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The Dream Act would exclude anyone who has been convicted of “any offense under federal or state law, other than a state offense for which an essential element is the alien’s immigration status, that is punishable by a maximum term of imprisonment of more than one year; or three or more offenses under federal or state law, other than state offense for which an essential element is the alien’s immigration status, for which the alien was convicted on different dates for each of the three offenses and imprisoned for an aggregate of 90 days or more.”

The phrase “other than a state offense for which an essential element is the alien’s immigration status” could excuse a lot of criminal activity. “It would grant status to illegal aliens who have been convicted of felony ID fraud or other crimes that could be considered to be related to their immigration status,” noted Jessica Vaughan of the Center for Immigration Studies, which favors tighter restrictions on immigration. “You could say human smuggling, document fraud, benefits fraud, false claims to citizenship, illegal voting, and many other felonies have an essential element that involves immigration status.”
 
Sheriff Joe said:
The Dream Act would exclude anyone who has been convicted of “any offense under federal or state law, other than a state offense for which an essential element is the alien’s immigration status, that is punishable by a maximum term of imprisonment of more than one year; or three or more offenses under federal or state law, other than state offense for which an essential element is the alien’s immigration status, for which the alien was convicted on different dates for each of the three offenses and imprisoned for an aggregate of 90 days or more.”

The phrase “other than a state offense for which an essential element is the alien’s immigration status” could excuse a lot of criminal activity. “It would grant status to illegal aliens who have been convicted of felony ID fraud or other crimes that could be considered to be related to their immigration status,” noted Jessica Vaughan of the Center for Immigration Studies, which favors tighter restrictions on immigration. “You could say human smuggling, document fraud, benefits fraud, false claims to citizenship, illegal voting, and many other felonies have an essential element that involves immigration status.”
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Nobody would think that "human smuggling" involves the perpetrator's immigration status as an element of the crime. You could do it and your family probably hasn't been immigrants for a while.
Overblown, paranoid garbage.
 
xav10 said:
Nobody would think that "human smuggling" involves the perpetrator's immigration status as an element of the crime. You could do it and your family probably hasn't been immigrants for a while.
Overblown, paranoid garbage.
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You know how lawyers are. OJ is a free man. Enough said?
 
espola said:
OJ is a free man because his lawyers demonstrated to the jury that one of the key LAPD investigators has a documented history of racism.

You know how racists are. Enough said.
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Funny, a black dude kills 2 white people and you say he is found innocent because of racism, Dick.
 
Wez said:
So the system is broken when a black man goes free but it's not broken when our prisons are filled with black people?
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The NFL, NBA, MLB are filled with black people. Is the system broken? The entertainment system is filled with black people. Is the system broken? Stop focusing on the failures of blacks you racist!
 
Ricky Fandango said:
How did racism make OJ not guilty?
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The jury made OJ not guilty. All the defense had to do was show them was that there was reason not to believe the prosecution's story. The defense showed that the officer who provided key evidence had a history of racist behavior (he had admitted that he was a racist in an attempt to get a disability pension and it was shown that he had lied on the witness stand about using the n-word). Then the prosecutors bungled their attempt to show the bloody gloves were OJ's.

Personally, I think OJ killed those two people, but the prosecution failed to convict him.

OJ lost a civil trial on pretty much the same evidence against a better set of lawyers, then claimed bankruptcy and set out to find the "real killers" no matter what golf courses they were hiding in.

The detective in question, after taking the 5th when asked if he had manufactured evidence in the case, was convicted of perjury and plea-bargained a settlement that resulted in a sentence of 3 years probation.
 
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