FrankRep
04-28-2010, 10:01 AM
In Arizona, Governor Jan Brewer signs into law a crackdown on illegal immigration despite Mexico protests. by Jack Kenny
Arizona Now ‘Dangerfield’ Country (http://www.jbs.org/jbs-news-feed/6232-arizona-now-dangerfield-country-)
Jack Kenny | John Birch Society (http://www.jbs.org/)
Wednesday, 28 April 2010
If Rodney Dangerfield — the comedian who complained, “ I don’t get no respect”— were alive today, he might feel at home in Arizona. No respect is what Governor Jan Brewer says her state and its people have received from the President of the United States. The Republican governor said she has sent five letters to the White House about the problem of illegal immigration in her state and all have gone unanswered. Then the President called the controversial bill the governor signed last week to crackdown on illegal immigrants “misguided” and ordered the Justice Department to monitor its enforcement to ensure that civil rights were not being violated.
“I’ve spoken to the President personally in regard to that,” Brewer said about the unanswered letters, calling the non-response a “complete and total disrespect to the people of Arizona. I mean we don’t even get an answer back.”
The bill that has sparked an outcry in Arizona and around the nation makes it a state crime for illegal immigrants to be in Arizona and requires police to stop people they have reason to believe are aliens and question them. The law also authorizes the police to arrest suspects who cannot show evidence of their legal status. The law has been roundly denounced in protest demonstrations by people who say it will result in police harassment of people of color or who speak with an accent. An Arizona congressman is among those who have called for a nationwide boycott (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/24/eveningnews/main6429215.shtml) of conventions and other events in the state to protest the new law. Arizona has been the target of boycotts before. In the early 1990’s the state lost a Super Bowl bid when the National Football League decided to bypass the state for not making Martin Luther King Day a state holiday.
In Mexico, political activists called on Mexicans not to visit Arizona to protest the legislation "in solidarity with our compatriots who live there and can be detained unjustly," Mexican publication El Universal reported. Mexico's foreign relations department Tuesday issued an advisory to Mexicans in Arizona, ABC News reported. "It should be assumed that any Mexican citizen could be bothered and questioned for no other reason at any moment," the travel alert said. It called on its citizens to “act with prudence and restraint and respect the framework of local laws.”
YouTube - Apr. 23, 2010 - AZ SB 1070: Arizona Immigration Bill Becomes Law - Gov Brewer Full Announcement (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrwSqBhUOBs)
Brewer’s predecessor, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, also weighed in with criticism of the Arizona law in an interview on ABC.
"It's not a good law enforcement law," said Napolitano who vetoed similar bills three times while she was Arizona’s governor. "But beyond that, what it illustrates is that other states now will feel compelled to do things and you will have this patchwork of laws where we need a federal immigration (http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/04/27/Ariz-immigration-law-roundly-criticized/UPI-27081272384281/#) system that meets our security needs, that recognizes where we need to go in this 21st century and gives us a better framework on which to stand."
Arizona has an estimated 466,000 illegal immigrants living in the state and Brewer and others frustrated by the illegal flow of people and drug trafficking across the border say the federal system is not working and they have waited long enough for Washington to effectively enforce federal immigration laws. Sen. John McCain, who a few years ago co-sponsored with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the kind of “comprehensive immigration reform” that Obama wants, has endorsed the law that the Arizona legislature passed and Brewer signed.
"The fact is that our borders are broken,” said the 2008 Republican presidential candidate. “They are not secure. It is a federal responsibility to secure our borders. It is not being done," McCain said on the Senate floor Monday.
SOURCE:
http://www.jbs.org/jbs-news-feed/6232-arizona-now-dangerfield-country-
Arizona Now ‘Dangerfield’ Country (http://www.jbs.org/jbs-news-feed/6232-arizona-now-dangerfield-country-)
Jack Kenny | John Birch Society (http://www.jbs.org/)
Wednesday, 28 April 2010
If Rodney Dangerfield — the comedian who complained, “ I don’t get no respect”— were alive today, he might feel at home in Arizona. No respect is what Governor Jan Brewer says her state and its people have received from the President of the United States. The Republican governor said she has sent five letters to the White House about the problem of illegal immigration in her state and all have gone unanswered. Then the President called the controversial bill the governor signed last week to crackdown on illegal immigrants “misguided” and ordered the Justice Department to monitor its enforcement to ensure that civil rights were not being violated.
“I’ve spoken to the President personally in regard to that,” Brewer said about the unanswered letters, calling the non-response a “complete and total disrespect to the people of Arizona. I mean we don’t even get an answer back.”
The bill that has sparked an outcry in Arizona and around the nation makes it a state crime for illegal immigrants to be in Arizona and requires police to stop people they have reason to believe are aliens and question them. The law also authorizes the police to arrest suspects who cannot show evidence of their legal status. The law has been roundly denounced in protest demonstrations by people who say it will result in police harassment of people of color or who speak with an accent. An Arizona congressman is among those who have called for a nationwide boycott (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/24/eveningnews/main6429215.shtml) of conventions and other events in the state to protest the new law. Arizona has been the target of boycotts before. In the early 1990’s the state lost a Super Bowl bid when the National Football League decided to bypass the state for not making Martin Luther King Day a state holiday.
In Mexico, political activists called on Mexicans not to visit Arizona to protest the legislation "in solidarity with our compatriots who live there and can be detained unjustly," Mexican publication El Universal reported. Mexico's foreign relations department Tuesday issued an advisory to Mexicans in Arizona, ABC News reported. "It should be assumed that any Mexican citizen could be bothered and questioned for no other reason at any moment," the travel alert said. It called on its citizens to “act with prudence and restraint and respect the framework of local laws.”
YouTube - Apr. 23, 2010 - AZ SB 1070: Arizona Immigration Bill Becomes Law - Gov Brewer Full Announcement (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrwSqBhUOBs)
Brewer’s predecessor, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, also weighed in with criticism of the Arizona law in an interview on ABC.
"It's not a good law enforcement law," said Napolitano who vetoed similar bills three times while she was Arizona’s governor. "But beyond that, what it illustrates is that other states now will feel compelled to do things and you will have this patchwork of laws where we need a federal immigration (http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/04/27/Ariz-immigration-law-roundly-criticized/UPI-27081272384281/#) system that meets our security needs, that recognizes where we need to go in this 21st century and gives us a better framework on which to stand."
Arizona has an estimated 466,000 illegal immigrants living in the state and Brewer and others frustrated by the illegal flow of people and drug trafficking across the border say the federal system is not working and they have waited long enough for Washington to effectively enforce federal immigration laws. Sen. John McCain, who a few years ago co-sponsored with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the kind of “comprehensive immigration reform” that Obama wants, has endorsed the law that the Arizona legislature passed and Brewer signed.
"The fact is that our borders are broken,” said the 2008 Republican presidential candidate. “They are not secure. It is a federal responsibility to secure our borders. It is not being done," McCain said on the Senate floor Monday.
SOURCE:
http://www.jbs.org/jbs-news-feed/6232-arizona-now-dangerfield-country-