"...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.
No Ma'am. Not everyone. Just the criminals have left.
Navarette is a career apologist for illegal aliens. He’s a prime cheerleader for the Amerexico concept.
Dang, Ruben...editorialize much? So much for “objective” “journalism”.
Isn’t this one of the major reasons we have criminal laws in the first place - so people will be afraid of getting caught if they break them. It sounds like the Arizona law is accomplishing the purpose that laws are created for.
Wow. My Giveashitometer is pegged at zero.
Great point that should be repeated loudly and often. This author tries to paint the picture of illegals not having any responsbility for their actions at all - as if tehy were forced to come here and work like slaves.
Most of them come here by choice - many even pay money to get here! The employers are not blameless but lets put the burden where it belongs - on the ones that came here illegally in the first place.
When I first skimmed the title “Fear walks the streets of Phoenix”, my mind immediately went to those Arizonians who have to endure horrific kidnappings and other crime brought about by invaders from the adjoining nation.
Does the MSM even consider writing articles from that point of view?
CNN makes it sound as though there aren’t any legal Hispanics in Arizona. Sounds like SB1070 should have been passed long ago.
The good citizens of Phoenix have been walking the streets in fear for years...fear of violent crime committed by illegal aliens. Let them have some of that fear they’ve been dishing out.
Illegal means illegal.
Well said.
"That's not true," says the husband, who's worked his way up from manual labor to an office job for a jeweler. "Americans are lazy. They don't want to work."
But then, he catches himself -- and corrects himself. "I shouldn't say that," he says. "They're not all like that, but some are. They're spoiled. They think it's easy to come to the United States legally, and they speak from ignorance."
So, to sum up, Americans are lazy and ignorant. And, because it is not "easy" to come to the United States and stay, illegally, we are supposed to approve of them breaking the law.
Last week, U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton struck down four of the most grotesque and illogical parts of the law
Agitprop from CNN
Talk to Mr Klein.
No sympathy for law breakers. Illegal Aliens take money out of your wallet, take your jobs, and take food out of the mouths of hungry American children.
Its time to take a stand against the Hispanic Ku Klux Klan groups who push criminal Illegal Aliens on America.
And that hot dog cart lady needs to take her Illegal Alien arse back to Mexico. There are Americans who could use those hot dog vendor jobs....
“Phoenix, Arizona (CNN) — It was an ethnic twist on an American classic, the kind of thing that Pinto beans, diced tomatoes, salsa and jalapenos top a hot dog that’s grilled to perfection.”
Immigration, hell. It should be a crime to put that crap on a hot dog.
“some people consider appealing and others frightening.”
Sure, sure, it must be some kind of “phobia,” right? FTS. I want my country back.
“tens of thousands of illegal immigrants have left Arizona for a warmer climate in Utah, Colorado, Texas or New Mexico.”
People should be calling for the simple solution. Give them two weeks to self-deport, then round them up, brand them on the forehead, and have men on horseback with shotguns *walk* them back to the border. Feed them oatmeal, bread, and water, have them pick up all the trash on the roadside as they go, and shoot them if they run.
“Last week, U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton”
I told them this crap would happen if they let women be lawyers and judges.