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Immigration Scuffle: Jan Brewer vs. Hillary Clinton

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Jan Brewer, Governor of Arizona and vehement immigration opponent, has taken on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a recent report sent to the United Nations’ Human Rights Commissioner by the State Department.  Apparently, Brewer is steamed at the move toward “internationalism” and is trying to protect her state from charges of racial profiling, a thinly veiled accusation included in the report.

Brewer was pretty adamant in her, uh, request that Arizona’s immigration law pretty much requiring police to check the immigration status of anyone they encounter “enforcing other laws” be removed.

The federal government, however, views its legal challenge to the law as a prime example of how it’s addressing possible human rights violations.

From Yahoo News:

In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Brewer says it is “downright offensive” that a state law would be included in the report, which was drafted as part of a UN review of human rights in all member nations every four years.

“The idea of our own American government submitting the duly enacted laws of a state of the United States to ‘review’ by the United Nations is internationalism run amok and unconstitutional,” Brewer wrote.

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Pregnant Women From China are Cashing in on Dual Citizenship and the 14th Amendment

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Pregnant women in China are striving to give their newborn babies a great gift—U.S. citizenship. At a cost of well over $10,000, women like Wang Rong from Beijing feel that the necessary financial sacrifice is well worth the benefits their babies will ultimately reap.

From China Daily:

The expenditure will cover all costs, including services before departure, medical care in the US and a three-month stay there, thanks to the help of a Shanghai-based agency that specializes in taking mainland moms to North America.

“Given the quality of educational resources and employment prospects in China, where there is a huge population and harsh competition, I want my baby to win at the starting line by obtaining US citizenship,” she said.

When I was fifteen or so, I went to the (assume a snobby voice here) the-a-tre in Boston with a bunch of friends to see Miss Saigon.  If you haven’t seen it, you really should because it’s freaking amazing I won’t ruin the storyline any more than saying that there is a Vietnamese woman, Kim, who conceives a baby with an American G.I. during the Vietnam War.  Kim wants desperately for her little boy to grow up American, and the lengths to which she’ll go—and the heartbreak she endures—are just gut-wrenching. [Ed. Note: Miss Saigon -- amazing.  GO.  NOW.]

I cry at the movies a lot (most recently with Toy Story 3 — oh my God, I had no idea that a Disney/Pixar flick could cut so deeply), but I have never experienced anything like the vicarious grief that poured out of a fifteen-year-old me at the Wang Center.  I almost didn’t mention Miss Saigon, by the way, since I don’t want anyone to think that I’m lumping Chinese and Vietnamese women together, but the visceral connection I’m feeling through writing on this topic makes it impossible to ignore.

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Joslyn Johnson, Widow of Officer Killed by Illegal Immigrant, Opposes Former Houston Chief’s New Job

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Former Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt has been tapped by the Obama administration for a position with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. This is not sitting well with Joslyn Johnson, whose husband was shot and killed by an illegal immigrant who had already been deported once and arrested numerous times.

From Fox News:

Joslyn Johnson, whose husband, Rodney Johnson, was killed in 2006, is suing former Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt for failing to enforce federal immigration laws. She claims her husband would be alive today if the city had bothered to check up on the gunman’s immigration status.

Now that Hurtt is taking a job to oversee partnerships between federal and local officials with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Johnson — and other critics — say they’re concerned the official who resisted immigration enforcement in Houston will now be in charge of promoting it.

“She was shocked at the irony,” Johnson’s attorney, Ben Dominguez, said.

Wow, this is a tough one. Obviously, Rodney Johnson’s killer should not have been running loose. More specifically, he should not have been running loose on American streets. That was 100% wrong, and you won’t find an argument about that from me. I can also understand Joslyn Johnson’s need to place blame with someone and finding it “ironic” that Hurtt is getting a federal immigration job when, in her mind, he is indirectly responsible for the death of her husband.

Hurtt’s views on immigration, an area in which he worked intimately, could be viewed as controversial even taking Rodney Johnson out of the equation:
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Legal Immigrant Weighs in (Brilliantly) on Illegal Immigration

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As the illegal immigrant conversation continues to heat up, there is one voice that has been very quiet—that of the legal immigrant community.  Arizona’s Gabriela Saucedo is changing that.

From BigJournalism.com:

La Raza, MALDEF, MEChA, and all the rest of the shameless open-borders crowd should be quaking in their collectivist sandals. A fiery, well-spoken, and very wise Latina says that Arizona has the right to “protect our state from foreign invasion.”

That would be Gabriela Saucedo. In this YouTube video, Gabriela, who became a U.S. citizen in 1991, delivers a riveting defense of American sovereignty and SB 1070 (Paging Eric Holder and Janet Napolitano. She’s read the bill! She brings copies to the meeting!) to Mayor Bob Walkup and the Tucson City Council during the public comment portion of a meeting.

“The lack of support, from you, our elected officials, regarding this law is shameful!” scolds Gabby, as she takes a shot at her boycott-supporting congressman, Raul Grijalva, and her anti-rule-of-law city councilwoman, Regina Romero.

What do you think?  I think this woman is amazing!



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