No Grand Canyon for this legal immigrant over Arizona immigration law
Posted on Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 10:59 AM
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Oh well. There'll be no Grand Canyon for this legal immigrant as long as Arizona stays a police state.
As Linda Greenhouse says in today's New York Times the new law is the same as the internal passports systems which were so despised in apartheid South Africa and the former Soviet Union.
How are the police in Arizona going to decide who they think should be holding these internal passports?
What grounds can they really have to decide that "the person is an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States."
How can they tell?
The Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform reckons there are 50,000 illegal Irish immigrants in the U.S. and there are certainly substantial numbers from other countries in Europe.
How will the Arizona police know who's legal and who's not?
Will they stop me, a white English-speaking woman, or will they stop the bilingual Hispanic woman beside me?
I think we all know the answer to that one.
As protestor Jose Acosta told CNN on Sunday: "People are going to be stopped just because of the color of [their] skin. And it ain't right...Are they going to be looking for Europeans as well, or is it just the brown people?"
And if I am stopped and they figure I have a funny accent, what then?
Am I supposed to carry my U.S. passport round with me the whole time?
This law makes a moving target of all immigrants in the U.S., legal or no. I think I'll spend my tourism dollars elsewhere.
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ritmomente | May 10, 2010, 03:09 PM EDT
So you claim you're armed? With what? How do you plan to use it? I'm not the one in the Twilight.
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Monsoonman | May 10, 2010, 09:42 AM EDT
OK rit. I refuse to duel with the unarmed. Quoting from a Twilight Zone episode, you are into the cornfield.
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ritmomente | May 10, 2010, 09:12 AM EDT
How would you deport 12,000,000 people. Why don't you sell your house and all your belongings (especially that computer of yours) and give it to the government so they can afford the deportation proceedings. It is simply more economical to fine them and put them on a guest worker visa where they will go home or on a path towards citizenship. You are concerned about you alone and those that look like you.
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Monsoonman | May 09, 2010, 06:58 PM EDT
All the more reason to get them out of the USA and give those jobs to US citizens who need them desperately. Charity begins at home, take care of US citizens first, that does not make me a xenophobe, that means I am a concerned citizen of my country.
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ritmomente | May 09, 2010, 01:50 PM EDT
Most undocumented pay taxes and pay into social security, which under the broken current laws, they'll never see. You just want your Confederacy back.
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Monsoonman | May 09, 2010, 01:00 PM EDT
Seriously did you get a bite on your snout? I'll tell you what the first rights are here in the USA, the rights of taxpaying US citizens.
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ritmomente | May 09, 2010, 12:43 PM EDT
Monsoonman, by the way you and Irishandproud write, it seems as if it's ok to beat up and rape any illegal that is here. I read nothing of human rights in anything you two write.
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Monsoonman | May 09, 2010, 11:47 AM EDT
I fail to see ANY logic about a Mexican woman being raped and beaten deserving it because she is illegal. What kind of cujo-like logic can come up with a scenario like that to illustrate a point? Did you get bit on the snout by a rabid bat? Jes sayin'
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ritmomente | May 07, 2010, 01:51 PM EDT
What if a Mexican woman in Arizona gets raped and beaten? Does she deserve it because she's "illegal" as you say?
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ritmomente | May 07, 2010, 01:51 PM EDT
IrishandProud is a xenophobe, racist and hypocrite.
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IrishAndProud | May 05, 2010, 11:47 PM EDT
That's all right, trulyirish...you and your three or four friends keep your money. I think Arizona will do just fine, with its 70% support from the American people. THANK YOU, ARIZONA!!!!!
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Monsoonman | May 05, 2010, 09:21 AM EDT
Sheriff Joe Arpaio decided not to run for Governor because the present republican governor just signed the illegal alien bill and gained favor with the voters. I just heard an interview with him on the radio. Sheriff Joe is a hugely popular sheriff with the citizens of Arizona.
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DennisQ | May 04, 2010, 01:00 PM EDT
Arizona's been stung by a boycott before. When nutty right winger Evan Meacham's first official act as governor was to repeal Martin Luther King Day, the subsequent boycott cost the state millions.
The joke at the time was, "Why did Evan Meacham cancel Easter?" "Because he heard some of the eggs were going to be colored."
Loonies like Meacham are still around. Sheriff Joe Arpaio just dropped out of the race for governor because he was afraid he'd be indicted.
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shidoobe | Apr 30, 2010, 10:30 AM EDT
My Peruvian fiance' and myself are getting married inside the Grand Canyon and plan on spending out vacation in Arizona where the Governor is not afraid to take a stand against illegal immigrants.
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