btw, just got my coffee from a latina lady who is there every day and is a better worker than any of the american-born workers there

and i also got my gas, also from a latino man who also works harder than any of the americans i see at the gas station

and every night, a cadre of latino workers come in to clean up our building which is always nice and clean every single day.

i'm just sayin' Arizona...

why in the world do they not just give everyone who is there and working and being a good member of the community citizenship?

then they can pay taxes and be American and have crappy health care like the rest of you

THEN work on keeping the new illegals out unless they go through the process of getting a visa

it took my daughter a year to be able to move to the US from Canada

because we are all very dangerous and need to be watched

sad but true. i don't know what they think they're protecting

The United States -- Created from illegal immigrants, and yet resistant to more

lived in Arizona, and can kinda understand why they're so fed up. Not saying it's right, but for awhile I lived in a crappy motel, and every

day the cops were there dealing with the immigrants who were fighting. One time someone got stabbed.

I agree there has to be easier ways to deal with this than AZ's way.

and I've worked with a lot of immigrants, and they really appreciate that they have jobs.

I work in Newark, and many of the people around me are not immigrants and have lived here for many, many years, and there's fighting and

stabbings and execution style murders that go on here all the time. So to put all the blame on immigrants is to scapegoat a group of

people through a moral panic. It is always easier to blame some "other" for the problems faced in a society than to blame the structure of

society itself. Or so at least I think

*nods* And arizona is weird anyway. Everyone I met was totally odd. And not in a good way.

to be fair, they hate Californians with their summer homes in AZ too. Next they'll want you to prove you've never lived in CA.

AZ: "We hate everybody, so get the fuck out."

Lovely and accurate state motto!

they are though! Really fakey, ultra polite beyond the normal mores of society, and yet still gonna kick your ass.

what a odd lot...

ARIZONA SUCKS

i appreciate che rex's succinctness

first of all, they should be glad anyone wants to live there in that 110 degree desert heat that'll turn you into a husk by the age of 20

lotion companies make a mint there, I'm sure

and scorpions! yike

okay, yeah, georgia has scorpions but its a little known fact - know why its little known? they stay in the forest where they belong

US laws for immigration are already in place, and that racist fucking nonsense AZ has instituted is unconstitutional to the core

I don't even want to say the N word (no not THAT n word), but that AZ shit is some nazi fucking shit

and I'm afraid I already think our immigration laws are too harsh. Try immigrating to europe - piece of piss.

fill out some papers (doesn't matter if you're a few months late) and you're in.

here you have to jump through hoops and give up your first born to even get considered

and its difficult for even for small-businesspeople and tech workers - which this country NEEDS - to get in.

this country's attitude is so fucked up re: immigration it makes me sick

sorry for the rant, this shit just pisses me off its so fucking illogical, fear-based, xenophobic racist crap

i should have just left it with ARIZONA SUCKS

"ARIZONA: Fucking illogical, fear-based, xenophobic and racist! We don't need a slogan because we don't want you here."

and it ain't just AZ as Che points out

my comment disappeared! now it looks like you're laughing for now reason, which makes you look a bit crazy

I just thought the same thing. Mojo laughed a little, then rethought it and laughed a lot

well, to be fair i am a bit crazy. but i can see all the comments still (AFAIK)

gotta love plurk