Boycott Arizona Until Vile Immigration Law Removed
There are few words to use in a diplomatic way to describe the sense of outrage that large sections of both Arizona and the United States feel over the passage into law of a measure concerning immigration. The lack of sanity and legal forethought regarding the law that undermines fairness along with the basic respect that should exist between police and those who need protecting is nothing short of shocking. The political calculation that allowed this bill to be passed and signed into law shows both the lack of moral decency among those who are elected to lead in Arizona, and the decay of human connections that we should have with one another in society. The fact that now anyone who is driving and looks Latino or Hispanic in Arizona might be questioned just on the basis of their skin color is so outrageous and numbing that it makes me wonder about the future of the country.
There is NO way that the United States can accept the stance that Arizona has now taken in light of Governor Brewer’s signature of this most vile piece of legislation. Right-wing loons may think this is great, but educated people at the end of the day must prevail in over-turning this law. To start on that path there must be economic pressure applied on Arizona. Nothing is felt faster, or makes people move quicker, than when the green starts to fade. I think the fear of brown will be lessened if we all apply pressure on Arizona by boycotting the state for business or personal trips.
Already the American Immigration Lawyers Association has decided not to hold their convention in Arizona. I suspect that other groups will soon make the same decision. It should be noted that Arizona was also at the center of acting foolishly concerning honoring Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. in the late 1980′s. America rejected that racism and withheld money both as tourists and businesses from the state. That again needs to be the case to shed from Arizona it’s latest racist and mean-spirited action.
i honestly agree
you think we are illegal?
think about this arizona was once part of mexico
so basically i can shake me butt in your
face and call you a hypocrite…
so dont talk to me about illegal immigration..
why dont you look up the
Mexican-american war..
get your facts right..
you are the illegal immigrant…
Let me clear up your misunderstanding with the laws of the nation.
States have no power to pass immigration laws because it’s an attribute of foreign affairs. Just as states can’t have their own foreign policies or enter into treaties, they can’t have their own immigration laws either.
You can sputter all you want but at the end of the day the facts and the legal standing are still on the side where I stand.
So, you want to boycott Arizona because of their immigration law. The federal government hasn’t been able to do anything about illegal immigration, and Arizona decided to step up and do something about it. Is your company/neighborhood/city/state 100% illegal free?? If it is, then boycott away. If not, then fix your own before criticizing what another does.
The ever predictable race card is once again being played by the hyperbolic left-wing on this issue. I guess the pro-illegal immigration crowd has no problenm with 800K people a year crossing into our country unregulated and unchecked and putting American companies that play by the rules out of business. The law in Arizona does not permit the police to pull people over for being a certain race. It does permit the police to check on residency status if the police have reason to question that person on other matters(i.e. speeding, burglary, etc). Governments have a responsibility to their citizens first and this law recognizes that. It is in now way racist for a country or state to enforce its immigration laws, protect borders, and check the status of those who are not U.S. citizens regarding the legality of their presence here. That is like claiming it racist to put and use a lock on your front door and have someone arrested for breaking into one’s house.
As for your boycott: bring it! Many supporting this law are calling for sanctuary cities such as San Francisco to be boycotted for their attacks on AZ. And given that the majority of this country supports this law and deporting illegals, I believe an attempted boycott on AZ could have serious blowback on the pro-illegal immigration groups and cities.
Fianlly, I love the hypocrisy of the left-wing that will tell me that forcing people (via 16K new IRS agents) to buy health insurance under Obamacare is in no way unconstitutional (even though that power is no where to be found in the Constitution), but the enforcement of immigration laws and border security is somehow a violation of Constituional rights. Only the moonbats on the left could come up with that bass-ackwards logic!
Grace, we agree.
You ask, “Why so much emphasis on our Mexico border why not our Canadian border?’
The answer is that Canada has far fewer brown skinned people.
This racial profiling law will open the gates to other racial profiling laws. Why so much emphasis on our Mexico border why not our Canadian border?
Yes, boycott anything Arizona. Haven’t we been on this similar subject back in the 80′s.
Boycott Arizona? For sure. The Arizona Diamondbacks have been targeted for boycott by a number of websites like your because the Diamondback owners are large contributors and supporters of SB1070. If you’re a baseball fan don’t attend a Diamondback game even if they’re playing you local team. Also, we need to find who the Diamondback major sponsors are and promise them that we will not purchase their products until they cut off all assoications with the Diamondbacks. This is an easy way to let everyone across America (and perhaps the world) participate the boycott movement. Please share any information that you can gather on the sponsors of the Arizona Diamondbacks.
What a wonderful comment! I thank you for the passion with which you write, and will post your message as a seperate post in and of itself as it stikes to the heart of the matter. Thanks again.
I thank you for reminding me of the decency we share as Americans. In times like these is easy for us to become polarized. It is easy for me to see a land divided by ethnicity. A country composed of us and them. My family is Native American with a Spanish surname which simply means the first European my ancestor came in contact with was Spanish. He was babtized into the Catholic church drafted at gun point into the Spanish army and became part of the band of soldiers who built the presidio at Monterey California. When my father was a little boy he and his family were deported in 1930 after congress passed the repatriation act of 1929 regardless of being in California sense its insception. The law was to deport only the illegal Mexicans. My fathers and his famioy were guilty of only one thing, being brown. I grew up hearing those stories of my dad and his family being put in cattle cars at the Santa Fe railroad station in Colton California and arriving in Mexico and not speaking Spanish. My grandfather had been a switchman for the Sante fe railroad. I remember thinking as a child that it could never happen to me or my children because that law was passed then becaused people back then where not as informed or enlightened as we are now. I heard Governor Brewer exclaim this law only applied to illegal immigrants and she would not tolerate profiling! My children and I like my father are guilty of being brown. I forget about that most the time until things like these come up. I begin to think of us and them. Then I read your words and you are as incesned about the injustice of this as I am. You remind me of what unites us as Americans our shared values in justice and most common decency!
I Thank You