Ariz. governor signs immigration enforcement bill

[brichter]

Idiot.

I'll bet he's spent way more time "gathering" the information on "What I've been able to glean from newspaper accounts, television, and what I've heard about talking to people on the review panel and the review team" than it would have taken him to
READ THE FU@KING BILL YOU A*S HOLE !!!!!! 

Good call, Joey, and just what is it about this guy that, being the Attorney General of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, that he couldn't be bothered to read this law? Just who are We the People putting in charge of the country? If anyone ever deserved to be locked in prison for dereliction of duty, it's this clown.

[rickh]

K+ dude

[rickh]

Good analogy.  Despite all the complaining and screaming from Mexico, it really comes down to this.  NO ONE is above the law.
 



 
If you had tickets to a sports event, concert, Disneyland, or on an airplane, and when you got to your assigned seat, and someone else was in that seat, what would you do?  You would call for a person in charge of ticket checking and have the person in your seat removed.  You would be properly asked to show your ticket, and you would gladly and proudly do so, for you have bought and paid for that seat.  The person in your seat would also be asked for a ticket, and they would not be able to produce one.  They would be called “gate crashersâ€� and they would be properly removed.

 

Now in this huge stadium, called the USA, we have had millions of gate crashers.  We have been asking security to check for tickets and remove the gate crashers.  We have been asking security to have better controls in checking at the door.  We have asked security to lock the back doors.  Security has failed us.  They are still looking the other way.  They are afraid to ask to see the tickets.  Many people say there is unlimited seating, and whether there is or not,  no one should be allowed in for free while the rest of us pay full price!


 

In section AZ, of Stadium USA, we have had enough of the failures of Security.  We have decided to do our own ticket checking, and properly remove those who do not have tickets.  Now it seems very strange to me that so many people in the other 49 sections, and even many in our own section do not want tickets checked, or even be asked to show their ticket!  Even the head of Security is chastising us, while not doing his own job which he has sworn to do.


 

My own ticket has been bought and paid for so I am going to proudly show it when asked to do so.  I have a right to my seat, and I want the gate crashers to be asked to show their tickets too.  The only reason that I can imagine anyone objecting to being asked for their ticket is that they are in favor of gate crashing, and all of the illegal activities that go with it.  Such as drug smuggling, gang wars, murder, human smuggling for profit, and many more illegal and inhumane acts that we are trying to prevent with our new legislation.  Is that what I am hearing from all of the protestors such as Phoenix Mayor Gordon, US Rep. Grijalva, even President Obama?  If you are not in favor of showing tickets, (proof of citizenship, passport, green card, or other legal document) when asked, as I would proudly do, then you must be condoning those illegal activities. 
 

Tom Moody 

United States citizen 

Globe Arizona

[rickh]

It turns out California already has a law very similar to Arizonas new law.....

http://www.americanpatrol.com/REFERENCE/PENALCODE/834b-CA_PC.html

    Voter approved California law aimed at dealing with illegal aliens

Calif. Penal Code Sec. 834b
Click the above link to look the code section up for yourself

834b. (a) Every law enforcement agency in California shall fully cooperate with the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service regarding any person who is arrested if he or she is suspected of being present in the United States in violation of federal immigration laws.

(b) With respect to any such person who is arrested, and suspected of being present in the United States in violation of federal immigration laws, every law enforcement agency shall do the following:

(1) Attempt to verify the legal status of such person as a citizen of the United States, an alien lawfully admitted as a permanent resident, an alien lawfully admitted for a temporary period of time or as an alien who is present in the United States in violation of immigration laws. The verification process may include, but shall not be limited to, questioning the person regarding his or her date and place of birth, and entry into the United States, and demanding documentation to indicate his or her legal status.

(2) Notify the person of his or her apparent status as an alien who is present in the United States in violation of federal immigration laws and inform him or her that, apart from any criminal justice proceedings, he or she must either obtain legal status or leave the United States.

(3) Notify the Attorney General of California and the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service of the apparent illegal status and provide any additional information that may be requested by any other public entity.

(c) Any legislative, administrative, or other action by a city, county, or other legally authorized local governmental entity with jurisdictional boundaries, or by a law enforcement agency, to prevent or limit the cooperation required by subdivision (a) is expressly prohibited.

[brichter]

And you should also be aware ofthe fact that this law is seldom enforced in much of California...

[rickh]

Thanks for the edit joeylc......

Brichter, this just shows one of two things... boycotters in California do not know their own laws OR they are hipocrits and missleading. Either way, it was big news here, people are still laffing.

[brichter]

It's selective enforcement, plain and simple.

[Joeylc]

     

FOXNews.com

 - May 17, 2010
San Diego Faces Own Medicine as Arizona Residents Cancel Travel Following Boycott of State



Arizona tourists are biting back against San Diego for its city council's decision to boycott the Grand Canyon State over its immigration law signed by Gov. Jan Brewer last month.

