KFYI’s Mike Broomfield introduces Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce, author of Arizona SB 1070 at the United Border Coalition tea party rally at the Arizona/Mexico border on Sunday, August 15th.

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Rally to support Arizona and SB 1070 this weekend Featuring the top leaders  on illegal immigration in Arizona

Washington Post: ‘Tea Party’ groups plan Arizona rally against illegal immigration Daily Caller: Immigration law rally at Arizona border this weekend MSNBC interview with JD Hayworth, Republican Arizona Senatorial candidate Seattle Times: Tea Partyers plan rally to support Arizona’s stance on illegal immigration Arizona Republic: ‘Tea Partyers’ planning rally in Hereford to support SB 1070 Sierra Vista Herald: Tea Party rally set for Sunday along border with Mexico Earth Times: Tea Party joins anti-illegal immigration moves in Arizona For more information on the upcoming Tea Party on the border, click here. Regrettably, the scant coverage the event has received from Fox News has been biased, due to their support for John McCain over JD Hayworth. Hayworth has been endorsed by 16 Tea Parties and will be speaking at the event.

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Monday, August 9, 2010

Horne trying desperately to hide his pro-amnesty record

Resorts to suing Arpaio to try and shut down powerful television

Breaking news….we have just heard that liberal Republican Tom Horne has filed a complaint against Sheriff Joe Arpaio over this television ad we sent out earlier today to try and get it taken off the air. If you haven’t had a chance to watch it, do it now. Horne’s record on amnesty and other issues can be found at the website http://www.thetomhornetruth.com/ According to the site,

The East Valley Tribune reported on February 14, 2007 that Horne has a “plan” to grant American citizenship to illegal immigrants who meet certain educational requirements.  According to the Tribune, “Horne has a plan that would reward high school graduates with citizenship. All they would have to do is pass a test. “If there’s a standardized test that confirms it, that the student does well and learned, I would have no objection to that” Horne said.

Should SB1070 Be Secondary to… SB1108?

Crime Control  vs. The Bill of Rights

by Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce

The entire world, driven by news-media reports, has become fixated on the illegal-immigrant invasion Arizona has suffered under for years.

The invasion had previously been ignored, a news-media black hole from which little real information escaped.

The catalyst for the attention is my bill SB1070, which empowers our law enforcement agencies to deal with the invasion. We passed the bill because along with the feds the state and local governments are aiding and abetting the invaders, instead of stopping them and defending the nation against a flood of biblical proportions.

In its frenzy the media missed huge Bill of Rights restoration in Arizona. SB1070 is a criminal statute, enacted to treat symptoms of the very harmful crime of sneaking into a nation without permission, involved in serious criminal activity, billions in cost, jobs taken from Americans, and leaching off the nation’s success and abundance.  I do not want to undermine the importance of SB1070 and the national debate way over due on this issue.

A different law, SB1108, for which I am as responsible as I am for SB1070, is a critical important act. SB1108 is no simple crime-control law. It repeals outrageous infringements to the Bill of Rights, reinstating wholesome fullness to the right to keep and bear arms.

The media however, driven by a nearly fanatical racist miasma, has blindly focused on the immigration-crime law, finding racism where none exists — at the expense of even seeing the strengthened Bill of Rights.
 
The media inaccurately conflated the racial (not racist) nature of our invasion, with the powers in the immigration bill, which are pure law enforcement. That’s because the invaders are overwhelmingly Hispanic — though the Border Patrol says 20% are OTMs — “Other Than Mexicans.”

Civil rights were reborn here on the same day the anti-invasion bill took effect, but the media ignored that. While they cried racism, “Constitutional Carry” restored fundamental civil rights to anyone on the planet who enters the state of Arizona legally. This bill extends rights to all people.

The God-given right to protect your family, your property and yourself from immediate physical harm has been accepted since the dawn of civilization. It was ensconced in the Constitution when the Founding Fathers put the Second Amendment in our Bill of Rights. There was little controversy over this well understood, deeply rooted basic human right until recently, when forces of darkness began attacking many of the truths we hold to be self evident.

