Face it: The GOP is anti immigrant

[ProSense]

Republicans have stood in the way of meaningful immigration reform for years. In fact, who can forget when Tom Tancredo threatened to have students arrested at a press conference held by Democrats to promote the DREAM Act.

The Arizona law is anti immigrant. It's not a law to stop illegal immigrants from entering the country. It's a law to stop people on the streets of the state and ask them to prove that they're citizens. It's completely ludicrous to call this an immigration law.

Here is what AZ Gov. Brewer said when she signed the law:

The legislation requires law enforcement to demand immigration papers from anyone who they have a "reasonable suspicion" is in the country illegally.

She said she will not tolerate racial discrimination or profiling. Brewer also said she had worked with legislators to make sure the bill protects civil rights.

"We must enforce the law evenly and without regard to skin color, accent or social status," she said, adding that the bill's opponents are "over-reacting."

An estimated 1,200 protesters, many of them students, gathered outside the Capitol to demonstrate against the bill.

She urged the law's supporters and enforcers to be careful not to make "even the slightest misstep."

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And if the reasonable suspicion turns out to be bogus, how does the person produce "immigration papers"?

[Ozymanithrax]

1. The GOP is whatever it takes to get back in power. n/t

[provis99]

2. I disagree. They love racist white immigrants like Peter Brimelow.

White immigrants are ok with them. Brown, yellow, and black ones, not so much.

[GoCubsGo]

12. No, they like the brown and yellow ones, too...

Just as long as those immigrants clean their houses, look after their children, tend to their yards, provide them with cheap produce, etc., while earning slave wages. Why do you think they did absolutely NOTHING about the issue during the 12 years they held Congress, and 8 years they held the White House? As long as these people stay in the shadows, and help keep wages down, they adore them.

[Avalux]

3. They are racist, to put it bluntly. If you're not white, you don't belong.

The GOP and their supporters are terrified that the white male will no longer control the USA; that those of other colors will have an influence on the course of our nation.

[tishaLA]

4. Seems to me those in power in the republican party love them

Because

1. They can exploit their cheap labor
2. They can exploit them as cheap political fodder

The rank and file hate them because they don't realize the cheap labor makes the food they eat cheap.

[theoldman]

5. The GOP's problem is that non whites tend to vote Democrat.

They are caught between a rock and a hard place. The Republicans needed the cheap labor to build all of those houses. If the cheap labor gets deported, who is going to do all of that labor?

[Bad Thoughts]

9. Rather GOP tends to insult non-whites

Republicans have had many good opportunities to court African-Americans and Hispanics. Even recently, they had a good chance of building a solid bloc of Hispanics who shared elements of their moral focus. They left because white Republicans mixed their anti-immigrant message with racism.

[The Damned]

6. The GOP is anti-EVERYTHING!

They should change their name, in fact.

[HillWilliam]

7. Like that putz Pat Buchanan said

In 1964 they made a deal with the devil and took in the Dixiecrats (and, tacitly, the klan). In 1994 they made another deal with the devil and took in the religious right (and, quite openly, the oogahboogah snake handlers with their high-hair hypocrite big-box megapreachahs). Add that to the idle rich and the military machine, you have a perfect cesspool if there ever was one.

They can only play to a cesspool of a demographic. They've got a vidiot audience with a vidiot mentality so they can do only one of two schticks: WWE or reality show. Being an total reality-show tamayta is all they've got left if they're going to keep the only demographic they've got left.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

8. The new phrase is "Anti-Immigrant Law" not "Anti-Immigration Law"

They hate people. It's just the way they are.

OK, OK. They hate brown people because I don't see any of these asswipes up in Buffalo trying to block Canadians from entering the country.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

10. I think they're more racist than anti-immigrant

I think I can guess who they'd prefer between me (a Mexican American) and my husband (a British immigrant).

[harun]

13. Agree, they love immigrant workers. It is about racism and their

hatred of the poor.

[WI_DEM]

11. They are anti-everything except for fat wealthy white men