Of course, if President Obama has any say on the matter, any effort to overhaul current immigration policies will have to wait until after the November elections. “I’ve been working Congress pretty hard. So I know, there may not be an appetite immediately to dive into another controversial issue,” the President told reporters aboard Air Force One. This is the surest signal to House and Senate Democrats that the immigration issue should be put on the legislative back burner pending the outcome of the mid-term elections.
The Reid-Schumer-Menendez memo, entitled the “Conceptual Proposal for Immigration Reform,” sets out eight “benchmarks” that they assert must be addressed before any significant alterations to the status of those currently illegally present in the United States can be made.
The first of these eight points calls for an increase in the number of border patrol agents. This mandate is at odds with the assessment pronounced by Homeland Security boss, Janet Napolitano (herself a former governor of Arizona) that, “the borders are as secure as ever,” due in part to “the highest level of staffing in the Border Patrol’s 85-year history.” It is indubitably this sort of internecine contradiction that forced Arizona’s hand in the first place.
The second point in the Democratic plan calls for an increase in the number of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents combating smuggling operations along the border with Mexico. Again, why are Reid and his crew only just now offering these tactics when hundreds of thousands of illegals are smuggled every year into Arizona across the desert border with Mexico? On April 15 of this year, for example, a combined force of federal agents and local police broke up an elaborate human smuggling organization that over the last decade has transported over 80,000 illegals into Arizona, using Phoenix as their primary hub. Is it any wonder that Arizona (and perhaps soon its fellow border states) felt compelled to defend itself against the tidal waves of illegals that crash into their shores day after day?
Pima County Sheriff Dupnik called into the Jon Justice radio show today (can you tell who I listen to in the morning?) and the resulting interview is a classic study in political hacktivism – currently only displayed at this level of skill by one Rodney Glassman… (you can listen to the entire interview here)
Boiled down it comes to this: SB1070 was racist, they fixed it, and now it’s racist – but he never answered the questions as to why, apparently, it just is. In the world of pure imagination, this argument is completely logical. So are unicorns farting rainbows.
PHOENIX – After a frantic hour-long desert search, authorities found a deputy wounded in a shootout Friday with suspected illegal immigrants apparently hauling bales of marijuana along a major smuggling corridor in southern Arizona.
The deputy was found with a superficial wound – a chunk of skin torn from just above his left kidney – after being shot with an AK-47 on Friday afternoon, Pinal County sheriff’s Lt. Tamatha Villar said. He was flown by helicopter to a hospital in Casa Grande, about 40 miles south of Phoenix.
Villar said the deputy was doing smuggling interdiction work and found bales of marijuana in the desert. He then encountered five suspected illegal immigrants, two armed with rifles, and was shot.
LaRaza Studies goes to the Govenor
I believe the Ethnic Studies (LaRaza teaching in Tucson) Bill is on the Governors desk now.
Ask her to sign HB2281.
Contact her here: http://azgovernor.gov/contact.asp
Story:
Arizona Legislature Passes Bill to Curb ‘Chauvanism’ in Ethnic Studies Programs
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A “SIGN THE PROP 13 PETITION AND MEET VAN, THE RADIO MAN” is scheduled from 10 am t o 4 pm, Friday April 30 at the West Valley Republican office, 99th Avenue and Bell Road (NW corner). Stop by and meet Clair Van Steenwyk and get his autograph. http://www.the912project.us/events/event/show?id=2881797%3AEvent%3A750402&xgi=12H0q9PLdiIzY1&xg_source=msg_invite_event or http://prop13arizona.org/default.aspx
May 1 Deadline for LD21 Banquet Reservations: May 8 – LD21 DINNER/DANCE & GUBERNATORIAL FORUM. 5 pm cocktails (open bar). 6 pm dinner and panel Q&A. 9 pm social and dancing. Attire: Semi-formal. Oakwood Country Club, 24218 S Oakwood Blvd, Sun Lakes (south Chandler). $40 per person. Honorable Mention Tables available for $500 near the stage (seats 10). Ticketless confirmation. RSVP by May 1. Mail checks payable to “LD21 RC” to Patricia Koepp , 9621 E. Glenside Ct., Sun Lakes, AZ 85248. Contact Rene Lopes at 602-617-1354 or jrlopezrep@gmail.com
There’s been an enormous amount of heat and not much light on the new Arizona immigration law. I lose track from time to time of which state the Left is hating at the moment – I believe in the past year or so we’ve been through at least Massachusetts, Louisiana, Texas, Alaska, Virginia and Arizona, but I could be missing a few – but the mostly emotional response from people who have no idea how the bill actually works has consisted in large part of Democrats and media liberals taking a break from lecturing us about calling people Nazis to go back to their traditional practice of calling people Nazis themselves. Despite this, or perhaps as the cause of it, polls have shown fairly strong support for the bill; Gallup shows a 51-39 lead for the bill nationally among people who have heard of it, Rasmussen shows 60% support nationally for the bill’s provisions and 70% support in Arizona, as well as surging approval ratings for Gov. Jan Brewer. It’s harder to get a fix on the reaction from Latinos; a Rasmussen poll seems to suggest a majority of Arizona Latinos also approve, while Markos Moulitsas is pushing PPP polling data suggesting a dropoff in support for Brewer among Latino voters.
