Posted on 05/08/2010 9:36:47 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus
The next Arizona earthquake Posted: May 08, 2010
If opponents of the new Arizona law on illegal immigration think it is radical to actually enforce federal immigration laws, they are surely going to get ulcers over Arizona's next innovation.
A month ago Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed SB1070, which makes a state crime what is already a federal crime – being in the country unlawfully. It also requires non-citizens to carry their federalimmigration papers on their person at all times – which has been a federal law since 1952.
What angers the critics of the new Arizona law is the expectation that Arizona will actually enforce this state law. To opponents of immigration law enforcement, this is a dangerous and un-American concept.
The co-author of SB1070, Sen. Russell Pearce, is the former Maricopa County deputy sheriff who also wrote the successful 2004 referendum ballot measure, Proposition 200, as well as several otherimmigration -related laws since then. The man has a track record of success: All of those earlier laws have been upheld in state and federal courts.
Pearce has another bill in the legislative pipeline that will make SB1070 look like a lollipop next to a firecracker. It aims to blow the lid off K-12 educational spending on children who are not citizens. It does not seek to deny them an education; it merely requires that the cost of that education be calculated and made public.
Senate Bill 1097 passed the Arizona Senate but was held up in the House. It will surely pass in 2011 after Republicans increase their majorities in both houses of the legislature.
The bill is simple and straightforward in its language but will hit the education establishment and the illegal-alien apologists where they are most vulnerable: in the pocketbook.
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My whole take is that the Mexican government advises its citizens to break the law and illegally enter the US - that for each one we catch we must bill the Mexican government. They have oil and we can take those revenues. For each illegal, $100K for the social resources that the alien will consume. I think it is fair. They are exporting their surplus workers illegally to the US and we have to fight back - they have taken a role in this, they are responsible - see below:
New York Times, 6 January 2005 A Mexican Manual for Illegal Migrants Upsets Some in U.S.
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 5 - The Mexican government drew fire from American advocates of tighter borders on Wednesday for publishing a pamphlet [below] that instructs migrants how to safely enter the United States illegally and live there without being detected.
Officials here say the small booklet, illustrated in comic-book style, is not intended to encourage illegal immigration, but to reduce the loss of life. Last year, more than 300 migrants died while crossing rivers and deserts to reach the United States.
The guidebook also advises would-be migrants to avoid hiring professional immigrant-smugglers and to refuse to carry packages for others. It also instructs people never to lie to border officials, carry false documents or resist arrest.
But groups favoring stricter immigration controls said the pamphlet amounted to a how-to manual for illegal immigrants. The booklet gives advice on what clothes to wear when fording a river and how to cross a desert without getting dehydrated.
It also counsels migrants to keep a low profile once in the United States, telling them, for instance, to stay away from loud parties or discos that might be raided by the police and to stay out of domestic disputes, which might lead to an arrest. Finally, it lists what rights migrants have if caught, among them safe transport home, medical care, food and water.
"This is not the action of a friendly neighbor," said Representative Tom Tancredo, the Colorado Republican who chairs the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus. "What would the Mexican government say if we encouraged our citizens to violate Mexican law?"
Mexico's Foreign Ministry, however, said its intent in publishing the "Guide for the Mexican Migrant" was to warn migrants of the dangers they might face if they choose to slip illegally into the United States.
Gerónimo Gutiérrez, Mexico's under secretary for North American affairs, said the guide was written to dissuade people from making a clandestine journey or at least to warn them of the perils and legal risks should they decide to go. About 1.5 million copies of the guide were printed and distributed throughout the country in December.
"Just last year over 300 Mexicans died in their attempt to enter the United States, the vast majority if not all of them in search of a job," Mr. Gutiérrez said. "The Mexican government obviously has an obligation to take all actions possible in order to avoid the loss of life."
He added, "It is a natural and fair response to consider this as an attempt to promote undocumented immigration, but that is absolutely not the intent of the Mexican government."
