I'm transparent with you, Oppo.

"ImmoralMinority" (araimondo) 08/27/2019 at 11:15 • Filed to: None

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My latest radio interview. These folks were not friendly, but I will tell the truth to anyone who asks. They distilled a 45 minute interview to a single quote - but not a bad one. I explained to the reporter that the accusations against me are more than a decade old now, so it really has no relationship to present events, but she didn’t seem to grasp that idea. I have not had any of these issues for a decade.

The truth is that it is a violation of federal law for CRLA (a Legal Aid entity) to use US taxpayer money to represent undocumented immigrants suing US farmers. Those resources are tagged for low-income folks living here legally.

I verified their clients’ lack of status with an ICE auditor (in order to avoid false allegations) and reported the CRLA to the federal agency that oversees their funding. Every time I did it, the lawyers got kicked off the case. Only once was a worker actually affected by it, the Luis Echeverria that they reference in the interview. He lies in this interview because he has a visa now and is not in peril.

This Luis Echeverria was Luis Masedo then - he broke into dairyman Joe Sallaberry’s home with a gun during the lawsuit. After I verified his status to report the lawyers , ICE contacted me. They told me he had a conviction for assault weapons and they wanted him removed from the USA. Note that the reporter calls this an old gun conviction - admitting that I am telling the truth . Hey - I guess people who are pro gun control aren’t worried about guys with illegal weapons history. Sometimes politics is really confusing.

As I explained in the quote, I cooperated with ICE as I would with any law enforcement agency, and Echeverria/Masedo was arrested and accepted voluntary removal. Oh, yeah, CRLA got thrown off the case, but there were no real consequences for them. The story doesn’t say that he was not required to be at the deposition where he was arrested (he was not the witness), and I told his lawyer not to bring him. If I really wanted him deported, why would I tell them not to bring him? I was concerned with disqualifying his attorneys - an old legal strategy. Funny how they never publish the other emails.

He returned almost immediately - illegally as he admits in the interview. CRLA got him a visa - presumably through its connections in the Obama administration. The real question is why a thug  with a conviction for illegal weapons who was targeted for deportation ended up with a visa ahead of hard-working, honest folks who have followed the rules. But that doesn’t make as good of a story as bash the dairyman and his lawyer. But it amazes me that they could just dial up visas for the ones they wanted to help. Corruption is real. Hate me if you want to, but the story is more complicated than Google search results.

Censored > ImmoralMinority 08/27/2019 at 11:25

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I would not want your job. It is such as sad world when law abiding immigrants and citizens suffer because of illegal immigrants .

Azrek > ImmoralMinority 08/27/2019 at 11:29

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I work as a problem solver for the goverment and sometimes my answers are the truth no one wants to hear...

fintail > ImmoralMinority 08/27/2019 at 11:29

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In a relentlessly broken system where residency is also for sale, anything can happen.

MrDakka > ImmoralMinority 08/27/2019 at 11:33

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Gotta sweep examples that don’t fit the political agenda under the rug. Don’t want to confuse public

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > ImmoralMinority 08/27/2019 at 11:33

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*shrugs* it was only a little firearms offense

not like he did anything truly bad...like petty theft or drug possess ion

Chariotoflove > ImmoralMinority 08/27/2019 at 11:34

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The tide of mainstream media sentiment is for the illegal immigrant right now, and anything acting against their cause is racist. There are no criminals among them, only oppressive conservatives waiting to send them back . NPR knows its audience. It is not immune to lazy journalism.

haveacarortwoorthree2 > ImmoralMinority 08/27/2019 at 11:37

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You lawyers are all the same. :) 

TheRealBicycleBuck > ImmoralMinority 08/27/2019 at 11:41

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Laws and rules are quirky and can be difficult to interpret/apply, especially when it comes to navigating the rules for multiple agencies at different levels of government. Disaster recovery is no stranger to this. One of the pass -through state agencies determined that certain projects would be ineligible for funding since Federal procurement rules were not followed for the design stage. Never mind that local funding was used for design services and the designs were completed before the disaster happened. They were on-the-shelf plans for improving drainage systems to mitigate against future disasters.

Things like this plague the recovery process. We’ve had nearly a year of delays on one project because of environmental and “hi storic” concerns. The site is a park and the buildings are surrounded by lawn. The proposed changes elevate the structures, lowering their overall impact to the flood plain. The nearest historic site is almost a mile away.

All that is lost to the press who is currently lambasting the local governments for not making enough progress on recovery projects.

merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc > ImmoralMinority 08/27/2019 at 11:41

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Why would they bother to get that guy a visa? It doesn’t make any sense, or  is it solely so they could represent him in court?  Otherwise why waste the effort on a guy that has a gun charge?

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > ImmoralMinority 08/27/2019 at 11:43

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Saturday afternoon I listened to a 20 minute piece on NPR about beavers. They even told how to sex them, buy squeezing their scent glands. 20 fucking minutes about beavers.....

shop-teacher > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 08/27/2019 at 11:45

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And you listened?????

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > shop-teacher 08/27/2019 at 11:47

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I was polishing the underside of my hood, I needed something to listen to. 

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > ImmoralMinority 08/27/2019 at 11:48

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Visas process much faster if there’s a force inside the country working for you. That’s how my summer help gets i n every year. They work with an agency that applies for the visa for them, and we provide the agency with a promise of employment that legitimizes the application and makes the government give them  priority over the heap of independent applications.

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > ImmoralMinority 08/27/2019 at 12:21

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Fucking Lawyers man.....

Oh wait......

Seriously though, that is some BS she pulled on you.

Chariotoflove > TheRealBicycleBuck 08/27/2019 at 12:29

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People forget that the bar to becoming credentialed press is surprisingly low. The field is inhabited by any number of people with fair to middling cognitive skills. 

TheRealBicycleBuck > Chariotoflove 08/27/2019 at 18:41

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The bar to bring credentialed in most fields is surprisingly low. I had a professor who told me that getting a Ph.D. is an exercise in perseverance, not intelligence. I’ve met many doctors who proved him right. 

Chariotoflove > TheRealBicycleBuck 08/27/2019 at 18:51

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It depends on the institution and program granting the degree.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Chariotoflove 08/27/2019 at 19:15

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That’s very true. I’ve tried to preach the gospel that not all schools are created equal, but people just don’t believe me. My uncle finally believed me after his son worked his way up from community college to a local university to a state university. When I was teaching, I met with other profs at conferences. They were shocked at how much information I worked into a four-hour course. I was told that they managed to complete about half of what I covered. From my perspective, I had exactly one semester to teach the subject to over half of the students who took the course. It was the only required technology course and they needed a solid foundation since they would certainly be using it in their work when they graduated.

nermal > ImmoralMinority 08/27/2019 at 21:09

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“Fake news is the enemy of the people...”

I’ve never heard of the website that you linked, but a quick perusal of the other articles posted there makes it clear that it is run by Suburbanite Asshole Liberal Weenies.

The extra details that you provided which were completely left out of the report you link seem to back that up. This is concerning on a much larger scale, not just in the form of bigly biased news organizations , but more so in the countless morans that will eat up reports like this as the complete story when that is clearly not the case.