If Michael Chertoff vs. Elvira Arellano were a cage match in an octagon, Chertoff would be a crumpled heap on the floor. It has not been a close match. She has been kicking and taunting his politically correct butt for over a year.

Who is Elvira Arellano? She is a fugitive from the law living in the Aldaberto United Methodist Church in Chicago. She and her son have been holed up there for one year this month. She has taunted the authorities to try to arrest her:

“This is the house of God,” Arellano said Wednesday. “What man would enter the house of God to arrest me?”

Elvira is not your garden variety illegal alien. She has entered this country twice illegally. She was deported after she entered the first time. She entered again in 1997. She skipped her deportation hearing making her a felony fugitive from justice. She was arrested in 2002 working at O’Hare International Airport cleaning planes. She was working there with a false Social Security number. This is an illegal alien who crossed the U.S. Mexico border, obtained a false Social Security number and was able to work in a secure area of an international airport with unfettered access to planes. What a dream situation for an Al Qaeda operative.

Elvira has used every page in the illegal alien play book to stay here. She had an anchor baby. She used the sick baby ruse to gain sympathy from supporters. The child suffers from ADHD. What child doesn’t today. She has dragged her son into the church and this mess with her.

She plans to leave her sanctuary next month to participate in an illegal alien march in Washington D.C. She had this comment about leaving the church to go to the march:

“If [immigration authorities] want to arrest me over there, in front of Congress, in front of the White House or in front of the Senate, and deport me in front of all those people that make the changes in the law, it’s fine,” Arellano, 32, told the newspaper while inside the Aldaberto United Methodist Church on Division Street. “But I’m not going to stay quiet, nor wait for them to come to arrest me and deport me. I have to fight and this is part of the fight.”

I.C.E., under the control of Department of Homeland No-Security which is under the control of Chertoff, has the authority to arrest anyone in violation of immigration law anywhere and anytime in the U.S.

“Those who willfully violate U.S. immigration laws face the consequences of their actions,” states an I.C.E. spokesperson. “We carry out enforcement actions at politically correct appropriate times and places.”

Chertoff should take a page from the Elliot Ness play book and be the first one through the church’s door and personally arrest her, and pose for a photo op while walking out the doors with her in handcuffs. Since this church has declared itself a haunt for felons, I.C.E should be at the doors every Sunday morning making arrests. It would be like shooting fish in a barrel.

This church is not a House of God. I don’t know what heretical theology they espouse, but I would challenge anyone to produce a verse in the Bible where a church is encouraged to harbor fugitives and encourage breaking the law. They lost their “House of God” status when they decided to become a robbers roost for criminals. This church is aiding and abetting criminals and obstructing justice. This church should also have it’s tax-exempt status revoked and be taxed retroactively back to the day they started harboring felons. If you harbor criminals you are a criminal.

I don’t want my money going to a church that harbors criminals. How is my money going to all the churches? They don’t pay taxes. If they are not paying taxes, someone is paying their share of the taxes.

Elvira should be treated like an American citizen first, then treated like an illegal alien second. First she should be arrested and tried in a court of law the same as any U.S. citizen that used a fake social security number to get a job with security clearance at an airport. Then not show up for their court date and subsequently become a fugitive from the law. She should be tried for these crimes first and if convicted serve her prison sentence. She should then be treated like an illegal alien and deported.

The illegal alien advocates are relentlessly wringing their hands about the anchor babies of illegals. Her child should get the same treatment that any single mother that is a citizen of the U.S. that commits a felony gets. The mother goes to prison and the child goes to a family member, if they are a legal citizen, or to foster care. No more no less than a red blooded U.S. citizen would receive. This quagmire concerning anchor babies is the chief reason that Plyler v Doe should be revisited by the current constructionist court to correct the inane decision that an activist court burdened this country with concerning the 14th amendment.

I am adamantly opposed to anything that would infringe on a church losing its tax exempt status. I disagree that a church should lose it’s tax exempt status for endorsing certain politicians or politics. But this church is flagrantly breaking the law. If any church so much hints as to what political candidate they would endorse, they would have the ACLU crying to the IRS to yank their tax exempt status.

