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Arizona’s copycats

Despite the threats of boycotts ranging from corporations to Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game to the state itself, several states are considering copycatting Arizona’s racial profiling law.

Minnesota is considering a law that is reported as requiring law enforcement to enforce federal immigration laws; establishing eligibility criteria for federal and state public benefits; requiring possession of alien identification cards; prohibiting the transporting and smuggling of illegal immigrants; prohibiting illegal immigrants from working or soliciting work in the state; prohibiting the employment of illegal aliens; creating the Minnesota Illegal Immigration Enforcement Team; and requiring the attorney general to represent the state against any challenges to this act.
In Pennsylvania, A group of lawmakers led by Republican Daryl Metcalfe and Democrat Harry Readshaw are promoting a bill that would require police officers to attempt to verify the immigration status of people suspected of being here illegally. The measure, already moving in the House, would also create a new third-degree misdemeanor for illegal immigrants who violate federal law by not carrying proof of legal status.
In Rhode Island a copycat Arizona bill has the support of Cranston Representative Peter Palumbo
Arkansas is awaiting on legal decisions stemming from Arizona’s law before making any moves, but is considering Arizona’s law as a potential solution
Indiana State Senator Mike Delph is trying to bring Arizona’s law to Indiana
A Nevada legislator wanted to call the state government into special session just to pass an Arizona-style bill
South Carolina failed to pass a copycat law this session, but we expect it to be introduced during the 2011 term. Gubernatorial candidate Gresham Barrett (R) has signaled support for the bill.
And ThinkProgress has a chart following Arizona type bills in Utah, Georgia, Colorado, Maryland, Ohio, North Carolina, Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Nebraska.

These laws do nothing to solve our immigration problems, divide communities from each other and law enforcement and waste police resources. You can help oppose them by sending a fax to your local representatives!

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MSgritsngravy

Let’s just take a look at the “Global” immigration policies. Our efforts to reform the immigration policies ought to take into account and be framed by those of our “allies” and “human rights” defenders in the UN. Let’s just say you are a Christian and want to immigrate to Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt, or…….. just pick one as there are many to choose from. Hell, try immigrating to Mexico and buying a retirement villa in Guadalajara. After you are settled in, give me a ringy-dingy and we’ll set up a date for me to attend the open house!
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regpar

After reading some of the comments, some people gave valid points for and against reform. Living in Texas, I feel reform is needed. When I drive down a street and I cannot read any of the billboards, something is wrong. We do need reform and we need to make the illegals that are in this country already be held responsible for the fact they are here. If undocumented immigrants are found to be in the US, then they need to make a choice right off 1) do I stay and pay for everything (education, healthcare, and a stiff fine) or 2) do I leave and go back to my country? If they choose to leave, then if they come back, they go to prision. Not a prision where they play basketball and lift weights, but work camps such as in Louisiana. They can build and clean roads or better yet work in the fields. They will still get paid, but it will not be money they send to their countries rather, money to pay their room and board with maybe $50 extra for commissary. We have options to help ease the burden of our own taxation. Why are we arguing and playing political poll position instead of getting something done? Please I welcome a logical discussion on this.

Last topic open to conversation is the illegals found in this country that commit a crime. In my opinion an illegal that commits a crime, major and some minor, then they should automatically go to work camps for two years and then be deported to their government. Don’t drop them off at the border. Make their government responsible for them and make their government take some of the burdern of cost for deportaion of the illegals. Now if it is a capital offense such as murder, etc then I feel the illegal is subject to whatever the punishment is for that offense in the state that offense was carried out in. And for Texas, that means deathrow in many cases. Seems fair enough.
Tina Marie Beltran

As I said in an earlier text I have no problem with anyone wanting a better life. I am of mexican descent but my grandmother came here LEGALLY in 1912 and did things the right way. She didn’t just get herself here and then expect the government to keep her up. No. She supported herself here and earned everything she had-it wasn’t just handed over to her for free. She didn’t get a fake ID and steal someone else’s social security number to work here. She paid taxes and didn’t claim 10 kids on taxes to not pay any. She didn’t have a second fake ID to save money in the bank with either! Yes she struggled to make it but it made her appreciate everything she accomplished and she did it on her own. This law is not racial profiling. Police should know if who they have arrested is illegal or not because it is a crime to be illegal here in the U.S. They also need to know so they can find out if the criminal left their country because they were running from the law! I know discrimination first hand being chicana and growing up in the south but I wasn’t guilty of a crime like being illegal here. It was simply because not all people are raised to respect other races or cultures. Being illegal is a totally different story and our government needs to take a stronger stand on sending them back home so they learn to come here the right way-LEGAL-and enjoy America not for what they can have free but for the life they can achieve on their own 2 feet.
TexanMary

