Arizona border zealots, white supremacists, and Janet Napolitano
Since the early 1990s, the sheriff of Maricopa County, AZ has been on a crusade against illegal immigrants. Sheriff Joe Arpaio has apparently neglected other law enforcement duties to follow this mission. His controvertial policies include sweeping up Mexican-american citizens along with undocumented aliens, and holding them in tent cities behind barbed wire in the Arizona heat, feeding them rotten food, and denying medical and mental health care. People have died there.
The guilty and the innocent have been made to sport pink underwear, and work on chain gangs. Inmates have been hog-tied, pepper-sprayed and beaten by guards; those who "assault" guards are put on bread and water rations.
Our current head of Homeland Security has had a long relationship with Arpaio, and was in a position many times as a U.S. Attorney, then as governor, to shut down Arpaio's show. She did not. Some write it off as good politics on her part; Arpaio's tactics seem wildly popular in the area. Arpaio claims he may soon get a network teevee reality show (Fox?). When ordered to investigate his abuses in 1995, most claim Napolitano did so reluctantly, and not much came of it. She claimed, "We run a strict but safe jail, and I haven't heard from anyone who thinks this is a bad thing." (Not true, and not funny.)
The final report was mainly a whitewash, only demanded Arpaio clean up a few things, and his tactics were essentially given a blessing. He claimed total vindication. In fact, Arpaio stood with Napolitano when she announced her 2002 bid for governor, and his support probably helped her win the 12,000 vote margin by which she won. As governor, she seemed deaf to complaints about Arpaio's policies, much to the chagrin of the mayor of Phoenix, who also complained that resources were being used for border patrol that were needed in other law enforcement areas, you know, like robbery, murder, etc.
Complaints have been made that Arpaio is cozy with neo-nazis in the area, and the mayor of Phoenix has charged that Arpaio 'directing law enforcement at the request of white supremacists." Online videos of him schmoozing with them at the roadblock checkpoints are available, and in May he announced the formation of a "posse" by which he could deputize all the thugs he might want.
Protest marches have attempted to shine a light on the disgusting practices, and various civil liberties groups have tried to help, apparently with little effect to date.
Napolitano, to my mind, was a rotten choice for head of Homeland Security. When her name surfaced as a possible Obama pick for SCOTUS, my hair caught on fire.
Obama Committee Votes to Give Stimulus Jobs to Illegal immigrants.
The American people are wondering if the Obama administration is holding back E-Verify, as a pawn in an immigration game of chess. Is this one of their political ploys to force through another Amnesty like in 1986, then I guess--THE PEOPLE--will have no say in their future? But with hundreds of pro-sovereignty groups, it’s—NOT--going to be an easy task? E-Verify which has been compromised over and over again, to satisfy the US Chamber of commerce, some unions, mainly the Catholic church, ACLU and organizations that is anti-American such as La Raza. E-verify as it is upgraded would start the rollback of illegal immigration in the workplace, removing the cheap labor dilemma.
Worried about their bountiful profits from cheap labor the business community, have used any means possible to demonize this tool. They have afforded many errors to its use, complaining that thousands of people have been ejected from jobs. Yet they have never informed the avid population, that errors can be resolved by stopping off at the local Social Security office. Only the illegal workers are not going to trespass in this government agency. You would think with the massive public outcry about using E-Verify, politicians would be weary of voters in the next re-election. But--NO--35 members voted not to identify all employees and new hires through the E-Verify.
Three separate E-Verify amendments failed to pass through the House Appropriations Committee earlier today. Two amendments were introduced by Rep. Jack Kingston and another by Rep. Ken Calvert. E-Verify should be a permanent tool and everybody on the payroll must be identified as legal. With a dark cloud of second AMNESTY looming very soon, it can only be foiled by the American people. Only your frustrated voices erupting in Washington will freeze another Blanket Amnesty. The costs will be astronomical to the American taxpayer, but not to the corporate world. Say--YES--to e-verify! Say--NO--to any AMNESTY. Call your Senator or Congressman. Digest more of the facts and unbiased truth at NUMBERSUSA, JUDICIAL WATCH, CAPSWEB, and ALIPAC. At AMERICANPATROL, learn about the massive upsurge on illegal alien criminal activity.
June 16, 2009 6:47 PM | Reply | Permalink