Well since the Federal government has their collective heads up their asses and doing next to nothing to stop illegal immigration I would say this is born out of frustration more than anything.
I hope a Federal court puts a stop to this nonsense as well. Brewer sucked the cock of the extreme right to try to win reelection since she supported the unpopular sales tax which will be voted on next month. I’m guessing her political advisors told her she could sign it and maybe win reelection or she could veto it and be sure to lose and have her successor sign it.
Could get interesting though. Some of the reservations could pass similar laws and stop white people and demand to see their papers.
I would say this is born out of the 2010 election season. Kinda like banning, rebanning, rebanning again same sex marriage.
Hmm. I wonder if I can arrange for deportation to Colorado.
Nope. Utah, Mississippi, or New Jersey. Take yer pick.
I don’t like Bush much, or at all, but even I know that he tried to do something about illegal immigration. His own party stopped him because of the whole deal with amnesty. Bush got one thing right: being from a southern state like Texas, he knows you can’t just go and round up millions of people and deport them.
Obama has called for similar amnesty, which has become a bad word in the eyes of the racist pricks who support and pushed through this Az. law. So don’t say that the feds haven’t done anything about it. The feds have tried and they were pushed back by the extremist elements in the GOP.
He ordered pop instead of soda! Get a rope!
As a resident of Arizona’s oft-forgotten neighbor, which has an even greater percentage of hispanic/latino residents than Arizona (NM is ~45 hispanic, AZ is ~30%), this is just pissing me off beyond words. It’s stupid, it amounts to nothing more than legalized racism, and it’s just stupid.
I don’t know how similar it is in Arizona, but here in NM, there’s any number of ways one could be pegged as “hispanic”. Someone can have a hispanic name but be white as can be, like a former boss of mine, whose Spanish ancestors showed up here sometime in the 1600s, have a hispanic name and look hispanic and actually be of Latin American descent, or have a non-hispanic name and look hispanic (see: New Mexico’s current governor). And of course, at least here in NM, there’s a decent chance that someone will look hispanic-ish and may or may not have a hispanic name - and their ancestors were here long before any Europeans showed up on the scene*. And I can’t help but suspect that the “Mexican-looking” Mr. Richardson will be much more likely to get hassled than the white Mr. Diaz.
*And good lord, insert irony here if, say, a member of a pueblo gets pulled over and the cop demands proof of citizenship because “he looks hispanic”.
There are excellent and effective means to spot the illegal alien! Behold, Hardball, with Big Tweetybird and the redoubtable Congressman Brian Bilbray (R-CACA), Chairman of the Immigration Reform Caucus!
So, there you have it! Shoes!
How much of a problem is illegal immigration, anyway? Seriously, if all illegals currently in the U.S. were declared citizens, what would actually happen?
If you stuck your head out the window, you could hear the brisk staccato of heads exploding, kind of like popcorn popping the microwave.
Tucson has been around longer than that, supposedly…
That’s pretty much the same system that is in place in Japan.
If you want to shame them (they are capable of feeling shame, right?) let them know that they’ve just graduated to Japan’s level of xenophobia.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County (Phoenix Metro) did immigration raids on Guadalupe, AZ. As Wikipedia says:
So, it’s already happened.
Bear in mind that these are the same Republicans who are always screaming about too much government interference.
As I understand it, the new law actually specifies that people and organizations who do not enforce it strictly are open to legal action; i.e. that a police department that chooses to, say, actually work on crime rather than hassle “suspicious-looking” people can be sued.
Only one thing to do. The police will have to question everyone they come into contact with as to their immigration status. Elsewise they would be racial profiling.
Like another poster said, I’m actually somewhat in favor of this sort of legislation, but this specific bill is so vague that all it does is create the potential for a police state.
Howabout if your neighbor had a beef against you and called the cops claiming that they think you’re an illegal immigrant. Would the cops actually be obligated to investigate something like that?
And the RW has the nerve to claim that Obama is going to take their guns away and set up concentration camps.
Fortunately, these kind of electioneering stunts are usually not written to avoid unconstitutionality. In fact, it is a bonus if the law is struck down by “activist” courts.
Hopefully it will be randomly assigned to a Republican-appointed judge to do the honors, like the intelligent design case in Pennsylvania.
I’m having a hard time understanding why even in theory this is good.
“While questioning the suspect I observed that he appeared to be Caucasian and spoke good English. I then proceeded to notice that the suspect was wearing sabots, and based upon that evidence made the determination that there was probable cause to identify the suspect as Dutch, and immediately placed the suspect in custody…”