Would-be tourists have notified the San Diego Convention and Visitors Bureau and some hotels that they are canceling their scheduled travel to the coastal vacation destination, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune.

According to the newspaper, the convention bureau has received about 25-30 emails from Arizona residents, with some saying they are canceling their reservations and taking their money elsewhere.

That has tourism officials urging Arizonans to consider the resolutions as merely symbolic and local politics at work.

"We're in a very tough environment already because of everything else going on, and we don't need another negative impact to our industry," ConVis President Joe Terzi told the Union-Tribune. "This affects all the hardworking men and women who count on tourism for their livelihoods, so we’re saying, don't do something that hurts their livelihoods."

"I've been approached by a number of hotels who are very concerned because they’ve received cancelations from Arizona guests," Namara Mercer, executive director of the county Hotel-Motel Association, told the newspaper.

Roughly 2 million Arizonans visit San Diego each year but the recession has taken a toll on the hotel industry that was hoping for a comeback this year. Hotels are offering deep discounts to fill up their undersold rooms while the tourism board spends $7 million this spring and summer season to promote travel to the area.

Several councils in large cities like Los Angeles, Austin, Boston and San Francisco have approved boycotts on employee travel or future contracts with Arizona businesses as a result of the law that goes into effect on July 1.  The state tourism bureau has said the losses so far have reached nearly $10 million as a result of 23 canceled meetings.

But others are cautious, noting unintended consequences. Milwaukee’s city council delayed a vote on a boycott and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said he opposes such action.

On Saturday, former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin appeared with Brewer in Phoenix to criticize President Obama for not passing an immigration law and putting Arizona in the situation where it had to act on its own.

“It’s time for Americans across this great country to stand up and say ‘we’re all Arizonans now, and in clear unity, we say, Mr. President, do your job, secure our borders,’� Palin said.

Palin also has denounced a decision by Highland Park, Ill., officials who canceled the high school girls’ basketball team’s travel to the state in December. Both Highland Park Assistant Superintendent Suzan Hebson and the Austin City Council suggested that their decisions were less based on politics than concern their players and employees could be in harm’s way if they want to Arizona. Hebson, however, told the Chicago Tribune that she did not know if any student players were themselves illegal immigrants.

Palin, a former basketball player, said she would raise money or find other ways to get the players to the tournament.  

Meanwhile, in San Diego, school board President Shelia Jackson said she is sorry people don’t want to come to her city, but she still supports her vote to boycott Arizona.

“It’s sad that people would cancel their plans to come here in reaction to that, but I still think we did the right thing,� Jackson told the Union-Tribune. “Certainly, we know how important tourism is to San Diego, and it wasn’t my intent to impact the tourism trade.�

[rickh]

yep, lots of people changing plans to stay on the Yuma side of the river this year... SD may have made an error.

[Joeylc]

Arizona Official Threatens to Cut Off Los Angeles Power as Payback for Boycott

A member of Arizona's top government utilities agency threw down the gauntlet in a letter to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, threatening to cut off the city's power supply as retribution for the city's boycott of Arizona.

If Los Angeles wants to boycott Arizona, it had better get used to reading by candlelight.

That's the message from a member of Arizona's top government utilities agency, who threw down the gauntlet Tuesday in a letter to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa by threatening to cut off the city's power supply as retribution.

Gary Pierce, a commissioner on the five-member Arizona Corporation Commission, wrote the letter in response to the Los Angeles City Council's decision last week to boycott the Grand Canyon State -- in protest of its immigration law -- by suspending official travel there and ending future contracts with state businesses.

Noting that a quarter of Los Angeles' electricity comes from Arizona power plants, Pierce threatened to pull the plug if the City Council does not reconsider. He also ridiculed Villaraigosa for saying that the point of the boycott was to "send a message" by severing the "resources and ties" they share.

"I received your message; please receive mine. As a statewide elected member of the Arizona Corporation Commission overseeing Arizona's electric and water utilities, I too am keenly aware of the 'resources and ties' we share with the city of Los Angeles," Pierce wrote.

"If an economic boycott is truly what you desire, I will be happy to encourage Arizona utilities to renegotiate your power agreements so Los Angeles no longer receives any power from Arizona-based generation."

Appearing to tap into local frustration in Arizona over the raft of boycotts and threatened boycotts from cities across the country, including Los Angeles, Pierce warned that Arizona companies are willing and ready to fight boycott with boycott.

"I am confident that Arizona's utilities would be happy to take those electrons off your hands," Pierce wrote. "If, however, you find that the City Council lacks the strength of its convictions to turn off the lights in Los Angeles and boycott Arizona power, please reconsider the wisdom of attempting to harm Arizona's economy."

