Install microchips in illegal immigrants, GOP candidate says

[Jefferson23]

What can anyone say but, only a Republican could come up with an idea like this.


By Jason Hancock 4/27/10 10:00 AM

Instead of building a border fence to help stem illegal immigration, the U.S. government should implant microchips into immigrants before deportation, much like what is done with pets, Pat Bertroche, an Urbandale physician and one of seven Republicans running in the 3rd District Congressional primary, said Monday.

While speaking at a Tama County Republican forum, Bertroche made it clear that he wasn’t joking when he suggested treating undocumented immigrants like pets.


From the Cedar Rapids Gazette:

“I think we should catch ’em, we should document ’em, make sure we know where they are and where they are going,” said Pat Bertroche, an Urbandale physician. “I actually support microchipping them. I can microchip my dog so I can find it. Why can’t I microchip an illegal?

“That’s not a popular thing to say, but it’s a lot cheaper than building a fence they can tunnel under,” Bertroche said.

Five of the six other candidates vying for the chance to take on Democratic U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell also spoke at the event, and each came out strongly against amnesty and in favor of tougher border security. State Sen. Brad Zaun of Urbandale said “illegal people who are here, put them on a bus and send them wherever they came from.” He also contended that immigrants in the country illegally receive government services, like education and health care, and typically aren’t helping pay to support those services.

But that isn’t true. A 2007 study by the non-partisan Iowa Policy Project found that the average undocumented family in Iowa pays about $1,254 in sales and excise taxes, $110 in property taxes and $307 in income taxes, for a total tax contribution of $1,671 each year. This represents approximately 80 percent of the total amount of taxes paid by a documented family in Iowa earning the same income.

remainder: http://iowaindependent.com/32926/install-microchips-in-...

[dana_b]

1. dehumanize people

it makes it easier to do terrible things to them.

[demtenjeep]

2. is that anything like tattoo numbers?

I don't think it is any different

[miscsoc]

3. was just about to post the same sentiment

[Jefferson23]

5. My thoughts exactly, and Bertroche is a physician.

I wonder how many votes he'll get.

[miscsoc]

17. the mengele of urbandale

nt

[scarletwoman]

4. That sounds expensive. Why not just fit them with radio collars instead?

Or band them like migratory birds. With strict laws that if you shoot one with a radio collar or a band, you have to report it to your state's DNR.

[Jefferson23]

6. Install microchips in illegal immigrants, GOP candidate says

What can anyone say but, only a Republican could come up with an idea like this.


By Jason Hancock 4/27/10 10:00 AM

Instead of building a border fence to help stem illegal immigration, the U.S. government should implant microchips into immigrants before deportation, much like what is done with pets, Pat Bertroche, an Urbandale physician and one of seven Republicans running in the 3rd District Congressional primary, said Monday.

While speaking at a Tama County Republican forum, Bertroche made it clear that he wasn’t joking when he suggested treating undocumented immigrants like pets.


From the Cedar Rapids Gazette:

“I think we should catch ’em, we should document ’em, make sure we know where they are and where they are going,” said Pat Bertroche, an Urbandale physician. “I actually support microchipping them. I can microchip my dog so I can find it. Why can’t I microchip an illegal?

“That’s not a popular thing to say, but it’s a lot cheaper than building a fence they can tunnel under,” Bertroche said.

Five of the six other candidates vying for the chance to take on Democratic U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell also spoke at the event, and each came out strongly against amnesty and in favor of tougher border security. State Sen. Brad Zaun of Urbandale said “illegal people who are here, put them on a bus and send them wherever they came from.” He also contended that immigrants in the country illegally receive government services, like education and health care, and typically aren’t helping pay to support those services.

