thompsonx -> RE: AZ SB1070 to go before Supreme Court this week (5/3/2012 10:09:53 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Fightdirecto For purely selfish reasons, I hope the SCOTUS slaps Arizona down. A bass player friend from Taos, New Mexico, a 3rd generation American whose great-grandparents came from Mexico and who became U.S. citizens in 1901, ended up spending a weekend in jail in some one-horse town in Northern Arizona because, while fixing a flat tire, a local Barney Fife stopped, saw that he "looked Mexican" and locked him up because they wouldn't accept his New Mexico driver's license or his Social Security card as proof of his U. S. citizenship. He was taken into custody on a Friday night and was kept locked up until Monday morning when the feds from Immigration/Naturalization got him released. I've turned down jobs in Arizona since then - and I won't go there unless I can walk the streets there like I do in the other 49 states and not have to "show my papers" to any hick cop who might think I'm not an American (people have often said I look Irish - and there's a lot of illegal Irish in the U. S., particularly in New York City, Chicago and Boston. I wouldn't want some Arizona Dudley Do-Right locking me up as an illegal Irish immigrant). For purely U.S. Constitution/State's Rights reasons, I hope the SCOTUS slaps Obama's DoJ down. "You cannot please all of the people all of the time." I am sure you are aware that robbing banks is a federal offense and that any city policeman or private citizen may arrest that bank robber without seeking federal authority to do so. Likewise hiring those who have crossed the boarder illegally is a federal offense(punishable by five yars in federal prison with no parole an $250,000 fine for each alien employed who crossed the boarder illegally). Do you believe that if the board of directors of wallmart went to the slam for a hundred years and got a $25 million dollar fine that other employers would soon begin to follow the law? I am pretty sure that the feds have a bounty on federal criminals. Someone who truley wanted to end illegal immigration and make a ton of money would only have to arrest a few of the larger employers to accomplish their goal...of course if bigotry is ones goal then this would not have the same effect as busting people for being brown in public.
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