Fight Illegal Immigration: Buy from Arizona
By now, it is common knowledge that Republican Governor Jan Brewer recently signed a bill into law making illegal immigration, well, illegal in Arizona. Her goal was to enable local and state law enforcement agents to enforce statutes that the federal government is supposed to enforce but doesn’t.
In other words, Arizonans are doing the jobs federal officials won’t do.
Although national polls demonstrate an approximate 70% approval rating for the steps Arizona has taken to curtail illegal immigration, Al Sharpton sensed an opportunity for free television time and called for a boycott of Arizona. Since then, many others have lent their voices to the chorus of individuals and groups calling for Arizona to be punished.
And while Sharpton’s impact on Arizona’s economy will probably prove negligible at best, school districts and city councils within cities like Denver, San Diego, Los Angeles, and Boston are hoping their varied resolutions against Arizona will have some affect.
For example, Denver Public Schools “banned all district-sponsored work-related travel to Arizona [because of] the state’s new identity-document law.” Boston’s City Council “approved a resolution [urging] the city to curtail economic ties with Arizona by pulling investments, ending city contracts and halting purchasing agreements to protest” the bill Brewer signed. And the Los Angeles “City Council voted 13-1 to bar Los Angeles from conducting business with Arizona unless the law is repealed.”
While the Los Angeles boycott could be significant, as that city has some $58 million in investments in the state of Arizona, some of the other boycotts around the country may hurt the boycotters worse than they will hurt Arizona. (The Highland Park, Illinois, girls’ basketball team is a case in point here.)
Yet it’s the principle behind these boycotts that’s so troublesome.
The saddest thing about all these “boycotts” is many of the groups proposing them are local governments who should be worried more about their local problems, rather than the affairs of another state. California has been fairly typical of such things, especially such cities as San Francisco and Los Angeles.
On top of that, why such outcry to prevent ENFORCEMENT OF FEDERAL LAW? What the hell is wrong with these people that following the law becomes less important than “protection” of illegals?
I don’t need a gun, holster, or ice cream. I want to do something and would like to send money to AZ as a contribution to the state coffers. Can you post a Paypal account for the AZ government where I can send money? Thx.
You forgot one other thing: we can engage in a counter-boycott against the boycotters, by not visiting the cities and states that are boycotting Arizona. And when their baseball teams come to play, let’s not go to that game.
Best suggestion yet!
Great post. I saw that Arizonans are already staging a counter boycott against San Diego via tourism. AP reported that a large number of Arizonans canceled business meetings and vacations in San Diego when their city council pulled the plug on Arizona.
Visit or buy from Arizona!!! greatest of ideas!!
Give your business to J&G Sales in Prescott, AZ: http://www.jgsales.com/
J&G Sales in an awesome Arizona company. Thanks for the reminder.
NOT EVERYONE NEEDS MORE AMMUNITION…
Anne, you can never have too much ammo. Especially given current events.
OK, Annie, you’re right. Buy some Arizona jalapeno jelly & other delicacies:
http://www.arizonagift.com/food_innov.htm
If Congress, Obama, and his administration were doing a proper job of securing the southern border the new AZ law would have been completely unnecessary.
I’m thinking those who rant and rave about the possibility of racial profiling haven’t thought this thing through very well. What’s up with this racial profiling anyway? We know what a Mexican looks like,,, someone needs to get a clue. It’s all about not speaking any English, not having auto insurance, not having a drivers license, not, not, not, etc., etc. What are they going to boycott if Washington eventually secures the border and starts the wholesale deportation of illegals? That puts an entirely different light on things as clearly Obama can do no wrong in the eyes of these uberlibs. Of course, I don’t expect to see any of that in my lifetime. Another example of not thinking things through is the possibility of AZ pulling the plug on the electrical grids supplying southern CA with a third of their AC power in retaliation for the proposed boycott. I’d love to see that happen.
As a resident of another border state with similar illegal immigrant problems, (Texas), I completely support Arizona in her efforts to curtail the flow of criminals (that’s why they are called “Illegals”) crossing into AZ. It’s high time the states take action if the Feds won’t, or can’t, do the job. Right now the USA is this giant candy store stocked with all manner of goodies just for the taking, and the American taxpayer if footing the bill. We need to get this under control.
Many Texans living in the south part of the state are stocking up on guns and ammo, if the Federal government won’t protect us, we will do whatever is necessary to keep our families safe. You can count on it.
