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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 ...
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.
This definitely stinks to the highest of levels of cooked entrails of contrivance seasoned well with essence of Leftist Bullscoot.
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.
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.
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...
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.
Had nothing at all to do with the violence on the border, employment issues, illegal immigrants....
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.
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
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Did Glenn Nichols worry about the same thing when he conspired with these people for a “Long Range Transportation Planning Project”
Arizona
Nichols, Glenn H. Chief of Police, Benson Police Dept
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.
Ping!
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!
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
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!!!!
Exactly, I am not sure what their complaint is?
Maybe we should house the illegals in the local Hilton ;)
The strongest prison industry is in California and they benefit from illegal immigration without ever actually passing specific laws targeting it.
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