Arizona's Immigration Law

topofsm wrote: ^Indeed. In the 80s here we had many refugees in Arizona flown in from Guatemala and other war torn countries from the south. There was quite a bit of explosion in that, and many Guatemalan citizens were sent over the border to the dangerous border towns in Mexico based on the color of their skin. I agree that while there should be a better policy on immigration, refugees must have some kind of break.

  Hear. Hear

I feel sorry fror the latinos as they will bear the brunt. It was alright for then to do the low paid work as no one else will but now times have changed economically with the downturn lets pick on the different ones whether they be inmmigrants,trade unionists ( call em' commies) gays or another religion

Australia were I come from.People are complaining about people ( refugees) arriving by boat and the a lot of the populace claim they are jumping the queue for immigration .The government has come up with a plan to dump them in either East Timor or if they lose the election in a week the Conservative opposition wants to ship them all back to Nauru and process them there which I will add some of these applications can take years. These boat people make up no more than 2% of refugee applications and 95% are still given residency.

I know there's not really a huge populace here yet to discuss such a weighty topic, but I figured I'd bring it up anyway to find some insight from people from other places.

I am from Arizona in the US. I have long regarded this state as the #1 state for irrational people. I'm fairly sure that the new immigration bill signed into effect earlier this year has garnered international coverage, though I'm not sure to what extent. For example, while in Arizona you can't bat an eyelash at a single news source without seeing something on SB 1070, I'm not sure how much of this is covered in Maine, England, or Australia.

Nevertheless, I'd appreciate some opinions from a wider crowd. If I need to explain the law I can. I also know that there are higher level courts that have already eliminated the more controversial parts of the law (I would know, I see this every day in the paper). Thoughts?