A m e r i c a n P o s t – G a z e t t e
Distributed by C O M M O N S E N S E , in Arizona
Thursday, September 2, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: MEDIA CONTACT:
September 1, 2010 Sean McCaffrey (480/366-5975)
MEDIA ADVISORY: Pearce, Arpaio, Others
Press Conference 9:00 AM
PHOENIX, AZ¾ Arizona Senator Russell Pearce, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and other elected officials and VIPs will hold a 30-minute press conference in front of Arizona Diamondbacks Chase Field at South 5th Street and East Jefferson Street.
The press conference will take place at 9:00AM, Thursday, September 2, 2010. Sheriff Arpaio and Senator Pearce will be joined by other elected officials and VIPs from around Arizona.
“Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Senator Russell Pearce, both national co-chairmen of BanAmnestyNow.com will be announcing the results of B.A.N.’s nationwide petition to keep the 2011 MLB All-Star Game here in Arizona,” said B.A.N. president Sean McCaffrey.
“Arizona is an All-Star State, leading the way in showing our federal government that laws can indeed be upheld,” McCaffrey said. “Other states are joining us. Citizens from all fifty states have signed B.A.N.’s petition asking Major League Baseball not to punish the citizens of Arizona because we chose to uphold the law.”
SUMMARY INFORATION:
Who: Sheriff Arpaio, Senator Pearce & Other VIPs
When: Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010 at 9:00AM
Where: Intersection of S. 5th Street and E. Jefferson St., Phoenix
Why: Because Arizona is an All-Star State!
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Please contact Sean McCaffrey at B.A.N. at (480) 366-5975
or on his cell-phone at (602) 885-5815
I have a hard time understanding why people think that amnesty is such a problem. They passed immigration amnesty in 1986 and I didn’t notice any horrible problems result from that.
Response to Thanes Eichenaurer
A person can take two aspirin and stop a head ache. A whold bottle will kill you. Are we as the USA to take the whole bottle now?
If immigration is aspirin, is banning aspirin the solution?
However, people are not aspirin. If Bob from New York moves to Arizona to fix cars at a garage in Phoenix he needs housing which employs some people, he needs food which employs other people. That sounds good to me and good for those in the food and housing businesses. How that changes if Bob is really called Pedro I don’t understand. If Pedro instead moved from Mexico City instead of New York all the other factors remain the same.
As long as Bob and Pedro don’t ask government to pay for their bills I don’t see why we should make it harder to immigrate here than it already is (and I hear it takes 10 years for many).
John McCain and Joe Arpaio aren’t in the position to keep illegal immigrants from wanting to move to the US (promises to the contrary).
We paid every fee, obtained every visa, work permit, residence permit and required insurance and other fees when we as Americans resided in other countries. We respected the host nations we resided in. We and millions of other Americans abroad LIVE by the rules.
Half our work was providing humanitarian emergency aid precisely to battered guest workers and foreigners residing legally and illegally in those host countries after the national populations finally blew up and drove them from their neighborhoods. As Americans, we were neutral and acceptable as intermediaries to both sides of the immigration disputes. So, we’ve seen first hand the human tragedy of illegality when legals get fed up.
Sound familiar? The nationals complained the government hadn’t done enough to enforce immigration laws, despite numerous pleas by citizens, didn’t crack down on illegals, nationals paid taxes and into national pensions that employers of illegals did not pay into, illegals depressed wages by accepting cheaper pay, dodging taxes. Bribes and payoffs to ignore illegal immigration were rampant.
Now we come here and listen to the stupidiest excuses and rationales to provide a favored status to one group of people who’ve broken our laws for years, sometimes for decades. It’s bunk. Foreign nation Mexico has a vested political interest in pushing Mexicans over the border. Sob stories of little families enduring cross country drives to dodge mean Americans is political tissue theatre to cover the foreign aggression waged by a covetous neighbor. Nothing new under the sun.
There are laws. Obey them. No problems.
