Is There a Doctor in the House?

It has been illegal for employers to knowingly hire unauthorized workers in the U.S. since The Immigration Reform and Central Act of 1986. However, in the 1982 Plyler v. Doe Supreme Court case, taxpayers were required to begin paying for the education of children brought to the United States illegally. Under what is now know as “Operation Peter Pan,” 14,000 children were brought into the U.S. between 1960 and 1962, and were placed in undisclosed homes or orphanages. In 1961 the U.S closed its embassy in Cuba. In a further attempt to increase opposition to Fidel Castro, all parents were ordered to remain in Cuba, and by October 1962 the U.S. government had cancelled all direct flights.

They called it Operation Peter Pan because like the famous Walt Disney film, these children were rescued and taken into a never-never land. Their parents were blinded by our nations “humanitarian assistance plot,” under the false pretense that they would receive visa waivers after helping our government protect their children from the communist regime. The end result is what is now known as the largest recorded exodus of unaccompanied minors in the Western Hemisphere.

According to U.S Department of Homeland Security, “Operation Predator” is a comprehensive initiative designed to protect young people. And like similar operations this nation has engaged in, it targets immigrates. Now don’t get me wrong, in the event that I should ever become a parent I want my children protected by all means necessary. But illegal immigrants are not the only people in this nation who harm children.

Going back to the topic of assets, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s mission statement says, "Children are one of the most important and vulnerable assets of the American homeland,” and “[they] will do anything in [their] power to protect them.” I am wondering if that includes using them as pawns to take down dictators outside of our country’s borders?

Operation Predator began in July 2003. As of late February 2004, Operation Predator claimed to have already detained nearly 2000 of those 'predators,' despite its recent creation just the previous July. That’s nearly 300 seizes and captures a month, where are they finding them and who was tipping them off? That sounds like a lot of foreign pedophiles and sex offenders walking around out there. I wonder how they make the distinction between them and terrorist, or are they still working the kinks out in that department?

In a 2007 fiscal year report, ICE said that in the last two years, they have quadrupled the number of Fugitive Operation Teams—their targets are any fugitive aliens. In using words like "predator, illegal, immigrant, communist and alien,” it will always be possible for the U.S. government to stigmatize other groups. It is left up to the American people, born citizens and naturalized citizens, to speak out and vote against the social injustices of all groups in America.



My motto: Use your voice for whatever purpose you like, as long as you use it.

-Jai