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| Rabbis for illegal aliens |
| 2004-06-26 |
| Courtesy of the Lone Wacko: in Tarzana a group of five rabbis from the Valley and one from Hollywood said they support giving licenses to illegal immigrants, but object to the governor’s suggestion that such licenses have a mark which identifies the person as an illegal. "It is inappropriate at best and deeply upsetting at worst," said Rabbi Dan Moscovitz of Temple Judea in Tarzana, reading a letter the rabbis sent to the governor last week. "It will be used by some persons to treat the undocumented with scorn and ethnic discrimination." Signers of the letter included Moscovitz, Rabbis Karen Bender and Donald Goor of Temple Judea, Rabbi Steven B. Jacobs of Temple Kol Tikvah in Woodland Hills, Rabbi Jim Kaufman of Temple Beth Hillel in Valley Village and Rabbi John Rosove of Temple Israel of Hollywood. Moscovitz cited the Jewish experience in being singled out during the Holocaust and said that, had this bill been proposed 40 years ago, Jews would have become targets of such discrimination. Schwarzenegger spokeswoman Margita Thompson said the governor is not committed to the idea of the identifying mark, but has looked at it as a possibility. |
| Posted by:Zhang Fei |
| #3 Might I suggest there is a difference between forcing people to wear a yellow star on the outside of their clothes and an indication on their licenses that they're not in the country legally? How often do you see someone's license? Is it really a VISIBLE mark? Eh, in any case, the solution is to send the illegals home, not make them more at home here. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-06-26 8:20:01 PM |
| #2 John and Ken on KFI-AM have been all over this and their pleas to listeners generated 10,000+ emails to the Border Patrol re: for the sweeps for illegals |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-06-26 7:59:50 PM |
| #1 It will be used by some persons to treat the undocumented with scorn and ethnic discrimination. ... Jewish experiences 60 years ago aside, there's a REASON for that ... and it's not as if only Hispanics are illegal ... okay, okay, so there's a special exception for Cubans with change-ups and fastballs ... |
| Posted by: Edward Yee 2004-06-26 7:43:41 PM |