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Arizona immigration law faces federal challenge today
Protesters march in front of the White House as Arizona Governor Janice Brewer meets inside with President Obama June 3, 2010. (Getty Images)
(CNN) – A federal judge in Arizona will hear arguments today in two lawsuits challenging the state's controversial new law targeting illegal immigrants, including one brought by the Obama Justice Department. Arizona's law is set to take effect next week and supporters say it's a response to the federal government's failure to secure the southern borders. The feds say the borders are more secure than ever. Could both sides be right? Our Casey Wiann takes a look. Watch 
The Obama administration's challenge to the controversial Arizona immigration law goes before a federal judge Thursday.
The Justice Department's lawsuit, seeking to stop the law from going into effect, is one of two challenges scheduled for a hearing Thursday.
The first challenge by a group of more than 100 individuals and civil rights groups will be heard Thursday morning. In the afternoon, the Justice Department's lawsuit will have a hearing in a Phoenix federal courtroom.
Both cases will be in front of U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton, according to court documents.
The law, signed by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer in April, requires police to question people about their status if they have been detained for another reason and if there's reason to suspect they're in the United States illegally. It also targets those who hire illegal immigrant laborers or knowingly transport them.
Critics have said the law will promote racial profiling. Supporters of the bill say its aim is only to enforce federal law.
The law is scheduled to go into effect July 29.
It is unclear how Bolton will rule on the cases. She heard another legal challenge to the law last week, which was brought by an Arizona police officer.
She did not make a ruling in that case.
The lawsuits are among seven that have been filed against the law.
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"illegal Alien1 July 28th, 2010 4:31 pm ET
Scott, What jobs are you talking about? Jobs such as: landscaping, janitorial, construction, cleaning houses..."
Yes, those are the jobs our teens should be doing. Mowing lawns is how I earned my spending money when I was young. Cleaning houses was another.
My brothers worked in construction when they were young too. A LOT of my cousins would love to have a job in the construction field.
The reason Obama, IMO (in my opinion), won't enforce the illegal immigrant laws is because so many companies profit off of hiring them.
SHAME on our Federal government for creating a problem the American people shouldn't have to contend with!!!!!!!!!!
The borders need to be secured and people need to be here legally.
If Americans aren't allowed to walk around knowingly committing an illegal act, we'd be in jail.
The jobs these illegal immigrants talk about filling that others won't do is a horrible misconception. The truth is that they are filling a LOT of jobs Americans could be doing.
There was a video of an illegal leaving AZ to NM, he'd held a position as a mechanic. Others work in places like Taco Bell and McDonald's and those are jobs our teens should be filling.
The whole system is failing the American people and it's our youth that really suffer most. While the children of illegals have been taught English (ESL classes), our youth was not taught to speak Spanish.
Equal should equate an equal education for all people not just the illegal immigrants. I think we've been generous long enough and it's time they applied the skills they've learned here in their own country.
“We call things racism just to get attention. We reduce complicated problems to racism, not because it is racism, but because it works.”–Alfredo Gutierrez, political consultant, as quoted by Richard de Uriarte, The Phoenix Gazette, March 14, 1992 (quoted in The ProEnglish Advocate, 1st quarter, 2002).
These Mexican nationals have clearly worn out their “welcome” by breaking into America and displacing the American worker, as they pop their babies out in a Mexican Lebensborn movement, designed to eclipse the Anglo-Saxon race through sheer demographics. This is the real face of Mexico’s race war against America.
The simpliest and cost effective way to stop businesses from hiring illegal immigrants
is to let them pay for all deportation charges for each illegal found in their employement.
This will encourage businesses to hire only documented workers using E-Verify.
Also it will take the burden of the cost off of the taxpayers.
To: R Kershaw
If you knew how long it takes for us to be legal here. you wouldn't be asking those questions. My boyfriend has been here in USA since he as 11 months old. Now, he is 26 yrs old and immigration is still waiting for a number to b available. Do you have more questions?
Look at microsoft, Intel, Hp, Dell, Apple amomg other 500 companies that hire alot people from India. Those are the ones you should be screaming about not this blue collar low paying jobs that no ones wants to do anymore...
Scott, What jobs are you talking about? Jobs such as: landscaping, janitorial, construction, cleaning houses...
Thank GOD for the Judge!! The law is working for this time around..
Danny you are an idiot. Let us go bankrupt... sure ... what about the US citizens that are victims of ID theft and have had their lives ruined thanks to illegal immigration. I hope you become a victim... maybe then you will see what everybody else seems to.
