as much "mysterious power" when you simply talk about "him" out loud.

"Illegal" immigration.....is law that has already been broken.

Go ahead.  Say it out loud:

"Anyone"...even  long-time  Glenwood Springs lawyers who shamelessly manipulate the media to try their cases in the media....don't have quite as much power when you simply.....point out what they're doing while you talk with other folks in your area communities.

Go ahead.  Say it out loud:

Thank you to all local, regional, state and federal law enforcment who pick up every single illegal they find and can arrest within law.  You are not local "demons", you are actually very much appreciated.

Go ahead.

Say it out loud:

VOLDEMORT.

Tina Holtz:
"....I read the May 30 letter to the editor from Ted Hess requesting the Post Independent to correct false information. Mr. Hess stated that undocumented workers do not receive food stamps or assistance.

An undocumented worker has already broken the law. They are illegal, they also sometimes commit other illegal acts, such as using false Social Security numbers and identification, and many times steal the identity of others, thus allowing them the ability to seek government assistance....."
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"Unapologetic pursuit and tracking of patterns within news others make since 2010"

SandBoxBlogs: Glenwood Springs Post Independent/Your Letters "Correct the letters containing false information"

(whisper...whisper....when is the new publisher coming to town??!!....whisper...whisper....(yes, this is a 'whispering campaign').....the little guys can hardly wait to hear if she's a real journalist who believes in standards and ethics of her industry...can hardly wait to see if she's got some moxy to stand up and just say NO to the unbridled bias, so much worse than the worst of the worst tabloid output the PI's grown famous for over the past 10 years....whisper.. whisper...can hardly wait to see if she's got a price on her soul just like Swift reporters, editors and publishers to date have had and used to sell themselves and the communities they serve down the river with nearly every edition...whisper...whisper...can hardly wait to see if she has a sense of humor and can read something like:....... "Editor's note: The Post Independent offers a forum for diverse opinions on this page. We do reject some letters that contain incorrect information, but other letters blur the line between fact, perception and opinion. We encourage our letter-writers to respond and correct what they see as errors."....(btw...the 'shadow folk' will now write in and correct your errors today, TYVM).... and laugh as hard as most are laughing today at the PI...whisper...whisper...wonder what she's going to be like.....whisper...whisper..well, we can only hope.....)

Hmmmm....let's see.  As an attorney, Ted Hess should appreciate Just the Facts, right?

Let's toss a few up:

• Setting aside the shameless use (actually in some of his press over CIRC, The Strawberry Days Massacre of 2011 and Norma Galindo Morales Gonzales the "outrageous use" is more accurate) by Ted Hess of the biased media outlet known as the Post Independent; this LTE could be seen as laughable.  At minimum, preposterous with little to no credibility.  Funny how that works and backfires on someone who manipulates and spins disinformation out onto the web.  Credibility when they want it can never come back in hand.

• Let's toss out some facts about illegal foreign nationals and the methods they use to abuse our system, our people and our laws:    Public education is a good one----every single time they sign a child up for school and declare themselves as legal citizens with a legal address they commit blatant fraud.  Gets worse when that fraudulent act of signing a registration form "earns" federal tax dollars for the "body count" of their child.  Even worse when that child then goes on to gain access to more public funds, grants and otherwise of scholarships and services.  Another good one is how much every illegal on  American soil costs every single legal American household to provide them with basic services such as public education, law enforcement, emergency services, human services and public services.  In 2010, the estimate ran right under $1,700 per year, per legal household.       Another great fact is one that can be tracked back to one of Ted Hess's own clients and his family.  David Centeno.  The cost for law enforcement, judicial system, incarceration and deportation (multiple times on all) came out of legal American pockets.  Another terrific fact can also be tracked back to one of Ted Hess's clients.  Norma Galindo Morales Gonzales and her problem with ID.  Every single time an illegal gets behind the wheel of a vehicle and drives on American soil, they commit an illegal act.  We cannot even track the cost of traffic and accident related burden that illegal foreign nationals place on legal American shoulders every day.  There you have it, a few 'just the facts'. 

For me, the most outrageous hypocrisy spoken regarding  "immigration reform" is the hypocrisy spoken by people like Ted Hess who should know better. 

Here is a respected in many areas and ways local attorney, who spouts rhetoric so lacking in credibility and thrusts his cases into the media while at the same time, for every moment of air time he takes up, there are the most inhumane methods of human trafficking happening simultaneously on our borders that Ted Hess says nothing about.

Maybe a lot less talk on Ted Hess's part and a lot more action in getting safe and secure borders would be a better use of power.  Secure the borders and stop the deaths and exploitation.

