I want to keep drawing people’s attention to what is happening in Arizona and the efforts against it.
Pressure has been mounting against the racist, anti-immigrant SB1070, which essentially expands statewide the anti-Latino harassment and criminalization that Sheriff Joe Arpaio made famous in Maricopa County.
Coming out in a sad attempt to keep himself politically relevant, John McCain came out in favor of SB1070 because it protects everyone from those criminally minded immigrants.
There are strong efforts against the measure happening both locally and nationwide. azcentral.com is reporting:
As of Monday, the Governor’s Office had received 1,356 calls, e-mails and faxes in favor of SB 1070 and 11,931 against the bill.
And yesterday, a group of college students participated in an act of civil disobedience, sacrificing their own freedom in order to make a statement in defense of the freedom of their community.
SB1070 (ull text PDF here) is bad enough, but the Arizona House of Representatives also voted to pass what’s being called a “birther” bill which requires that presidential candidates prove, with papers of course, that they are a “natural born citizen”. Hmm I wonder who that is aimed at?
At the moment, most people expect Gov. Jan Brewer to sign the bill into law or sit on her hands and do nothing which would make SB1070 law by default.
this is good. but i wont rtweet…just cause i hate Fox news! almost as much as i hate o’reily
Goddamn. Goddamn.
I’ve been watching the stuff on the first bill, I had no idea about the “birther bill.” I mean–this is past “cutting off the nose to spit the face,” this is just outright vindictive hatred. These are the sort of bills that the south in the middle of Jim Crow Era would’ve passed.
Yeah it’s really scary to read and hear about from some friends who are there on the ground. According to many of them, alot of this had been prevented in the past because Napolitano was governor. Now she’s not and well maybe she would have been more useful in terms of immigration policy had she stayed as Gov. because well you see how well she’s doing running la migra
ja ja I don’t blame you Inez. The sad part is that these are the places where these politicians say these things. When they speak to Univision, they give a different speech
Pingback: uberVU - social comments
70% of the citizens in AZ supported this bill. If the Federal Gov’t would enforce the laws of this country, states would not have to go it alone. Our crumbling economy can not support millions of additional mouths to feed and it make me feel proud to know that someone is listening to the American people. This is enough to make me register as a new Republican and turn my back on this group called the Democrats.
Pingback: on living in a police state « guerrilla mama medicine