Arizona to illegals: GTFO.

[Beckwin]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_558731.html

Arizona's new immigration law is just about crime, its supporters say, but given that the state's new education policy equates ethnic studies programs with high treason, they may not be using the commonly accepted definition of "crime."
Under the ban, sent to Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer by the state legislature Thursday, schools will lose state funding if they offer any courses that "promote the overthrow of the U.S. government, promote resentment of a particular race or class of people, are designed primarily for students of a particular ethnic group or advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals."
As ThinkProgress notes, the Tucson Unified School District's popular Mexican-American studies department is the target here. The state superintendent charges that the program exhibits "ethnic chauvinism."
Meanwhile, in a move that was more covert until the Wall Street Journal uncovered it, the Arizona Department of Education has told schools that teachers with "heavy" or "ungrammatical" accents are no longer allowed to teach English classes.
As outlined by the Journal, Arizona's recent pattern of discriminatory education policies is ironic -- and is likely a function of No Child Left Behind funding requirements -- given that the state spent a decade recruiting teachers for whom English was a second language.

In the 1990s, Arizona hired hundreds of teachers whose first language was Spanish as part of a broad bilingual-education program. Many were recruited from Latin America.

Then in 2000, voters passed a ballot measure stipulating that instruction be offered only in English. Bilingual teachers who had been instructing in Spanish switched to English.

Teachers who don't meet the new fluency standards have the option of taking classes to improve their English, the Journal reports, but if they fail to reach the state's targets would be fired or reassigned.

apparently, things can get worse.

Getting really disgusted that the state I live in is being taken over by the Klan.

Edit: Also, Arizona State and University of Arizona are reporting that some out of state students are choosing to withdraw from the universities, and many Hispanic students in general are very worried about the new law.

[Rhinox]

Oh shit-

Jan Brewer just kicked it up a notch. She called Mexicans coming into the country "terrorists"

[Rhinox]

lolarizona

Yes thats right. There is now a state worst then Texas when it comes to bigotry.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_558731.html

Apparently Ethnic studies are now banned in Arizona. Also If you have a heavy Accent you can't teach English.

Arizona's new immigration law is just about crime, its supporters say, but given that the state's new education policy equates ethnic studies programs with high treason, they may not be using the commonly accepted definition of "crime."

Under the ban, sent to Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer by the state legislature Thursday, schools will lose state funding if they offer any courses that "promote the overthrow of the U.S. government, promote resentment of a particular race or class of people, are designed primarily for students of a particular ethnic group or advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals."

As ThinkProgress notes, the Tucson Unified School District's popular Mexican-American studies department is the target here. The state superintendent charges that the program exhibits "ethnic chauvinism."

Meanwhile, in a move that was more covert until the Wall Street Journal uncovered it, the Arizona Department of Education has told schools that teachers with "heavy" or "ungrammatical" accents are no longer allowed to teach English classes.

As outlined by the Journal, Arizona's recent pattern of discriminatory education policies is ironic -- and is likely a function of No Child Left Behind funding requirements -- given that the state spent a decade recruiting teachers for whom English was a second language.

In the 1990s, Arizona hired hundreds of teachers whose first language was Spanish as part of a broad bilingual-education program. Many were recruited from Latin America.

Then in 2000, voters passed a ballot measure stipulating that instruction be offered only in English. Bilingual teachers who had been instructing in Spanish switched to English.
Teachers who don't meet the new fluency standards have the option of taking classes to improve their English, the Journal reports, but if they fail to reach the state's targets would be fired or reassigned.

[Beckwin]

Fuck Jan Brewer. Wasn't even elected to be governor. Stupid sensationalizing racist-extremist appeasing shitbag.

[Rhinox]

I'd agree that the leprosy thing is full of shit. Myself, less so.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63E6AK20100415

240K arrests over human trafficking and drugs at the border last year. Thousands of dollars a head, some paid directly, some paid partially in kind, others turned into debt slavery in sweathouses or other labor schemes.