For sure, every legal American footing the bill for the media circus surrounding 'immigration reform' would be highly appreciative of finally being able to end the problem and finally sit down at the table and work out true and humane reforms.

In the meantime, the ongoing local media circus that is CIRC, AJUA, Ted Hess, Anita Sherman's and reporters hanging on every word is at least 'entertaining'.

And keeps all of us on our toes making corrections to his output in that media circus he cultivates.

Immigration Attorney, Ted Hess of Glenwood Springs:
"Shame on the Post Independent for publishing Mike Johnson's letter of May 26. Mr. Johnson, of De Beque, asked the rhetorical question, “Can anyone explain to me why the illegal-undocumented aliens get all the welfare and assistance they need?”

Undocumented aliens do not receive food stamps, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Medicare, Medicaid, Children's Health Insurance Program, Section 8 Housing, Social Security or SSI. (Source: Guide to Immigrant Eligibility for Federal Programs, 2002, National Immigration Law Center, as updated by NILC Oct. 2011.)

Any rational resolution of our immigration debate is retarded when the paper publishes letters that use inflammatory and false facts. I thought the editor had the ultimate responsibility for what runs in the newspaper. If you are going to persist in permitting people to publish demonstrably false factual information, how about printing a correction under the letter?...." (Read the original letter?  Click title)

"Unapologetic pursuit and tracking of patterns within the news others make since 2010."

SandBoxBlogs: Aspen Times "ICE grants Basalt woman one-year deportation delay"

Norma Galindo "Morales" "Gonzales", has been given a one-year stay from deportation by ICE.

Not by the efforts of immigration lawyer Ted Hess.

Nor by the bullying tactics of AYUA and CIRC.

Not by the biased coverages by a few newspapers.  And not by the concentrated internet spin, including viral baiting, by the techie wiz's who do such 'creative' marketing.

Norma Galindo has been given the reprieve by ICE. 

Now that ICE also has another year in the case of Norma Galindo Morales Gonzales,  it will be very interesting to see what Norma Galindo Morales Gonzales does to meet all of her obligations from the past, the present and likely the next year. 

Equally interesting to watch how the folks and the media continue to cover the saga of Norma Galindo Morales Gonzales.

Thank you goes out to ICE for exerting their authority and their leniency for whatever reasons they may have had to do so. 

(Read the Aspen Times take on the story?  Click title)

"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."

SandBoxBlogs: Glenwood Springs Post Independent "What's the use of background checks?"

Gregory Johnson:
"Apparently our business community no longer needs to do background checks on its employees, according to the May 5 Post Independent article, “Residents rally against local's deportation.”

Morality and legality do not coincide with each other. I thought the reason for the background checks was to decide if a person was good enough morally to work for the company. Apparently that is not the case. This can save businesses large sums of money for these background checks....."
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"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."

SandBoxBlogs: Glenwood Springs Post Independent "Basalt woman would be eligible in 3 years for immigration visa"

Heather McGregor:
"GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado — About 40 people rallied at noon on Friday to protest the pending deportation of a Basalt woman, whose son recently won a prestigious scholarship to attend Duke University.

Norma Galindo, 39, also known by her married name, Norma Morales, was taken into custody on April 24 by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials on a removal order issued in 2005 and upheld in 2008. She is an undocumented Mexican citizen who has lived in the U.S. for the past 21 years.....

........Now the family is distraught that Galindo is in custody, facing deportation to Mexico, as her son is about to graduate from Basalt High School. The family's younger son, Oswaldo, is 12......

....The Morales family and the Association of Youth United in Action are asking ICE to reconsider Norma's deportation, allow her to stay with her family, attend her son's high school graduation, and “to be given a chance to legally be a part of the nation her family calls home,” according to a press release issued Friday morning......

......In 2006, Galindo was convicted in Garfield County Court of a misdemeanor charge after she tried to obtain a state ID card at the Glenwood Springs Department of Motor Vehicles office using another person's New Mexico birth certificate. Galindo served one year of unsupervised probation.

Hess argues that a policy issued by ICE in 2011, outlining conditions that would warrant discretion on the part of prosecutors in choosing whether to pursue deportation cases, would change the course of Galindo's case. Hess argues in his brief that Galindo meets many of those guidelines.....

....Her disadvantages are the state ID card conviction and her decision to stay in the U.S. despite the removal order.....
....Hess contends that these factors would have led a U.S. immigration judge to make a different decision when Galindo appeared in 2008 for a hearing to appeal the deportation order. At the time, the judge denied her appeal. Hess argues that under the 2011 guidelines, her deportation case would have been closed...... (Read more? Click title)

"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."