But groups seeking stricter immigration laws argued that Mexican officials were being disingenuous in asserting that the pamphlet does not encourage illegal migration. They say that Mexico wants to continue exporting unemployed people and reaping the benefits of money sent home to their families.
"If the Mexican government were really very concerned about their citizens dying in the desert, why doesn't it use its army and police to prevent people from crossing in those areas?" said Steven Camarota, director of research at the Center for Immigration Studies, which favors tighter borders.
Others said the pamphlet only highlighted the need to revamp the American immigration system, which seems to have no effective response to the yearly flood of Mexican migrants seeking jobs. "The publication is nothing more than another symptom of a broken immigration system," said Paul L. Zulkie, president of American Immigration Lawyers Association.
In another day and age, that might have constituted an act of war.
The financial, medical, educational, sociological and loss of assimilated national identity cost of illegals borders on astronomical. This bill should pass; and the Democrat tyrants will do everything in their power to keep the true cost from being publicized.
Last night I was listening to KGO, San Francisco, Gene Burns...a liberal discuss the Arizona enforcement law.
He was all for it! I was stunned and happy about that. He tried his best to argue with a couple ‘latino’s who simply refused all reasoning. He also was against the silly San Fran boycott of Arizona and talked a lot about the Arizona ranchers who have the right to not be invaded and destroyed/murdered.
the Mexican Government and its people call this reconquista, the taking back of their own territory?
they call it aztlan, their land.
Ping!
This’ll be good - first step in getting the illegal kids out of our schools is to show the average taxpayer how much they are paying to educate kids who have no business being here.
They aren’t going to be so happy when numbers are posted. Lots of Arizona seniors are already upset over having to pay to educate other peoples’ kids. I know that’s short-sighted, but it’s a fact nonetheless.
Keep an eye on our special election on May 18, when Arizonans go to the polls to vote a temporary (3-yr) 1% tax hike up or down. Lots of voters want our legislature to spend within their means.
I still say the most effective means of eliminating illegal immigration is to put a 25% to 50% tax on remittances to Mexico or any other South American country. They have siphoned off billions of dollars from this country’s economy.
Point of clarification.
‘They’ in the second line of the previous post is the education establishment.
Bump.
Oh it gets better in Arizona. The legislature has or will soon pass a bill outlawing ethnic studies that show America in a bad light or teach the superiority of one race over another. La Raza, et al, are already up in arms.
My contempt for the nation of Mexico is complete.
If enough US citizens were to start forging matricula consular cards in order to get legitimate US identification on that basis, and begin going off the books with a fictitious name and stolen or fictitious SS number to avoid taxation as Mexican illegal entrants do, I’d think the federal government would get off it’s collectivist butt and do something about it.
It’s one thing for bureaucrats to expand their turf by degrading the concept of citizenship, but it’s entirely another to start taking money off the table by turning the tables.
Of course, tortured logic and legal backflips to define some sort of presumed rightness or wrongness of the behavior by “racial” groups can’t be discounted. It’s been such a useful tool thus far.
“La Raza, et al, are already up in arms.”
La Raza and its soulmate MEChA are petulant reprobates.
Remember the Alamo.
An awesome bill!
There is no such thing as a temporary tax hike. Good luck, I'm rooting for you to shoot it down (pun intended). And kudos on your latest conceal carry law. Future stats will be interesting once the bad guys realize that anyone may be carrying.
If only Arizona did away with its state income tax, you could possibly be THE most prosperous and free state in the union. BTW, what is your state tax? I forget.
It’s a progressive tax, tied to the federal income tax. Do your 1040, then transfer your AGI to line 1 of the AZ tax form.
I’ve never paid much attention to the actual tax rate; I think it starts around 15% and goes up from there.
bump for later
Since these deaths are our fault, there is only one option, we must close the boarder to save these lives!
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