Arizona has some serious leverage over Los Angeles, as well as the rest of California. The state and city get electricity from a nuclear power plant outside Phoenix, as well as from coal-fired power plants in northern Arizona and two giant hydroelectric power generators along the Colorado River.

Despite that, the Los Angeles City Council voted overwhelmingly last week to ban future business with Arizona -- a decision that could cost Arizona millions of dollars in lost contracts.

Los Angeles officials were furious with the Arizona immigration law passed last month and joined local officials in cities across the country in pushing boycotts to register their dismay. Critics say the law will lead to racial profiling and civil rights abuses.

Arizona officials have defended the law, saying the state needed to take its illegal immigration problem into its own hands.

The law requires local law enforcement to try to verify the immigration status of anyone they have contact with whom they suspect of being an illegal immigrant. It empowers them to turn over verified illegal immigrants to federal custody. The legislation explicitly prohibits screening people based solely on race or national origin.

[rickh]

Here is the actual letter....

http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/051810_arizonapdf.pdf

[Joeylc]

 

[rickh]

FYI... I am understanding this picture MAY be doctored....

[stayouttadabunker]

Amazing what people will do to rile up the masses with photoshopping skills>>>

If not, then that protester is a little mis-informed I'd say... 

She must of mis-understood the writing on the bottom of the Statue Of Liberty ???

The writing on the Statue of Liberty is an excerpt and comes from a poem written in 1883 by Emma Lazarus:

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~cap/liberty/lazaruspoem.html

Basically it says:

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

It really doesn't say anything about getting stuff for "free" ...

From my point of view, I find it really ridiculous with all these people on
both sides screaming for something the United States doesn't have - a legal title to the land.
All these Mexicans wanna get in for free...that happened a couple of hundred yrs ago too!
Remember, the US is only a couple of hundred yrs old...a drop in the bucket in mankind yrs.
the Indians shouldn't have given the lost boaters explorers any food at Cape Cod for Thanksgiving. LOL
They were so far off,  that they thought they were in India?...my goodness!

Well, I better run...people don't like to hear the real facts...

[rickh]

I enjoy it dude... if nothing else, it helps inform people.

[Joeylc]

FYI... I am understanding this picture MAY be doctored....

well the photo mite be doctored.... but this video is not  OMFG 

L.A. Teacher Calls for Mexican Revolt in the U.S.

"Where we now stand is stolen, occupied Mexico"


<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/yGqPo5ofk0s&rel=0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/yGqPo5ofk0s&rel=0</a>


Anti-American High School Teacher Ron Gochez Says The Police Will Never Be Our Friends

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/kqPukQsLv-o&rel=0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/kqPukQsLv-o&rel=0</a>

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/5Dq0Cfnp_MI&rel=0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/5Dq0Cfnp_MI&rel=0</a>

[stayouttadabunker]

Whew! That teacher's gonna get in trouble with the principals...

[rickh]

nope.... school sent out a statement that what he does on his own time is ok..... this happened a few years back they said, and is perfectly ok to them.

[rickh]

Good stuff from a great guy:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/WgOHOHKBEqE&rel=0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/WgOHOHKBEqE&rel=0</a>

[brichter]

well the photo mite be doctored.... but this video is not  OMFG 

L.A. Teacher Calls for Mexican Revolt in the U.S.

"Where we now stand is stolen, occupied Mexico"

I don't understand what his problem is.

Any time Mexico wants the land back, all they have to do is come take it...

[reho33]

I predict another war on Mexico, only this time we will be a finishing what we started in 1848...............

[Joeylc]

Of the many imperative reasons to secure the Mexican border, one of the most pressing is so as to keep out the arrogant pipsqueak Felipe Calderon.

But you have to hand it to him: he knows how to get applause out of our Democrat rulers. just look at the video. 

Dem Congresscritters gave him a standing ovation when he denounced Arizona for enforcing federal immigration law:

Democrat's Gives Calderon Standing Ovation for Bashing AZ..........   

  Hay Dem's you can kiss my you ass holes. 
 
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/gLt3GgDQgVY&rel=0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/gLt3GgDQgVY&rel=0</a>



Sorry all but this shit is pissing me off to no end ........ Obama SUCKS..!!!!!

[rickh]

Agreed Joeylc... its hard to watch this crap going on. They will self destruct tho, give it time.... we can just keep informing people of whats going on.

[brichter]

Weak-ass Republicans in Congress.   

Why did none of them have the spine to stand up and ask Calderon why he denounces Arizona's immigration policy, while standing by Mexico's which is much stricter than ours?

85%!!!!!

[Thor777]

I am beginning to think that ARIZONA is the only real part of the Unites States left !...   

Thanks again for the post Joey