In May I wrote about the Arizona Republic practicing journalism is this article:
The Arizona Republicpracticed journalism today with their article titled violence is not up on the borders.
Yet Governor Brewer and John McCain have continued to spout their scary warnings about securing the border "or else." Even Sarah girl has tweeted about the porous border.
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Today, Time again takes on the issue of the borders and once again confirms that the border is safe. The title of Time's article written by Tim Padgett is:
The 'Dangerous' Border: Actually One of America's Safest Places
When U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton ruled on Wednesday that key provisions of Arizona's new anti-immigration law were unconstitutional, she could have also declared them unnecessary. That is, if the main impetus behind the controversial legislation was, as Arizona Governor Jan Brewer said when she signed it in April, "border-related violence and crime due to illegal immigration." The fact is, despite the murderous mayhem raging across the border in Mexico, the U.S. side, from San Diego to Brownsville, Texas, is one of the nation's safest corridors.
"The border is safer now than it's ever been," U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman Lloyd Easterling told the Associated Press last month. Even Larry Dever, the sheriff of Arizona's Cochise County, where the murder last March of a local rancher, believed to have been committed by an illegal immigrant, sparked calls for the law, conceded to the Arizona Republic recently that "we're not seeing the [violent crime] that's going on on the other side."
Consider Arizona itself — whose illegal-immigrant population is believed to be second only to California's. The state's overall crime rate dropped 12% last year; between 2004 and 2008 it plunged 23%. In the metro area of its largest city, Phoenix, violent crime — encompassing murder, rape, assault and robbery — fell by a third during the past decade and by 17% last year. The border city of Nogales, an area rife with illegal immigration and drug trafficking, hasn't logged a single murder in the past two years.
So, as politicians continue to exploit fear, racists continue to exploit the "papers please" as necessary to keep us safe, once in a while, like today's article in Time we get a little sunshine on the truth.
Here's a spoof on McCain's "complete the danged fence" ad: