Who Supports Making Illegals, well, Illegal?

Using the last US census figures for Arizona, there are 3.8 million white-non-Hispanic citizens out of a total population of 6.6 million. (The data is at the bottom of this article.) According to the most recent opinion polls, 70% of Arizonans (representing 4.6 million Arizonans) favor Senate Bill 1070. That means that if every single white non-Hispanic person is considered in favor of the bill (meaning people of all political parties, religions, and nationalities), there would be 800,000 non-white minority people who support the bill. This would be the minimal possible minority support, since obviously there are many white-non-Hispanic people who are opposed to the bill.

My opinion, which is not verifiable but is base only on observation, is that most of those foreign born legal residents are supportive of the bill. The exception to this might be foreign born Hispanics, who may differ from others because of a feeling kinship. However, those legal immigrants with whom I’ve had conversations, including Hispanics, are opposed to illegal immigration.

We know from state and federal estimates that the number of foreign born illegals in Arizona is much higher than the number from the 2000 census, which included most legal foreign born citizens or residents, illegals are notoriously under-reported in census and most other population counts. This is primarily due to the fact that they are not willing to talk to a census taker.

This becomes even more complicated because of the existence of “anchor babies” children who are born in the United States to illegal alien parents. These children are citizens who grow up as Americans, being educated here yet, because of their parents maintain strong ties to their Mexican or Latin American homeland and see nothing wrong with the way they gained their citizenship. My guess would be that several thousand of these children are participating in the current protests against the senate bill.

A political dirty trick is to use class and race to drive a wedge between citizens. The easiest way to apply this is through creating fear between racial or ethnic groups, and demonizing those who have opposing opinions. We are witnessing this from the mouths of left wing and Hispanic groups, and liberals in general. You see illogical attempts to label the supporters of SB1070 as Nazi’s, rednecks, haters, and racists. It is not about any of that it is about law and respect for the law.

The demographics of Arizona do not support the charges that SB1070 is a product of a lunatic right wing fringe element. They show that there have to be many (millions) of people from all segments of our population who support this bill.

White persons	86.5%
White not Hispanic	58.4%
White Hispanic	28.1%
Other Hispanic	02.0%
All Hispanic Origen	30.1%
Black Persons	04.2%
Native Americans	04.9%
Asians	02.5%
Pacific Islanders	0.2%
All Foreign Born Persons	12.8%
*From 2000 US Census

The total population of the state was 6.6 million

Total white population 5.7 million

White not Hispanic population 3.8 million

Total Hispanic Population 2.0 million

Number who favor HB1070 (by poll) 4.6 million

Others not white nor Hispanic 0.8 million

Total minority population 2.8 million

Total population foreign born 0.8 million

Arizona Outlaws Being an Outlaw

Why can’t we ever have honest debate without extreme hyperbole? When does it become HATE and RACIST to disagree with a person’s political view? Why do we have to depict the other side of the debate as Hitler, Stalin, or Klansmen? Such exaggeration adds nothing but anger to the discussion, and often backfires by putting the speaker (or sign holder) in a bad light.

Those who are currently protesting the new legislation making it against Arizona law to be in the state illegally are displaying signs with those words and images on them. This has nothing to do with Race, first of all because being a Mexican is a nationality not a race. The majority of Mexicans are a mix of Caucasian (Spanish), and Native American. Most multi-generational “Anglo-Americans” are also a mix of Caucasian (from all parts of Europe), Native American, and just about every race or nationality. Beyond Mexicans, Hispanics range from almost pure Caucasian, through various groups of indigenous peoples, Asians, and African peoples.

Since when is it “hate” to enforce laws that have been enacted by democratic process? Isn’t it closer to hate to disregard such laws, scoff at the will of the people? The citizens of this “hateful” country have done more to embrace and encourage success of legal immigrants that any country on earth. They give more to charity for countries of every race and religion than any other country ever has in history.

We have sacrificed the lives of our citizens to free slaves; this was not an uprising of the slaves, but an uprising of freemen with no personal interest in the fight except that which is right. We have overthrown great tyranny and protected downtrodden nations with our own blood. Then when it was over we rebuilt the rescued countries and gave back their self-determination. Even the defeated, nearly destroyed enemy countries were helped to the tune of trillions of dollars from both the government and the largess of our citizens. Instead of taking the spoils of war and adding them to our “empire” we gave them freedom. Japan, Germany, and Italy areeconomic powers today because of the unselfishness of the United States citizens.

I worked at Wellton, AZ where day after day I saw US Border Patrolmen rescue illegals who were dying in those desert sands. They were treated respectfully, provided with food, water, and medical care before being returned (all with no recompense to the US) back to Mexico. This is not hate, but compassion, compassion for those who disregard our laws.

The debate comes down to only one issue: Should we be encouraging and abetting people to violate our laws or should we hold them accountable for their actions? Yes they are poor and desperate, but would that justify them burglarizing or robbing? No. Neither does it justify them breaking and entering into our country.