Posted on 04/29/2010 11:10:52 AM PDT by lbryce
Arizona's controversial anti-immigration policy has led an unusual life in the world of American punditry. The first reactions nation-wide were furious. Even some Arizona-based writers condemned the law. For a few days, discussion centered not on the law's merits but skipped directly to debating how best to repeal it. Gradually, some commentators began urging sympathy for Arizona, citing its lack of federal funding and complicated internal politics. And now, it seems, we've gone full circle: Several other states are considering similar legislation and many conservatives are rallying behind the bill.
* 7 States Considering AZ-Like Law Think Progress' Andrea Nill does the research. "Many states and localities across the country are in fact in the middle of or about to embark on copy cat pieces of legislation." She finds a common element: "the involvement of the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) — the legal arm of a designated nativist-extremist hate group." She says IRLI is pushing the states to hire them to work on anti-immigration laws, which have become a "profit-making venture" for the legal group.
* Mexico Warns Against Travel to Arizona CNN's Jack Cafferty boasts, "Arizona's tough new immigration law hasn't even gone into effect yet, and it's already working: Mexico has issued an alert for Mexicans traveling to Arizona. The country is urging its citizens to be careful... that they may be 'harassed and questioned without further cause at any time' should they go to Arizona."
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlanticwire.com ...
* Could Aid Arizona Unemployment RedState's Tabitha Hale writes, "Now, don’t get me wrong, I have some reservations regarding this bill, but this is not one of them. It’s exactly what the law was supposed to do! It’s a crack down on illegal laborers in an attempt to help those that are here legally. Let’s all wait for the media to report on Arizona’s upcoming decrease in unemployment… or maybe not."
* CO Governor Candidate Campaigns on Similar Law The Colorado Independent's Joseph Boven reports, "Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis said that if he were governor, he would seek to pass the same kind of harsh anti-illegal immigration laws recently passed in Arizona." McInnis said on the radio:
And here is a Governor who has stood up to it and said, "Look if you have a system that is going to work you have to have some kind of repercussions or some kind of circumstances or consequences when somebody steps outside of the system illegally." So I think that this governor–I know she is catching all sort of flack. Most of it is unfair. Most of it is ice guard. Most of it all this kind of stuff– but the fact is she finally stood up and said the federal government needs to do what they are required to do. And the federal government is not doing it.
And how interesting is this article?
AP:Illegal Immigrants Plan to Leave Over Ariz. Law
It is a great day for America when people everywhere are beginning to see the wisdom of Arizona's new law. Let's all hope Arizona's newfound legislative fortitude sparks a new realization as inspiration in which we vociferously disallow non-Americans from dictating what, how America should be, do, to stand up together, convey the message that it is only for Americans to decide what is best for America.
You bet your bippy!
Ohio Sheriff asks immigration vote
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20100429/NEWS0108/304290033/1055/NEWS/Sheriff+asks+immigration+vote
Saying citizens need to take the lead on the controversial issue of immigration reform in Ohio, Butler County Sheriff Rick Jones announced Thursday he will spearhead an effort to have a statewide citizens initiative vote on the ballot this fall.
My state of tExas does not want them. Now that Arizona has passed its law, I contacted Governor Perry to call a special session to enact simialr legislation, as I fear now they will come this way instead of Arizona.
BTW, isn’t it great to live in a place where the politicians go home and only meet every two years instead of proliferating on the stage at a place like DC?
It’s only natural - the Feds do nothing they are supposed to do and everything they aren’t supposed to do. 300 million people wont just watch them screw up 225 years worth of work in only a few months.
Pass a law in all states requiring higher taxes only on the citizens of sanctuary cities and towns to pay the full cost of illegal immigrant services and Arizona’s law will become a Federal law in no time.
I was down in Mexico City around 1995 and talked to a local businessman. He told me that the Columbians were coming north, ruining Mexico,bringing drugs and terrible crime, and then they’d keep going, into the US. Boy, was he right
Colombians
I just... I mean... really? Does the author of this article realize the deliciously ironic nature of that statement while writing it? Honestly, do they sit there and have a sort of black hole singularity moment in their heads where they think that there isn't a glaring contradiction to the very thing they're writing?
As a student of English, I am aghast at writers who take themselves so seriously that they forgive their own writing and allow something like this to pass for journalism.
makes it a state crime
to be in the U.S.
illegally
It's not a crime to do something illegal? When did that happen? Next time someone gets pulled over for driving under the influence, they should say, "Well, those illegals can be here legally , and if DUI is illegal, then I should be able to finish my drive to the next bar, dammit!"
It’s time for Texas to pass a similar law. Then maybe New Mexico will follow suit. California is hopeless, but when it’s the only place left for the illegals to go, maybe the resulting bankruptcy will force a change.
