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A Shout-Out For Arizona
Renew America ^ | May 24, 2010 | J.R. Dieckmann

Posted on 05/24/2010 12:37:29 PM PDT by Freedom Frayed

The Arizona immigration law has really brought to the public attention which side of legal immigration, and the Constitution, our public leaders are on. While some support the law of legal immigration, others have shown contempt for U.S. law and shown their support for lawbreakers and illegal migration in spite of their oath of office to uphold and defend the Constitution.

(Excerpt) Read more at renewamerica.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: aliens; arizona; constitution; immigration

1 posted on 05/24/2010 12:37:29 PM PDT by Freedom Frayed
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To: Freedom Frayed

Governor Brewer is kicking butt. She has now drawn a bead on those with active felony warrants applying for and receiving welfare. That gig is coming to a screeching halt! Go Jan!


2 posted on 05/24/2010 12:50:38 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Kiss my AZ!!!)
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To: Freedom Frayed

CUT OFF CALIFORNIA’S POWER!

I’m sick of big blue acting like the rest of us don’t matter.

THEY NEED US MORE THAN WE NEED THEM!


3 posted on 05/24/2010 12:53:14 PM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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Supermodel and gov Jan Brewer.

Rally for Arizona! (Tea Party Rally for Arizona going nationwide)
Wake Up 1776 ^ | 22 May 2010 | John Smithers
FR Posted on Saturday, May 22, 2010 by FloridaBattleGround
Contact libertyandprosperity1776@gmail.com for details.

Starts June 8th in Orlando and ends in Phoenix on June 12th. Need maximum participation because Arizona needs our help. They are getting hammered in the media.

Please make some signs for the rally that read:

JAN BREWER FOR DEPT OF HOMELAND SECURITY SECY.

RUSSELL PEARCE FOR SECY OF STATE.

Pre-eminent Arizona Sen Russell Pearce, author of the state's immensely successful immigration bill, now wants to End Citizenship by Birthright.

GOV BREWER ---- the new symbol of American can-do.

4 posted on 05/24/2010 12:58:47 PM PDT by Liz (If teens can procreate in a Volkswagen, why does a spotted owl need 2000 acres? JD Hayworth)
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May 20, 2010---- Cong McClintock's Response to President Calderon (delivered on House floor)

M. Speaker: I rise to take strong exception to the speech of the President of Mexico while in this chamber today. The Mexican government has made it very clear for many years that it holds American sovereignty in contempt and President Calderon’s behavior as a guest of the Congress confirms and underscores this attitude. It is highly inappropriate for the President of Mexico to lecture Americans on American immigration policy, just as it would be for Americans to lecture Mexico on its laws.

It is obvious that President Calderon does not understand the nature of America or the purpose of our immigration law. Unlike Mexico’s immigration law -- which is brutally exclusionary -- the purpose of America’s law is not to keep people out. It is to assure that as people come to the United States, they do so with the intention of becoming Americans and of raising their children as Americans. Unlike Mexico, our nation embraces immigration and what makes that possible is assimilation.

A century ago President Teddy Roosevelt put it this way. He said: "In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language ... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

That is how we have built one great nation from the people of all the nations of the world.

The largest group of immigrants now comes from Mexico. A recent RAND discovered that during most of the 20th Century, while our immigration laws were actually enforced, assimilation worked and made possible the swift attainment of the American dream for millions of immigrants seeking to escape conditions in Mexico. That is the broader meaning of our nation’s motto, “e pluribus unum” – from many people, one people, the American people.

But there is now an element in our political structure that seeks to undermine that concept of “E Pluribus Unum.” It seeks to hyphenate Americans, to develop linguistic divisions, to assign rights and preferences based on race and ethnicity, and to elevate devotion to foreign ideologies and traditions, while at the same time denigrating American culture, American values and American founding principles. In order to do so, they know that they have to stop the process of assimilation. In order to do that, they must undermine our immigration laws. It is an outrage that a foreign head of state would appear in this chamber and actively seek to do so.

And it is a disgrace that he would be cheered on from the left wing of the White House and by many Democrats in this Congress. Arizona has not adopted a new immigration law. All it has done is to enforce existing law that President Obama refuses to enforce. It is hardly a radical policy to suggest that if an officer on a routine traffic stop encounters a driver with no driver’s license, no passport, and who doesn’t speak English, that maybe that individual might be here illegally. And to those who say we must reform our immigration laws – I reply that we don’t need to reform them – we need to enforce them. Just as every other government does. Just as Mexico does.

Above all, this is a debate of, by and for the American people. If President Calderon wishes to participate in that debate, I invite him to obey our immigration laws, apply for citizenship, do what 600,000 LEGAL immigrants to our nation are doing right now, learn our history and our customs, and become an American. And then he will have every right to participate in that debate.

Until then, I would politely invite him to have the courtesy while a guest of this Congress to abide by the fundamental rules of diplomacy between civilized nations not to meddle in each other’s domestic debates.

5 posted on 05/24/2010 1:03:10 PM PDT by Liz (If teens can procreate in a Volkswagen, why does a spotted owl need 2000 acres? JD Hayworth)
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To: Freedom Frayed

Anyone with half a brain should know that the drug war violence cannot be confined to Mexico forever. Seal the border now before it’s too late! http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_15149133


6 posted on 05/24/2010 1:05:03 PM PDT by csmusaret (Remember, half the people in this country are below average)
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To: Liz
We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language ... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

Celebrate Unity not Diversity!

Viva Arizona!

Viva Governor Brewer!

7 posted on 05/24/2010 1:40:21 PM PDT by NaughtiusMaximus (Mexico presents a more profound threat to our territorial integrity than Germany or Japan ever did.)
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To: Freedom Frayed

I just read that the board of directors at the Santa Clara Valley Water District here in the bay area is having a board meeting on 5/25 to condemn AZ for the passing of SB1070.

Here’s the reason given, “The reason why the board is undertaking consideration of Arizona Law SB 1070 is due to the fact that the district has a diverse work force, some of whom could be impacted by the Arizona statute while visiting Arizona for business or otherwise.”

So I guess what the district is saying is that they themselves are violating federal law by hiring illegal immigrants it also seems the board members have not read the bill.


8 posted on 05/24/2010 2:50:39 PM PDT by repubpub ("No poor man ever gave me a job, but plenty of rich guys have. " unknown)
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