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Doonesbury Say What?
Aug. 2nd, 2010 09:51 am"My children don't look Hispanic."
-- Nevada gubernatorial candidate Brian Sandoval, supporter of Arizona's immigration law, when asked how he would feel if he and his kids were stopped and asked for their papers
...and another tick in the column labeled "People Who Just Don't Get It."
I read a post from a guy who went to college and made several friends there. He was a legal resident of the USA, born here, of Hispanic descent, and occasionally got hassled. The person in his group who was not legal and was never hassled? A Scandinavian woman.
I was born in Phoenix, spent almost 90% of my life in Arizona, and I still live within about a hundred miles of the border. I was in El Paso last month and saw a newspaper saying that City Hall had been struck with gunfire from a shootout in Juarez and the bullets had carried over 800 yards. I do not like the law that they passed. There is definite need for immigration reform, and maybe the Feds are not doing as much as they should. But I don't think this law is the answer.
The President of Mexico visited the US a couple of months ago. Before he came here, he was in Europe. He said 'our biggest problem is that our northern neighbor is the biggest drug-consuming country in the world.'
A telling statement. We need major reform of drug laws and rehab alternatives to lessen demand and improved enforcement of the border, some economic reform in Mexico to reduce the desire for people to cross the border would also help.
-- Nevada gubernatorial candidate Brian Sandoval, supporter of Arizona's immigration law, when asked how he would feel if he and his kids were stopped and asked for their papers
...and another tick in the column labeled "People Who Just Don't Get It."
I read a post from a guy who went to college and made several friends there. He was a legal resident of the USA, born here, of Hispanic descent, and occasionally got hassled. The person in his group who was not legal and was never hassled? A Scandinavian woman.
I was born in Phoenix, spent almost 90% of my life in Arizona, and I still live within about a hundred miles of the border. I was in El Paso last month and saw a newspaper saying that City Hall had been struck with gunfire from a shootout in Juarez and the bullets had carried over 800 yards. I do not like the law that they passed. There is definite need for immigration reform, and maybe the Feds are not doing as much as they should. But I don't think this law is the answer.
The President of Mexico visited the US a couple of months ago. Before he came here, he was in Europe. He said 'our biggest problem is that our northern neighbor is the biggest drug-consuming country in the world.'
A telling statement. We need major reform of drug laws and rehab alternatives to lessen demand and improved enforcement of the border, some economic reform in Mexico to reduce the desire for people to cross the border would also help.
