Arizona Republican Party Declares War On Latinos
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Doug Kahn, who lives in Phoenix, has been warning me lately about some really extreme legislation coming out of his adopted state. There's some crazy new gun law that makes it possible to carry concealed weapons without permits; at least you can't conceal a tank or a nuke! And this week the whole country was shocked at the draconian new anti-immigrants law Arizona passed-- well, not the whole country. McCain is using it to prove to teabaggers that he's one of them at heart and hates Latinos as much as they do.
Cardinal Roger Mahony, on the other hand, isn't hesitating to compare Republicans like McCain to Nazis, pretty strong message for the head of the nation's largest Roman Catholic archdiocese.
The measure wrongly assumes that Arizonans "will now shift their total attention to guessing which Latino-looking or foreign-looking person may or may not have proper documents," Cardinal Roger Mahony said in his blog Sunday-- a day before Arizona's Legislature sent the immigration enforcement measure to the Republican governor.
Gov. Jan Brewer has not indicated whether she will sign the bill, which creates a new state misdemeanor of willful failure to complete or carry an alien registration document. It would also require officers to determine people's immigration status if there's reason to suspect they're in the country illegally... Mahony, whose archdiocese has a huge Hispanic immigrant population, said the Arizona Legislature was passing "the country's most retrogressive, mean-spirited, and useless anti-immigrant law."
Similar laws that were previously passed in other states have been repealed or struck down in the courts, he said.
"The tragedy of the law is its totally flawed reasoning: that immigrants come to our country to rob, plunder, and consume public resources," Mahony said.
"I can't imagine Arizonans now reverting to German Nazi and Russian Communist techniques whereby people are required to turn one another in to the authorities on any suspicion of documentation," the cardinal said. "Are children supposed to call 911 because one parent does not have proper papers? Are family members and neighbors now supposed to spy on one another, create total distrust across neighborhoods and communities, and report people because of suspicions based upon appearance?"
"The country's most retrogressive, mean-spirited, and useless anti-immigrant law?" Exactly what McCain was looking for. In fact, virtually the entire Arizona Republican Party just found something to run on. This law is a Tom Tancredo/Heath Shuler wet dream. Congressman Raúl Grijalva, easily Arizona's most beloved and respected member of Congress-- at least in terms of ordinary Arizona families-- doesn't agree, not even a little. He asked Gov. Brewer to veto the clearly unconstitutional law which forces police to stop and question "anyone" (though probably not Irishmen or Swedes suspected of being an illegal immigrant, including a demand for papers verifying U.S. citizenship).
“This bill will be rejected by the courts, and in the meantime, Arizonans will be subjected to unnecessary indignity at the hands of a racist law,” Grijalva said. “I cannot stress enough the scale of the damage Arizona’s prestige and credibility will suffer if this bill is finalized.”
Grijalva called on national organizations of all kinds to reject Arizona as a convention destination unless the bill is vetoed. A Super Bowl ban by the National Football League Players Association after the state refused to recognize Martin Luther King Jr. day was effective in changing the policy in 1993.
“If the state follows through with this, the cost will be high,” Grijalva said. “This bill is not a serious approach to the immigration issue. This is grandstanding at taxpayer expense. Turning every police officer in the state into a roving immigration official, armed with a racial profiling mandate, is un-American on its face and cannot withstand even casual legal scrutiny.”
"Grandstanding at taxpayer expense?" Seems like no one can get John McCain off their minds these days. Raúl will be speaking on the Keith Olbermann show on MSNBC at 5:00pm, Arizona time (8:00pm eastern). SB 1070 is a racist law that will negatively affect Arizona's economy. It allows for racial profiling and it is simply un-American. We should all stand with Raúl as he urges Governor Brewer to Veto SB 1070.
Labels: immigration, McCain flip flops, Raul Grijalva, Roger Mahony, xenophobia
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It would probably send a message if every Latino in Arizona could find a way to just stay home for a week. The whole state would come to a halt. For instance, it would be awfully hard to get gas. Deliveries of food and other goods would virtually stop. The wait for a bus would be a long one out in that hot sun. Restaurants would close. Public restrooms would be just swell. Garbage would start to reek in the heat...
