Posted on 04/28/2010 1:25:26 PM PDT by BradtotheBone
Black lawmakers are comparing Arizona’s tough immigration law to Jim Crow laws and apartheid South Africa, arguing that the federal government needs to step in with comprehensive immigration reform.
The law raises “many of the issues we had to deal with during the civil rights struggle,” said Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus. “It harkens back to the era of Jim Crow or apartheid in South Africa,” she said.
“It is akin to apartheid,” said Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.), who is black. “We’re going to fight to bring comprehensive immigration legislation up for debate on the floor as soon as we can. … This is not just a Latino issue.”
Lee called Arizona’s law a “national disgrace.”
Arizona’s measure, signed by Gov. Jan Brewer (R) last week, requires police to people for proof of citizenship if they have a “reasonable suspicion” to believe someone is an illegal immigrant.
Opponents of the law say it will lead to racial profiling. “Tell me: How does it look to be an illegal immigrant?” said Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-Calif.), chairwoman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
The only Latino senator also had tough words for the Arizona law. “Arizona has become the ‘show me your papers’ state,” said Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.). “We will not accept being second-class citizens.”
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Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.), who is black. “We’re going to fight to bring comprehensive immigration legislation up for debate on the floor as soon as we can. … This is not just a Latino issue.”
Bring on your party’s political death wish, babydoll.
Have they used ANY other argument for the last 2 years????
Lie, lie, lie, etc.
so the rats etc have no problem with people breaking the law
I was an immigrant and to renew my visa etc I had to go back to my country of origin now why can’t illegals?
anyway what do they not understand about the word ILLEGAL
“immigration legislation up for debate on the floor”???? Again? All they want to do is talk, talk, talk. They will do nothing because they don’t want to do anything. Mean while, over 450,000 illegals flood Arizona. How much more talk can the States put up with? The people of Arizona, by a resounding 70%, agree with the new law.
Trust me, any foreign country in the world, if you are a foreign visitor you have to have your passport on you at all times. And you have to produce it when asked.
In most countries, even if you’re a citizen, you have to have your national ID on you at all times, and you have to produce it when asked. We aren’t going that far, we’re just asking foreign visitors to produce their ID when asked.
We have apartheid now with non-enforced laws, separating those who must have papers and those who don’t need papers.
This makes one type of human more worthy than another; those who don’t need papers have more freedom than those who are required to have papers.
The Dems have gone nuts on this and it’s good fun to watch their hysterics, but it’s amazing that the press refuses to read the law and report the facts.... well, maybe not surprising at all, but you would think that the facts would enter into the debate at some point... sad times.
Unfortunately the GOP is once again proving itself to also be the party of shamnesty. We've seen too many people in the GOP come out against SB1070.
i heard obama say on the radio that mexicans’ grandparents and greatgrandparents were in arizona before it was a stay.
a few were. but they were killed routinely by the comanches and apaches.
only after the u.s. cavalry arrived was it safe for mexicans.
most mexicans came over the border in order to escape the violence of the mexican revolution after 1910.
I think that little “You Racist” kid is ACTUALLY running their party!
Lee was ranked as the sixth-most liberal member of the House by the National Journal, based on roll-call votes on economic, social and foreign policy issues in 2006.[13] Lee received a 97% progressive rating from “The Progressive Punch,”[14] and a 4% conservative rating from the American Conservative Union.[15]
The daughter of successful Jamaican immigrant parents, Clarke has lived all her life in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Flatbush. Upon graduating from Edward R. Murrow High School, she earned a scholarship to Oberlin College in Ohio, where she completed most of her education,[1] before transferring to Medgar Evers College for her final semester. She is two credits short of fully completing her degree.[2] According to her Congressional home page, she was also a recipient of the “prestigious APPAH/Sloan Fellowship in Public Policy and Policy Analysis”.[3]
No matter the facts everything is Selma!!! Spare me the racist hysterics. The worst place to find yourself is between a group of blacks and hispanics hashing out their differences.
Since Arizona’s law, for the most part, echoes Federal Immigration Law, this is sort of disingenuous.
Arizona is just enforcing the laws the Feds won’t...
Come to the street corners of mid-town Manhattan any weekday morning, and I'll show ya.
they are whiney bitches!
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