Arizona now has the most robust protection for the right to keep arms, and the right to bear arms, anywhere on Earth. How could media pundits miss that?

Are they so blinded by imagined racism they find where there is none, that they can’t see what was put in front of them at a packed news conference the day before either law took effect?

In times just recently past, enactment of a law that frees every decent adult in the world to carry a gun with no prior permission would have led to a national uproar.

Could it be that a law crafted to prevent illegal activity is more important than the historic renewal of a cherished human right?

Maybe the media is just tired of crying wolf? They screamed about imminent blood-in-the-streets when Arizona’s gun-permit law passed in 1994, but nothing ever happened (and they never apologized).
They convulsed recently about anticipated wild-west mayhem when a 30-year-old ban on gun possession was repealed for National Parks, but nothing happened (and they showed no remorse for the fear mongering).

When Arizona’s restaurant gun ban was lifted a year-and-a-half ago, we heard insane screeching about impending homicidal frenzy from “shotguns in nightclubs,” but it turned out that breakfast at Denny’s or lunch at Applebee’s is really a mild-mannered affair. No correction has been issued or is expected.

So why should the media pay any attention to a law that merely restores the Second Amendment, not just for citizens but for any law-abiding adult who legally visits?

Who really cares that amassed infringements on 10% of the Bill of Rights have finally been overturned, without bloodshed?

Why even bother covering a law that one other state, Alaska, passed in 2003?

Does it really matter that states all over the union are now seeking Constitutional Carry for themselves?

Could people care less if a place like Arizona frees its women to put handguns in their handbags, go about their business, and return home without fear of arrest? How could feminists or NOW complain about that?

Would it bore people if you told them Sen. Pearce’s bill and its chief advocates, the Arizona Citizens Defense League (azcdl.org) worked for the past five years to make statute conform to the state’s Constitution?
No one wants to hear that all these crazies are carrying guns and no one is getting shot. How could that possibly be newsworthy?

And perhaps most of all, people don’t want to hear that government’s exit from the enforced-training game is a business-stimulus plan.

Private enterprise within the state has launched the TrainMeAZ.com campaign to promote a culture of marksmanship and gun safety to every person in the state. This is Arizona — learn to shoot straight. Marksmanship matters. Teach your children well. Why would the news media ever cover that, even if it is going up on billboards statewide?

The Constitutional Carry law and TrainMeAZ campaign have ignited a firestorm of entrepreneurism, and rekindled a burning desire to restore the nation of marksmen our Founder envisioned. An entire state trained to arms, what a concept.

I personally urge the nation to look at what we’ve done with Defensive Display, Castle Doctrine inside and outside the home, Burden of Proof, Specious Civil Suit immunity, Firearms Freedom Act, Preemption and more. Make your legislatures emulate the freedom of spirit that thrives in the Grand Canyon State. Come visit and feel what it’s like to be a free adult instead of a ward of the state. You may not want to leave. And if you do leave, you’ll take the spirit for freedom back home with you.

Russell Pearce is the Republican State Senator from Arizona legislative district 18 and author of the anti-illegal immigration bill SB1070, and the Constitutional Carry law for firearms, SB1108, neither of which are controversial in point of fact.

For details, visit: http://UnitedBorderCoalition.com/

A few posts down, a fellow contibutor who goes by Fredo, made some historical references to the voter initiative Prop 200 back in 2004.  I just felt it was incomplete.

So here’s, as they say, the rest of the story….. 

In Fredo’s post below (“Anti Prop 200 alumni, where are they now?”), he notes that while “everyone is acting tough on illegal immigration now,” back in 2004 several Arizona politicians opposed Proposition 200, which restricted public benefits to illegals and required photo ID to vote

 Fredo asks, “Will the voters care about politicians who supported benefits for illegals? They should at least know the facts.”

