Rau Reports: "The American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona has released thousands of e-mails that it says proves Arizona's controversial immigration law was racially motivated."
Senator Russell Pearce speaks to the Arizona Red Mountain Tea Party members at East Valley High school in Mesa, Arizona, 03/19/12. (photo: Tim Hacker)
Emails Show Arizona Immigration Law Racially Motivated
21 July 2012
he American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona has released thousands of e-mails that it says proves Arizona's controversial immigration law was racially motivated.
The e-mails, acquired through a public records request to the state Legislature, are to and from former senator Russell Pearce, who authored Senate Bill 1070.
The ACLU included dozens of those e-mails as part of a legal filing this week, asking U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton to prevent a key part of SB 1070 from going into effect.
The e-mails from Pearce in the court documents include statements like, "Can we maintain our social fabric as a nation with Spanish fighting English for dominance ... It's like importing leper colonies and hope we don't catch leprosy. It's like importing thousands of Islamic jihadists and hope they adapt to the American Dream."
They include statistics such as "9,000 people killed every year by illegal aliens," and "the illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two-and-a-half times that of non-illegal aliens."
Pearce did not return calls seeking comment. While all the e-mails were sent from Pearce's personal or legislative e-mail address, it is unclear if they were all his own words or if some of the statements were taken without attribution from other individuals.
Email Excerpts
These are excerpts from e-mails Russell Pearce sent from 2006 to 2011. The American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona acquired about 10,000 pages of e-mails from legislative staff via a public records request.
"The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two-and-a-half times that of non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the U.S."
"The birth rate among illegal immigrants is substantially higher than the population at large."
"Last week, Denver's illegal aliens sang our national anthem in Spanish and bastardized the words of OUR country's most sacred song."
"Battles commence as Mexican nationalists struggle to infuse their men into American government and strengthen control over their strongholds. One look at Los Angeles with its Mexican-American mayor shows you Vincente Fox's general Varigossa commanding an American city."
"They create enclaves of separate groups that shall balkanize our nation into fractured nightmares of social unrest and poverty."
"Corruption is the mechanism by which Mexico operates. Its people spawn more corruption wherever they go because it is their only known way of life."
"Tough, nasty illegals and their advocates grow in such numbers that law and order will not subdue them. They run us out of our cities and states. They conquer our language and our schools. They render havoc and chaos in our schools."
"We are much like the Titanic as we inbreed millions of Mexico's poor, the world's poor and we watch our country sink."
(The following was taken from an e-mail with the subject What's a racist?)
"I'm racist because I don't want to be taxed to pay for a prison population comprised of mainly Hispanics, Latinos, Mexicans or whatever else you wish to call them."
"I'm a racist because I believe the News Media has a duty to tell us the names and race of criminals."
"I'm a racist because I object to having to pay higher sales tax and property tax to build more schools for the illegitimate children of illegal aliens."
"I'm a racist because I dislike having to push one for English and/or listening to a message in Spanish."
"Factual is not racial. Realism is not racism. The new definition of racist is anyone winning an argument with a liberal, minority, pacifist, bible banger, or moron."
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Funnier thing is Racists are moronic enough to actually believe they are White.
There is not true White Culture but a factor of further we traveled away from Equator since Adam/Eve. Sadder thing is the need for Tanning Salons for people who hate people of color.
We make no sense
except that I like Jeff Foxworthy and he actually admits to having friends like George Lopez.
Now it is just a need to kill Look at Colorado again stricken.
We can thank Video Games, Parents who do not spend family time, and the NRA allowing anyone to have as many guns and ammo as they put in their lives.
Take the extended castle laws. 13 states passed them after the Katrina disaster - why? Why would hurricanes prompt 13 states to rescind "duty to retreat?" To grant powers to kill looters on site and make them pay, that's why. Check the gun boards around that time and you will see the Katrina posts centered around the reaction to the looting and what "should have been done", not particularly concerned about the victims of a disaster. If it would have been called the "kill looters on site without legal repercussions bill" no one would have voted for it. So instead they wrapped in "stand your ground" pride cloth and used the example of that woman who shot the intruder to protect her baby (although existing castle laws already allowed her to do so) as their closer.
Take Rush Dimbulb and the Teaparty. Hedge hedge hedge when they're wrong - "It's not my fault she's a slut", and many other of their greatest hits. Just so they're "flawless on paper."
So how do we see through the conservative camouflage? Ask, "what's in it for them?" to unveil the true intention. They only like 3 things: money, power and punishment.
That's what I oppose. I would never tell someone they didn't have the right to defend themselves, I merely oppose the tendency towards vengeance that ultimately makes one a criminal - or worse, a narcissist. "Extended" castle laws like stand your ground promote vigilantism which was outlawed for a good reason. These new laws protect a person if they kill bystanders defending themselves or property - that's ridiculous. So the choice is either carry a gun or get caught in the crossfire?
