Editor's note: Following publication of this article, U.S. District Judge Susan R. Bolton enjoined the state of Arizona from enacting key provisions of state Senate Bill 1070. Though the law’s most dangerous sections were put on pause, pending the outcome of litigation, the remainder of the law goes into effect, as scheduled, Thursday, July 29. See the full story on Bolton’s ruling, and read her entire decision, here.
Unable to regulate our border, unwilling to create a reasonable path to citizenship for the immigrants who labor in our place, Arizona law enforcement officially now undertakes to rid us of Mexicans.
Because of infamous Arizona Senate Bill 1070, which is scheduled to take effect on Thursday, July 29, the pretext of traffic stops will now initiate a search for residency papers, a practice at once abhorrent and also under consideration by as many as 20 other states.
The national terror of reconquista will now flood the streets and courts of Arizona.
The ACLU and the United States Justice Department are seeking an injunction to put SB 1070 on hold until the seven lawsuits pending can be addressed.
While lawyers cosseted in leathered briefs discuss the depth of the anti-Mexican deluge, the boots on the ground of this immigrant monsoon wear badges and guns.
If police officers were supermen, there would still be the matter of kryptonite; lawmen, however, like the rest of us, are human: The alarm doesn't go off, but the spouse does; calls get dropped, coffee gets spilled. And, every so often, officers' problems are the stuff of television drama.
Now, like Noah with his ark, the police will sort the brown in the automobile: "You two remain; you two go to Nogales."
Daniel Magos, once an immigrant, now a United States citizen, is one man who understands the divide in a cop's life.
Once, when one of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's men had a flat tire, Daniel stopped to help.
On another occasion, a deputy was adrift in a conversation with a Spanish-speaking immigrant in south Phoenix. The officer had trouble understanding or being understood. Daniel stepped forward and translated for Arpaio's man.
Nor has Magos hesitated in the face of danger.
In 2000, he saw a group of men attacking what he believed was a mojado, a wetback. Magos summoned a deputy. The lawman grabbed one of the belligerents, and as his compadres attempted to flee in a car, they tried to run over the deputy. The officer gave his prisoner to Daniel.
"You hold him for me," Magos recalled the deputy telling him.
The deputy then gave chase in his vehicle, and the pursuit ended only when those fleeing crashed their car. In the ensuing chaos, Daniel was left to his own devices. "I called the sheriff's department and asked: 'What will I do?'"
What Daniel Magos would do today, 10 years later, is walk away.
What changed?
Only this: Daniel and his wife, Eva, were recent victims of racial profiling.
Daniel and Eva were, if you will, ahead of their time, ahead of SB 1070. And herein lies a small story about what happens when we hunt Mexicans and Mexican Americans and Central Americans in our national hysteria over the brown-skinned people among us.
We hear so often that Senate Bill 1070, which demands that police — in the course of their enforcement responsibilities — question people about their citizenship, will frighten Latinos away from speaking up in domestic-abuse calls or in drug investigations or in gang probes.
Critics of SB 1070 characterize the victims of this racial profiling bill as a population caught up in some low-rent episode of Law & Order.
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Wow! Kansas City is really a racist bigoted town, just think, we all live and work around some of these bigoted people each day within our communities, now that's scary! JT
Wow! Kansas City is really a racist bigoted town, just think, we all live and work around some of these bigoted people each day within our communities, now that's scary! JT
Instead of fighting across the seas- which started with lies and and illegal invasion of another nation-which had nothing to do with 9/11, Americans should have been more concerned with a nation on its' border. Had we let those who wanted to work in jobs IN WHICH MOST AMERICANS DID NOT and granted them visas to do so, we would not be facing the problem with 'illegal' immigrants from Mexico. Those 'illegals' by and large, harvest the fruits, vegtables and grains that keep prices down in our grocery stores. They do this under people who often mistreat them or cheat them and who know those illegals have no recourse but to accept those conditions. If those 'illegals' were allowed visa work permits, the owners of those farms would have to treat them humanely and pay them as promised and visas would also have them on our records.
The drug trafic happens because drug runners can blend in with those who cross illegally to work on farms. Were visas given, the crowds crossing over illegally would thin down enormously and the drug trafic would be much more noticable and more easily captured. And if Americans did not buy the drugs from them, they would have no market.
Mexico was settled largely, apart from the indigenous population, by wealthy Spainards who quickly took over the land arriable for farming and instituted a governing force with armies-just as they did in Brazil and other Latin American countries. It has taken two or more centuries for that grip of power to loosen in most of Latin America-but it has not lost its grip in Mexico. Our own government is partially to blame for this with its' policies with the Mexican government. Mexico is in turmoil today because of the fight to retain power; many of the drug dealers, police and army -according to the New York Times through the years, as well as other studies- support this view.
