Posted on 07/07/2010 5:12:21 PM PDT by Bad~Rodeo
PHOENIX - Gov. Jan Brewer has called off a September border conference in Phoenix due to Mexican governors' objections to Arizona's tough new immigration enforcement law, though some officials are discussing holding the annual gathering elsewhere.
It was Arizona's turn to host the 28th annual U.S.-Mexico Border Governors Conference for four U.S. governors and six from Mexico. But Brewer said Wednesday the meeting was canceled because the Mexican governors planned to boycott it.
Brewer said she was disappointed about the boycott and hoped the governors of New Mexico, Texas and California would support her decision.
"The people of Arizona and the people of America support what Arizona has done," Brewer said. "For them to basically not attend here because of that, I think is unfair."
However, the governors of New Mexico and California are trying to go ahead with the conference in another state, with or without Arizona's participation, spokesmen said.
In a June letter, governors from the Mexican states of Baja California, Coahuila, Sonora, Chihuahua, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas said Arizona's new immigration law violates civil rights and has provisions based on ethnic and cultural prejudices. They suggested relocating the conference to a different U.S. border state.
The New York Times reported the cancellation of the Arizona conference Wednesday.
The Arizona law takes effect July 29 unless blocked by a court. It requires police officers, while enforcing other laws, to check a person's immigration status if there's a "reasonable suspicion" the person is here illegally. The law does not define reasonable suspicion, but police training materials say triggers for such checks can include speaking poor English, traveling in a crowded vehicle and hanging out in an area where illegal immigrants typically congregate.
Brewer, who denies that the law promotes racial profiling by law enforcement, said the conference
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Let them go have their party in Los Angeles.
What is the premise of this conference anyway? What is there to discuss? Like where to put canteens of water for illegals to use or what?
Arizona is the only one doing anything, the rest want to roll over to the crime, cartels and benefit zombies.
Blockheads....
God bless Jan Brewer. She will be our new director of homeland security before we abolish the stupid agency.
Of course ball less Arnie would want to go ahead with the conference. Why don’t they hold it in Mexico? I hear LA is lovely that time of year.
...and a tyrant hell bent on change.
Good for her.
“until you let our rapists and drug smugglers in your country illegally, we are boycotting your conference on how to prevent our rapists and drug smugglers entering your country illegally..”
Here’s the thing, even if the law is rolled back, people who are willing to boycott AZ won’t stop because of that. Liberals have no forgiveness. They won’t change their actions, they’d just “double down”.
The border is worse than reported - here’s a short online documentary that’s worth watching. 7-1/2 minutes.
The governors of Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and California are the ones that need to have a conference. If these four can come to an agreement on using State resources to throw some heat on the illegals at the border itself little bammy will have even less to work with than he does now.
Arizona has the ball rolling. IF New Mexico, Texas and California get in the game the illegals are going to “take notice.”
Let the self-deportation begin...
She should have gone ahead and had it anyway, with cardboard cut-outs of those who chose not to attend. Then make sure everyone understands that SHE and those who did attend are interested in solving the problem.
Ping!
Time for more states to join Arizona and implement same ruling per illegals. It can only help to have strength in numbers and so ‘isolate’ those States determinedly critical of Arozona and which invite and support boycotts. These States need to marginalized by their own radical, anti-America choices.
What degraded, despicable creatures.
The hypocrites never bothered to look at their own immigration law, which is much stricter than Arizona's, now did they?
I'm telling you, the political class (on both sides of the border) is pushing the American people toward a domestic conflict that will not be stopped, once it's begun.
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