Heads up Michigan freepers:
Posted: 12:32 p.m. April 29, 2010
Detroit Latinos to rally
against anti-illegal
immigration laws, seek
reform
By NIRAJ WARIKOO
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
Latinos are planning to rally in Michigan this
weekend for immigration reform — including a
group of students who left today from a Detroit
high school and are walking to Ann Arbor in
advance of President Obama’s talk on Saturday,
said community activists.
Just to keep the record straight: the AZ law allows AZ state officers to enforce the existing Federal law without any other changes.
Yes, It has turned.
It’s sad but this issue (like many others) is backfiring on democrats mainly because they are in charge and cant effectively blame Bush anymore.
Aside from a ‘blame democrats’ tidal wave sweeping the country (remember when it was the other way?) , Republicans out of power tend to stick together against socialism and related amnesty. Alternately republicans in power try to further expand or keep their new power base, by destroying themselves.
American Blacks (ie Southern roots) don’t like amnesty at all, most hate it.
Perry does not seem to have the stomach for a special session now.
He might change his mind if all the invaders change their target to TX instead of AZ.
If the drug smuggling violence really increases in TX this summer, which it might, I think Perry will have no choice.
Public opinion may force him to something before November.
Just my opinion.
It’s only natural - the Feds do nothing they are supposed to do and everything they aren’t supposed to do.
And, get paid by our freak’n tax dollars to do it! Scumbags!
Three times in the history of the United States US Presidents took what would today be considered a politically unpopular position by rounding up and deporting illegal aliens to create jobs for US Citizens. The first attempt occurred shortly after the banker-induced Stock Market Crash of 1929 when President Herbert Hoover ordered the round-up and deportation of illegals by the US Immigration and Naturalization Service. The program, dubbed "Operation Wetback," was carried out without any protests from US government-funded Hispanic advocacy groups—since there were none. The Clintonesque-liberal media political correctness dictionary was still 63 years in the future and the communist-left FDR (America's white Barack Obama) federal bureaucracy was still some 4-years in the making.
During the prosperity of the war years (1943-54), illegal alien immigration increased by 6,000%, triggering Operation Wetback II and III. In 1954, the INS estimated that illegals—not legal migrant workers—were crossing the US border at the rate of one million per year and that they were penetrating much deeper into the nation that in preceding decades because the INS concentrated their efforts only in the border States. The INS, on orders from the White House, went through the motions of rounding up both illegal aliens and migrant workers who overstayed their visas. Truman deported about 30 thousand Mexicans during his seven years in office.
Eisenhower was stuck will cleaning up the mess created by the open door polices 73rd and 82nd Congresses. As Eisenhower took office, illegal immigrants were now crossing at the rate of about 3 million per year. As Eisenhower met with current and retired border patrol agents he learned that the big ranchers and farmers who relied on the cheap migrant labor had friends "in high places" in government. Agents were subtlety warned not to arrest the workers employed by what turned out to be powerful campaign donors. When that didn't work, they were very bluntly told to back off, or they were simply transferred where they would become someone else's problem. The two most influential Senators who blocked the efforts of the INS to do their job were then Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson [D-TX] and Sen. Pat McCarran [D-NV].
Eisenhower hired Gen. Joseph May Swing to head the INS and with units of the US National Guard, began what history now views as a quasi-military operation to find and seize illegal immigrants As hard as Johnson tried to get rid of Swing, Eisenhower protected his man in Immigration. On July 15, 1953, the first day of Operation Wetback III, Swing's men arrested 4,800 illegals. After the first day, the INS averaged the seizure of 1,100 illegals per day. The INS devoted 700 men to the project, hoping to scare enough more illegals to flee back across the border. The INS claims that under Eisenhower's Operation Wetback, they deported 1,300,000 illegals. The open-border social progressives insist that all three phases of Operation Wetback were dismal flops, and that only a few thousand people—all of whom, they claim, were legal residents—were deported.
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For the states that are considering passing a law like Arizona, have the preamble of the bill start with this:
Whereas the sense of the (state senate or house) has determined that the executive branch of the United States federal government has failed to adequately enforce the immigration laws constitutionally codified by the Congress of the United States of America, and
Whereas the executive branch of the United States federal government has failed to protect and defend the persons and property of the people of the state of ________________ by allowing uncontrolled illegal immigration of persons who have stolen and defrauded uncounted billions of dollars from the people of the state of ____________, assaulted, and murdered its citizens and have been allowed unfettered access to its services,
The State of ____________ has determined that it must in all good conscientiousness act to protect the property and the citizens of this great state by enacting the following laws:
I suggested charging Mexico $2000 per month per estimated illegal immigrant. And, let the Federales watch the border for us. Game, set, match.
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