Posted on 08/04/2010 6:03:16 AM PDT by La Lydia
The federal judge who struck down most of Arizona’s new immigration law last week wasn’t trying to strike a blow for immigrants’ rights...She was making a much more fundamental argument, one that has regularly emerged in America’s long and often ugly history in dealing with noncitizens and other vulnerable minorities. The message was that Arizona cannot have its own immigration or foreign policy. It cannot tell the federal government how to enforce its laws. It is not up to any state to seize the power to upend federal priorities, particularly to wield a blunt enforcement tool that will do harm to Hispanics, citizens or not, who live in certain neighborhoods, wear certain clothes, drive certain vehicles and speak Spanish or accented English.
One excuse offered up for Arizona’s mindless new law was that it is just trying to do a job the federal government refused to do. But the law, SB1070, is far more pernicious than that. It begins with a grandiose statement of its purpose: “to make attrition through enforcement the public policy of all state and local government agencies in Arizona.” “Attrition through enforcement” is a theory cooked up in right-wing think tanks — that mass deportation is unnecessary, because with enough hostile laws and harsh enforcement, illegal immigrants will all decide to go home.
That’s a product of delusion and cruelty. ...
Thomas Saenz, the president of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, links Arizona’s struggle to the civil rights era. He calls the state’s politicians the new nullifiers, descendants of the southern segregationists who fought for Jim Crow with the debased theory that states had the power to invalidate federal law. It took federal action and protesters stirring the nation’s conscience to make the point: You cannot treat people this way....
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Take it with a grain of salt Lydia, this moron lives in NYC where they allow mosques to be built in a sacred place. They have no disernment what-so-ever.
The far bigger issue, and one that authors like this ignore is the following:
This is a PLAN by the Mexican gov’t. It has been for years. Their own “elites” (my former sister in law is one of them, btw) want to cleanse Mexico of the poor Mestizos. Nothing scares the Mexican elites and gov’t more than to have millions of Mexican citizens of Mestizo ethnicity poor, restless, uneducated, and with no hope of things every changing. That is the stuff of revolution.
Our gov’t has agreed to be the safety valve, to please the ethnic groups and to please the businesses that benefit via enforcement neglect. This is the US plan to help Mexico keep peace on the border: We send you our poor, uneducated masses so we don’t have to take care of them and worry that they might get mad. You hire and exploit them; we will holler about their civil rights. They will send much of their earnings back here to keep our economy affloat.
This is why they will holler like stuck pigs about this birthright citizenship thing. Mexico NEEDS as many of its people as possible on the dole HERE, in order to free up funds to send back there!
Ya think?
Nobody ever discusses Mexico’s official role in this, which is unfortunate.
While they scream racism at US, it would be hard to find a more racist gov’t than Mexico.
Despicable.
Unless the Executive Branch is controlled by people that arent "progressives, so then the courts will step in.
Ping...
Why is it cruel to live in Mexico?
Because it is harder to tap into the rich stream of flowing freebees available in the United States (though not impossible.)
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