Talk about warping a situation to defend your ignorant opinion. This huge controversy going on in Arizona about the Mexican immigrant laws has people spewing all over the net that those of us who don’t live in Arizona should shut our mouths and the police have every right to stop people who could be in the state illegally and that Mexicans are lazy and don’t work and come into our country and take-take-take and get free healthcare and have babies and pay nothing into our system and something needs to be done about it and they SHOULD be stopped on the street and sent back to where they came from (see the run-on spewing?). Something absolutely needs to be done about illegal immigrants, but is it that hard to see how this practice does it by threatening the sense of safety and security of actual Americans?
What these pure blood (pure breed) patriots (parrots) don’t seem to understand because their opinions are fed to them (Squawk! Poly is a cracker!) is that the concern isn’t that the law is unconstitutional towards illegal immigrants, but that it’s unconstitutional towards Americans!!! Is it that hard to comprehend? I guess it is if your skin color is white and you don’t stand a chance of being violated. Illegal immigrants of every race come into this country, but what we’re doing here is stopping ONLY people of color (aka: racial profiling). So, you can be a full-fledge born-in-America citizen of color and be stopped (and possibly harassed) by the police because of your skin color. ANYONE can be an illegal immigrant, but you’re not going to get stopped if you’re WHITE, because, conveniently, white =American citizen. There’d be a whole lot more understanding about what the problem is with this law if every white person was faced with the threat of being stopped by police and questioned at any time, say when you’re going to be late to work and it could cost you a promotion (hey, at least it wouldn’t be to affirmative action), have to hurry to pick up your child who is waiting all alone at an integrated school (eek!), or you’re rushing to the hospital gushing blood from gun wounds after a shoot out with an illegal immigrant drug lord (thank God you have the right to bear arms for just this kind of frequent situation). You know how nerve-racking it is when you’re stopped by a cop because you were speeding—or even better, how insulted and infuriated you feel when you’re stopped by a cop even though you weren’t speeding??? Now imagine what it would feel like being stopped by a cop simply because you were doing a salsa down the street while listening to a Shakira song on your iPod, exiting a Taco Bell while making love to an enchilada with your mouth, or walking in the park with your Chihuahua.
If they want to put an end to the illegal immigrant problem, here’s a place to start: arrest all the cheapskate rich white people who hire them for shit money to do menial and degrading jobs. If illegal immigrants weren’t being offered ‘opportunity’ here by us, they wouldn’t have any reason to come here. I know, the rich powerful white man hiring illegal aliens to clean his toilets, mow his lawn and screw his wife is such a clichéd and stereotyped concept—it’s almost as bad as assuming everyone with dark skin is an illegal immigrant…
Lots of misinformation on the Arizona Law. They can’t pull you over for being brown and asking for documents. They can ask for documents (license, identification, green card) when the matter is related to an arrest. They could do that already–so what’s the problem?
Well, the problem is that now they can kick the person to the Federal branch to deal with the problem instead of housing them in their prison.
Essentially the Law was putting pressure on the Federal level which has immigration rules in place but doesn’t (can’t) enforce them. It’s been charged with race because of the poor language of the first bill (not the final approved law) and because it was a politically handy way of making sure hispanics stick with the left.
Interesting. So clearly, the common folk are misinformed on both sides of the coin. It would be nice if the news wouldn’t be so biased or ‘filter’ so much and actually tell FULL stories about these things. Sounds like typical political games of making the people paranoid if this is the case–but you have to wonder, why don’t those being attacked for in these situations (in this case, the makers of the law) come out and fully EXPLAIN the law so everyone is quite clear on it??? It’s like a bad RPG–okay, I’ll just stand here while you hit me. Okay. Is it my turn to strike back yet?
That RPG image is too funny. I’m imagining Arizona pressing the button on their control to get the story to show up on the News but It Just Isn’t Working! WTF!!!