If the police aren't doing their jobs:
1. Find a way to pay for better training or increase the police force (hard to do if conservatives wish to eliminate police pensions - aka the light at the end of the tunnel).
2. Light a fire under the police chief because he isn't doing the job he's paid to do.
So I don't have a problem with people defending their property and their home at all. I just have a problem with people using a 3rd world justice system in America.
It doesn't matter. The right wing gets everything it wants because it controls everything.
"Standing against us is helping the enemy, that makes you a traitor."
You can't very well break the law in order to enforce it and not raise a few questions in the process. Absolutists scare me because they are willing to burn down an entire village to search for one man.
The day a conservative makes a statement regarding policy without a double bind attached to it will be the day Satan hosts the winter Olympics.
The word "share" is not in their vocabulary. Their own ancestors would puke...
"felt" the hatred with no reason. I have felt it since but nothing like my brothers & sisters of color. I know what racism is and Arizona law about immigrants is bloody damned racists!
At the rest stop they had colored and white drinking fountains and rest rooms and non-whites weren't allowed in the restaurant. (This was 1958) So I took orders from those folks who were hungry or thirsty and willing to spend money in a Jim Crow establishment.
A few months later I got on board a Birmingham bus with a black soldier who was a friend. We were forced to sit in the back and the names we were called were so vile I can't repeat them here. The contorted faces dotted with spittle and with veins popping out convinced me that if we hadn't been in uniform we would have been murdered on the spot and the police would have ignored it. The Army wouldn't have stood for it though and they knew it.
There but for the good will of presidents Truman and Eisenhower they would have found our bodies. As we can see in Arizona and most of the Southern states, that mind set is still there.
Hmmm, I think that prize actually goes to the stinky old white guys who wrote those emails. They support the plutocratic policies that have stolen the American dream from everyone and then blame those least responsible and most harmed by those same policies. As for naming the race of some of the nations biggest criminals, both financial and for crimes against humanity, not to mention theft of the American Dream.
George Bush, White
Dick Cheney, White
Jaimie Dimon, White
Robert Ruben, White
Larry Summers, White
Timothy Geithner, White
Alan Greenspan, White
Lloyd Blankfein, White
Ben Bernanke, White
And that is only the tip of a very long list of greedy old white guys who have stolen far more from each and every one of us than the entire Latino population, or even all minorities in this country rolled up into one, ever have.
only corn. This was no accident. The corporations here in the US want cheap labor. I worked in one such place as middle management and the 30 workers under me were all illegals from Mexico and Middle America that the shop owner was paying less than minimum wage. If we hadn't savaged their country with Monsanto corn, if we didn't offer jobs to illegals here in the states, if we didn't support the corrupt Mexican government (which I'm sad to say we have been instrumental in getting Conservative elected in Mexico and Canada) then I might agree with you. But our hands are not clean in all of this; not at all.
Basta! Emough!
Pat Butler
SEN. OBAMA:
Now, I have already stated that, as president, I will make sure that we finally have the kind of border security that we need. That's step number one. (Applause.)
Step number two is to take on employers. Right now, they -- an employer has more of a chance of getting hit by lightning than be prosecuted for hiring an undocumented worker. That has to change. They have to be held accountable. (Applause.)
I believe that we can take the undocumented workers, the illegal aliens who are here, get them out of the shadows, make sure that they are subject to a stiff penalty,
make sure that they're learning English
make sure that they go to the back of the line so they're not getting an advantage over people who came here legally
and we can once again be a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants. That's what I intend to do as president of the United States. (Cheers, applause.)
He lied to get elected because he clearly understood that 80% of the country agrees with those views.
Note: those are his words.
Culture.
I learned Latin as a child...I was not Roman. My Grandmother spoke Gaelic. I grew up in NY and there were People from all over the world living in NYC I learned Spanish, My sister French. We learned it so we could speak it if we were able to travel. I learned it to work.
When I went to Puerto Rico I was able, 40 years later ask for Food, Water, Bathroom and say hello. I have used languages to fill out questionaires in case of disaster so the organizations trying to save lives could speak to elderly that still speak German, Russian and other languages These people in cities, towns across America came here 70 years ago still do not speak English, should we shoot them also, put them in prison?
No we should learn languages so we can actually accept the Cultures including all Spanish speaking as they were here first if history is true. They discovered this hemisphere. Then we took it away from the Indians who we also did not dignify by learning their language.