It is time for Americans to 1) appreciate the Mexicans who work in the fields that keep our grocery prices down 2)institute a policy for work visas (the armed forces already has this program by allowing illegals to join and grant citizenship after their service) 3)legalize under stringent control- drugs which would eliminate a market for illegal drugs and give no incentive for smuggling drugs into this country by ANYONE and 4)recognize that many of American's ancesters came into this country either before legal entry was required or illegally so long ago that their decendants do not remember or have knowledge of it.
Helping a country on our border establish a good government (even if we have to send troops) makes more sense than having troops scattered over the globe in an attempt to dominate other countries across the seas.
you left wing nuts make me want to puke!!!If this country was left to you to run it, it would no longer exist and then when the very gov. you wanted to create started to restrict your freedoms because you might differ from theirs, you'd squeal like a pig!! but it would be too late.Those poor latinos in ariz will survive and not suffer too much, the law is the law, and the real prob. ids the fed. gov. won't enforce the laws ALLREADY ON TH BOOKS!!!!
Instead of fighting across the seas- which started with lies and and illegal invasion of another nation-which had nothing to do with 9/11, Americans should have been more concerned with a nation on its' border. Had we let those who wanted to work in jobs IN WHICH MOST AMERICANS DID NOT and granted them visas to do so, we would not be facing the problem with 'illegal' immigrants from Mexico. Those 'illegals' by and large, harvest the fruits, vegtables and grains that keep prices down in our grocery stores. They do this under people who often mistreat them or cheat them and who know those illegals have no recourse but to accept those conditions. If those 'illegals' were allowed visa work permits, the owners of those farms would have to treat them humanely and pay them as promised and visas would also have them on our records. The drug trafic happens because drug runners can blend in with those who cross illegally to work on farms. Were visas given, the crowds crossing over illegally would thin down enormously and the drug trafic would be much more noticable and more easily captured. And if Americans did not buy the drugs from them, they would have no market. Mexico was settled largely, apart from the indigenous population, by wealthy Spainards who quickly took over the land arriable for farming and instituted a governing force with armies-just as they did in Brazil and other Latin American countries. It has taken two or more centuries for that grip of power to loosen in most of Latin America-but it has not lost its grip in Mexico. Our own government is partially to blame for this with its' policies with the Mexican government. Mexico is in turmoil today because of the fight to retain power; many of the drug dealers, police and army -according to the New York Times through the years, as well as other studies- support this view. It is time for Americans to 1) appreciate the Mexicans who work in the fields that keep our grocery prices down 2)institute a policy for work visas (the armed forces already has this program by allowing illegals to join and grant citizenship after their service) 3)legalize under stringent control- drugs which would eliminate a market for illegal drugs and give no incentive for smuggling drugs into this country by ANYONE and 4)recognize that many of American's ancesters came into this country either before legal entry was required or illegally so long ago that their decendants do not remember or have knowledge of it. Helping a country on our border establish a good government (even if we have to send troops) makes more sense than having troops scattered over the globe in an attempt to dominate other countries across the seas.
you left wing nuts make me want to puke!!!If this country was left to you to run it, it would no longer exist and then when the very gov. you wanted to create started to restrict your freedoms because you might differ from theirs, you'd squeal like a pig!! but it would be too late.Those poor latinos in ariz will survive and not suffer too much, the law is the law, and the real prob. ids the fed. gov. won't enforce the laws ALLREADY ON TH BOOKS!!!!
