La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz for May 03, 2010

Yep - Arizona’s getting closer to being a Police State. So who’s gonna pay for all the jails needed to hold all the “suspects” until they get a fair trial?

…touché …

They do not ask if you are a citizen. BUT the stupid race thing is there. They ask if you are Hispanic and then say Hispanic is not a race. WELLL DUHHHH; Hispanics are Caucasian, Circus employee. (BOZO).

I’m waiting for the first detainings of Indians, Pakistanis and others who may be darker-skinned than others. Then I believe the underlying racism of the law will be inescapable, no matter how much they’ve been trying to refine the bill and how much they deny racism has anything to do with it.

As for the claim that the cop must have a reasonable suspicion, it is already too easy for a cop to stop someone for dropping a cigarette butt, changing lanes without signaling, or standing around next to the local home-improvement store. Despite the fact I have high regard for all the good cops, there are enough bad ones that we shouldn’t be giving them new chances to violate someone’s rights.

I consider current American immigration law to violate the rights of both Americans and foreigners. Do what you think you can to keep out the truly criminal and the seriously contagious, but then we should let in anyone who wants.

CATCH 22.

Fill out the form and be accurately counted but unfairly nabbed. Or don’t and provide an excuse to ignore your existence.

pschearer:

I just can’t stand it when I agree with you!

An embedded chip would make it easy to scan people to see if they are citizens. This would be a good GOP Right Wing Law. Only criminals and illegals would be afraid to not get their own ID chip implanted. Perhaps Arizona will be the first state to chip away at this illegal alien problem. Oh, by the way, I like the show V

As if Joe Arpaio needs a “law”…

pschearer, I agree with you.

Now I’m for the Arizona law because obviously an illegal kidnapped pschearer and stole his identity. Quick, somebody call the cops! We gotta find him!

Don’t know why so many folks are against stopping something that’s being done illegally. Besides, have you been reading about the drug wars in Mexico? Do you want that going on up here. I know not all Mexicans are drug dealers, etc., but you can’t tell which are and which aren’t by looking. Therefore we need a solid immigration program that hopefully would separate the wheat from the chaff. Did mention ILLEGAL!

Actually there is no mention of civil rights for non-citizens in the U.S. Constitution. People want to dance around the fact that this law in Arizona is unconstiutional and pretty much unenforceable because it will cause racial profiling. It is also leading to a mountain of lawsuits by hispanic americans that the state will lose. Until the U.S. Congress does something on immigration laws other than the Immigration/Amnesty act that Ex-Pres Reagan passed in 1986 this will continue to be a problem.

In a related note people may scream about the idea of an National ID card but controlling illegal immigration will be next to impossible without it.

pschearer wrote: “I’m waiting for the first detainings of Indians, Pakistanis and others who may be darker-skinned than others.”

I don’t know about the Pakistanis - but I’m pretty sure the “Indians” were here first. In my younger years before it became “un-healthy” to be tanned I got pretty brown skinned myself. Having a small part “Indian” background, I usually tanned instead of burning (and peeling) like my “Pinkish White” friends.

shytimes2 - LOL I borrowed “Pinkie” from Get Fuzzy comic - that’s what Bucky (Cat) refers to Rob on occasions.