To the Mary who made the comment about Ellis Island: Wow! Have you any idea of how things have changed since then? Back then all you had to do was prove you didn’t have any contagious diseases and you were allowed to come in. That’s it. No questions asked. The bureaucracy involved now is crazy. Depending on your country of origin, immigration to the US can take decades. My parents came to the US 30-something years ago. Even then, it was so much easier. We have made it impossible for farmers in Mexico and South America to earn a living through our trade policies, then we lured desperate people here with jobs, and now nativist Republicans are trying to vilify them? You can’t play with people like that. I don’t want my state, Texas, on that list. Hate, even when codified, destroys. Just watch what happens to Arizona. Nothing good will come to that state until they rescind that law.
Patricia

I want NORTH CAROLINA and my Birth state NEVADA to stop thinking and start DOING! COPY ARIZONA!!! YEAH!!!!!!! We’re on the list! Maybe this country is coming back to it’s sense’s after all, Thank you JESUS!!!!!!
sunshine

It is so sad to see how very ignorant and racist most of the people in the UnUnited States are. It is your hatred and ignorance that will destroy this nation built from the backbreaking work of the immigrant. If you are not Native American when your ancestors were illegal immigrants…that makes YOU a desendant of a illegal immigrant….so what is your problem? I think everybody needs to calm down and EXCEPT this for what it is…..just yet another wave of immigrants just like all the rest in the past…such as the Irish..the Italians..etc etc. Really people we have much bigger fish to fry.
Pass a amnesty bill, build a fence and lets move on to other issues that could use such…… “passion”.
Mary

Why is everyone up in arms FOR something ILLEGAL??
Immigrants should come here with paperwork and a SKILL and a SPONSOR. Just like all of our ancestors had to do at Ellis Island.
Yes, we are FREE, but that does not means there are no rules!!!
Steven Carson

I just love being able to voice our opinions here and I haven’t seen one message in support of so called “immigration reform.” Why don’t they call it what it is. They want all illegals to become citizens. I call it Illegal Immigration Reform because of just that.

So happy to have that Maryland being a copy cat state. Thank you Pat McDonough for introducing a similar Arizona bill here. Pat is a proud American that knows what’s best for our country and that’s not just open borders or having a illegal immigration day to come to America to see how things work like a parent visiting their child’s classroom.

Come here the legal way or don’t come here at all. I say that we have tougher laws than they have in Mexico. If you come here illegally you get locked up for 5 years then you get deported and from this country. The next time you enter ir illegally you get 10 years in prison. If you enter it again illegally then you get life in prison. It’s time to make illegals take us seriously. Put the illegals to hard labor. We need to do something to stop the illegal immigration and I think this would be a start. Strike 3 gets you what you want to be here in this country.
Tina Marie Beltran

I do not have a problem with anyone wanting a better life. I married an illegal mexican over 20 years ago and helped him become a legal resident alien after having been here more than 12 years illegal. The government back then made me sign papers that I was no longer entitled to any government assistance no matter what happened in our lives because I chose to marry an illegal. That was fine with me because I have never used our government like so many people do.I have never had a welfare check or food stamps in my life. Back then if you were illegal you had to support yourself-stand on your own 2 feet to survive in this country or if you couldn’t you would go home. Nowadays all you have to do is get yourself here and our government helps you stay here with rental assistance,a government check each month,food stamps, WIC and whatever else. I personally know people using our Government to survive here while putting the money they earn illegally under another name into savings in the bank. Just a couple of weeks ago I saw a woman I know in the grocery store paying for her groceries with food stamps. She asked me if I had saw her live-in illegal mexican boyfriend in the parking lot driving their brand new 2010 van. I had not- but remembered her bragging about how much money he earned and how they had over $28,000.00 in the bank. (How many honest hard-working americans do you know that could manage to even save $1000.00? Most of us live paycheck to paycheck. I know I do.) So why do they need government assistance? They get it because our government does not check out the truth of what is going on! If they were denied assistance alot more would return home and quit causing the rest of us honest working americans to pay taxes that help them stay here illegally. I’m tired of paying taxes for people who aren’t even entitled to our government help. Just the other day I overheard an illegal telling one of his friends about wanting another baby-their 4th-because he would get so much more money for another child! It’s totally ridiculous that our government gives them so much help to stay here illegally!!!!And by the way I am no longer married to that mexican,he turned out to be an alcoholic and after so many DUI’s and drinking related arrests I couldn’t deal with it anymore. But he is still in the U.S. thanks to me. We also have a son together and I have learned that the same laws apply to us citizens do not apply to them. He has never paid child support like he should and although it was court ordered at the time of our divorce he does not do right by our son. At one point he was only 5 minutes across the state line in N.C.(I live in S.C.)and although a bench warrant had been issued for his arrest for non-support they would not pick him up.I was told that the police in N.C. would need to bring him to the S.C. border to meet them and they wouldn’t do it. According to the police here N.C. police said they didn’t want to mess with no mexicans! Obviously they can do whatever they want once they get here without any repercussions also. God help us americans.
Steven Carson

