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Local news here in Arizona.

http://www.kpho.com/video/22994645/index.html

The BS continues to put pressure on the Gov. to not sign bill 1070

Arizona: A State With Hate http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-carlos-frey/arizona-a-state-with-hate_b_525758.html

Arizona state legislators are once again positioning themselves to be the most hate-based state in the union. Arizona State Senator Russell K. Pearce (R) is a perfect example of hate mongering and overt racism. I realize that terms like "hate monger" and "racist" are strong accusations but I can find no better terms to describe the current attempt to curb illegal immigration in the state of Arizona.

From Senator Pearce's own website:

"Republicans and Democrats in DC are terrified to oppose illegal immigration out of fear that they will be labeled racist. This assertion is ridiculous. There is nothing racist about upholding the law."
Senator Pearce's proposed legislation (SB1070) has nothing to do with upholding the law and everything to do with racial discrimination. According to Jennifer Allen, executive director of Arizona based Border Action Network who is working to defeat the bill, local law enforcement must make the eradication of undocumented immigrants a priority over other public safety responsibilities. Without any form of training, local law enforcement will be given authority to arrest someone if they have probable cause to believe they are undocumented. Who do you think they will suspect? This construct sets up a blatant system for racial profiling. The nearly 2 million Latinos in the state of Arizona will become prime suspects solely based on ethnicity. The bill's discriminatory tactics include attacks on day laborers and individuals that hire them as well as anyone who may transport, know, harbor, shield or protect undocumented immigrants. The bill represents nothing short of a witch-hunt with impunity. It sets up a system of law enforcement abuse that will drive immigrants, legal or not, deeper into the shadows of society.

When I was a child, I was out for a walk with my mother in a rural part of south San Diego County. We lived within walking distance of the U.S. Mexico border. This particular morning, like many others, I ran ahead to investigate the seasonal creek several hundred yards away. When I came back to meet up with my mother she was nowhere in sight. I looked everywhere and quickly ran home to tell my father. My family spent 24 hours searching for her -- calling everyone we knew including law enforcement. The next morning we received a telephone call from Tijuana, MX. My mother had been picked up by U.S. Border Patrol and deported. When I ran ahead of her, a Border Patrol agent suspected my mother was in the U.S. illegally. She tried to convince the officer that she was "legal" but he didn't believe her. My mother had deep brown skin and spoke poor English but had lived in the U.S. as a legal resident for 25 years. She had raised four children but was deported because of her ethnicity. It was a horrible case of racial profiling that scarred my mother and family for life.

State Senator Russell Pearce has been pushing racially motivated, anti-immigrant legislation in Arizona for years. He is endorsed by and has direct associations with known white supremacists Buffalo Rick Galeener and J.T. Ready amongst others. Rick Galeener was cited for publicly urinating in front of a Latino mother and her child.
J.T. Ready has publicly campaigned for Senator Pearce and has close ties to Neo-Nazi organizations. J.T. Ready has publicly stated, "I firmly believe in having a minefield across the border, this is 100% effective." Senator Pearce did not return calls to comment on these associations nor has he denounced them publicly. Both Galeener and Ready have been monitored by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League and are classified as nativists, extremists and white supremacists but Senator Pearce remains silent.

Jennifer Allen of Border Action Network has collected and sent over 20,000 postcards to Arizona Governor Jan Brewer opposing the legislation, yet the governor continues to support the bill. The bill is opposed by the Arizona Association of Chiefs of Police and dozens of Latino organizations and civil rights groups, yet the bill continues to make progress in the legislature. Scholars, lawyers, and fellow legislators believe Pearce's push to rid the state of undocumented immigrants violates basic civil rights and constitutional law, yet the bill has strong Republican support. Hate crimes against Latinos are up 40 percent, yet John McCain and his primary challenger JD Hayworth claim they are tough on undocumented immigrants and neither of them have the courage to denounce the racially motivated legislation.

If Arizona lawmakers were interested in resolving the complex dilemma of immigration they would address poverty, trade imbalances, work visas, corporate greed and family reunification. Instead, leaders of the great state of Arizona have grabbed their pitch forks and nooses and are continuing to scapegoat the voiceless and vulnerable for cheap political victories. Hate begets hate and hate solves nothing.

http://www.borderaction.org/web/index.php

The AZ House of Representatives passed Russell Pearce's SB1070!
Now it's time to urge Governor Brewer's VETO!

