re: #285 SanFranciscoZionist

No, it’s not a big problem. It’s political grandstanding.

Now, my annoyance here is that I grew up in California, I’m originally from East LA, I’ve worked as a teacher with the children of illegal immigrants, and my dad and a lot of cousins are in law enforcement. I have some strong opinions about how this will work, or rather won’t. I am open to hearing rational, reasoned explanations of why it will work, but I’m not hearing much of that.

And I am sick of hearing about how the people of Arizona did this out of desperation—the Feds ‘forced their hand’, but when I discuss my knowledge of the situation, coming out of California, getting brushed off with references to San Francisco City Hall, or ‘sanctuary cities’, hee hee.

No one on this board has ever had any trouble bitching and moaning about California’s immigration policy, or anything else about California for that matter, so I’m not planning to shut up and say that this is just what Arizona’s gotta do, and no outsider has any business criticizing it.

This is not an attack on you. This is me building up a head of steam.

Thanks for the response and I don’t take it as an attack on me. Seriously, since I don’t live in Arizona or California I have to make judgments on what I read in the newspaper (not just the cable TV), and what I see in other states, including my own, that have illegal immigrant problems even though we don’t live near the border. However, I agree that California (and whenever things like this come up, it is in reference to the government, not the people) has decided what it’s immigration policy should be, but it’s not their place to tell Arizona what their immigration policy should be.