The Arizona immigration bill -- which Governor Jan Brewer has decided to sign into law -- is racist, deceitful, and reflects some of the most mean-spirited politics against immigrants that the country has ever seen. The power that this law gives to police to detain people that they suspect to be undocumented brings racial profiling to a new low. Brewer's actions and those of Joe Arpaio, Russell Pearce, the Arizona State Senate are despicable, inexcusable, and endorse the all-out hate campaign that Joe Arpaio, Russell Pearce, and others have perpetrated upon immigrants for years.
Other than posting messages to support Haiti, I have been pretty silent the last few days on politics, but I have been reading a lot of posts... and I gotta say a couple things.
By now everyone has heard about the racial firestorm that has been brewing because of some remarks attributed to Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, in a new book called Game Change.