sheriff joe says: mexicans are contagious (please read)
 

"sheriff joe" does the arrests and roundups of people he deems "illegal"--It would seem that he's insanely fucked up, and 'rounding up' people from a place of utter racism and hatred:

from phoenix new times:

Last year, Arpaio informed the GQ magazine that Mexicans are contagious.

"All these people that come over, they come with disease. There's no control. No health checks or anything. They check fruits and vegetables. How come they don't check people? No one talks about that!

"They're all dirty."

please know that there's a huge difference between 'phoenix' politics and the 'state' politics of racists like jan brewer, russell pearce (the guy with nazi affiliations), and sheriff joe arpaio--i still think boycotting is going to prove effective; i'm hoping that the all-star game is MOVED!

all-star game/arizona, la times:

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/may...-line-20100509

My best friend used to work for an old man of Mexican descent. He was in fact born here in Texas. During his life, he has been rounded up THREE times, put on a bus and dropped off in Mexico, despite being a full citizen born in this country. He told her it seemed to happen about once every 20 years. He didn't see things as improving as much as he saw things as cyclical.

In other news, these stickers are being offered for free by clicking here

http://presente.org/siteimages/Prese...teAZ_300px.jpg

I am kind of bothered by the casual attitude by some in this thread regarding "getting documented".

As if there was any sort of fluid and simple process to getting citizenship here in the US. The process seems to be a series of insurmountable requests including but not limited to "being of good moral character".

See here http://www.visaus.com/citizen.html for more info.

I can just see this...........

mi familia.........taking a vacation from New Mexico to California.........damng they be brown..........we travel through NM..........even through the border patrol check point at White Sand...........into AZ..........with NO hesitation, nada nothing to think we are different from who we are..

I dunno pick a number of miles into AZ on I40 or I10.......seems we are on I10 through southern AZ.....

We stop to eat........go in the cafe........order food..........eat ....life is good with my brown and white kinfolk....until..............we walk out...............and because we are in the great Sheriff Joe Airapo land.........some fat bellied gringo asshat with a badge decides that mi familia walking out of that resturant on I10 meets what he thinks is an illegal immigrant and..........the only papers any of us have is our New Mexico driver's license............well.........lets see............

we all go to jail despite having papers.............all of us....because Sheriff Joe can't figure out if my papers are correct and cant figure out if mi familia's papers are correct.............

all of us are born in this country.............parts of us have been in this country before any of the invaders came.......

yeah right SB1070 a good idea............

This VIDEO from USCIS.gov kills me.

and lets just not talk about the fact that my nephew is a state cop..............which means he has a loaded weapon on him at all times...

he is part of the mi familia taken to jail because our papers don't suit the guy asking for them............

can't you just see........those damn ********

GUN GUN GUN

and my nephew is dead with gun still in holster, not to mention how many others of mi familia will be injured or dead in a parking lot at a truck stop cafe in south central AZ..............

Oh yeah...........this bill is a good idea...........

Toughy, you post brings one thought to my mind: If one must possess *Moral Turpitude* to attain citizenship in the US of A, then why are the politicians and law enforcement members of our populus NOT checked off on *Moral Turpitude*?

BTW, mi familia also contains a cousin who is a Judge in Belen, NM. This cousin would be stopped and asked to produce papers toot sweet in AZ land.

Frightening. Abso-fucking-lutely Frightening.

Here is the thing Andrew...

Sports should be paying attention to what is going on in Arizona, so should entertainers, and any other person with some form of power with the press..

They just passed a law that profiles a specific type of people... Guess what?

Brown people play sports.... So, they should be like oh hell not I am not giving that state any of my $'s when they so obviously take the time to pull me over and tag me as undocumented due to my brown skin.

Andrew:

Sports has always had *some* politics involved in it. Hitler wanted the Olympics in Berlin to show how wonderful Germany was. Mohammed Ali raised his fist in protest at the Olympics to protest the Vietnam War and racism in America. The United States pulled out of the 1980 Olympics because of Russia's invasion of Afghanistan. Russia pulled out of the 1984 Olympics in retaliation. Jackie Robsinson taking the major league field for the first time was not just an athletic event but a profoundly *political* one.
After 9/11 every sports team in the country, it seemed, tried to fall over one another being more patriotic than thou.

What's more, as Lady Snow points out, there are more than a few brown people who play for these teams. I am actually quite pleased that MLB is trying to come up with a response to this law. It would be an insult to players who might be caught up in this law (or their families) and to the fans if they just pretended that the Arizona law didn't exist.

I normally don't quote my own posts but this occurred to me. MLB should be proud of itself. Their standing up to be counted in opposition to the Arizona law is as profound a political statement as when MLB integrated. It was a proud day for baseball when Jackie Robinson took the field for the first time and it's a proud day for baseball when they took the risk of standing against the Arizona law. Given the political heat they can and will get for this, it was a brave thing.

I gotta add

ALOT of kids look up to sports figures.. I would imagine all them kids in Arizona are kinda walking around all puffy chested with pride that their sports hero is NOT backing up this law and well that is a hella better example than say..

El Tigre

L T

or any other shit that goes on:cards:

Wow WTF - ugh ugh ugh

as if.

:(

"the aryan vision" of F.A.I.R (the anti-immigration group)
 

"federation for american immigration reform" -founders and board members are linked to white supremacists, financially and otherwise.

That is an interesting boycott, and shows why it is hard to make an impact by doing so. I mean, if Los Angeles wants to boycott and is behind it...then that might mean Los Angeles has to cut off it's own nose so to speak. It doesn't seem that they are willing to do so.