We totally agree!!! Our state is looking at a law similar to AZ. We have a problem and the people in power in Washington don’t seem to care. So,..we need to handle things ourselves..
I would like to place Pelosi, Obama etc out in a border town to live for a while, with no guards.
These people have abandoned America, we need to abandon them.
Visit or buy from Arizona!!!!!!
Hey Texas check out a map of the USA of 1835.Texans took Texas from Mexico in an armed revolt. The Mexicans are reoccupying the lost teritory one person at a time.
And Mexico took it from Spain, who took it from various Indian tribes, who took it from various OTHER Indian tribes, ad nauseum…..
exactly
Healy55, Texas was Mexican territory in 1835 because they inherited it from Spain after their revolution. It was Mexican territory for just 15 years and was home to very, very few Mexicans. The vast majority of the Mexican people lived south of the deserts and mountains that form interior northern Mexico. Mexico invited Anglo settlers because the land was so sparsely settled. The Americans obliged. The Texans were the ones who defeated the Mexican army with no help from the US and we formed our own nation with the help of a number of Mexicans. Remember, it was another 9 years before we would become a part of the US. Get your history right. The US had no involvement with Texan independence save for the fact that it was US citizens who rebelled against Mexico because the government was so far removed from the state and did nothing to protect their interests. Maybe if the MExican government had been more responsive to the settlers in the far away Estado de Texas we would still be Mexican today. Kinda like if they cared about their citizens and their needs so much maybe they’d be content to live thier rather than leaving family to come here. Some things never change!
A subscription to the magazine Arizona Highways would be a good way to show support.
Go Arizona
All this cemented my vacation plans this year. I’ve never been to the Grand Canyon, and I figure this is a good opportunity to do so.
We are headed to the Grand Canyon in 10 Days! We just stayed in Tucson, AZ three nights ago and loved it! GO Arizona!!
Canyon de Chelly is close to the Grand Canyon and is very nice. Look for Chinle on the map.
Having read the bill what struck me about it is that it is a message to stop ‘sanctuary’ policies by sworn officials who ignore immigration laws simply because they disagree with them and the bill provides that a citizen can sue any who do so. Officials are legally prevented from interfering with any process which would impede information leading to deportation.
To me, Americans have simply gone nuts and I have no understanding why any American would side against an entire state with people who are not only foreign national’s but in the country illegally to the tune of 12 million people.
Our government has sold the future of America down the river in a treasonous act to gerrymander the vote of people who are not American citizens which is unprecedented on this scale in American history.
Our politicians will have America bursting at the seams with people from the Third World whose own failed nations are not our problem but which some Americans have a misguide compassion for. They would not feel this way if they knew how culturally self-centered Latinos are in Latin America or if they knew how the population explosion there is off the charts.
I guess when we have the population of India with the attendant shanty towns but with Latino style gang warfare which has already begun, then those same people who enabled it can blithely look on as entire cities are engulfed in violence whose scale will be unprecedented in American history; a civil war but over nothing and the result of endemic failure in Latin American culture. There are gangs all over Latin America but with no European Americans to blame it is obvious that the charge that it is institutional racism to blame for the state of black and Latino areas in the US is a hollow blame game to cover up an obsession with incompetence.
Brazil has 4 times the number of blacks as America in terms of percentage yet far fewer in the Federal Government and Congress yet the President is calling for a boycott of racist Arizona. Unbelievable.
Excellent points.
Let’s see if I understand this correctly; there are about 500 Sureño Hispanic gangs in Los Angeles County alone, and someone on the LA City Counsel wants to chastise AZ for not wanting this activity?
Amazing~!
It’s not that the people are from Mexico (or Honduras or any other nation). It’s that the border is porous and we don’t know who the h*ll is coming across it. It’s that the USA has an immigration policy; It requires application and approval and then controlled entry. By allowing illegals in our country we are being unfair to those who have followed the process and are waiting.
Arizona and every other state has a right to uphold federal law. They have a right and duty to protect the US citizens within their borders, especially when the federal government turns a blind eye.
Now the head of ICE has said they will not process anyone caught and turned in by Arizona. This has to be impeachable since it is the federal government’s JOB to protect the borders – not purchase auto companies, banks, insurance companies, force Americans to purchase health insurance and provide underpasses for turtles.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!
3 years ago, I moved to Arkansas (from California) to get away from the bullshi* politics of the LA/San Francisco idiot league.
Now, I am one of those enduring the “normal” immigration process for my British (read WELSH) husband. He has been waiting in Britain for nearly a year and a half as we navigate the documentation and fee issues involved in getting him here LEGALLY.
