ITW:
Don’t forget, this is only in Arizona. I’m guessing, nationwide GOP poobahs are secretly cringing, for the reasons you mention. While W did get more Hispanic votes than other GOP candidates, it was still a significant minority of the total. As for the black vote, I am still totally baffled by a group that would support a party, the Dems, that has caused them so much misery over the years.

Ironic isn’t it? In 2000 and 2004 the GOP could count on significant Hispanic support.  But to cater to the racists and paranoids in their party they have alienated the LARGEST minority in the USA.  GOPers weep and moan that Black Americans support for Democrats has gone from the 75% region to the +90% region. 
Now they’ve gone and alienated Hispanics.

It’s not only not good law, it’s not even smart politics.

Look there’s a simple solution. Why is everyone so impractical? Just pass a law that every Mexican in Amrica has to sew a brown enchilada on their sleeve. You could also issue special ‘Latino passes’ like the Nazis did for the Jews. Look how well that worked! Problem solved.

This is pure politics played by a woman who looks like a mummy someone dug up and has a brain to match. It’s an attempt to resuscitate the Republican Party which is on life support at this point. The sheer hypocrisy of it is breathtaking: everyone knows that the wasps want the Mexicans in America slaving away in agriculture and the service industry because their Dickensian wages keep everyone else’s wages down. That is their real role and that’s why the Republicans have never done a single effective thing to stop them coming. But that doesn’t mean they won’t play the xenophobia card and create hatred against these people in the hope of reaping some political reward. The law itself is a throwback to the pass laws in South Africa which only proves that all Fascists think alike.

I heard a terrific suggestion today:

San Fransisco has asked its citizens to boycott Arizona.

San Fransisco is a “sanctuary city”, whatever that is.

The Governor of Arizona should offer to give any person, extended family included, who is fearful of being hurt by this new law a one way ticket, no questions asked, and free of charge, to San Fransisco where they can seek sanctuary as guests of the city.

I mean, how cool would that be? Where would you rather live, under a bridge in Yuma, Arizona or under the Golden Gate?

melpol:
Well said.

Only a fool would not want a worker that does the job better or at a cheaper
price. That opportunity is being offered to 5 million Mexicans that enter the US
each year illegally, their unemployment rate is zero.  American workers can
overcome that competition by also doing the job better or at a cheaper price. If
they cannot, it would be best if they went back to school or tightened their belt.
The law of supply and demand cannot be altered by closing the Mexican border.
That is why Over 30 million illegals immigrants in the US are dancing the cha cha
on the way to the bank.

commune115:

Here is ANOTHER post I agree with! We have to stop meeting like this.

ITW:
“Ironic” says it all. But laughable is also true. Her comes Mexico telling its citizens, “If you go to a foreign country, you better have some ID.” What a concept!!

And if they do have their passports with them, which is pretty much a requirement for ALL post 9/11 travel everywhere these days, what kind of “harassment” can they expect from the Tucson police?

Does anybody really think the police will have the time or the inclination to stop every brown person they see and ask for papers?

A big ado about nothing.

I agree that the new Arizona law is pretty draconian, but the Calderon regime, one of the most brutal in Latin America, should worry about providing jobs for his collapsing country. In December Calderon sent the army to shut down the country’s biggest workers’ union, leaving over 40,000 people without work in one night. The next Mexican Revolution must occur, and hopefully inspire American workers to radicalize as well.

I think this is highly ironic and just wish they had added: “Only drink bottled water with an unbroken seal.”

Montezuma`s revenge was once the diarrhea of Americans when they visited Mexico, but his revenge has now been upgraded. He is now sending 50 million hungry peons across the Mexican border. The ancestors of murderous Cortes will know how it feels to be enslaved by working long hours for little pay. It took many years, but Montezuma has finally gotten his long awaited revenge.

The Mexico alert is interesting coming from a country where the police have a history of murdering illegal immigrants from Guatemala.