Where do you draw the line on sanctuary? Murderers, pedophiles, bank robbers and any one who is not in the mood to be arrested for their criminal activities can hole up in church for as long as they want.

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If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.–Winston Churchill

The threats to our national security in the order of the threat level:

1. George Bush’s lack of immigration enforcement since 9-11. His immigration plan would be the equivalent of putting bars on all the windows in the front of your house, adding three additional deadbolts to the front door, installing a state of the art alarm, placing armed guards in the front of the house and at the same time you leave the back door wide open and place signs in the front yard saying” come around back the door is open.” We were attacked on our soil by people who should not have been here. The absolute first thing would have been to shut down the borders and run anyone coming into this country from a middle eastern background under the microscope and find any and everyone not supposed to be here i.e. the 600,000 criminal illegals from around the world with expired visas, crimes, etc. that are still unaccounted for. Engaging in a war with a country that posed no direct threat to this country without addressing our borders and illegal infiltration is nothing short of ignorant. If a group of caucasians bombed a holy site in an Arabic country you could expect nothing less than the tables being turned. And justifiably so. It is the only effective way to stop it in it’s tracks.
2. Michael Chertoff and the Office of Home Land Security. This weed is allegedly in charge of enforcing the laws that are on the books with regards to immigration and national security. Rather than focusing on building the border fence that has been mandated and funded, he has spent his time parading around the country as a politician and lobbyist trying to sell Bush’s snake oil immigration plan. His department is also responsible for the idiotic screening process at the airports. A 75 year old nun in a wheelchair is just as likely to be searched as a person who would fit the profile of someone who would be the most likely to commit an act of terrorism. You know who I am talking about. Keep in mind that not all Muslims are terrorist, but nearly all terrorist are Muslims. This should be tattooed on Chertoff’s forehead in an inverted fashion so he sees it every time he looks in the mirror. Michael Chertoff and the Homeland Security Agency would be better served consulting with odds makers in Vegas on who would be a more likely candidate as a terrorist, a nun or a person of Middle Eastern ancestry chanting Allah rather than bowing to political correctness for their inane procedures. In Vegas the house always comes out ahead.
3. Alberto Gonzales and the Justice Department who is in the pocket of the Mexican government when it comes to prosecuting Border Agents vis a vis illegal aliens and drug smugglers. And for allowing the Mexican government to be involved in any capacity in the cases and witnesses being investigated on the U.S. side of the border.
4. The Democrat controlled Congress has not passed any law or policy to weaken our national security-yet. They have tried but their efforts have so far been benign. They have been chipping away at the intelligence gathering procedures at Guantanamo Bay. The Democrats and their left wing loons are still wringing their hands over the tactics used to coerce intelligence from the prisoners there concerning national intelligence. If one of their children or spouses were captured and held hostage with threats of being beheaded and they had one hour alone with someone who knew the location of the hostage and they had anything at their disposal to get the information, what would they do? That should be the standard for extracting information.
5. Al Qaeda comes in at fifth because even though they would attack us on our soil again, they are not a direct threat unless they are here. The misguided policies that have been in place since 9-11 and the political correctness that is driving our national security policy is the only avenue they need to execute an attack. They are here and the only thing keeping more from coming into this country is Chertoff and his Home Land Security Department. The Bush administration can expand F.I.S.A. all you want and listen to whatever they want but until all threats are eradicated from our back yard and their entrance into the U.S. is cut off, you can expect nothing less than another attack here.

The only person who has spoken the truth about the gapping holes in our national security is Tom Tancredo and he has been assailed from the left and the right for his views. His views are factual and void of political correctness. Tancredo recently received harsh criticism for the following statement about bombing Mecca:

Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo’s campaign stood by his assertion that bombing holy Muslim sites would serve as a good “deterrent” to prevent Islamic fundamentalists from attacking the United States, his spokeswoman said Friday.

“If it is up to me, we are going to explain that an attack on this homeland of that nature would be followed by an attack on the holy sites in Mecca and Medina,” Tancredo said. “That is the only thing I can think of that might deter somebody from doing what they would otherwise do. If I am wrong, fine, tell me, and I would be happy to do something else. But you had better find a deterrent, or you will find an attack.”

