Phoenix Rising – Updated
Update: Show your support for Arizona with a state flag on your Twitter and Facebook profile pics.
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No, it’s not a Harry Potter convention. It’s a rally to support Arizona.
Although a majority of Americans supports Arizona’s common-sense immigration law, liberal politicians and mainstream media are determined to demonize the beleaguered border state. And for what? Why are they so critical of a state’s reasonable attempt to protect law-abiding taxpayers? Maddening.
Supporters (and protesters, I’m sure – ICE, you may want to stop by) will gather this Saturday beginning at 3 p.m. PST at the Wesley Bolin Plaza in Phoenix to listen to men like former House members Tom Tancredo, a pro-enforcement American after my own heart, and J.D. Hayworth, author of Whatever It Takes: Illegal Immigration, Border Security, And the War on Terror. (I highly recommend his book, which I reviewed in 2006.)
By the way, if you haven’t read Arizona’s SB 1070 (PDF), you should, at least Article 8, Enforcement of Immigration Laws, which begins on the second page. There is nothing remotely unfair about it. I hope other states pass similar laws.
As you’ve read, our Department of Justice is considering filing a lawsuit against Arizona. Our government may sue a state for trying to alleviate the burden of illegal aliens, whose presence the federal government has ignored all these years. I’m sure the lawyers at DOJ know they’d have to sue California, too, as the state has a similar immigration law on the books.
Governor Jan Brewer has started a defense fund in anticipation of legal challenges. If you want to contribute, send your money to:
The Governor’s Border Security Legal Defense Fund
c/o Governor Jan Brewer
1700 W Washington St.
Phoenix, AZ 85007
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Unfortunately, this law suite abuse by the DOJ is going to waste a lot of money and resources that can be better used else where. In her meeting with Obama, the good governor should ask for 12,000 troops, not just a portion of the 1,200.
I would think that if the DOJ brought suit against the State of Arizona for SB1070, they would also have to bring suite against the Federal Government upon whos law SB1070 is based.
LaShawn,
read you at your own blog, keep up great work and thank you.
local radio station here is having a
tourist trip out to Arizona, people around here don’t care for AntiAmerican boycotts. ^20 Arizona hang tuff
Being the center of attention is rather nice; the vitriol of the Left and Open Border whores wears like a badge of honor. Arizona will hang tuff enuff.
I personally hope Eric Holder is stupid enough to file suit against Arizona. Having the case thrown out as frivolous would leave its mark on history.
Not if the jurists look to Europe or the UN for their rulings.
This administration is at odds with the majority of people in this Country on just about everything (healthcare, the Arizona law, the immigration “fix”, its hostility and non-support of Israel). So much for liberal claims that they are the mainstream, not conservatives.
Actually if Holder and the DOJ file a law suit against Arizona that would be a great opportunity to put a multitude of the “Sins of the Federal Government” on display as part of the process.
As in any legal action the two sides would be subject to “full disclosure” rules as part of the evidentiary process …
This fact alone would be an opportunity for the State of Arizona to present the evidence of the multitudes of instances in which the Federal Government has “abdicated its responsibility” not only to the citizens of Arizona but to the entire population of the United States by refusing to enforce the federal immigration laws that are already in place …
By their refusal to enforce Federal Law the US Government has effectively “forfeited its authority” in this area to Arizona and all other states to take enforcement actions on a local level as they see fit …
There could be massive “counter-suits” against the US by Arizona and other states for all the money that the state has spent on incarceration, medical costs, education costs for children of illegals, and a multitude of other types of expenditures as required by law …
All of those types of expenditures to the states are supposed to be repaid by the Federal Government according to the law …
In Arizona the amount we are owed by Washington DC for the costs directly associated with illegal immigrants is actually more than the total of our state deficit …
So I say to BO and Holder … “BRING IT ON” … but be careful what you ask for because you will find that Arizona will take advantage of the opportunity to throw all your dirty laundry out there for the world to see … there will be no skeletons in the DC closet that will be safe from the light of day …
Actually California already has a law like it on the books with one difference, the CA law does not prohibit racial profiling.
Read CA Code 834
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=pen&group=00001-01000&file=833-851.90
What the idiots here in CA calling for boycotts is they don’t know we have this law already.
IF ONLY we could send such esteem jurists to Europe for a number of years to further study the issue. If Republicans/Conservatives won national elections for a generation we would still have too many of these vermin in our courts. Some other way must be found.
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BOYCOTT CALIFORNIA!! CALIFORNIA SUPPORTS RACIAL PROFILING!! LA RAZA!! NUKE THE WHALES!!
(sorry, just got caught up in the mob mentality — it’s very intoxicating.)
I’m sure you only meant “NUKE THE GAY UNBORN WHALES!!”
Thanks. We liberals here in the CA legislature couldn’t remember were we put that law. We’re liberals after all. Now that we know, we’ll be repealing it immediately.
– Speaker of the CA Assembly, John A. Pérez
Today the Arizona governor meets with Barry Soetoro regarding its new immigration law. I will from this day on refer to him as Barry Soetoro. That is his name. He will pretend to be concerned, promise to work on illegal immigration and go right back to demonizing the governor and anyone that approves of this law.