Stay Ignorant..no sweat off me. But perhaps when judgement comes Jesus and God won't understand your language. Jesus and God don't speak Racist
I believe our Justices are not upholding any Laws that we would be liable for...Discrimin ation, Derogatory Remarks, and all in writing.
I believe in the interest of America all these letters of Arizona Officials, Bachman et al should be enough to have resignation asked for, and gotten.
Anthony Weiner used his cellphone on Taxpayer time to send pictures of his personal hot dog and he was asked to step down. His weiner was his embarassment, he resigned. I expect no less when Government Employees who take Oath of Office to hold their pens tightly, to resign post haste.
Illegals who came into this Country should be deported if found I do not care what color or religion. But if Rich People brought them here to do their bidding, then they should be held responsible with imprisonment or deportation. Then perhaps we would hire Americans at fair wages.
Racists are like people who kill wolves under false pretenses...the y will never stop killing even when the Wolves are all dead. Racists never stop hating ask the Indians.
Of heathens.
They were people for a land
That now was without people
The People of the Shining City on a Hill
Discovered their Manifest Destiny in
God’s Plan
This land is our land
It isn’t their land
With a trumped up excuse
And child martyr’s of Chapultepec
Out of the way
We annexed Arizona and half of Mexico
At the point of bayonets.
Poor Mexico!
So close to United States and so far from God!
Driven from their Mexican corn lands
by NAFTA competition
Mexican peasants
Streamed into what had been their national patrimony
Across a border now dividing the Sonaran Desert
To work illegally for less than the minimum wage.
Vigilantes in the US Congress built an obscene wall
To keep them out.
This land is my land
It once was yours but isn’t now
The earth doesn’t really belong to all its peoples.
I believe that the talk of racism involving illegal aliens is simply a standard liberal approach to avoid dealing with the real issue.
Question. How is this country better off for letting in illegal aliens? If we are not better off why do it?
How many is that? Picture the Rose Bowl. http://rumorsandrants.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/rose-bowl.jpg
• The source was from a March, 2010 Government Accountability Office (GAO) audit titled: Criminal Alien Statistics. The 102, 795 count can be found in "Appendix III, SCAAP Criminal Alien Incarcerations in State Prisons and Local Jails," on page 62 of the report, where the number in CA is put at 102,795.
• http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d11187.pdf
Also, it states that on average, each has been convicted of 7 crimes. Wow! - 719,565 crimes - IN CA alone. Imagine the cost to CA's judicial system and police prior to the incarceration costs -- $billions.
Nat'l poll by the very progressive Pew Center - on the AZ law. The Pew folks went right out and literally summarized those supposedly two most contentious measures in the bill (the ones Holder blocked - the ones that the boycotts were over) and found:
• 73% said they backed a measure requiring people to produce documents verifying their legal status if police ask for them,
• while 67% approve of allowing police to detain anyone who cannot verify that they are in the country legally.
And that:
• just 25% support Pres Obama's immigration policy, which includes legalizing millions of unauthorized migrants
Former Sen Gaylor Nelson, father of Earth Day,
. .U.S. population growth boomed at its highest level in the nation's history! [..]
Every environmental goal has been delayed because of this failure."
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Yet we won't stabilize our population as long as immigrants to the United States continue to add 1.3 million people to the population each year – 300,000 of them entering the country illegally. It is a fact that until we address this growing influx of immigrants, who account for about one third of our annual population growth, the population will continue to grow indefinitely despite the nation's success at achieving a replacement level birthrate.
[..]
…
. . any suggestion that the rate be decreased to some previously acceptable level is met with charges of "nativism," "racism," and the like. Unfortunately, such opposition has silenced much-needed discussion of the issue. . This time the charge is "racism," because a significant number of immigrants are of Hispanic descent. Demagogic rhetoric of this sort has succeeded in silencing the environmental and academic communities and has tainted any discussion of population and immigration issues as "politically incorrect."
The issue is not racism, nativism, or any other "ism," however.
End quotes.
To hell with gardners and maids, I want us to go after white collar criminals, the JP Morgans, Citigroupss, Bank of America and Goldman Sachs that demonstrate patriotism to the U.S and loyalty the citizens who bail them out by repeatedly destroying our economy.
I want criminal penalties and mandatory jail time without possibility of parole for the Wolves of Wall Street and their government enablers. Yeah, we have a problem with ERs being used as primary care. But it isn't just illegals doing it. It's the uninsured/unemp loyed masses created by the 1%'s gambling. Tail wags dog n the U.S.A. Pearce, if you are more concerned about less than minimum wage laborers than the 1% economic rapists, you have a problem. RE criminals, AZ could quit jailing potheads. I wouldn't give a damn if every U.S. defense dollar was spent domestically protecting our border from drug cartels and their violence. Half of all world defense spending is by us. For what?
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