Karl Rove Speaks Out Against Arizona Immigration Law
Posted by Stephanie Condon
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20003631-503544.html#addcomm
Karl Rove, who served as chief political strategist for former President George W. Bush, is the latest Republican to speak out against Arizona's controversial new immigration law, the Orlando Sentinel reports.
"I think there is going to be some constitutional problems with the bill," Rove reportedly said at a senior community center in The Villages, Forida, where he made a stop on his book tour. "I wished they hadn't passed it, in a way."
Arizona's new law, signed by the governor on Friday, would require immigrants to carry documents verifying their immigration status. It would also require police officers to question a person about his or her immigration status if there is "reasonable suspicion" that person may be illegally in the country.
The law has created a challenge for Republicans who want to prove to their conservative base they are tough on immigration without alienating Latino voters, and a rift in the party has developed over how to respond to the law. Like Rove, GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) has questioned the constitutionality of the law, while Marco Rubio, the expected GOP Senate candidate in Florida, and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has expressed reservations about it. By contrast, Arizona's Republican Sen. John McCain has refrained from criticizing the new measure, while House Minority Leader John Boehner has said the state's preferences should be respected.
While McCain has called the law a "good tool," Rove by contrast, reportedly said, "At the end of the day ... I think there are better tools."
Rove, however, took issue with the notion that the law will lead to racial profiling, the Sentinel reports.
"These are modern police forces that respect the rights of people in their communities," Rove said. "They're going to do it on the basis of reasonable suspicion that these people are here illegally, like they're driving a car with a Mexican license plate or they can't speak English or they don't have a drivers license."
President Obama, meanwhile, has come out swinging against the law, arguing it will make it "really tough on people who look like they, quote, might be illegal immigrants."
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Monday, April 26, 2010
Children are Watching
by stopdainsanity2
When I entered kindergarten - I was put into a class for the mentally retarded (because I lived in a neighborhood with a growing population of families of mexican descent). My teacher assumed I did not speak English and required special bilingual support which was not available at the time. Yes - I was a Mexican-American citizen child.
It literally took 2 weeks for my parents to force the school to place me in the mainstream kindergarten class -- even though I could respond to questions in English. At the time if was easier for frustrated- overworked teachers (not bad people), who felt school district should have a place for spanish speaking children to learn (reasonable), to send me to the special needs class - no questions asked. Although the error was corrected, as a child I never lost the feeling I was not welcomed and somehow my rights as a citizen were not equal to those of white americans. Be careful - children are watching.
When I entered kindergarten - I was put into a class for the mentally retarded (because I lived in a neighborhood with a growing population of families of mexican descent). My teacher assumed I did not speak English and required special bilingual support which was not available at the time. Yes - I was a Mexican-American citizen child.
It literally took 2 weeks for my parents to force the school to place me in the mainstream kindergarten class -- even though I could respond to questions in English. At the time if was easier for frustrated- overworked teachers (not bad people), who felt school district should have a place for spanish speaking children to learn (reasonable), to send me to the special needs class - no questions asked. Although the error was corrected, as a child I never lost the feeling I was not welcomed and somehow my rights as a citizen were not equal to those of white americans. Be careful - children are watching.
Arizona immigration law: Are you listening, Mr. President?
Check this out from AZ Central..I feel for the citizens of AZ, but everyone needs to be responsible for their actions...if you feel a law is wrong...do not go along it just because you are frustrated...sounds like what german population said when asked why they went along with the nazi persecution of jews...so sad.
Laurie Roberts wrote:
Fifty three percent of likely Arizona voters are concerned that the state's tough new law targeting illegal immigrants will also be used to violate the civil rights of United States citizens.
The majority of them support it anyway.
Such is the state of the state of Arizona, where frustration is the official state emotion and our official nickname?
With one stroke of a pen it was changed Friday from Grand Canyon State to Police State.
What a shame that is has come to this.
All week long, in the lead up to Friday's signing of Senate Bill 1070, hysteria has mounted as a drop-jawed nation has watched and wondered what the heck is going on in Arizona.
