To that end, Arizona has enacted a law that would have the police stop, if they have “Probable Cause,” anyone suspected of being in the country illegally. This law has caused pro-athletes and many in the entertainment industry to call for a boycott of anything that would benefit the state of Arizona. But with all the clarion shouts of racism, no one has stopped to ask why the law was enacted; no one has conveyed that a vast majority of Arizonians wanted this law.
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[/caption]Apparently, the final straw for the people of Arizona that pushed them into enacting and passing this law was the murder of one of its citizens. For all the talk of racism by the critics of the law, no one seemed to have any empathy for the murdered man or the fact that he left behind a teenager - I hope this isn’t because he was white. No one addresses the rampant kidnapping taking place in Arizona; many, carried out by illegal aliens. We have not even covered the violent crimes borne out of drug trafficking and the fact that all the attendant expenses of these manifold problems must be paid for from the coffers of Arizona.
The state simple does not have the money and for the Obama administration to be chastising Arizona on the passage of this law without ponying up the money… smacked of a “De facto unfunded mandate.” It is not like Arizona does not have a template to look at to see the results of having an opened border-the economic basket case that is California is rather conspicuous. Many of the pro-athletes and entertainers are asking for a boycott and some are even saying that they will not play in the baseball All Star Game-they must be very careful. As recently as yesterday, the reliable Pew Research polling showed that a vast majority of the nation supports the Arizona law.
I will suggest to these pro-athletes and entertainers to look at those in the majority who patronize basketball, football, and entertainment-what if said majority supports this law. For if this is the case, I hope that these pro-athletes and entertainers have the courage of their convictions. It is true that might is not always right and that the majority could be wrong (Slavery)…but I know too that there is the tyranny of the minority.
I have heard all the excuses why our Mexican brothers and sisters deserve special treatment: we are told that they have a chronic case of the work ethic, but so too are other immigrants. And for too long, we have watched immigrants from south of the border hurdle those who were here before them...and receiving all the benisons (def: benisons) of citizenship. We are also told how Arizona, Texas… California were once owned by Mexico-So what! Should the Russians have carte blanche over Alaska because they sold it to us for a song; what of Denmark that sold us the Virgin Islands or the French who did the same vis-à-vis Louisiana-all these were bad real estate deals for the sellers.
Another aspect that is ignored by the critics of the Arizona law is the fact that Mexico has very restrictive border policies to protect it from immigrants from poorer, neighboring countries. What if many Americans decided to live in Mexico and demanded that they speak English to accommodate them or insisted that they fly the American flag during an important holiday, like Cinco De Mayo? Many of us are privy to what is written on our Statue of Liberty, authored by the poet Emma Lazarus, which states in part, “…Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free….” This is all noble, but we can no longer afford to support the masses. If you think that this is not so, ask the “Governator”.
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