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JUST DO IT!
Posted on 10/08/2011 6:31:53 PM PDT by lbryce
US teachers unions and Hispanic activists said Wednesday that an Arizona-style immigration law upheld by a federal judge last week is creating a "humanitarian crisis" as thousands of parents keep their children home, fearing that teachers will act as immigration agents.
Alabama's first Republican supermajority since Reconstruction approved this summer what many consider America's toughest immigration law. And last week, federal Judge Sharon Lovelace Blackburn surprised many Americans when she upheld key parts of the law – including a portion that says schools must check the immigration status of children when they enroll, as well as the status of their parents.
"This law revisits Alabama's painful racial past," Sam Brooke, a staff attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala., said in a conference call with reporters Wednesday. "When a law that demonizes people to the point of pushing children out of schools is cheered, it's a dark day for the state and the country."
QUIZ: Could you pass a US citizenship quiz? Lawmakers and Gov. Robert Bentley (R) have said they were forced to pass the state law because the US government had failed to enforce federal immigration statutes. The state law is designed to ensure the safety and economic security of Alabamians, the officials say.
”It’s heartbreaking to read about [children being pulled out of school], but it’s going to be an immigration bill or it’s not going to be one," state Sen. Rusty Glover (R) told the American Independent News Network. Senator Glover voted for the law and is a history teacher in Semmes.
Federal courts have struck down large parts of similar legislative attempts by other states, but Judge Blackburn allowed key provisions in the Alabama law to stand, saying they passed constitutional muster because they reinforced existing federal law.
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“This law revisits Alabama’s painful racial past,” Sam Brooke, a staff attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala., said in a conference call with reporters Wednesday. “When a law that demonizes people to the point of pushing children out of schools is cheered, it’s a dark day for the state and the country.”
No sh**head, citizens are just tired of paying for illegals out of their hard earned wages while worrying about if they are going to lose their job or house. There’s no “demonization” involved despite your bleeding heart narrative.
Alabama has some of the worst black unemployment in the country. This law is a Godsend to them.
It appears that both you and I had the same type of upbringing. If I listed the jobs here that I had in my life, people would call me a liar. And yes, one of them was shoveling mule **** at Grand Canyon. Not many kids these days can claim ever holding down that job.
Tell your liberal friends that if our so-called economy can’t function without what amounts to illegal “Mexican Coolies” doing the manual labor, then we are truly finished as a country.
I have not witnessed any mass humanitarian crisis or really any change yet but I will be on the lookout.
I'll bet the 19th century cotton farmers made the same arguments - "you can't abolish chattel slavery, who will pick the cotton?! Cotton will be rotting in the fields! Slaves are doing jobs Americans won't do!!"
And besides, the USDA regulations and price-support programs make far more food go completely to waste than any shortage of slave-wage labor.
Usually, if the price of labor becomes too high for employers to bear, they turn to automation.
Cotton gin, combines, automatic harvester, etc, etc, etc.
So the question ought to be, why isn’t this happening now?
Thanks for all your help and your useful arguments, FRiends. You’ve given me some good ways to defend myself against liberal talking points. Much appreciated.
Try being in any other country illegally, see what it gets you.Not even our good neighbor Canada will allow such foolishness. It’s crimminal the way these politicans carry on for these illegals hopeing to round up more votes from them.
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Illegal aliens never heard of home schooling?
This claim is suspect. I think if this was true it would be the top story on every liberal news program on TV, complete with panning video of rotting crops.
But where would the "free" breakfast and lunch come from?
That’s an excellent point.
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