Posted on 12/30/2010 1:51:01 PM PST by La Lydia
Arizona's controversial immigration law may have it in the crosshairs of some political and immigration groups, but that doesn't mean the state doesn't have its own organizations fighting anti-immigrant sentiment. A new group of activists intends to combat the sentiment in Arizona given the fear that in 2011 it will increase with bills like the ones being prepared by Republican state lawmaker Russell Pearce.
"We're a group of citizens concerned about the stance that Pearce could take starting in January now that he's the leader of the majority in the state senate," Randy Parraz, the organizer for Citizens for a Better Arizona, told Efe on Wednesday. Parraz, a well-known activist, said he feels that Pearce should focus on the problems affecting the state and not on illegal immigration as he has been doing in recent years.
Pearce said that as soon as the next legislative session begins in January he will present a state bill that seeks to reform the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which grants U.S. citizenship to any person born in U.S. territory without regard to the immigration status of his or her parents.
"Our main objective will be to inform the people all over the state about Pearce's ideas and about the effect that they could come to have on everyone," Parraz said...
"We're very concerned that this person (Pearce) does not have the ability to represent the values and the ideals that are best for Arizona," said Parraz, who also is organizing a second group named the East Valley Patriots for American Values, which will monitor the actions undertaken by Pearce, in particular, within the district he represents in Mesa...
(Excerpt) Read more at latino.foxnews.com ...
I wish all these articles would put the word “illegal” in their title blocks. I know of few people who resent legal immigrants, so few in fact, they have no voice in any policy decisions.
The omission of such is not accidental, it is a deliberate attempt to paint opponents of illegal immigration as racists.
Bump.
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Our “friends” at Fox News Latino spreading pro-illegal propaganda for the largest shareholder Prince Al Waleed Bin Tal.
Parraz is organizing a second group named the East Valley Patriots for American Values, which will monitor the actions undertaken by Pearce, in particular, within the district he represents in Mesa... "We're very concerned that this person (Pearce) does not have the ability to represent the values and the ideals that are best for Arizona," said Parraz.
Parraz is a problem posing as a solution. IOW--a troublmaker.
What I don’t like about Fox New Latino is that it assumes that all Latinos are raving-loony Leftist Atzlan open borders welfare advocates, which is not the case. They had a chance to set up a conservative, or even middle-of-the-road news site for Latinos who are moderates, and instead they set up MSNBC-Brown. The fact that they use copy from EFE is an indication that Fox News Latino leans pretty far left.
"Resent" has nothing to do with it. I for one, want legal immigration severely restricted from current numbers.
It doesn't make it better to be engulfed in a tsunami of third-worlders just because they have the proper paper work.
The "melting pot" is a myth. Each wave of immigration massively changed the political structure of the nation permanently.
Russell Pearce absolutely represents the values and ideals of the Mesa. Parraz is nuts if thinks differently
BS. As recently as the 80s, when I was still in high school, America was still a melting pot. It may have become a salad bowl since then, but it has been a melting pot, and can be again.
To do that, we're going to have to stop wringing our hands and moaning that "America is changing". We've got to get proactive, reach out to Generation.com, and teach them the rightness of "our" way, and show them how the Leftist way they're learning in school and through pop culture is going to destroy our nation and their generation right along with it.
Kids (most of them, anyway) don't listen to Limbaugh, they don't watch Fox News, they don't go to the Heritage Foundation website. They are influenced more by movies, music, sports and video games than anything else. So instead of complaining that "the liberals control Hollyweird and the music industry", why don't we as conservatives start producing our own movies? Why don't we start promoting conservative bands? Why don't we find "cool" celebrities and athletes to wave the conservative flag?
I dare say conservative business owners have as much or more capital to put into building movie studios as do liberal businessmen. I dare say there are conservatives out there who have enough money to launch conservative record labels to challenge that f**kwad David Geffen. Instead of turning our noses up at pop culture, the most potent weapon there is for reaching young people, why aren't we finding a way to use it to promote American heritage, American exceptionalism, American virtues and the American Way?
I think that's the only way we're ever going to take our nation back without resorting to a bloody civil war. Continuing to do things the way we have been for the last 20-25 years is insane and suicidal. Not only is it not working, but it's put the enemy in control. We can be a melting pot again, but we're going to have to get creative in our methods. That also means we have to get off our a**es and quit moaning that "America is changing and it'll never be the same again". If that's the way we're going to think, we should just go ahead and start shooting now.
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