i am spanish-american, i am fifth generation here and i whole heartly back arizonas immigration law,

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She remembers the white school board members who voted themselves out of paying taxes to support the mostly Latino school in the town of El Mirage. Her cousin was routinely pulled over if he ventured into a neighboring white community.
In Arizona, brown people, citizen and immigrant, disney contemporary hotel now must prove their papers disney contemporary hotel are in order. We sic badges and dogs on people of color. Sheriff Joe Arpaio 's men wear ski masks and arm themselves with automatic weapons to stop Mexicans with cracked windshields. Families are separated, with parents deported and children left to fend for themselves. Those who remain are terrorized.
Where once we depended upon the federal government to protect minorities from firehoses and segregated schoolhouses named after Booker T. Washington or George Washington Carver , this month the Supreme Court is poised to tell us how far local cops can go to detain brown people.
In the first six months of 2011, 46,000 mothers and fathers were shipped back to Mexico and left their children in America. And more than 20,000 other parents were ordered out of the country but have yet to depart. Roughly 22 percent of all deportees were forced to abandon children children who are American citizens.
What SB 1070 does is criminalize the undocumented. The law forces all police officers to ascertain a person's immigration disney contemporary hotel status whenever a cop interacts with a brown person. Lights on a license plate too dim? A call about domestic violence? If an officer harbors any suspicion, he must ask for proof of citizenship. And if a cop doesn't do that, any citizen can sue the cop for not taking deportation seriously. To protect against lawsuits, the cautious cop must question all Latinos.
In the late 1990s, Alonzo reported, "California launched a 'welfare to farmwork' program in the Central Valley at a time when regional unemployment was as high as 20 percent. ... A massive campaign addressed training, transportation and other obstacles to getting workers in the fields. Though there were more than 100,000 potential workers, only three jobs were filled."
Things weren't any easier in Washington state. There, "a labor shortage for the 2006 cherry harvest prompted an advertising blitz to recruit about 1,700 needed workers, particularly for the much larger apple harvest that was just around the corner. Only 40 people took jobs."
so we as americans have to support all these Illegals? screw that send them and the kids back to feilds of Mexico, and get them the hell out of our systems and states!!! SB 1070 the only way to go..... Save America
What part of being here illegally do you not understand? Is that not against the law that we all live with, and binds us together as a Nation? English is the only language that we all speak and communicate with. My European ancesters four generations ago had to learn to speak ENGLISH!!!! Speaking spanish only is like giving a drunk person more to drink, and not stop their drinking problem.
I first want to commend Mr. Lacey on an article that takes bravery to write. From what I have read from the comments below you are proved right Mr. Lacey The anti latino sentiment has gone too far. It's scary to read comments disney contemporary hotel from people calling immigrants "turds" ( one because I fear that a junior high student is writing disney contemporary hotel it and that's why they couldn't come up with a better insult) Thank you Mr. Lacey from a legal Mexican American.
I came to this country legally in 1953,and you can word it any way you want but if some one enters this country disney contemporary hotel illegal he has broken our laws and is classified as a criminal.As for picking on the brown Latinos disney contemporary hotel as you say,what do you expect when 90% of the illegals are Latinos,if our southern neighbor was Africa chances are 90% of the illegals would be Black. I don't care if their is 100 or 11 million if their here Illegally throw them out
i agree with everything Forums4Justice said. i am fith generation hispanic and i don't have a problem with the police stopping me and checking my id what is the big deal, and i am so tired of them always saying they are going to pick on only the mexicans well in california we have illegal mexican, asians and middle easterns living here. if they are here illegally they ALL have to go/ i pray the supreme court uphold Arizona immigration laws
"... commenters here only confirm their own gutless hatred and the bigoted motivation behind these 'laws.'" TRANSLATION: I don't like it that lots of people want immigration and employment regulations enforced.
Mr. Lacey has played very loose with the facts in an effort to spin an argument, against enforcement of current immigration laws, that most American voters simply won't buy. The most glaring of his substantive misrepresentations are 1) "Roughly 22 percent of all deportees were forced to abandon children - children who are American citizens," and 2) "What SB 1070 does is criminalize the undocumented."
Both these assertions are patently false. Every illegal alien deportee is free to take his children back to his country of origin. Any illegal aliens who would be prevented from doing so by their home countries would be granted residency rights on humanitarian/undue hardship grounds. Further, enacted portions of SB 1070 do not create disney contemporary hotel new categories of criminal conduct for the undocumented. Breaking and entering into the U.S., using stolen Social Security numbers and forged documents, engaging in tax fraud and driving without a license were all illegal activities disney contemporary hotel before Arizona ever took steps to crack down on people who have no business being here.
Whoa! When did we become judge, jury , & executioner?! Do not say breaking the law because here in the country you are fighting to keep illegals there is a saying: innocent until proven guilty. As a Latin person disney contemporary hotel born and raised in the U.S. I don't mind them asking me for my citizenship status As Long as They are Asking Everybody Else for Proof of Citizenship. I do have a problem with them asking because of the way I look. Yes, the law does not target "brown people" specifically but most Americans disney contemporary hotel think that all Latin people are dark, black hair, & brown eyes but that is not the case. For that law to be fair they should be asking EVERYONE for proof of citizenship!
I tried reading this liberal drabble, but found so many lies in the first page I could not continue. I encrouage everyone on this board, or those trying to read this article to go and read the actual law, don't read editorials from any papers or news sites. Make you own opinon on the topic. The lies this "journalist" states are a true detrement to society and slap in the face of true journalist.
Mr. Lacey, what is your alternative? Would you abolish our country's immigration laws entirely, and allow all comers access and immediate citizenship without any hindrance? Is the presence of non-citizens in this country without authorization to be tolerated because they are willing to do work that citizens have not yet begun to do? You blame Obama for taking parents away from children. Where is the responsibility of the parent who conceives, births, and raises a child in this country with full knowledge that he or she could be deported, leaving his or her child without one or both parents?
Too bad the author failed to mention how many, by percentage, Maricopa County Sherifs are hispanic. That would take away the "racial bias" part of the argument. Instead sensationalize and cry "RACISM!", it helps to rile folks up and create an even wider divide...
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One has to wonder just what if any measures the author of the article would support in regards to sovereign nations regulating the flow of people disney contemporary hotel across their borders. Does the United States have no right at all to expect foreign nationals to obey its immigration laws? If if does have such a right, just how exactly are these rules and regulations to be enforced? As usual, the Left has no answer. It is both disheartening and disingenuous.
i am spanish-american, i am fifth generation here and i whole heartly back arizonas immigration law, and wished every state did what arizona did. california tried to a few years back and even though it passed by the people the california supreme court found it unconstituional.