CNN’s John King interviews Gov. Jan Brewer

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

CNN's John King interviewed Gov. Jan Brewer (R-AZ) about the "Birther bill" she vetoed last week. I am surprised she ventured outside of the protective bubble of FAUX News Fraudcasting.

In the full interview that I watched (I cannot find a copy) John King went on to ask Gov. Brewer about her position on whether she will proceed in court after the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the U.S. District Court of Arizona in striking down most of SB 1070, and Brewer of course responded that Arizona would proceed in court.

Brewer also continued to demagogue on her reasons for wrapping herself in the hatred of SB 1070 and fear mongering over immigration last year in order to get elected governor. Listening to Jan Brewer and other Tea-Publican candidates for office last year tell it, there was a "horde" of "illegal" immigrants "invading" Arizona causing a "crime wave" in Arizona.

This demagoguery is refuted in this recent report in the Arizona Daily Star, Drop in illegal crossings leaves border agents bored:

Wild foot chases and dust-swirling car pursuits may be the adrenaline-pumping stuff of recruitment efforts, but agents on the U.S.-Mexico border these days have to deal with a more mundane occupational reality: the boredom of guarding a frontier where illegal crossings have dipped to record low levels.

Porous corridors along the 2,000-mile border do remain, mostly in the Tucson area, requiring constant vigilance. But beefed-up enforcement and the job-killing effects of the Great Recession have combined to reduce the flood of immigrants in many former hot spots to a trickle.

Apprehensions along the U.S.-Mexican border overall dropped from 2000 to 2010, from 1.6 million to 448,000, and almost every region has lonely posts where agents sit for hours staring at the barrier, "watching the fence rust" as some put it.

"When the traffic stops … of course it's going to be difficult for the agents to stay interested," said Supervisory Agent Ken Quillin, from the agency's Yuma sector. "I understand guys have a tough time staying awake. … They didn't join the border patrol to sit on an X," Quillin added, using the slang term for line watch duty.

Read the whole article. It makes Jan Brewer and others who demagogue on immigration look ridiculous.