We have a guy here in Florida running for Guv. He advocates the same law as in Arizona. At the moment, am drawing a blank on his name, & don’t know any of his other positions, but he’s looking pretty good so far. Spanish is becoming fairly predominant in South Florida, and Creole is growing as well. It’s great to welcome new citizens if they would become Americans. Not the case. Seems they want this place to be Mexico, or Cuba, or Gautamala or Haiti. All the bennies & none of the responsibilities.
You’re both wrong. It’s “Nuke the gay whales for Jesus!”
Gov Brewer should read the law to him while displaying a chart comparing the AZ law to the Federal law.
Boom! Taste my nightstick!
How can we tell Obama and Holder we don’t want our federal tax dollars used to “investigate” the Arizona law. Does the 10th Amendment not count here?
LOL at moron Holder suing AZ for passing a copy of the Federal law. What a threat! How about this-every time an illegal alien is found, report them in writing. If they are not deported, file a written complaint against the federal employee to whom you made the report to the USDOJ Inspector General, or if you can find out which employee failed to do their sworn duty to uphold the law and blocked the deportation, file against them. Not may federal employees want a thousand or more written complaints against them for corruption on their record. I suspect they will demand their superior order them not to do their job in writing, and then the superior becomes the target for the complaints. It will move up the ladder until it reaches the top. Eric Holder, criminal, will have to write down what he has told those he supervises, “Break the law!”
Impeach Holder and BO.
These events need far more support and planning – the Stand With Arizona Rally was a disappointment; only 7,000 people? 4 times as many people showed up for the anti bill 1070 rally. Granted, the media has a nasty habit of grossly misrepresenting rally attendance. Also, it goes without saying that those who would attend a pro bill 1070 rally are people who work for a living, while anti bill 1070 people don’t. Nevertheless, poll after poll shows that three quarters of the population supports Arizona and more strict immigration enforcement – it is now time to prove it, and press our politicians, or they will walk all over us.
I, for one, will never let this small minority of gangsters lead me around by the nose.
Ty85719 …
The reason for the disparity in numbers is simple …
those who came to support SB1070 did so on their own money with home made signs …
those who came to protest against it arrived in bus caravans paid for by all the radical left groups with lots of professionally printed signs that all matched, wore lots of shirts with the logos of the open borders groups, SEIU and other “unions” … wouldn’t be surprised if some of them had all their expenses paid somewhere along the line …
No, pretty much all of them. Whales eat helpless little krills-shameful predators. Besides dead whales gets GreenPieces knickers in a knot.
I call it Greenpiss.
Racist! These whales simply eat the krill that American whales won’t eat.
Hey Arizona, some Californians got your back:
Costa Mesa announces it is a “Rule of Law” city.
Yorba Linda city council voted to back AB1070.
Hemet city council to vote tonight on backing AB1070.
A reminder about Californias electoral map:
http://theelectoralmap.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/12-09-california-congressional.jpg
You all work to push the illegals back into Mexico and we’ll work to push the liberals into the ocean.
Slippery slope, guys. Gay whales have special rights – unborn whales probably don’t. Also, what about separation of church and sea?
(Both are probably union anyway — hopelessly complicated).
… News Flash …
Poseidon ruling with an iron trident regarding recent developments concerning Whales Rights …
Details at 11:00 …
But if we don’t nuke them, how will we feed the Sea Kittens?
damn…good point. Hopefully, Obama will appoint a commission.
People who go to this rally should wear ICE and BORDER PATROL hat and/or shirts, etc. LOL
Mexico opens California office to provide ID for illegals
……….be sure to take note of the update at the end of the article….
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Mexico-opens-California-office-to-provide-ID-for-illegals-95434969.html
nope, not anylonger…the libs are in control remember.
Libs =socialistic fascists.
Maybe it’s time for a new ICE.
Independent Citizen Enforcement.
The clinical definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results. By now, based on real time experience, it is obvious that this administration is comprised of people whose only experience (like the anointed one’s) is classroom theory rather than real world experience. People who have never produced a thing, nor ever met a payroll, can not devise a workable plan to extract themselves from a wet paper bag. To rationally expect otherwise is insane.
I, like most Americans, will support a plan to integrate the illegal aliens into the citizenship process as long as certain conditions are met, ie, criminal checks, fluency in basic English, fines/fees paid, income tax paid, etc. BUT FIRST, we must secure our borders with a 3′ thick, 20′ high reinforced concrete wall, equipped with sound/vibration sensors, for the length of our southern multi-state borders. We must have an appropriately sized, well armed and trained border security force in place to patrol and apprehend; and court and correctional facilities (tents ala Sheriff Joe) to house violators until they can be either deported or transferred to hardened criminal facilities. Securing one portion of the southern border will only cause the drug cartel’s and coyote’s to shift attention to softer targets – we are already seeing drug cartels raiding boaters on Falcon Lake in Texas.
Shortly after Hurricane Katrina, someone suggested a solution for three challenges the country was facing: to combat illegal immigration, construct a moat between the United States and Mexico, and stock it with excess alligators from the Florida Everglades, and use the excavated dirt from the moat to elevate the City of New Orleans.