If I had the money, a secure job at good wages, I'd travel more often. I'd love to see the world. I've been D.C., New York City, Chicago, New Orleans, flown out to San Diego and San Francisco, driven through the East Coast and through Kentucky and Tennessee and even Indiana (if there is any other place flatter than the Everglades, it's western Indiana). I hope some day to hit the road and drive through as much of the United States as I can, between here and Las Vegas and back again, the long way around.
I'd love to visit Arizona. But not now.
I'd love to swing through Tombstone, home of the OK Corral, to indulge my interests in the American West history. But not now.
I'd love to see the Grand Canyon in its entirety. But not now.
And if I do drive to Las Vegas, I'm asking the AAA trip-tik people to draw out the routes that take me around Arizona.
The immigration bill the Arizona government just signed into law is insane. It requires the state's law enforcement - state, county, local - to approach any person who could very well be minding his/her own business and not even actively breaking any laws and essentially say "papers please." A cop can approach anyone and ask for some proof of residence - driver's license, state-issued ID for non-drivers, tribal ID (for the huge Native American population), and/or other form of government-issued ID (green card) - and if you don't have it they can drag you off for being an illegal resident.
What's more interesting is that private citizens can sue their law enforcement agencies to compel the cops to go hunting for possible illegals. Basically any racist in your neighborhood can call up the cops, accuse you of being an illegal, and if you don't have your papers on you the cop is going to be forced by that racist bastard to drag you off.
It's racial profiling. It's WWH (Walking While Hispanic), the immoral equivalent of DWB (Driving While Black).
Anyone remember those old Vagrancy laws that cropped up with those Black Codes the southern states issued during and after Reconstruction? This is those Black Codes all over again, only this time for Hispanics. They'll be asking for your birth certificates next. Oh, wait: THEY DO!
Here's a question: what's going to stop a cop, or a racist bastard harassing that cop to arrest you, from thinking your ID is fake? Not a damn thing until you can get a lawyer to argue your case, by then your whole week, hell your whole life, may be screwed.
Here's another question: do you know how many Hispanics physically fit the Hispanic stereotype? There's blond pale-skinned Mexicans you know. And do you know how many Irish illegals there are in Arizona? Do we have to chase after them as well? If you gots red hair and a penchant for wearing green, you might be in trouble in Bisbee...
Question Three: what about people who are legally vacationing who just happen to leave their passport back at the hotel? How many Spaniards and southern French and Italians and Greeks and Turks and Maori and Samoans going to get pulled over for looking like they might be from Costa Rica or the Yucatan? I worry for the Pacific Islander players on the Arizona Cardinals team now...
Question Four: WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE IN ARIZONA?
This law may create hassles for the 460,000 illegals currently hiding in your state, but it's also creating hassles for the 1,500,000 LEGAL Hispanics residing in Arizona. Millions of Hispanics whose generational ties to Arizona stretch back to before the Mexican-American War of the 1840s. We're talking about families that have been there LONGER THAN MOST WHITES LIVING THERE NOW. By what right do you idiots have of making those millions of Hispanics get treated like second-class citizens IN THEIR OWN NEIGHBORHOODS?
They're saying now the cops are going to harass obvious-looking Caucasians now, just so they can avoid accusations of racial profiling. So do any of you white boys volunteer to get pulled over for doing nothing wrong but living in a racist-driven state? I doubt it. I'm pretty sure you guys keep leaving your wallets at home just like the rest of us.
There is a problem with illegal immigration in this nation. But creating laws that harass and punish the innocent IS NOT HOW YOU FIX IT. You go after the ones who ARE breaking the law: you go after the employers and businesses who hire these illegals and shut them down. You go after the human traffickers who are scamming the illegals who are forced to bribe and sell themselves like slaves just so they can enter a country that believe it or not is still safer and healthier than whatever hellhole they're fleeing from. You wanna stop people from fleeing Central and South America? Provide more foreign aid to help those nations build themselves up into safer, stronger communities. Oh wait, America's not supposed to be nice to other nations, are we?
I can't wait for this law to get overturned for the rampant violations of the Constitution it creates.
I can't wait to see the number of Hispanics that hadn't dropped out of the Republican Party the last time they pulled this sh-t (the 2006 midterm cycle when Dubya - it's ironic that the Bush family actually has solid ties to the Hispanic community and yet their own party keeps doing this - tried to push an Immigration reform bill through Congress) now drop out of the GOP. They don't have to sign up Democrat, but I guarantee the percentage of Hispanics in the GOP is going to be the same as the percentage of Blacks (about 2-5 percent).
I hope smarter heads prevail and we DO get serious immigration reform: stronger enforcement against the businesses who hire illegals, better crackdowns on the human trafficking, better foreign aid programs.
Next up: wondering what the heck's gonna happen to Crist AND Rubio...
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