CLEMSON SC POLICE CHIEF DISCOURAGES COUNTY COUNCILWOMAN FROM PURSUING ILLEGAL ALIEN ORDINANCE

 IS CLEMSON, SC A SANCTUARY CITY?

A couple of weeks ago, the attorney for the city of Clemson, SC misapplied the bizarre 206-page ruling by an activist judge on the Hazleton Pennsylvania Ordinance Court Case to prevent Clemson City Council from adopting an ordinance of their own.   However, one federal judge in one Circuit doesn't make the judicial decisions for the entire United States!  Nevertheless, as one attorney posted on a blog, Even though the two towns, Hazleton and Clemson, are in different court circuits, "courts will sometimes accept an opinion from outside their circuit as 'precedent' or 'persuasive authority' until the case goes up to the Supreme Court. However, diversity among the circuits is exactly the basis for the Supreme Court to grant certiorari and hear the case. So the fourth circuit is not bound by a decision rendered in the third circuit - especially when the decision has not been reviewed on appeal. It's just unfortunate that this judge, who appears to be an activist, was the first to write an opinion on this issue."

The ordinance's author, councilwoman Margaret Thompson, is a retired police officer.  I have spoken with councilwoman Thompson on several occasions.  She is driven by the fact that laws are being broken and no one is doing anything about it.  She also has seen the disadvantages that face the businesses that chose to follow the laws and hire American citizens or legal immigrants.  We already have a town in South Carolina, namely Saluda, which is overrun with illegal aliens, thanks to a local poultry and meatpacking plants.  There are many illegal aliens in towns across SC, but none of them are as bad as is Saluda, SC. 

Two counties in SC, Beaufort (Hilton Head) and Dorchester, have passed ordinances.  Of course the Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund attorneys did their ACLU-type extortion thing. However, Beaufort County consulted with immigration and civil right laws attorneys to make sure that the ordinance would stand before a court and proceeded to pass the ordinance regardless of the lawsuit threats.  No one has filed suit against it, yet.  Dorchester County's ordinance was almost a carbon copy of Beaufort's.  Both of these ordinances and the one that Clemson city councilwoman Thompson is trying to introduce are very different from the Hazleton ordinance.  What is insulting and indeed, sad, is that the Court and some of its officers seem to think that the Constitution grants protection to illegal aliens.  Yes, "illegal alien" is the legal term used in the US Code of Laws for these individuals that are living in the US illegally. 

You would think that, with the recent murder of three college students in New Jersey by an illegal alien, that the folks that were voted in to represent the citizens of the city of Clemson would be a little more interested in the law and the protection of their citizens.  By the fact that these individuals are here illegally, they are lawbreakers.  Every murder committed by an illegal alien could have been avoided if that alien was not here.  More Americans in the US are killed each day by illegal aliens than die in Afghanistan and Iraq.  Plus, the diseases that they bring along are a pandemic waiting to happen. 

Is Clemson ready for a TB epidemic?  The illegal aliens are not inoculated, as most if not all legal immigrants are.  The Center for Disease Control already has identified antibiotic-resistant strains of TB here in the US and SC.  Many of the illegal's sanitary and health habits are quite different from ours.  Other diseases that never been seen north of the Rio Grande are found in the U.S. NOW.  It would not take too long for one of these diseases to spread in a University City.  The statistics are overwhelming, and yet councilman Thompson is meeting resistance from elected and government officials.

Just recently, councilwoman Thompson received a letter from the Clemson City Police Chief, which she shared with me.  In this letter, Ms. Thompson is being told by the chief of police to leave things as they are.   Is the police chief's intent to make Clemson, SC a Sanctuary City?  Here is a chief law enforcement officer who is not bothered by those who break the laws.  As Sheriff Arpaio from Maricopa County, AZ says, "I don't discriminate from federal, state or local laws.  You break the law in my county and you go to my jail.  You will get free pink underwear, pink flip-flops and bologna sandwiches."  Folks, this is the way it needs to be here in SC.  Our law-enforcement officers need to enforce the laws and quit telling people it is not in their jurisdiction.  Which part of illegal do they not understand?