by David Safier
This morning's E.J. Montini column in the Republic is filled with warnings, quotes and interesting facts about anti-immigrant trends in Arizona. Some excerpts:
[Linda Brown, executive director of the Arizona Advocacy Network]: "If (state Sen.) Russell Pearce secures the Senate presidency next year, we will see a whole lot more, particularly if we have a Republican governor."
A recent article in The Arizona Republic pointed out that several other immigration-related proposals may resurface, among them a plan to deny birth certificates to children born in Arizona to illegal immigrants and a plan to require Arizona schools to collect data on students who are not able to prove legal U.S. residence.
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[Russell Pearce]: "The far left always tells you, 'Russell, you can't deport 12 million people.' I say, 'Yes, you can, if you have the will.'"
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[Pearce] did use the term "sissies" . . . when referring to Republican colleagues who disagreed with him.
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Brown and her organization figured out what such an operation [to deport 12 million people] would entail.
"It works out to 229,167 buses in a line stretching from Phoenix to Detroit," she said. And that's after a roundup that could last for years and cost taxpayers roughly $250 billion.
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You claim that “An officer of the law has to have a legal reason (traffic violation or a criminal offense) to first stop an individual at which time the individual has to show identification.” Perhaps you should read the law. As reported here previously:
[The trailer bill] HB2162 concerned a phrase that said lawful contact can include an officer’s use of the new immigration law “in the enforcement of any other law or ordinance of a county, city or town or this state.”
Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, a Democrat from Phoenix, harped on this new phrase, saying it will mean that law officers will be able and compelled to check the status of a person, even if the police officer were responding to some sort of civil town ordinance, like an overgrown lawn, a fence in disrepair or a barking dog.
Sinema said police officers could previously only use the new immigration law when they encountered someone during the enforcement of a criminal or civil traffic violation, and that this will expand the way police officers could contact, then detain people while checking their federal immigration status.
Pearce denied that this change means much, and said police would already have been able to use the new law when making contact with a person for such civil ordinances. He said this new language was only added to further clarify the way police are authorized to use the new immigration law.
Mann of AZPOST agreed with Pearce, saying police officers would have the ability to use the new immigration law during any type of contact with any person, regardless of this new language.
“Police officers do this every day. It’s called a ‘Terry Stop,’ after the Terry v. Ohio case,” Mann said. “Let’s say there are some guys playing basketball in a park. The officer walks up and says, ‘Hey guys. How’s it going?’ That’s lawful contact. It’s a standard voluntary stop.”
I am so disappointed in the amount of people and groups that are protesting or speaking out against SB1070 who obviously have not taken the 30 minutes it takes to read the bill. It has been so grossly misconveyed in the mainstream media and all the left leaning liberal drones buy off on the rhetoric like mice following a pied piper.
It is disgusting, the level to which a large part of our American population has fallen in terms of “seek first the truth”. Basically, do your due dilligence. Read the law and you will discover that it is completely against racial profiling and has been written specifically to prevent anything of the sort. An officer of the law has to have a legal reason (traffic violation or a criminal offense) to first stop an individual at which time the individual has to show identification. It is nothing more than a state mandating their peace officers to enforce the Federal law that is and has been in place for some time.
So get off the protest wagon and lets get the illegal invasion under control!
I am especially fascinated by this one [Russell Pearce]: “The far left always tells you, ‘Russell, you can’t deport 12 million people.’ I say, ‘Yes, you can, if you have the will.'”
That’s too cute by far since the first question is how will you FIND 12 million people – or any other number, for that matter – when they have become adept at living under the radar. People like Pearce and the accidental Guv have so greatly oversimplified the “problem”, as they perceive it, that it is beyond ridiculous!!!!!!!