Comments on: New Arizona Immigration Law Awakens Youth Protest Movement

By: Why Tuscon & Ethnic Studies May Bind the Future of Queer Politics (Not Cynthia Nixon) « In Our Words

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:08:42 +0000

[...] Arizona’s elite should be concerned. MAS likely inspired widespread youth activism against Arizona’s racist, draconian immigration laws. MAS obviously sparked the walkouts in [...]

By: Julio Garcia

Julio Garcia — Thu, 27 May 2010 03:04:04 +0000

I made a couple of songs about this movement, come check them out @ myspace.com/dreamchicago

By: Amanda

Amanda — Fri, 14 May 2010 20:47:12 +0000

I just want to say I wish that these laws were passed everywhere. The law is the law! Stop crying about it you should not be worried unless you are breaking aware and know that you are breaking our laws and if you are you deserve whatever comes your way. Creating more job, um…no, taking our jobs our tax-paying dollars. I am 27 years old and I can see the difference in KY over my years…more and more illegal’s posted everywhere, you cannot understand what they are saying, and really do not even know what they are capable of. Come on Obama wake up is democratic vote that important? Is it worth it America?

By: NY Plan to Consider Pardons for Immigrants Facing Deportation May Shift Immigration Debate | Feet in 2 Worlds · Immigration news · Immigration reform · Immigrant communities

Thu, 06 May 2010 13:06:37 +0000

[...] by speeding up the consideration of their pardons. Paterson’s action comes on the heels of Arizona’s law to criminalize undocumented immigrants, and proposals in Congress to increase border [...]

By: mike dilrya

mike dilrya — Sat, 01 May 2010 22:43:11 +0000

Apartheid
I grew up in South Africa during the height of the policy called apartheid. It simply means apartness or segregation. During those years’ people who were classified as “native” as opposed to “European” were compelled to carry passbooks if they worked in “white” areas. They could live in white areas only if they were living in the servant’s quarters at their employer’s home. Only the worker, not her family. This meant that people who were born in South Africa but who were not classified as white had to carry their passbooks on them at all times. If one was as unfortunate as to forget it at home when going to a local store to buy a loaf of bread they could be arrested, and would have to wait in the cells until their “madam” came to fetch them. It seems that Arizona is heading the same way, as legitimate citizens born elsewhere and legal immigrants will have to carry their documentation on them. No different from pass laws without the dubious convenience of having a single document. I would loathe going there as a tourist, as I would have to carry my passport on my person even if I went for a jog, but then again – they won’t stop me – after all I am white. Make not mistake about it racial profiling is a form of fascism. This is a sad turn in a land once known as Freedom.

By: Rose

Rose — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:57:53 +0000

This is a response to John Roberts Comment: It is not California State law that you must have a Drivers license or ID.
This is from the California DMV Site:
If you are a visitor in California over 18 and have a valid driver license from your home state or country, you may drive in this state without getting a California driver license as long as your home state license remains valid.

If you become a California resident, you must get a California driver license within 10 days. Residency is established by voting in a California election, paying resident tuition, filing for a homeowner’s property tax exemption, or any other privilege or benefit not ordinarily extended to nonresidents.

All a California Id Or License just does is establishes Residency in the state of California. That is all. I was born in California and I did not get my License until I was 24. And I did not get my ID until I was 20. I was not admonished in any way. It is good to get an Id because you need a picture ID to get a bank account and employers want one as well. But you are not required to had an Id in the State of California

By: Randy

Randy — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 02:55:36 +0000

I totally support the Arizona Bill and hope that other states follow suit and start enforcing the laws of the United States of America. If you are here illegally you are in the WRONG. If you are in the process of becoming a citizen or are a citizen of any color/race/religion etc. I totally support you. Until then obey the law or maybe you should be treated like illegal imigrants are in Mexico and most other countries!!!

By: “Let the good people of Arizona — and anyone passing through — walk the streets of Tucson and Phoenix wearing buttons that say: I Could Be Illegal.” « Fallopia

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:27:21 +0000

[...] There’s got to more that we can do. [...]

By: Terry Walbert

Terry Walbert — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:05:36 +0000

Some of the responses are just precious. Instead of addressing the issue of people being here illegally, they shout “racism, racial profiling, and ignorance. This is an old movie that doesn’t work anymore.

Try reading the bill. It allows police who have stopped someone for some other reason to ascertain their immigration status if they suspect they may be here illegally.

Guess who? Most of the illegals in Arizona are Hispanics. That’s a fact whether you like it or not and no matter how much you would like to pretend that there are a lot of blond Swedes living in Arizona illegally.

Until we control our southern border, there can be no immigration “reform.”

By: Jimmy Z

Jimmy Z — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 02:28:40 +0000

I am so sorry that so many youths have no idea what country they live in, that we have a Constitution, and that those who are here illegally are breaking federal law.

Good God, don’t they teach ‘youths’ anything anymore in school?