When he does FINALLY COME HOME to his USA-born wife and stepchild, where do you think we will be taking him on vacation?
TO THE GREAT STATE OF ARIZONA!!!
SCREW the boycotters.
Pull the plug on their power and hear them change their tune.
BTW – does anybody know if / where I can find aerial photos or video of the areas used daily by illigal immigrants?
America, welcome to the Third World!
You have now an scape-goat like all the third-world countries to blame for your own failures. Get rid of your illegal immigrants and your economy will improve.
What’s next? When is the Kristalnacht starting?
Right, because enforcing immigration laws equals Kristallnacht.
Anyway, in this story, there’s already a third-world country scapegoating another country for all its own failures. It’s called Mexico.
In that case, what do you think of Mexico’s own immigration laws?
* All foreigners in Mexico must keep their papers on them at all times and present them to law enforcement officials upon request (sounds like Arizona, doesn’t it?)
* Each foreigner visiting Mexico gets a unique tracking number.
See the General Law of Population (as translated by Google) if ya don’t believe me.
Then there’s the troublesome portions of the Mexican Constitution which, among other provisions, has some that relegate naturalized citizens to a secondary status behind native-born citizens, including:
* Article 32 bars naturalized citizens of Mexico from becoming military officers, as well as permanently barring people who were not born in Mexico from other positions.
* Article 55 states that naturalized Mexican citizens cannot be federal lawmakers.
* Article 91 bans non-Mexican-born citizens from being cabinet secretaries.
* Article 95 says that naturalized Mexican citizens can’t be supreme court justices.
And, worst of all:
* Article 33 says:
So, if the Arizona law is Kristallnacht, what are all these Mexican laws?
“It’s not about Right vs Left, Liberal vs. Conservative, Republican vs. Democrat . It’s about supporting the US Constitution”
Will order a Dbacks hat today. Great article.
Thank you, Patrick, (3) and Larry (6)
Hard to boycott spectator sports I don’t follow anyway, but I’m signing up for the magazine and talking to my friends who DO follow baseball.
Make sure no one confuses supporting the Phoenix Suns with supporting Arizona. The Suns have been vocal in their opposition to the illegal immigration law. Go the route Hawkins suggested and buy Dbacks hats and shirts instead.
Here’s a database for the Arizona BuyCott! Search by city!
ORDER SOMETHING & LET THEM KNOW WHY!!!
Arizona Business Directory
You will find webpages from all of your local restaurant’s with full delivery menus, local services, local news, retailers, contractor’s, government links and more. Simply choose a category or scroll down to view the complete listing. You may also click on any business logo throughout the directory to go directly to their website. Enjoy Arizona at your finger tips!!
http://www.resourcelinks.net/indexaz.htm
Get a clue Aslki. We are all for LEGAL immigration and the rule of law. We are against ILLEGAL immigrants and lawlessness.
We are against leeches who receive all the benefits of America but only contribute to suppression of wages, to rocketing medical costs to pay for their free care. Who only contribute 10s of billions of dollars sent back to the failed countries that still hold their allegiances.
We are against the disproportionate percentage of illegal immigrants that are murderers, rapists, thieves and kidnappers that come across because they have a new more affluent class of victims in the US. We are against those criminals that find that it is easy to escape justice by jumping back and forth across our porous boarders.
We are for people who enter the US legally, who pay taxes and aspire to be Americans. We are for those who want something better for their children and know they get it by being in a land of laws and by following those laws.
to #8 James May –
It is all about the Democrats giving amnesty to over 10 million illegal aliens. They have calculated that 80% of that 10 million will vote for Democrats in elections. That means 8 million potential Democrat voters and 2 million potential Republican voters. That is a margin of 6 million Democrat votes. Now, the rate of voting is only about 50%, so the real margin is about 3 million Democrat likely voters. Still, if the Democrats can just keep the borders open for more illegal immigration, they can gain 3 more votes for every 10 illegals that enter the country between now and when they grant amnesty for illegals. Democrats are not gone nuts, they are cold calculating people, for whom politics is religion, and they can see how much trouble they are in right now. That makes all these illegal aliens that much more important to them this year. They hate the Arizona law, strictly because it could put a small damper on the number of illegals that will cross the border this year. Democrats wanted to do another midnight Saturday night vote to give amnesty to illegals before the election, and now thanks to Arizona’s new law, the issue is front and center and they won’t be able to give amnesty without the people noticing and getting hurt in the upcoming election. Still, for the long haul, they will always push for amnesty for illegals. That is why Obama has been so glib about Arizona’s law. Misrepresent a law enough times and people will start to believe you, especially when the news media just supplies a bull horn for Democrat collectivist misrepresentations. If Obama can turn public opinion against this law, he can grant amnesty to illegals without getting hurt politically for doing it. Plus, he would get his extra 3+ million votes on election day.