Try going to Mexico without a passport or staying there without papers. I suggest that we get millions of U.S. citizens to go to Mexico and do just that... refuse to abide by their laws and let them know that we don't need to have any form of documents letting us be then. Wonder what would happen then? I say HOORAY to Arizona for doing this. It's about time that someone had the guts to tell Mexican citizens that they cannot just walk into our country, take up residence and ignore the laws. It's simply ridiculous. And, I for one, don't understand all of the bleeding hearts. Let's get it right folks..these are Mexican citizens...who just walk in and walk out..doing whatever they want. (And by the way, my grandmother was born in Mexico..so don't give me the "you don't understand" argument.. "
Obama criticizes the Cambridge police for not getting the facts right yet the officer brought Gates to the police station to do just that. Gates had a drivers license and Id from another state. He was renting that house.
So now Obama wants to sue Arizona for checking identity. We have a huge identity theft problem in this country and an Alderman from Chicago was recently convicted for creating and selling false ID's.
Obama's Social Security number is from Connecticut, yet he never lived there. How could he use an address in Hawaii and obtain a Connecticut address. This person maybe an illegal immigrant and is pushing to change the law so he is legal. He wants Immigration reform as do all of the other illegal immigrants. Why would an illegal immigrant or President with a suspicious SS number want there status checked out?
Why would a criminal want this? An honest citizen could care less.
Arizona is in the right .The other states should follow the laws. Illegals or illegals. Everyone of them should go home and start over and do immigration the right way , breaking the laws of the US is not the right way.Illegals are taking to many jobs away from the US citizens.
I just hope Arizona state will go in bankruptcy
when they need to pay million of US Citizens law sue
for violation of civil rights
so plz let them have their new immigration law
Why not cover the true victims in this on-going saga – US citizens living near the unprotected border in Arizona! Maybe you could interview the family of the prominent farmer who was mudered at the hands of illegals trafficing drugs... Obama cares more about his own politics than protecting our own embattled citizens – if you want true reform, you have to control the border. Why is the Federal Gov. refusing to protecting it's lawful citizens???
Moderate that!
I agree with R Kershaw. And why, after 18 years, she cannot speak any English. All of this by the media is a bunch of crap. So, he says they are moving to another State that doesn't have this law. So, what are they doing, contuing to break the law.
Obama looks bad to Calderon so he is suing Arizona. Obama is a disgrace to agreeing with Calderon on Arizona and criticizing any State for enforcing illegal immigration law. The Federal law states that States are to assist in immigration,, illegal immigration and that is exactly what Arizonahas done and is doing. Obama has become a disgrace to Americans by suing Arizona and Napolitano is full of crap when she says the border is more secure than ever. Than ever? Who is she kidding.
Farmers have the ability to request x amount of farm workers through the guest worker program, but they would rather have cheaper labor. California should be sued as its majority is illegal and that's why they are broker, due to paying for medical, educational, and welfare benefits to illegals. Nothing is being done to really secure the border because the Government doesn't want to, and wants trade with Central America, Mexico, etc., so they don't want to upset the applecart by deporting illegals and this government resents Arizona for SB1070. The government is to work for the people, not for illegals.
Another sob story about poeple who chose their own destiny.
If I want to have a better life can I just rob a bank? All I want to do is feed my family! You'd all be racist haters if you don't allow me to follow my dream of having all this money and have a better life!
America has got to wake up and enforce the laws of this land. Yes, it is unfair isn't it? Just like me paying thousands for my greencard while others jump the border and enjoy instant gratification, and now they think they're entitled to it?
Such a shame! NOT!! 18yrs. in this country, still ILLEGAL, and cannot speak english!! Give me a break! Bye, Bye, don't let the door hit you as you leave, SEE YA!! NOT the American dream.
I've never seen a bigger example of people pulling the "Race Card"...
At no time does the law specify any race...
At no time does the law reflect anything different from the federal law...
While it is unfortunate that the wife has to leave, she has had 18 years to file for citizenship and has failed to do so. Who said she's not welcome?? We are more than happy to have her, fill out the proper paper work, file the fees, and apply for citizenship! We cannot feel bad for folks who refuse to follow the law.
why is it no one seems to mind the racial profiling that goes on in "sanctuary" cities where it is OK to ask if you are undocumented so you can be protected from our legal federal immigation policies.
Just why isn't the obama administration filing lawsuits against these "sanctuary" cities for usurping the federal govenment's over-reaching control of immigration policy?
It is a federal law that says you must have your immigration status papers with you, why is only Arizona taking the heat for requiring people to provide proof of their citizenship, that is the federal law..
If the anti arizona people would just read the federal standards as written, not as currently enforced, they would realize that arizona is just requiring compliance with federal law..
And the additional insanity of all of this is that Mexico is also suing Arizona over the law. Are you kidding me?
So why isn't Obama suing sanctuary cities for illegals, such as San Francisico, for superseding Federal law? Instead, he's suing Arizona for the alleged crime of actually enforcing the law, THE LAW!, that the Federal government refuses to enforce.
