Emmer continues support for Arizona immigration bill

If Minnesota has this Tea Party law, everybody will need to carry papers. Why? Because we have those damn “Frostback” Canucks around here taking our jobs. And they can imitate white people just like you and me…

The judge’s first error was in telling the state that enforcing the state law would be too inconvenient for the cop. That’s not her role. As a federal judge, she can only address the enforcement of federal law.

Her second error was in saying that showing their papers would not be required, when in fact that’s the federal law.

Since it’s already federal law that all immigrants carry their “papers” with them at all times, it will become routine for arresting officers to ask if you are a citizen. If you say “no,” you’ll be asked to show your immigration papers. If you have none, ICE will be called. If you say “yes,” and it’s found later when you go to court on the inital charges that you’re not, you’ll face additional charges.

So Dennis can add “legal scholar” to the list of topics of which he thinks he’s an expert.

of course every state should protect its citizens, but while staying within constitutionally defined rules of government behavior. there is little evidence to suggest that hassling brown people in Arizona about their immigration status will make things safer, and the law – as it stands, enjoined – will cause brown people to be hassled, violating their rights and overburdening law enforcement.

what’s worse, many of those brown people have roots in the community that are much deeper than Arizona statehood, and a lot deeper than when the rich white conservative snowbirds started flocking to Scottsdale and other AZvwinter havens

Mill,
Just b/c one has a few $$ to go down south for the winter doesn’t make them rich or conservative.

The catching and expulsion of illegal immigrants has gone up under Obama44, though I am sure it does not feel that way in AZ.

SB1070 has already negatively impacted foreign relations, another manufactured headache for the federal government.

But the biggest problems with SB1070 may be with self-inflicted wounds. For example, it:

undermines “Governmental Tort Immunity”,

elevates court treatment of illegal immigrant cases above rape, murder, and terrorism,

eliminates the possibility of humanitarian exceptions,

has loopholes that enable harassment,

and contains bill of attainder qualities.

This law is like putting a warning shot through their own foot.

I am not surprised republicans want to repeat it all across the country.

The anti-Arizona protesters are racist. They believe that brown people are either not capable of or are exempt from obeying the law.

what about when the gringos go to cabo san lucas mexico and they start taking jobs and braking the law during spring brake? what gives them the right to go anywhere in other country in not obey the laws?