This is precisely why Democrats passed the Washington DC residents voting in federal elections amendment(along with 3 electoral votes). The usual margin in DC is that about 75% of DC residents will vote for Democrats and this is a virtual lock on three electoral votes in every presidential election.
This is also precisely why Democrats lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 years back in the 1970′s. 80% of people between 18 and 21 years old vote for Democrats. Even though there are only about 5 million 18-21 year old ‘adults’ who actually vote, this translates to another 3 million votes on the Democrat side.
For many years, Democrats opposed voting rights for women, until they discovered that females are generally, more collectivist in their voting habits than men. Then, they were all in for women voting in federal elections.
For socialists, life is always about politics and group think, and Democrats are mostly socialists. We can hurt them in the upcoming election, but we will never stop them from their pursuit of ‘social justice’ and all that other collectivist claptrap. We will always have to fight to keep our individual freedoms.
Okay, I am out of gas now. What say you?
Nobody needs to buy California wines.
Don’t forget about Dillon Precision.
http://dillonprecision.com
Is the LA city council legislation constitutional? Last time I checked, the US Constitution’s commerce clause gave the federal government responsibility regulation of interstate trade and prohibited most state and local laws restricting interstate trade.
I have no problem with Sharpton calling for a private boycott, but local legislation targeting trade with other states is out of line.
Of course, for Democrats, if they think something is “right”, they don’t care if it is constitutional.
You make an excellent point! What LA proposes is probably illegal…but then so are illegal aliens.
Already ahead of you.
Boycotts are usually more symbolic than effective. Look at how the boycott of sponsors of the Glenn Beck show worked out. Yup…got him right off the air! Oh wait…you mean his audience has increased by over 20% since last year? Never mind.
Try to boycott China sometime. Good luck. It’s damn hard to find any fastener at a hardware store that was not made in China or consumer electronics or hand tools or even dog toys. I’ll boycott California right up to the point where I want an artichoke or an avocado. Boycotts are stupid. They are the economic equivalent of a child’s temper tantrum if they don’t get their way.
With LA it’s pretty serious. We’re looking at $58M in contracts. I like Arizona’s response…OK, we’ll refuse to sell you electricity. With the city of Austin or Boston it’s pretty silly.
George Washington did not like political parties because they foster loyalty to the party rather than the nation. The insidious scheme of the Demoncrats to get the illegals to join their party demonstrates exactly what Washington warned against.
Vacation in Arizona this summer. There are many activities for anyone who likes the outdoors. I have not seen more beautiful scenery than can be found there. Plus, the weather is nice nearly all of the time.
If Mexican nationals were half as passionate about marching and demonstrating to their government as they are to ours, perhaps they could reform their own country and not condemn future generations in Mexico to have to leave their homeland to seek greener pastures elsewhere. After all, there is nothing wrong with Mexico that can’t be fixed. There are no famines, pestilence, earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, despot dictators with torture and rape rooms or ethnic cleansing going on. What there is in Mexico includes abundant resources, tremendous coastlines, a general belief in the principles of capitalism and a favorable climate.
So what are the driving forces behind illegal immigration? Brace yourselves for the answers because they are not politically correct:
1. Mexico’s ruling elite know that the easiest solution to their poverty problem is to export it northward. In return, money pours into their country and into their pockets from Mexican nationals working in the U.S. All it costs the elites is some support for sympathetic politicians and lobby groups like La Raza. Meanwhile, they enforce their own draconian immigration laws on their Guatemalan border.
2. Mexican citizens know that it is easier to sneak into a willing U.S. than to foment change in their own country. But contrary to left wing dogma, the immigrants are not all nannies and gardeners just looking for a better life. Many are part of various criminal elements that are coming here to “trim some fat” from America. This is evidenced by the reluctance to learn English, the tendency not to assimilate and rising crime and incarceration rates in border states. Past demonstrators carried the Mexican flag instead of the American flag in front of the television cameras until they found out it wasn’t helping their cause.
