Rep. Russell Pearce and Sheriff Joe Arpaio get enthusiastic support…NOT
This past weekend the Los Angeles Times went apoplectic over the effectiveness of Arizona’s Employer Sanctions law. In an article titled, Arizona slams door on illegal immigrants, the paper bemoans the success of E-Verify, a federal program which allows businesses to confirm the legal status of their workforce.
Arizona legislator Rep. Russell Pearce (R - Dist 18) and Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose efforts are effectively combating illegal immigration, are the subjects of derision. The sub-headline suggests the hand-wringing pitch: Some citizens have been bruised, too, as the state cracks down.
The complete article is available here.
Be sure to pay particular attention to these amusing lines from the article:
Obviously, the efforts at enforcing the law are having the desired impact.
April 7, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Hey, if the LA Times is criticizing Arpaio and Pearce, they must be doing something right. And as for Sonora complaining about the numbers of new arrivals - pardon me while I fall out of my chair laughing.
April 7, 2008 at 7:42 pm
The left-wing media is unable to deal with the effectiveness of employer sanctions, Rep. Pearce and Sheriff Arpaio. What a shame!
April 7, 2008 at 9:30 pm
Thank God for decent law enforcement professionals such as Rep. Pearce, Sheriff Arpaio and County Attorney, Andrew Thomas. They all took oaths to uphold the law and defend and protect this state and country, and they are not afraid to do so.
April 7, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Ditto, Jim. The County Attorney makes all of this happen. My neighbor is collecting petition signatures for Thomas and Arpaio and has people asking asking him if they could sign!
April 7, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Unfortunately we will be seeing the positive gains made under the Employer Sanctions bill swept away if the Guest Worker bill gets through. What kind of backroom deal did Russell Pearce have to make in order to get the Sanctions bill passed into law? That’s the only reasonable explanation I can conceive of for him turning his back on his state and allowing more Mexican nationals in who will, no doubt, slip away from the low paying farmwork and into other jobs illegally either in AZ or other states with less stringent laws. Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES should this legislation make it into law. Remember, it includes not just farm workers, but professional positions as well that employers can claim that “they just can’t find American workers for”.
April 8, 2008 at 9:03 am
Sherri:
You are exactly right! ANY guest worker provisions will be nothing more than back-door amnesty–until the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is amended to remove birthright citizenship. The amendment was enacted immediately after the Civil War to grant citizenship to the American-born children of recently freed African-born slaves. It is no longer relevant and has become the entry port for what is known as chain migration and family re-unification–in effect allowing the American born child of illegals to facilitate the entry of the entire family into the United States.
We are now the only industrialized country to allow this foolishness. The operative word is ILLEGAL. We must not give up the fight to secure our own sovereign nation and protect our country from an illegal invasion, yes–but also from others who desire our ultimate destruction, to use our essentially open border to gain access to our homeland.
April 8, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Employer sanctions is working! That is the very good and irrefutable news.
April 8, 2008 at 4:00 pm
I think Pierce’s law certainly encouraged a few illegals to leave. But most IMHO left at Christmas and did not return because the US economy is going to heck. People are cutting back on the labor the illegals did. And I took note of an article in late January that noted the Mexican economy was showing an upward improvement based upon the number of mom and pop shops opening up. I interpreted this as the Mexicans deciding to stay and use their earnings to start their own businesses. Good thing they trust our banks — maybe without cause — more than the Mexican banks, or they would have taken all their deposits with them. Hope they don’t get that border fence complete. I may want to get a job in Mexico soon if the brain trusts in Washington keep saving me.