I keep replying to the emails that I get asking why they don’t read SB 1070 because if they did they would see that racial profiling is prohibited. I thik that they are too ignorant to do that and only want to spread fear in hopes of gettting people to beleieve the lie. I am hoping that all 50 states follow Arizona since the Federal Government doesn’t seemto care about the country or it’s LEGAL citizens.

Most of the illegals only bring crime into this country. I feel that everyone that supports illegal amnesty also suppots crime. How many citizens have to be killed, how much tax dollars have to be wasted, how full do our jails have to be filled with illegals, how many have to join MS13 and other gangs before they say enough is enough?

I care and love this country. I don’t want it to continue to go the way it is heading. If we don’t do something about it soon we will be just like all these countries that these illegals are coming from. We welcome immigrants that come here the legal way with open arms but when you don’t care about our laws and our country then we have a problem with that. If you can’t do it the legal way then don’t come here.
CindyInMissouri

I think AZ is correct in the need to stop illegals from continuing to be a problem. I feel that the mistake AZ made was through insisting upon the racial profiling. Racial profiling causes soooo many problems. What ALL states need to start doing to stop the problem of illegal immigration, is go to the root of it. MONEY. It’s ALWAYS about money. ALL states need to start fineing ALL companies, business’s and individuals who hire illegals, whether they are from Mexico, or any other country. (Yes, there are MANY illegals here from all over the world!) By fineing those that insist upon illegals, it would put money back into the government, and if fined heavy enough…no one will want to hire illegals…meaning NO WORK. If there is no work, why would they stay around if they cannot support themselves, or their families? By fineing those that hire illegals, it doesn’t mean PROFILING anyone. But makes it much more difficult for illegals to find refuge. It would also force out illegals from other countries if they are not able to find work. HOWEVER….., it means our government is going to have to be more aware of when student/work/visition Visa’s expire, and make sure that those people return home. WE VOTE FOR OUR OFFICIALS…. They work for US,…the U.S. People. WE supply their paycheques. It is time that the government HEARS what the people of the U.S.A. are saying…….. WE ARE TIRED OF BEING IGNORED!!!!
Common Sense

I plan to boycott all of the states that are boycotting Arizona. I think it is sad that people who have not read the the law are saying that it is profiling or that Arizona is violating anyone’s rights. Arizona is not asking for people to stop immigrating, they are only asking that they do it legally. There is already a federal law in place that is basically the same as Arizona’s law and if that law had been enforced, Arizona would not feel the need to take the situation into their own hands. Wake up people and let’s see if we can get all 50 states to enact similar laws. If not all states, at least the border states, north and south.
MICHAELFROMWARRACRES

I hope we stay in line with Arizona’s law. If you are here as an illegal immigrant then you need to get legal or get the hell out! This is asked of all who are illegal no matter if you are from Mexico,Bosnia, Russia or England. You have no right to come here and not pay state and federal taxes like the rest of us and then say you are treated unfairly, and you can not pay those type of taxes without being legal. It is not our fault that Mexico is such a rotten place to live…Rise up people..Take Charge of you life. Over through those who suppress you don’t run to your neighbor and ask them to make your life better for you do it your self. People try and make everyone feel sorry for there sad poor life’s where they live but what if we let all that came stay can you not see what will happen..It would be hell on earth, we are overwhelmed as it is people give us a damn break and be realistic.
Carolyn

I would love to see Missouri become a “copy cat” state. It’s apparent that our federal government does not want to enforce laws sthat are on the books already. By the way, have you looked at those laws?, much tougher than Arizonas. You go Arizona!
Why would you want to live somewhere knowing that just being there is breaking the law? Therefore, being an “illegal”. Go home and apply for legal stastis, many others have, and then Americans will welcome you with open arms and you will have a much better life being a LEGAL immigrant.
Also, if you want to come to America and live as a citizen then act like an American. Speak English, salute the flag of the United States of America and respect all.
Darlene

This is a free country. What made us free is everyone paying there own way. Not burdening our system with more medical bills that the us citizens have to pay for. Become a citizen and you can stay here. Pay your fair share. Speak ENGLISH.
Sharron H.