Amazing how simple that is. It’s universal. Every country in the world has the same expectations. Only here amongst a partisan, narrow political ideology are common sense, rule of law and common courtesy dismissed as some sort of “mean.”
If common sense and rule of law are thrown out, it means money’s involved, not anyone’s “rights.”
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Thane Eichenauer, 2010 Libertarian candidate for State Treasurer Says:
September 2nd, 2010 at 7:18 pm
. How that changes if Bob is really called Pedro I don’t understand.
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It doesn’t change if “Bob” and “Pedro” are legal citizens does it? But what if “Bob” is illegal and “Pedro” is not? It’s not the NAME, it’s the STATUS.
For illegal “Bob” to work, then he has to fake his work permits, his licenses, his ID, his social security. He’s got to steal an identity or make a total FAKE one. One illegality on top of another. A web of lies for a supposedly nice guy.
Are you seriously “Thane?” Saw your name on the ballot and thought, “This guy doesn’t know what LAWS are for, and can’t tell the difference between legal and illegal, WHY would I give him ANY responsibility over STATE TREASURY FUNDS?
We already have Tax Cheat Geitner. No thanks.
If Thane wants to look at the result of the 1986 amnesty a.k.a. Simpson-Mazzoli he should cast his eyes next door on California!
The Golden State is now America’s Greece!
And why should those who knowingly and willingly break the law be rewarded for doing so?
What does that tell those who took the time to enter the country legally?
If a nation state’s government lacks the willpower to defend and secure its own border, it possesses a death wish.
Furthermore, if the citizenry is compliant with government’s refusal to exercise this sovereign necessity, it deserves its inevitable fate.
@5 wanumba,
If you are really concerned about identity theft, allow guest workers to get SSN/work permits. Prohibition of immigration creates the problem of identity theft (certainly a large chunk of it). Legalization of immigration will eliminate the incentive for illegal immigrants to commit identity theft. Prohibition creates unintended consequences and perverse incentives. Prohibition laws create crime, ending prohibition will eliminate crime.
@6 Carlist,
Government education welfare and general government welfare is the problem not poor people who move here. Excessive California government spending is the problem, reducing government spending in California is the solution. The only laws I have an interest in supporting are those that punish he who would harm or defraud another.
End prohibition!
P.S. If you haven’t noticed lately the US-Mexico border isn’t secure today, isn’t at all likely to be secure tomorrow and wasn’t secure 10 years ago. All the actions of Joe Arpaio, John McCain, Russell Pearce, Terry Goddard and Jan Brewer aren’t going to change that in the next 6-12 months. Unless you legalize the 99% of peaceful Mexican immigrants you are not going to catch the 1% that neither I nor you want to travel here.
Legalized immigration and legalizing drugs will eliminate organized crime just as when the US eliminated liquor prohibition.
With that kind of logic, I guess that we should not have any laws period. Then things like rape, robbery, murder, etc wouldn’t be against the law. I can just see God’s face when you tell him the 10 commandments were bogus. And according to immigration studies, it’s one out of 7 illegals that have a criminal history not “1%”. Realistically, all of them are criminals because they broke the laws by coming here. Send the all back and SEAL THE DAMN BORDERS NOW!!!
Is this guy “Thane” and others like him really that dense? Is this really all the caliber of IQ we have running for public office? You people are dangerous to Arizona, especially to our state coffers!
“Legalization of Immigration.”
Good grief it is ALREADY legal to immigrate here! The point is doing it as a lawful requirement, follow the darn law. What good is a law, whether currently on the books, or pending, if it won’t be followed? What’s the point of being a sovereign country? Unless you are a member of the CFR and are pushing globalism down our collective throats. We are nearly bankrupt and you want to make sure we stay that way.
Keep people accountable, ALL people accountable and your spending and education problems, along with the plethora of other costly scourge illegal trespassers and stealers cause will go away. They will get the message and we will mean it.
And that’s exactly what “red” California DIDN’T do.
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Lydia D. Says:
September 4th, 2010 at 7:28 am
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I was going to just tear my hair out with a “GAAAAAH” but you made a better retort.
