Gov. Janice Brewer (R-AZ) this afternoon signed the controversial immigration bill passed by the state legislature.
"For weeks this legislation has been subject of vigorous debate and intense criticism, and my decision to sign was by no means made lightly," she said after signing.
"Though many people disagree, I firmly believe it represents what's best for Arizona," she added. "There's no higher priority than protecting the citizens of Arizona. We cannot sacrifice our safety to the murderous greed of drug cartels."
The legislation requires law enforcement to demand immigration papers from anyone who they have a "reasonable suspicion" is in the country illegally.
In addition, she signed an executive order ordering a state police board to outline the necessary training for police officers under the new law.
She said she will not tolerate racial discrimination or profiling. Brewer also said she had worked with legislators to make sure the bill protects civil rights.
"We must enforce the law evenly and without regard to skin color, accent or social status," she said, adding that the bill's opponents are "over-reacting."
An estimated 1,200 protesters, many of them students, gathered outside the Capitol to demonstrate against the bill.
She urged the law's supporters and enforcers to be careful not to make "even the slightest misstep."
"We must prove the alarmists and the cynics wrong," she said.
President Obama condemned the legislation earlier today, saying the "recent efforts in Arizona ... threaten to undermine basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans."
Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) earlier this week called for a boycott of his home state if didn't disavow the legislation, which he called "fundamentally racist." Grijalva closed his Tucson office early today after receiving death threats.
He released a statement after the bill was signed calling on Obama to instruct federal agents not to cooperate with the Arizona law. Appearing later on MSNBC, he said, if this doesn't provide an "impetus" for Congress to act on immigration reform, "We're missing the whole point."
Immigration activists and religious leaders, and even Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), had lobbied Brewer to veto the legislation.
Brewer, who was Arizona's secretary of state, took over the governor's office when Janet Napolitano was named Homeland Security Secretary. She is running for a full term this year.
Napolitano released a statement condemning the new law:
The Arizona immigration law will likely hinder federal law enforcement from carrying out its priorities of detaining and removing dangerous criminal aliens. With the strong support of state and local law enforcement, I vetoed several similar pieces of legislation as Governor of Arizona because they would have diverted critical law enforcement resources from the most serious threats to public safety and undermined the vital trust between local jurisdictions and the communities they serve. I support and am actively working with bipartisan members of Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform at the federal level because this issue cannot be solved by a patchwork of inconsistent state laws.
http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/04/az-gov-will-sign-immigration-bill.php?ref=fpa
Hundreds joined in the forum debating this issue.
- Re: 亚利桑那州的反移民新法案/AZ Gov Signs Immigration Billposted on 04/24/2010
- Re: 亚利桑那州的反移民新法案/AZ Gov Signs Immigration Billposted on 04/24/2010
Phoenix may file a lawsuit against this Bill as it is "unconstitutional"http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/04/23/20100423arziona-immigration-bill-mayor-gordon.html - Re: 亚利桑那州的反移民新法案/AZ Gov Signs Immigration Billposted on 04/24/2010
建议亚利桑那立法,搞个良民证5的。 - Re: 亚利桑那州的反移民新法案/AZ Gov Signs Immigration Billposted on 04/24/2010
Word on the street (twitter) is that one person asked Governor Brewer what exactly an "illegal" looks like and she looked stumped. - Re: 亚利桑那州的反移民新法案/AZ Gov Signs Immigration Billposted on 04/26/2010
Responses to this new law across the nation:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/1412950@N21/pool/
No human is illegal.
--a universal ethics view, Kohlberg's highest stage of moral reasoning
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mushjazzlexima-leakpaalex/4524973439/in/pool-immigration/ - Re: 亚利桑那州的反移民新法案/AZ Gov Signs Immigration Billposted on 04/26/2010
TNND, 原来还有在那里买房投资养老的打算,就冲这法律也不去了。 - Re: 亚利桑那州的反移民新法案/AZ Gov Signs Immigration Billposted on 04/27/2010
我们也要来个racial profiling, 所有长成这样的女人也必须被警察盘查,暂定罪为“潜在巫婆罪” suspected witchcrafting。
- Re: 亚利桑那州的反移民新法案/AZ Gov Signs Immigration Billposted on 04/27/2010
加州的,只要不在地震带上真的是好地方。廖教那里(Monterey,)算不算在地震带上?
maya wrote:
我们也要来个racial profiling, 所有长成这样的女人也必须被警察盘查,暂定罪为“潜在巫婆罪” suspected witchcrafting。
- Re: 亚利桑那州的反移民新法案/AZ Gov Signs Immigration Billposted on 04/27/2010
不知道我们这里算不算地震带,很久很久没有地震过了。
Xilihuala wrote:
加州的,只要不在地震带上真的是好地方。廖教那里(Monterey,)算不算在地震带上?
