Must be something about the desert heat that causes Arizona Republicans to grow bigger balls than their Eastern counterparts. Hell, even the state’s Governor has bigger balls than most Republicans and she’s a woman.
Here’s the latest news on Arizona’s new anti-illegal alien laws from the Associated Press:
The Senate Appropriations Committee that narrowly endorsed (Russell) Pearce’s latest bill on a 7-6 vote also approved others targeting automatic citizenship for U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants and requiring hospitals to report patients who cannot show they’re in the country legally…
It would make it a state crime with a 30-day minimum jail sentence to drive a vehicle while in the country illegally, and Republican Rick Crandall of Mesa said a provision allowing forfeiture of vehicles driven by illegal immigrants could prompt car rental companies to demand proof of legal status from tourists and other visitors.
“It’s the type of thing that completely undoes” a recently unveiled campaign to promote the state’s tourism industry, Crandall said.”The measure allows for business licenses to be suspended if an employer doesn’t use the federal E-Verify system to check the work eligibility of new hires. Workers caught using a false identity to get a job would face mandatory six-month jail sentences.
Of course, the ACLU felt compelled to jump in against anyone defending the United States:
However, Alessandra Soler Meetze, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona, said, “This bill is miles beyond SB1070 in terms of its potential to roll back the rights and fundamental freedoms of both citizens and non-citizens alike.”
Commenter “WhiskeyRiver,” who tipped us to this story, sums it up nicely:
“Russell Pearce is the state Senator that got Arizona’s S.B. 1070 pushed through last year. Rick Crandell is a dipwad. I would have no problem, and will be glad to prove at any time, that I’m a citizen to rent a car. And Ms. Soler-Meetze? ACLU says it all.”
H/T: Whiskeyriver
Source: Associated Press
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The problem with Arizona HB 1070 is it forced thousands of illegals to leave the state. Now they are all over New Mexico and west Texas, with Arizona plates on their vehicles, and hurting our economies.
The hell of it is our new Governor, Susana Martinez, wants to repeal the law allowing anyone in our state illegally to get a drivers license. She also wants to revoke the 80,000 or so drivers licenses already issued to illegals. What is happening to these bills? They are stuck in "committees" and may not make it to the floor for a vote. And now the Democraps controlling both Houses are bashing her for holding a news conference asking New Mexico citizens to contact their representatives and senators to let them know WE WANT THESE TWO BILLS PASSED!
It looks like Utah and Washington, the two other states that have given illegals drivers licenses, are going to repeal their laws leaving New Mexico as the only state in the country that allows anyone and everyone, legal or not, to get a drivers license. I may have to sell out, pack up, and leave the state I have lived in all my life if things don't change. I'm sure I can find some old redneck, military veteran, self sufficient Americans to live around in Arizona.
Kaptain Kickazz and Ole Hairplug won't like that! YOU BETCHA! :-(
Who cares what they like. Just saying...
THAT'S THE SPIRIT! Just saying ...
After Pearce's bill passes, the next thing the conservatives need to do is sue the sh*t out of the ACLU. Put them on the ropes and keep them there. We the People need to gut check these ACLU parasites, use political DDT, destroy their ability to do anything except protect themselves from extended government sponsored 'vacations'...up state.
Yeah Buddy... I've always found it a little ironic that the "American" Civil Liberties Union spends so much time defending FOREIGNERS.
It is ridiculous but it is mainly because they consider them to be "new" americans. So basically they care less for the "old" and the "new legal" americans... ACLU is a joke that should not get my money either.
What really bothers me most about what has been labeled "Illegal Immigration", It needs to be called what it truly is, "Felony Trespass"
There ya go.
About time. Hope it's not too late. Mexican nationals need to be sent packing, they can take all their flags with them too. If any Mexicans actually want to become Americans they can apply from Mexico, that is their 'path to citizenship'.
Media is going to have a field day.
Okay time to use the law FOR us instead of against us I like it.
This is great. We need to follow this legislative model wherever Republicans have control.
Inundate them with so much conservative legislation that the ACLU and Obama Justice Dept. don't have enough lawyers to fight all of it. Eventually something is bound to make it all the way to implementation.
We'll call it the the shotgun approach (apologies to libs who soil their pants in outrage over the violent imagery -- feel free to send me the dry-cleaning bill).
Amen brother. We need to ram through our stuff like Obama Rahm'd his garbage.