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It should come as no surprise that Los Angeles would hit the neighboring state of Arizona with an economic boycott over the state's tough anti-immigration policy.
After all, when Colorado voters restricted the rights of gays, L.A. boycotted it.
My only question is did the L.A. City Council bother to check with its constituents before taking the vote, because new national polling data shows the council's action flies in the face of national sentiment on the tough anti-illegal immigration law.
A new Pew poll shows that 59 percent of people approve of the Arizona law, with just 32 percent opposing it. The same poll found that 73 percent of people approve of police requiring people to show documents to prove their legal status, with only 23 percent disapproving.
The move by the council has little bite, since few city contracts with the state of Arizona will be impacted. It still seems to me, though, that individual members of the L.A. Council may have been right to voice their personal displeasure with the law, instead of voting as a legal body.
The vote to boycott was proceeded by emotional testimony from council members telling of how their ancestors came to the United States as immigrants. I bet their wasn't a dry eye in the council chamber.
Join the club, council members! Unless you are a Native American, you are a citizen of the United States via immigration.
Arizona law looks to stop illegal immigration into the United States and enforce immigration laws that are already on the books.
The Arizona solution is harsh and could lead to racial profiling and the harassment of legal citizens, no doubt. It is not the law I would have drawn up to deal with illegal immigration in my community.
But don't the citizens of Arizona have the right to enact laws as they see fit? Let's see how the enforcement of the new law plays out in the real world before branding it unjust.
I believe that illegal immigration advocates simply want to open U.S. borders to the entire world. If that is the case, fine.
Simply lobby your lawmakers to do away with all immigration regulations on the books in the United States and take down the fences. Poof! Just like that we would have no more illegal immigration -- everybody from every country would have a big welcome mat before them.
Just one problem with that. If the national polls are right, a majority of Americans see some value in defending U.S. borders. And like the action of the L.A. council, opening the borders would go against the wishes of a majority of Americans.
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By: Patricia on 5/13/2010 1:19PM
Native Americans? Humans were never native to North and South America. Indians were also immigrants that came over the Bering Straits or the North Atlantic ice bridge. Please take the time to get the history correct. P.S. The DNA testing of the so called "Indians" proved their immigration routes.
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By: Richard on 5/13/2010 1:42PM
So... you're all for racism and discrimination as long as it doesn't affect you. Is that what you're saying? OK to discriminate against gays and Hispanics - especially since 59 percent approve of the new law with only 32 percent opposing.
Remember the days when 59 percent thought it was OK for YOU to sit in the back of the bus and have a separate water fountain?
How soon we forget.
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By: chuck on 5/13/2010 5:00PM
How does supporting this law make the writer a racist? This is a law against ILLEGAL immigrants. Blacks were LEGAL citizens fighting for their rights! those opposed to the black rights were racist! Us opposed to ILLEGAL immigrants are NOT racist! Do you even understand the difference or is your liberalism blindingn you!?
By the way, we may not have originated on this land as the other poster states, but native americans were the first to claim this land, not as immigrants(look up the definition) but as original occupants before any human was here! Right of imminence meaning, first come-first served sucker! OUR land, everyone else is an immigrant! :P
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By: amy wilson on 5/16/2010 3:25AM
It is not about racism it is about illegal immigrants. Arizona has a right to defend themselves. How would you like somebody deciding to take your yard from you? No hispanics jumped in for people sitting in the back of the bus that I have ever heard of. How many hispanics do you see marching along with Martin Luther King in your history book?
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By: black republican on 5/20/2010 4:38AM
Richard you need to educate yourself. Illegal immigraiton has nothing to do with racism. If someone came into your home uninvited and then began to tell you how to run your home, expecting you to take care of them and all of their family what would you say? US citizens have to pay for ALL of the illegal immigrants in this country and they are not just Mexicans. I can't belive that the Mexican presiden has the nerve to tell us how to run our country when their immigration laws are much stricter than ours. You cannot own a home in Mexico unless you are Mexican and if you rent the Mexican government can take your home anytime they want because you are not a Mexican citizen. Taxes are up, schools are overcrowded and emergency hospital doors are closing all because of illegal immigration. My Black nephew could not get a job at McDonald's because he did not speak spanish, how is that for putting Black people back about 500 years?
Get a Clue!!
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By: CHIEF on 5/13/2010 11:51PM
Immigrants are free, they can leave if unhappy,why stay here and complain.The USA governments are cowards,Federal,States,Countys and Citys.The people who hire these poor (slaves) are cheap bastards, pimps. 21 century slavery,we have our nerve talking about foreign nations dictators. Money is everything, hypocrites. White House on down, wake up, general public is not stupid, the politicians are dumb.A change is coming, be patient!!!!
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By: bentcolv01 on 5/14/2010 10:30AM
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PUT THE BASTARDS IN A CATTLE TRUCK AND SEND THEM BACK HOME! OUR GOVERNMENT TREAT THEM BETTER THEN USA CITIZENS! BYE-BYE!
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By: Straight outta Cali on 5/14/2010 9:25PM
No one asked me...Nevertheless, I do not oppose the Arizona Law.
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By: amy wilson on 5/15/2010 4:06PM
As far as I am concerned this is not a black issue. The only time you see black people and hispanics rallying together is when it is a hispanic issue.
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By: charles on 5/15/2010 6:00PM
Thank you I've been saying this all along . They wont hire us , they wont buy from black biusineses. Black people dont benefit at all from hispanics, legal or illegal.
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