Should the Supreme Court Overturn Arizona's Immigration Law?

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Manoflamancha, you are on point. I can really appreciate the wisdom in your words. You touched on a few topics that white mainstream America refuse to acknowledge. Just take a look at their history books. They have attempted to rewrite our history to fit their version of events.
Manoman's comments are just another example of what I mentioned in my previous post. He's a white guy who is clearly racist, and he's clueless about it. The logic he implies is that minorities in America should somehow be grateful that racism is not as bad in America as it is in other countries! He seems to think that there is and should be an acceptable level of intolerance. Here’s a novel idea; let’s try eradicating prejudice altogether! What a clueless ass he is.
The good new is that America is changing. We are finally beginning to move toward that system of government that the founding fathers envisioned for themselves. I’m sure they had no idea that the framework they put in place would be the ultimate demise of their power and dominance in this nation. The demographics in this country are changing. Soon, the leadership of America will be comprised of as many minorities as whites. Then, America will thrive and retake its rightful position as the nation to which all other nations aspire.
God bless America!
Wisdom

Wisdom of LA 8:41AM December 12, 2012

No they should keep out of Arizona.

jinix of AZ 12:49PM June 03, 2012

See a collection of political cartoons on immigration.
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They don't like the people of this country so who really cares what they think?
We ask over and over again. You really need to understand English to understand the question, so Representitive Luis Gutierrez is forgiven, but US NEW??? No forgiving here. Soooo... what race is illegal alien in the minds of the people who run US News?

Joel Wischkaemper of OR 11:32PM April 28, 2012

Since America has been in existence, white men have believed themselves superior to all others. They have lived with certain privileges based solely on the color of their skin. I have discovered in my personal experience that they seem to be incapable of understanding what it is like to be a minority in this country – even the ones who aren’t bigots or racists. As a minority, I know that profiling is common in law enforcement. If the police stop a luxury sedan on I-95 for traveling 15 mph of the limit and finds the driver is a white male, 28, with his wife in the passenger seat, he may or may not issue a ticket, ask them to slow it down, and usher them on their way. Replay that same scenario except now the driver is a black male, 28, with his younger brother in the car, and the call goes out for back-up and the k-9 unit. This kind of thing happens all the time. Years ago in LA, black folks knew exactly what was going on with the LAPD and the severe beatings they were issuing to black men every time they got the chance. It had been going on for years. White America never believed it… that is, until they saw it one night on the evening news. Many blacks believed OJ was guilty but celebrated his acquittal anyway because they were so outraged that those cops that beat Rodney King were acquitted. This time the system that has screwed black folks for so long had finally done it to white folks. Now white America would feel it, they would know how injustice feels. That’s why most black folks I know celebrated, not because they thought OJ was innocent, but because he had beaten a system that had been beating us for so many years.
I’ve read SB-1070 and it will no doubt lead to harassment and civil rights violations of the in Mexican American population in Arizona. No one who ever experienced profiling from the victims perspective would ever vote for it. I hope and pray that the Supreme Court overturns it. Arizona and the rest of the like-minded states should be ashamed. They are an embarrassment to their constituency, their state, and the United States of America.
Wisdom

Wisdom of LA 2:13PM April 27, 2012

The suprem should never a allowd cop aske the emigrant for there citezan ship .or green card .. Becouse is going to be lot of abuse of aligal women in usa and there are going to be freid to go to cop .. It is varey wrong it is un humen for the suprem court to allow that. it I is dangras. it is un jaistes. it is races . it is pragdes ...and the childern of aligal when they be abuse they ascer to go to cap.it is worng we leve in 21centrey in the usa....thank you kris..

