News With Nezua | The Chaos Cell Known as Maricopa County Law
JOE ARPAIO is back in the news for being a class A sadist and creep as well as vindictively wielding the power of his office to attack those who dare question his methods. That, and a lot more in this extra meaty version of News With Nezua.
Topics: The Avenida Almasol Christmas Special; a season to think of others…and quilts; the Reign of Terror that renegade lawman Joe Arpaio is ruling over; a response to the University of Denver’s “Architecture for Immigration Reform; and finally, a path forward through the heart.
Also playing in a dim setting at the XOLAGRAFIK Theater, and appearing first on Sundays at La Frontera Times.
I was late getting this to Arban, so the transcript is delayed. My bad!
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Bro, good one about Arpaio. However the latest is that the S.O.B. along with his corrupt buddy Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas indicted a Superior Court judge that jailed one of Arpaio’s Detention Officers that stole paperwork out of a Defense Attorney’s file during a Court hearing. The next day, he served a search warrant on Chicanos Por La Causa a non-profit. I had the opportunity to cover it and I was the only one to go into the building and watch MCSO bullying and intimidating the employees. They were like scared mice. It was incredible!!!
Help!!! Arpaio is violating our civil rights!!! En pleno invierno, el condado De Maricopa esta que arde!!!
Carlos E. Galindo
I know about this…I had no idea you covered it. Do you have video? If so, will you share? I’ll give you credit of course. Get in touch.
Keep the faith! We will see this pendejo stopped.
Nezua, great ‘cast! Your commentary is right on the money about Gutierrez’ reform package. It essentially criminalizes what is currently a civil offense, that of “crossing the border.” It also fails to take into consideration the fact that immigration WILL continue in the future without providing significant means for more to enter legitimately. Those who do so will be so marginalized through the proposed provisions that their existence will be much more miserable than the undocumented immigrant of today’s era. E-verify, the border fence and other measures will foment more hatred and vilification of tomorrow’s immigrant. While I applaud his intentions, the fine print is of major concern.
Thanks bro! Good points. I was actually responding specifically to the U of D’s report that offered 25 specific points/suggestions for an immigration reform package (and I even left off the National ID Worker card!), as Gutierrez hadn’t dropped his bill yet when I shot this. But you still make good critique on it. Fact is, just about every law maker has the same blind spots because those seem to be built in to the nationalist exploitive approach toward cheap labor, which our system so far does its best to guard from real progress.
elchupacabras:
Crossing the border(illegally) is NOT just a civil offense; it can be criminal as well according to the following Federal Law
Title 8 § 1325. Improper entry by alien
(a) Improper time or place; avoidance of examination or inspection; misrepresentation and concealment of facts
Any alien who
(1) enters or attempts to enter the United States at any time or place other than as designated by immigration officers, or
(2) eludes examination or inspection by immigration officers, or
(3) attempts to enter or obtains entry to the United States by a willfully false or misleading representation or the willful concealment of a material fact, shall, for the first commission of any such offense, be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than 6 months, or both, and, for a subsequent commission of any such offense, be fined under title 18, or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both.
Here is the link to the above:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/8/1325.html
Just think that we should be as educated as possible on the issue if we are to criticize it…
You say “we,” Bryan. What are your personal criticisms of the reform package offered by Gutierrez? Aside from the fact that it will be much less progressive a writ by the time Washington is done with it?
Haven’t read it yet, actually. I just picked up on that specific error. I shall read it and get back to you.
Yes, that would be interesting to hear, given your background, Mister, “J.” Thanks!
Ok. I did a brief read through. It does not completely ignore future immigration; for example, family-based immigration requirements appear to be much less stringent. As a result, many of the current “illegal” immigrants, once they obtain LPR or Citizenship status, can then petition for their relatives in their homeland.
Whatever does pass, it will have serious flaws(Washington is so ineffectual), but the Gutierrez bill is much better than the status quo.
The “future” avenues for immigrants from south of the border is not so clear. For example, I have(and I’m sure most don’t) no idea how many immigrants, on top of what is coming in now, the United States should allow to enter legally.
I can discuss this in more detail at a later date since I’m not in the most coherent of mindsets.
No doubt, no pressure. This is the beginning, and anyway, it’s only a summary. One friend over at vivirlatino.com was actually reading through the text, which is about 650 pages.
Ok, time for that detailed post I said I would write. As elchupacabras rightly points out, the bill as it stands does not comprehensively address future illegal immigration. This is what the Bill says, as summarized by LongIslandwins.com:
“The bill creates the Prevent Unauthorized Migration Visa (PUM Visa) that seeks to provide for safe, humanitarian migration during the three-year transition period before the enactment of recommendations made by the new Labor Commission.
-Creates 100,000 PUM visas annually, for 3 years, to persons from those countries which represent at least 5% of the total unauthorized migration population within the United States for the past five years and will be distributed on a percentage basis through a lottery system.
-Individuals may apply to the lottery if they are not present in the United States at time of filing, do not have other family or employment based means to immigrate, submit to criminal background checks, and have completed less than a 4 year college degree program.
-Individuals awarded visas will be admitted to the United States as conditional residents and may petition for LPR status after 3 years.”
According to a Pew report, from 2000-2005, there was an annual rate of 850,000 unauthorized migrants coming into the United States. The PUM visa program has an 100,000 per year allotment. Therefore, if we consider 850,000 as close to the current rate of unauthorized migration, there is still 750,000 migrants that will attempt, or succeed, in crossing into the United States.
But then we must consider the ramifications of the legalization of current undocumented individuals in conjunction with the enhancement of the family-based immigration part of the bill. If, say, 12 million undocumented individuals legalize, they will then be able to bring in many of their relatives that would have otherwise migrated here illegally. It is difficult to calculate, in concrete numbers, how much this will cut down on the amount of unauthorized immigrants Nonetheless, it appears that if this bill is passed, there will still be a considerable amount of unauthorized migration.
Some may say that the enhances border provisions of the bill prevent further unauthorized migration. But, as any realist can see, if there is a will to come here, a way will be found, regardless of the obstacles.
So, Nezua, you may be right in saying this: “Fact is, just about every law maker has the same blind spots because those seem to be built in to the nationalist exploitive approach toward cheap labor, which our system so far does its best to guard from real progress.”
But, as anyone that has delved into the nativist websites(I did so with ALIPAC) knows, a significant factor contributing to the comprehensiveness of the CIR by Gutierrez, is the strong opposition and subsequent political considerations needed to be heeded by the supporters of CIR. Realistically, any bill on CIR will have serious flaws, but it is not a matter of making a perfect bill; it is a matter of finding the one with the least serious flaws.
In this moment in time, this bill has the potential to exponentially improve millions of millions of lives. For that reason alone, I support it wholeheartedly.
agreed. thanks for breaking it down here to the extent you did.
“*lack of comprehensiveness of the CIR by Gutierrez”
I definitely agree with you. I don’t think it’s fair for Americans to want everyone to speak English, but we insist on speaking to people like they’re the stupid ones when we’re in their country.
Yes…some may call it “ethnocentrism” or “American exceptionalism” but I just call it idiotic and arrogant.
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