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Are you serious Karen? Really? That’s the solution to gendered violence is for women to stand up for themselves and “fix their own countries”? I notice women standing up for themselves and “fixing their own country” here in the US–and that hasn’t done much to end violence against women here–against citizens or non-citizens.

I’m not a hater. Yes, I know that this woman isn’t going to single handedly change El Salvador, but I don’t see immigration law changing anytime soon.

The country is firmly opposed to immigration reform because of the bad economy and because of racism. The private prison industry sees illegal immigrants as their next “market,” and ICE essentially works for them by rounding people up for detention. And with the Citizens United case, the private prison industry can now spend billions to get their candidates elected, candidates such as Susana Martinez.

Jan Brewer is appealing SB 1070, but what if it goes all the way to the conservative Supreme Court? How do you think they will rule? We already have situations where US citizens have been wrongly detained and/or deported because police suspected them of being here illegally, and neither party cares.

Should ALL of our rights now be at risk? I don’t want to live in Latin America, but the hardcore oppression that exists there is coming here.
Some people are successful no matter where they go, and some people are oppressed/exploited no matter where they go.

I feel sorry for undocumented immigrants but they need to go home and fight for their freedom in their own countries just like people have had to do since the beginning of time.

Oppression is not some contagion that can be transferred from one nation to the next–it is in us all. It’s a hallmark human history.

SB1070, at least the portion that creates unlawful presence as a state crime, will likely not be upheld in the Supreme Court. There is too much of a clear-cut due process concern i.e. unlawful detention.

Funny Karen there are some things that I agree with you. I am confused with you stating that the woman at the center of the original story should fix the problems of her country.

Maegan, I meant that the oppression won’t stop until people fix the problems in their own country. Living here illegally or undocumented is just causing the same kind of problems for them that they were trying to escape.

I don’t think that Obama has any intention of touching immigration reform, and of course he never did. He has already signaled that he will compromise with the Republicans, so expect things to get worse as Obama runs through hoops seeking the approval of people who can’t stand him. He is so trifling.

Bryan, democracy is one thing, due process is another? I don’t understad what you mean by that.

My point in bringing up Citizens United was to show that this Supreme Court does not care about democracy. If they were willing to corrupt our elections to keep corporations and the top 1% from paying their fair share of taxes, then why woudn’t they eliminate due process for people suspected of being here illegally, if due process interferes with the profit motive of private prisons?

It’s the same thing–500 years of European oppression. But they have no legal standing here at all, while they at least have some rights in their home countries.