Just for a moment, let’s try to lower our blood pressure over Arizona’s putrid new immigration law, SB1070 – or as we call it around here, SunuvaBitch 1070 – and consider a positive.
That’s right – a positive.
Maybe this is exactly what comprehensive immigration reform 2010 really needed.
Maybe this is actually a tilting point.
Maybe, just maybe, we’ll look back on all this 10, 20, 30 years from now and be utterly thankful for Arizona’s neanderthal law galvanizing, like nothing else before, the pro-immigrant cause and the push for immigration reform.
I mean, hasn’t it done that already?
And we’re only at the beginning of the dark things to come this summer.
Wait until the 49 other states experience all those federal resources being sucked right down the Grand Canyon, with Arizona needing to beef up its staffing to help jail all those rounded-up undocumented aliens – an estimated 460,000 of them.
Wait until we experience the bitter backlash, when we witness on a grand scale the pure ugliness of racial profiling, when we see the lust for illegals lead to the illegality of unreasonable search and seizures, when our well-up eyes watching the news of this are forced to close because we can’t stand our own inhumanity anymore.
This new law will indeed shine a stark light on how abysmally our country handles the issue of immigration and the problem of the undocumented. It will show, with its egregious unconstitutionality, how busted a system we truly have.
So, guess what?
The end result could be the opposite of what Sheriff Joe, Gov. Brewer, and their ilk so desperately want.
It could lead to the type of national outrage we felt over 40 years, when the lynching of three activists in Mississippi compelled us to quickly bring about the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
So, for a moment, let’s seriously think about that.
Let’s consider the positive here.
Maybe this is a blessing in disguise after all.
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You make a good point in this article, and I can’t refrain from reacting. My reaction however is that of disgust and disbelieve over how this whole Immigration matter has been handled so far. Then I remember that humans are not always reasonable.
It was once said that “The greatness of a people is not in how they treat their most privileged, rather in how the less privileged of their society are treated.” Those currently with Immigration challenges are among the most vulnerable and less privileged of the American society.
How can the United States of America, a country of “invaders” or “comers” to be soft, have this much animosity towards fellow humans following the footsteps of the original settlers?
The Native Indians and History are witnesses that no visas or any other form of authorization was issued to the occupying crowd that we currently are. Despite this knowledge, America is still willing to let the deranged “loud mouths” dominate the political and public debate, misleading the US out of its true character towards their narrow view of what this country should be.
How can Americans allow this to be the dominating view on Immigration matters?
There is a crucial need for the ” Big American Spirit”, I hope that we have in ourselves the understanding that, what brought us to the prosperity that we have experience is the same thing that will help us sustain and grow.
The World came together to form and develop the USA. The spirit of togetherness helped channel different knowledge from different people and cultures. Those differences at work plus the perception that the US stand for freedom and Human rights helped us better understand and conquer the World.
We have an opportunity to either bring the people of this country closer together and stronger, or dividing them further; making all weaker in the long run. The choices of patriots are not motivated by raw emotions, but by what is in the best interest of the country as a whole.
An Immigration reform that gives all the undocumented and documented foreigners in the USA a full integration pathway into the American society is the right thing for a brighter spirit and future of America and the World in general.
Do not miss the opportunity to take a stand for a better America. Stand against those who stand for oppression and division!!
Thank you for reading, you matter.