3. Many Mexicans don’t recognize the border with Mexico because they believe that the southwestern United States belongs to Mexico and was taken wrongfully from them. Through the Reconquista movement, they hope to eventually reclaim the southwest by virtue of sheer numbers. The area will still be under United States sovereignty with the full benefit of all U.S. government perks, but the socio-economic control of the region will be from south of the border. At that point don’t look for La Raza to become as sympathetic to the plight of Guatemalans or El Salvadorians as Americans were to them.
4. In their lust for cheap labor, unscrupulous employers in the U.S. have created modern-day slaves out of illegal immigrants. They argue that if they had to pay American wages and benefits, they would have to pass the costs on to the consumer. Well the consumer is paying anyway in terms of all the government expense and social ills associated with massive uncontrolled illegal immigration.
5. Politicians have little regard for the welfare, safety or standard of living of American citizens if they can gain voting control over a huge new underclass. Besides, if they can get the newcomers to pay into the Social Security system it could perhaps postpone its inevitable collapse by another decade.
6. Most corporate business models assume perpetual growth. Without millions of prolific newcomers buying goods and services added to the equation, CEO’s might have to revise their profit projections downward.
Guilt-ridden liberals feel like it’s our fault that Mexico doesn’t have the same standard of living that is found in America and won’t hesitate to play the race card in the name of social justice. In reality they will only succeed in lowering America’s standard of living to third-world status and tax middle-class America, including legal immigrants, out of existence. Either we allow unlimited immigration from Guatemala, Haiti, Darfur and every other country, or we secure both our borders and control legal immigration. It’s not fair to play favorite with Mexico because just because their lobby has the most influence with our politicians. Finally, middle American taxpayers have no advocates for them in this battle over illegal immigration and have only themselves to rely on.
We live in L.A. County. Even though the nearest stores are 18 miles away we drive approx. 33 miles into San Bernardino County to shop for 2 reasons: 1) the sales tax is 1/4% lower (I know, big deal!) and 2) we deprive the onerous L.A. County of the revenue – and that’s the satisfaction part!
http://www.phoenixrally.com
My new wife is from the Phillipines and has lived in California before moving here last year. She has been bugging me to take a weekend trip to see Austin, the state capitol.
Well we both agree that is out and we are planning our trip to the Grand Canyon instead.
BTW she is a green card legal immigrant. You really should hear her vieww on illegals and amnesty, after the thousands of dollars in legal fees and papwerwork she has had to deal with.
The chicken-sh!+ Seattle City Council made a resolution to boycott Arizona. Of course they exempted the Arizona company that they are paying to take care of their red-light cameras.
Did you catch the news from two days ago. A woman getting off the Community Transit bus at 238th & Hwy 99 in Edmonds, WA (across the county line from Seattle/King County) was acosted by an illegal and raped behind the Safeway store? The cops literally caught him with his pants down and called ICE! If it had happened in Seattle, would it be politically incorrect to get immigration involved?
Seems they would have helped him pull up his pants and reprimanded her for luring him behind the building.
According to an Idaho news broadcast, the rapist has already been deported 4 times! This occured 3-4 miles from where I live. I frequently ride that same bus. It happened just across the county line from Seattle/King County, sanctuary governments.
http://www.kirotv.com/news/23596443/detail.html
NWCN is reporting that this man was actually deported 9 times
I agree that AZ should cut off Mexifornia’s electricity.
We can just buy electricity from someone else. It hurts Arizona more because they would not get the revenue. Go ahead, bring it on. AZ will be groveling for crumbs soon enough.
If you are serious about Los Angeles buying their electricity from someone else then talk to the Los Angeles City Council. The city through its department of Water and Power OWNS 5.7% of the Palo Verde nuclear power plant in Arizona. If they are serious about their boycott, they should vote to divest themselves of this ownership and the 5.7% of the 3.2 gigawatts it puts out. Heck they could probably make a profit on the sale and provide more services to their own illegal immigrants with the money. That is putting your money where your mouth is.
Seems CA is well on it’s way down the welfare rabbit hole and are blustering to keep the attention diverted from their situation right in their own back yard..
Once again, I will say that there is no legal or moral problem with a state passing any law that it sees fit to pass. I am no fan of the far, business right, but I find myself leaning more toward the popular right lately, do I need medication? It is called democracy. The left should back off and allow democracy to take its course. This is America, and States do have some rights…left.
God bless Arizona !!