For the last seven weeks we have been fighting what would become the nation’s toughest, most far-reaching anti-immigrant law in the nation. Your emails, phones calls, faxes and postcards have slowed the bill down, but the Arizona House just approved Pearce's SB1070. Now we need your support and your presence at the State Capitol tomorrow to urge Governor Brewer's VETO of this horrible bill!

Wednesday, April 14th, 12 PM
1700 W. Washington St. Phoenix, AZ 85007
Rear entrance to Governor's office

If you have any doubts about Pearce’s irrational, single-minded focus on pushing immigrant families and everyone in the state further down the path of backwards policies, watch an interview with the Senator on the Sunday Square Off:

You gotta see this video...
http://link.brightcove.com/services/pla ... 7039865001

The bill's discriminatory tactics include attacks on day laborers and individuals that hire them as well as anyone who may transport, know, harbor, shield or protect undocumented immigrants. The bill represents nothing short of a witch-hunt with impunity. It sets up a system of law enforcement abuse that will drive immigrants, legal or not, deeper into the shadows of society.

HELLO!!! This is already against federal law!

hardlineconstitutionalist,

The Video is GREAT!! Mr. Pearce just nails the progessive little twit.

You gotta see this video...
http://link.brightcove.com/services/pla ... 7039865001

Would you move it to pictures so that more folks have an opportunity to view it?

Originally Posted by Newmexican

hardlineconstitutionalist,

The Video is GREAT!! Mr. Pearce just nails the progessive little twit.

You gotta see this video...
http://link.brightcove.com/services/pla ... 7039865001

Would you move it to pictures so that more folks have an opportunity to view it?

Great video. He sure ripped him another one!

I realize that terms like "hate monger" and "racist" are strong accusations but I can find no better terms to describe the current attempt to curb illegal immigration in the state of Arizona.

Those terms are no longer strong! They have lost all affect because race baiters like you have continued to use such terms as racist and hate monger against great Americans who only demand our nation's immigration laws be enforced!

We warned you that using such terms habitually would eventually lose it's luster...now it has!!!

Why would ANY country want millions of illegal aliens/immigrants anyway?
The whole concept of people invading a country to go to school, buy homes, rent, get jobs, send their children to school, use social services,etc. WITHOUT PERMISSION is in itself RIDICULOUS at best. Add to that the concept of hiring and paying illegal aliens to work. Then add to that the notion that's it's OK for the U.S. to have its cities Mexicanized by Mexico's poor and uneducated, low-level, low-skilled workers.

The whole thing seems ridiculous. It's hard to believe that there are people who defend these stupid notions just because illegals "contribute" to the economy. Why can't they contribute "legally" like everyone else? That makes more sense than trying to justify illegal immigration or even worse, calling people "immigrants" when they're not even entitled to have that label. I think it's OK for immigrants to come and enjoy America, but why not have law and order and do things right, based on quotas, on qualifications, background checks. health checks, etc? That's more intelligent and more sensible. How stupid of us to allow it to be done otherwise. Nuts, if you ask me. Sure, many are good people and all but for crying out loud, why do things ILLEGALLY? Why allow them to get away with it over $$$?

Originally Posted by legalalien

Why would ANY country want millions of illegal aliens/immigrants anyway?
The whole concept of people invading a country to go to school, buy homes, rent, get jobs, send their children to school, use social services,etc. WITHOUT PERMISSION is in itself RIDICULOUS at best. Add to that the concept of hiring and paying illegal aliens to work. Then add to that the notion that's it's OK for the U.S. to have its cities Mexicanized by Mexico's poor and uneducated, low-level, low-skilled workers.

The whole thing seems ridiculous. It's hard to believe that there are people who defend these stupid notions just because illegals "contribute" to the economy. Why can't they contribute "legally" like everyone else? That makes more sense than trying to justify illegal immigration or even worse, calling people "immigrants" when they're not even entitled to have that label. I think it's OK for immigrants to come and enjoy America, but why not have law and order and do things right, based on quotas, on qualifications, background checks. health checks, etc? That's more intelligent and more sensible. How stupid of us to allow it to be done otherwise. Nuts, if you ask me. Sure, many are good people and all but for crying out loud, why do things ILLEGALLY? Why allow them to get away with it over $$$?

Ridiculous is putting it mildly...It's disgusting. Bottom line, condoning this is all about money by the corporate elite, and for the polititions it's for votes. And the illegals chose to be here illegally because they're lazy bums, and have no interest in being 'Americanized'. They want to take what they could get, and they're getting it.