Here’s one ‘fact’ Fredo forgot to mention – one of those politicians opposing Proposition 200 in 2004 was J.D. Hayworth!                                                                    

J.D. now claims he’s a long-time advocate of cracking down on illegal aliens, but just six years ago (two years before the end of his public career), he opposed the anti-illegal immigrant Proposition 200.  He says 9-11 removed the “scales from his eyes“.  Wasn’t 9-11 in 2001?  Wasn’t Prop 200 in 2004?

 That’s a fact.  And facts are stubborn things.

 How’s does Hayworth explain his past opposition to Prop. 200? I’ve never heard him talk about it…truthfully.

Everyone is acting tough on illegal immigration now. Lots of people running for office are singing the praises of SB 1070 and some candidate are saying they would have voted for the new law.

Back in 2004, there was a voter initiative to prevent those living in Arizona illegally from receiving taxpayer funded public benefits. Senators Kyl and McCain both opposed the citizen’s initiative; known as Protect Arizona Now or Prop 200 (2004). Less well know are some of the members of the legislature who were OK with illegal aliens receiving public benefits. Read this document for a list of some of those opposed to Prop 200. Some of them are seeking promotions, want to return to the legislature, or are backing candidates running for the legislature. Here is a partial list.

Bill Konopnicki opposed Prop 200. He is trying to unseat Senator Sylvia Allen in LD 5. Sen. Allen is a strong conservative with an excellent record in the legislature.

John Nelson opposed Prop 200. He is trying to retain his LD 12 senate seat in the face of a strong challenge from the more conservative Clark Silver.

Pete Hershberger opposed Prop 200. He is not on the ballot this year but he is backing Wade McLean in the LD 26 house race. McLean thinks he might have voted for SB 1070 but quickly adds Arizona should have talked more with the federal government before passing 1070.

Marian McClure opposed Prop 200. She is challenging current LD 30 Senator Frank Antenori. Sen. Antenori has a strong conservative record from his first term, split between the house and senate.

Will the voters care about politicians who supported benefits for illegals? They should at least know the facts.

This is what we’re up against: Illegal Alien supporters bussed in from California. desecrate US and AZ flag in front of Arizona State Capitol during the singing of the National Anthem at a pro SB 1070 Rally. H/T to Right Wing House Wife

WHERE are our sitting US Senators, McCain and Kyl, all our Arizona Congressmen and Congresswomen, publically and vociferously defending Arizona and Arizona local law enforcement on the floor of the Senate and the House and through every and all media outlet, against the Obama Administration’s cynical and toxic approval of coordinated campaigns to dishonestly smear our police, sheriffs and deputies as racists, agitating street violence by bussing in professional protestors with radios and scanners to harass, interfere with, abuse and exhaust local law enforcement officers?  WHERE are they denouncing all Unconstitutional actions to destroy domestic tranquillity by divisive and damaging boycotts against Arizona and Arizonans?

AZ law enforcement is under siege and our two senators are AWOL; AWOL for Federal enforcement actions, border security and AWOL for addressing local AZ state hardships. Aren’t they sent to Washington by the citizens of this state to advocate and use all their political skills to insure that Federal border responsibilities are met for the protection of Arizonans, and by that, all Americans? Pick a random agitator from one of “32 unions” advertised as rolling into Arizona this past week from out of state, and ask what party they vote for: DEMOCRAT. Pick a random boycotting-voting LA City Council member, what party are they of: DEMOCRAT. A California city mayor decreeing a rupture of city business with Arizona: DEMOCRAT. A random pick of a boycotting non-governmental organization voter from say, La Raza: DEMOCRAT. An Arizona-elected Congressman encouraging a boycott of Arizonans for wanting to enforce the laws of our nation: DEMOCRAT. An Arizona city mayor disparaging the men and women in the police and sheriff’s departments who keep him safe: DEMOCRAT.  Given that partisan behavior, how much credibile action to preserve our domestic tranquillity can we expect from ANY of our representatives who belong to the Democratic Party?   NO respresentative, Democrat or Republican should have anything to do with such corrosive tactics, but evidently the Democrats perceive too much politican gain to listen to reason or to refresh their oaths to preserve the Constitution. 