You can order Sheriff Joe Merchandise to support his volunteer posse. It should be available online via his website. Even without the new law Sheriff Joe has sent more than 38,000 illegals over to ICE for deportation and prosecuted thousands more for more criminal acts related to drugs, identity theft, rape and murder, burglaries and others. Activists and Feds have been following his deputies for more than two years to entrap him on some civil rights charge, but have failed. Pink underwear is a popular merchandise item.
I will not spend ONE SINGLE DIME for any product or service coming out of California or any other city or entity boycotting Arizona.
I WILL look first in Arizona for any goods and services I need.
Progressives (socialists-Marxists) have been using this “boycott hammer” for too long and getting away with it. It’s time to give them a massive dose of their own fecal medicine.
BOYCOTT THE BOYCOTTERS!!! PUNISH THESE MALEVOLENT COCKROACHES!!!
Thanks for the list! Now I know where NOT to do business. Sadly, I won’t be eating at P.F. Chang’s anymore even though it’s close to my school. Much of the business at that particular location is from students, especially at lunchtime. I’m going to put up flyers all over campus and try to put them out of business (I’ll really miss the Ma Po Tofu though). Arizona has nothing Ca. needs. Time to bring down the hammer on the fascists.
@Praetorian:
First of all, the only reason you seem to be so hateful is more than likely because you have no idea what is in the law AZ just passed. It mirrors the federal law that is already in place. The President of Phoenix law enforcement union has said you will see absolutely no difference in law enforcement because unless someone is doing something illegal, this won’t be an issue. Because this is already federal law (not being enforced, you are calling our federal goverment fascists as well. It may be time for a move for you if that is how you really feel. Read the bill before you get all hateful and nasty.
Secondly, go ahead and boycott. Guess what, there is a ton of support for AZ out there. Read the bloggs, check out the articles. There is much more dismay for LA, San Diego, San Francisco and Seattle than there is for AZ. The people boycotting AZ are the ones that are hurting the same people they are saying they are protecting. Who do you think works the jobs at the hotels, restaurants, etc??? BTW, AZ doesn’t need anything CA has either. San Diego is already very aware that their tourism is 60% or more from AZ. Sorry Shamu, the Zonies aren’t coming this year.
Maybe you could have an open mind for a minute to try and really understand the issue. This is not about racism, it is about economics and national security. Do you understand US citizens have the right to be protected? If you think that it is just Mexican citizens coming across the border, think again. See this video and see if you still feel it is OK to let anyone and everyone walk across our borders into the US. Remember 9/11 and realize it could happen again: http://www.wsbtv.com/video/23438021/
Try to understand also that as a US citizen, I am dead broke because my taxes keep going up to pay for free education, free school lunches, free medical care/emergency room care, free police/fire services, free attorneys/jail/prison for people that are not paying into the system (illegal immigrants). It doesn’t matter what country they are from, it is bleeding me dry. People have had enough. There is a legal way to get into this country and it needs to be enforced.
“Arizona has nothing Ca. needs.”
Except most of its water and a quarter of its electricity.
“Fascists” my ass. Take your juvenile namecalling back to 1968.
Praetorian, this is a sad uneducated post. You should demand a refund from your failed school and find a real school. Find a school that will educate you on what fascism really is and why the rule of law is the fundamental bulwark against dictators.
It is absolutely outrageous and beyond belief that tax-payer supported agencies/institutions (public schools, city councils) are using their power to make political statements by encouraging boycotting AZ. It is astonishingly egregious, an arrogant abuse of power and should be outlawed. The citizens of cities that are doing this should vote the scoundrels out. GO AZ!!!
Sorry if this has already been posted, but here’s a Wiki list of companies based in Arizona.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Companies_based_in_Arizona
Dear Praetorian – ever wonder why you are a schoolboy? Is it because since you have never experienced the real world you know so little and are trying to learn? Trying to become educated? Fat chance. Indoctrinated but not educated.
There is an old saying ‘if you are not liberal by age twenty you have no heart; if you are still liberal by the time you are thirty, you have no brain’. Let us hope you grow up, and by the time you are thirty, grow a brain. To the extent, at least, to be able to understand words like ‘law’ and ‘illegal’.
Praetorian is a nice moniker, but please ……….. you and the rest of your Guard ……….. don’t ever try to defend my nation. Please.
The troubling thing is there is no principles behind the boycotts. It is a broken bankrupt narrative based on a bankrupt agenda based on a corrupt and evil doctrine created to destroy America.
Arizona’s Sovereignty is anathema to everything of the narrative of the left.
To me it is nothing but BS and propaganda, and I’m by far not alone.
Go Arizona!Champions of the rule of law and constitution.