But that isn’t true. A 2007 study by the non-partisan Iowa Policy Project found that the average undocumented family in Iowa pays about $1,254 in sales and excise taxes, $110 in property taxes and $307 in income taxes, for a total tax contribution of $1,671 each year. This represents approximately 80 percent of the total amount of taxes paid by a documented family in Iowa earning the same income.

remainder: http://iowaindependent.com/32926/install-microchips-in-illegal-immigrants-gop-candidate-says

[gateley]

7. And install muzzles on GOP dumbfucks like this idiot. nt

[pinboy3niner]

11. I was thinking Electroshock Therapy

After all, we do want to help him get better, don't we? :)

(ed.: sp)

[BrklynLiberal]

13. Prefrontal lobotomy?

[pinboy3niner]

16. Ah, yes--a Cuckoo's Nest solution is ESPECIALLY apt . . .

:rofl: You win!

[TK421]

19. There would have to be functional parts n/t

[BrklynLiberal]

20. hmmm Excellent point.

[gateley]

18. Even better. For starters. nt

[MrScorpio]

8. Wow.

I had to double check that to see that it wasn't from The Onion

[Jefferson23]

14. I know, it's hard to believe the guy is a physician too.

[miscsoc]

9. book of revelations, guys

let's start a left wing rapture-nut movement

there's a lot of material there

guy is literally advocating installing microchips in people

[demtenjeep]

10. Kind of like tattooing a number

not much difference

[regnaD kciN]

12. We could do that, too...

...it might turn out to be the, uh, final solution. :sarcasm:

[Nikki Stone1]

15. So this is how they are going to get us all chipped in the end: start with groups that

people don't like for some reason.

All Heil the New World Order.

[BrklynLiberal]

21. Oh YES! I remember this from "The X-Files"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Nikki Stone1]

27. Never saw the show myself. :)

When they insert the permanent chip in your ass, then you can show me the red bump the needle leaves behind. :rofl:

[eShirl]

23. if the Teabaggers were sincere, their internal alarms would be going off at this

but as we all know, they are not

[Nikki Stone1]

26. Exactly.

.

[RobertPlant]

29. i went to the same high school as Bertroche and Zaun's children

and I went to a catholic school. If the church wants to excommunicate catholic politicians who support abortion rights, maybe the church should excommunicate catholic ones against amnesty as well. Either way I doubt that either will be nominated. If I had to guess it would be Jim Gibbons because he is already well known and will get a lot of voters from ISU fans.

[Jefferson23]

31. Interesting! Thank you for the info. Welcome to DU !

[stevedeshazer]

22. IBM and the Holocaust

IBM and the Holocaust is the stunning story of IBM's strategic alliance with Nazi Germany -- beginning in 1933 in the first weeks that Hitler came to power and continuing well into World War II. As the Third Reich embarked upon its plan of conquest and genocide, IBM and its subsidiaries helped create enabling technologies, step-by-step, from the identification and cataloging programs of the 1930s to the selections of the 1940s.

Only after Jews were identified -- a massive and complex task that Hitler wanted done immediately -- could they be targeted for efficient asset confiscation, ghettoization, deportation, enslaved labor, and, ultimately, annihilation. It was a cross-tabulation and organizational challenge so monumental, it called for a computer. Of course, in the 1930s no computer existed.

But IBM's Hollerith punch card technology did exist. Aided by the company's custom-designed and constantly updated Hollerith systems, Hitler was able to automate his persecution of the Jews. Historians have always been amazed at the speed and accuracy with which the Nazis were able to identify and locate European Jewry. Until now, the pieces of this puzzle have never been fully assembled. The fact is, IBM technology was used to organize nearly everything in Germany and then Nazi Europe, from the identification of the Jews in censuses, registrations, and ancestral tracing programs to the running of railroads and organizing of concentration camp slave labor.

http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/

----

I wish this guy would read this book. For all the right-wing deniers of the Nazi comparison, this is a very direct example.

:grr:

[progressoid]

24. Boswell would flatten this guy in a debate.

[johnnie]

25. I think we need to do this to repukes

Tag every one of the fuckers.

[chrisa]

28. Good lord. The stupidity burns.

It would be funny only if there were a guarantee that these people would never gain any power. Unfortunately, the exact opposite is true.

[Bucky]

30. Wouldn't you have to repeal the 4th Amendment first?