It’s more than a disgrace that this is falling along partisan political lines when the threat to our domestic tranquility – our local, state and national security – will negatively affect everyone, no matter the political party or ideology. With the Democratic Party loyalties of the overwhelming majority of the agitators, on the streets, in the courts, in the media, and in Congress, and nothing but divisive rhetoric coupled with willingness to act on boycotting from the Democratic Party, we look to the Republican Party to bring this back to reason, rationality and self-preservation of the nation.

So, where are the REPUBLICANS who are DENOUNCING this injustice? Arizona sent not one, but TWO Republican Senators to Washington. Where are the photos of them standing shoulder to shoulder with Governor Jan Brewer, or with Sheriff Joe Arpaio, or the deputies of Maricopa county, or the police of Nogales and Tucson, or relentlessly on national media insisting that freedom to speak one’s mind politically, and peaceful marches is one thing, but blocking traffic, making physical obstructions so that citizens can’t get to work on time, defacing and damaging public and private property, engineering chaos so that businesses can’t reach their customers, anarchist mobbing and banging at the county jail gates as part of a plan to harass and overwhelm policing,” is quite another thing. So is inexcusable silence from ALL our elected officials as Arizonans are smeared nationally by the Democrats in the administration, the Congress, the national media, and internationally by our State Department, hypocritically employing what they claim they are against,  massive group stereotyping and profiling, as “racists.”

“Hispanic” is a precise term in linguistics, but a very mushy and undefined one in international terms, encompassing people from over a dozen countries – on three continents, with many accents, dialects and cultural differences. Does this “Hispanic” favoritism extend to the Spanish of Spain or the West Africans of the Spanish Western Sahara or is it really code for a specific country, favored even over its own “Hispanic” neighbors? With “brown people” invoked even more frequently by Democrats now than “Hispanic,” then surely the Hispanics of Africa’s Equatorial Guinea are far browner than ANY Central or South American could EVER aspire to be, so by the reasoning, shouldn’t then Equatorial Guineans get to be head of the line for a freebie to definitely prove to everyone that Americans or specifically Arizonans, are not racists?

If the oft-invoked, yet actually undefined “Hispanic” community succeeds in unlawfully forcing capitulation to allow “Hispanic” foreigners of a specified geopolitical zone, to jump the queue of legal applications for US citizenship, before all others, then who’s the NEXT group who will try mob rule to get what they want?  If it works, then it’ll become the “process.”  How many people doing it by the book will throw down their two-three-four-five years of applications, paperwork and fees with a, “The hell with this!” in disgust?

Arizona is already host to organized crime expanding out of its base in Mexico.  That the average Arizonan citizen doesn’t see much of it is a testimony to the effectiveness and diligence of our LOCAL law enforcement in confronting and containing this violent and dangerous foreign-based criminality.  WHERE are our elected officials publically thanking our law enforcement, showing solidarity, and assuring them and the public, in word and in deed, that they back every single man and women in law enforcement in Arizona?

Actions have consequences, long term consequences, sometimes irrevocable consequences. Degeneration and decay take far less energy and effort than advancement and improvement.  A loss of trust is nearly impossible to restore.  A failure to uphold fair application of laws will lead to rampant lawlessness in all levels of society.  An unwillingness to defend, by representatives who were elected by their constituents, who are the PEOPLE of the Constitution of the United States, is a failure and especially in this case, that has long-term local, state and national ramifications, none of them positive.  The People, as voters, have the responsibility to chose their representatives wisely, take personal responsibility to become informed, to be active, and to hold their representatives accountable.

Perhaps Americans have to live through a period of chaos and destruction before they truly comprehend what they had, and squandered … but with little hope then of ever recovering it.

