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But don't they eventually have to turn the issue over to the Feds? This law doesn't change that, does it? So I'm not sure what exactly you're talking about.
As the AZ Daily Star reports, Elton John brought the immigration law (S.B. 1070) issue up during the Tucson concert on July 22 (which was pushed back a day due to food poisoning). Elton John used some salty language when he addressed the Tucson Convention Center crowd, speaking passionately about artists who are participating in a grassroots boycott against the embattled state over S.B. 1070:
"We are all very pleased to be playing in Arizona. I have read that some of the artists won't come here. They are [censored] wits! Let's face it: I still play in California, and as a gay man I have no legal rights whatsoever. So what's the [censored] with these people?"
Elton loves a paycheck.
Didn't he sing at Rush's wedding?
In fact, the federal government under President Obama has steadily increased the deportation of illegal immigrants. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency says it's on track to expel some 400,000 people this year, 8 percent more than 2008 -- the last year of the Bush administration.
The Obama administration is also targeting employers who hire illegal immigrants. But instead of conducting a few high-profile raids and hauling workers away in handcuffs, the government is auditing the working papers filed at hundreds more companies. And there's been a nearly six-fold increase in the past two years in employer fines.
My issue isn't with illegial immigrants coming to the usa, but more with the major issue of racial profiling people seem to have... I just don't see why its such a big deal?
America has my fingerprints on file, every time i come into te country they scan them to check im the same person, same goes for UK because im on a biometric visa. I think its way over the top, but its a necessary part of travel, should i feel discrimnated against being a non us/uk citizen as well?
true true, but i thought this law was only in Arizona, which has a border with Mexico and is a known way in for illegal immigrants.
rather than going up to hispanic people in restuarants and knocking on doors demanding papers.
May 9, 2011 NPR
A 51st State? Some In Arizona Want A Split
SB 1070 enjoys widespread support in Arizona. But that support is by no means unanimous. In southern Arizona some people are so unhappy with the direction the state has taken that they want to create their own state.Inside the Shanty, a favorite bar for Tucson Democrats, you can find people who don't like Republican-controlled Arizona government.
David Euchner is set up just inside the door to catch patrons before they have a drink after work: "Hi, would you like to sign a petition?"
Euchner is having no trouble getting people to sign a petition declaring Baja Arizona the 51st state. Organizers will have to get 48,000 signatures to put it on the local ballot in Pima County. Then, if it passes, statehood will have to be approved by the Arizona Legislature and the governor — and then Congress.
And it's fucking humid. Holy shit. I spent a week there in April a few years back and sweated my balls off the whole time.Could be worse, these people could be living in Florida: the bacteria-ridden, wood-paneled, fecal matter-contaminated hot tub of America.
US high court appears to back Arizona on immigration
Justice Kennedy questions social, economic disruption
WASHINGTON, April 25 (Reuters) - Conservative justices who hold a majority on the U.S. Supreme Court appeared to endorse Arizona's immigration crackdown on Wednesday, rejecting the Obama administration stance that the federal government has sole power over those who illegally enter the United States.
During 80 minutes of oral arguments, the justices suggested by their questions and comments that states have significant latitude to adopt laws that discourage illegal immigrants from moving to and staying in the country.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, who often casts the deciding vote, referred to the "social and economic disruption" that states endure as a result of a flood of illegal immigrants and suggested that states such as Arizona have authority to act.
Only eight of the nine Supreme Court justices heard the arguments. Liberal Justice Elena Kagan, the former top Obama administration lawyer at the court, recused herself because she had worked on the matter previously.
Her fellow liberal justices appeared to accept that the conservative majority would vote to uphold at least part of the Arizona law and focused their questions on how those provisions, which have been on hold during the litigation, would be applied on the ground.
“It seems to me the federal government just doesn’t want to know who’s here illegally,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said at one point.
Bro, have you ever been to South Beach?Could be worse, these people could be living in Florida: the bacteria-ridden, wood-paneled, fecal matter-contaminated hot tub of America.