Jamiel’s Law

by The Editors - November 24th, 2008 - Front Page Magazine

Seventeen year old Jamiel Jr., a good student and outstanding running back at Los Angeles High School, where he had been MVP for three consecutive [] years, had stepped out of the Shaw home [his home] on March 2, and was talking to his girlfriend on his cell phone when he was approached by Pedro Espinoza, a member of the 18th Street Gang. Thinking Jamiel belonged to a rival gang, Espinoza pulled a .45 pistol and shot him once in the stomach and a second time, a coup de grace, in the head. Espinoza had just been let out of county jail the previous day after serving four months for a firearms violation. He was not only a gangbanger but an illegal alien as well.

Over the next few months, the case became a cause célèbre on talk radio. Part of the outrage came from the fact that such a promising life had been snuffed out. Jamiel had been the sort of kid who led in locker room horseplay but also led the team in prayers in its huddle just before the opening kickoff. But there was outrage, too, at the fact that this young man had become a victim of a “sanctuary city” policy that led to hundreds of other deaths, homicides and accidents, caused by illegals around the country in the last few years. (Chris Simcox of the Minutemen has chronicled some of them on his website).

Liberals are outraged that anyone would dare to interfere with their subversion of our culture and their idolatry of "foreigners" as expressed by the sanctuary city. Their standard defense is "Of course we decry that this man lost his life BUT ISN'T IT BETTER FOR HIM TO DIE SO THAT AMERICA CAN BE DENIGRATED? That isn't the words they use but that is the logic they express.

When will Americans be outraged? When will Americans stop this "sanctuary" campaign? When will Americans stop voting for people who tolerate, no not tolerate, who advocate these idiot laws whose clear goal is anti-Americanism?

Is America already lost?