I agree 110% with Joe (above). I'm sorry people are leaving their homes, but there are many who can stay because they didn't cheat the system. These illegal immigrants are spitting in the faces of those who entered the country the proper way. What about those Arizonians wanting to live the American dream of living in safety? For those who don't want to live in fear? There are many families in Arizonia who have been greatly effected by those crossing the border by murders, thieft, property damages, and drug running. There are many laws that we need to follow each and everday but we should simply ignore this one? I don't blame the state government for stepping in and taking care of their own, thats the beauty and reason states have the power they do. This law is the same law our Federal Government should be enforcing to protects it's OWN citizens. The law doesn't say only one national origin or another it is for ALL who are here illegally – no matter what color. Stop making this a race thing when its about protecting American citizens!!!
Why not cover the true victims in this on-going saga – US citizens living near the unprotected border in Arizona! Maybe you could interview the family of the prominent farmer who was mudered at the hands of illegals trafficing drugs... Obama cares more about his own politics than protecting our own embattled citizens – if you want true reform, you have to control the border. Why is the Federal Gov. refusing to protecting it's lawful citizens???
The AZ. law is the best thing for America and many states are going to enact the same law. We can't afford welfare for our own citizens, and don't need or want Mexico's illiteracy and poverty!
A country without laws that are enforced, is a country in anarchy...
We are a country of laws, either comply or leave. She didn't, now she must leave-obviously she should have become legal many years ago, or leave. You make it sound like she is being mistreated, when she has been mistreating this country for many years, and never should have been here at all. " Do the crime, pay the fine." CWilson
The American dream is still alive, you just need to follow the rules. What did the people who are here illegally expect? They act like they are being discriminated against. My Korean Aunt became a citizen of the US in the 50's. I remember how proud she was to become a citizen. She and her children who came from Korea all changed their names to "American" names because they couldn't think of anything better than being American. The first priority for them was to learn to speak english, dress like Americans.
I have a married couple from El Salvidor who have worked for me for 19 years, I can't tell you how much time and money we spent for them to become US Citizens. But it was worth every penny. They came here with work permits and temporary visas. They didn't run across the border expecting to "hide out" the rest of their lives in the US.
This situation is like life. When things are good and money is flowing everyone overlooks what is going on. When the economy is bad, look out, everyone is looking for cuts.
Nonenforcement marginalizes the often well meaning illeagals. They are scared to report crimes against them, exploited by employers, and often turn to illicit activities for upward mobility since they can't pursue success through more legitimate avenues. Counterintuitively, it is a lack of immigration enforcement that creates second class citizens and locks them into poverty. These problems can't exist with a secure border and enforcement of immigration laws.
AZEIR are a bunch of chicken hawks who don't want imm. ref., but rather a continuation of nonenforcement. The second another round of amnesty is granted, they will still hire illegals to avoid taxes and minimum wages.
Everyone would be happy if:
1. The state dept. overhauled its handling of immigration throughout the world. (anyone who's seen the way our embassies treat those seeking enrtry knows what I'm on about.)
2. A guest worker program was initiated.
3. Borders and immigration laws were enforced.
I live in Arizona, and I am sick to death of all the news coverage dedicated to these protests and boycotts. This only fuels this ridiculous behavior. Upholding the law is not racist, no matter how hard the protesteers and media try to spin it. I'm speechless over how these protestors actually believe that illegals should be protected. Are you kidding me?! Illegal is illegal is illegal – it really is that simple! Follow the law and you have nothing to worry about and nothing to protest about. Our Sheriff Joe Arpaio gets it, and he has my full support. Where is the news coverage about the majority of Americans who support this too???
they are not leaving the country just going to another state so he can hide her out somewhere else. laws are laws and meant to be followed by all of us. i feel no sorrow at all for those leaving because its about time. get back into mexico and stay there.
Good. As you can see SB1070 is "working as intended". If your NOT legal – FLEE.
And as for this guy with his "family" business – I'm sure he abused the system by taking (stealing) tax benefits that he was not entitled to because his wife was not legal – It wasn't a corporation as his wife was illegal – so he was filing all those years as a "sole proprieter" with income gained and tax benefits allowed. Now that we have video evidence I would hope the IRS would go after him and collect any tax breaks which he obtained illegally.
If you've broken our laws, get the hell out! Let Mexico pay for your health care, schooling, food stamps, welfare, crime , illiteracy and poverty. We owe illegals nothing, except a sign pointing south!
Why does the media constantly cry crocodile tears for people who reside here illegally. They talk about breaking up families, because the illegals have to go home and the kids have to stay here with out parents. I don't get it. If I was in Mexico illegally and they sent me home no one would care.
