2 URGENT ACTIONS YOU MUST TAKE TODAY TO MAKE YOUR BORDER A BETTER PLACE FOR ALL
“Today is the moment of truth for border communities, and our participation in this process is fundamental for the development of a fair and dignified immigration reform,” says Christian Ramirez, Director of the SBCC and Human Rights Director at Alliance San Diego. Now is the time for the Senate Judiciary Committee to act without delay, ensuring that the rights of border families are protected and the we uphold the quality of life of our communities.
We ask you to make some phone calls to your local Senators and express support for the good amendments and express your disapproval of the amendments that will bring more human and civil rights violations to our communities.
Authorities say five people died after the van they were traveling in rolled over in southern Arizona as it was being pursued by Border Patrol agents. Rural/Metro Fire spokesman Willie Treatch says 22 people were in the van at the time it rolled over Saturday night in between Tucson and Benson, Ariz. Seventeen other people were taken to hospitals for treatment. Their injuries are unknown.
Do ya think that the agent who was in pursuit was trained sufficiently to stop this from happening?
Who the heck is Joe Arpaio to tell people what to do? He’s just a sheriff. I hope that someday he will see that people are dying of starvation. Does he like seeing that? Will he ever change? It’s not fair! He has everything–wealth, money, fame. What do the Mexicans have? Nothing. Why is he like this? I’d like him to come up with three reasons why he is like this or what the Mexicans have done to him.
He has no right calling the Mexicans “pigs,” because, like I said, he needs to look in the mirror. He has passed some good laws–and some bad laws. One bad law would be his stance on immigration! Why just Americans? Why not Mexicans? As I have said once before, it isn’t just going on with Mexico! It’s going on around the world. One of these days, people around the world will get angry and declare war against America! Who are we going to have then?
Nobody! That’s who. Think, Joe! Think. You haven’t even given it a chance. If there was no problem with immigration, life would be better & happier because the Mexicans would be happy and we’ll be happy because it would help restaurants and us to learn about other cultures. I’m sure everyone wants that!
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Which is why the shameless Smith, a “talent agency director” with appropriately greasy hair, is reviving the effort to “reimburse” Pearce for the money others donated to him during the 2011 recall, and which Pearce spent, around $260K.
In his House Bill 2290, Smith doesn’t even try to hide the intent, making the bill retroactive “to expenses incurred for a recall election held in November, 2011.”
Where is this cash to come from? The state general fund. In other words, you and me.
Smith is also sponsoring HB 2282, which he tried to run when he was in the state Senate last year.
This unconstitutional measure would create a recall primary to precede any recall election, which Smith and the other Pearce-suckers seem to think would have scuttled Pearce’s 2011 recall.
The problem with that theory is Pearce’s 12-point loss to Bob Worsley in the LD 25 GOP primary in August. That is, Pearce lost, even in a Republican primary in his backyard.
Residents in Arizona town feel 'invaded by Border Patrol'
“Honey, I’ve lived here all my life. This is all I know. I thought we were better off before the Border Patrol invaded us,” said Annette Walton, 53, as she served coffee and burgers to regulars at her diner, Our Place Cafe in South Bisbee. “We were not invaded by the illegals. We were invaded by Border Patrol.”
Innkeeper Jami Knudsvig is put off by the “ominous and eerie” way the border fence near her home is illuminated at night, itsgreen-tinged lights pulsing in rhythm.
“They’re like Christmas lights. Just bigger,” she said. “Who are we keeping out? Are we keeping us in?”
Dan Oldfield, who has lived in the area for more than 30 years, calls the security presence excessive and “a constant nuisance.”
Oldfield said he had never felt unsafe, even when his home was burglarized in the 1990s by people he suspects were border crossers.
“Nothing was taken,” he said. “They went through the refrigerator, looking for something to eat.”
A tree-maintenance contractor, Oldfield said he didn’t understand how the agents filled their days, noting that illegal border crossings in the area have plummeted in recent years.
Let’s put Santa Claus on packs cigarettes, bottles of grain alcohol, and jumbo sized acme firecrackers.
Nuthin quite says merry-fuck’n-christmas as an instument of death.
Man….talk about a line up of people in need of mental health services…and they’re armed to the teeth! These bastards need regulated all right…regulated to the nearest fucking psych ward.
What a sad expression this is.
Ya…I’m sure this is what Johnny Ad, Benny Franklin, Alex Ham, John John Jay, Thom Jeff, Jimmy Mad, and Geo Washington intended when they founded a nation and would be real fucking proud of these cretinoid fuckwarts.
And that is how you look to the rest of the nation that doesn’t feel comfortable around guns.
Are you surprised?
It’s rough being a Suns fan…amirght?
rubiodispatch reblogged your photo: And Another Season Begins tonight.
OMG, Steve Nash! I hate you Lakers….but STEVE NASH!!!!!
It’s hella rough being a Suns fan…
More incorrect dates on official voter material in Maricopa County, Arizona printed in Spanish alone:
As Stephen Lemons notes, the elections office, led by a Republican named Helen Purcell, has come under siege for these and other misinformation problems, which included a false media report by a local CBS station that may well have harmed the work of local GOTV volunteers.
I see Arizona tags drive around town and I want to shout through the window at them “What The Hell is Wrong with You Zonies?”
It’s like the judge telling the woman who got raped, ‘You asked for it because of the way you dressed.’ OK? That’s the same thing. ‘Well America, you should be the ones to apologize, you should have known this would happen, you should have done — what I don’t know — but it’s your fault that it happened.’ You know, for a member of our State Department to put out a statement like that, it had to be cleared by somebody. They don’t just do that in the spur of the moment.
