Say that a couple of foreigners are in this country illegally. They have a child while they are here. Under the law, that child is an American citizen. That cuts no ice with Rep. Duncan Hunter, who would deport the child as well.
That's right. He would deport American citizens. So, if your parents or grandparents came here illegally, Hunter would presumably deport you, as well.
Here's an idea: Let's go right back to the source. Let's start by deporting everyone who can trace their ancestry back to the first group of illegal immigrants: The settlers at Jamestown, VA.
In the meantime, Arizona now wants help from the Feds in enforcing the new Arizona law which requires Hispanics to show their papers to the cops whenever the cops feel like asking for them. I'm thinking that the answer should be somewhere in between "No", punctuated by a gale of laughter and one of "if you think that `state's rights' is such a big deal, then you are on your own."
(Maybe secession is a bad thing, but can we at least consider voting some of these states out of the Union? Why not start by repealing some of the bills which admitted states like Arizona and Texas to the Union?)
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The real reason for the law: Voter Suppression: http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/greg-palast-arizona-immigration-issue-rea-0
Are you saying we should cede Arizona and Texas back to Mexico? Okay by me.
This is a tangent, but ... Seriously, whether secession is automatically and categorically a Bad Thing might depend largely on a state's reasons for doing it.
In most cases, though, it'd probably be bloody stupid. Last time I looked, the states most likely to find it an attractive option take in more money in Federal aid than they pay out in Federal taxes. Seems like they'd be cutting their own throats if they managed to pull out of the Union.
But what about states whose admission to the Union was only made possible by flagrantly illegal annexation to begin with? I'm thinking specifically of Hawai'i, but there may be others.
Now, the old Confederacy, its current apologists, and their ideological descendants ... Look, I'm a native--however expatriated and accentectomized--of the Deep South, and I make no apologies for that, but fuck all those neo-Confederate yahoos. States' rights do not, and cannot, include a 'right' to treat human beings as property.
Regarding the newly passed law in Arizona, the utter shittiness of the precedent it will set, if not overturned, rates a screed in itself. And I won't inflict that on someone else's blog.
Especially since I'm pushing my luck as it is.
JBrock, The main reason, though, to not rant on another's blog is that the comments are read by far fewer people.
Phil, I think we can let Texas go. They'll be a failed narco-state in less than 20 years, though, so we'll have to build a strong fence.
Comrade, my family has been here since 1625 and I know from family records and some historical study that the crap being said now is pretty much the same crap said about every group that followed our arrival. There is no written record but from their reactions, we can infer that the tribes present on our arrival had groups that probably said the same thing. History is a circle that keeps going round and round.
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