For all those people who believe it is the right of Arizona to protect its people when the federal government is derelict in its duty, we should make it our business to demonstrate this with our dollars. It is ridiculous that the people of Arizona have to endure the financial burden as well as the elevated crime created by the Mexican druggies coming across the border.
It is the federal government's responsibility to control the borders and it is clearly not willing to do so. It is crazy that the media is portraying this as a racial issue. It is a national security issue, an illegal foreign invasion, and a threat to individual tax paying Americans. BO should take the lead on this and loudly declare that the US will not tolerate this behavior and will protect Arizonans from this threat. BO will not make that choice to protect US citizens and would rather protect the Mexican drug lord illegally crossing the border. He clearly is throwing Arizona under the bus by not allowing them to protect themselves only for political reasons, to pander to the Hispanic community. He is so pathetic to not have the courage to stand up for the Arizonan tax payer.
The boycott against Arizona should be offset by a reverse boycott by those who agree with allowing Arizona to crack down on illegal immigrant criminals. Those looking to go on vacation should consider going to Arizona to spend their dollars. A trip to the Grand Canyon this summer would be a perfect getaway. Go to a convention in Arizona. If you are going to a baseball game this year make a statement and go to a Diamondbacks game. And when you are food shopping pick up some extra Arizona iced tea. Yeah, I know it is made in Long Island but it would still be a great message if Arizona iced tea sales increased. We need to demonstrate with cash our support for the citizens of Arizona.
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The real flaw in the logic here is that some folks believe that the violence and illegal activity is due to undocumented workers. In reality, violent crime is down in Arizona but the media and the hard-liners in AZ make sure that if an undocumented worker is involved, it's big news, but the facts are that violent crime has slowed in the last few years in AZ. The law passed isn't going to stop the real problem which are drug runners and smugglers, It isn't even going to slow them down.
ReplyDeleteThere was a great article in the LA Times featuring an interview with an ex-Phoenix cop who had to deal with these issues. (http://www.latimes.com/news/local/immigration/la-me-0502-lopezcolumn-20100502%2C0%2C2732982.column)
And he said it very plainly after a white cop was killed: "I told people that it's not whites or Hispanics who killed Marc," he said back then. "It's drug-dealing cop killers. The issue isn't ethnicity — it's crime and drugs."
And this is the real problem with this law is that it doesn't address the real issue, at all.
The drug dealers are Mexicans who come illegally over the border. In order to stop this all Mexicans are effected whether they come with good or bad intentions. So the majority well intentioned Mexicans suffer for the minority bad element. This is analogous to the muslim situation in the US where the majority peaceful element will suffer for the terrorism of the few muslims.
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