Russell Pearce Emails Prove Arizona's SB 1070 Was Racially Motivated, ACLU Says

Arizona Republic:

The American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona has released thousands of e-mails that it says proves Arizona's controversial immigration law was racially motivated.

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[castlemike]

01:55 AM on 08/01/2012

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jul/31/illegals-released-feds-19-murders-142-sex-crimes/print/

Report cites killings blamed on non-deported illegals

The Obama administration released illegal immigrants who went on to commit more crimes, including charges of 19 murders, 3 attempted murders and 142 sex crimes, the House Judiciary Committee said in a report Tuesday.

All told, 16 percent of the nearly 47,000 illegal immigrants the administration was notified of but declined to deport between 2008 and 2011 under its Secure Communities program have gone on to be charged with other crimes, the committee said.

They were part of the nearly 160,000 immigrants — most of them here legally — who were flagged by Secure Communities during the three-year period and who were later charged in nearly 60,000 more crimes, according to the committee and the Congressional Research Service, which looked at data the committee subpoenaed from the Homeland Security Department.

About three-quarters of those weren't eligible for deportation because they were legal immigrants and their criminal records didn't rise to the level of deportation.

But nearly a quarter could have been deported and weren't, CRS said. They went on to commit the 19 murders, 3 attempted murders and 142 sex crimes, the Judiciary Committee said.

In June, Mr. Obama announced yet another policy that shields most illegal immigrants age 30 and under from deportation.

[RepublicanDepression]

03:29 PM on 07/24/2012

Disgraceful of the AZ GOP (Greedy One Percent) to force racially-motivated laws.

Shame.

[RepublicanDepression]

03:25 PM on 07/24/2012

Study finds immigrants commit less California crime
http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/02/26/us-usa-immigration-crime-idUSN246261520080226”

Arizona GOP (Greedy One Percent) and Pearce bigotry FAIL!

[hoperequired]

11:47 AM on 07/23/2012

The ACLU.....very funny.

[holyghostie]

08:44 PM on 07/23/2012

http://www.change.org/petitions/immigration-and-customs-enforcement-deport-illegal-immigrants-based-on-the-law-not-on-change-org-petitions

[cvermeulen9]

10:06 AM on 07/21/2012

Yeah just like we have proof that O is not a Natural Born Citizen! I guess it's tit for tat then!

[RepublicanDepression]

02:02 PM on 07/22/2012

cvermeulen9: "Yeah just like we have proof that O is not a Natural Born Citizen! "

You have proof?

Yet you FAIL to present it? LOL!

OK, prove your proof with proof or FAIL!

I bet you choose to FAIL!

[RepublicanDepression]

03:28 PM on 07/24/2012

I see you choose to still FAIL to disclose your "proof" like Romney fails to disclose his tax secrets.

[AKJM]

09:32 PM on 07/20/2012

So, law enforcement has always targeted particular crimes, in this case illegal immigrants. Who seven out of ten are Mexicans. There is no way any immigration enforcement would not have a racial component.

[holyghostie]

08:55 PM on 07/23/2012

Interesting stuff.
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/us-spending-least-186-million-day-incarcerate-illegal-aliens-more-195000-illegal-aliens
http://www.texastribune.org/immigration-in-texas/immigration/perry-feds-state-owed-more-349-million/

[AKJM]

09:23 PM on 07/23/2012

Simple, arrest and deport.

[spytheweb]

09:29 PM on 07/20/2012

This is what happens when you allow illegal aliens to run free. Illegal alien charged in deadly DUI crash in Phoenix. "On Sunday, police arrested Eduardo Soto-Ramirez, 19, after he reportedly ran a red light at the intersection of W Broadway Road and S 35th Ave. and crashed his Ford Crown Victoria into a pickup truck. The driver of the truck, Viridiana Espinoza, was thrown from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the hospital." https://www.examiner.com/article/illegal-alien-charged-deadly-dui-crash-phoenix

[TheBluesGuy]

03:02 AM on 07/21/2012

In Scottsdale, on March 12 of this year, a fatal collision between a black Chevy Tahoe and a bicyclist on Thompson Peak Parkway just north of 100th Street didn't involve anyone with a Spanish surname. This is what happens when you allow people behind the wheel who don't pay attention.

[Epilef2000]

06:34 PM on 07/21/2012

Because no natural born citizen has ever committed a DUI. The DUI laws were made for American citizens after all. Think before you make anecdotes.

