The EXEGETIST: A Library Of Independent Political Thought. By: Jack H. Dawsey

Arizona Immigration Law: A Dumb Thing

By: Jack Dawsey

Have you been following the new Arizona state law on immigration?  It supposedly is predicated on the federal law.  Critics say it’s a dumb thing.  What say you?

For your information, I understand there is a provision in the law requiring public workers to alert Immigration and Customs Enforcement of illegal immigrants, applying for benefits i.e., “legal” benefits for their American-born children -benefits to which their illegal immigrant parents aren’t entitled.  Isn’t that a bit of an oxymoron or a case of putting a mother between a rock and a hard place?  For example, take Maria, an illegal immigrant mother living in Arizona.  She goes to a government office to make application for her children’s legal benefits provided for them from the state-run Medicaid program.  Hearing of the new state law requiring public workers to alert government officials of illegal immigrants applying for their children’s benefits, Maria is fearful.  When the public worker asks for identification, Maria runs.  Sadly, without government assistance, Maria has no way to treat her 3-year old daughter’s liver problem of Hepatitis, (a contagion disease to the rest of the community), or her 7-year old son’s bronchial asthma or Tuberculosis.  Because of the law, Maria is reluctant to take her children to a hospital emergency room too.   [By the way, in the opinion of this writer, an enacted law, state or federal, ought to have a moral base and not enacted purely on partisan political politics]. 

Doubtless, the new immigration law has a terrifying effect, not only in Arizona but I suspect here in North Carolina and elsewhere.  In all probability, the law will lead our Mexican immigrants to agonize over whether or not to attend school, or church, or report to their respective job.  And too, it’s likely to lead them to fear our local police because driving while brown may have the same de facto crime as driving while black.  The law may become a basis for the police to stop motorists on any pretense to check their status.

I read on the Internet where the author of the new Arizona Immigration Law, Republican State Sen. Russell Pearce is happy about the law causing immigrant’s misery.  According to an article that I read, he has a hard time having compassion for criminals, and it’s about time people started being afraid… 

Apparently, Pearce is a strong believer in the misinformation disseminated by political operatives over the Internet, contending illegal immigrants improperly receive public benefits.  Or, he thrives on the misery of others.  His law, instead of addressing the crux of the matter, actually sets up a public worker to commit a crime by failing to report the “appearance” of an illegal immigrant.  I’m told the law allows citizens to sue public agencies when they believe immigrants are receiving improper state benefits.  The Arizona law has potential for a fiasco to this whole country, including Sampson County.

I would like to ask Sen. Pearce if he believes the sick, “legal” American children –although anchors of Maria- are criminals.  I would like to ask him if he believes the primary purpose of civil law is to strike constant fear in the hearts and minds of Americans, black, brown, white or yellow.  If that’s his conclusion, and that we should live in a community of fear, I suggest he amend his law to require all men to grow a small hair-line mustache, and learn anew the phrase: “seig-heil!”   

This Arizona Law will put “all of us” on the slippery slope of madness.  Is that what we want from our representatives?

The failures of Republican and Democrat Congresses alike, dating back to the 1970’s, is the single, causative factor giving birth to 24-karat ding-a-ling laws like the 2010 Arizona Immigration Law.  The failure of our Congress is causing irresponsible law-making in our state assemblies.  www.theexegetist.com

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