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.