Tom Casey, a deputy spokesman for the State Department, told CNN’s Elise Labott that the congressman’s comments were “reprehensible” and “absolutely crazy.” Tancredo was widely criticized in 2005 for making a similar suggestion.

Just the fact that the inept State Department made these comments gives credence to what Tancredo said. Tancredo made a statement to this effect. Tom Tancredo has identified the enemy while Bush has never identified the enemy. You have to identify your enemy to defeat it. You can’t win if you don’t know who you are fighting. Bush keeps harping about the war on terror. Terror is not an enemy. Terror and terrorism are tactics. Terrorism is the weapon of choice that our enemy chooses to fight with. Our enemy is Islam. Is it all of Islam? No. Bush continues to call it a small faction of Islam’s radical wing that is the root of the problem. Let’s look at the small radical wing by the numbers. There are approximately 1.5 million Muslims in the U.S. and 1.4 billion worldwide.
A poll conducted by Radwan Masmoudi, president of the Washington-based Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, which promotes the compatibility of Islam with democracy, 13% of all Muslims in the U. S. said that bombing of Civilians is justifiable in defense of Islam. Since there are 1.5 million Muslims in the U. S. that translates into 195,000 Muslims in the U.S. that agree with the bombing of civilians. In Europe the number is 25%. There are 1.4 billion Muslims in the world and that translates into 350 million who agree that bombing of civilians in defense of Islam is justifiable. Do those numbers equate a radical fringe? That is 50 million more Muslims who agree with the bombing of civilians than live in the U.S. Since we have been emasculated by political correctness, we are unable to identify our enemy and take the appropriate actions to defend our national security against it.

Tancredo also received criticism and death threats that caused him to cancel a speech in Miami for this comment:

“Look at what has happened to Miami. It has become a Third World country. You just pick it up and take it and move it someplace. You would never know you’re in the United States of America. You would certainly say you’re in a Third World country,” Tancredo said.

Governor Bush, who replicates his brother’s ignorance on immigration and political correctness, had this to say in response in to Tancredo:

Tancredo’s comments were “disappointing” and “naive.”

“Miami is a wonderful city filled with diversity and heritage that we choose to celebrate, not insult.”

Tancredo responded with this:

“I certainly understand and appreciate your need and desire to create the illusion of Miami as a multi ethnic ‘All American’ city” “I can also appreciate that Miami’s schools graduate many outstanding students and that the cultural and ethnic diversity of the city offers many advantages to its residents.

“However, it is neither naive nor insulting to call attention to a real problem that cannot be easily dismissed through politically correct happy talk.”

Consider the immigration policy we have with the Cubans. It reads like a board game by Milton Bradley. Cubans who do not reach the shore (i.e. dry land), are interdicted and returned to Cuba. Cubans who successfully reach the shore are inspected for entry by DHS and generally permitted to stay and adjust under the Cuban Adjustment Act the following year. To show the idiocy of these policies, there was a case where a group of Cubans landed on a pier and were being returned to Cuba but filed a lawsuit. There was the splitting of hairs of whether a pier was considered dry land or not.

There are second generation people living in Miami who don’t speak English. They don’t have to. You can live in Miami, work in Miami, shop in Miami and live a complete life in Miami and never utter a word of English. Here is a result of that:

A South Florida man who is being evicted from his place of business because he speaks no Spanish – just English – says he will move out, as he’s suddenly become the focus of national debates over illegal immigration and property rights.

“I guess I don’t serve the ‘Spanish need,’ whatever that means,” McKenna told the Stuart News in a story published Sunday. Since then, the saga has been prominently featured on websites including WND and the Drudge Report, and now McKenna is making the rounds on the television-news circuit, both on Florida stations as well as national shows such as CNN’s “Glenn Beck.”

Islam, terrorism and immigration are not mutually exclusive and here is the documented tie in that Tancredo warns about:

Rep. Ed Royce, ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs terrorism and nonproliferation subcommittee, said the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) document – first reported yesterday by The Washington Times – highlights how vulnerable the nation is when fighting the war on terrorism.