[spytheweb]

09:14 PM on 07/20/2012

Race is the only defense illegal aliens have to being in the country illegally? Or is racial profiling their only defense for not being found out. Serial killers don't want to be profiled either.

I support national biometric fingerprint/iris ID cards for US citizens. I also support HR140, the Birthright Act. Requiring one US parent to be born a US citizen.

[Epilef2000]

06:42 PM on 07/21/2012

You could also point out to the foreign policy that the US imposes and supported prior to the Cold War--ensuring above all corporate interests in support of fascists regimes in Latin America..but that might require reading.

[RepublicanDepression]

02:10 PM on 07/22/2012

spytheweb: "Race is the only defense illegal aliens have to being in the country illegally? Or is racial profiling their only defense for not being found out. Serial killers don't want to be profiled either."

You really FAIL to see the difference between racial profiling and profiling serial killers?

Wow. They have really done a number on you.

Thanks for more evidence of this:

”The modern American right is hermetically sealed in a media universe that lets in no natural light and no air. They breathe in only their own exhalations. And in that sealed, self-referential, oxygen-deprived environment, the modern American right has become addicted to conspiracy theories, which mostly is hilarious, but occasionally it has real world consequences.”
-Maddow

[ButchManowski]

07:17 PM on 07/20/2012

There is no way to know if he's a true racist in his mind.

He did use the racist feelings of a whole lot of people to build his political career.
At That, he was very successful.
Low voter turn out hands the election to the rabid fringe.
He was recalled and defeated in a the following election.

Perhaps he has unintentionally increased voter turn out here, in Arizona.
How's that for irony.

[Vlad Drac]

06:50 PM on 07/20/2012

It was also motivated by the Privatized Prison Industry........Cheney and his buddies are profiting by putting Brown people in Prison.....and promising to keep them 90% FULL.......

[ButchManowski]

07:19 PM on 07/20/2012

That is a big issue here, in Arizona.

Our governor's chief is staff is a lobbyist for private prison corps.
They do well here.

[Zork4]

08:05 PM on 07/20/2012

Any country where there is a financial motivation to incarcerate is on the wrong path. Private Prisons should be illegal.

[spytheweb]

09:16 PM on 07/20/2012

You got to have somewhere to put illegal aliens. Unlike California who prefers to just let them run free and drive.

[Vlad Drac]

10:01 PM on 07/20/2012

Oh, I get it, you're an effing ignorant sh*tstain.....got it

[RepublicanDepression]

02:11 PM on 07/22/2012

Where do we put fact-oblivious bigots?

[flipacoin]

06:48 PM on 07/20/2012

Is Arizona letting in the Caucasion illegal immigrants while clamping down on hispanics? Is this the proof you're talking about? Show us the film. If Mexico can come in, why not let the Russians land their boats in Alaska and the Chinese land in California? National borders are a paraniod need of the Right anyway. Let everybody in. The need of organized growth of a nation is only delusional. Going bankrupt is just a state of mind and not based on reality.

[kimi grant]

06:44 PM on 07/20/2012

Awww, c'mon. Everyone KNOWS it was racially motivated. The question is, what can you DO about it? The morons who voted for people like Jan Brewer and Joe Arpaio LIKE that is was racially motivated. As long as a majority of the registered voters agree with Brewer & Arpaio, the judiciary is the only possible avenue of redress. But judges have to stand for reelection, too...

[AZLibDem]

08:20 PM on 07/20/2012

"Awww, c'mon. Everyone KNOWS it was racially motivated."

Actually, as much as I despise the law and all those who passed it, that's not completely true.

For many, it was greed rather than racism; illegals are a scapegoat for those who whine about their taxes.

[spytheweb]

09:21 PM on 07/20/2012

Bottomline is illegal aliens don't want to be found out and deported. When illegal aliens start to camp out in your backyard, you're going to want someone to do something about it.

In California they don't want criminal illegal aliens prints to be sent to ICE. They want them to be released back onto the street.

[dzj1]

06:41 PM on 07/20/2012

what about those for profit prisons that Brewer just LOVED to send all of those "illegals"...any word about that in all of those emails?? the owners of the prisons helped pass SB 1070 will lots of money!!

[IDIOTA]

06:24 PM on 07/20/2012

I didn't need any proof besides common sense and experience.

[vgirl1]

06:09 PM on 07/20/2012

So much of the nation 9even those who denied it) has known this was so,every since the law was first introduced.