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This has nothing to do with racial supremacy or racism. It has everything to do with people from other nations passing over the border and into our country via an illegal process.
Now - I will tell you that racial superiority groups like the Neo Nazis are gaining membership and power in their region because a bunch of mexican drug cartels are destroying their community.
So, by all means - let them continue to storm the border. Before too much longer - you'll have the start of another third reich (fourth reich?).
It has everything to do with racism. You and I both know that a white person with an American accent will never have their citizenship status checked.
Destroying their community? Right there is a white supremacist attitude. You are assuming that every Latin person that comes to this country is 1. Illegal, 2. a part of a drug cartel.
Invasion: Mexican Army member(s) commit(s) Phoenix home invasion and murder
A top member of a Phoenix police union is standing by reports that at least one of the men involved in a Monday morning home invasion and homicide was an active member in the Mexican Army. Click Here for the update.
“Even if you put aside the Mexican military, you have illegals in the country…they’re protected with tactical gear using tactical strategies in police uniforms willing to ambush police officers. I think that’s bad enough,” said Mark Spencer, President of the Phoenix Police Enforcement Association.
While on the J.D. Hayworth show Tuesday, Mark Spencer announced that the suspects were hired by drug cartels to perform home invasions and murders.
The incident at 8329 W. Cypress St. resulted in the death of the homeowner. Between 50 and 100 rounds were fired at the house.
Spencer said a police officer told him that one of the men captured said they were completely prepared to ambush Phoenix police, but ran out of ammunition.
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This makes the repeated Mexican military incursions all the more abominable, especially since U.S. officials know they’re occurring. Last year Judicial Watch obtained Homeland Security records documenting 226 incursions by Mexican government personnel into the United States between 1996 and 2005. Obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, the annual intelligence summaries of “Mexican Government Incidents” were designated as “limited official use” by the Department of Homeland Security requiring “special protection against unauthorized or inadvertent disclosure.”
Don't you see the problem with this line of thinking? When people just assume that every Latin person is here illegally and a part of some drug cartel it causes this kind of resentment and it causes people to want laws passed like this.
Why should people who have come here the right way, are legal citizens of this country, be denied their constitutional protections under the law? Why should they be discriminated against, harassed, and made to feel completely unwelcome in this country?
# Before asking a person about immigration status, law enforcement officials are required by the law to have “reasonable suspicion” that a person is an illegal immigrant. The concept of “reasonable suspicion” is well established by court rulings. Since Arizona does not issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, having a valid license creates a presumption of legal status. Examples of reasonable suspicion include:
* A driver stopped for a traffic violation has no license, or record of a driver's license or other form of federal or state identification.
* A police officer observes someone buying fraudulent identity documents or crossing the border illegally.
* A police officer recognizes a gang member back on the street who he knows has been previously deported by the federal government.
# The law specifically states that police, “may not solely consider race, color or national origin” when implementing SB 1070.
# When Arizona’s governor signed the new law, she also issued an executive order requiring the Arizona Peace Officer Standards and Training Board to provide local police with additional training on what does and what does not constitute “reasonable suspicion.”13
We already have that, it's called the TEA Party.
Whether you're racist or not. The best way to prevent illegal immigration is to either make America a really crappy place to live (so that it looks not so good compared to Mexico), or more positively figure out how to become self-sufficient and then allow Other people to have those same methods.
You do not have the right to live in a healthy community. You do not have the right to have good wages. Where are these rights in the Constitution? The right not to be subjected to unreasonable search and seizure is in the Fourth Amendment.
# Before asking a person about immigration status, law enforcement officials are required by the law to have “reasonable suspicion” that a person is an illegal immigrant. The concept of “reasonable suspicion” is well established by court rulings. Since Arizona does not issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, having a valid license creates a presumption of legal status. Examples of reasonable suspicion include:
* A driver stopped for a traffic violation has no license, or record of a driver's license or other form of federal or state identification.
* A police officer observes someone buying fraudulent identity documents or crossing the border illegally.
* A police officer recognizes a gang member back on the street who he knows has been previously deported by the federal government.
# The law specifically states that police, “may not solely consider race, color or national origin” when implementing SB 1070.
# When Arizona’s governor signed the new law, she also issued an executive order requiring the Arizona Peace Officer Standards and Training Board to provide local police with additional training on what does and what does not constitute “reasonable suspicion.”13
Originally posted by SmedleyBurlap
reply to post by buddhasystem
You do not have the right to live in a healthy community. You do not have the right to have good wages. Where are these rights in the Constitution? The right not to be subjected to unreasonable search and seizure is in the Fourth Amendment.
Now, imagine this law in effect, if they are able to repeal the 14th Amendment. (you know, to get rid of those "terrist" babies) Now no one has birthright citizenship, and they can get rid of any "undesirables" that they wish. Hell, without the 14th Amendment YOU aren't a citizen of the United States, they can do with you whatever they want.