- Re: 亚利桑那州的反移民新法案/AZ Gov Signs Immigration Billposted on 04/28/2010
共产党国家也不允许随时随地检查公民呀!I cry for you, Arizona, in shame. - Re: 亚利桑那州的反移民新法案/AZ Gov Signs Immigration Billposted on 04/28/2010
That's it. Other than Nazi Germany, I don't know anybody else randomly demands people to show their papers walking on the streets.
The teabaggers have screamed fascists for a year now. Their conspicuous silence on this Arizona law is deafening.
liaokang wrote:
共产党国家也不允许随时随地检查公民呀!I cry for you, Arizona, in shame. - Re: 亚利桑那州的反移民新法案/AZ Gov Signs Immigration Billposted on 04/29/2010
Common sense and politics don't mix well.
Profiling works well in criminal investigation. Unfortunately it can get abused in practice - come to think of it, the illegals are taking advantage of the system.
- Re: 亚利桑那州的反移民新法案/AZ Gov Signs Immigration Billposted on 04/30/2010
Oh, AZ, what else is coming?
Arizona Expands Its Discrimination: Teachers With Heavy Accents Can’t Teach English, Ethnic Studies Are Banned
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/04/30/arizona-teachers/
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703572504575213883276427528.html - posted on 05/04/2010
(一)10 个州的共和党人士纷纷表示要效法亚利桑那建立反移民新法案。这些州是:俄克拉何马,密苏里,南卡罗兰娜,德克萨斯,俄亥俄,科罗拉多,乔治亚,优塔,玛丽兰,北卡罗兰娜州。
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/05/not_just_arizona_from_utah_to_maryland_states_eye.php
(二)亚利桑那州的新纳粹计划把五月五日节日变成“非法移民报告日”
Following new immigration law, Arizona neo-Nazi group designates Cinco de Mayo ‘Report An Illegal Day.’
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/05/03/report-an-illegal/ - posted on 05/04/2010
我一向以为,等事情闹得要上街游行了,也就没了系。
这是我在纽约游行的经验。
sands wrote:
(一)10 个州的共和党人士纷纷表示要效法亚利桑那建立反移民新法案。这些州是:俄克拉何马,密苏里,南卡罗兰娜,德克萨斯,俄亥俄,科罗拉多,乔治亚,优塔,玛丽兰,北卡罗兰娜州。
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/05/not_just_arizona_from_utah_to_maryland_states_eye.php
看来够纳粹的,原来纳粹本不具褒贬,是一种历史现象。
我了解的另一种现象是,目前美国企业诱引外资搞投资移民,这个在韩国、中国都
很热。也许有钱的另当别类,
如果这些州法案都通行了,估计美国也到了腓力普二世后期了。
(二)亚利桑那州的新纳粹计划把五月五日节日变成“非法移民报告日”
Following new immigration law, Arizona neo-Nazi group designates Cinco de Mayo ‘Report An Illegal Day.’
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/05/03/report-an-illegal/
咱昨天到学校接孩子,就被学生积级分子举报到校务长那儿,校务长来了,看到我
在学西班牙语DVD,说,这不就是Bruce & Reilly's Daddy?
那些小学生积极分子无言以对!唉,是不是纽约最近的汽车炸弹。
总之,过一天好日子,是一天吧。
- Re: 亚利桑那州的反移民新法案/AZ Gov Signs Immigration Billposted on 05/19/2010
Such 小学生积极分子!
Maybe they have this kind of teacher?
--a geometry teacher uses wrong example to teach angles --- assassination of President Obama
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2010/05/jefferson_county_geometry_teac.html
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