YAAAAA!!! Arizona passes strict illegal immigration act

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Originally Posted by Jeanfromfillmore

Arizona passes strict illegal immigration act
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The bill, known as SB 1070, makes it a misdemeanor to lack proper immigration paperwork in Arizona. It also requires police officers, if they form a "reasonable suspicion" that someone is an illegal immigrant, to determine the person's immigration status.

Currently, officers can inquire about someone's immigration status only if the person is a suspect in another crime. The bill allows officers to avoid the immigration issue if it would be impractical or hinder another investigation.

Citizens can sue to compel police agencies to comply with the law, and no city or agency can formulate a policy directing its workers to ignore the law -- a provision that advocates say prevents so-called "sanctuary" orders that police not inquire about people's immigration status.

The bill cements the position of Arizona, whose border with Mexico is the most popular point of entry for illegal immigrants into this country, as the state most aggressively using its own laws to fight illegal immigration. In 2006 the state passed a law that would dissolve companies with a pattern of hiring illegal immigrants. Last year it made it a crime for a government worker to give improper benefits to an illegal immigrant.

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This is truly it. It's amazing that it takes a bill to do it. No legislation should be necessary, really.

Originally Posted by Jeanfromfillmore

Brewer, a Republican, has not taken a public stance on the bill. She replaced Janet Napolitano, a Democrat who became President Obama's Homeland Security chief last year. Napolitano had vetoed similar bills in the past. Brewer faces a primary challenge next month; most observers expect her to sign the measure.

Some Republicans have privately complained about the bill, which Pearce has been pushing for several years, but were loath to vote against in an election year. The House was scheduled to approve it last week but the vote was delayed until Tuesday to give sponsors a chance to round up enough votes. It picked up steam after the killing late last month of a rancher on the Arizona side of the Mexican border. Footprints from the crime scene led back to Mexico.

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Originally Posted by Jeanfromfillmore

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...,4677282.story

Arizona House passes immigration bill

The Arizona House of Representatives passed a sweeping immigration bill Tuesday that would give police broad powers to arrest illegal immigrants, require immigrants to carry valid papers, and make it a misdemeanor to pick up and transport undocumented day laborers and migrants.

Senate Bill 1070 now goes back the Arizona Senate, which previously passed the measure and now must approve the House changes. The House version includes language exempting people who drive migrants to church or provide emergency services from being prosecuted.
Republicans supporting the bill say it would help combat illegal immigration and Mexican drug cartels in the state. The bill also would require police to enforce immigration laws.

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How can they get away with a passage exempting people who are driving some cockroach to church? Next you'll see that everybody hauling illegals will just say they were driving them to church. And meanwhile the rotten churches will be housing the same scum. Isn't this a violation of the seperation of church and state?

Originally Posted by Jeanfromfillmore

At a morning news conference, a group representing clergy and business denounced Senate Bill 1070, Sen. Russell Pearce's wide-ranging illegal immigration bill and tiptoed up to the edge of calling the Mesa senator a modern-day Hitler.

Among other things, the bill would require local law enforcement to determine a person's immigration status if the officer has "reasonable suspicion" to think the individual is in the country illegally.

It also attempts to prevent day laborers, by making it a misdemeanor both to solicit work from a roadway and to hire someone who is doing so and creates a misdemeanor offense if someone transports, or attempts to transport, an illegal immigrant when the driver knows the individual is in the country illegally.

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They say the bill's provision would harm the state's economy by forcing households with even one person here illegally to leave, would clog the courts with numerous lawsuits and put police in a no-win position of having to choose between ignoring a law that requires them to check the immigration status of almost anyone they stop or risking charges of racial profiling.

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Asked who he was referring to, Bailey declined to name names. Instead, he read a psychological profile of Adolph Hitler and told those gathered at a news conference "I allow you to draw your own conclusion."

Pearce rejected such comments as "name calling" and predicted his bill will pass.

"We're prepared, and we'll prevail," he said.

The House is scheduled to begin debate on the matter at 1:30 p.m.; a formal vote is expected later this afternoon. If it passes, it will go to Gov. Jan Brewer for her consideration.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at 12:32 PM

Always remember when people make the Adolph Hitler allusions, that Adolph Hitler was an illegal immigrant in Germany from Austria who gained entry to Germany by being a veteran of WWI, a war that Germany did not start, but was started by Austria.