They came from Los Angeles and San Diego, and Wisconsin, Texas, Illinois, Chicago, Seattle and, of course, Arizona — a river of humanity flooding the Phoenix streets to protest the state’s controversial immigration law.
The Arizona legislature passed the bill earlier this year and the state’s Republican governor, Jan Brewer, signed it. In two more months, unless the law is overturned in court, police in Arizona will be allowed to check the residency status of anyone who is being investigated for a crime or possible legal infraction if there is reasonable suspicion the person is in the United States illegally.
Opponents say the bill opens the door for racial profiling. Supporters deny that and say it’s necessary to stem a tide of illegal immigration they believe is a source of a soaring crime rate.
Supporters of the bill plan a rally Saturday evening in Tempe, just outside Phoenix, but the day belonged to tens of thousands of protesters, stretching two miles along a Phoenix street leading to the state Capitol.
Organizers said they expected 50,000 people. But Saturday morning, as people arrived at a Phoenix park for the start of the march, they said they may have underestimated.
(Source: CNN)
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They are comming from California to try and ruin Arizona the way they did to California.
They don’t want to make other countries more free and more prosperous like America used to be.
They are continuing to make America into a hell hole like the rest of the world is.
Liberalism is all about taking away peoples’ freedom and safety and security and spreading misery all over the world
Hope NY copies AZ, less undocumented inmigrants-more people working on the books-more taxes into the state coffers-less tax increases for lelal citizens-more money for residents.
According to the 36-page 2007 Hate Crimes Report (PDF), thugs committed 763 “hate crimes” in 2007 in Los Angeles County, 28 percent higher than last year.
The majority of these crimes was motivated by bias against race/ethnicity and national origin. In “antiblack” crimes, 71 percent of suspects were hispanic; in anti-hispanic crimes, 56 percent of suspects were black. Blacks and hispanics are natural enemies (gang-bangers only?), it seems.