“I’ll be asking the terrorism subcommittee to hold a hearing on the DEA report’s disturbing findings,” said Mr. Royce of California. “A flood of name changes from Arabic to Hispanic and the reported linking of drug cartels on the Texas border with Middle East terrorism need to be thoroughly investigated.”

Likewise, Rep. John Culberson, Texas Republican, said the DEA document revealed startling evidence that Islamic radicals are camouflaging themselves as Hispanics while conducting business with violent drug-trafficking organizations.

I have been ringing the bell about this serious threat of Islamic individuals changing their surnames to Hispanic surnames for three to four years,” Mr. Culberson said. “Unfortunately, Homeland Security’s highest priority is to hide the truth from Congress and the public. I just hope we’re not closing the barn door after terrorists have already made their way in.”

The 2005 DEA report outlines several incidents in which multiple Middle Eastern drug-trafficking and terrorist cells in the U.S. are funding terrorism networks overseas with the aid of Mexican cartels. These sleeper cells use established Mexican cartels with highly sophisticated trafficking routes to move narcotics – and other contraband – in and out of the United States, the report said.

Of the estimated 500,00 illegal aliens who cross our border each year how many of them would it take to bring in a WMD and destroy a city? Just a couple of them or .00001% of them. What would Vegas think about those odds?

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There are three ways to conquer a country. Two are tried and true with history on their side. One is evolving into what could be the most effective and permanent method.

Number one: Use military might. Think of Alexander the Great and the Greek Empire, The Roman Empire or Napoleon and the French. Very effective initially but very weak track record for permanence.

Number two: Coups. Think Castro in Cuba or Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Just as effective as number one but with varying degrees of long term success.

Number three: Legally flood your country with millions upon millions of immigrants who will beget your ideology. No military, no weapons, no violence–it’s that simple. It’s not as expeditious as the first two, but let the multitudes breed a couple of generations of socialist and by the time they reach voting age it will be enduring. Once this nefarious scheme is legalized then activated then there will be nothing tangible left to fight. A conquering without a shot fired from either side.

Carl Marx wrote the instruction manual for socialism. George Bush seems determined to be the one to consummate it.

That’s what I’m talking about:

U.S. Representative Tom Tancredo’s (R-CO) amendment to cut funding from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Bill (H.R. 2638) for cities that employ a sanctuary policy passed the House with strong bipartisan support today; 234 to 189.

“The times, they are a changing,” said an exuberant Tancredo, who had introduced the same amendment several times in the past with far less support. “This should also serve as a warning sign to the White House and supporters of re-introducing an amnesty bill from the Senate. If that legislation makes it to the House, it is in serious trouble.”

The Amendment would prevent cities like Denver and San Francisco who employ a sanctuary policy for illegal aliens from receiving first responder funds, including law enforcement and terrorism prevention grants, among other programs.

Is Tom Potter in competition with the entire city of San Fransisco for stupidity? Why are these loons so against the rule of law? He is supporting illegal aliens using stolen identities. The social security numbers and identifications were stolen from somebody, and that somebody was an American citizen. You would have to be perpetually naive to assume that the stolen identities will used only used for jobs. They’ve already broken two laws: entering illegally and identity theft. Is Potter so stupid that he thinks it ends there?

For Potter to refer to these criminals as “Portland residents”, he should be recalled at the very least. If the citizens of Portland, including the ones with their IDs stolen, support him, this city should have all federal funding halted and be annexed to Mexico. Then the U.S. should enforce a trade embargo.

June 13, 2007

Illegal Immigrants Steal Social Securities Of Elderly, Dead

The favorable portrait of honest and hard-working illegal immigrants who simply want to feed their families was shattered when federal agents arrested dozens of undocumented workers using dead and elderly Americans’ Social Security numbers along with previously deported criminals at an Oregon food processing plant.

More than 165 undocumented workers were arrested in the raid at a major Portland fruit and vegetable processing plant for food giant Del Monte. At least 90 employees had fraudulent Social Security cards and many used the real Social Securities of juveniles, the elderly and the deceased. Others had fake green, or residency, cards and at least three are convicted felons who had been previously deported.

