Supposedly 70% of Arizonians support new immigration bill?

Got this an email about the Rasmussen Poll from a teabagger.


I wish you'd make up your mind on polls. When they show that most Americans support a Public Option for health care it's irrelevant, when most Americans support a women's right to chose, it doesn't matter. When polls show that a vast majority of Americans feel that George W. Bush's unnecessary war was a complete disaster, "we dont' run the country by polls". But as soon as one support you, you're Mr Populace. I wonder what the polls showed in Alabama about segregation in 1950. (In a statewide referendum in Alabama in 2004 to remove the segregation in education language, long since Unconstitutional, from the Alabama Constitution changing the language LOST...yep 6 years ago. Arizona's racism is directed toward Latinos.)

it's clear from the most vocal supporters of this measure that they don't know what it entails. It's is legalized racial profiling. BY DEFINTION. If the purpose is to stem the tide of illegals from Mexico by definition it means that cops will be pulling over latinos and asking for their papers. They sure as hell won't be asking for Canadians who live here in the summer to verify their visa status. They won't be asking Russian software engineers to show their H1-Bs.

if the governor is serious about not tolerating racial profiling, she's completely made the law useless because without racial profiling you can't very well be checking the status of every brown skinned person in Arizona. COnsidering 30% of Arizona is hispanic that's a lot of innocent people who need to verify their right to be where they are for the arbitrary whims of cops. It also makes that 70% approval number very suspect.

SO, if the police pulled you over as you walked down the street, could you PROVE you're here legally? Your driver's license doesn't prove shit, so you're ready to go to jail or will you be carrying your passport and birth certificate with you.

Again, all you good Teabaggers are always bitching about freedom but that "freedom" only applies to white, Christian, straight people. if it's the government screwing gays or dark skinned people, that's not about freedom b/c they're not really "americans" are they?. Really, is it America where we ask people to show their papers for no other reason than they look Mexican. (What does a person with an expired visa look like? What does a person with a Green Card look like? What does an American citizen look like?)

Oh yeah, and the Arizona Police Chiefs Association said this will do NOTHING to impact illegal immigration, it will make their jobs harder and take resources away from stopping real crime.

Remember when ARizona wouldn't pass the MLK Jr. holiday? It took the NFL saying they wouldn't hold the Super Bowl here any more to get them to overcome their racism. Racist state laws are bad for business and for a state that depends so heavily on tourism, it will be the reality that racist laws impact tourism that will cause a change.


Finally, I know you hate the Constitution but:
Under the Constitution's "supremacy clause," the Constitution and federal law trump state law. Article 1 of the Constitution, which spells out Congress' powers, specifically gives U.S. lawmakers authority to establish a "uniform Rule of Naturalization" and to regulate commerce with other nations.