Arizona's SB 1070 is racist to the core
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Say it with me: Arizona's SB 1070 is racist to the core. Arizona's SB 1070 is about police rounding up people based on their race, despite all the howls of protests of the bill's supporters to the contrary.
That is what it is about. It identifies undesirables based on their ethnicity, nationality and status.
But just try telling that to the Governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer. The mood she (and the GOP) are in these days, she'd probably deport the Statue of Liberty back to France if she had the opportunity.
In angling for her big moment in the national spotlight Brewer has instead turned the floodlights on millions of the most retiring people in our nation: the vulnerable undocumented who live in the shadows whilst all the while living hard productive lives and helping to power our economy.
It's not a fair fight. Brewer's brought out a bulldozer to pluck a daisy.
The bill's defenders shout why should Arizona’s taxpayers feed, house and educate the citizens of other countries? But this ignores just how hard those foreign born citizens are working to feed, house and educate themselves.
And the overheated charges of rampant criminality take a beating from the state's actual crime statistics, particularly when you're forced to admit the biggest crime of the year there involved a break out of three caucasian convicts.
Maybe Arizona's police force would spend their precious time better by keeping murderers behind bars rather than being forced to become untrained immigration agents?
And have you actually seen the comments written by so many of the state's own citizens in their online forums? To hear most of them tell it the undocumented have come to America to 'take our jobs, kill our citizens and rape our women.'
Dehumanizing much?
At a Republican County forum recently, in tune with the tenor of the times, primary candidate for Congress Pat Bertroche suggested that we microchip 'illegals.'
Bertroche said, referring to undocumented immigrants who are detained and deported, 'I actually support microchipping them. I can microchip my dog so I can find it. Why can't I microchip an illegal?'
And worst of all it’s no secret that the anti-immigrant movement in the United States has long and deep connections to white nationalist individuals and organizations.
White supremacist political parties have made (and have advertised) a donation they made to the fund Brewer set in to prepare for the defense of SB 1070.
Stormfront.org, the biggest white nationalist web forum online, has also called for donations to the SB 1070 defense fund. 'Money where you mouth is time,' they state.
Jan, you might want to take a look at your most ardent supporters. Why? Because money talks, and here's what it's saying - SB 1070 is racist to the core.
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GeorgeDillon | Aug 04, 2010, 02:38 AM EDT
O'Doherty should talk about racism to the relatives of that nun in Virginia who was killed by a car driven by a drunk Bolivian illegal alien who had twice been served with notice of deportation. But the Federal Government never did what they are paid to do--safeguard our borders--and let him stay in the US. With lethal consequences.
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elektros | Aug 04, 2010, 02:25 AM EDT
And as for SB 1070, no it does not mimic the federal law, it makes state crimes of things that are not federal crimes.
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elektros | Aug 04, 2010, 02:24 AM EDT
Silverfox, check the law before you speak. Any Spanish or French person who can show they have a job is free to immigrate to Ireland under EU law. Mind you, finding a job in Ireland may be a little hard just now!
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Ajreaper | Aug 04, 2010, 02:06 AM EDT
READ THE LAW!!! How can supposed jounalist print this garbage when he clearly has not read the law? It mimics the federal law, which everyone is ok with apparently but gives state and not just federal officers the ability to enforce it. Thats it- nothing new or different from the federal law. Our borders in AZ are not secure and it's not just people coming across to work- drugs and criminals make there way here as well.
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seanomelbourne | Aug 04, 2010, 12:51 AM EDT
You can repeat your ignorant vitriol as much as you like IandP. I do not know how far back your Irish ancestry goes maybe Neanderthal. I've got it Fred Flintstone . The trouble with us Liberals is we are not hate based, I know you find this frustrating and then you justify your bigotry by putting hate labels on us worldly free thinkers. WE are a peace loving lot, live and let live. we even allow you the right to be a racist and a slanderer. But come election day you will be disappointed.
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Chicago1 | Aug 03, 2010, 11:48 PM EDT
hollabackgurl,
The Eli Wiesel quote - No human being.....
(which has been hijacked by far left pro illegal immigration groups)
Are you really comparing the life experience of a Holocaust survivor and that of present day illegal immigrants?
