Travel advisories are usually the domain of the State Department, warning Americans about travel into possibly dangerous or hostile countries.The next time I have the opportunity to schedule a vacation I'm going to the Grand Canyon.
Local civil rights officials say they're doing the same with Arizona.
On Wednesday, officials from the 26 state-wide offices of the American Civil Liberties Union issued an advisory warning people about traveling to "The Grand Canyon State."
The move comes before the Fourth of July weekend and is the latest reaction to Arizona's illegal immigration enforcement law SB1070, which makes it a crime to lack immigration papers in state.
"If you look at it from the perspective of the State Department when they warn people of situations in a foreign country, that's essentially the model we are using," said Hector Villagra, who heads the Orange County office of the ACLU. "If you are thinking of traveling to Arizona you may want to keep this in mind. You may be subject to racial profiling. You may be stopped by police because of your appearance so you need to be aware of that and need to know what to do when it happens."
And the ACLU can sit on it.
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It is odd that there has been this big spike in right wing idiocy coming out of Arizona though. Texas has a higher background level of crazy and right now Arizona is like a supernova taking the attention. I wonder how long it will last.
Actually it isn’t that strange. Arizona has been moving gradually towards the middle over the last twenty years. The population has doubled in that time and a big part of that spike wasn’t old retirees who tended to be conservative, but a lot of younger families moving from blue states, etc. In 2008 McCain only received 53.4% of the vote here in Arizona, his sixth lowest vote total among the states he won. Now think about that, his home state was one of his least supportive states. Had McCain been from Texas, Florida, etc., he likely would have lost Arizona.
This state has a long history of very conservative, often racist politics and the supporters of those policies aren’t happy that they are consistently losing ground to moderates and liberals (simply termed as liberals in their tirades). Because of how the state legislature is set up conservatives still have a major majority in both houses but, when Napolitano was governor, she vetoed a lot of their stupidity. In fact she set the record for vetoes in the history of the state. You take her away, bring in Brewer who is a wing-nut’s wing-nut, and you see incredibly stupid legislation that was shut down by a reasonable governor make it out of the state house. At the same time you see an increase in non-conservative population as well as an increase in non-white population and the far white err, right is freaking out.
ACLU = A CRAZY LAWYER'S UNION.
I would hope that other states in the U.S. would show the courage that Arizona has. We have had enough of the Illegal's bleeding our system dry. These Illegal's are NOT only Mexican's, they come from many different countries. Keeping the laws of the U.S. doesn't make one a RACIST!!!!!!!!
If we have thewse laws and you don't keep them you are mentally deficient!
Well, Dogmeat, you better get used to Gov. Brewer because she's going to be there awhile longer: AZ Governor: Brewer (R) 53% Goddard (D) 35%... http://tinyurl.com/RR1709
And if Arizona's law is racist, so is federal law which AZ's law mirrors, and for that matter California law which is nearly identical. Let's try a little education, shall we?
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