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Immigration Policy: Buy In ... Or Just Buy
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by Edmund Jenks | May 2, 2010 at 04:32 pm
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We begin this week after a May Day "call to protest" from the Hispanic immigration community that, at least here in Los Angeles, was a dismal failure.
All of the news media outlets (even FOX News) did their best to make this day of protest on the enforcement of US immigration law an issue that was compelling by stating "hundreds of thousands" join protests. People were out in the streets, waving flags and carrying signs sparked by a law passed by the State of Arizona that brings immigration enforcement to a local, as opposed to a Federal, level.
In Los Angeles, the papers were first predicting that over 100,000 people would take to the streets in a mime of the large 750,000 plus person gathering on May 1st, 2006 during the Bush Administration. While the LA Times touted the gathering at nearing 60,000 ... for a city that has a population draw of over 15,000,000 in the basin and at least a 40% Hispanic residency, that is 60,000 out of a potential of 6,000,000 people - weak.
Sign displayed at the 2006 May Day protest in Denver ... has anything changed? Aaaaaa, No! Image Credit: Michelle Malkin
Funny thing though, The Los Angeles crowd was one of the largest gatherings in protest against the Arizona law that makes it a crime to lack proper immigration papers and requires police to determine whether people are in the country illegally.
Civil rights activists say the law will lead to racial profiling but state officials have repeatedly emphasized that the bill expressly forbids law enforcement officers from stopping someone without, first having a probable cause such as in the enforcement of a seat belt law or a mechanical violation (these misdemeanor violations are cited as an add-on after someone is pulled over for a moving violation like running a red light or other probable cause).
Sign exalting "NO BORDERS" seen at an Arizona protest last week. This makes a lot of sense, especially, what, with the Mexican drug wars spilling over into this country and placing our citizens at harm. Image Credit: Mark Krikorian
Any United States citizen knows that to leave the house without proper identification, one can not purchase goods or services, drive a car legally, buy a drink at a bar (if under 21), and etc.. About the only place one does not have to show an identification is when one goes to the polls to vote - all the while, the 70% of the voting citizens in Arizona who favor the Governor, Jan Brewer, for passing this law are called crazy, or worse, bigots.
Instead of buying in to all of the hype about how wrong it is to want United States immigration laws enforced, why not show your support for Arizona where immigration is out of control and send a message to the Federal Government that they should enforce existing laws through purchasing goods and services made in Arizona ... that's BUY ARIZONA!
Now this person will probably not get pulled over for writing on their windows, but may get a ticket for having windows that are tinted too dark. Image Credit: La Shawn Barber
This excerpted and edited from the All Patriots Media Network -
Buy Arizona!
Tony Katz, All Patriots Media Network - May 1, 2010
The Buy Arizona! Initiative is picking up steam. We are working with many other groups, and committed individuals, to support Arizona business owners and their employees.
The response is growing everyday. If you sent an email, you are in queue, and your ad will run on The Tony Katz Radio Spectacular, as well as with those hosts who join the Buy Arizona! Initiative.
Those radio hosts include:
- Tony Katz – The Tony Katz Radio Spectacular
- TJ McCormack – The World of TJ McCormack
- Jack Marino – Warrior Filmmaker
- Chris Fritcher – The Fritch Show
- to be a part of the Initiative, email us here.
Join the Facebook groups – here and here.
Follow @ArizonaBUYcott on Twitter.
To see the Press Release, click here.
To see the list, and reach out to Arizona businesses, click here.
To be a part of the Buy Arizona! Initiative, and get free advertising for your business, email us here. You can contact the Tony Katz Radio Spectacular by email.
Reference Here>>
We, at MAXINE, believe in a serious society that wants to know who they are talking to and doing business with. Carry your ID and immigration authorization papers proudly into any market and BUY ARIZONA!
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Edmund Jenks
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at 17:57 on May 2nd, 2010
Great piece Edmund! Yes! That's exactly what these SOBs want to do: Abolish America's borders. The protesters have done nothing but piss off Americans and as a result, Americans are going to press their politicians for tighter and tighter border control and enforcement of the existing immigration laws that the federal government has utterly failed to enforce.
at 19:21 on May 2nd, 2010
Borders are creations of crazy men.For cheap labour( a new term for exploitation) and more profits ,US Corporations invest in Mexico.But why this cheap labour in USA is not allowed.Mexicans should teach a lesson by nationalizing all US corporations,without paying a single penny compensation to plunderers.Big money will play its role in US politics,a powerful lobby of US corporations will force Arizona state to scrap new immigiration laws.
at 19:49 on May 2nd, 2010
First, the laws are not NEW, just re-designed for local State use so that the enforcement is at the State level ... not the Federal level.