Kris of CA 5:35AM April 27, 2012

They should not allow cop to qoustion imgrent for ligel residansy here onley if they have been charg with crime or if there are in jall ....kris

Kris of CA 8:48PM April 26, 2012

I agree with you Ken. Manoflamacha rant says far more about his own racial prejudices, than it does about those he is accusing.
I've traveled and worked in a number of different countries, including ones that are primarily hispanic and muslim, where I've been stopped by police, who demand that I produce, not my ID, but my passport. I don't even have to open my mouth to reveal that I don't speak their native language. They take one look at my blonde hair, and it's pretty obvious.
If I insulted them by accusing them of racism, or trying to argue "racial profiling", I have no doubt they'd find a reason to lock me up for a good long time before deportation--at minimum. In some of those countries, I might not make it back home.
In fact, I was in Zurich Switzerland, enjoying a nice cup of tea in a cafe with a guy I had just met from East Germany, when the police entered, demanding IDs. He didn't have his, and got a somewhat defensive. So they took him outside, to beat him on the streets before hauling him off to jail. I went to the US and East German embassies to try to find out what happened to him, but was never able to.
BTW manoflam, "mexican extration" is not a term. Next time you may want to try using the term "mexican descent."

manoman of IL 2:28PM April 26, 2012

manoflamancha - You are a racist. Thanks for the history lesson. i'll get right to the point. Your rant on history means NOTHING. Get over it, we go by the laws of today. Not 100 or 200 years ago. why not try to change the laws in your own country and get out of mine, racist dope

ken of RI 11:33AM April 26, 2012

I do not condone nor defend illegal immigration. I am a proponent that the constitutional rights of legal American citizens of Mexican extraction are to be respected and protected in the same manner as all other legal American citizens.
Sheriff arpaio, is a pompous, self-centered, racist and bigot, self appointed American nazi gestapo butcher. Everyone in America is an immigrant (legal or illegal). This includes the initial whites who came from England.....they didn't need green cards, because they had weapons and proceeded to butcher the only race born here......the American Indian. Then they brought African people and made slaves of them because the most wise constitutional framers did not consider Blacks as sanctioned human beings....rather consider them as property. Yes illegal immigration is wrong, yet Mexican illegal immigrants must be dealt in a humane manner. Here is a novel idea....have the white house demand that the government of Mexico deal with the flow of illegals. However, the sanctity of the constitutional rights of all legal American citizens of Mexican extraction must be respected and protected.
Yes, big brother is watching! Efforts to find illegal Mexicans is violating the constitutional rights of American citizens of Mexican extraction. Nazi Germans made Jews wear a star on their chest and tattooed numbers on the inside of their arm just above the wrist. What will legal American citizens of Mexican extraction have to wear on their chest and what will their tattoos read? The more things change, the more they remain the same.
Only three percent of America's attorneys are American of Mexican extraction. Only 3.9% are Black American. Separate but equal, right?
Legal American citizens of Mexican extraction must not have their constitutional rights violated by being stopped on the street, told to put their hands on the wall, spread their legs, then told to provide their identification. If their American constitutional rights are not respected, and protected.....they may end up in the streets of America marching and boycotting, doing whatever they must in order to assure that justice is served. I'm not sure why white Americans voted a Black as president when prejudice and racism is very much alive in America. However, I can assure you that legal American citizens of Mexican extraction are not going to be the new "whipping boys" for the enjoyment of white racists.
We don't call White Americans of Germanic extraction "German-Americans". We don't call White Americans of Irish extraction "Irish-Americans". We don't call White Americans of French extraction "French-Americans". We simply refer to them as Americans. So why call Americans of African extraction "African-Americans"? Why call Americans of Hispanic or Latin extraction "Mexican-Americans" or Latinos"? Why call Americans of Asian extraction "Asian Americans"? These distinctions are made on the basis of skin color. When White Americans can see beyond the color of an individual’s skin......that day will truly be America the free........but not until then.
We can impose laws in our attempt to abolish racism in America, we can even vote a Black individual as president, however we cannot change what is inside a person's heart.

manoflamancha of TX 8:27AM April 26, 2012

Which state has passed a law making ethnic studies ILLEGAL in public schools? Which state was last to recognize Martin Luther King Day?
I detect a pattern

Steve of FL 8:11AM April 26, 2012