Perhaps to the bankers and global policy makers, the merging of the hemispheric economies is just another step forward in their grand design for a globally managed Uberstate.  Who knows.  My last posting provided some evidence that could be the case, after all, the FTAA and the Summit of the Americas do exist and have a well developed framework.

But is there another agenda at work here?  Is something akin to the relationship between Israel and Palestine over territory evolving here?  The tactics we’re seeing in Arizona now, bear an uncanny resemblance to scenes all too familiar from other regions of the globe in terms of tactics,  rhetoric and reaction.  No, there is no full scale violence [yet], but there is a hot cauldron at a rolling boil in the American Southwest.  The elements look familiar.

To those of you who say, “… its a single issue … what about ___”  I ask you to name one major facet of public policy in Arizona, or one major facet of the state’s budget that doesn’t in some way touch on the subject of the border or illegal immigration.  Then, as I briefly wrote about in my last blog, there is the hemispheric aspect of a European Union model for the Americas.  And tonight, there is the issue of a Hispanic Homeland – Aztlan.

These following quotes and links are from a widely read party organ of the Aztlan movement in Southern California.   Spend some time on their site.  You’ll feel the Marxism and anger, and the distortions of what you may think you know.  You will look through the lens they see Borders and Immigration.  Pay attention.

There was an outrage in Arizona at the death of rancher Rob Krentz.  But look at the quote below, then open another tab via the following link.  You decide.

[the ]“death near Douglas, Arizona of a rancher named Rob Krentz by an unknown assailant or assailants has been blown out of proportion…”

http://www.aztlan.net/arizona_racist_kills_latino_over_immigration_law.htm

Here is something that is part of the Raza curriculum [you maybe be paying for this in a Charter School near you].  Notice again the disturbingly familiar distortions of history that echo in other strife torn corners of the globe.

Today, no informed Mexican, on either side of the present border, recognizes the legitimacy of this “shotgun treaty” and considers the entire US Southwest (Aztlan) to be stolen land.

http://www.aztlan.net/mexican_american_war_has_not_ended.htm

The U.S. Department of Education funneled nearly $8 million in taxpayer grants to the group for a nationwide charter schools initiative.

Its called The National Council of The Race.

Do you have such a lobby?  And don’t think for a minute that major politicians from both parties haven’t paid their respects to this group.  Bush addressed them and Obama is courting them … and Juan McCain is fully on-board with their agenda for Amnesty.  Don’t you doubt it for a minute.

My last posting provided the “International Perspective” on the Southwestern Border of the United States.  This brief collage provides perhaps another agenda for La Reconquista de Aztlan.  Watch the video and decide.

But you will ultimately have to decide to look at the evidence [and there's a mountain more], or simply say “… all they want is an opportunity” and vote with your eyes closed.

We are excited to Announce:

United We Stand For Americans and The Patriot Caucus will be hosting our first Arizona Border Tea Party Rally as the “United Border Coalition“

The United Border Coalition Tea Party will be held on the AZ border on August 15th 2010 9:00 AM-12:00 PM. The rally location to be disclosed on UWSFA.org and The Patriot Caucus over the next few days.

This Tea Party Rally is to show support for Arizona, and it’s rights to enforce the Immigration Laws that the Federal Government won’t!
SB1070 is a common sense law passed by the Arizona legislature that enables the state to enforce federal law on illegal immigration

We are asking everyone to help advertise this AZ rally though email, Facebook, Twitter and other online social medias.

You can also help by donating $10.00 at United Border Coalition.com

Lets help Arizona win the fight to protect it’s borders and enforce it’s laws.

Thank you for your support in advance.

Follow the link below for more details.
http://unitedbordercoalition.com/

Please RSVP as Attending if you will watch the live broadcast on http://uwsfa.org/

Please send all inquiries to:
UBC@unitedwestandforamericans.org

Arizona’s two Senators took the fight for our nation’s security and sovereignty to the floor of the Senate Thursday, and did it with true conservative values.  While the House passed a very similar plan, it was paid for by $200 million in cuts and added further debt of over $500 million.  Senators McCain & Kyl, however, have a plan that insures no new deficit funding by using remaining stimulus funds and an additional $100 million frozen by Sec. Janet “Big Sis” Napolitano.  The McCain/Kyl plan is designed to provide increased funding to the tune of $701 million for manpower, technology, and other resources to the border.