The previously deported criminal illegal immigrants had been convicted in U.S. courts with crimes ranging from possession of heroin to identity theft and possession of counterfeit alien registration documents.

Immigration authorities launched an investigation into the plant a few months ago when a check of employee records pointed that only 48 of the nearly 600 plant workers had valid Social Security numbers. Because the plant staff varies according to seasonal employment changes, only 165 illegal aliens were arrested in this week’s raid.

Portland Mayor Tom Potter was outraged by the immigration raid, saying that it is bad policy for federal officials to go after local workers who are in his city to support their families while filling the demands of local businesses. He immediately issued a written statement expressing his anger and referring to the illegal immigrants as “Portland residents..”

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de·moc·ra·cy / Pronunciation Key [di-mok-ruh-see] –noun, plural -cies
“Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.

“Listen, the immigration debate is a tough debate. I’m under no illusions about how hard it is. There are people in my party that don’t want a comprehensive bill; there are people in the Democrat Party that don’t seem to want a comprehensive bill. I was disappointed that the bill was temporarily derailed,” Mr. Bush said.

The current immigration bill in the Senate met its demise last week because of several reasons: It was done behind closed doors then they tried to ram it through without discussion or a chance to make amendments to it. It was far too complicated. It was an amnesty bill. An unprecedented uprising of grassroots opposition. The reasons were pure, raw democracy in action. A very pure and fundamental process.

There is nothing more democratic than a strong and fast moving grassroots movement of the people.

Congressman from both sides of the isle from both houses were inundated with phone calls, letters and emails from constituents who voted them into office and can vote them out of office. The majority of the correspondence was vehemently against amnesty. Congress took a two week break before addressing the amnesty plan again. They left with 60 votes in favor of the bill, but when they returned and had a cloture vote there were only 45 votes. Most of them voted the way they were expected to as representatives of their states. And that was the end of that.

A government by the people for the people.

George Bush stated “he is not giving up on his plan to legalize millions of unlawful immigrants and will seek to convince skeptical GOP senators that is secures the nation’s borders”, administration officials said Sunday.

It is his plan.

First off when did the executive branch start writing laws?

Secondly, the vote on the amnesty bill went the way the people wanted it to go. What part of this does Bush not understand.

I am not sure how many Senators Bush can find to fall on the sword over his bill.

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“I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.”
–William F. Buckley
Bush Attacks immigration Deal Opponents

May 29 12:53 PM US/Eastern

By BEN FELLER
Associated Press Writer

President Bush attacked opponents of an immigration deal Tuesday, suggesting they “don’t want to do what’s right for America.” “The fundamental question is, will elected officials have the courage necessary to put a comprehensive immigration plan in place,” Bush said against a backdrop of a huge American flag. He described his proposal—which has been agreed to by a bipartisan group of senators—as one that “makes it more likely we can enforce our border—and at the same time uphold the great immigrant tradition of the United States of America.”

“A lot of Americans are skeptical about immigration reform, primarily because they don’t think the government can fix the problems,” Bush said. “Those determined to find fault with this bill will always be able to look at a narrow slice of it and find something they don’t like,” the president said. “If you want to kill the bill, if you don’t want to do what’s right for America, you can pick one little aspect out of it.

You really have to concentrate on being stupid to be this stupid. It would be impossible to accomplish this without assistance. You would need a cabinet.

Sure Bush was educated at Yale and Harvard, but that does not guarantee intelligence. I could fill pages with people with degrees from Ivy League universities who are stupid.

Never assume that education will render someone intelligent; never assume someone that is intelligent has common sense; never assume someone without a formal education lacks intelligence or common sense.

Just because an educator can embed information and facts inside someone’s head and that person in turn can duplicate it on a test, does not mean they have the cognitive capability to assimilate the information into anything remotely intelligent, useful or functional.

I have to assume Bush either did not read the bill that the Senate is currently debating or was incapable of reading and comprehending it’s meaning. Maybe there weren’t enough pictures in it. The bill is one of the absolute worst pieces of legislation to be debated in Congress.

I could break Bush’s statements down but the stupidity is self declamatory.

