Sadly, responses have wandered, and because they have included inaccuracies, I feel it is appropriate to respond.

People say there is an immigration problem, but no one can really identify any problem without racist assessments or inaccurate crime statistics. And, there is magical thinking in the claim that SB1070 will make all crime simply vanish. Perhaps we need an accurate crime registry, or more importantly, and accurate societal expense registry, with concomitant effect on life, limb, and property, to help us all know what’s most important to pay attention to. Life and limb wise, I’d say it’s Iraq, big industry, and medical industries that hurt us most. Property wise, I’d say it’s Wall Street, banking, and insurance companies that hurt us most. By paying attention to the non-issue of immigration, we ignore real problems as they rip off America’s value.

Some also believe SB1070 is merely a mirror of Federal Law. It is not. One, it incorporates unique FAIR language as the goals of SB1070 that are contrary to Federal Law: “… SB1070: The legislature declares that the intent of this act is to make attrition through enforcement the public policy of all state and local government agencies in Arizona…” “… attrition …” is not a Federal policy. That wording is a FAIR invention, and they have plans for that wording. Illegal immigrants now, citizens born to illegal immigrants later, naturalized citizens from “undesirable” countries after that. And so on. Reds to the rez, Blacks to jail, Latinos to Mexico, Jews to … you see the pattern. Once FAIR’s “attrition” policy is established, it can become a precedent for other laws and other states to reduce their “undesirable” (read:non-white, non-evangelical) populations, also. Two, it legalizes warrantless searches against the Federal Bill of Rights ” … Article 4: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized…” And, on top of that anti-Federalism, SB1070 indemnifies anyone who carries our such warrantless search: “… SB1070: A law enforcement officer is indemnified by the law enforcement officer’s agency against reasonable costs and expenses, including attorney fees, incurred by the officer in connection with any action, suit or proceeding brought pursuant to this section to which the officer may be a party by reason of the officer being or having been a member of the law enforcement agency …” If SB1070 were truly in concert with Federal law, none of this wording would not be in there. They are trying to legalize vigilante sweeps of anyone and everyone “not like me”.

Some people think this only applies to criminals, but since due process hasn’t been served before investigating immigration status, no one’s has to be a criminal before investigating immigration status. This is contrary to the age-old expectation in America that you are “innocent until proven guilty”. This law encourages indemnified vigilante harassment of anyone “not like me” without probable cause, including being a passenger in a car — “… I thought you were weaving / had no brake light / etc, OH, let me see the paperwork of everyone in the car …” — or being in a house where music was playing – “… I had an anonymous complaint that the music was too loud, OH, let me see the paperwork of everyone in the house …” The true goal of FAIR, the push behind this law, is to eliminate all non-Europeans form Arizona, then move on to the next state.

Finally for now, I see the true goal of Arizona Governor Jan Brewer: to have the Police and sworn assistants (read: vigilantes) barricade voting booths and detain anyone who looks like they “might be here illegally”, preventing non-white, non-English speaking voting. This matches up her political goals with the goals of FAIR.

SB1070 is part of a Nazi sympathizer funded, neo-Nazi authored, white-supremacists proffered plan. It is important that we take up the baton from our parent’s who fought the Nazis in Germany, and continue the battle in Arizona. These people are not Nazi-like. They are Nazis.

All in all, a bit of a headscratcher.

Kind thoughts,

Reyn

By the way, that is not to say that conferences and tourism businesses should continue to choose Arizona as a destination. In this case, there is a legitimate reason for concern about their clients and attendees being singled out and harassed by the local stormtroopers.

The same is true for professional sports, transportation, and anyone else who is required to go to Arizona for private or public business as an employee. In that case, Arizona should be considered a rogue nation and all due precautions should be taken and respected by employers.

But there is no reason why we should stop buying copper, which is about the only thing Arizona produces. After all, without copper, how will we fight our wars?

2) I dont get the contradiction in that, those who tend to support the AZ law also tend to be anti-big government and pro-states rights….If that were true then why back legislation that essentially federalizes local law enforcement by compelling them to act as defacto immigration police?

3) Wont this make things worse? How much time will AZ cops waste checking on people’s papers when they could be responding to life threatening emergencies?

REJECT the AZ hate law.

We could cure all of it and also put more Americans to work if we simply hired language teachers and trained all of our American students in the most common foreign languages.