Posted on 04/24/2010 4:18:40 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Chicago Democrat Luis Gutierrez, chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, has been especially vocal.
The law makes it "open season on the Latino community in Arizona," Gutierrez said, describing it as "an insult to American justice and one of the harshest assaults on basic civil rights in recent American history."
In Arizona, "people in Latino neighborhoods are afraid to leave their houses, afraid to be apart from their children for even a minute, and afraid to walk the streets because they feel their arrest on suspicion of being an undocumented immigrant could happen at any moment," he wrote in an online op-ed piece.
Gutierrez plans to attend a rally in Phoenix on Sunday to "let the people of Arizona know that they are not alone in fighting against bigotry and hatred."
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Screw you Lu!
Response: Great!
Comment: Now maybe they can go home where they are loved, appreciated and live without fear.
Ping!
She needs glasses!!!
Anything less than 100 yards is equivalent to poor eyesight!
well now....since mexican isnt a race and mexico isnt a real country who cares what some congresscumbag has to say.
And nice try with the Latino thing there congressman. mexico is just a backwards zone that is mostly laughed at by real Spanish speaking countries.
But to be fair the mex. lobby has strong ties to Spanish TV/press and into the US congress.
If only this were the case
No one in the federal government has the right to complain about this - if they were doing their job protecting the border, enforcing the law, a state wouldn’t have to do this to protect itself.
Boy howdy, that’ll do it!
I’ve heard elsewhere that support for the new law is running around 70% of likely voters in a Rasmussen poll...
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