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It Gets Even Worse
New York Times ^
| July,3 2011
| Editorial/New York Times
Posted on 07/03/2011 7:55:43 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
If you thought the do-it-yourself anti-immigrant schemes couldnt get any more repellent, you were wrong. New laws in Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina are following and in some ways outdoing Arizonas 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 officers 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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: Arizona; US: Georgia; US: New York; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: alabama; aliens; alltheliesfittoprint; amnesty; arizona; border; georgia; immigrantlist; immigration; mexico; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; propaganda; southcarolina
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To: moonshinner_09
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posted on
07/03/2011 7:57:15 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(I'll raise $2million for Gov. Sarah Palin. What'll you do?)
To: moonshinner_09
New laws in Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina are following and in some ways outdoing Arizonas attempt to engineer the mass expulsion of the undocumentedGood.
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posted on
07/03/2011 7:57:21 PM PDT
by
Jim Noble
(Freedom is the freedom to say 2+2=4. If that is granted, all else follows.)
To: moonshinner_09
The laws vary in their details but share a common strategy: to make it impossible for people without papers to live without fear.
I take it that the author has never driven acrossed Mexico. Papers are a way of life for non citizens.
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posted on
07/03/2011 8:00:28 PM PDT
by
freedomfiter2
(Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
To: Jim Noble
Wouldn’t be necessary if the federal gov’t had done what it was suppose to for the last 30 years...
Hope some more of them steal your pantyassed reporters jobs away you effing socialist shiteheads.
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posted on
07/03/2011 8:01:01 PM PDT
by
jdfromny
(At what point are we officially "North Americans"?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
07/03/2011 8:01:40 PM PDT
by
unkus
To: moonshinner_09
Hey NYTimes:
Boo hoo, F*** You!
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posted on
07/03/2011 8:01:42 PM PDT
by
struggle
To: moonshinner_09
Do these people at NYT ever read what they write?
Everything is so, so....irrational.
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posted on
07/03/2011 8:02:20 PM PDT
by
SatinDoll
(NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT!)
To: moonshinner_09
Deportations to begin in .....3.....2.....1....
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posted on
07/03/2011 8:04:09 PM PDT
by
wetgundog
(" Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is no Vice")
To: moonshinner_09
If the FEDS would seal the border as promised in 1986, then these states would have no reason to be passing these laws and illegal aliens inside the US would have slowed to a mere trickle decades ago. BOTH parties are to blame, and so the states really have no alternative left. Do the states have the right to enforce laws the Feds chose to ignore? That seems to be the question before the American people.
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posted on
07/03/2011 8:04:17 PM PDT
by
Cheerio
(Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
To: moonshinner_09
the mass expulsion of the undocumented, no matter the damage to the Constitution
What damage would that be, pray tell? Seems to me, the Constitution was quite specific in a number of areas that citizenship, by birth or by naturalization, was an important aspect of nationhood, and one that was to be respected. As such, laws that require respect for same do not do damage to the Constitution. Furthermore, the entire point of the Constitution was a government of laws, not of men; therefore, it is wholly consistent with the Constitution that the laws regulating the admission of foreigners to this country be respected, and that those who break them - i.e., your "undocumented" - be removed as nothing more than common garden-variety law-breakers.
Trust a liberal to be so effing stupid as to need the ABCs spelt out for them, each and every time.
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posted on
07/03/2011 8:04:59 PM PDT
by
Oceander
(The phrase "good enough for government work" is not meant as a compliment)
To: moonshinner_09
A stunning abuse of power is the Federal Government choosing not to enforce laws.
Oh, and FU NY Slimes!
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posted on
07/03/2011 8:05:36 PM PDT
by
Feckless
(I was trained by the US Government to Kill Commies and Radical Moo-slims. Now ain't that irOnic?)
To: Jim Noble
“New laws in Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina are following and in some ways outdoing Arizonas attempt to engineer the mass expulsion of the undocumented”
Please note that TEXAS is missing from this list, as our governor seems PERFECTLY HAPPY to keep an open-borders policy.
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posted on
07/03/2011 8:05:49 PM PDT
by
BobL
(PLEASE READ: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2657811/posts)
To: moonshinner_09
Cry me a river! The states are reasserting their proper power in governance.
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posted on
07/03/2011 8:06:05 PM PDT
by
DarthVader
(That which supports Barack Hussein Obama must be sterilized and there are NO exceptions!)
To: moonshinner_09
no matter the damage to the Constitution, public safety, local economies and immigrant familiesHahahahahahaha, and they can say that with a straight face. Liberal heads exploding means they're scared.
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posted on
07/03/2011 8:08:32 PM PDT
by
bgill
To: moonshinner_09
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. LIARS!
Lies; damned lies; statistics; NYT editorials.
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posted on
07/03/2011 8:09:04 PM PDT
by
ApplegateRanch
(Made in America, by proud American citizens, in 1946.)
To: moonshinner_09
Letting illegal aliens from getting jobs ILLEGALLY harms the public safety? Tell you what, you can have all the illegal aliens and let them “enhance” your public safety.
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posted on
07/03/2011 8:10:00 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
To: moonshinner_09
The laws vary in their details but share a common strategy: to make it impossible for people without papers to live without fear. I've worked for the same company for over 10 years and just last summer I (along with everyone else) was forced to sign new papers certifying my citizenship WITH supporting paperwork, i.e. birth certificate with seal, passport, voter ID, etc. So the NYT whining about "papers" and their poor little illegal aliens can KMA.
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posted on
07/03/2011 8:10:09 PM PDT
by
VeniVidiVici
("Si, se gimme!")
To: moonshinner_09
“The laws vary in their details but share a common strategy: to make it impossible for people without papers to live without fear.”
If you don’t have papers, you should not be here. Period. End of discussion. Try going to any other country without permission and papers, including the countries of origin of those who come here without papers, and see what happens to you.
If the illegals who come to this country were likely Republican voters, the NYT would be printing articles almost daily about how these people were law breakers and should be expelled from the country.
As a group, liberals are not, and have never been motivated by compassion and tolerance. They are motivated by their own sense of specialness and self-righteousness.
To: moonshinner_09
“Damage to the Constitution”? I call that enforcing the Constitution. If illegals don’t like it, go back to where they came from.
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posted on
07/03/2011 8:11:13 PM PDT
by
RC2
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