Thread: Lawmaker blasted for saying US might look like South America

Lawmaker blasted for saying US might look like South America

July 28, 2019





FILE - In this May 3, 2018, file photo State Sen. Sylvia Allen keeps warm during a late-night session as the Arizona Legislature prepared to adjourn for the year in Phoenix. The veteran Arizona legislator is apologizing while defending herself from criticism for comments she made on immigration and birth rates. The Phoenix New Times posted audio of a July 15, 2019, speech during which Allen said a flood of immigration and low birth rates among whites amid a lack of cultural assimilation mean "we're going to look like South American countries very quickly." The Republican from Snowflake, Arizona, who is white, also said the U.S. has to regulate immigration so the country can provide jobs, education, health care and other needs. (AP Photo/Bob Christie, File)


PHOENIX (AP) — A veteran Arizona legislator is apologizing while defending herself from criticism for comments she made on immigration and birth rates.
The Phoenix New Times posted audio of a July 15 speech during which state Sen. Sylvia Allen said a flood of immigration and low birth rates among whites amid a lack cultural assimilation mean “we’re going to look like South American countries very quickly.”
The Republican from Snowflake, Arizona, who is white, also said the U.S. has to regulate immigration so the country can provide jobs, education, health care and other needs.

“We can’t provide that if people are just flooding us and flooding us and flooding us and overwhelming us,” she said.
Wendy Rogers, a Republican running for the state Senate seat now held by Allen, issued a statement Saturday denouncing Allen’s comments as “very racist” and said Allen should retire from the Legislature.
Democratic state Sen. Martin Quezada told the Arizona Republic that the “tone and perspective” of Allen’s remarks on migrants were “insulting, to say the least.”
The Arizona Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee in a statement compared the comments to those of former Arizona Rep. David Stringer. In June 2018, the Prescott Republican said there “there aren’t enough white kids to go around” in the United States and called immigration “an existential threat.”
Allen in Facebook posts Friday and Saturday apologized “to anyone who has been hurt by her words.” But she said her comments on immigration and birth rates were largely based on research by a respected demographer.
“Sadly, immigration has become a most contentious issue in our country,” she said in one of the posts, mentioning that she supports legal immigration and that her extended family sponsored a Laotian family “and helped them to assimilate into our country.”
Later, in a comment on her Facebook post Saturday, she thanked people who spoke in support and added, “Verbal Lynching is the political tool used today to silence debate on critical issues.”

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CA. ALREADY LOOKS LIKE many of the worse places in South America for years now. The RICH, living right against the ever expanding relatively speaking, so-called POOR, and that's poor by American standards although that standard is sinking to 3rd world standards when taking into affect the ever expanding homeless population around the nation.

Come to think of it, it ALREADY LOOKS like South America in Miami Dade County. I WAS SHOCKED when I drove down there in April. I put this up here a few months ago. I was FLABBERGASSED!!!!! Couldn't wait to drive back up to Broward and that's becoming a 3rd World Sh_thole also but nothing like this!!!!! BILLIONS and BILLIONS of $$$$$ went into downtown Miami and literally 1 block from it's Western edge on the other side of I-95 is a 3rd world DUMP and the rents there have gone through the roof there for a RAT TRAP unit apt. and that has caused all the homeless everywhere that has spread into downtown Miami on the East side of I-95. It's ALL ABOUT THE MASS IMMIGRATION BABY!!!!! LEGAL and ILLEGAL!!!!!