Bravo!
Bravo!
You folk in Arizona Rock!
In order to test Los Angeles’ politicians commitment to whatever they are committed to, we should donate $79.20 (cost of Greyhound bus ticket from Phoenix to Los Angeles) to provide safe one-way transportation from Arizona to California for illegals. We could shell out another $50 per illegal immigrant as additional incentive and cover a few lunches. Better yet, we can charter buses from Arizona-based business. Everybody wins! (except for the rest of us Americans that have to pay for California bankruptcy.).
Wouldn’t it be interesting to see California stopping the buses on the border and turn them away? I wonder how many Californians will contribute to this campaign. Go Arizona!
You could also ante up a little more to send them to Princeton, NJ. That city has started issuing ID cards to ANYONE (including illegals) who want one. According to FoxNews, these ID cards look almost identical to a driver license, with one significant difference – the name and phone # of a translator on the back of the card.
What is this country coming to?
Arizona ice tea
Powerful cartoon at http://drawfortruth.wordpress.com/category/politics/ using wrestling metaphors as the “tag team” of President Obama and Calderon “Body Slams” America over Immigration . . . all while the Democrats applaud.
Go to these additional sites to support AZ by signing petitions or joining the cause:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/4/support-arizona-and-enforce-immigration-laws/574779564/taf
http://securetheborder.org/
http://www.borderinvasionpics.com/Invasion.html
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fis.gd%2FbGou3&h=9a4c3
http://www.facebook.com/StandWithArizona
Nervy News #5: Felipe Calderon
It’s common courtesy for a guest invited into someone’s home to be gracious, non-judgemental, and not contumely. Similarly, it’s common sense that the homeowner also not tolerate rude and insulting behavior on the part of said guest.
The President of Mexico has been visiting the White House–the American peoples’ house–and he engaged in notably un-diplomatic behavior, markedly rude behavior, and the current caretaker of our house thought so little of his fellow countrymen that he refused to call him on it.
In a joint, two question, press conference in the Rose Garden on Wednesday, President Felipe Calderon criticized the Arizona law on illegal immigrants. “Many of them, [illegals whom he prefers to call “migrants”] despite their significant contribution to the economy and to the society of the United States, still live in the shadows and, occasionally, as in Arizona, they even face discrimination,” Calderon said.
Instead of defending Arizonans and politely suggesting Calderon had outworn his welcome by attacking the law of a sovereign state which happens to mirror United States’ statutes, the caretaker concurred with the Mexican leader and spoke of a possible civil rights suit against Arizona: http://tiny.cc/14afv . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1693)
At least some of the reasons given by opponents of Arizona’s action sound like those of slave-holders before the Civil War. Read Richard Land’s comments (Southern Baptist Ethics Committee). He says something needs to be done about illegal immigration, but essentially he doesn’t want to see any realistic action because it will remove the cheap labor force we capitalize on, here in the US.
So where’s the Latino sob sisters who are so damned worried about the illegals who could be doing those telethons to raise money for their ‘poor, downtrodden’ brethren? Why don’t we hear about these entertainers doing telethons to raise funds to help their illegal brethren gain citizenship or leastwise get green cards? The main thing is the Bottom Line. I do NOT for the life of me understand why these apparently uneducated in Economics but elected officials like the mayor of LA, I don’t understand why they don’t get it about how they got into such a deep hole of debt in the first place and how to get out of it. I don’t understand LOGIC and sanity when it comes to Budgetary matters. I don’t understand all this insanity anyways. It is sooo sad to have elected officials who won’t enforce law but expect everyone else to obey the law. It’s just plain unacceptable. What is going on that these people are so gung-ho to be treasonous and divisive instead of paying attention and remedying the problems of their own states/cities/governments? And if that Obama pushes ‘comprehensive immigration’ which will more than likely include amnesty (WRONG), won’t it be about time to start a movement to impeach a president who spends too much time sucking up to folks who would rather have us dead, and to social systems that are draining this country of all manner of resources? Where’s all the jobs for all these people? Where’s all the money for social services for all these illegals and endless supply of mega families of the muslim social organization? And one more thing. Why is it Obama apparently can only go visit states in the midwest and northeast but do you ever see him down here in the SouthWest talking with anyone other than an elected official? Do you ever see him talking with REAL people who live in the border counties or the ranchers who put up with illegals traversing their property? Do you ever see Obama talking with REAL people who have to deal with all manner of illegal immigration issues? And why does he have such a problem with enforcing FEDERAL law? Is HE such a fraud himself?
