The Wingnuts who have taken over the Republican party are really in the ascendency in Arizona I guess, where they've passed a law that requires police to enforce federal immigration laws and allows them to demand identification from anyone they have "reasonable suspicion" to believe is an illegal alien.
So what's hypocritical? Well, all I hear from the far Right is how government under the Democrats is anti-freedom. They want to do things like mandate health insurance and transfer money through the tax system, which makes America less free.
So here it is now: do these same people support this law in Arizona? Now we're talking about people being stopped on the street because they look Mexican and presumably being hauled off to the station if they can't prove their legal status. So I guess authoritarian government power has virtually no limits when it comes to people with dark skin, while increasing taxes on "real Americans" is a horrible usurpation of freedom.
Sickening. I'm in on the Arizona boycott. Too bad, I always wanted to check it out down there...
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Illegal immigration is a real problem in this country, and the federal government seems unable or unwilling to do anything about it. I applaud Arizona for trying to pick up the slack, and I understand that several other border states are moving in the same direction.
ReplyDeleteI disagree with your claim that conservatives are hypocritical on this point. Mandating health insurance does restrict the freedom of U.S. citizens, while the Arizona law is focused on non-U.S. citizens who are not entitled to the same freedoms. Your implied concern that the law will be implemented in a manner that restricts the freedom of U.S. citizens is a legitimate concern, and it speaks to the importance of defining “reasonable suspicion “ carefully, but it does not create hypocricy.