It was with great delight and appreciation that I read on Christopher Reed’s website blog about his experience at the protest rally in Postville, IA this past Sunday.
I will share here that Chris writes that he was the only politician/candidate to be at Postville and stand with “about 75 Americans who were simply there to demand enforcement of our laws.”
How refreshing- a politician that will actually take a stand- and with the smaller group and against the bussed in demonstrators from other states! Christopher proved that he has a backbone, that he is not afraid of showing Iowans and others that he is passionate about an issue that is important to many of us.
In stronger words: Christopher Reed is proving that he is a leader with character!
Iowa voters we need Chris Reed.
What are you doing to support his candidacy?
Filed under: Politics, callmecrusader | Tagged: Christopher Reed, Illegal immigration, Postville, US Senate
I already had the Christopher Reed for U.S. Senate website on my Internet favorites list, but in checking the site previously had not found much recent news.
After reading your remarks I looked up the Reed for Senate site again and found under CHRIS’S BLOG
on the left side of the Home Page his comments about not only the Postville Illegal Immigration Rally
but also blogs on other matters over the past several days. I wanted to leave a comment under one of his blogs to encourage him to keep fresh information on his website through blogs, calendar events, etc.; but
I am always unsuccessful in getting a post published through GOOGLE, the link he uses. GOOGLE seems to have fouled up my original account with them some months ago and will not allow me to open a new alternative account. Saw that no comments had been entered under any of Christopher Reed’s blogs so far.
Some of you might want to check these out and give him some encouragement by your comments.
Thank you for the heads up on Chris’ blog. I had no idea that he updated his website. It looks much more competitive now. This guy has a great political future.
I read your post and headed over to the Chris Reed website.
I liked reading his blogs of his daily activities. He doesn’t carry on and on about nothing but rather describes in simple terms events such as the day in Postville.
I plan to read his blogs every day!
Awesome website for Chris Reed!
I will be sharing with family and friends the opportunity to go online to know and understand what a great candidate we have to take on Tom Harkin!!!
I sure hope I can meet him in person and or hear him interviewed on the radio.
I suddenly realized the other day what people supporting amnesty mean who keep saying over and over like a broken record that our immigration system is broken.
What they are really saying is: “So therefore the laws should be ignored and everyone should just look the other way.”
Sorry, maybe this meaning was obvious to many of you long ago, but such a wrongheaded conclusion took me forever to comprehend.
Last time I checked we are as Tancredo says a nation of laws and all laws are supposed to be enforced as written until they are either changed or removed from the books. Disregarding and disrespecting any law ultimately weakens all our laws and our society as well.
I agree that we need to build a border fense but I’m also saddened for the children and the town. I live about 20 miles from this town. I witnessed the I.C.E officers preparing for the raid in Elkader City Park that morning. What the news doesn’t report is all the legal children that were born here and now have no place to go to. Their parents are gone and had to leave school. Those hispanics were illegal but good family people. Just ask anyone in Postville. They went to work, dropped their kids off at school and contributed and built a dying small Iowa town. Now with them gone, Postville has lost 1/3 of its residents. They have gone back 20 years and are in economic crisis. Now, Agriprocessors lost all its workers and are bringing in people from the city. These people are starting riots, their have been stabbings and Postville is in Choas. I question the deportation of these familes because they were family-people and now the American citizens that were recently hired are not family-oriented and bringing violence to the town. I agree that they have to come here legally, but we shouldn’t punish the children. One little white boy said, “I lost my best friend” when a hispanic kid had to leave school. He was crying and the whole class cried with him. I’m a republican but this is a sensitive issue.
Thank you Chris Reed. You are a man for the Legal Immigrant and American Citizen. I also feel very sad for the children, they have no choice in anything. Maybe the answer is for the plant to pay decent wages so legal families can support themselves, not bringing in people who have no stake in the community. Criminals need to be charged with the crimes they commit. If I steal someone’s social security number and work illegally then don’t pay my taxes (maybe claim many dependents so no tax is taken out), should I not go to jail because I have kids? Should we have a double set of laws? Those parents knew they were stealing, they knew they were not suppose to be here and they knew they could be deported at any time. Blame the right people, the parents, not the people who enforce our laws and protect us from criminals. Those kids have dual citizenship. I would never abandon my children, I would take them back with me to my home country.
There are plenty of sad stories from Postville.
My heart went out to the woman whose mother was killed in a car accident- by an illegal who was driving illegally. The daughter said she was carrying a sign at the Postville “rally” and her sign was ignored for the ones on the other side of the street and people holding Mexican flags.
I am for anyone who has the back bone to enforce the laws.
We are in this mess because they have not be enforced for YEARS. Thus, the pain for towns, citizens, children, parents, teachers, friends, law enforcement , etc., etc. etc.
If Iowa had a reputation of enforcing the laws we would not have such a huge and sad problem on our hands and hearts.
I just picked up some Reed bumper stickers at the Ames headquarters for McCain/Latham. They will look great on my vehicles!
I wish the big powers that be in the Republican party would do A LOT more to help out Reed. It matters that we the people- the voters- work to support Mr. Reed. We need his enthusiasm in DC.
So very tired of the old Harkin!!!!!!