Posted on 04/26/2010 7:56:25 AM PDT by lbryce
Some New Yorkers see their city as the center of the universe. But over the weekend, all eyes were focused on Arizona after the state’s governor signed the country’s most stringent immigration bill into law.
On Saturday, New York area politicians and immigrants groups denounced the measure, which allows police to question people on the suspicion that they may be here illegally. As the Daily News reported, Mayor Bloomberg said the new measure could hurt foreign investment. Sen. Chuck Schumer called it “mean-spirited” and Bill DeBlasio, the public advocate, said it was “Un-American.”
On Sunday, the Rev. Al Sharpton said he would join a coalition of activists and travel to Arizona to protest the measure.
“The Arizona immigration bill is an affront to the civil rights of all Americans and an attempt to legalize racial profiling,” he said in a statement.
Joining Sharpton was a host of New York Latino leaders, including representatives from the Puerto Rican Bar Association, which is offering legal assistance to fight the measure in court.
Defenders of the Arizona bill said it will push the federal government to implement better border protection measures, and Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has said racial profiling will not be part of the policy.
On May 1, immigrant rights activists will hold a series of rallies across the country to protest the Arizona law. In New York, the rally will take place in Foley Square in downtown Manhattan.
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It's a great day for America when immigration legislation is so vociferously objected to by the likes of Al shrpton, Mayor Bloomberg.
Don’t like it? Maybe they should get their own state.
So what are they saying, how dare Americans enforce the law?
What! He's not outraged?
I’d call that proof that it’s a good law.
“””So what are they saying, how dare Americans enforce the law?”””””””””
Enforcing the law is mean spirited and racist. /s
On Sunday, the Rev. Al Sharpton said he would join a coalition of activists and travel to Arizona to protest the measure.
Will someone please explain what business it is of Al Sharpton to get involved with Arizona politics. Would he be there if 7 or 8 illegals beat up and killed a white guy?
Yeah, my first thought -
neither of them are residents of AZ,
so they should STHU.
So, let me get this straight. ONCE someone who broke the U.S. Immigration Laws and did NOT Get a visa and come into the country, he can’t be stopped by any law enforcement to check to see if he is here legally? So, if I am a terrorist, and engage in criminal activity, all I have to do is GET PAST the border, and then I’m in FREE? Sounds like a real deal for another breaking the law! IF YOU HAVE THE PAPER. why can’t you show it? Who do you think you are, the President of the USA? When I go as a foreigner to other countries, I ALWAYS have my papers ready, I figure they have a right to know who the foreigners are that don’t speak the language, and how long they’ve been there and what are they doing. Is America Sovereign, can they make their rules, or is the riff raff of the world think it’s their country too?
It “could hurt foreign investment?” Bloomberg apparently means the Mexican drug gangs operating in the US.
Skyrocketing crime in Bloomer’s NYC and he’s worried about Arizona.
Tough. They need to quit agitating and mind their own business.
Who cares what either of those two airheaded windbags think?
Nothing cures a car-chasing dog like being hit.
When Arizona catches them, take the directly to the Greyhound station and put them on the bus for New York.
“Would he be there if 7 or 8 illegals beat up and killed a white guy?”
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Yes, where were Sharpton and his twin, Jessie when that rancher was killed by an illegal? No screaming about the rancher’s civil rights, eh?
More race baiting racism from the left.
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