Minnesota group pushes for Arizona-style immigration bill
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 12:05 pm
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Minnesotans Seeking Immigration Reform (MINNSIR) has begun a push for an Arizona-style immigration law for Minnesota, according to a posting on Confederate Americans for Secure Borders. The group’s leader, Ruthie Hendrycks, said she has spoken with members of the Minnesota Legislature who will be offering the bill in the upcoming session.
Arizona’s SB1070 has come under intense criticism because of a provision that allows police officers to make arrests based on “reasonable suspicion” about individuals’ immigration status, a move that many say would include racial profiling. It also directs local police officers to enforce federal immigration laws. A lawsuit currently challenging that provision argues that the U.S. Constitution says the federal government, not the states, should enforce those laws under the Supremacy Clause.
The bill has spurred national boycotts against travel to and commerce with the state of Arizona.
Hendrycks of MINNSIR wrote, “I have already spoken with several Minnesota Legislator(s) concerning legislation options and actions in MN. We have Legislators willing to bring this legislation to the floor – let us provide the support they need to start enforce immigration laws here in MN via our voices and this petition drive.”
Earlier this year, Republicans in the Minnesota House introduced a bill with virtually identical wording as SB1070. Bill author Rep. Steve Drazkowski was joined by fellow Republican Reps. Ron Shimanski, Bob Dettmer, Peggy Scott, Greg Davids, Mark Buesgens, Bud Nornes, Bruce Anderson, and Mark Murdock.
Hendrycks and MINNSIR are launching a petition to build support for the bill.
MINNSIR got its start as the Minnesota Minutemen, a group the Southern Poverty Law Center lists as “Nativist Extremist.”
The group has falsely claimed that immigrants from Mexico are responsible for a record increase in cases of leprosy (also known as Hanson’s disease) and has campaigned to get Spanish-language radio stations shut down.
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Comment posted November 30, 2010 @ 3:30 pm
“Nativist extremist” is another one of those meaningless smears the SPLC has coined for its fund-raising materials, like their laughable “Neo-Confederate” label.
Seriously, what does “nativist extremist” mean? Just like the SPLC’s use of the equally meaningless term “hate group,” “nativist extremist” is just another tool they use to attack their perceived enemies without accusing them of any actual crimes.
There is no legal definition for “hate group,” which is why even the FBI doesn’t track “hate groups.”
The SPLC is a private fund raising group with nearly $190 MILLION dollars in cash on hand.
They have no mandate, no authority, legal or moral, to designate anyone as anything. The SPLC has no more right to designate “hate groups” or “nativist extremists” than does the SPCA.
The most ironic (read: “hypocritical”) thing about the Southern Poverty Law Center is that NOT ONE of its top ten, highest paid executives is a minority.
In fact, according to the SPLC’s hometown newspaper, the Montgomery Advertiser, despite being located LITERALLY in the back yard of Dr. Martin Luther King’s home church, the SPLC has NEVER hired a person of color to a highly paid position of power.
Some “experts”
Comment posted November 30, 2010 @ 4:15 pm
Richard Keefe, We don’t have to think too hard to see that you’re a “Confederate Americans for Secure Borders” fan. And their authority comes from… ???? …..waiting…. waiting…. yes… yes… waiting….
Comment posted November 30, 2010 @ 5:24 pm
The left has a problem with protecting our borders since they want to see the United States destroyed. If, G-d forbid, the left ever establishes themselves as totalitarian overlords, you can guarantee the borders will be closed and people sent to gulags, reeducation camps, or disappeared in the millions.
Birkey and the rest of the nihilists in the Minnesota left are evil.
Comment posted November 30, 2010 @ 6:41 pm
Richard Keefe’s repeated tirades against SPLC is rather tiresome.
Comment posted November 30, 2010 @ 9:17 pm
Read it, Sign it, Pass it on to everyone you know.
gopetition.com/petition/40860.html
Comment posted November 30, 2010 @ 11:22 pm
The SPLC just declared people who oppose same sex “marriage” to be members of hate groups – ignoring the anti-Jewish and anti-Christian bigotry of the GBLTs.
They’ve gone too far with this nonsense.
Comment posted December 1, 2010 @ 7:37 am
WOW the ignorant freaks are out in full force on this one. hahahahahahahaha Thanks for the laughs…downside was, i laughed so hard i spit out my coffee…darn :)
First of all…glad we are going to crack down on our borders! DANG, those cagey Canadians are just slipping in here like crazy & I am “mad as hell & don’t want to take it anymore!” Next thing you know, those Alaskans will sneak down thru Canada & invade us…hee hee
To moron behind door # 1: someone apparently slept thru civics class. The Left wing is on one side of the political spectrum…and the OPPOSITE side would be…yes, totalitarianism….duh. I am guessing you are probably one of those idiots calling President Obama both a facist and a socialist.
The “bigotry” of the GLBT? First, I think you mean LGBT…if you are going to use your slimeball tactics…at least do it correctly. Secondly, heeeelllooo? LGBT are people, not a religious order…who very well could BE Jewish or Christian.
Comment posted December 1, 2010 @ 8:08 am
Immigration, LGBT folks, the list of people the right marginalizes is formidable. All in the name of some perceived religious moral authority. Who gives them their moral authority? They give it to themselves. They do not speak for the masses — only for some religious minority. I don’t want your version of religious intolerance imposed on me. Separation of church and state anyone?
Comment posted December 1, 2010 @ 9:22 am
Can you even imagine what’s going to happen when the Republicans officially take over the Legislature? This is only a very, very small preview of what’s going to take place around a whole lot of social issues.
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Comment posted February 8, 2011 @ 1:49 pm
Is this really the way to go?
Fix a broken system by harassing and marginalizing people based on the color of their skin?
Where exactly in Minnesota are immigrants so much of a problem?
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