I have been pondering about this immigration bill for about a week since the rough draft was unveiled. I was wondering what it truthfully should be called. House Minority Leader John Boehner beat me to the punch for what was floating around in my head for a name:

Boehner: Immigration Bill is “Piece Of Shit”

House Minority Leader John Boehner, speaking to a private gathering of Republican activists last night, called the Senate’s immigration compromise bill a “piece of shit” but said that he had promised President Bush earlier in the day that he would let his teeth be a barrier to such thoughts in public.

Boehner spoke last night at a small reception for the Republican Rapid Responders on Capitol Hill.

“I promised the President today that I wouldn’t say anything bad about … this piece of shit bill,” he said, according to two attendees.

Earlier in the day, Boehner released a statement saying that “The Senate agreement appears to recognize that additional border security measures and more effective immigration law enforcement must come before any other issues are addressed, but I have significant concerns about parts of the Senate proposal — particularly provisions that would reward illegal immigrants who have consistently broken our laws.”

A senior Republican official said yesterday that while the chances of the bill, which opens pathways to citizenship for most of the U.S.’s 12 million illegal immigrants, are “50/50″ in the House and that the White House would spend its time lobbying Democrats, rather than Republicans, to achieve a majority.

Yesterday, the Senate beat back an amendment by Sen. Byron Dorgan that would have scrapped the bill’s new guest worker program. The defeat of that effort was interpreted as a sign that a solid majority of Senators are prepared to support the bill’s main tenets, for now.

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
Thomas Jefferson

Voters in the Dallas suburb of Farmers Branch approved by a margin of 68 percent to 32 percent a law to prohibit landlord from renting to illegal aliens, making English the official language and allowing police officers to check the immigration status of suspects in custody. That is a higher margin of victory than is required to make an amendment to the United States Constitution.

Hispanic leaders are calling for a boycott of Farmers Branch because of the law.

Isn’t this what the people of Farmers Branch wanted. More bang for the buck-a two way ban.

By having LULAC and MALDEF involved it is pretty much an admission that all the illegal aliens are Mexican. The ordinance only stated illegal immigrants and never mentioned any nationality.

There are lawsuits being filed by opponents of the new law. This law was passed by a 2 to 1 margin and yet opponents are crying that it discriminates and is unfair. Someone need to look up the word democracy in the dictionary. Of course it discriminates. It discriminates against criminals. All laws discriminate against criminals and criminal activity.

Illegal aliens are at the bottom of the food chain in a societal structure. They are here because they either could not make it in their own country, or for more sinister reasons. No group of uneducated, adjusted middle class citizens are going to uproot and sneak into another country illegally. They couldn’t make it in their own country so they come here to burden our society and our social services and resources. These people are the bottom of the pyramid.

What if there was a mass exodus from United States of the uneducated, welfare using, criminal element, unemployed citizenry leaving this country to sneak into another country?

Would we be better off? Absolutely.

Could it ever happen? Absolutely not. The Democrats would build the border fence they refuse to build now so fast there would be a dust cloud for thousands of miles from the construction.

They would build the fence to keep those people in. Without them there would not be a Democratic party.

Millions of illegal aliens (criminals) and their supporters (criminals: aiding and abetting, harboring….etc.) will be taking to the nation’s streets May 1^st to protest the strict US immigration laws.

Where is law enforcement? Where is I.C.E? Prison is the only other venue where you have a higher concentration of criminals in same place at the same time.

Contrast this with those wanted for bank robbery and their supporters planning a rally protesting the strict bank robbery laws? Would they be arrested? Absolutely. Two different classifications of crimes, yet both are still crimes with punishable laws.

If you break a law you are a criminal.

Is comparing the two fair? Is it comparing apples and oranges? No. The crimes are different. All crimes are different. Different crimes have different punishments but all crimes have some type of punishment.

But what about the humanity of taking a mother (illegal alien, criminal) away from her children for breaking immigration laws cries the liberals? The difference between this and a mother who robs a bank, shoplifts or a controlled substance law are indistinguishable. Does she get a free pass on robbing a bank, shop lifting, etc. because she has children? Absolutely not.

If we are to continue as a nation of laws the standard has to be applied without discrimination.