Laura Ingraham

5/6/10

Staff

At a Cinco de Mayo reception at the White House Wednesday evening, [Alleged] President Obama launched another attack on Arizona's new immigration law. "We can't start singling out people because of who they look like, or how they talk, or how they dress," the president told the crowd. As he had in earlier criticisms of the law, Obama ignored the law's specific stipulation that any check on a person's immigration status can only come after a "lawful stop, detention or arrest" when a person is suspected of breaking some law -- that is, as Arizona lawmakers explained in a footnote to the bill, it must come "during the enforcement of any other law or ordinance of a county, city or town or this state."

And even after meeting that standard, the law directs that police meet a "reasonable suspicion" standard before "a reasonable attempt shall be made, when practicable, to determine the immigration status of the person..." The phrase "reasonable suspicion" means that there must be a number of specific factors that an officer can cite before taking action, and the law specifically says that prosecutors "shall not investigate complaints that are based solely on race, color or national origin."

And even with those safeguards, the law specifies that if the person involved produces a valid Arizona driver's license, or other forms of identification specified in the law, then that person is immediately presumed to be in the country legally. In other words, the whole question of legal or not legal becomes moot once the person produces a driver's license -- a common experience for nearly every American, regardless of his or her race or ethnicity.

Obama mentioned none of that in his Cinco de Mayo remarks. "Today reminds us that America's diversity is America's strength," he said.

Read more at lauraingraham.com ...

It seems Obama is a proponent of ‘don’t ask don’t tell’. He supports it regarding his own documents. It looks like he supports it for illegal aliens. 'You’d think they would thank Arizona'. The law provides the opportunity to bring them out of the shadows, as the left always advocates.

"We can't start singling out people because of who they look like, or how they talk, or how they dress," the president told the crowd.”

But it seems they have no problem generalizing and profiling for Tea Party activists.

"We can't turn law-abiding American citizens -- and law-abiding immigrants -- into subjects of suspicion and abuse. We can't divide the American people that way. That's not the answer. That's not who we are as the United States of America."

Unless of course you are a Tea Partier.... and then they use any pejorative they choose as well.

Immigration protesters block Los Angeles street

Kansas City Star

May 7, 2010

Posted at FreeRepublic.com by AuntB

Unidentified immigrant rights activists and community leaders engage in non-violent civil disobedience, by chaining themselves together with lockdown PVC devices, in protest of Arizona's recently enacted SB1070 immigration enforcement law, outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Federal Processing and Detention Center, on Thursday, May 6, 2010, in Los Angeles.

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I saw this story on our local news. Instead of a 'tea party', they held a 'pity party'.

Full slide show at link...interesting t shirts, etc.

From another article:

Los Angeles police have arrested more than a dozen protesters who chained themselves together on a downtown street to protest Arizona's new immigration law.

Protest spokesman Nelson Motto says 14 activists locked themselves in a circle Thursday afternoon and lay down in front of federal immigration detention center, blocking traffic for about four hours.

Dozens of helmeted officers surrounded the demonstrators before declaring an unlawful assembly and making arrests. No injuries were reported.

City attorney spokesman John Franklin says the 14 demonstrators will be charged with interfering with police work and failure to disperse.

The demonstrators oppose Arizona's new law and say illegal immigrants now in the U.S should be legalized.

Don't go to Arizona Obama!