This is just one story about why Arizona is COMPLETELY in the right enacting the type of immigration reform they are. Here’s an excerpt about an incident that happened April 30th-keep in mind, this type of thing happens all the time out in the desert, you just don’t hear about it in the national media because it goes against the agenda they’re trying to push-I had to hear about it on the Laura Ingraham show-here’s the link for the whole story:
http://www.azcentral.com/community/pinal/articles/2010/04/30/20100430pinal-county-deputy-shot-immigrant30-ON.html
Five men suspected of smuggling drugs
across the border ambushed a Pinal County
sheriff’s deputy Friday in a remote area
south of Phoenix, underscoring the border-
related violence that has catapulted Arizona
and its new immigration law onto the
national stage.
But wait…….there’s more:
A massive hunt of 100 square miles that
included helicopters with night-vision
equipment and more than 200 officers,
including SWAT teams, from 13 agencies was
still pursuing the shooters late Friday.
More than one helicopter came under fire
during the evening as officers rescued
Deputy Louie Puroll, who had been shot with
an AK-47-type weapon around 4 p.m.,
according to the Sheriff’s Office.
Sheriff Paul Babeu said. “This has reached a
critical mass for law enforcement.”
Babeu said he has “called out for help” from
federal officials to no avail. He said
smugglers know “the police are after them
and the fact they are firing upon us changes
the game.”
Because of incidents like this, which, contrary to popular opinion, tends to repeat itself with great frequency in Arizona, coupled with the federal governments failure to act to prevent such acts, the legislature in Arizona took it upon itself to place the safety and well being of their citizens above the political agenda of the far left and those that would side with them. And while all illegals are not violent criminals (even though a sizable portion of them are), their drain on society cannot go unnoticed. Arizona right now has somewhere around 500,000 illegal immigrants in their state. To put it in perspective, that’s nearly the equivalent population of the two largest cities in my home town, Minneapolis and St. Paul, combined. The burden that type of population surge places on the infrastructure of a state is in the billions of dollars, with the hard-working, tax-paying citizens not only left to pick up the tab, but to also be squeezed out of their own cities, schools, hospitals, and homes by people who have no legal right to be there.
The notion that the people who support this law in order to protect their own homeland and sovereignty are racist Nazi’s is ludicrous. In Saul Alinsky’s book, Rules for Radicals, he teaches that it is important for the radical to demonize their enemy in order to de-legitimize their arguments-similar to the tactics being used against the state of Arizona and other supporters of this bill. At a protest in San Francisco on May 1st, three people who were a part of an anti-protest demonstration organized by the Minutemen of Arizona, were physically assaulted by several pro-immigration protesters. The victims say they were followed to the BART station and were punched and kicked by their assailants, who also hurled names like ‘racist’ and ‘Nazi’ at them while the beating took place. The full story can be found here:
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/san_francisco&id=7417829
Now, if I hadn’t happened to have been listening to a ‘right-wing’ radio station at the right time, I never would have heard about this story-and when I did find it, it took a bit of research, and it was buried and glazed over by a local San Francisco ABC affiliate. Imagine if this same incident would have happened at a Tea Party event, with the perpetrators being participants of a tax or health care protest? It would have been the headline story for every major media outlet across the country-all in an attempt, as Saul Alinsky puts it, to demonize and discredit your enemy, in order to further advance and legitimize your own agenda.
I sincerely hope the state of Arizona doesn’t succumb to outside pressure to repeal this law-the necessity of such legislation is apparent in order to protect their own citizens and to set a legal precedent for other state’s to hopefully follow. I say kudos to you Arizona-it’s about time elected officials somewhere took it upon themselves to stand up and say ‘enough is enough’.
