Girl, women describe discrimination in Arizona

[pinboy3niner]

Girl, women describe discrimination in Arizona
by Suzanne Gamboa - Jun. 10, 2010 04:20 PM
Associated Press


WASHINGTON - Little Katherine Figueroa sat in a grand room inside a Capitol Hill building pleading through tears to members of Congress: "Please tell President Obama to stop putting parents in jail, all they want is a better life for their kids."
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Katherine said her parents were arrested by deputies who work for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The arrests made it hard for her to go to school, she said.
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Sylvia Herrera, a researcher with the Arizona community group Puente, said the group has received about five reports a day from people with complaints of racial discrimination since the law was signed.
Agencies are asking people for additional identification, workers are not being paid by employers and a blood bank refused to take the blood of people who only speak Spanish, Herrera said.

Some of the problems preceded the new law, but the law's passage has "empowered" agency workers and others to discriminate, she said.



Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/06/10/20100610arizona-immigration-women-discrimination.html

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. A blood bank refused to take blood?!

WTF

[flor-de-jasmim]

2. One step away from refusing to give blood to Hispanics?

[pinboy3niner]

3. Wow--that hadn't occurred to me, but it is the next logical, ugly step

GOP pols in Arizona used lies and fear-mongering to inflame anti-immigrant sentiment--and then poured gasoline on the flames. They haven't backed off on the rhetoric yet, so there is good reason to fear what's coming next...

[BlueKitteh]

4. President Obama

Is not to blame. Conservative is code for whites only and these types do not harbor soft spots for browns, blacks, yellows, or reds. Let everyone who isn't white leave Arizona and they pick on all whites without blonde hair! Teh stupid doesn't end :(

[pinboy3niner]

5. Welcome to DU, BlueKitteh!

Border enforcement and deportations have increased under Obama. The conservative charge that this administration "isn't doing anything" about border security is total BS.

The other color conservatives hate is "Democratic blue," which is the color of most Hispanic voters. Anti-immigrant laws that supposedly target only "illegals" have the ulterior motive of intimidating Hispanics who are legal American citizens from voting. A recent article by Greg Palast reveals the partisan agenda that's REALLY being pursued (and it's a great read, too):
http://www.gregpalast.com/behind-the-arizona-immigration-lawgop-game-to-swipe-the-november-election

What's really stupid about this conservative agenda is that it's likely to backfire; already, the recent anti-immigrant initiatives and complaints about border security have fueled INCREASED public support for comprehensive immigration reform--the last thing conservatives want.

:hi:

[The Backlash Cometh]

7. Why aren't we dragging out illegal immigrants of Anglo descent?

I still don't understand why that isn't an issue.

[blondeatlast]

8. Silly, because there are no illegal immigrants of Anglo descent...

except on every campus in Arizona, especially The Thunderbird School...

(Hopefully unneeded :sarcasm:)

[The Backlash Cometh]

9. Of course. The international schools.

[pinboy3niner]

10. Another fact: A lot of so-called "illegals" entered LEGALLY...

...and overstayed (or failed to renew) their visas. I believe the figure is 45 percent.

So the RW meme that all undoc'd immigrants are guilty of the crime of entering the country illegally is nothing but a blatant lie.

[blondeatlast]

11. My ex did just that. He renewed before we got married,

but he was a "dirty illegal", er, Asian Indian immgrant who overstayed his student visa.

[Obamanaut]

13. If one enters legally with a visa for marriage, work, or school -

and the marriage dissolves prior to gaining citizenship, or the job disappears, or the school ends, ending the visa, doesn't that place the person who remains in an illegal status?

[The Backlash Cometh]

14. Exactly.

And those people would be easy to track since they can't disappear doing migrant labor.

[pinboy3niner]

15. That's true

But the law seems to make a distinction in the way it treats categories like overstayers vs. border-crossers.
The Congressional Research Service (CRS), in an Apr. 6, 2006 report entitled "Immigration Enforcement Within the United States," discussed the distinction between civil and criminal immigration law violations:

"The INA (Immigration and Nationality Act) includes both criminal and civil components, providing both for criminal charges (e.g., alien smuggling, which is prosecuted in the federal courts) and for civil violations (e.g., lack of legal status, which may lead to removal through a separate administrative system in the Department of Justice). Being illegally present in the U.S. has always been a civil, not criminal, violation of the INA, and subsequent deportation and associated administrative processes are civil proceedings. For instance, a lawfully admitted nonimmigrant alien may become deportable if his visitor's visa expires or if his student status changes. Criminal violations of the INA, on the other hand, include felonies and misdemeanors and are prosecuted in federal district courts. These types of violations include the bringing in and harboring of certain undocumented aliens, the illegal entry of aliens, and the reentry of aliens previously excluded or deported."

http://immigration.procon.org/sourcefiles/ImmigrationEnforcementWithintheUnitedStates.pdf


And, enforcement priorities generally focus onthe border:

U.S. not cracking down on immigrants with expired visas
by Daniel González - May. 10, 2010 12:00 AM
The Arizona Republic

Not every illegal immigrant in the United States snuck across the border. A very large number, perhaps as many as 5.5 million, entered legally with visas and then never left.

But unlike the hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants apprehended at the border every year, very few visa violators are ever caught.

The Border Patrol's Tucson sector, the busiest in the nation, logged 112,488 apprehensions last fiscal year. In comparison, federal agents in Arizona tracked down and arrested 27 people who had overstayed their visas.

Visa violators represent nearly half of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the country. But they have been largely ignored amid a national clamor to secure the border, fueled in part by Arizona's tough new immigration law, the killing of a southern Arizona rancher and worries that cartel violence in Mexico could spill into this country, analysts and experts say.

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/05/10/20100510illegal-immigrants-overstay.html#ixzz0nVsZTFkt

[yella_dawg]

6. The entire world...

The entire world has gone raving, stinking mad.

Find a shady spot, kick back and try to enjoy the environment while we still have one.

[SargeUNN]

12. best way to stop a conversation on this topic is

just ask what the person knows about it. Strangely, they get mad and accuse you of calling them stupid and then they don't answer and quit communicating with you.