In terms of the bill’s actual effects, Andrew McCarthy and Byron York shed some useful light on the real workings of the legislation, and I recommend you read both. There’s a lot more care that went into drawing this legislation up in response to public outcry in the state than the news reports might suggest.
The Electoral College elected Washington unanimously in 1789, and again in the 1792 election; he remains the only president to have received 100% of the electoral votes. At his inauguration, he insisted on having Barbados Rum served. John Adams was elected vice president. Washington took the oath of office as the first President under the Constitution for the United States of America on April 30, 1789, at Federal Hall in New York City although, at first, he had not wanted the position.
The 1st United States Congress voted to pay Washington a salary of $25,000 a year—a large sum in 1789. Washington, already wealthy, declined the salary, since he valued his image as a selfless public servant. At the urging of Congress, however, he ultimately accepted the payment, to avoid setting a precedent whereby the presidency would be perceived as limited only to independently wealthy individuals who could serve without any salary. Washington attended carefully to the pomp and ceremony of office, making sure that the titles and trappings were suitably republican and never emulated European royal courts. To that end, he preferred the title “Mr. President” to the more majestic names suggested.
Washington proved an able administrator. An excellent delegator and judge of talent and character, he held regular cabinet meetings to debate issues before making a final decision. In handling routine tasks, he was “systematic, orderly, energetic, solicitous of the opinion of others but decisive, intent upon general goals and the consistency of particular actions with them.”
Washington reluctantly served a second term as president. He refused to run for a third, establishing the customary policy of a maximum of two terms for a president, which later became law by the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution.
Arizona: NRA Backed Bill Advances to the Governor’s Desk: Yesterday, House Bill 2629 passed its final reading by a vote of 55 to 2, with three votes counted as absent. The bill now moves to Governor Jan Brewer’s (R) desk for her consideration. HB 2629, as amended, was added after we learned that Mojave County was registering guns when someone would check their firearm at a government building. These government buildings were recording owner information and serial numbers of firearms. HB 2629 will make the current actions of Mojave County and any other violating county illegal. If after the passage of this law they continue to illegally register guns, it will allow a private citizen to bring suit against the county. Governor contacts: (602) 542-4331; click here to e-mail her.
Call the Shrink: In Arizona Discussion, MMFA Finds Imaginary ‘Racially Charged Rhetoric’ Everywhere!
How do you call someone a racist without actually calling them a racist? By inventing, jujitsu-style, a euphemism that says just as much.
Witness the spectacle of all those “Senior Fellows” stuffed into the clown car known as “Media Matters for America,” scratching themselves with anger and itching to call conservatives “racists” but having to corkscrew themselves into place to deliver this mind-numbing piece of “research” –
What happens when a reporter asks a Democratic Congressman whether he is willing to enforce the border against the trafficking of illegal drugs? The congressman walks away disdainfully and calls the reporter a name, of course.
Rep. Raul Grijalva (D, Ariz.) participated in a grandstanding press conference called by Democratic politicians in Arizona to protest the new law, which allows law enforcement to ask for proof of legal status when they lawfully encounter a person and they have reasonable suspicion that the person might be in the country illegally. After the press conference, a reporter from CNSnews.com asks Rep. Grijalva: “Are you committed to sealing the border against the influx of illegal drugs?”
It should be noted that Rep. Grijalva’s district includes 300 miles of the US/Mexican border. For Grijalva to ask “What does this have to do with our press conference today?” in relation to the reporter’s question about drug trafficking, we’re forced to wonder if Rep. Grijalva actually understands the law he is protesting.
Big thanks to Big Journalism
