Will Congress’s immigration reform bill make any headway?

What if they gave a reform bill and nobody came? That’s the odd prospect ahead, many observers suggest, for the just-debuted immigration reform legislation in Congress.

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Will Congress’s immigration reform bill make any headway?

Immigration law brings calls to boycott Arizona

Calls for a boycott against Arizona over its immigration law are growing by the day.

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Arizona cop sues over immigration law

A police officer in Tucson, Arizona, sued the state’s governor Thursday, contending its impossible to enforce the new immigration law.

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Arizona cop sues over immigration law

Senior Dems Talk Tough on Climate, Immigration

The Senate’s impasse over climate change and immigration legislation heads into the weekend without any sign of resolution. D…

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Senior Dems Talk Tough on Climate, Immigration

Immigration rallies set for Sat.

Annual immigration protests have gained renewed interest after signing of new Arizona law.

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Immigration rallies set for Sat.

Arizona’s Anti Immigration Bill

On April 23, 2010, the Governor of Arizona passed the highly controversial bill known as the Senate Bill 1070, while also being described as the “Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act”. While most Arizonians support the law, the entire nation is up in protest citing this law to be unconstitutional, and one that can result in racial profiling, and in this case targeting Hispanics.

What has made this law so controversial is that in its efforts to keep out illegal immigrants as well as find illegal immigrants in the state, the law gives law enforcement officials the authority to question anyone on the basis of suspicion, and if found without appropriate documentation such as the right visa required to visit or live in the state of Arizona will be detained as the Bill considers it to be a crime.

It is the suspicion that is used to nab offenders that is causing Democrats and Hispanics to stage protests all over the country, where the popular refrain seems to be that this will begin an era in the United States where ‘civil rights violations’ are possible.

Even though the federal government is yet to respond to the controversial Bill, political analysts say that it is due to inaction on the part of the federal government that the states are taking stringent steps to curb the influx of immigrants into the United States.

Will the ramifications of this law turn out to be just as the Democrats and Hispanics fear? Or will it curtail the flow of illegal immigrants into the United States?

Your guess is as good as mine.

Arizona’s Anti Immigration Bill – Colorado to Follow?

Although Colorado has been considering a crackdown on anti illegal immigration activity for some time now but has been deterred by its costs so far, the recent Arizona Anti immigration bill passed by Governor Jan Brewer has encouraged its gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis to make immigration laws in Colorado just as tough if he is elected Governor of the State.

With Democrats and Obama in particular, forging a victory in what can only be a historic event in the United States with the passing of the ‘universal health care’ Bill, this anti illegal immigration law passed in the state of Arizona once again calls the federal government to make good on its promise in overhauling of immigration policy.

Scott McInnis has openly stated that the federal government has been unable to stop the flow of illegal immigrants, and thus, it now lies in the hands of the state government to pass stringent laws that will treat the illegal as being illegal.

With the passing of the Senate Bill 1070 into law, one can immediately be detained into police custody if found without the appropriate visa while in the state. With immigration activists and their bipartisan counterparts in uproar over the legislation that is passed, one can understand the trepidation that Hispanics are going through, as this can lead to racial profiling and the violation of one’s civil rights even if one does have all the required documentation.

Will the federal government follow suit? Will Colorado nominate Scott McInnis and thus, pass another version of this bill?
Only time will tell.

Shakira against Arizona’s Anti Illegal Immigration Bill

With a country divided over the Arizona toughest ever Anti illegal Immigration bill that just reminds one of the late George Carlin’s remarks of the United States going through a situation where people are willing to trade away more of their God-given freedoms for the illusion of safety.

In the case of the recent legislation passed by the state of Arizona, a police officer can legally ask a citizen for immigration or citizenship papers, if suspected to be otherwise.

Since this is a Republican bill, the Democrats and Hispanics are infuriated for obvious reasons, and oppose this law that could result on civil right violations if not handled correctly while it targets the influx of Mexicans across the border as well as seeks to eliminate the one and a half million illegal immigrants in the state, one person at a time.

This authority granted to the police screams ‘racial profiling’ and for most critics is a complete waste of time that will turn out to be a complete failure because of the obvious lack of manpower in the ranks of the police.
Shakira, a native from Columbia and now a popular singer with her latest hit ‘Hips Don’t Lie’ will meet with Mayor Phil Gordon who is openly against the law while being accompanied by the only Hispanic leader in City Council, Vice Mayor Michael Nowakowski in protest of the law that is toted by many to be unconstitutional by nature.

What lies in store for the illegal immigrants in the state of Arizona is anyone’s guess, but the on that is for sure is the pressure on Obama to revamp his immigration policy has just begun with a string of weekend protesters all across the United States.

Shakira enters Arizona immigration fight

Grammy Award-winning singer Shakira has joined the growing chorus of opposition to Arizona’s new immigration law.

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Arizona immigration crackdown raises flags

The first lawsuits in a planned wave of legal challenges to the controversial Arizona immigration law were filed Thursday in Phoenix and Tucson.

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