Who would water the lawns at all of McCain's houses?
What Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) has to say about Amnesty and Tax-Dollar Drain,
Lamar Smith is the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee.
Outside of the usual articles from Bloggers like myself and other opponents of illegal immigration, here is a very eye-opening correspondence by an insider of the Washington beltway. While others fudge the truth or downright lie or release rancid propaganda to the masses. Here are some bitter truths that this Representative from Texas is availing us of the ugly truth and the calamitous situation sending us into a black bottomless pit of American bankruptcy.
Rep. Lamar Smith states:
President Obama and Congressional Democrats have been talking about giving amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants. Tax Day seems like a good time to examine the impact that such a policy would have on your wallet.
Start with education. Using the average annual American public school elementary and secondary education costs, the Federation for American Immigration Reform has estimated that the total cost of K-12 education for illegal immigrant minors and the U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants is $28.6 billion a year.
Then there’s health care. If illegal immigrants are covered in the health care bill (there is not a strong verification mechanism to ensure they won’t get benefits), it would increase the bill’s costs between $10-$30 billion. Of course, it won’t matter if illegal immigrants receive amnesty since the new law requires health care coverage for everyone.
Social Security is another area of great concern. Claims by amnesty advocates that illegal immigration can “save” Social Security are false.
Last year, the Social Security Administration (SSA) ran the numbers at my request. Here’s what they found: For a single 25-year old male with very low earnings, today’s value of his and his employer’s contributions to the Trust Fund will fall $15,596 short of the value of the Social Security retirement benefits he will eventually receive. A single female will receive $20,936 more in benefits than she pays into Social Security. If the immigrant is married but the sole wage-earner, the couple will eventually drain the Trust Fund by $52,460; if the immigrant is married to another very low earner, the drain on the trust fund will be $39,037. The legalization of one million illegal immigrant couples who work for very low wages would be a $101 billion blow to taxpayers. And amnesty for all illegal immigrants would multiply this figure many times!
When it comes to taxes, amnesty supporters like to say that illegal immigrants will pay their “fair share” of taxes after being granted amnesty. This is deceptive.
Low-skilled workers often pay no taxes and receive a check from the Internal Revenue Service in the form of the Earned Income Tax Credit. Putting illegal immigrants on the IRS rolls will actually cost the federal government money.
Since most illegal immigrants have less than a high school education and have well below average incomes, even those illegal immigrants who pay taxes pay far less in taxes than they (and their families) consume in taxpayer-supported benefits. Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation found that the average immigrant household headed by an immigrant without a high school degree receives over $19,000 more in total government benefits each year than it pays in federal, state and local taxes!
But the impact goes far beyond these direct costs.
There are nearly 16 million Americans out of work, and about 8 million jobs are held by illegal immigrants. By simply enforcing immigration laws already on the books, we could create millions of job opportunities for American citizens and legal immigrants who played by the rules and entered the U.S. the right way.
Instead, the Obama administration has all but abandoned worksite enforcement efforts. Administrative arrests are down 87 percent; criminal arrests of employees are down 83 percent; criminal arrests of employers are down 73 percent; the number of criminal indictments are down 86 percent; and the number of criminal convictions is down 83 percent since 2008. This insults unemployed and underemployed American workers who need the jobs held by illegal immigrants.
The hit is on your wallet! Illegal immigrants are a fiscal drain on American taxpayers. And the Obama administration’s policies only make it worse.
Last year, the Social Security Administration (SSA) ran the numbers at my request.
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At your request...? That just sounds--odd. Who was your contact? Why did they run numbers for you?
Those are reasonable questions. After all, there are bound to be people who suspect you got your data instead off some long discredited site you don't want to mention, maybe because we'll come down on them like Huns on a Central Asian village.
As a natural born citizen family of 3 who's wife is a teacher i can at least see the logic. I am unemployed. She holds an AS, AAS, Bachelors and a Montessori certification. We make less then 25k a year. We get around 4 thousand a year in tax credit from the IRS (we have no with holding) and our entire family qualifies for the State Medical Plan. Not to mention almost $250 a month in food assistance. You cant tell me these under educated amnesty illegals are going to make more money then my family and actually CONTRIBUTE to the over all tax base?
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