Illegal immigration rubs americans wrong, against our work ethic becasue--the ameican dream is that if you work hard, play by the rules, you can achieve the american dream. Amnesty advocates argue family values, and use the American Dream theme to justify their illegal actions to live and work in this country. It's illogical and irrational. That's the main crux of the problem. In fact, many opponents of illegal immigration would say, you can achieve the American Dream too, but you must do it like everyone else - apply for citizenship, pass the citizenship test, learn English, pay taxes. Now, it's impossible for these poor people from other countries to achieve that, but that reality exists in a majority of the world, so they must do what they can to change their reality in their own countries. It's just the luck of the draw, sorry.
Enough....My family came from Germany and followed the law...this is not about a better life,this is about what you can get away with.....If this law gets thrown out I think we should all stop paying taxes.
R. Kershaw, you could not have hit the nail more squarely on the head. As an American Citizen, I have no problem with people from any ethnic background being in this country, as long as they are here legally, paying taxes just like I do. My problem is the people who want to free-load off our society by being here illegally. I don't care if you're Mexican, Jamaican, Egyptian, British or Australian, if you're here illegally not paying the taxes you owe this country to be here, then get out, we don't want you here. Listen up Americans. If you decided to live in Britain, Austrailia, or even Mexico, the same would be expected of you there. The standard here is no different.
As far as the Arizona Immigration laws promoting 'racial profiling' ....uh, last time I checked, people from Mexico look Mexican. There is a look there. If it means that Mexican-American citizens have to walk around with proof of citizenship in their pocket, so be it. There's no racial profiling here, that's a myth of people who want to push a 'politically correct' agenda.
Over an 18 year period, why haven't they made an attempt to get his wife to legal status. I realize that this takes time and money, but they seem to be doing fairly well with their business. These people don't seem to care about the law. They need to make an effort to follow the law if they want to stay in this country. Why is it so hard for them to understand that we have laws in this country and everyone needs to follow the laws.
I am sorry for the poor families that have to uproot themselves and face reality. Illegal aliens living in the US must face deportation regardless of the situations. You do not belong in America illegally. I am spending a small fortune to bring my wife of many years to the USA. My family has been in the America for more than 370 years and in every war for this country since that time. I am proud to spend that money to protect the freedoms she will have when she is granted admission. I could care less about religion, race, color, etc... come here illegally and I would be happy to personally escort you back to your country. Come here legally and I will be the first person to invite you to dinner.
They feel forced to leave???? That is what the law is supposed to do...see YAAAA...You came here illegally and you are really going to go on TV and tell us you feel forced to leave… and a station actually put it on TV without coming with immigration to help them leave???? It is a privilege to come and live her not a right. She has made how much money without paying into Medicare etc while owning business? I sure they also had all their children paid for by the USA citizen.
Sorry. No sympathy.
How many more bleeding heart stories can the state run media spew out. The lies run rampant from the east coast to the west coast. They all read from the same hand book.-–just listen to them--you know certain groups are coaching illegals what to say, if they are stopped–you know that certain groups will try to bait the police and then say how horrible the illegals were treated---–and the state run media will be right there--–
Everytime an illegal states how much he/she loves this country and wants to stay--ask that person, why have not you become a citizen and pledge allegiance to this great country.---
Boo Hoo.... You break the law then cry racism. You would not be losing your jobs, home or government freebies if you were legal. Doesn't matter how long you've been in the U.S., many others did it the legal way. Go home and do it correctly.
So she has been here 18 years and still hasn't learned the national language of English???? Why are the media defending a group of people that are living in this country undocumented and are not willing to engage in the correct process of becoming an American citizen. My father had to go through that process and I know it's a hardship, but being an American in this point of time is a hardship all around the world. We travel all around the globe interacting with many different cultures but in this point of time people see Americans as evil people or people that think themselves above others. But the thing is, people in America do see themselves above other cultures and mostly these are the people who haven't been outside the US. Ive been to many other cultures around the world and I still think being an American means something and if immigrants want that to they have to earn it.
All illegals should be deported and required to apply for legal status. Their children should not be recognized as US citizens. And finally, a hige wall should be built along our entire southern border.
Illegal immigration is a cancer that infests every corner of this nation. Arizona is a leader in getting this done and Obama, as usual, is much of the same ol. I hope IN follows Arizona and creates a similar law. We have already begun requiring ID's to buy alcohol no matter the age, US issued id only. That could change things.
I have no problems with aliens being in this country and working at any job they they are qualified to handle. However, we need to know who they are, where they are, and what they are doing. This is a matter of national security.
Just as you wound not want someone camping out in your bedroom and raiding your fridge without your knowledge, nor can we afford undocumented aliens in this country. They need to ring the doorbell rather than crawling in through the back window.
