Oh yes, I could see it coming from a mile away. The blame game has started and up next? Immigrants!!! Laura Ingraham, a regular on Faux News and one of the most vile of the anti-immigrant talking heads, decided to use the Boston Marathon bombings as a way to spread her anti immigrant propaganda on her radio show Tuesday. MediaMatters has a video with the audio.

Here’s the video:

Her absolute ignorance of how immigration laws work, amazes me. She claimed that the government is about to legalize millions of people that have not had proper background checks. Ummmm….say what? At this point in time, if an undocumented immigrant wishes to apply for status they must pass through a background check. This is a fact! My husband is an immigrant from El Salvador and when applying for Temporary Protective Status, the second thing he had to do, after filing the paperwork, was to go to the local United States Immigration and Citizenship Services Office and submit his fingerprints for a FBI background check. The FBI runs the immigrant’s fingerprints through their database and if there is anything to be found, they will find it. My husband found that out the hard way when his ten year old DUI came back to haunt him.





Furthermore, President Obama has outlined his plan for immigration reform and he has made it very clear that any applicants hoping to obtain provisional legal status must pass a background check. It says it right there, in black and white, on the White House website under the immigration “Fact Sheet.”

Create a provisional legal status. Undocumented immigrants must come forward and register, submit biometric data, pass criminal background and national security checks, and pay fees and penalties before they will be eligible for a provisional legal status.

The fact sheet stresses this very point AGAIN under President Obama’s requirements for immigrants that wish to obtain a green card:

Create strict requirements to qualify for lawful permanent resident status. Those applying for green cards must pay their taxes, pass additional criminal background and national security checks

Maybe Laura just overlooked these facts when she did the research for her show. HAHAHA don’t believe that either, do you? More than likely she figured she’d just throw that dishonesty out there because she knows that her tea baggers imbeciles listeners are not going to take the time to actually research the garbage she is spewing on her show.

The next thing that really stood out to me is her insistence that border security would somehow lessen attacks like the one that took place in Boston on Monday. The only problem with that? That’s not what’s happening, undocumented immigrants are not crossing the border and blowing up buildings in the United States. The September 11 hijackers all followed the proper immigration channels and received visas. The Oklahoma City bomber was American. The D.C. snipers were American. I can go on but it’ll take a while. There has been no evidence presented that proves that terrorists are crossing through Mexico and trying to take out cities, although that is a favorite among the far right. Most importantly….THERE IS NO SUSPECT IN THE BOSTON BOMBING! Nothing! We have absolutely no idea who the disgusting asshole was that planted those bombs. We do know one thing though, one of the heroes of Monday’s bombing was….wait for it……wait for iiiiittttttt…….AN IMMIGRANT!

Carlos Arredondo, an immigrant from Costa Rica, who was at the Boston Marathon to honor the memory his two dead sons rushed forward to help when the bombs went off. One of his sons, Lance Cpl. Alexander S. Arredondo, was killed in a 2004 firefight in Iraq and his other committed suicide after years of depression in 2011. The grieving father was in the front row, at the finish line when the explosions occurred he immediately jumped into action. Arredondo ripped away the fence and scaffolding that separated the fans from the race and started helping the critically injured. In one photo it looks as if he is pinching closed an artery in the thigh of a victim. This is the type of man Laura Ingraham wants people to fear.

As the wife of an immigrant, I hear nasty things all the time. I read the paper, look in the opinion section and see the utter disdain for immigrants. People like Laura Ingraham help perpetuate a fear of the scary people from the other side of our borders. People like her use tragedy as a way to spread their hateful, nasty, ant immigrant rhetoric. It really is rather pathetic but not surprising at all.