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Hispanics flee Arizona ahead of immigration law


If you actually think a landscape company with a couple illegal aliens cutting grass is "promoting" illegal immigration, then I can't help you. You are so far into left field that I have no interest in further discussions on the subject with you.

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Just out of curiosity, how does your example of a blood thirsty regime in Cuba relate to Arizona's law?

I must have missed the part in that law where people are shot in the middle of the night.
 

No citizens besides the ones owning businesses hiring illegal aliens ever thought that "Hey, if we just ignored the immigration laws and let as many illegals from Mexico into this country my life would be so much better." The average conservative at least always wanted immigration laws enforced. Maybe some of the conservative politicians acted otherwise but conservatives in general would always want immigration laws enforced including against companies hiring illegal aliens. No politician ran on a platform of lax immigration law enforcement. To blame the citizens for the gross negligence of our government is ridiculous. To suggest the average citizen must now solve the problem is equally ridiculous. We certainly should let our vote speak on this matter. And by the way there have been protests against illegals by both groups and citizens for quite some time but of course those people and groups get called racists. Arizona has it right. Enforce the laws. And until the laws actually gets put into place quit assuming the law will be unfairly enforced. Give it a change to work.
 
Just out of curiosity, how does your example of a blood thirsty regime in Cuba relate to Arizona's law?

I must have missed the part in that law where people are shot in the middle of the night.

It doesn't relate to Arizona's law. Where'd you get the silly idea that what I was doing was making a comparison of the laws?
 
It should be that Arizona can take action and the Feds cannot. Just as there is no clause that limits State authority, there is no clause that grants federal authority.

According to the 10th, that means it is reserved to the States.


Thread derail!!!!!!!!!!!!

So I'll help out. :mrgreen:


Things That Are Not In the U.S. Constitution - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net

To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;

The United States Constitution - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net

That's the justification, but I'm more with you.

Problem is, would Oregon have the right then to transport an Illegal Alien from Mexico through California and send that Alien back across the border? (this is assumeing Oregon passed a law like Arizona)
 

How about "encouraging Illegal Immigration"? I’d like to see every State pass draconian laws about businesses hiring Illegal Aliens….. Laws tough enough to put a business out of business if they knowingly do hire just 1.

There is no such thing as a “job Americans won’t do” There are jobs employers are getting away with offering substandard wages because of our Illegal Alien problem.
 
It doesn't relate to Arizona's law. Where'd you get the silly idea that what I was doing was making a comparison of the laws?

I don't know..... maybe because we are discussing Arizona's law and the people that are leaveing, and you compared Dav's family to the topic? Could be wrong.

 

The problem is all the politicians who claim they will crack down. But once they get into Washington, they do nothing.

Its all about getting elected.
 
I don't know..... maybe because we are discussing Arizona's law and the people that are leaveing, and you compared Dav's family to the topic? Could be wrong.

Yes, but the comparison I wasn't making wasn't about the laws, it was about the act of making personal decisions over political and ideological reasons. I think it's justified to make personal decisions for these reasons, dav thinks it isn't justified and that it's a sign of mental illness, apparently.



I'm ideologically opposed to those instances of "judicial activism" and broad interpretations of the constitution, so those rulings particularly irk me. I also wholeheartedly disagree with the idea that it doesn't make sense to have control over naturalization but not over immigration. They are two different things altogether. while one cannot become naturalized without being an immigrant, one can be an immigrant without being naturalized.


That's the justification, but I'm more with you.

Good to hear it! Even though you and I are probably on total opposite ends of the spectrum on the specific laws we'd like to see implemented in our states, we are ideologically on the same page.

Problem is, would Oregon have the right then to transport an Illegal Alien from Mexico through California and send that Alien back across the border? (this is assumeing Oregon passed a law like Arizona)

I'd say that if California didn't let Oregon pass through, then Oregon should simply drop them off on the California side of the Oregon border. :mrgreen:
 
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I can guaruntee you that the U.S. does not have the problems he was describing Cuba to have; he has experienced both, and could tell you that. In fact, much of the reason that he claims that the U.S. is so great is that it is the country where (according to him) politics possibly matters the least on a personal level.

