Posted on 05/02/2010 4:40:34 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
PHOENIX – Arizona's largest newspaper criticized U.S. Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl and a host of other elected officials in a rare front-page editorial Sunday, saying the politicians have failed to find solutions to illegal immigration.
The state has become the target of calls for boycotts since adopting a law that requires local and state law enforcement officers to question people about their immigration status if there's reason to suspect they're in the country illegally.
"The federal government is abdicating its duty on the border. Arizona politicians are pandering to public fear," The Arizona Republic said in a full-page editorial. "The result is a state law that intimidates Latinos while doing nothing to curb illegal immigration."
Doug MacEachern, an editorial writer for the Republic, said the newspaper has put editorials on the front page over the years but this was the first time one filled the front page.
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we need a billboard here in AZ:
“Insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results- McCain had 4 tries!!”
Who wants to help me fund and raise this?
Arizona Republic is just their sister paper, “La Voz”, repackaged. It’s everyone’s fault but those who break the law.
So, the feds (Border Patrol, ICE) can ask a person for his papers, but an AZ leo can’t cuz its profiling?
We ain’t got a chance.
There's the core issue...dereliction of duty by the federal government...and in violation of their oaths of office. There should be impeachments, but with the party of corruption in power that'll never happen.
Fun with Logic:
“The result is:
1. a state law that intimidates Latinos.
As a gun-carrying American, I’m not intimidated if stopped for concealed carry because I have a carry permit. Legal Arizonans have no reason to feel intimidated either, while illegal aliens should fear the law.
2. while doing nothing to curb illegal immigration.”
If this new law does nothing to curb illegal immigration, then illegal latinos have nothing to fear either.
You gotta give it a chance to work, gerbilists.
I believe that's the AA definition of insanity ... not the real one.
Epic fail ... back to the 12 steps for you.
Article 4 section 4: look it up. The fedgov is charged with protecting the states from invasion. They have refused to do so. The contract is off, at least as far as Article 4 Section 4 goes.
I just read the summary of the editorial, so tell me:
Was one Latino “leader” named as a culprit? Or just the good white folks?
Any call outs of racism committed by the Latinos and their liberal counterparts? After all they really are all about race, now aren’t they?
Was the media at all blamed for decades of pandering to minorities?
Does anybody actually believe a newspaper editorial anymore?
They defend a clown-president who hides his records and associates with equally idiotic figures who’s main achievements are never having real jobs and bombing the pentagon.
Meanwhile, journalism grads accuse the rest of us of being “uneducated”.
What a bunch of bull-Obama.
Obama, the Kenyan name for “couldn’t figure out how to use a screwdriver”.
The editorial blames just about all local politicians - the Governor (Brewer) and McCain for political opportunism, liberal Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon for his “shrill” denunciation of the law, Napolitano for “amnesia” for forgetting the arguments she made as governor once she got to Washington (she used to blame the Feds for not doing anything); and Representative Grijalva - “For a congressman to call for destruction of his own state’s economy is irresponsible and beneath contempt.”
Overall, the editorial is weak and predictable, although there are a few nice shots at the left and McCain (redundant?). There are also unfair shots at various state conservatives.
Here’s why this editorial fails: one of the biggest culprits in this firestorm is this very paper, the Arizona Republic. As soon as the law passed, it ran an editorial that contained false info about the statue:
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/2010/04/22/20100422thur2-22.html
Mayor Gordon got on various national programs and echoed the falsehoods, and we were off to the races.
LOL!!
...Obama, the Kenyan name for “couldn’t figure out how to use a screwdriver”.
great.
The fool Katrina Van Den Heuval stated on This Week that the crime rate in Az. has gone down in recent years, so they don’t need to have it. I think Napolitano said the same thing on a different show.
If there’s a law requiring visitors to carry their papers for presentation when asked by authorities, and there is such a law:
1. What part of the law says that only federal authorities are the only authorities permitted to ask?
2. What part of the law says that non-enforcement by the feds is the way the law must be treated if the feds decide to ignore enforcement of a legitimate law.
One of the most clearly defined duties apportioned to the Federal Government under the Constitution is National Defense.
National Defense included border controls and immigration.
We cannot let people pick which laws they want to follow or ignore or the result is anarchy. The Federal government is failing on one of it’s most clearly defined obligations, which is order control as a part of national defense.
If our Fed government won’t do the job, then who has the responsibility to protect it’s citizens? Each State has a Constitution that makes it a sovereign entity. And each state has it’s own law enforcement agencies, and Militia to carry out those responsibilities.
Illegal immigration is and will always be a violation of law. No matter what people complain about, there is nothing racist about law enforcement.
“Does anybody actually believe a newspaper editorial anymore?”
I won’t even read that section of the paper. It makes my blood pressure rise. I toss it into the discard pile without even looking at it.
we need a billboard here in AZ
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We sure do, we also NEED JD Hayworth in AZ
The problems facing Arizona are not the Arizonans’ doing. They are the result of a cowardly and politically pandering Federal government, idiot leftists who offer illegals “sanctuary” in violation of Federal law (nullification?), and indifferent liberal judges who impose the responsibility of caring for the illegals on the States.
It was one of the beeves cited by Texas in her secession declaration. No Congressional appropriations for frontier and border security -- the Yankee congresscritters wouldn't appropriate when it was Texas's neck.
But, of course "it was all about slavery", so I must be lying as usual, again. What a racist.
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