{"id":546275,"date":"2010-04-28T17:48:42","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T21:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011728047_activistsagainstarizonaimmigrationlaw.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-04-28T17:48:42","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T21:48:42","slug":"activists-against-arizona-immigration-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/546275","title":{"rendered":"Activists against Arizona immigration law"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don\u2019t take the road less taken; apply for citizenship<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a response to \u201cArizona\u2019s unhelpful law invites racial profiling\u201d [Opinion, April 27].<\/p>\n

It is my belief that if you were born here or followed due process to enter this country, then you are entitled to certain rights as a citizen with appropriate documentation.<\/p>\n

All Arizona officials are is saying is \u201cno\u201dNO to being responsible for people entering illegally. That \u201cno\u201dNO includes having to provide benefits, medical and otherwise, to people who did not follow the law. Nothing more.<\/p>\n

I spent 12 years of my life defending this country\u2019s rights \u2014 . Ffreedom of speech, the right to bear arms and, the right to vote. It galls me as a veteran to see that what I worked hard for just given away to people who can not follow a simple law.<\/p>\n

If you really REALLY want to be here, go through the same process anyone else from another country has to go through. Paying someone $$$$$ just to cross a border to have your baby or to find a way to put moneydollars into the family\u2019s pocket (regardless of what country….I dont care if it is Iran, to be honest) is not the way to do things.<\/p>\n

To the With so many people whothat are citizens here and that are out of work, grow up and grab those jobs that are being given to the illegal immigrants. You have the ability to work your way up \u2014 just do it…..JUST DO IT.<\/p>\n

For the illegal immigrants: Y, you entered our country without the proper documentation. Do not expect me to subsidize your life with my tax dollars. I promise you, I will not be voting for ANY incumbents.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Barb Hoerr, Everett<\/em><\/p>\n

Racial profiling begone, check everyone\u2019s citizenship<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since Tthe Seattle Times claimsto be so fearful of \u201cracial profiling\u201d in Arizona, I propose a simple solution to racial profiling in Arizona. Have any and all government officials dealing with the public \u2014 (from the police to educators the educational system and everyone , and all in between \u2014 ) ascertain the citizenship of every member of the public they have official dealings with. Check 100 percent % of people the police have dealings with and the r. Racial profiling problem will be gone.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Philip Peterson, Puyallup<\/em><\/p>\n

Feeding \u2018big government\u2019 to grow border protection<\/strong><\/p>\n

You canno\u2019t have it both ways. First, I read that \u201cbig government\u201d is bad for this country. Then I read that a key rationale for the new Arizona iImmigration lLaw is \u201cbecause the federal government failed to do its part in protecting our borders.\u201d<\/p>\n

How \u201cbig\u201d would the federal government need to be in order to continually patrol almost 2,000 miles of border between the United States and Mexico? Very, very big.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Toni Parson, Woodinville<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don\u2019t take the road less taken; apply for citizenship This is a response to \u201cArizona\u2019s unhelpful law invites racial profiling\u201d [Opinion, April 27]. It is my belief that if you were born here or followed due process to enter this country, then you are entitled to certain rights as a citizen with appropriate documentation. All […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}