Arizona has had Enough!

« on: April 21, 2010, 11:30:28 AM »

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Angst rises as Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer mulls immigration bill

The Arizona Republic

The nation's battle over immigration reform this week landed squarely on Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's office steps. And with four days left to decide what she'll do about one of the state's most divisive issues in the midst of an election year, the pressure is mounting.

The Arizona Senate on Monday approved Senate Bill 1070, a wide-ranging illegal-immigration measure that, among other things, makes it a state crime to be in the country illegally and requires local law enforcement to determine an individual's legal status if there is reasonable suspicion that he or she is in the U.S. illegally. Brewer has until the end of the day Saturday to sign it, veto it or do nothing and allow it to become law.

While everyone awaits her decision, the stakes continue to rise.

On Tuesday, police arrested nine college students after they chained themselves to the old Capitol-building doors in protest. More than 100 bill opponents spent the day praying and rallying. Some plan to stay round-the-clock until Brewer makes a decision.

Hundreds of phone calls and e-mails are pouring in from both sides. Brewer's Republican gubernatorial opponents are pushing for support of the bill, while some city leaders are trying to find ways around it.


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Re: Arizona has had Enough!

« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2010, 02:05:18 PM »

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Latest poll results;Poll: Arizona voters overwhelmingly support immigration billA new Rasmussen

Poll reports that 70 percent of likely voters in Arizona approve of the illegal immigration bill now on Gov. Jan Brewer’s desk.

Contrary to the national uproar, just 23 percent o flikely Arizona voters oppose Senate Bill 1070, with six percent unsure. The poll of 500 people was conducted last week and has a margin of error of 4.5 percentage points.

The poll comes as critics across the country take aim at Arizona. Among them, the nation's highest ranking Catholic bishop who believes we are headed the way of the Nazi's and our own U.S. Sen. Raul Grijalva, who is calling for a national boycott of his own state.

Senate Bill 1070 has a lot of moving parts. Basically, it directs police officers to check into the immigration status of anyone they reasonably suspect is in the country illegally. It makes it a state crime to be here illegally and it makes it illegal for day laborers to impede traffic while waiting for work.

House Approriations Chairman John Kavanagh, one of the architects of the bill, discounts the national uproar, saying he believes that support for the bill crosses party and ethnic lines.


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« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2010, 04:04:25 AM »

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Sen. Pearce lashes out at L.A. Cardinal

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Sen. Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, responded to Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Michael Mahoney's criticism of his Immigration Bill on the Philadelphia-based radio show of Michael Smerconish.

Mahoney had compared Senate Bill 1070 to Nazi and Communist techniques.

Pearce said Mahoney should be the last one to criticize the bill.
"The guy that's been protecting child molesters and predators all of his life ... he has real respect for the rule of law doesn't he?" Pearce said


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« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2010, 04:22:55 AM »

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Proof of a good bill..

Apr. 21, 2010 02:08 PM
Associated Press
MEXICO CITY - The Mexican government is criticizing a tough immigration law approved this week by Arizona legislators, saying Wednesday it could result in rights violations and racial profiling and affect cross-border relations.

Mexico's Foreign Relations Department said in a statement relayed through Mexico's U.S. Embassy that it views the measure with great concern and that it "could have potentially serious effects on the civil rights" of Mexican nationals.

"Mexico views with concern the possible negative effects the measure could have, if approved, on the development of the ties of friendship, culture, commerce and tourism that have characterized Mexico's relations with Arizona for generations," according to the statement.

The law has been approved by Arizona legislators and is awaiting consideration by Gov. Jan Brewer. The measure makes it a state crime for migrants to be in Arizona without documents.

Mexico also said the bill "opens the door to the inappropriate use of racial profiling."

An estimated 11.8 million Mexicans live in the United States. A large percentage are undocumented, and Arizona has been one of the main routes for undocumented migration into the United States.


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« Reply #4 on: April 22, 2010, 04:45:23 AM »

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He'll be happy to know that Cardinal Archbishop Mahoney has recently announced his retirement. The new Archbishop will be the Archbishop of San Antonio, Jose Gomez (Mexican Born).

