A gaggle of minority and women lawyer associations["Representatives of the Cuban, Hispanic, Haitian, Caribbean, Asian Pacific, black and women's bar associations "] in Broward County Florida are asking local judges to undergo special training to make them more user-friendly with women and minorities.

No, I am not kidding.

There were a couple of incidents which inspired this action:

A woman was seeking a restraining order against her husband and the judge had the audacity to require that she addressed the court in English instead her native Spanish. His reasoning? She has been a resident of Florida for 19 years and he questioned her–in Spanish–to determine that she could in fact speak English before he made the demand.

What a meanie!

Then there is the judge who allegedly asked the immigration status of a few defendants and allegedly turned them into immigration authorities for deportation proceedings after their cases were handled.

How dare he!

Finally, we have the judge who was complaining about the janitorial service responsible for the daily upkeep of his courtroom when he said:

”The people that — that they hire may live in hovels, but they don’t have to leave courtrooms and the places they work looking like a slum.”

Personally, I laughed outloud at that one…

You can read the rest of the story for yourself (here) in the Miami Herald.

D. A. King’s post, below is about Tommy Lee Jones’s latest movie, but years earlier, Jones also abused the real INS as a member of the imaginary MIB, in the opening scene of Men In Black, where an outer space type alien is smuggling himself into the US in a van filled with regular illegal aliens, driven by an American alien smuggler.

Lee and his partner come along, separate the outer space creature from the illegal immigrant, and release all the illegals into the United States.

TOMMY LEE JONES
No hablas ni una palabra del Espanol, verdad, amigo? (You don’t speak a word of Spanish, right, friend?)[VDARE.com note: Jones uses this test to find a space alien, correct in this case, but he could just as easily be a Mixtec Indian, or an Arab.]

Again, the Guy smiles and nods. TOMMY LEE JONES looks back at Dee.

TOMMY LEE JONES (CONT’D)
We got a winner. (to the others) Los restos estan libres a irse.
Largense! (The rest of you are free to go. Scram!)

AGENT JANUS
Sir!

KAY
Tomen el camion, y vayeuse. (Get on the road and go.)

AGENT JANUS
Sir, you can’t just –

TOMMY LEE JONES
Don’t “Sir” me! You have no idea who you’re dealing with!

Silence on the road. The Driver grins, jumps back in the front seat of
the van. The others pile into the rear and they tear out of there.

TOMMY LEE JONES (CONT’D) (to Janus)
We’re gonna have a little chat with our friend here. You boys can hit
the road… and keep on protecting us from dangerous aliens.[Complete script]

“Dangerous aliens” spoken in a dismissive, sneering tone, like the illegal aliens who cross the border daily aren’t dangerous. But they are, of course.

In spite of this, Men In Black is a fun movie, with lots of moments that will ring true with immigration restrictionists, like this fabulously stereotypical moment:

TOMMY LEE JONES : Today there are approximately 1500 aliens living and working in Manhattan and most of them are decent enough, they’re just trying to make a living.
WILL SMITH: Cab drivers?
TOMMY LEE JONES : Not as many as you’d think.

Tommy Lee Jones has made “an important new film”—yada, yada—that has won several awards for its “social importance”. It is titled The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.

I had to share the below announcement found on the Tucson Sector Border Patrol Local 2544 Website.

For those like myself who are not regular movie ["film"?] buffs. [ The joke around La Casa King, Marietta is that the last movie I saw in a theatre was Shane. )

I have not seen Jones’ movie…but someone at the United States Border Patrol in Tucson has. Below are few remarks to Jones from the only Americans who stand between us and the millions in Mexico who want a better life here because for now, life is better here than in Mexico.

VIVA LA MIGRA !

From the Border Patrol local Website:

"Tommy Lee Jones....has made the latest Border Patrol movie (hit piece). He portrays the Border Patrol as a bunch of murdering, bullying, thugs. The illegal alien in the movie is a "victim". Hey Tommy Lee, why don't you get your macho play-acting butt down here on patrol at the border and dodge some "real" rocks, bottles, and bullets for a few nights and then make another movie pal. We have "real" agents shot in the legs, crippled, and rehabbing after being brutalized by Mexican thugs and you make another cheap shot movie slamming Border Patrol agents. Read a "5 star" review of the movie here."

I stumbled on this review from the Village Voice . Ain’t the internet grand?

You can thank the courageous people who guard our borders despite the hurdles presented by President Bush and the willing employers who he allows to violate several federal laws each day…here. [Send Local 2544 email]

Please do.

Muralism Update:Internet128.com notices the recent Robert J. Samuelson article under the title of A good fence to protect a great nation. Which is good, but I still like “The Great Wall Of America.”

The number one and two richest men in the world are probably recognizable names to most Vdare.com readers, namely the purveyor of second-rate computer software (as well as champ outsourcer and H-1B promoter) Bill Gates and the investment wizard of Berkshire-Hathaway Warren Buffett.

The new number three on the Forbes Billionaires list is not some oil-pumping sheik, but a Mexican, the telecom magnate Carlos Slim Helu, with an impressive net worth of $30 billion. He is one of 10 Mexican billionaires, compared with oil-rich Saudi Arabia’s 11 billionaires.

The important point is that Mexico is a very wealthy country (as I wrote in “Mexico’s Rich Don’t Like To Pay Taxes — They Think You Should”). Yet it works tirelessly to dump its unwanted peasants on the American taxpayer, even though Mexico could well afford to invest in its people and infrastructure.

But instead of investigating the economic and political system that supports Mexico’s ultra-rich, our lazy media continues to travel the well-worn ruts of illegal alien sob stories about poor Juan and the millions like him.