The Arid Zone has been frustrated with the ironic situation that some of the people the current citizens displaced would like to come back. These latter day Gadsden enthusiasts sound logical -- some people have the right to be here, some have the right to work here, some have the right to live here permanently, some have the right to vote here, some have the right to drive here, some have the right to go on vacation here, but some have none of these rights. So round up that last bunch and ask them to leave. Simple.
We sympathize with the oven dwellers. We wouldnt want rogue adventurers from the Yukon sneaking through our yard on the way to Hell's Canyon.
Plus, the az sun-dried logic is mostly backed-up by the federal immigration laws -- each foreign country gets a quota of immigrants to the US each year, and there is a proprietary backroom process for filling the spots -- not unlike a Horizon Air Sea-Tac afternoon PDX waitlist. The law requires the immigrant to start at a US Embassy in their home country and then get the "papers" in their home country and then proceed from their home country to the USA and the same welcome our ancestors got. Simple.
But some of these immigrants did not get the message about how the system works and came here without going through the process -- or simply by visiting the US legitimately and staying. Simple.
And this frustrates the migrants from Ohio and Minnesota and Oregon who came to the Arid Zone but didnt want it to be too too southwesterny. So, the frustrated people with AC told their elected state legislators with AC that the federal government with AC wasnt doing its job rounding up these scofflaws (some of whom have AC) and sending them back to their native lands to start the process properly. Simple.
Logical, yes, but practical? Not to mention the fun twists -- for example: children of those interlopers born in the US are US Citizens under the US Constitution. So, rounding up parents and creating american orphans probably isnt a good use of resources. Not simple. But still, what about the new fence-jumpers coming today?
Certainly new line-hoppers are a threat to the values the legal migrants hold dear, like golf and sprinklers and plastic surgery. Or suburbs that sound like a list of third-graders: Gilbert, Page, Sedona, Prescott, Glendale, Chandler, Phoebe, Joey, Monica, etc.
And 6000footdrop.com cares about Arizona because Arizona has the Arizona Snowbowl outside Flagstaff with its 2300 foot drop and a 11,500 foot top-station. Plus, Arizona is good for dryland training.
But be careful -- whatever you do take care of your shoes. If you think you're surrounded by 5000 rattlesnakes, it's probably the locust trees. If you think you're surrounded by 5 rattlesnakes, it's probably more like 9 rattlesnakes.
So we sympathize with the snowbirds and permanent microwaveable residents when their legislative act of frustration SB 1070 was partially blocked yesterday by Federal Judge, crooner Michael Bolton. Here's the ruling.
Sheriff Joe has friends who can read who tell him the ruling is not as bad as it sounds on MSM. Although the state cannot pre-empt federal immigrations laws by requiring special paper-carrying rules or special status-checking rules -- the state still can outlaw standing in the street asking for a job if traffic is blocked, and regardless of the job-seeker's immigration status, if any. So, Joe is happy there will still be people to bust, clad in pink, and deprive of salt and pepper. Simple.
And maybe now the federal government will stop suing the logical but accused-insensitive broiler state and do something about the problem the federal government now by definition admits is its to address! Or at the very least, federal judge Bolton will have done something to improve traffic in the desert. Simple!
See you on Squaw Peak!
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