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What will it take for the federal government to actually enforce their own immigration laws on our southern border? I imagine it will take an organized group of terrorists who sneak across the border individually, reform stateside, and then commit a very startling act of terror. That might get Washington’s attention. Unfortunately, it will be too late, especially for those law abiding Americans who might be the victims of the act of terrorism described above.
Reagan;
Acts of violence and terrorism occur almost daily along the unguarded portion of our southern border.
This from yesterday’s news:
http://www.thefoxnation.com/international/2010/05/21/drug-crazed-mexican-pirates-terrorize-texas-boaters
People are getting fed up with an unresponsive and misguided Federal government.
Mexicans are running from their beloved country like a “house on fire”. Air drop maps to SF , Austin etc around the border and a Spanish translation of their sanctuary polices. Offer the ones they pick up a stay at Sheriff Joe’s facility or a chartered bus to SF etc as a way to save on jail costs. Let SF and ICE work it out .
Krystalnacht already occured with federal interference for the sake of the children where the DOJ slaughtered 83 branch davidians, men women and children.
Brewer’s next step should be to cut the 30% of electricity that we supply to California – just another resource that those people suck dry.
Hilarious. I remember distinctly something else Palin recently said [but hasn't said in a month or so], let me see…what was it? Oh yeah, “drill baby drill”. Keep following her advice. If we can get rid of Louisiana and Arizona in one stroke then its possible that we can get Palin to destroy the rest of the more brain damaged states.
Sarah Palin has a mouth big enough to swallow all the oil spilled in the Gulf.
Vivo, since you obviously think the law is unfair, you can still help. Just adopt a family of ‘undocumented immigrants’ and pay for the expenses that they can’t or won’t cover. Since you and so many like you want to believe that the illegals pull their own weight, it should just be a formality. C’mon, man up!
53 VIVO : You have a brain small enough to be used for research into sub-atomic particles,..or to criticize the Arizona anti invasion law.
BOYCOTT ALL TOURISM TO MEXICO!VISIT ARIZONA!
Boston, Denver, LA, NY:Unlivable,bankrupt Libtard madhouses,populated by the emigree village idiots from the heartland,welfare dependent bread and circus democrats, (native and imported) and Islamic terrorists.Who cares what they think or do? Red States should give all the invaders a one -way trip to one of these pestholes,and then secede!
#51″ PRINCIPAL” LEVINE Principal of what Levine?The Marxoid Luddite Institute for Mentally-Retarded Enviro-Wackos?.If we could drill on the mainland,or in shallower waters, we wouldn’t need to engage in risky drilling techniques.Turn in your Volvo hypocrite,and hire a mexican illegal to pull your rickshaw.
I did my bit, and I’m Canadian. Drove through Arizona a few weeks back, stayed a few nights, and bought a pair of cowboy boots in Sedona.
About a week ago, in Los Angeles, CA, there was a protest rally AGAINST the boycott on AZ. Of course, not a peep from the media. Think it was at the mayor’s office…though not 100% sure. Unfortunately, I didn’t find out about it until after the fact. Hmm…D’Backs play the Dodgers next week. Think I’ll be rooting for two teams…just for the occasion.
Illegal Immigrant Tip – Never Never Ever Never Speak Spanish
Hi Everyone. This email has been a long time coming. As of today I am going to be sending out tips of things that WE THE LITTLE PEOPLE can do on a day to day basis to make illegal immigration more difficult. So here goes with the first tip. This is the simplest of all the tips that I will be sending. But its the one tip that each and every one of you can do easily.
Tip #1: Refuse to speak Spanish under any circumstances, even if you are fluent. If someone tries to communicate with you in Spanish or by pointing or gesturing – just smile, shrug your shoulders and refuse to understand them (the French do this all the time!). You can be polite and still refuse. Never say “Gracias” to anyone. Say “I’m sorry but I don’t speak Spanish”. Say it over and over if necessary. Try it. Its liberating!! Remember they are in YOUR country.
More to follow………………………
Vicki Vail
Illegal Immigration – The Big Fat Magic Marker
Are you tired of seeing signs in English and Spanish? I am. Its disrespectful to Americans in our English speaking home. But there is something that you can do about it. Carry a large black magic marker with you. A Sharpie permanent marker works well. When you see a sign written in English and Spanish – black out the Spanish portion. Please exercise common sense – do not do this in airports or in hospitals or in situations that could cause physical harm to someone.
Stay tuned……
Vicki Vail
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