Thane wants legalized drugs, so that explains everything about the underlying self-interest of his arguments on illegals.
@8 Lydia D.,
If it is already legal to immigrate to the US why is it that thousands of people risk death in the desert to hike to freedom instead of following the law? I think you are overlooking the enormous legal hurdles that are every bit a prohibition as are the fences that the US government builds across its southern border.
As for the CFR I have no particular reason to favor them as the are just one more group that more often than not provides lobbying support to businesses that ask for special favors from government. I oppose that.
As for globalism, I choose to buy shoes that are made in China, does that make me a globalist? My car was made in Canada, does that make me a globalist? The keyboard I am typing on was made in China (I’ll give odds that yours was as well), does that make me a globalist? I am in favor of reducing government spending in the US so that more goods can be cost effectively produced in the US instead of in foreign countries – in my opinion that makes me a US firster. What is your position?
P.S. Your claim that I am dense and possessing of low IQ is clear admittance that you admit that you can’t out argue me on the issues.
@10 wanumba, I want legalized drugs because I want to be able to afford to pay my next car repair bill which is a darn sight more important to me than taking my taxes to pay to imprison thousands of people who buy and sell drugs but who have otherwise not harmed me. I want legalized drugs because prohibition causes a profitable black market which is by definition provided by criminal gangs. I want legalized drugs because if by some quirk of fate somebody I know and love comes down with cancer and needs or just wishes to take a illegal or highly regulated drug to abate the pain that I don’t want that person to have to jump through government hoops or worry about being arrested so that government police can have something to do to fill their day, so that government judges can collect a paycheck while ordering marijuana users to prison, so that prison guards have a job keeping marijuana (and other illegal and regulated drugs) users in prison.
BTW, Even if I did want to legalize drugs so I could then use them, what of it? My underlying intent (or lack of same) has nothing to do with the validity of my argument.
“I am dense and possessing of low IQ”
“admittance that you admit”
guess he showed us, didn’t he. This guy wants to be State Treasurer?
If I give money to Ban Amnesty Now, where does the money go? What is it used for?
Mr. Eichenauer,
Don’t bother with this group. They do not know logic.
It is not their fault. It was never taught them.
They are typically Bubbas.
Germany, the land I was born in went through the same cycle in the 30′s of last century.
America has reached that plateau during the last 5 years.
There is a good chance it will be resolved within the next 5 years.
For the sake of the U.S. economy I hope so.
Sorry I can’t pray for it because I am a secular humanist and do not believe in Gawd or Prayer, but Hope I was told is also eternal.
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Horst Kraus Says:
September 4th, 2010 at 11:20 pm
Mr. Eichenauer,
Don’t bother with this group. They do not know logic.
It is not their fault. It was never taught them.
They are typically Bubbas.
Germany, the land I was born in went through the same cycle in the 30′s of last century.
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Uh, huh, but our “typical Bubbas” defeated the snotty German elitists.
Could it be that Thane promotes legalized drugs because he isn’t mentioning he uses them? You check HIS logic recently?
What does this mean? : “I want legalized drugs because I want to be able to afford to pay my next car repair bill which …”
He gets half-way thru a sentence and contradicts himself, and doesn’t seem to notice the mess, and to add to the absurdity, you’ve actually invoked NAZI Germany to defend him.
You been smoking something you shouldn’t, perhaps? And what is Thane smoking to think he’s legitimate State Treasurer material?
These BAN guys are a joke. Are they even aware that Russell Pierce knowingly keeps Nazi sympathizers as friends, and that he attended skin head and KKK rallies? Are you also aware that by supporting harsh anti immigrant laws you are supporting an admitted progressive liberal in John Tanton? Do a little homework people before you jump on any bandwagon. BTW, who among you are really intimidated by uneducated immigrants who mostly come here to do menial jobs that most Americans do not want? I think you all need to seriously look deep into your hearts and souls and ask yourself what the true motivation is behind your hate of people of a different skin color than you.