Article is very vague. 240k arrest were not made from drug smugglers. They grouped them into the Illegal immigrants that were caught Intellectually dishonest article.


Nice try though

http://www.startribune.com/nation/91...EaPc:UiacyKUUr

Those gangs engage in both, across an underprotected border, generating millions for criminals. Meth, pot, cocaine, human beings. There's money in moving all of them over the borders, and the criminals go where the money is. Including using illegals as cash cows.

Now, far as legalizing some of that drug trade? All for it, far as pot goes. Some drugs just aren't sane or humane to supply to a human being, considering. Even if they wanted to take them.

Officials say some of the arrests were for smuggling activities that were not gang-related and others were for outstanding warrants, parole violations, probation violations, suspected drunken driving and other offenses.

About 165 pounds of marijuana, 21 pounds of methamphetamine, six pounds of cocaine, heroin and weapons were also seized.


again you're lumping Drug smugglers with Illegal Immigrants. This sounds like they busted some drug smugglers with people who had warrants and parole violations. Did you even read the article? or did you just read the headline and thought you had a 'gotcha' moment. You are suggesting that the Majority of Illegals are drug mules and you still haven't proven your fucking case.

Work on your sources or kindly get the fuck out.

[Rhinox]

What Illegal Immigration problem?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...020903702.html

[Rhinox]

Jan Brewer apparently signed into law revisions of 1070

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100501/...on_enforcement

“These new statements make it crystal clear and undeniable that racial profiling is illegal, and will not be tolerated in Arizona,” she said in a statement.

The changes include one strengthening restrictions against using race or ethnicity as the basis for questioning by police and inserts those same restrictions in other parts of the law.

Another change states that immigration-status questions would follow a law enforcement officer’s stopping, detaining or arresting a person while enforcing another law. The earlier law had referred to a “contact” with police.

Another change specifies that possible violations of local civil ordinances can trigger questioning on immigration status.

Stephen Montoya, a Phoenix lawyer representing a police officer whose lawsuit was one of three filed Thursday to challenge the law, said the changes wouldn’t derail the lawsuit because the state is still unconstitutionally trying to regulate immigration, a federal responsibility.

Hey Carlos, Your music is too loud. Let me see your papers.

Hey Juan, You're watering your lawn on an even day. Let me see your papers.

They bitch just doesn't get it.



And its still unconstitutional. lulz

[Lucavi]

Its alright guys: because not everyone there are racists, its okay that some people are.

Or something like that.

[Churchill]

Cop was murdered today by illegals with AK-47's.

[Falcon]

This proves that the law was just and they are dirty slime needing to be kicked out.

[Kurokikaze]

Illegal immigrants are terrorists now? Shit just got serious.

lolarizona is right.

[Rhinox]

Cop was murdered today by illegals with AK-47's.

Uh You're full of shit.

PHOENIX - After a frantic hour-long desert search, authorities found a deputy wounded in a shootout Friday with suspected illegal immigrants apparently hauling bales of marijuana along a major smuggling corridor in southern Arizona.

The deputy was found with a superficial wound - a chunk of skin torn from just above his left kidney - after being shot with an AK-47 on Friday afternoon, Pinal County sheriff's Lt. Tamatha Villar said. He was flown by helicopter to a hospital in Casa Grande, about 40 miles south of Phoenix.

Villar said the deputy was doing smuggling interdiction work and found bales of marijuana in the desert. He then encountered five suspected illegal immigrants, two armed with rifles, and was shot.

``He was out on his routine daily patrol in the area when he encountered a load of marijuana out in the desert. He obviously confronted the individuals and took fire,'' Villar told The Associated Press. ``I was speaking with him just a bit ago, and he's doing fantastic.''

The deputy was alone about five miles from a rest stop along Interstate 8, about halfway between Phoenix and Tucson. The area is a well-known smuggling corridor for drugs and illegal immigrants headed from Mexico to Phoenix and the U.S. interior.

