{"id":548923,"date":"2010-04-30T17:37:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T21:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011748628_immigrationlawinarizonadrawscriticism.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-07-19T20:17:53","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T00:17:53","slug":"immigration-law-in-arizona-draws-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/548923","title":{"rendered":"Immigration law in Arizona draws criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Attention, snow birds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a response to \u201cOpposition mounts in reaction to Arizona\u2019s immigration law\u201d [News, April 30].<\/p>\n<p>I am fortunate to be married to a beautiful, dark-skinned lady who is a U.S. citizen of European descent. We love going to Sun City Grand, Ariz., each winter for a month or two.<\/p>\n<p>My question for Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is this: If my wife runs into a golf cart and the \u201cGestapo\u201d show up, should she carry her passport or passport card every time she leaves her home? The next thing Arizona would do is give out patches that dark-skinned U.S. citizens would wear when they leave their home. The Star of David unfortunately was used once.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Tom McArt, Edmonds<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Peg employers hiring undocumented immigrants<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For all the heated controversy about illegal immigration, the debate should really shift to the real culprit: employers who hire undocumented immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>Congress mandated that all employers must check and verify the Social Security numbers of all new hires. Where is the enforcement? Why would undocumented workers risk crossing our borders if they knew they could not hurdle this employment roadblock?<\/p>\n<p>Corporate America, with free-trade agreements, has successfully shrouded the issue in a fog of deception and through its political power. Yes, we have a nationwide unemployment rate of more than 10 percent and it is easy to get angry and blame all those \u201cillegals\u201d who are taking away a good portion of those fantastic, minimally paid jobs at fast-food joints, picking agriculture, mowing lawns and cleaning hotel rooms.<\/p>\n<p>Higher-paying jobs have fled outside our borders at the great cost of keeping Americans employed manufacturing goods. The cost to hire someone in India, China, etc. is a tenth of the cost to assemble and produce many of the more expensive and technical gadgets we are consumed with these days.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Timm Stone, Lake Tapps<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attention, snow birds This is a response to \u201cOpposition mounts in reaction to Arizona\u2019s immigration law\u201d [News, April 30]. I am fortunate to be married to a beautiful, dark-skinned lady who is a U.S. citizen of European descent. We love going to Sun City Grand, Ariz., each winter for a month or two. My question [&hellip;]<\/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-548923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548923","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=548923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}