Somerville mayor to Louisiana governor: Come at me, you low-rent Barney Fife

Did you miss the Mayor's comparing Jindal to famous people of color Barney Fife and Gomer Pyle?

His parents came here legally, you know by following our immigration laws.

We've now made it extremely difficult to come here legally, first through the law, and secondly through a million tiny impediments. For example, you can't show up at the immigration office at 7AM, take a number, go to work, and then come back at 3PM when your number is called; you need to physically stand in line.

the individuals coming here illegally, which is a felony

While Congress made it a crime to enter the country illegally, they chose to not make it a crime to be here illegally. A large number of immigrants arrive on a tourist or visitor visa and then overstay. They have committed no crime in doing so. Don't like it? take it up with your elected reps.

In the period leading up to and during World War II, the United States never relaxed its quotas to accommodate refugees trying to escape the Holocaust. Not until 1944 was there any action, at which time it was simply too late for many. The law was not perfect then and it's not perfect now.

What would you do if you and your family were in a country where your life was in peril because of your ethnicity, your religion, or your political beliefs? Chances are, you'd be screwed, at least as far as help from the USA is concerned. Will you look at people in such a state and simply shrug and say "Not my problem"? Sure, you didn't put 'em in that situation, but if you can help...? See this link.

But the way he talks, he's just against it regardless of status. And many of these comments from him and his GOP buddies, aren't very welcoming at all to any immigrants, regardless of their status. I think if they had their way, we wouldn't have any immigrants at all.. legal or illegal.

He just looks like a fool who is another lapdog for the tea party and the GOP.

That said - I think enough of our power pooh-bahs have been taking advantage of this system for years - looking the other way while the illegal immigrant population grew to 11 million.

I think most sane people would agree - legal immigration is fine and illegal immigration needs to be stopped, especially of those that truly are criminals. The differences are partly on what we do about the illegal immigration coming in and mostly on the more difficult problem of treating those that are already here that we've been winking at as "illegals" for years and even decades, especially if they have spouses and children that not only are legal, but have only known the US as home.

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And the Somerville mayor is disingenuous when he claims Somerville would have done anything different than S.F.

Unlike SF, Somerville is small. It is a heck of a lot easier to have an automatic check on a database when you only have one police station, and that check is somebody's job.

A city with 10 police stations, who did not have a "check the immigration 'hold' list" as part of their intake procedure, will far more likely miss a bad guy.

I suspect that any city much larger than Cambridge would have a tough time being both a sanctuary city and making sure that any arrestees are checked against federal and immigration databases.

Curtatone has an inflated ego and sense of self importance, just on a smaller scale than Trump.

Of including non-NPR news sources in his web surfing. Oh, the Humanity!

He might actually (gasp!) read the Herald, in addition to the Globe. Attacking the person and not the idea is Swirly SOP, so at least you're consistent. But try disproving the MS-13 citation around Foss Park when you want to do a Big Girl Post. (Foss Park is in Somerville, btw, but somehow it never comes up in undocumented immigrant stories in the New York Times.)

I heard that O-Fish-L accepts money from the Koch Brothers while fellating cops. Yeah, that works. Stay with that, stay in your comfort zone.