What a pile of 
First no sheriff or police officer is going to ASK if you were speeding or ASK if your tail light is covered. And if he is coming at you and sees your face how in the h*ll is he going to read a name backwards?
Posted on 07/25/2010 9:14:14 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Most of us wouldn't even be Americans if it weren't for immigration.
I was born in Kearney, Arizona--a small town between Phoenix and Tucson. But my own parents came from Mexico. They came, like so many people before them, to make a better life for their kids. My dad worked in the copper mines, and my mom worked at Motorola.
Today, I've achieved what my parents hoped for. I'm a proud Arizonan with three kids. I work for the Town of Gilbert Water Department, making sure our hydrants are safe, water lines are clear, and our system is running smoothly. Without a doubt, I'm one of the lucky ones. But with the political storm brewing on SB1070, I'm starting to think my luck may have run out.
Even though I'm a U.S. citizen and a native Arizonan, since this extreme immigration law passed, I'm starting to feel like maybe some people think I don't belong here.
Just last weekend a sheriff's car pulled me over and asked if I was speeding. And then they asked if I had any covering over my taillights. Now, I'm pretty sure they didn't clock me for speeding--since they didn't even write me a ticket. And I don't know how they could have seen my taillights--since they were driving in the opposite direction. But what they could see as I was coming down the road was my face and my last name - Villalobos - proudly stenciled across my back windshield together with my son's football jersey number.
The police asked for my registration and driver's license - so they saw I'm a citizen, and they let me go. But I felt targeted for being a Mexican-American.
That same weekend, some stranger at a restaurant approached me and my friends and used a slur you don't hear that much anymore - "Wetback." He told me I'd better start carrying my papers around now that SB1070's been passed. I felt attacked.
They may say this law is aimed at solving illegal immigration, but it feels to me like it's aimed right at me and my family.
I don't really care much for politics, and it seems to me that the politicians who passed SB1070 aren't really interested in immigration reform. They're just trying to get more votes from people who want to see some action taken on the problem. But this is the wrong action - way wrong.
We need to stop SB1070 before it leads to division and hate in our communities. No one who works hard and contributes to their community deserves abuse just because of the way they look, the cars they drive, or their last names. Arizona needs to do better. I know Arizona can do better.
To learn more about SEIU's fight to stop SB1070, go to http://www.ItStopsinArizona.com
This guy is a lying POS. Read the article if they can’t see his tailights they can’t see his name on the rear window either. I’m sorry my taxes pay this jjerks salary.AWB
Good catch, missed that one
We need to deport or imprison ALL illegal aliens, including their anchor babies,seal/secure the border with a fence and armed troops, and SHOOT anyone who tries to re-enter illegally. It’s time to take out the trash.
You’re taking to the wind, fella. Nobody has said anything against immigration, including the Arizona legislature. We’re all here by somebody’s immigration and we’re all in favor of it. You’re into an artificial issue created by the Alinsky-ite Leftists.
Criminals, who sneak into a country and trespass on land that isn’t theirs, then demand “rights” and “benefits”, are WAY out of line and should not and will not be tolerated here in the United States of America!
more irrelevant bilge in support of lawbreakers
To: Fernando Villalobos;
Immigrants come through the front door.
Criminals come through the back door. America was not built and made strong through the efforts of criminals, Amigo.
Ridiculous!
Ping!
A street drug dealer is NOT a pharmacist.
An illegal who breaks into my country is NOT an immigrant.
I smell BS. A Hispanic colleague of my wife related almost the same story, “I was pulled over and asked if I was speeding, but there is no way they could have clocked me for speeding. They let me go with a warning, but in the instant the police car passed me I know they profiled me. “ It sounds like a Journolist plot to get everyone to tell the same false story.
What a pile of
First no sheriff or police officer is going to ASK if you were speeding or ASK if your tail light is covered. And if he is coming at you and sees your face how in the h*ll is he going to read a name backwards?
I hate it when they ask.
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