Second, if the Mexican culture could actually run a successful business, Mexico would have the largest, most powerful corporations in the world ... not the United States.
All we citizens wish to do here in the United Stated is maintain our culture.
at 20:36 on May 2nd, 2010
Edmund: As you and I know, Mexico is a basket case. It always has been. It never got it's stuff together and now it's at the point where drug gangs are killing people on the streets and burning down homes and businesses. But somehow, there is an attempt nowadays to make the American citizen feel guilty for the fact that Mexico is a vile, putrid, and corrupt country and anyone that that doesn't want wide open borders is a xenophobe and a racist.
at 03:02 on May 4th, 2010
Name a big US corporation which at some point of time has not been found involved in some kind of fraud.US corporations are successful because they have backing of neo-empire,bribe the politicians and the bureaucrats whereever they go.Politicians and bureaucrats of all developing and underdeveloped countries are corrupt from top to bottom.If governemnt is not favourable to US economic interests,CIA manages coup to overthrow an elected government.This is formula of success of US corporations.
Please do maitain US business culture of fraud and corrupt practices,but only in US.
at 20:07 on May 2nd, 2010
As an Australian citizen, I dont think this little rant is going to make people buy stuff from Arizona. In fact, all it makes me want to do is to not buy stuff from Arizona and not to ever visit there. A place that supports racial profiling is not a place that appeals to me. I think you might want to rethink your 'marketing strategy' because I daresay a lot of educated people share this view.
at 20:24 on May 2nd, 2010
Frankly, a desired effect ... we like tourism but not the kind that sticks around longer than a good guest should stay. Please fore-go the Grand Canyon, and Sedona ... they will not miss you.
This effort is NOT for your consumption - ie: you are not the target market - it is for United States citizens who are tired of being overrun with people who do not wish to respect our laws - PERIOD.
Are you a lawbreaker? Would you, Rubadubadoobag like a bunch of people from India (like t k kidwai) to come on down to OZ and disrespect your laws and not have your Federal Government respond to the challenge? THAT is what we are dealing with.
at 00:03 on May 4th, 2010
Don't you have the stiffest imagration laws almost in the hole world, and dont you have a nice ocean to hold people out
at 00:47 on May 3rd, 2010
Like others this is also damn interesting…
http://welcome-to-croatia.com/
at 03:17 on May 3rd, 2010
The sign in this post captures the sentiment that will sink the movement, "America is a continent not a country." Those are fighting words that can invoke the greatest backlash the Latino community has ever seen. It strikes at the heart of the issue. Immigrants serve at the pleasure of the host nation aka country and the rules of law.
Since illegal’s made their first mark by breaking the law, that could serve as a permanent return trip. Keep it up, and the solution will be much simpler for Americans. Illegal’s go home.
at 03:57 on May 3rd, 2010
Definition, a statement on standards, and pithy ... thanks, YankeeJim for your clarity. This is not a situation of racial profiling so much as a shirking of the enforcement of the rule of law and having lawbreakers pay the price for their intentional actions.
at 08:38 on May 3rd, 2010
YJ,I guess you want to say that illegal immigrants are like unwanted guests,if so, I am inclined to share the same view.But the larger and vital question is that why do hosts hire these unwanted guests at wages lower than prevalent wages?Two,if a host stops entertaining unwanted guests, going upto the discourtesy of refusing to serve even a glass of water,beleive me such guests would never show up again.
Illegal immigirants break the laws,but those who hire them do the same.
at 08:07 on May 3rd, 2010
Santa Cruz Immigration Protest Turns Violent - video at link
nbcbayarea.com - Updated 7:36 AM PDT, Mon, May 3, 2010
A 24-year-old man was arrested and police are seeking other suspects who are believed to have vandalized more than a dozen businesses in Santa Cruz Saturday night during a march by apparent anarchists.
At about 10:30 p.m. Saturday, officers responded to reports of a large group of people walking along Pacific Avenue and causing damage to businesses along the street.
Many people in the group were carrying makeshift torches, and some broke storefront windows and wrote anarchist graffiti on buildings, police said.
At least 15 businesses sustained damage from the vandalism. Many businesses had multiple windows broken, including large storefront windows, according to police.
Santa Cruz police called for aid from all other law enforcement agencies in Santa Cruz County.
Some of the responding officers from the Watsonville Police Department, spotted 24-year-old Jimi Haynes, a transient from Fresno County, who was allegedly breaking windows at Dell Williams Jewelers, a store at 1320 Pacific Ave., police said.