The solution to the illegal alien problem is simple. Eliminate the reasons why they are coming here ... jobs and welfare. The easiest way to eliminate the jobs is to place a bounty of the employers that hire illegals. Any citizen or legal alien who turns in an employer illegals would be entitled to half of any fine collected, tax free.
We would have to be careful how this is implemented as it could get out of hand. However, it is not without precedence in this country. Citizens who turn in tax cheats are entitled to a portion of the fine collected.
Undocumented aliens should denied ALL government benefits. This would include housing, food, or financial assistance of any kind.
These two steps would work in conjunction to discourage illegal aliens from entering the country and the ones already here to leave. Employers would think twice about hiring illegals because everyone would be out for the bounty. The lack of government aid would make it difficult to stay.
In this way we would not have to build ineffective border fences and would free up the border patrol for more important functions than running down wetback (as that issue would go away).
To the legal aliens in this country. You are most welcome for the diverse culture, experiences, and talents which you bring the the United States.
I see, we are haters for protecting our country from ILLEGAL passage into it and the ILLEGAL act of harboring a criminal. You people are IDIOTS! Read the law! Stop listening to your HATE groups. If you could read and understand, you would see it has protections against racial profiling. You people are so scarred at finally getting the boot that you have to ratchet up the fear. Just go back, apply for visas to work here, earn the right to be a citizen. We will GLADLY welcome those who come here the right way. That means you understand and respect our country, it's people and it's laws. Instead, you want to over run our country, hold us hostage with claims of " we have the right " and set up a sub-culture medical, food stamps and free schooling, you can't show us respect by learning ENGLISH! The one MAJOR issue I have is you're here, you get all the before mentioned hand outs and you can't ES-PLANE, I mean EXPLAIN to me in ENGLISH, why you refuse to learn English...??... YOU are the HATERS, not us.
Sorry, CNN, but you're just not striking the sympathy chord with me. The woman in question is here illegally...that means she's a criminal. She and her family are running because she is a criminal. For 18 years she has, for whatever reason, refused to take the steps to make herself legal and to avail herself of the rights and responsibilities of being here legally. The point of the story shouldn't be the financial loss these people are suffering because they fear the law will finally catch-up with them; rather, it should be why this family this family chooses to remain illegal and not integrate into our society, despite numerous opportunities they have probably had to do so. Never forget, the woman in this story is part of the problem, not a victim. If they have chosen to leave everything and to continue to be criminals, I have no symnpathy for them.
She has been here EIGHTEEN YEARS and does not speak ENGLISH.
She has been here EIGHTEEN YEARS and is NOT A CITIZEN.
She has been here EIGHTEEM YEARS and does not have a "green card".
WHY?
Where are they going to? Surely they are not emigrating to Mexico.
What state are they going to?
Both are clueless as to obeying the LAWS of this country
They want us to feel sorry for them.
NO WAY.
I am an immigrant, I came through the Immigration system, I paid my dues and fees and went through the whole hell ride...but I did it, have my greencard, pay my taxes and I expect the same from anyone who wants to move here. NO free rides and amnesty please, if that is the case I want my money back too!!! come on now!!! these illegals are slapping every immigrant who did it the right way in the face with their crying and whining: YOU broke laws, which are felonies, why is nothing done about that? this country convicts criminals every day for lesser crimes, such as shop lifting or smoking weed...but people who come here illegal and make money, don;t pay taxes and send 20 billion a year back to their home land can have a free pass?? really?? where is the REAL government of this country? get this clown out of the white house and put a REAL president in, like a Kennedy, who really was for the American people and NOT the filthy corporations.
Plain and simple, the Arizona law in not racially motivated. It enforces existing immigration laws that the federal has failed miserably to enforce. The Obama clan seems to be handling this the same way that they're handling healthcare reform. We will soon become one of the poorest countries in the world due to political incompetence.
The borders, especially our southern border, must be secured.
Preferably, bring in the military and set up a DMZ. If someone attempts to cross illegally, then they are doing so willingly and should be dealt with harshly and quickly. No amnesty, no caving to pressure from rights groups, etc.,. In a nutshell, shoot first – ask questions later.
The bleeding hearts can leave the country as well for even thinking
that allowing people to live in the U.S. illegally and drain our economic and financial resources is acceptable.
We've become a nation of caterers. We feel that we must do something to help others and keep the balance for everyone before we take care of our own country and our own citizens.
So, am I a nationalist, an isolationist, a xenophobe......maybe. Or I might just be very proud of what my country once stood for and wish that all legal U.S. citizens could have it back.
