Drop dead, parasite.
Arizona is, so far, the only "parent" on the field.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 07/31/2010 10:40:17 AM PDT by NCjim
Parents, you know how it is with kids. One acts up, and so you have to focus your attention on the troublemaker and take your eye off the others. Then, when you're not looking, another one gets out of line.
States are much the same way. The eyes of the nation are fixed on Arizona, the undisputed problem child in our national immigration debate. But there are other states where lawmakers are eager to follow Arizona's lead and blame Washington for not solving a problem that, in truth, their own residents (i.e., employers) helped create.
At least half a dozen of the states thinking about going on this suicide run can perhaps be forgiven their ignorance because the experience of having a sizable population of illegal immigrants is new to them. In Utah, Georgia, Ohio, Maryland, Oklahoma and South Carolina, illegal immigrants are still a rather exotic import.
But then there's Texas, which used to be part of Mexico and where lenient immigration policies toward white settlers from the South and Northeast led to a famous tenant dispute that included a dustup at the Alamo in 1836. In Tejas, Latinos are indigenous and as ubiquitous as bluebonnets. In the Lone Star State, where my mother and grandparents and great-grandparents were born and raised and where I spent five years writing about immigration and other issues for the Dallas Morning News, legislators should know better than to even flirt with the idea of adopting a divisive and dangerous law like the one in Arizona.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
What a condescending pile of excrement!
Or is that Obarry?
WaPo crying and whining again? =.=
What this ignorant a**hole doesn’t realize is how incorrect his analogy of parent and child is as applied to the fed and states.
The federal government was created by the states, not vice versa. It is the states where sovereignty resides.
Why is there no BARF ALERT attached to this condescending piece of trash?
A true F’ing Libtard. Start with a false assumption. Make it the centerpiece of your lie and then treat everyone like they are the intolerant, ungrateful, step children.
The title is United States of America. The federal government exists only with the consent of the states and of the people who create and permit the governance by their respective states. We the people may well withdraw that consent real soon.
Yep. I guess it's a good thing nitwits like this guy believe Bolton "ripped the guts out" of 1070. He overlooks the fact that most of what Bolton ruled against is still locally enforceable Federal law, and the juiciest provision of 1070 against Sanctuary Cities, is now the law.
FUWP
Rubin’s hurry to get out in front of this issue in Texas tells me that that is the place he most fears state action on immigration. Go for it, Texas!
Ahhh, those Amish writers. They think they know it all.
Or if strangers just walked into his home and wouldn’t leave.
What is it? Eighty percent of Americans AGREE with the Arizona law... And this Washington Post idiot thinks that's a 'problem child'? Yeah, it's a problem - for white liberal elites and the criminal underclass that keep them in power...
Nah - it’s the darned Canadians.
I’m waiting.
We do have a lot of Mexicans, legal or otherwise, here forever or new, but
we also have a lot of ‘others’ that are coming through illegally.
What bothers me even more are all the covered head-to-toe people, whoever they are. They could be any nationality, drug runners, or criminals in hiding
or all the above.
This is why I want the borders controlled.
Amish and Canadians in cahoots.
The Washington Post doesn’t make sense. So-o-o- - - by the standard that a double negative equals a positive, the Arizona law is good!
Go Arizona!!!
Simple solution to illegal immigration. NEW STATE LAW-If you are using someone elses identity to have a job here in America, you goto jail for 2 yrs. If you are selling identities- 20 yrs in jail. fed gov cant do anything about a state law like that
Get bent, Rube.
Ohmigosh, you forgot the BARF alert! Latinos aren’t “indigenous” to anywhere except EUROPE!
Ping!
Reuben Navarette’s editorials are always...ummm..interesting reading.
It won't be long before you and your ilk ARE on a suicide run!
A law a day keeps 0b0z0's illegals away!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2562244/posts?page=25#25
There MUST be something in the water supply of the DC area that causes such dementia.
I read the “by” line and did not continue. Navarette is an open borders lefty.
Ah, can you smell the fear?
The Corruptocrats and their allies are deathly afraid that Texas will pass the same kind of law.
Why?
1. Texas would actually enforce it, unless we end up with Sheila Jackson-Lee’s hand puppet Bill “Sanctuary City” White as governor.
Elections have consequences and I am guessing that we will end up with Bill White. There are too many idiot liberals here that have moved here from places like California, New York, Michigan, Illinois, Minnesota, etc. over the past two years combined with “I am going to sit the election out because I can’t hold my nose and vote for Perry because of [insert pet peeve here]” crowd. It is how we ended up with Obama, it will be how we end up with Bill “Sanctuary City” White as governor.
2. If it passed in Texas that would close off a very big chunk of the border that these illegals go through. It would also close off easy access to the rest of the country to the illegals, alot of them use old US highways and backroads through the sparsely populated high plains to get to places east of the Rockies. There are not that many easy ways for them to get out of places like California and New Mexico and on to the east of the Rockies states without being easily spotted. It would also close off their major safe house/transportation hubs of Houston and San Antonio.
This would force more and more of them through California and New Mexico which would bury those states in a sea of illegals. The attitudes towards them would change even in those bastions of liberalism and race/ethnic warriors rather swiftly if they had to bear the full brunt of the tsunami coming across the border. Maybe not in places like LA, San Francisco and Santa Fe but in the rest of those states it would.
3. Texas has the manpower and the ability to organize it to enforce it through sending the Texas Rangers and the National Guard to the border combined with deputized volunteers and a couple small adjustments to the Castle Law. Adjustments to the Castle Law alone would make it open season/no limit on anyone crossing anybodies land without permission and illegals are notorious for not asking permission. Texas would also have no problems with firing on and running off those Mexican army units back across the border.
My inner rebel is seething....
So if Mr. Navarette considers AZ immigration law ‘divisive and dangerous’, what does he think of FEDERAL law, which AZ simply codified into STATE law?
Drop dead, parasite.
Arizona is, so far, the only "parent" on the field.
What, no Navarette Hurl Alert?
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