I support Arizona and any other state 100%. I see nothing wrong with enforcing laws that have been on the books for ages. We are a tired nation, our money, thanks to our present administraiton is GONE! Get it! You illegals took it all. I cannot even afford health care for myself, but pay for illegals to come here and “work the system” to get it all! Don’t like it here, go home and improve your own government and leave mine the H*&(e alone!
Rosa

Hi,hope u all r fine.Well all i wan’t to say is that in fields,construction site’s,freeway’s construction I mostly see Mexican or Latin Amrican People not many “”"AMERICAN’S”"”,African American’s nor Native American’s….Hope u can see that we are not here to still job’s,we only get the one’s that are no taken by u guys…….
http://Facebook Deborah Estrada

People in this country are ignorant when they believe that the illegals arent paying taxes. Do u know anyone that works in the Us who isnt taxed cmon people get real. Go live in their country one year and see if u dont understand why they come here. If the United States didnt make it so hard and want so much money for them to get legal more of them would do that. Do u know they only make a dollar an hour in there country? Stop blaming them for 911 secure our nation from terrosist this isnt hispanics.Better yet try to do it the lagel way then be forced to live without ur spouse for over 4 years. Do u know any politian that would do this? Or u yourself live the life I been living then set and say the things u say.American people have no idea what is the truth.Help make Immigration reform work do away with the 3 to 10year bar law first
Randy

And what is wrong with enforceing the laws, quit breaking them and we don’t have a problem. I for one hope that all states grow a pair and enforce.
jeri rasmussen

Mexico is a rich country with the wealth in a few hands. Why do the Mexicans
not prevail, ie. force their government to be fair. And why doesn’t the
Catholic Church play a more prominent role in this struggle for their members?

My husband attended school in San Miguel and we lived there for two summers and the poverty and pregnancy was overwhelming. I could not force myself to
go back there again.

The women are the most oppressed, maybe it is time for the citizens to rise up,they are good people and it is time to play that role.
Carol Johnson

This is silly. Arizona’s law is not a “racial profiling law.” And saying that the law will “waste police resources” is ridiculous–the law doesn’t tell law enforcement to go out and look for illegal immigrants. It says that if they are ALREADY investigating a crime, they can ask for proof of residency. If someone is already being questioned by the police, how will it “waste police resources” for the police to ask them one more question????
Misty

what part of ILLEGAL do you not understand? I’m glad Missouri is on that list!!!!!!
Tonnywarfare

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tonnywarfare

YEAH AND BY THE WAY LETS CHANGE OUR NAME TO UNITED STATES OF NEW NAZY, I LIVE IN NORTH NAZY OF THE CAROLINAS!

*****MADNESS******
Jeremy

You have to be kidding me??? The Arizona law does not inspire to racial profiling. It does the opposite!!! Why are you telling lies and creating hate towards Americans that work hard every day to support their families? You people are the ones making this matter worse!!! Set an example for all that here in America we must follow the laws or be punished, not rewarded!!!
Joe Trifiletti

I believe Ohio should copy Arizona’s Immigration Law. I believe it is a copy of federal law. Which needs to be enforced also.
Jane Spaulding

The Arizona Law is not Racial Profiling. Who ever came up with this little Logo has managed to do just what they intended it to be. Crap. You are a sorry bunch of American Citizens if you agree with this. We hope to have a new governor in Colorado that has the guts to enforce laws on the books or at least make a new one showing that if your are not a Citizen of the US, you need to start the process, you need tolearn English. This Country is based on Immigrants becoming Citizens, speaking English and having a job. There are no jobs. You do not get jobs by having the Mexican President demand jobs for Illegals, so his Country can reap the money from them. Your First mistake is by demanding jobs, your second mistake is beliving that Obama is going to give you all Blanket Amnesty. The US did that once before and apparently others took advantage of it, now you want it again for 11 to 20 million more. NO Thanks. We have laws in this Country that you refuse to obey. You need to get the message that if you don’t have legal Paperwork then you need to go back to where you came from and get a working Visa and have Valid papers. Sorry no sympathy for illegals here.
dee

sorry…but I am with them! how about the ranchers that were slaughtered? do you think of them? this used to be a safe country…immigrants are making it unsafe because they do not conform to society nor do they want to learn english or abide by our laws. Its all about making the most money they can and then head back home!!! This is unexceptable!!!

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