Posted on 07/03/2011 7:55:43 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
If you thought the do-it-yourself anti-immigrant schemes couldn’t get any more repellent, you were wrong. New laws in Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina are following — and in some ways outdoing — Arizona’s attempt to engineer the mass expulsion of the undocumented, no matter the damage to the Constitution, public safety, local economies and immigrant families. The laws vary in their details but share a common strategy: to make it impossible for people without papers to live without fear.
They give new powers to local police untrained in immigration law. They force businesses to purge workforces and schools to check students’ immigration status. And they greatly increase the danger of unreasonable searches, false arrests, racial profiling and other abuses, not just against immigrants, but anyone who may look like some officer’s idea of an illegal immigrant.
The laws empower local police officers to demand the documents of people they meet, and to detain those they suspect are here illegally. That means they can make warrantless arrests for assumed civil immigration violations, a stunning abuse of power.
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>> NYT: “make it impossible for people without papers to live without fear”
An opinion based on bogus Nazi symbolism is an opinion not worth considering.
Go choke on your tea, Gray Bitch.
It really got their goat when we asked for Omoslem’s birth certificate.
E-Verify!
No E-verify, no workee.
No E-Verify, no welfare.
No E-Verify, no votee.
Most will self-deport.
Hey, New York Times — If your God, The Federal Leviathan Government, could do its job, the states wouldn’t have to.
Why have labor needs not been estimated accurately and appropriate visas issued accordingly? Because the federal government failed to do its job.
Why weren’t laws enforced, at the border and in the workplace? Because the federal government failed to do its job.
That is why 20 million illegals are here, sucking up hospital and educational resources, costing taxpayers billions, and in many cases bringing the crime and squalor from Mexico right along with them.
You can stuff your self-righteous condescension ... We have had enough of failed federal government, illegal aliens, and your elitist crap.
The next thing you know these evil Republicans will make being an illegal alien illegal or something.
What makes these people so blind?
I know and have known some illegals and they were/are mostly hard working. However, most will not learn the language, grab all the freebies they are told by La Raza et al that they are entitled to, and the men try to find girls to marry to become legal--then they still do not learn English, consider themselves Mexican and send money home. All in all, they are a negative force with few exceptions.
NYers and CAers deserve all they have made their states into. Their Senators and most Reps are the most corrupt in a long line of corruption. Chuckie S. makes me nauseous.
Good on all these states that are exerting their state's rights, a concept libs do not recognize.
vaudine
I am really concerned what some old coots that sit in building that is guarded with armed security and is over 1500 miles from the USA/Mexico border think... (sarcasm)
Since when did that become an issue for the NYT?
I love it. The New York Times is now worried about the Constitution. In GA, SC and Ala we are celebrating as the droves of illegals head for the border. Let NC take them in. The Libtards up in Asheville will love them. At least until they turn Asheville into a sewer. Hasta la Vista and good riddance. Its a great Independence Day this year in Georgia.
Blah, blah, blah!
You have a problem with enforcing the law, NYT?
I agree that it’s not the job of local police to enforce immigration law, but by doing nothing, the general public and police officers are being put at risk. In Houston, TX, two of the last six officers who died in the line of duty were killed by ILLEGAL ALIENS. In the past year and five months, 948 non-citizens have been charged with DWI in Harris County, Texas. Add to that the drug trade, sex trade, gangs, etc. that illegals are involved in and you can see that it’s obviously no small problem, especially in the border states. Maybe we should round up all the illegals and dump them in NYC for you to deal with.
That NYT! I’m always learning something new. I had no idea that these states were passing anti-immigrant laws. I mean I already knew about passing anti-ILLEGAL immigrant laws, but these anti-immigrant laws must have passed in the middle of the night. And to think I’ve been obeying the law all these years. I had no idea I could drive without a license, or apply to college without ID, or even have the right to buy booze without proving my age. It’s been so ONEROUS and unfair.
When illegals go home they don't have to live in fear. It's that easy. If any of us went to a foreign country and broke the law, we'd live in fear too. The solution wouldn't be for the country to give us their laws, but for visitors not to break the law.
When 'illegals' are made legal, they quit picking and get real jobs. Jobs that Americans have to compete for...
The New York Times must feel that we can take in the 3re world - without further damaging our country.
Maybe the US should take in 'reporters' from India who will write for Newspapers for $5,000 a year... Superior editors from India can be had for $10,000 a year... now those are illegals we should all get behind.
It would be FUNYT if it weren’t so moronic.
Who writes this stuff for the NYT, promising college freshmen ready to be recruited by the DNC, or interns for
the rapidly diminishing ranks of Obama’s loyal Dems?
# To write the editorial page editor, e-mail editorial@nytimes.com
This NYT editorial is an excellent example of what Thomas Sowell calls “arguments without arguments.” No facts or logic are deployed, no analysis. All that is sought is the favorable viewpoint. What a perfect example.
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