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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (82847)	4/20/2010 10:55:06 PM
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Arizona immigration bill under fire By KASIE HUNT \| 4/20/10 politico.com Hispanic lawmakers want President Barack Obama to intervene if Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer doesn’t veto a sweeping illegal immigration bill that would require police to stop anyone suspected of being an illegal immigrant. “The governor of Arizona should veto the bill, and if she doesn’t the president of the United States, Barack Obama, should assert the federal government’s preeminent role in regulating and enforcing our nation’s immigration law,” Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.), said Tuesday. A senior administration official said the White House was studying the bill. Under the proposed Arizona law, now headed to the Republican governor’s desk, police must stop people on “reasonable suspicion” that they might be undocumented immigrants. If they’re not carrying a valid driver’s license or identification papers, police could make an arrest. “The lunacy of rounding up people because they look a certain way, or are suspected of being in violation of immigration statutes, can only lead to one thing – violations of people’s basic, fundamental civil rights. Profiling,” Gutierrez said. But while Gutierrez criticized Republicans, he’s also firing a warning shot at the White House, which has been slow to embrace comprehensive immigration reform. “In the end, it all comes back to the president of the United States and whether he will put his back into comprehensive immigration reform,” Gutierrez said. And he warned of electoral payback if Democrats ignore the issue. “The Republicans are so mean spirited and so anti-immigrant that they simply push immigrants and Latinos into the waiting arms of Democrats,” Gutierrez said. “There is a third option for those voters. They don’t necessarily have to fill the ranks of the Democratic Party. They can simply stay home.” Supporters of the Arizona legislation, though, say it would give police the tools they need to combat violent crimes committed by illegal immigrants. The Arizona bill’s primary author is state Sen. Russell Pearce, a Republican who says that “illegal is not a race, it’s a crime.” Pearce is a longtime anti-immigration advocate who once praised a 1950s deportation program known as “Operation Wetback.”