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Posted on 04/20/2010 3:57:17 PM PDT by Drango
ARIZONA'S DREADFUL ANTI-IMMIGRANT LAW The Arizona legislature just passed the country's most retrogressive, mean-spirited, and useless anti-immigrant law [SB 1070, awaiting the expected signature of Gov. Jan Brewer]. The tragedy of the law is its totally flawed reasoning: that immigrants come to our country to rob, plunder, and consume public resources. That is not only false, the premise is nonsense.
What led the Arizona legislature to pass such a law is so obvious to all of us who have been working for federal comprehensive immigration reform: the present immigration system is completely incapable of balancing our nation's need for labor and the supply of that labor. We have built a huge wall along our southern border, and have posted in effect two signs next to each other. One reads, "No Trespassing," and the other reads "Help Wanted." The ill-conceived Arizona law does nothing to balance our labor needs.
The law is wrongly assuming that Arizona residents, including local law enforcement personnel, will now shift their total attention to guessing which Latino-looking or foreign-looking person may or may not have proper documents. That's also nonsense. American people are fair-minded and respectful. I can't imagine Arizonans now reverting to German Nazi and Russian Communist techniques whereby people are required to turn one another in to the authorities on any suspicion of documentation. Are children supposed to call 911 because one parent does not have proper papers? Are family members and neighbors now supposed to spy on one another, create total distrust across neighborhoods and communities, and report people because of suspicions based upon appearance?
Various cities and states have tried such abhorrent tactics over the decades with absolutely no positive effect. Such laws have all been struck down by courts or repealed by wise citizens. Sadly, such laws lead to a new round of immigrant-bashing--usually in times of economic downturn.
Our highest priority today is to bring calm and reasoning to discussions about our immigrant brothers and sisters. We are a nation of immigrants, and their commitment and skills have created the finest country in the world. Let's not allow fearful and ill-informed rhetoric to shape public policy. Let's put a human face on our immigrant friends, and let's listen to their stories and their desires to improve their own lives and the good of the nation.
Almost all of our immigrant families are "mixed," that is, some members have legal documents to be here and some members do not. Asking ordinary Americans and over-worked law enforcement officers to hunt down people of suspicious legal documentation is ludicrous and ineffective.
Let's direct our energies where they need to be focused: passing a federal comprehensive immigration law which is forward-looking and which will help balance our need for adequate labor forces in the coming years. The Census Bureau reports that every day a minimum of 10,000 baby boomers retire. How are we going to provide the labor pool to fill all of these jobs in the coming years?
Our nation has no plan for our future labor needs. None.
As our economy begins to grow again, and as goods and services need to be provided and moved around the country, the need for motivated and eager employees will be of highest priority. Let's put our focus on people and our future together, not on retrogressive tactics which have never worked before in our country's history.
I have met so many of our immigrant families and I am in awe at their love for our country, their care and concern for their children, and their resourcefulness in helping to improve our communities, our way of life, and our economic future.
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Maybe the good Cardinal should be more concerned with the trash in his own backyard such as pedophile priests.
The Jews were legal residents in Germany and Poland, Illegal Immigrants, not so much.
Sure. Play the Nazi card early and then request a reasoned debate.
Illegal Immigrants, filling the pews American refuse to fill.....
I think maybe he should be a little more concerned with the state of his own soul... since he most certainly going to the very pit of hell.
no bias there and besides maybe the cardinal needs to look at his own church and talk about normal marriage, , abortion, divorce and the word of God .
It is the kind of immigration law that most every country in the world has, including and especially MEXICO!
The tragedy of the law is its totally flawed reasoning: that immigrants come to our country to rob, plunder, and consume public resources. That is not only false, the premise is nonsense.
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That’s right...
Its not the immigrants who do that...
Its the illegal aliens who do that...
Maybe in Catholic churches...
Not surprising he's shrieking.
If we need Immigrants to fill the “Demographic Black hole”, then I would be all for increasing the number of NATURALIZED CITIZENS, you know the ones who follow the rules and learn about the country before being sworn in as citizens. Heck I would say if we need to increase that number of LEGAL immigrants by 3X or 5X as many.
There is nothing greater than immigrants who go through the process, those who don’t tend to be open for exploitation by others and tend to form their own enclaves where their second and third generation descendents are at a disadvantage.
The Cardinal Has a freeking screw loose.
>> The tragedy of the law is its totally flawed reasoning: that immigrants come to our country to rob, plunder, and consume public resources. That is not only false, the premise is nonsense.
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That’s right...
Its not the immigrants who do that...
Its the illegal aliens who do that...
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The problem is the LIBS have brainwashed everyon into thinking:
Illegal Alien = Immigrant
Nothing could be further from the truth.
They say nothing about the home country, but calls us Nazis. Unbelievable.
Especially since the Catholic Church was one of Hitler and the Nazis biggest supporters.
Roman Catholic Church Admits Aiding Nazis in WW2
The Role of the Catholic Church in Yugoslavia's Holocaust
The Catholic Church and Nazi Germany
Did the catholic church support Hitler?
"Yes, the Catholic Church legitimized the Nazi movement and supported their war effort"
“I have met so many of our immigrant families and ... their children ... “
No alien child’s behind left.
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