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hollabackgurl | Aug 03, 2010, 11:10 PM EDT
Republicans have taken leave of their senses. John McCain, who never met a principle he couldn't sell, and the growing chorus of Senate Republicans urging repeal of the 14th Amendment have taken leave of their minds. I believe the 14th Amendment, particularly in its due process and equal protection clauses. That the GOP is even thinking of repealing the 14th Amendment is a measure of just how radical they have become. They're all for Big Government when its someone else's rights in play.
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silverfox | Aug 03, 2010, 10:55 PM EDT
i THINK YOU ARE DEAD WRONG ON THIS ISSUE.MY IRISH ROOTS RUN DEEP BACK TO THE GREAT MIGRATION IN MID 1800'S.WE HAVE VISITED YOU LOVELY COUNTRY MANY TIMES. BUT I FIND IT SOMEWHAT HYPOCRITICAL THAT IRELAND FINDS IT CONVIENT TO ACCUSE THE U.S.OF A PRACTICE IT HAS CONDUCTED FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS (IE. CATHOLIC OR PROTESTANT.)pEOPLE SHOULD READ THE LAW BEFORE THEY APPEAR IGNORANT AND OPEN THEIR MOUTHS AND REMOVE ALL DOUBT.I dare say Ireland would not relish thousand of French and Spanish coming undocumented-many with criminal records.
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IrishAndProud | Aug 03, 2010, 08:48 PM EDT
Sean, I am indeed bothering you. Because it's when someone is tee'd off that they toss out that (in my case baseless) 'racist/bigot' charge. I do however repeat MY assertion that YOU hate Jews, and that you are anti-white American...and therefore hypocritical.
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seanomelbourne | Aug 03, 2010, 08:43 PM EDT
You don't bother me at all IandP. You are just devoid of common sense,the trade mark of most racists/bigots. Moonsoonman if he talks like a cartoon character and waddles like a cartoon character,he can only be compared to a cartoon character.
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IrishAndProud | Aug 03, 2010, 06:22 PM EDT
Uh, again, hollabackgurl...the Congress is Democratic (and again...with an 11% approval rating)...the GOP is the minority. They do not have the votes to 'obstruct' anything, particularly in the House. And what's with this term 'obstruct'? That sounds like an imperialist, snooting down the nose at the little people who get in his way as if they're some kind of personal annoyance, to him. The people obviously don't want what this Congress is doing, so 'obstructing' their shennanigans would only be a good thing, would it not? I thought with the Dems in total control of things at the federal level, you lefties would be happy. Instead, you're only continuously miserable, and constantly blaming the last guy for all your present-day f%$k-ups. That don't work.
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AmAncINED | Aug 03, 2010, 05:52 PM EDT
TaranO: Save your breath. All DennisQ can do is call us "anti-immigration racists." He's not concerned about ILLEGAL activities. Of course, he probably doesn't live in Arizona, like some of the posters do, but he knows there's "no runaway crime activity." My brother DOES live in Arizona and he has an entirely different opionion based on personal experience. He's also married to a Hispanic whose grandparents entered this country legally, learned to speak English, and took the steps to become citizens. Elena's family all support Arizona's immigration bill and are deeply resentful of those who come here ILLEGALLY.
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TaranOconner | Aug 03, 2010, 04:47 PM EDT
What part of ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT don't you people Understand? ILLEGAL IS ILLEGAL. They aren't supposed to be here---Period! DUH!!
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DennisQ | Aug 03, 2010, 04:46 PM EDT
There's lots of racism around; the French even adopt it as a cultural value. Irish songs which are relentlessly sexist are also often racist as well. For example, Dublin in the Rare Ould Times was a nicer place before black-skinned students arrived. Right wingers in particular don't see their own racism, and they don't welcome other people pointing it out to them. The anti-immigrant arguments we see here present stereotypes in place of genuine and valid arguments. For instance, there's no runaway crime epidemic in Arizona - that is entirely in the minds of people who want to uproot undocumented families that might have been here for years. Incidentally, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who is the head of the ultra right wing National Front in France, says exactly the same things about immigration into that country as right wingers here say about Arizona. He denies being a racist, and so do the right wingers here. Le Pen's political world view corresponds one to one with that of Adolf Hitler, who gloried in his racism.
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