Russell Pearce: legalizing guns and criminalizing Mexicans since 2001
Unless you've been living with your head under a rock, you've probably heard about SB 1070, a bill passed by the Arizona legislature and signed by Gov. Jan Brewer that essentially forces average beat cops to act as immigration enforcement officers. The bill was the brainchild of Sen. Russell Pearce (R-Mesa), a conservative Mormon and
apparent neo-Nazi sympathizer. As if Sheriff Joe wasn't a big enough embarrassment for a state still trying to live down the whole MLK holiday flap from the early '90s, we now have a law set to go into effect that, for all intents and purposes, requires brown people to carry proof of citizenship every time they leave the house.
One of the biggest ironies of this bill (and there are many, believe me) is that the majority of its backers are conservatives who support a free market capitalist economy. These people have no problem with huge corporations outsourcing thousands of American jobs to countries full of brown people, but god forbid one of those brown people sneaks into America to bus their table, wash their dishes or pick the lettuce that went into their salad. That we simply cannot abide.
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