I fail to understand why I should be sympathetic to the plight of an "illegal" who has been here living his american dream. I fully understand the illegals who risk the law to gain work to feed a family back at their home. But after being here 18 years.. come on... An american overseas would have to comply with the law there, it not a mater of whether you are pink green or purple.. respect the law, follow the law or leave... what is racist in that?? ,
Fleeing from the American dream that they Illegally took.
So let's say 90% of bank robbers are Martians. Because we station security guards around banks, are we profiling Martians– or bank robbers? And then just because bank robbers haven't killed or maimed anyone during commission of their crimes, are they to not be charged with a crime? Going one step further, should a bank manager/teller then welcome the [now richer] robber into their homes, ply them with all human possible favors beyond what that host receives, and everyone becomes one big happy family? Crime costs everyone something, some more than others. Push come to shove, crime itself knows no profiling. However, if a high percentage of one part of the populace commit that crime, that part of the populace has brought the shining light upon themselves. Isn't that how we find common denominators in illness and disease (yes the irony of that statement does not escape me as illegals are a blight upon our nation). NO SYMPATHY HERE!
Typical left wing reporting by a typical left wing organization. There are 20 million "undocumented" immigrants in the US. They are taking jobs that 10 million out of work americans can do ( that stuff about americans not willing to do these jobs that the "undocumented" fill is a bunch of rehearsed mumble jumble), & a large segment manipulate the system for free health care, education, housing, food & more, all funded by an already stretch american middle class.
And why dont you show this illegal immigration from the perspective of the majority? Rather than trying to make all these law breakers out to be victims? Do you know how many millions of peoples identities have been stolen and lives completely ruined because of the felony ID theft going on in this country? Why dont you ask some people who are the true victims of this illegal invasion? Lets see something from the perspective of common Americans, legal citizens. Do you paint people getting DUI's and people getting speeding tickets as victims too? Or are you just pushing your won agenda?
The American Dream is for Americans and non-Americans that want to become American according to the laws of this country.
The Dream IS NOT for immigrants that mock our law because they feel there above it.
American dreams is for Americans and not for every other nationals. She should first become American by Legal means than claim for a dream which is for hard working people. CNN should be responsible and not emotional because entering a country illegally is one of the biggest crime. Try this in Iran or North Korea and one should realize that instead of Car, Credit Card, Social welfare, Home, Education what one shall get is severe punishment in jail even without trial. Also ask other legal immigrates what is takes to land here in American soil.
18 years and no word in English- LAZY!!!!?? And why ICE letting them to emigrate to other states?? And i want to point out that illegal is not stating you are from Mexico – illegal can be from any country in the world, so shut up and obey the law if you dont like it – go home (original)!
How long has this family been here and the husband has failed to do the proper procedure for getting his wife citizenship? How about you interview a friends of ours who lives in Arizona who has MS and now has to travel over an hour to the nearest hospital because his closed... went bust because of having to provide free health care for illegals? This was such biased reporting! Illegal immigration places a burden on all state services and people who are citizens have to pay for it. These people get more free services than anyone.
Why is it that all of a sudden illegals have more rights than taxpaying citizens. Sounds like we should be sueing the government. Terribly biased reporting!
Also, many dealerships were forced to close by the Obama Administration.
SB1070 = Hate ???....If you are illegal then you deserve punishment as you are breaking the law. If you are legal, then you don't have much to worry about...I guess sorry to offend the legal people of the state but if there weren't such a high population of illegal immigrants it wouldn't be required. What would anyone else suggest? Maybe go with Mexico's treatment of illegals?
Blaming the NAACP is blaming the victim, well 1 of the victims. You can only fight so much before you lose a battle, before you get too tired to fight any more. The reality of politics in this country is the right lies and lies, the general population believes a lot of the lies and the left has to make concessions to get elected and stay elected. It is unfortunate that people as so gullible as to believe the hype. The negative of the electronic media is that anyone can broadcast lies, just as they can the truth.
SB1070 is hate, plain and simple. Not all supporters of it are racist...most of them just believe the lies made by those that are racists. Open borders are the answer.
If CNN wishes to report correctly, why don't you report that a lot of the business are closing down is not because of SB1070, it closed due to the current economy conditions. This family is leaving not because his wife is illegal but because his jewelry business is failing. People do not buy jewelry when they are worried about feeding their children and paying their bills. The hard pressed Arizona businesses are going out of business is due to the recession and NOT because of SB1070. CNN please practice journalism not slanted sensationalism.
If you are undocumented, leave the country. You are not allowed to be here. PERIOD. Why are we the only nation on Earth that doesn't get this?! If you are a legal citizen and have spent the years and work trying to gain citizenship, we welcome you. I am not against good people becoming Americans. But do it the right way. Learn English, fly the American flag and be grateful you are here.
