by David Safier
The silence is positively defining. The Goldwater Institute, which has an opinion on every almost every controversial issue in Arizona, is still mum on SB1070. Dead silent. Nothing to hear but crickets.
Cowards. Abject, unprincipled cowards. Everything about your libertarian philosophy and your past writings say you're against this infringement of civil rights and civil liberties. Your best Bud Jeb Bush, who most probably isn't a racist and certainly understands the importance of Hispanics in making the Republican party viable, doesn't like the law. You don't either.
But you won't say anything. Too much is at stake. And by too much, I mean your $5 million a year contributions and your healthy 6 figure salaries. Better to stay silent.
Cowards!
What reminded me to chide G.I. once again is a column in the Washington Times — the ultra conservative Washington Times — by Daniel Griswold of the Cato Institute. The Cato Institute, G.I.'s elder brother.
The column, titled, Unfounded fear of immigrant crime grips Arizona, says SB1070 is based on fear, most of which is unfounded.
Fears about an illegal-immigrant crime wave helped propel passage of Arizona's tough new law that makes it a crime to be present in the state without legal documents. Like the law itself, those fears are based more on perception than reality.
State Sen. Russell Pearce, chief sponsor of the law, often recites the names of recent victims of crimes allegedly committed in the state by illegal immigrants, including the slaying of a popular rancher in March. Drug-related crimes such as kidnapping are reportedly on the rise in Phoenix, fueling public support for the law.
One big problem in the Arizona debate is that the perceptions about immigrants and crime do not square with the most basic data. After years of witnessing a rise in the number of illegal immigrants in their state, the people of Arizona are in reality less likely to be victims of crime than at any time in the past four decades.
Griswold continues in that vein, with facts and figures.
The folks at G.I. agree wholeheartedly with Cato. I would give you very favorable odds the 6 figure folks over there are passing around this article and others like it and saying, "Yeah, it's true, but we can't write that stuff. It's easy for them, but it's much too dangerous to say here in Arizona."
I would like to think they're having pangs of conscience, but I hear when you're hired at G.I., if they detect any scruples, they give you a scruple-ectomy.
The ironic thing is, for once, G.I. can make a convincing, conservative-based anti-SB1070 argument without resorting to a single distortion or misstatement. No "bus drivers are bureaucrats" lies necessary. Just present the facts.
But they won't.
Cowards!
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What does this have to do with Mike’s claim?
As to your sources, AIM is certainly a right-winger source, so I don’t understand what you are getting at. You quote the AIM article however the way you have placed this quote makes it appear that it was from the justice department report. In fact, the Justice Department study does not provide the number you quote. I have never thought Jim Kouri particularly knows what he is talking about, so perhaps he is getting these numbers from some other source, or perhaps he is making them up. I have no idea but you have failed to back Mike’s claim and have produced information that doesn’t say what you claim. Perhaps your understanding of the issue is not as well reasoned as you believe.
Re: David
“the ultra conservative Washington Times — by Daniel Griswold of the Cato Institute”
More about your source—>look it up amiga
President Bush’s immigration plan—which was based on a proposal by Cato scholar Dan Griswold
The same one with an agenda.
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3638
^ Daniel Griswold, “Willing Workers: Fixing the Problem of Illegal Mexican Migration to the United States”, Cato Institute, October 15, 2002
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute#cite_note-31
Here;s some info for you Todd:
http://www.justice.gov/oig/reports/OJP/a0707/chapter1.htm
Some illegal aliens in the United States have been arrested and incarcerated in federal and state prisons and local jails, adding to already overcrowded prisons and jails. On April 7, 2007, the US Justice Department issued a report on criminal aliens that were incarcerated in federal and state prisons and local jails.
In the population study of 55,322 illegal aliens, researchers found that they were arrested at least a total of 459,614 times, averaging about 8 arrests per illegal alien. Nearly all had more than 1 arrest. Thirty-eight percent (about 21,000) had between 2 and 5 arrests, 32 percent (about 18,000) had between 6 and 10 arrests, and 26 percent (about 15,000) had 11 or more arrests. Most of the arrests occurred after 1990.
They were arrested for a total of about 700,000 criminal offenses, averaging about 13 offenses per illegal alien. One arrest incident may include multiple offenses, a fact that explains why there are nearly one and half times more offenses than arrests. Almost all of these illegal aliens were arrested for more than 1 offense. Slightly more than half of the 55,322 illegal aliens had between 2 and 10 offenses.
Not exactly Rightwinger Source:
http://www.aim.org/guest-column/illegal-alien-crime-wave-continues/
Math Doe Not LIE
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4094926727128068265#
Environment Suffers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW-NtQr89u4
http://www.usillegalaliens.com/impacts_of_illegal_immigration_crime.html
Mike. Your information is untrue and I challenge you to point to an official source that makes that claim.
83% of murder warrants in Phoenix are for illegal aliens.
Wake up.