The legislation we introduced today will provide additional resources to help gain control of our border, without impacting our nation’s deficit,” McCain and Kyl said in a joint statement Thursday. “It is our hope that Democratic majority will swiftly work with us to ensure passage of this bill.”

The Dems attempted to load up the Afghanistan War funding bill with border security funding, all tied to increasing the deficit, and leaving hundreds of millions of unencumbered stimulus dollars available.  Republicans, led by McCain and Kyl, stripped that bill of the border funding and the McCain/Kyl bill was quickly introduced as the alternative.   

Among the items funded will be:

• 1200 Border Patrol Agents
• 500 additional Customs and Border Protection officers at ports of entry
• 3 new Border Enforcement Bases
• 2 Unmanned Aircraft
• The FBI & DEA will have additional investigation and surveillance of drug and human traffickers.

Can’t put it any other way.

Ignore her.  What can she do about it? Make her and her ruling irrelevant in Arizona.

Its about time to tell the fed where to go.  People 3,000 miles away making decisions for us?

This judge just set up the Obama / Mexico lawsuit; a lawsuit with no standing in any Arizona court.

This is Arizona.  Love it or leave it.

Governor Brewer, tell the judge to take a hike and use an Executive Order to put the law in place.  We’ll support you!

If you support persons here illegally, then please move with them to New Mexico or California and leave Arizona.  460,000 illegal aliens is 459,999 more than we care to support.

The undocumented individual I know worked at over $18/hr taking a job away from a legal citizen  and received a federal tax refund of over $4,200 last year – did you?

(no SSN but an EIN from the IRS that anyone can obtain)

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A member of the Sonoran Tea Party has posted a video comparing CD5 candidate Jim Ward’s position on illegal immigration to President Barack Obama’s.  Disturbingly, both believe in a program that prepares existing illegal immigrants to be U.S. citizens. To be fair, Jim Ward has said repeatedly, that he does not support amnesty.  But when it comes to articulating the details, he demonstrates both a lack of conviction on the matter, and gross misunderstanding. Whether Jim Ward has made a series of verbal gaffs, or he actually believes in the ill conceived policy of “immersion” he espouses, many voters have made note of his response when asked to clarify.  Jim Ward has said that “the immersion program you were referring to is a program for legal immigrants to the United States.” But, by Jim Ward’s logic, everyone who is here on a temporary work visa, student visa, or other visiting status would have the right to U.S. citizenship under the Jim Ward Immigration Plan.  In other words, Ward’s back peddling only made his claim sound sillier and more ridiculous. If Jim Ward tells you that he’s not for amnesty – press him on the issue.  Because whether he tells you to go to his website, or waffles back-and-forth, Jim Ward told Barry Young and his audience the very same thing that Barack Obama continues to tell the American people – we need a program that allows the existing folks left here illegally, on our side of the border, to become U.S. citizens provided they follow the law. For more information on politicians who say they are against amnesty, but use the hidden language of amnesty, go to Sheriff Arpaio and Senator Russell Pearce’s Ban Amnesty Now website.

Senator Pamela Gorman has spent years as an Arizona legislator working to address the economic, environmental, safety, and national security issues of illegal immigration and the state’s open border. Now a candidate for U.S. Representative in Congressional District 3, she lays out the bottom line on this highly sensitive issue. The federal government has failed in its Constitutional duty to protect the states which has created a very real national security risk. The border must be secured, the laws enforced in the interior, and there should be NO amnesty to reward those who have broken our laws. In classic Pamela style, she tells it straight and pulls no punches. Check out her website at www.Gorman2010.com for more information on Pamela Gorman, where you can also make a donation online to help bring a refreshing honest voice of a proven conservative lawmaker to Washington.