Opinion surveys show most Americans support Arizona's recently enacted law to fight illegal immigration. But it is understandable that in a big, diverse nation such as ours, some will hold a different opinion, and they have a right to express their views.
In Illinois, however, one high school has forbidden its girls basketball team to travel to Arizona for a tournament because school officials dislike the Arizona law. They told The Chicago Tribune the law is not "aligned with our beliefs and values."
But ironically, the very same school -- Highland Park High School -- has sponsored an official student trip to Communist China!
While Americans may support or oppose Arizona's law, that state has never come close to the brutality that Communist China practices on a daily basis against ordinary Chinese citizens. Political and religious dissent are routinely and violently suppressed in Communist China.
Over the past few years alone, 18,000 Chinese have been forcibly evicted from their homes to make way for a major 2010 technology fair. Many homes have been demolished, with no compensation for the displaced victims, Amnesty International reported. Some protesters have been beaten and imprisoned, and at least one died from the severity of the beatings.
Is that behavior in line with the "beliefs and values" of the Illinois school that won't let its students play ball in Arizona but will send them to Communist China? We can only wonder.
Authoritarianism that abuses the citizens of China, runs counter to our sensitivities yet American corporations flock there with dreams of mountainous profit.
The religio-culture driven abuse of women in Saudi Arabia is purely repugnant to our concept of human rights but Bush never hesitated to kiss 'em and we've heard no calls to boycott their oil exports.
The laws of other countries are the laws of other countries.
The decision by the Illinois school to boycott Arizona is entirely proper because the Arizone law is a violation of our national Constitution. Emphasis on that might have better justified the action than an appeal to "beliefs and values" as those considerations are quite subjective.
Arizona is a STATE and has a right to pass its own laws. The big lie is in that the opposition fails to acknowledge the law is not Anti-immigration(term used in media continually. It is Anti-illlegal immigrants. All who are uninformed yet speak up so loudly need to go to Arizona and see what has been happening. As for the US Constitution, it does give the responsibility to the federal government to secure our borders. Guess what? In regards to the Arizona situation, the federal government is not doing its job.
Yes, Arizona is a STATE - not a country unto itself. It can pass all the laws it wants, as long as it does not pass laws that abridge rights guaranteed to our citizens under the United STATES Constitution. It is racial profiling plain and simple.
All of this yakking about illegal immigration from Mexico is racist humbuggery. Chinese immigrants come to America crammed in shipping containers. People can walk through the muskeg out of Canada unimpeded. Cuban and Haitian 'boat people' have never prompted Florida to engage in such repugnant profiling.
The Arizona law, like most of our laws, is in the hands of people whose enforcement 'methods' and prejudices are as varied as the shades of brown to be found in that STATE'S residents - legal and otherwise. It is extremist and a shameful reflection on Americans from every STATE. I am certainly ashamed of it and will support any efforts to see it overturned.
A workable, humane solution must be found but this regressive, draconian monstrosity is not the way to go.
lib: "All of this yakking about illegal immigration from Mexico is racist humbuggery. Chinese immigrants come to America crammed in shipping containers. People can walk through the muskeg out of Canada unimpeded. Cuban and Haitian 'boat people' have never prompted Florida to engage in such repugnant profiling."
And they're promptly sent back, bub. You don't read the rest of the book, do you? The northern borders are much better enforced. Cubans and Haitians have had a hard time in both Canada and the US-I know I've lived with them. And they have been quite capable of giving grief back too.
The truth left out is also that while tens of millions slip over the southern borders ILLEGALLY, legal residents, visa holders, would-be legal emigrants and their families in Asia, Europe, Russia, Africa, etc, are kept on hold for 8-10 years average by our Gov't. Seems there's a Plan to allow certain lawbreakers in (to vote, eh?) while keeping the legitimate, hard-working (yet 'wrong' ethnic groups) out.
"regressive, draconian monstrosity" must allude to the Present Administration. Because it can't refer to the Federal immigration Law in place already. Which is kin to the present Arizona Law being debated. Oh, and kin to Mexico's own VERY strict "anti-immigrant" laws-they do enforce. mmmm...must be a bunch of "racists" down there.
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