``Over the past 12 months we've seen an increase in the amount of drugs, and an increase in violence that has been going on in this particular corridor,'' Villar told KPNX.

``We've had increasing concerns in this area about being outmanned and outgunned, and unfortunately this evening, this is coming true,'' he said.

The shooting came as Arizona grapples with backlash over its enactment of a tough new law targeting illegal immigration. Civil rights activists, concerned the law will lead to racial profiling, have called for a boycott of the state.

The law signed by Gov. Jan Brewer last week is supported by many in the state, which has become a major gateway for drug smuggling and human trafficking from Mexico.

Its passage came amid increasing anger in Arizona about violence, drug smugglers, drop houses and other problems caused by poor border security.

Villar said the search for the suspects involved numerous helicopters from state and federal law enforcement agencies and scores of officers near Interstate 8 and Arizona 84 about 50 miles south of Phoenix.

``The deputy is a search-and-rescue deputy, so its not uncommon for them to work those areas A) looking for drugs and B) looking for people who need assistance out there,'' Villar said. ``Obviously its a high-traffic area for drug- and human-smuggling.''

don't know many Immigrants wanting to come here and work with an AK-47 on his back.


don't be stupid. It was obviously Drug smugglers.

[Rhinox]

This proves that the law was just and they are dirty slime needing to be kicked out.

What the fuck are you talking about?

[Beckwin]

openly carrying a weapon would be legal in AZ though, if they felt so inclined

[Kyreth]

again you're lumping Drug smugglers with Illegal Immigrants. This sounds like they busted some drug smugglers with people who had warrants and parole violations. Did you even read the article? or did you just read the headline and thought you had a 'gotcha' moment. You are suggesting that the Majority of Illegals are drug mules and you still haven't proven your fucking case.

Work on your sources or kindly get the fuck out.

Actually, I was noting that drug smugglers also smuggle humans- that is, they're in the trade of moving illegals across the border along with everything else, because there's money to be made in it.

But hey, read what you like into it. I'm pretty much done here, anything else and it's gonna seem like I'm trolling the topic.

[Kyreth]

What Illegal Immigration problem?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...020903702.html

Advocates for reduced immigration said the findings show the country can shrink the population of illegal immigrants without simply legalizing them. Immigration advocates say enforcement alone is neither practical, affordable nor humane over the long run.

LOL. Reduce the illegal immigrant problem by pushing the nation's economy downhill as much as you can? GENIUS.

It's true, though. The local population has fallen off a bit as unemployment has made law enforcement (yes, here in the DC area) more happy to deport folks and local towns have made nasty noises about day laborers and "employment centers" that basically were gathering points for construction companies to hire em.

[Kuya]

What the fuck are you talking about?

That might be sarcasm.

[Rhinox]

LOL. Reduce the illegal immigrant problem by pushing the nation's economy downhill as much as you can? GENIUS.

It's true, though. The local population has fallen off a bit as unemployment has made law enforcement (yes, here in the DC area) more happy to deport folks and local towns have made nasty noises about day laborers and "employment centers" that basically were gathering points for construction companies to hire em.

Since the nuance escaped you yet again the point in posting that article was to show if you prevent them from getting jobs they will leave. You don't need to adopt a draconian police state that targets and terrorizes the (non-white) segment of the population of Arizona.

[SwampdonkeyPLD]

Since the nuance escaped you yet again the point in posting that article was to show if you prevent them from getting jobs they will leave. You don't need to adopt a draconian police state that targets and terrorizes the (non-white) segment of the population of Arizona.

Never heard a liberal refer to FDR as draconian.

[Beckwin]

FDR's domestic reaction to Pearl Harbor was Draconian and extremely short-sighted and regrettable, staining an otherwise exemplary presidency.

In news related to the topic:

-many conferences/conventions are pulling out of the state, already costing hotel industry over 6 million in potential revenue

-Major League Baseball has made some pretty strong statements. For anyone that doesn't know, in addition to the Diamondbacks, about 30 teams are in AZ every year for Spring Training, which is a huge economic boon for the state.