It's not hate it's enforcing the laws. If you are not here legally then you're violating the laws. Arizona will be a better place when we get the illegals out of here.
Ever since the law 1070 was passed, crime has gone DOWN big time in phoenix and surrounding areas. Talk to any police officer. The police department can't get on national television and say this though.
About the auto dealerships being closed. Yes,they are moving to autoplexes which have much more efficient energy efficient buildings among other things. Nothing like the liberal media trying to distort the reality.
Jan Brew for President!!!
The sign depicted here and the related video posted by CNN re: an illegal family packing it up and heading back to Mexico in light of the new law are absolutely RIDICULOUS. Enforcing US immigration laws is not HATE-based. There is an immigration process. Follow it, or go home. It really is that simple, people and the general masses of US CITIZENS have had enough of certain people thinking they are above the law and continually breaking that law, no matter their rationale.
I agree with R Kershaw why did she not become a citizen, it is not a hard process. To just up and leave after so many years is not smart. This is the problem these people come here and do want to stay but do not bother to go about the right process.
R Kershaw, I'll attempt to answer your question. It is because there is currently absolutely no process for the people illegally here to become legal. None. Period. Once you are caught illegal and deported, you are banned for 10 years (and maybe forever). If you attemp to leave the country to go back, you can also be apprehended, arrested and processed for deportation, it does not matter that "you were leaving". This is EXACTLY what the Immigration Reform proponents are saying – at least provide some legal means of reviewing these cases, otherwise people are caught in a limbo forever. I hope this answered it.
This good morning report was soooo bias and as usual not correct. How profiling the hospitals that have gone bust because of providing health care for illegal immigrants? How about interviewing people who homes have been robbed.... completely cleared out while they're at work? What about the American dream for tax paying, legal citizens who state economies are in shambles because of providing free education, free health services to illegals who don't pay taxes. If you want to come here... come here legally. Every other country in the world enforces its immigration policies to protect it's people.... yet we're considered horrible because we want to do the same. Shame on you for one of most one sided reports I've ever read!!
ok i don't know what every one is trying to say with the big terms like undocumented hay dosent that mean illegal? these things really get me i know people have thier problems but come on the person sitting right next to me, it took him aprox 5 years to get his wife here in the united states legally. and he along with the rest of us defend your freedom. we are supposed to feel for this person who the news decided to explode that is right explode. because she is woried about getting caught for doing something illegal, that she has been doing all along. sometimes i feel like me risking my life serving in the military and leaving my family for extended periods of time is not worth it when you have people like this in my country.
So, demanding that people obey the law ruins the American Dream? Sorry, I won't sign on to that agenda. Optional respect for the law sounds more like the Mexican Dream to me. As an Arizona resident, I'm happy to see illegals leave.
While I understand it may be frustrating to some, I fail to understand why it is considered racist to protect the country from people who have no right to be here illegally anyway. Take some time, get documented and like millions before, take your place. Quit sucking the free money and benefits away from all the other law abiding documented Americans. Mexico actually has stricter laws than Arizonas but everyone fails to condemn them.
I'm sorry that Carlos has to up-root his family-but-what part of "illegal" or "undocumented" do people not understand???? If someone wants to live in the United States, there are laws. If you want to move here, then assimilate-learn and obey the laws, learn English, and enjoy the wonderful opportunities.
Yes we do hate you...all ILLEGALS...so just get legal..WTF..like the people who had the store "for years"..and now fear getting legal they can't stay...that would be right cheater...get the f out or get legal...that simple...and yes we do hate cheaters!!!!!
She is illegal. Get over it. Get legal or get out. We blow millions of dollars on illegal immigrants every year even though our economy stinks. I am tired of it. I hope more states follow suite soon.
I'm getting tired of the simplistic, "racial profiling, " slogan being applied as the only thing opponents of the bill are arguing. Racial profiling is only the beginning. My biggest problem with SB1070 is that it would require naturalized CITIZENS to carry their documents with them to aviod detention/deportation. No American Citizen should ever be required to carry their "papers" with them.
Want to live the American dream? Become an American.
First, the new law is working and it shows you don't have to deport people; They will leave on their own. Second, I believe they said in the piece that they were not going back to Mexico but rather to another state. That shows we need a national policy like this.
The report filed by Ms. Gutierez showing a legal father, legal children and illegal mother/wife inflamed my sensibilities, and I don't live in Arizona.
How do I teach about the rule of law to my daughter, when she can look around her and realize 11 million people have broken the law by entering this country illegally?
While she attempted to depict the human interest in this story, she failed to depict why the mother was illegal to begin with? Obviously, the family lacked the basic common sense to follow the law to build their dream, and how can that be a model that will teach their kids and grandkids, to live within the law?