Your description of how this law is going to work doesn't pan out, they "detain" you until your citizenship is "verified" who knows how long that will take. Imagine when the backlog starts up. You might be detained for YEARS until they can verify your citizenship.
Now I understand that people don't want illegals here in this country, I agree, I think the border should be better secured, but I don't want AMERICAN CITIZENS targeted for harassment. That's all this law does, is target US Citizens for harassment.
# Before asking a person about immigration status, law enforcement officials are required by the law to have “reasonable suspicion” that a person is an illegal immigrant. The concept of “reasonable suspicion” is well established by court rulings. Since Arizona does not issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, having a valid license creates a presumption of legal status. Examples of reasonable suspicion include:
* A driver stopped for a traffic violation has no license, or record of a driver's license or other form of federal or state identification.
* A police officer observes someone buying fraudulent identity documents or crossing the border illegally.
* A police officer recognizes a gang member back on the street who he knows has been previously deported by the federal government.
# The law specifically states that police, “may not solely consider race, color or national origin” when implementing SB 1070.
# When Arizona’s governor signed the new law, she also issued an executive order requiring the Arizona Peace Officer Standards and Training Board to provide local police with additional training on what does and what does not constitute “reasonable suspicion.”13
There is some lines the police should not be able to cross, this is one of them. But if you like the idea of a police state, then I guess it's all ok, till the day you are "detained" because of this law, and spend YEARS in a ICS detention area without trial or charge.
Originally posted by whatukno
reply to post by Aim64C
You are obviously not getting my point. The people from south of the border that come here legally are being targeted unfairly by this law, the ones that have come here the right way are being discriminated against because of this law.
You are not a citizen of this country for just popping out of your mommy's belly on this side of the border. We don't extend that grace to legal visitors to the nation (tourists) - why should we to people here illegally?
Now, they could show up to try and deport me. The problem, however, is that I have lived here for 22 years, was born to American citizens in America, and they both lived here for the entirety of their lives (well, spare for my father serving a year in Vietnam).
That would be the same problem encountered by trying to turn this around against any portion of the population.
So, without the 14th Amendment, what does it take to be a legal citizen of this country to you then? I mean apparently even the people that come here legally and pass a citizenship test don't even qualify for the protections under the United States Constitution, and people born here aren't entitled to US Citizenship, then what qualifies a person to be a US Citizen?
So basically you are saying that only YOU can qualify people to be citizens of the United States, I am glad to hear that, I hope that you are quick in your determination or a lot of people are going to be locked in jails waiting on you for a long time.
Originally posted by whatukno
reply to post by Aim64C
I guess they will find whatever hot button issue they can in order to take away your civil liberties.
Originally posted by Aim64C
reply to post by whatukno
You are not a citizen because your mother waddled her prego self over the border.
No I am talking about the people that come to this country, pass a citizenship test, and become legal United States Citizens. Why should they be detained (the video that I posted above, 18 United States Citizens detained). Why should they be detained for one second in custody?
These people were arrested and detained on the suspicion they were here illegally. But they weren't here illegally, they are US Citizens, and thanks to Sheriff Joe in AZ illegally arrested under false allegations.
Would you stand for that? Would you take being handcuffed and put into a van along with a bunch of other people, taken to a processing center and run through the system?
But I guess the Constitution isn't important to you and your civil liberties aren't important to you unless it's the 2nd Amendment or the 10th Amendment right? I guess to you, no one deserves any other rights do they?
So what determines citizenship?
Two of my great grandparents were illegal Europeans - at what point did I become legal???
To these people you are fine, because you are of European heritage, If you were of African or South American heritage you would have a problem. They want a white nation, that's what they are angry about.
Sure, they will deny it. But that's the reality, they don't want anyone in the US that aren't of white European background. They don't want Asians in America, they don't want Hispanics in America, they don't want Middle Easterners in America, they don't want Africans in America, they just want a white America, and they are pissed that America isn't a White's ONLY country.
Originally posted by whatukno
reply to post by Aim64C
No I am talking about the people that come to this country, pass a citizenship test, and become legal United States Citizens. Why should they be detained (the video that I posted above, 18 United States Citizens detained). Why should they be detained for one second in custody?
I don't care about illegals, I really don't, they are here illegally, secure the border, hell, put machine gun nests on the border, I am talking about the people that come to this country legally that are being targeted by these laws.
These people were arrested and detained on the suspicion they were here illegally. But they weren't here illegally, they are US Citizens, and thanks to Sheriff Joe in AZ illegally arrested under false allegations.
Would you stand for that? Would you take being handcuffed and put into a van along with a bunch of other people, taken to a processing center and run through the system?
But I guess the Constitution isn't important to you and your civil liberties aren't important to you unless it's the 2nd Amendment or the 10th Amendment right? I guess to you, no one deserves any other rights do they?
edit on 11/19/2010 by whatukno because: (no reason given)