{"id":18846,"date":"2010-04-27T21:25:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T02:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=18846"},"modified":"2010-04-27T21:25:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T02:25:01","slug":"what-else-were-we-supposed-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18846","title":{"rendered":"What else were we supposed to do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you know that I am an Arizona resident and have been attending Arizona State since I left the Marine Corps last year. Over the last week, my state has been at the top of the news because of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SB_1070\">SB 1070<\/a>, which as most of you probably know is a new law designed to combat illegal immigration by giving local law enforcement the ability to question somebody&#8217;s immigration status during &#8220;lawful contact&#8221; (i.e. traffic stop, arrests for crimes like drunken and disorderly, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be honest: I don&#8217;t think this is a perfect bill and I think it is going to get voided in federal court (since it will probably be challenged in the 9th Circuit which is the most liberal court in the country).\u00a0 However, this state is facing a mountain of problems as a result of illegal immigration and the federal government&#8217;s inability to formulate an effective immigration policy.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Phoenix now is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalterroralert.com\/updates\/2009\/02\/13\/kidnapping-capital-of-the-usa-phoenix-arizona\/\">kidnapping capitol of the United State<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalterroralert.com\/updates\/2009\/02\/13\/kidnapping-capital-of-the-usa-phoenix-arizona\/\">s<\/a> and we have consistently had the highest level of car thefts in the country for many years, with many of the vehicles heading south of the border. Mexican drug cartels, facing pressure in their own country have moved large parts of their operations north to our state. You have to be a complete idiot to believe that these crimes are not linked to the federal government&#8217;s inability to secure our border with Mexico or our large illegal immigrant population.<\/p>\n<p>SB 1070 will not solve all of these problems. I usually divide the immigration debate into three issues: path to citizenship issues, internal immigration\u00a0 law enforcement, and border security. SB 1070 deals specifically with internal immigration law enforcement (within the state of Arizona). The state can&#8217;t do much with the other two issues since it is the federal government which controls the border patrol and the citizenship process. Some have supported the bill despite its flaws in the hope that it will force the federal government (specifically Congress) to formulate a better immigration policy. I am not holding my breath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you know that I am an Arizona resident and have been attending Arizona State &hellip; <a title=\"What else were we supposed to do?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18846\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What else were we supposed to do?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":607,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illegal-immigrants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/607"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}