Now, when I say politics, I'm not talking about POLICIES. Obviously those are going to affect everyone, and nothing can really stop that from being true. And I'm also not talking about things like getting involved in a political cause or campaign (or... internet forum), which I guess would make politics, in a way, part of someone's "personal" life. But what I'm talking about is decisions which have nothing to do with politics, but are made to anyways, without any real positive results, because of some high ideals that are placed above things that actually matter. For example, there is little that makes me see red more than close friendships splitting up just because of differences in political views, which happens all too often. If a Republican moved away from Vermont simply because it was too much of a "blue state", without regard for the actual conditions of the state, it would be indicative of the same thing - imagining one's own political stances to be so important, everything is seen through the scope of politics... and judgements are made on people, and places, based on what their political views are. On this forum, there's a word we often use for people who feel the need to politicize absolutely everything: "partisan" (even though that's not what the word means IRL). The type of poster who complains about the evul librals/conservatives, having apparently never met one in real life. Imagine that taken to an extreme, and imagine an entire country full of that extreme. That's what I'm saying my dad was saying about Cuba - it became like a country filled with forum trolls, except more extreme, and with IRL consequences. Every aspect of life became about the Revolution. In fact, that our own Revolution changed so little (as you pointed out earlier) is probably indicative of exactly what I'm talking about, that we're almost Cuba's opposite when it comes to this stuff.


If it's about a country's founders rather than the conditions of the country where he would live itself, then there's no pratical application about it that isn't entirely guided by ideology. And it makes no sense, since that ideology is that ideology shouldn't get in the way of personal decisions in the first place.
Now, if you were saying that the same thing happens here as in Cuba in the modern day, that's a different matter. And it's just not true.


Again, I think you don't get what I'm talking about when I say "personal lives". See above.
And he's found that "mythical land", it's called the United States. Or so he says.
 

As I said above, I agree completely that employers should be the focus.
 

No, I doubt we could ever stop it, but we're a long way from looking like we're stopping it. They're coming in here like a hot knife through butter.
 
racist...no reason to argue with some irrational moron

AHAH the irony.

Good? The law clearly states your legal status can be checked while investigating a different crime. So if you already did something wrong theres no reason why you shouldn't be willing to prove you're a citizen. Too bad liberals have hyped this up soo much that they are spreading irrational fear in the hispanic community. All in defense of people committing crimes.
 
Now, when I say politics, I'm not talking about POLICIES.

Ah, you are correct in saying that I didn't get what you meant by personal decisions. But that's in no small part due to the fact that you brought it up as a rebuttal to a comment about a decision to move out of a state over that state's policies.

I think people are missing a major factor in this situation. Visiting relatives who come here legally to visit could be at risk for incarceration, at least temporarily, since the would not be able to provide proof of legal residency. They could have this happen for something as simple as a traffic violation (it's legal to drive on a foreign DL while visiting the US).

And I know the response will be that they should carry their passport with them at all times (since that is th eonly way they can prove they are hear legally), but that is not a good idea at all. While you do need identiifcation of some sort, your passport should be kept secure. You can get home without your ID, but not without your passport. And it's a bitch to get a replacement passport while travelling abroad.

I would not want to risk that my family members from abroad would undergo such treatement while they come to visit me (which happens very often).I would choos eto move away from Illinois if they passed such laws, and I'm a born-citizen.
 
Ah, you are correct in saying that I didn't get what you meant by personal decisions. But that's in no small part due to the fact that you brought it up as a rebuttal to a comment about a decision to move out of a state over that state's policies.

Yeah, but you were talking about them doing it to "take a stand", rather than because it affected them in any way. Now, if it's a situation like what you described in the rest of your post, then I'd perfectly understand why they'd want to leave.
 
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Yeah, but you were talking about them doing it to "take a stand", rather than because it affected them in any way. Now, if it's a situation like what you described in the rest of your post, then I'd perfectly understand why they'd want to leave.

I consider moving for the reasons I mentioned taking a stand against the policy.
 
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