The new Right-wing
LoFo meme is now disclosing the whereabouts of "unaccompanied immigrant children" to protect your community as it would from registered sex offenders. Or is it really a Federal plot to increase the population of Arizona schools with native-speakers of Spanish to reinvigorate the demand for its
banned Ethnic Studies curriculum, further diminishing the 10th Amendment rights of Arizonans. There are only so many noses to cut off to spite one's face or sinuses that can be dried.
(CNN) -- A trumpeter played a Mariachi-style "Star-Spangled Banner" as protesters sparred around him in an Arizona city that's become the latest flashpoint in the national immigration debate.
Oracle will soon house several dozen detained unaccompanied immigrant children from Central America. In the city about 100 miles north of the Mexico border, word of their impending arrival fueled passionate demonstrations Tuesday from supporters who welcomed them and critics pushing for their deportation.
Video from CNN affiliate KPNX showed a man holding a neon poster with the famous phrase inside the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty written with a marker: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."
Another demonstrator held a sign that said, "Send 'em to Coyote Obama," describing the U.S. President with a popular term used for smugglers who help immigrants illegally cross the border.
"I'm protesting the invasion of the United States by people of foreign countries. This is about the sovereignty of our nation," Oracle resident Eldon Rhodes told CNN affiliate KVOA.
"You're just lucky. You're not better," a pro-immigrant demonstrator shouted at protesters, according to KPNX. "None of you are better than them."
The Homeland Security Leaks come Fast and Furiously:
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said he told protesters to stop blocking the road.
But the sheriff has entered the fray by expressing concern about how the federal government hasn't told his agency about the transfer of the detained youths to his county.
He's also drawn criticism for publicly revealing the location where the minors are being taken.
"I believe the public has a right to know," Babeu told CNN's AC360 Tuesday. "I would rather err on that side, rather than to be secretive, as this whole operation was initially done."
Babeu has said he wants the federal government to provide more information about the migrants. Some of them, he said, may have gang affiliations.
"My question to Homeland Security was, 'Give us a sense of the profile of these individuals,'" he said.
The Pinal County Sheriff's Office was recently "informed by 'whistle blowers' in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security they plan to transfer between 40 and 60 unaccompanied illegal minors to the 'Sycamore Canyon Boys Ranch' in Oracle," the office said in a statement on its Facebook page.
History has now shown us that for many, Arizona is
The Bridge too far.