"...when Gov. Jan Brewer signed SB 1070 to punish illegal immigrants for the sins of the employers who hire them...'
This is demeaning to illegal immigrants.
Why?
Because only robots, puppets, minors, and the mentally defective are presumed to be not quite up to legal and moral responsibility for their actions. If an individual is human, mature, and in his right mind, he is considered personally answerable for his decisions and behavior.
There are others, in addition to the foreign nationals who violate our border, who share in the responsibility: cost-cutting employers, "public servants" who turn a blind eye to access fraud, and corrupt officials who profit from massive legality, from the bribe-taking cop to the con artist in the White House.
And the individual border-violator is legally and morally responsible as well. If not, we are treating him as a pawn, a passive placemarker, a "thing" and not as a full person and the agent of his own life.
I’d be fearful too if I knowingly knew I was breaking a Federal Law ...... of the land..... =.=
Oh my! The tears! The screen is fuzzy! I can’t see my keyboard! My t-shirt is getting wet! Snot is running out of my nose! Boo-hoo! Woe!
I knew I shouldn’t have bitten into that onion on my sandwitch while reading this!
Ping...
To borrow a line from the old movie Uptown Saturday Night, maybe just what the city of Phoenix needs is more midnight sleepin' and less midnight creepin'.
End of story......
Ruben Navarrette Jr.= “grotesque and illogical”