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[kyburg]

"The T-Mobile Welcome Back" (Watch on YouTube)

Today, I was humbled to join the President at the White House to administer the oath of allegiance to 24 American service members as they became citizens of our nation. These men and women were born in 16 different countries, but they came to the United States sharing a common purpose, and chose to defend their adopted country even before they became citizens.

These men and women are shining examples of the energy, talent, and commitment that immigrants have always brought to our country. I am proud to call each of them fellow Americans.

And Arizona's Secretary of State cum Governor signs one of the worst examples in recent memory of why INS needed more funding and teeth twenty years ago (and this is not going to help).

I should also mention Arizona was a state being boycotted back when I was a teen because they failed to sign on for the Equal Rights Amendment. Not much has changed, sadly.

This...might get even more interesting if the protests get even more heated. I wonder how many people remember how many more guns are in the hands of both sides over there....

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[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

I was hearing about that AZ law on NPR. First thing I thought, too, was that the requirement to check without good probable cause means people are going to run away from law enforcement even more than they already do. People will refuse to testify about crimes that might entangle their relatives in scrutiny.

Also another excuse to pull people over for driving while immigrant, or driving while nonwhite. And then bad bad things happen when people panic and run.

This darn bill doesn't help with existing federal resources, it doesn't even do anything *effective* about preventing illegals from coming, as long as that economic disparity is there.