If you cross the North Korean border illegally you get 12 years hard labor. If you cross the Iranian border illegally you are detained indefinitely. If you cross the Afghan border illegally, you get shot. If you cross the Saudi Arabian border illegally you will be jailed. If you cross the Chinese border illegally you may never be heard from again. If you cross the Venezuelan border illegally you will be branded a spy and your fate will be sealed. If you cross the Mexican borders illegally you will jailed for two years. If you cross the Cuban border illegally you will be thrown into political prison to rot. If you cross the United States border illegally you get: 1 - A job 2 - A driver's license 3 - A Social Security card 4 - Welfare 5 - Food stamps 6 - Credit cards 7 - Subsidized rent or a loan to buy a house 8 - Free education 9 - Free health care 10 - A lobbyist in Washington 11 - Billions of dollars in public documents printed in your language 12 - Millions of servicemen and women who are willing to - and do - die for your right to the ways and means of our constitution 13 - And the right to carry the flag of your country - the one you walked out on - while you call America racist and protest that you don't get enough respect. IF YOU AGREE, COPY AND RE-POST THIS....let us American Citizens all REPOST THIS WHO AGREE. Let us make this flow !!Reply
If you cross the North Korean border illegally you get 12 years hard labor. If you cross the Iranian border illegally you are detained indefinitely. If you cross the Afghan border illegally, you get shot. If you cross the Saudi Arabian border illegally you will be jailed. If you cross the Chinese border illegally you may never be heard from again. If you cross the Venezuelan border illegally you will be branded a spy and your fate will be sealed. If you cross the Mexican borders illegally you will jailed for two years. If you cross the Cuban border illegally you will be thrown into political prison to rot. If you cross the United States border illegally you get: 1 - A job 2 - A driver's license 3 - A Social Security card 4 - Welfare 5 - Food stamps 6 - Credit cards 7 - Subsidized rent or a loan to buy a house 8 - Free education 9 - Free health care 10 - A lobbyist in Washington 11 - Billions of dollars in public documents printed in your language 12 - Millions of servicemen and women who are willing to - and do - die for your right to the ways and means of our constitution 13 - And the right to carry the flag of your country - the one you walked out on - while you call America racist and protest that you don't get enough respect. IF YOU AGREE, COPY AND RE-POST THIS....let us American Citizens all REPOST THIS WHO AGREE. Let us make this flow !!Reply
I am a Mexican-American(half Mexican) visiting KCMO from central Texas. This is not a racial issue, and I am glad that Arizona is finally taking a stand on illegal immigration. The reason...this influx hurts my family as much as yours.You see, my family has little in common with the onslaught of peasant-class laborers who have changed my neighborhood in Texas from 5 percent hispanic in 2001 to a whopping 53 percent hispanic in 2007(these statistics come from the neighborhood elementary school which employs my wife). Property values have dropped,theft is up, and legal Mexican-Americans like me are paying the cost. And I have no more in common with these people than you have with a peasant-class European or African coming from your country of origin illegally. Oh, and I am not a Republican, so make that not an issue(trust me from the front lines.....illegal immigration unbelievably went up during Bush's watch.....5% to 53% in 7 years in one neighborhood!!!!). But I do not support Obama in this. It is pandering.
Ignore the Pitch. This article was, obviously, written by someone insulated from the problem way up here in Missouri.
Oh, and in response to the claim that "the border crossed " mant latinos, I think I really need to set the record straight on this. As far as Texas and half of New Mexico was concerned(part of Texas until 1850), Texas was a frontier territory that "belonged" to Mexico for only 15 years. It was maily populated by Indians. European Americans (Austin's and Robertson's Colonies, Etc.), were by far the second largest population group. A few Black slaves and French also populated the state.Mexicans were in significant numbers only in the two southernmost colonies, and had only been in the state for little more than a decade(like the whites). They(we) fought for independence as well. The border, at least as far as Texas and most of New Mexico was concerned, never really "crossed " more than a few thousand of us. Study your history. The west was taken from Indians who never were part of Mexican culture.
Liberal news makes me barf! Think twice, didn't your european ancestors enter the US legally with papers? Most coming through ellis island had to, if you were a criminal or sick you were refused unless cared for. This created less government dependence, allowing all these mexicans is creating government debt. Bi-lingual teachers, libraries, free lunches, food stamps, health care for the anchor-babies, etc. etc! WAKE UP all the dems know is that they want generations of voters and the only way to get them is from another country. How sad!
I am a Mexican-American(half Mexican) visiting KCMO from central Texas. This is not a racial issue, and I am glad that Arizona is finally taking a stand on illegal immigration. The reason...this influx hurts my family as much as yours.You see, my family has little in common with the onslaught of peasant-class laborers who have changed my neighborhood in Texas from 5 percent hispanic in 2001 to a whopping 53 percent hispanic in 2007(these statistics come from the neighborhood elementary school which employs my wife). Property values have dropped,theft is up, and legal Mexican-Americans like me are paying the cost. And I have no more in common with these people than you have with a peasant-class European or African coming from your country of origin illegally. Oh, and I am not a Republican, so make that not an issue(trust me from the front lines.....illegal immigration unbelievably went up during Bush's watch.....5% to 53% in 7 years in one neighborhood!!!!). But I do not support Obama in this. It is pandering. Ignore the Pitch. This article was, obviously, written by someone insulated from the problem way up here in Missouri. Oh, and in response to the claim that "the border crossed " mant latinos, I think I really need to set the record straight on this. As far as Texas and half of New Mexico was concerned(part of Texas until 1850), Texas was a frontier territory that "belonged" to Mexico for only 15 years. It was maily populated by Indians. European Americans (Austin's and Robertson's Colonies, Etc.), were by far the second largest population group. A few Black slaves and French also populated the state.Mexicans were in significant numbers only in the two southernmost colonies, and had only been in the state for little more than a decade(like the whites). They(we) fought for independence as well. The border, at least as far as Texas and most of New Mexico was concerned, never really "crossed " more than a few thousand of us. Study your history. The west was taken from Indians who never were part of Mexican culture.
