Tucson Escorts: The Good, the Bad, and the Misguided
True, this isn’t the first draconian immigration legislation passed by a
state that is also moving to demand future presidential candidates
provide documentation that they were born in the U.S., but it is
certainly the most hateful in that, if passed, it will put police
officers in the position of immigration officials, a concept that has
legal precedent thanks to the USA Patriot Act.
For the better part of two and half centuries, immigration
policies have been regulated by the federal government, and not by the
states. Surely, the president can find more potent language with which
to denounce legalizing profiling by skin color, and under the guise of
“questioning,” one that enables authorities to harass with the objective
of deporting those who lack requisite documentation.
Consider that from 1769 through 1882 according to a Smithsonian
Institution exhibit, the U.S. excluded only convicts, prostitutes,
idiots, and lunatics. From 1882-1943, Chinese were not allowed to
immigrate. It wasn’t until 1885 that U.S. immigration mandated that
there be “no gangs of cheap laborers,” according to a Smithsonian
Institution exhibit, and this latest Arizona law seems to reflect a
mindset we haven’t seen since 1885.