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Title: Palin joins Arizona’s governor in defending state’s tough new immigration law
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Published: May 16, 2010
Author: Jonathan J. Cooper
Post Date: 2010-05-16 09:30:03 by James Deffenbach
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Views: 211
Comments: 11
PHOENIX — As calls spread for an economic boycott of Arizona, the state’s governor enlisted the help of former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on Saturday to defend a new law cracking down on illegal immigration. Jan Brewer and Palin blamed President Barack Obama for the state law, saying the measure is Arizona’s attempt to enforce immigration laws because the federal government won’t do it. “It’s time for Americans across this great country to stand up and say, ‘We’re all Arizonans now,’” Palin said. “And in clear unison we say, ‘Mr. President: Do your job. Secure our border.’” The former Alaska governor appeared with Brewer at a brief news conference on Saturday. The event launched a website that Brewer said was an effort to educate America about border security and discourage an economic boycott of the state. The site, funded by Brewer’s re-election campaign, shows pictures of Brewer and Palin and invites visitors to sign a petition opposing boycotts. It includes a list of politicians and organizations calling for the boycotts and asks visitors to call or e-mail to “let them know that you support Arizona.” “Our purpose today is to help the rest of the nation understand the crisis which confronts our state,” Brewer said, citing the presence of human and drug smugglers. The immigration law takes effect July 29 unless blocked by pending court challenges. It requires police enforcing another law to ask a person about his or her immigration status if there’s “reasonable suspicion” that the person is in the country illegally. Being in the country illegally would become a state crime. “I think for most American people the reaction to this would be, ‘Why haven’t the police already been doing that?’” Palin said. Obama and some city, state and foreign governments have condemned the law, which critics say will lead to racial profiling of Hispanics. Brewer on Saturday reiterated her assertion that profiling is illegal and will not be tolerated. “The president apparently considers it a wonderful opportunity to divide people along racial lines for his personal political convenience,” Brewer said. Arizona Democratic Party spokeswoman Jennifer Johnson said Brewer’s the one who has divided people, which she’s done by signing controversial bills, and “puts her political survival first every single day.” “Every word she said today was crafted with her Republican primary in mind,” Johnson said. “Arizona is just an afterthought.” Brewer automatically became governor last year after former Gov. Janet Napolitano was appointed U.S. Homeland Security secretary. She’s found herself rapidly thrust into an international spotlight, the subject of ridicule on the left and praised by anti-illegal immigration activists on the right. Arizona’s law is considered the nation’s toughest crackdown on illicit border crossers. It was pushed by illegal immigration hard-liners in the state Legislature, but Brewer has become the public face of the law since she signed it April 23. Her decision to sign it, announced in a nationally televised press conference, has given Brewer traction in this year’s crowded GOP primary for governor. Some of Brewer’s opponents say she’s not a true conservative and have hit her hard for demanding a temporary increase in the state sales tax. Her campaign has seized on the immigration bill to bolster her conservative credentials. Brewer and Palin refused to say whether they’d support a guest worker program that would allow unskilled workers to temporarily work legally in the United States. Palin is in Phoenix for a previously scheduled speech to a hunters group. She has defended the law on national television and spoken out against boycotts. This week she railed against a suburban Chicago high school for skipping a girls’ basketball tournament in Arizona because of concerns over the new law. Palin said Wednesday night that people should help the Highland Park team get to Arizona even if the girls have to “go rogue.” On the Net: — Brewer’s immigration site: www.SecureTheBorder.com
Poster Comment: credit to hondo68TTOR who posted this on LP Palin has already said that she would support a "guest worker program" (amnesty), didn't she? I seem to recall that when she was telling people to vote for that statist whore, McCain.
"...Brewer and Palin refused to say whether they’d support a guest worker program that would allow unskilled workers to temporarily work legally in the United States..."
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#1. To: James Deffenbach (#0)
I believe she did. Sarah Palin is doing what it takes and says what she does to keep the money rolling in. She also had that jew flag on her office wall before she resigned as governor. I support governor Brewer and her efforts to rid Arizona of the mexican scum that has come here illegally. We need to kick their asses back to mexico or shoot them when they cross our border illegally. They mostly come here for the freebies and our jew controlled government supports them. Get rid of the jew element in our government and the spics wouldn't be welcome here and would go home on their own.
Maybe the Jews would find some other place more to their liking as well. No Jews = No Federal Reserve EDIT: Palin's a neo-con pure and simple.
"The smallest of frauds such as Santa Claus are perpetrated upon children by criminals in order that the largest of frauds such as the FEDERAL RESERVE may be had upon them as adults."
The Republican Party seems determined to ditch the Hispanic vote.
Ex-Voters ... unable to make up their minds ... not using their heads either ! www.freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=118075 Scroll the thread above and tell me you give a shit about the ILLEGAL ALIEN MEXICAN VOTE !
"The smallest of frauds such as Santa Claus are perpetrated upon children by criminals in order that the largest of frauds such as the FEDERAL RESERVE may be had upon them as adults."
LOL! You actually believe that the his and her spanics vote for anything but D's? Not saying the R's are any better but anyone who believes that the Mexicans vote for R's is drinking some kind of bad Kool-Aid (or maybe it's Kook-Aid). Oh, that Mexican moron who was on McCain's staff may have voted for McCain, but as a rule Mexicans vote D.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. I suppose some anarchists would prefer that we ignore our border laws in favor of a voting block. What other laws do they want us to turn our back on, I'm confused.
Somehow I get the feeling that they may not have thought things through very much. Then again, that may be beyond their capacity.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Uh, ILLEGALS can't vote and LEGAL immigrants are sick of illegal immigrants who don't follow the law and take the legal route to citizenship.
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ... We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of." Edward Bernays, Father of Public Relations
After Palin went to bat for McAmnesty, her stand on this issue is moot. It's another opportunity for Palin to get in front of the cameras and pretend she is oblivious to her own hypocricy.......
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ... We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of." Edward Bernays, Father of Public Relations
Yeah, seems like Saint Sarah is for one thing with one crowd, for something else with another one and when someone tries to pin her down she has no comment. Typical politician. Better looking than most but still a politician, not a statesman/stateswoman.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. EDIT: Palin's a neo-con pure and simple. You got it right on both. This country will never be great ever again as long as the jews are in control. I thought the American people were smart enough to understand the source of all our troubles. We have been taken over from within. The jews aren't our allies, they're our enenies and we continue to let them control us without hardly a whimper.
Palin has already said that she would support a "guest worker program" (amnesty), didn't she? I seem to recall that when she was telling people to vote for that statist whore, McCain.
#2. To: LACUMO (#1)
(Edited)
Get rid of the jew element in our government and the spics wouldn't be welcome here and would go home on their own.
#3. To: James Deffenbach (#0)
#4. To: Shoonra (#3)
The Republican Party seems determined to ditch the Hispanic vote.
#5. To: Shoonra (#3)
The Republican Party seems determined to ditch the Hispanic vote.
Lord Acton
#6. To: James Deffenbach (#5)
#7. To: Jethro Tull (#6)
Lord Acton
#8. To: Shoonra (#3)
The Republican Party seems determined to ditch the Hispanic vote.
#9. To: James Deffenbach (#0)
#10. To: abraxas (#9)
Lord Acton
#11. To: noone222 (#2)
No Jews = No Federal Reserve
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