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Prison Economics Help Drive Ariz. Immigration Law
NPR ^ | October 28, 2010 | Laura Sullivan

Posted on 10/28/2010 10:18:17 AM PDT by DrewsMum

But while the debate raged, few people were aware of how the law came about.

NPR spent the past several months analyzing hundreds of pages of campaign finance reports, lobbying documents and corporate records. What they show is a quiet, behind-the-scenes effort to help draft and pass Arizona Senate Bill 1070 by an industry that stands to benefit from it: the private prison industry.

(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: aliens; arizona; illegalimmigration; npr
Looks like NPR is out for revenge....hmmmmm....
1 posted on 10/28/2010 10:18:23 AM PDT by DrewsMum
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To: DrewsMum

Typical marxist paranoia. Look behind any idea and you’ll find an eeeeeeeeeevil corporation pushing it along in the name of profit. It doesn’t occur to NPR that maybe SB1070 enacted the will of The People.


2 posted on 10/28/2010 10:32:13 AM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: DrewsMum

This definitely stinks to the highest of levels of cooked entrails of contrivance seasoned well with essence of Leftist Bullscoot.


3 posted on 10/28/2010 10:32:57 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: DrewsMum
I heard this report this morning, and it was incredibly weak. The legislation reflects the will of the people, and it is aimed at enforcing existing law. But they act like it is a nefarious plot.

The fact that someone, somwhere, might end up showing a profit is repugnant to these Marxists. They want to live in a world in which all businessmen lose money every year.

4 posted on 10/28/2010 10:35:39 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: ClearCase_guy
This is a classic six-degrees-of-separation hit piece. Lobbyists often represent many clients. Since Jan Brewer has former lobbyists on her staff, ergo, some of them will have ties to the prison industry, and NPR uses that to associate her to this plot.

Missing is the fact that the people of Arizona - and the larger American public - overwhelmingly support this law. And have no problem incarcerating someone who is here illegally until they are deported, given how many who go through catch-and-release never show up for trial.

And it would have been nice if NPR had put a quarter of this much effort into tracking the influence-peddling around the health-care bill.

5 posted on 10/28/2010 10:42:18 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: DrewsMum

George Soros is behind “a quiet, behind-the-scenes effort to help draft and pass” the elimination of freedom in the US, in part by financing propagandists at NPR...


6 posted on 10/28/2010 10:48:40 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: DrewsMum

Sorry about it Ms. Hawke, but the sleazy prison people teaming up with the secretive group and the racist politicians to keep Mexican families locked up for ages, well, isn’t it a bit far-fetched.


7 posted on 10/28/2010 10:50:14 AM PDT by paristwelve (m::)
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To: DrewsMum

Had nothing at all to do with the violence on the border, employment issues, illegal immigrants....


8 posted on 10/28/2010 10:52:28 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: DrewsMum
NPR spent the past several months analyzing

Sorry, but I stopped reading right there! What a freaking joke. This is the same NPR who said they ONLY get about 1% funding from the taxpayers.

I really don't care who benefits from jailing ILLEGALS. Obviously the FED. Government isn't doing it's job, period. NPR can analyze that!

DEFUND THESE PEOPLE! If they don't need taxpayer's dollars then LET'S STOP sending it to them.

9 posted on 10/28/2010 10:53:55 AM PDT by kcvl
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Glenn Nichols, Manager
120 West 6th St.
P.O. Box 2223
Benson, AZ 85602

Phone: (520) 586-2245
Fax: (520) 586-3375
Email: ggomez@cityofbenson.com
www.cityofbenson.com

******

Did Glenn Nichols worry about the same thing when he conspired with these people for a “Long Range Transportation Planning Project”

http://tinyurl.com/28bf7su


10 posted on 10/28/2010 11:11:51 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: DrewsMum

Arizona

Nichols, Glenn H. Chief of Police, Benson Police Dept


11 posted on 10/28/2010 11:15:39 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: DrewsMum
Juan Williams' Fault!


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

12 posted on 10/28/2010 11:23:27 AM PDT by The Comedian (Let's see who can punch the softest. You first.)
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To: DrewsMum
NPR does not comprehend the simple word, illegal. They cannot grasp the concept nor understand thoroughly what it means. For Liberals, feelings mean more than laws and feelings block reasoning ability.

We as a culture have wandered away from what is right and what is wrong, moral and immoral. Everything for Liberals/Progressive is in shades of gray OR perceived the exact opposite of what the majority recognizes as just.

Arizona Senate Bill 1070 will result in arresting those who break our laws. It could result in an increase of prisoners in Arizona's custody IF the Federal Government doesn't deport illegal aliens shortly after apprehension.

This law therefore is not the result of greedy businessmen craving the profits to be earned building and housing prisoners: it is the result of Obama’s Administration not upholding Federal immigration law.

Anyone tries NPR’s argument with you, hit them with the truth — it is Obama’s fault and explain why it is his fault.

13 posted on 10/28/2010 1:34:19 PM PDT by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT!)
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To: DrewsMum; 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; ...

Ping!


14 posted on 10/28/2010 1:49:29 PM PDT by HiJinx (I can see November from my front porch - and Mexico from the back.)
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To: DrewsMum
What they show is a quiet, behind-the-scenes effort to help draft and pass Arizona Senate Bill 1070 by an industry that stands to benefit from it: the private prison industry.

GASP! Could this be almost the same as the AFL/CIO drafting the facsist takeover of GM and Chrysler and the wholesale sellout of the Democrat Party to the unions over healthcare?

Say it ain't so!

15 posted on 10/29/2010 1:59:42 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Defund National Peoples Radio!! Democrats are for free speech. Just not for you.)
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Sen. Pearce Refutes Money Connections

PHOENIX — Sen. Russell Pearce fought back Thursday against claims the private prisons had a heavy hand in writing and passing the state’s new immigration enforcement law.

CBS 5 has been reporting for months on the financial connection between Arizona lawmakers and the company that houses detained illegal immigrants. National Public Radio followed up with a two-part series detailing similar findings.

Pearce is a member of what NPR calls a “secretive group called the American Legislative Exchange Council”. Pearce attended a December 2009 meeting of the group, which also included officials from Corrections Corporation of America— the largest operator of private prisons in the country. Attendees from that meeting voted on model legislation to combat illegal immigration.

Four months later, that model legislation was introduced as SB 1070. Thirty-six legislators co-sponsored Pearce’s bill. Thirty of them soon received campaign donations from prison lobbyists or prison companies, according to research by National Public Radio.

Pearce told CBS 5 that he wrote the bill on his own, without input or help from Exchange Council members or CCA. He said campaign contributions had nothing to do with moving the bill forward and that he received no CCA money.

“People fund legislators because they support what they’re doing,” he said. “[Contributing] doesn’t influence many votes down here. If it does, shame on those legislators that it influences.”

http://www.kpho.com/valleynews/25558044/detail.html


16 posted on 10/29/2010 5:41:00 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: DrewsMum

We don’t want the illegals in US prisons.

We want them back in Mexico to stay!!!!

NPR is just engaging in Arizona-bashing, just as they have been doing Serb-bashing for years. Shame on them!!!!


17 posted on 10/29/2010 6:30:29 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: kcvl

Exactly, I am not sure what their complaint is?

Maybe we should house the illegals in the local Hilton ;)


18 posted on 10/29/2010 7:32:54 AM PDT by hejahale (Illegals)
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To: DrewsMum

The strongest prison industry is in California and they benefit from illegal immigration without ever actually passing specific laws targeting it.


19 posted on 10/30/2010 1:35:17 AM PDT by Del Rapier
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