Liberal news makes me barf! Think twice, didn't your european ancestors enter the US legally with papers? Most coming through ellis island had to, if you were a criminal or sick you were refused unless cared for. This created less government dependence, allowing all these mexicans is creating government debt. Bi-lingual teachers, libraries, free lunches, food stamps, health care for the anchor-babies, etc. etc! WAKE UP all the dems know is that they want generations of voters and the only way to get them is from another country. How sad!
Just come here legally, and there won't be an issue. I would not expect for another country to allow myself to live in it's society illegally.
What part of "Illegal" dont people understand. Illegal is Illegal.
Can we make robbing banks legal too? This is ridiculous. If they are hear illegally arrest and deport. ILLEGAL MEANS ILLEGAL!!!!!!!!
Just come here legally, and there won't be an issue. I would not expect for another country to allow myself to live in it's society illegally.
What part of "Illegal" dont people understand. Illegal is Illegal. Can we make robbing banks legal too? This is ridiculous. If they are hear illegally arrest and deport. ILLEGAL MEANS ILLEGAL!!!!!!!!
I once had to deal with Joe Arpaio and his staff as a Law Enforcement Officer from another state. I found him and his staff to be (in my humble opinion) the biggest group of a$$holes I've ever encountered in my law enforcement career of 30 years. But then, maybe that's what you need to deal with this illegal immigration situation.
I once had to deal with Joe Arpaio and his staff as a Law Enforcement Officer from another state. I found him and his staff to be (in my humble opinion) the biggest group of a$$holes I've ever encountered in my law enforcement career of 30 years. But then, maybe that's what you need to deal with this illegal immigration situation.
Oh, good God. I almost puked in my mouth from the STINK if the SHIT in this article. I'll bet you haven't even read the law. And you constantly confuse State laws and Federal laws along with what it means by the definition of illegal and enforcement. Geeze, maybe you should all take a course in logic someday.
Oh, good God. I almost puked in my mouth from the STINK if the SHIT in this article. I'll bet you haven't even read the law. And you constantly confuse State laws and Federal laws along with what it means by the definition of illegal and enforcement. Geeze, maybe you should all take a course in logic someday.
Everyone who is a LEGAL citizen of this country already has to show their papers. We're already on a lot of government "lists". Most of us have a driver's license, or ID card when we leave the house. Many States now require us to show a birth certificate, SS Card, and another form of ID now to even obtain these forms of State identification. We're required to show it at the direction of law enforcement any time. We're required to carry it at most public places, especially clubs that serve alcohol. We have to show it to even buy a six-pack, or a pack of cigarettes (if you can afford to smoke now). We have a social security card, we have to show when we need a job, or fill out papers for car loans, student loans, mortgages and car insurance. We have to show this now when we open a bank account, or transfer over $5k of cash to make sure we're not laundering money, or we're not a terrorist, and comply with the Patriot Act, the Bank Secrecy Act, the Anti-Money laundering Act, and the new FINRA laws. We are required to have tax ID numbers or use our SSN# if we own a business, so we can pay taxes and unemployment and work-comp insurance for ourselves and our employees, and to also comply with the laws already on the books. We're required to hand this information to the police, the IRS, Airport Security, or any other law enforcement agent that may ask for it to verify who we are. If we don't, that's already a crime also. We can't legally drive, fly, buy certain products, have a job, open a bank account, or even go fishing without required papers, licenses, ID, etc., (even though all of this has been done with regardless disregard to the fourth amendment that's been completely trampled upon). Why is it so hard to just enforce the law? Why is it racist to just ask somebody to prove they are here legally? The LEGAL citizens of this country are required to do it everyday, and so should everybody else. It's not racist, it's not immoral - It's just the law! Everyone who's here legally has to comply with it so why shouldn't everyone in America just play by the same rules? If you're not here legally, then you are also breaking many of these other laws as well. I contend the Federal Government needs to enforce the same rules for everyone, and practice equal justice under the law as specified by the Constitution.
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