In Arizona, two kinds of counseling (July 27)
By Chuck Doud
The Madera Tribune
A lot of counseling was under way over the weekend in Arizona. Illegal immigrants were being counseled on how to react if they are questioned under Arizona’s new immigration law. Police officers, meanwhile were being counseled on how to enforce it.
In a nutshell, the law gives permission to state and local police to enforce U.S. immigration laws, which are federal. Under present law, when illegals are discovered as a result of arrests on suspicion of breaking other laws, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E.) is notified. The new law will make being an illegal immigrant a state crime as well. The state can then detain the suspects on suspicion of being in the country illegally until the matter is cleared up. Eventually, they would be turned over to I.C.E.
The Wall Street Journal, in a report on the counseling session, writes that the police are being cautioned not to pull people over or detain them just because they appear to be Hispanic. That would be profiling, which the law prohibits.
The law might result in a safer Arizona. Illegals were being advised that the best way to avoid being arrested for being in the United States was not to break any laws.
About 20 percent of all prisoners in the Maricopa County Jail now are illegals, the Journal reports, but quotes the president of the Phoenix Law Enforcement Association as saying, “They are there because of conduct, not because of skin color.”
The big question about the Arizona law will not be what the state does, but what the federal government does in response.
Arizona is mad because its residents perceive the country’s borders aren’t being defended, and Arizonans are paying the price. Will the feds respond by better defending U.S. borders? If not, you’ll probably see more states follow Arizona’s path.
Is it only people in Arizona who are mad because our country’s borders are being overrun? What about the citizens of California.
The issue of illegal immigration does not apply just to Arizona. It applies to the entire United States. The government has failed in its duty to preserve and protect the union. And, those who swore an oath to the constitution are directly responsible.
Should someone who commits a crime be rewarded? What would you feel like if I broke into your home and demanded that you must let me stay and become a part of your family?
All this nonsense about who would mow your lawn, who would work in your fields, who would toil at jobs that Americans would not do, suggests that the leaders of our country have done a terrible job in over-regulation of the economy, turning a blind eye to welfare fraud and being in on the enormous profits to be made from the drugs that also enter our country through their neglect.
Criminal. You bet. It’s time to take charge in America. Time to remove career politicians who are only in it for the “bennies” and throw them in jail. Time to repeal BAD LAW and quit allowing new laws to just cover over the wrongs done in the past. Time to take back our country.
I am neither a Republican nor a Democrat. One party just moves slower than the other towards socialism. I am an American. A free and sovereign individual, for whom this government was set in place to serve. Not a subject or just a citizen of a state run by elitist crooks.
And, that’s why, my fellow Americans, I intend to do everything in my power to ensure that this country, and republic, not democracy, prevails.
Like the false leaders who are trying everything in their power to destroy this country, I, too, took an oath to support and defend the constitution against all enemies foreign and “domestic!”
California State brings in 1.82 trillion/year in state revenue. The #1 income is aerospace, #2 is the entertainment industry, #3 is small business, Silicon Valley etc., Next is #4 at 32 billion is agriculture. Many people thank, especially in the Central Valley believe that agriculture is what makes California the “Golden State”. Yes it brings in 32 billion, which is a lot of money, and yes probably about 15-20 billion of it is produced with the hands of illegal aliens, are we considering the amount of money that it is costing the citizens of California . Consider the Mexican families with 3-6 kids which cost 10K to 15K to delivery them, consider the school buses and school to teach them, consider the infrastructure we pay to have them here, consider the hugh health cost to treat them. 15-20 billion is but a drop in the bucket of which we bring in from agriculture in order to support them. Tax payers and individuals are very concerned of how California is financial going down the tubes. Many politicans say “raise taxes” in order to solve the cost. Americans have to wake up to the fact they need to be educated with the economics facts and not be mentally blurred by those who say this is a racially motivated. These people want the ignorant people to believe that it is racial, but the people of America need to be aware that it economic and know what the economic facts are and how it is affecting all Americans. May God have a future for us Americans and may the people rise up and do something about it because the government is not.