Did 460,000 illegal immigrants in Arizona appear there over night?
We are beginning to put the GOP on defense as the buffoons in the Republican think tanks haven't constructed their talking points to reverberate over and over again via right wing radio. The Media covered the concerns over profiling yesterday but neglected to mention one thing.
If Arizona has one of the worst illegal immigration problems in the United States, how did it get that way?
http://www.foxnews.com/... is running this story on their front page with commentary on the back (please read the racial remarks their fan base posted on the back) also take note on their front page as to how they tie "Mexican Violence" to the same story as if they are related.
Again, not one mention as to how the 460,000 illegal immigrants have managed to migrate to the United States on any of the news links.
Are the 460,000 illegals living off the land?
Are the 460,000 illegal immigrants in Arizona supporting themselves through social programs?
OR, have they been exploited by employers who have broken the law by hiring them to begin with? Arizona law enforcement officials and politicans turned a blind eye over several decades while thousand of business exploited these folks to increase their bottom lines and avoid paying taxes. Who is more illegal, the people migrating here to feed themselves and get a little better life than they had in Mexico, or the business who supported them to begin with, while evading taxes and doing things the right way. I think we call this "a two way street".
If Arizona was truly serious about their illegal immigrant problem, they could have imposed serious penalties against the employers, thrown the opportunists into jail and taken away their businesses. This seems to me to be much more cheaper than forcing our law enforcement officers to profile and qualify 460,000 people as to their citizenship while costing the tax payers millions of dollars.
This was a very shallow law drafted only for cheap political gain. They are not serious cracking down on illegal immigration. If they were we would see a large exodus of hundreds of thousands of people fleeing the state. I suspect they will still find work as soon as tomorrow morning at the same jobs that have supported them for years.
The illegal immigration problem is a simple fix, go after the crooks break the law with a stern hand and these folks will have to move somewhere else. It seems that this would save the tax payer millions in processing and litigation fees.
I just wonder who's going to clean their hotel rooms, mow their lawns, build their homes, clean their houses (in Scottsdale) and pick their crops. I suspect the cost of living is going up in Arizona.
They opened up a can of worms.
P.S. I will not be vacationing in Arizona any time soon. They count on tourism revenue to keep their state running. We usually go the the Grand Canyon once or twice a year, stay in their hotels, eat at their restaurants, buy gas and snacks at their gas stations not to mention shop at their malls when we are in there.