On the House floor today, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) took on the only piece of the Arizona law still intact after the Supreme Court’s ruling earlier this week. The "show me your papers" law allows police officers to check the immigration status of any person they stop for unrelated issues. Opponents of the law say it will encourage racial profiling.
To illustrate that point, Gutierrez played the "Pick Out the Immigrant" game, which included a comparison for the "young C-SPAN viewers": teen celebrity duo, Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez. Bieber may look like the all-American boy next door, but he's a Canadian. His girlfriend and Disney channel star was born and raised in Texas.
Before moving on to the next comparison, Gutierrez had this warning for the pop star: "Justin, when you perform in Phoenix, remember to bring your papers."
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I fail to understand why there is such outrage over asking visitors or citizens in the United States to do what everyone has to do in European countries. And when US Citzens are living or traveling abroad, they are required to produce their "documented status" when questioned by authorities.
This isn't akin to the locking up of Japanese ethnic citizens under the Democrat FDR regime in World War II out on the West Coast... it's simply a common sense need for stopping the influx of up to 1,000,000 (that's a million, folks) illegal immigrants still attempting to come into our country each year, even during the recession (especially in the home building industry) of the past 4 years which lured the income seekers from mostly South of our Border.
Anyone can see that the impact of this illegal migration has already bankruped the once great state of California, who just 30 years ago had an economy that was envied throughout our country. Even if our federal government can't get it together to accomplish a basic protection that every govenment provides to its tax paying citizens, the States individually can take action as assured to us by the Supreme Court devision to uphold the core provision of the Arizona Law, that police may inquire into the legal status of a person to be in the State (and hence the country) during an investigation into other suspected criminal conduct.
It is possible that terrorists can go to Mexico and then come to the US. All they have to do is to become Mexian citizens. I don't understand why all the other countries can secure their borders and we cannot. When we first tried to come to the US we sere send back home from Naples because I had the measels. In New York they checked everything including any rash on our body. We also had to learn English to accomplish anything. The bilingual program delays the learning of Englsih. Once I asked, ""Why is it that I had to learn Englsih within one year and still am able to speack and write Italian?" I got a stupid answer, "That is because you'r smart". It has nothing to do with ntelligence. Instead it has to do with desire and motivation. Everyone in my family made sure that I learned English. Most people do not know what goes on in the bilingual program. In Italy no one is able to rent a room in a hotle without showing the passport. In some hotels they even keep the passport until you leave. Why can't do the same thing? Show your passport or some sort of identification to rent a room in a hotel.