To depict in the video, the sponsor of the law in the light of being a "hardnose" with no positive context around the plight of Arizona, or the rest of our communities around the US who deal with the day laborers littering the street, resorting to alchoholism, and having babies with no way to pay for them, and to depict "fleeing" and crying families complaining that their American Dream is ruined is just absurd reporting.
My American Dream has been to excell within the structure of our society and culture, and within the laws which protect everyone's rights. It has been to raise a family who follow the law and excell, and avoid ever becoming a ward of the State for illegal activity.
When immigrants, especially the nice ones who want a better life, enter the US illegally, they don't respect the law which builds one of the three pilars of our society; rule of law, separation of power, and inalienable rights. The three make up the American package which creates the "land of opportunity".
If illegal immigrants don't like that it takes respect for the three pillars of our culture to enter the game they should leave, tears and all... and take the 10,999,995 others with them.
The tears should be portrayed as tears of stupidity for blowing their chance by skirting the law. And Ms. Gutierez can take her biased reporting off the air, possibly to a hispanic channel that I don't choose to watch.
The Federal court needs to keep its nose out of the state business. Arizona finally got a plan that workes to hell with the illegals tell them to go home and fix their own country or enter the U.S. legally. Let's hope the Federal Court makes the right legal move and is not influenced by the politics of it.
If his wife has been here for 18 years, why does she not speak English?
Since it was your network that edited a video of someone wearing a gun to a Tea Party rally to avoid showing that he was a black so that you could falsely accuse Tea Partiers as racists, I don't think you have any standing to criticize anyone else for showing an edited tape.
I watched your interview with sharrod this morning and and your suggestions that she sue Brietbart and have his link shut down. Do you think he was there at that NAACP event? It was someone from the NAACP who leaked those edited tapes, and yet you refuse to ask the question who and what their motive might have been, ans why the full version was released immediatly after the contoversy began. That would involve some honesty and integrity.
When did you run the video of the the New Black Panther member exhorting other blacks to kill white crackers and their babies, and call for the shutting down of their agency? You didn't, and yet you co9ntinue to insult people like me by trying to paint me as a racist.
While you constantly accuse Fox of being biased and consistently try to paint millions of good people as racists, I suggest you look in the mirror. It might tell you why CNN has lost so many viewers. Perhaps it's your blatant bias and dishonesty.
Your interview with the "poor" family that has to move to "another state" was blatantly obvious to we citizens who are paying the bills for people like this. She's been in this country for 18 years and still does not speak English. Who paid for her to have those kids in this country. If she wants to be a citizen, let her learn English and do it the way legal immigrants have done it. Right now, she is a criminal because she is here illegally.
And after 17 years in he US the wife still can't speak enlish. Good ridance..........
While watching American Morning this morning I saw a report labeled Fleeing Arizona. I like to correct a statement made by the driver of the car that was showing your reporter around. The driver pointed out a closed car dealership. That car dealership is not closed it relocated from Mesa to Chandler along the 202 in to a new autoplex. The car dealerships are leaving stand alone locations and moving to autoplexes this is not just an occurence in Arizona but across the nation.
The impression this piece gave was that it was wrong to take away the "American dream" from this family because of this law.
The American dream also includes truth and justice. Where is the truth and justice compared to illegals?
Why is wanting to make all people follow the law wrong? Why is it racist?
The American dream came from hard working honest people who went by the laws.
If this family wants justice, then they need to go back to what ever country the wife came from. Then here return legally.
Don't tell me that wrong is right, and right is wrong.
Where is the journalism in this piece?
That is the American dream.
No one seems to be talking about how the NAACP threw Shirley Sherrod, a woman who lost her father to an unknown racist, back in 1965, under the bus that Rosa Parks refused to go to the back of, about 55 years ago? It's shameful that this ?venerable" civil rights group bit into this outrage right off, then claimed they were "snookered"? They should be called the NADCP: National Association for the DISSING of Colored People.....Shame on Ben Jealous, and all the other so-called "leaders" of the NAACP. They're so sensitive they tossed that poor lady into a monstrous example of condemnation before the facts were known. Contempt before investigation, as we say often in Alcoholics Anonymous, which I've been a member of for over 2 and half decades.....Take a lesson from 2,000,000 recovering drunks, and look at all sides of the story before you condemn something you know NOTHING about....Mike Posey Lakeside California
The question that your journalist failed to ask the gentleman that was leaving Arizona with his family, was ; Why after being in this country for 18years, you failed to provide your wife with the proper documentation and means of becoming a legal alien.?
They had a business, a home, he was legal, his children born in this country.
I think I know why. After dealing in my job with many inmigrants I found out that many still keep their wives, "barefoot and pregnant". You have not idea as to the times that I asked the same question to many of these men.
They never find it necessary to do so.