We citizens of Arizona should honor Gov. Jan Brewer for standing up for what is right for our great state. She is only asking citizens and law enforcement agencies to do what our federal government fails to do. Just uphold the law. We don’t care about votes, we are not being discriminatory, we just care about our state’s rights and laws, and stop these people from taking advantage of the benefits that my ancestors worked so hard for.
My ancestors came over from Europe in the late 1700s, learned the language, got a job, and became American citizens and not through amnesty.
When I drive, I carry my vehicle registration, my insurance card and my drivers license. If you travel out of the country, you take your ID with you, don’t you? Gee, that’s a no-brainer. If you don’t have these papers, then you are breaking the law, yes the law.
The federal government should be thanking Gov. Brewer for doing their job of enforcing immigration laws. But our state has been punished by the boycotts and the bad coverage that the media provides, making us law-abiding citizens look like criminals. What’s wrong with this picture?
Let us take care of our illegal immigration, do away with the freebies, and force our government to write a law disallowing a newborn, born here, from becoming a citizen if both parents are here illegally.
Sharon J. Kruse, Chandler
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coyote posted at 6:10 am on Wed, Aug 11, 2010.
Ellis Island opened in about 1890. All who came before that just came. It is good that they became citizens but they wouldn't have had to.
Masterrogue666 posted at 7:32 am on Wed, Aug 11, 2010.
Sharon: I agree with everything you wrote, except the last part. If EITHER parent is an ILLEGAL ALIEN, then the child should NOT get citizenship. No one should benefit when a crime is being committed....
Masterrogue666 posted at 11:07 am on Wed, Aug 11, 2010.
Coyote: Are you condoning a return to the way things were in 1890?
Bingo6 posted at 11:18 am on Thu, Aug 12, 2010.
Sorry, Sharon., you need to refer to pocket constitution and tell me where it says that a citizen has to carry an ID.
I don't know maybe I missed that somewhere.
However, if you drive car, a licensed privliege, then yes you must carry a valid driver's license and if your state requires mandated insurance (you know one of those socialist laws that require you to have auto insurance then) yes you may need to prove that.
However, if you are a real living American citizen just walking down the street you DO NOT, have to carry any ID. Even an extremist like you.
As for your ancestors, well please spare us, everybody's ancestors came here from somewhere, except for what's left of the massacered real Native Indians and I might add the Hispanics that have been here since before your relatives came.
You want do this state a favor let's get rid of the radical extremists who use fear, hate, and bigotry, to retain their overstepping constitutional authority, and elect some real reasoned and intelligent people to actually come up with solutions for everybody even the amnesty solutions that Reagon began in the 80's.
I may be wrong but I seriously doubt that anybody arriving in American prior to 1776, were anything other that British subjects, beholding to the King's law.