José Horacio Gómez

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During his tenure in San Antonio, Gómez earned a reputation as an orthodox leader who reversed some of the more liberal-leaning initiatives in the diocese.[12] [13] He disbanded the chancery's Justice and Peace Commission after its members expressed their opposition to a state constitutional amendment that banned same-sex marriage.[12] During the 2008 presidential election, he publicly expressed concern when St. Mary's University, the oldest Catholic university in Texas as well as the Southwest, allowed pro-choice candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton to hold a campaign event on campus.[11] He also voiced his concerns when another Catholic university allowed a high-profile nun who supports female ordination to be a keynote speaker at an event.[13] He welcomed Summorum Pontificum, which granted greater freedom to the Tridentine Mass, saying it would preserve "the rich heritage and legacy of the Church."[14]
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Considered to be theologically conservative, Gómez is also viewed as "a natural conciliator admired for uniting rich and poor and Anglo and Hispanic Catholics..."[16] He is regarded as more conservative than his predecessor, Cardinal Mahony.

FWIW, the Church does not advocate breaking the law, but they don't ignore immigrants in need once they become part of the community. The aid given is not dependent upon their status here. You can't expect anyone to take illegal immigration seriously when those charged with enforcing the laws don't.

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Re: Arizona has had Enough!

« Reply #5 on: May 01, 2010, 07:58:51 PM »

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What Arizona Must Live With
Gordon Brown called Gillian Duffy a “bigot,” then got into his limo and drove away. Remind you of anybody?

As I write, I have my papers on me — and not just because I’m in Arizona. I’m an immigrant, and it is a condition of my admission to this great land that I carry documentary proof of my residency status with me at all times and be prepared to produce it to law-enforcement officials, whether on a business trip to Tucson or taking a 20-minute stroll in the woods back at my pad in New Hampshire.

Who would impose such an outrageous Nazi fascist discriminatory law?

Er, well, that would be Franklin Roosevelt.

But don’t let the fine print of the New Deal prevent you from going into full-scale meltdown. “Boycott Arizona-stan!” urges MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, surely a trifle Islamophobically. What has some blameless Central Asian basket case done to deserve being compared to a hellhole like Phoenix?

Boycott Arizona Iced Tea, jests Travis Nichols of Chicago. It is “the drink of fascists.” Just as regular tea is the drink of racists, according to Newsweek’s in-depth and apparently non-satirical poll analysis of anti-Obama protests. At San Francisco’s City Hall, where bottled water is banned as the drink of climate denialists, Mayor Gavin Newsom is boycotting for real: All official visits to Arizona have been canceled indefinitely. You couldn’t get sanctions like these imposed at the U.N. Security Council, but then, unlike Arizona, Iran is not a universally reviled pariah.

Will a full-scale economic embargo devastate the Copper State? Who knows? It’s not clear to me what San Francisco imports from Arizona. Chaps? But, at any rate, like the bottled-water ban, it sends a strong signal that this kind of hate will not be tolerated.

The same day that Mayor Newsom took his bold stand, I saw a phalanx of police officers doing the full Robocop — black body armor, helmets, and visors — as they marched down the street. Goosestepping? No, it’s actually quite hard to goosestep in those steel-reinforced kneepads. So just regular marching. Naturally, I assumed they were Arizona state troopers performing a routine traffic stop. In fact, they were the police department of Quincy, Ill., facing down a group of genial tea-party grandmas in sun hats and American-flag T-shirts. They were acting at the behest of President Obama’s Secret Service, who rightly recognized a polite knot of citizens singing “God Bless America” as a clear and present danger to the republic.

If I were a member of the Quincy PD, I’d wear a full-face visor, too, because I wouldn’t be able to look myself in the mirror. It’s a tough job making yourself a paramilitary laughingstock.

http://article.nationalreview.com/433163/what-arizona-must-live-with/mark-steyn


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Re: Arizona has had Enough!

« Reply #6 on: May 02, 2010, 04:56:10 AM »

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Funny stuff...Boycott Arizona Iced Tea, jests Travis Nichols of Chicago. It is “the drink of fascists.” Just as regular tea is the drink of racists, according to Newsweek’s in-depth and apparently non-satirical poll analysis of anti-Obama protests

UH AZ iced tea.. its a New York Company

Illegals send billions out of the country every year...They cost over a billion.. in crime/free healthcare/no car insurance ... etc,etc...Boycott AZ Fine with me...

California calls us "Zonies" when we visit and spend billions to beat the heat...Maybe we will boycott Cal... stay home and spend the money at our own resorts....