Haynes was arrested shortly afterward, and discovered to be on parole out of Fresno County for burglary. He admitted to participating in the rally after receiving a flyer at a nearby cafe frequented by anarchists, according to police.
Haynes was booked into Santa Cruz County jail on suspicion of felony vandalism and parole violation, police said.
After order was restored in the area, investigators worked overnight to collect evidence and document the extent of the damage to the various businesses.
Authorities guarded exposed storefronts and arranged for private security companies to watch the businesses until windows could be boarded and employees from the businesses could be contacted, according to police.
Authorities are still working to identify and arrest additional people involved in the march and subsequent vandalism.
Bay City News contributed to this report.
at 09:31 on May 3rd, 2010
at 12:32 on May 3rd, 2010
You can't possibly be expecting that evil, incompetent Federal government to enforce immigration law. I know that proponents of the law insist that racial profiling isn't part of the law. I just can't figure out what an illegal immigrant would look like in Arizona. Is it the shoes? This law will have the same positive impact on Arizona that refusing to honor Martin Luther King Jr. had.
I know John McCain was for reform, before he was against it. And North Carolina's Senator Graham was supportive until he was double crossed by the Obama administration, and recent electoral problems for McCain surfaced. But, hey, that's just politics.
at 16:48 on May 3rd, 2010
Since there are more people of Spanish/Hispanic DNA than any other DNA pool in Arizona (and Southern California) ... the issue is just asking the question, do you have documentation proving that you are in the United States legally?
Just enforce the law as it stands on the Federal ledgers ... locally.
McCain needs to be removed (as in, forced to retire). Graham needs to be removed as well. They are both pathetic Progressives.
at 18:43 on May 4th, 2010
Like Australia, the US is a nation of migrants, and that's where a lot of its strength comes from. Innovation (as the best and brightest flock there), expanding markets, cultural diversity, tolerance etc. These aren't just catchphrases: while Australia is not perfect, if you ever visit you will find people of all colours and cultures living peacefully, without any segregation and very little violence. The reason I object to these sorts of initiatives is two-fold: one, because its usually driven by emotion, prejudice and scapegoating rather than logic (it is just assumed that immigration is bad, that migrants are criminals etc) and two: this sort of profiling and officially-sanctioned racism breaks the solidarity and undermines the peaceful society that I value so much. OK, I imagine that sometimes Latinos and blacks can be angry and aggressive, but you have to understand the historical context: most acknowledge slavery at least, but few remember that a large chunk of America was once part of Mexico, and wrested from them by violence. In the end they are just people, and they could easily become your friends rather than your enemies if you were willing to overlook their skin colour and slightly different ways.
at 20:12 on May 5th, 2010
Please review the real history of this land before you speak out of turn. The United States of America paid for this land and paid restitution after a war was engaged into by both parties ... which the USA won. I happen to live just one mile where the treaty was sign by both countries.
Today, the rule of law governs the land just as the rule of law rules Australia. Legal immigration is the issue and nothing else ... it makes no difference where anyone is from, their religion, or their DNA - what matters is the rule of law and respect for the citizens of the country anyone seeks to enter. Americans are not getting the respect of people and they are being let down through the lack of enforcement to the rule of law. Now go home and quit being an emotional fool and progressive wimp full of false accusations and ignorant assumptions.
at 18:42 on May 7th, 2010
The fact that you need to resort to name-calling just highlights your childishness and lack of a real argument. Not very impressive for an aspiring journalist.It is difficult to claim that your opposition to illegal immigration is not racially motivated when you just asked me whether I would mind if a 'bunch of Indians' came to my country and started breaking the law. The implication is that all Indians (non-whites) naturally break the law and that any reasonable person would mind. Again, your 'journalism' needs some work - the profession does strive for objectivity you know.As for history, I would stack my knowledge of even American history against yours any day. You seem to be of the Sarah Palin school of history where you believe you know more about the history of an area because you can see the place from your house. As you say yourself, the US won the war ... so how fair is the treaty likely to be? The point is that every nation has done wrong and if you base your rights on the might of your ancestors (rather than principles of justice) you have less standing to complain if someone uses force to challenge them, whether its Osama or La Raza.Finally, it is disingenous to claim that you are fighting for the law rather than an anti-immigration political position, because if an amnesty was declared for illegal Mexican aliens, Im certain that you would be the one demonstrating. It is all right to question immigration and its economic and even cultural effects on the local population, but if you put your opinion in a public forum and base it on stereotypes like Mexicans or Indians = criminals, you deserve to be challenged. Maybe YOU should go home and think your argument through a little first.