From one side, we heard that we're a bunch of racists, headed the way of Nazis. From the other, we heard that anyone who objects to a law giving the police broad new powers to stop and question suspected illegal immigrants is an “anarchist” and perhaps worse (in Arizona, at least), a member of the open borders crowd.
Even the governor did her part to churn already roiling waters, declaring Thursday that “Arizona is being overrun by illegal immigrants terrorizing the citizens of the state of Arizona.”
Mr. President, are you listening? Secretary Napolitano, remember us?
If you or your predecessors had done something to close the nation's back door, we wouldn't be in this fix, where U.S. citizens are left to wonder whether they'll be asked for their papers simply because of the color of their skin. Where our ranchers live in a war zone and our largest city is the kidnapping capital of the planet.
Where everybody is now dug in to whichever foxhole they've chosen in this fight – alien invader or noble immigrant -- with little room for middle ground or rational discussion.
A few hours before Brewer signed the bill, President Obama stood in his Rose Garden and lashed out at SB 1070, saying it threatens “to undermine basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans, as well as the trust between police and our communities that is so crucial to keeping us safe.”
He's right. But this bill is now state law because the trust between our communities and our federal government was long ago broken.
It is because of Washington's steadfast refusal to do its job that we find ourselves where we are today – when half of Arizona Democrats, 69 percent of independents and a whopping 84 percent of Republicans support SB 1070, according to the latest Rasmussen Poll of likely voters.
Dismiss this, if you like, as the work of the “radical fringe”, as Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund did on Friday. But 70 percent of likely voters supported this law.
The way things are going, we very well could have Sen. J.D. Hayworth, Gov. Joe Arpaio and Attorney General Andy Thomas running this place by the end of the year.
Laurie Roberts wrote:
Fifty three percent of likely Arizona voters are concerned that the state's tough new law targeting illegal immigrants will also be used to violate the civil rights of United States citizens.
The majority of them support it anyway.
Such is the state of the state of Arizona, where frustration is the official state emotion and our official nickname?
With one stroke of a pen it was changed Friday from Grand Canyon State to Police State.
What a shame that is has come to this.
All week long, in the lead up to Friday's signing of Senate Bill 1070, hysteria has mounted as a drop-jawed nation has watched and wondered what the heck is going on in Arizona.
From one side, we heard that we're a bunch of racists, headed the way of Nazis. From the other, we heard that anyone who objects to a law giving the police broad new powers to stop and question suspected illegal immigrants is an “anarchist” and perhaps worse (in Arizona, at least), a member of the open borders crowd.
Even the governor did her part to churn already roiling waters, declaring Thursday that “Arizona is being overrun by illegal immigrants terrorizing the citizens of the state of Arizona.”
Mr. President, are you listening? Secretary Napolitano, remember us?
If you or your predecessors had done something to close the nation's back door, we wouldn't be in this fix, where U.S. citizens are left to wonder whether they'll be asked for their papers simply because of the color of their skin. Where our ranchers live in a war zone and our largest city is the kidnapping capital of the planet.
Where everybody is now dug in to whichever foxhole they've chosen in this fight – alien invader or noble immigrant -- with little room for middle ground or rational discussion.
A few hours before Brewer signed the bill, President Obama stood in his Rose Garden and lashed out at SB 1070, saying it threatens “to undermine basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans, as well as the trust between police and our communities that is so crucial to keeping us safe.”
He's right. But this bill is now state law because the trust between our communities and our federal government was long ago broken.
It is because of Washington's steadfast refusal to do its job that we find ourselves where we are today – when half of Arizona Democrats, 69 percent of independents and a whopping 84 percent of Republicans support SB 1070, according to the latest Rasmussen Poll of likely voters.
Dismiss this, if you like, as the work of the “radical fringe”, as Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund did on Friday. But 70 percent of likely voters supported this law.
The way things are going, we very well could have Sen. J.D. Hayworth, Gov. Joe Arpaio and Attorney General Andy Thomas running this place by the end of the year.
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