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I’d have to agree that “how dare you respond to our laws that give the police virtually unlimited discretion to detain people for the crime of not having a passport handy by not coming to our economically suffering police state” isn’t much of an argument.
As many of you know, Arizona is sort of the Florida of Western Canada (i.e. proof that cold winters will make some people put up with a lot of dreariness in their vacation spots as long as it’s warm.) I’m not the kind of person who finds that winter makes me yearn for endless strip malls and golf courses, but if I was I’d certainly be looking into other options. Among other things, losing your passport is a massive pain in the ass if you need it to get on a plane back home, and if you have to carry it with you everywhere, bad things can happen. I suppose they’re counting on white tourists assuming — all-too-reasonably! — that the enforcement of the laws will be flagrantly racist, but why bother with this at all?
Greenhouse’s proposed “I could be illegal” buttons recommended for anyone visiting Arizona — can be found on CafePress. :-)
it’s the stupid. but it’s a dry stupid.
I read someplace Arizona get close to 4 million visitors a year from Mexico-legally!
not any more!
Arizona isn’t ALL strip malls and golf courses, although if you’ve never ventured beyond Phoenix I can understand it.
We have many wonderful state parks where you used to be able to go hiking in very pretty scenery, for example, until the Lege closed them to
save moneygive tax breaks to their cronies.We had a number of pleasant rest areas along the major highways, until the Lege closed them to
save moneygive tax breaks to their cronies.Mainly the snowbirds come here becuase it’s cheap.
It’s really a beautiful state nature-wise. Too bad that’s not worth the potential headache.
Colbert: “We’ve tried everything to secure our borders, from volunteer Minutemen to lining the border with our crappiest states.”
I would like to play “Cry Me a River” on this instrument to express how much I feel Governor Brewer’s pain.
If only Arizona had a Democratic governor to veto crazy bills like this…..
Yeah, and if only that Democratic governor weren’t being term limited out anyway in 2010, thereby leading to this law being enacted in 2011 instead. Because then … Hey, a pony!
Is 2011 an election year? I better get my registration in!
What the fuck does that have to do with anything? Napolitano would have been gone one way or the other, and this bill that the AZ legislature passed in 2010 would just have easily passed next year once a wingnut won the governor’s mansion this fall (already pretty likely, and made more likely by an unpopular veto from Napolitano). And we’d still have the vicious draconian law, just next year instead of this year.
But other than that, yes, yes, it’s all Obama’s fault. We get it.
You really think the fact that the Republican primary is less than 4 months away has nothing to do with the rush of ill-thought, reactionary legislation that’s coming through the legislative pipeline right now? Almost like they were trying to make people forget about the last 1.5 years of incompetent governance?
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I’ve been told that there are literally hundreds of thousands of Canadian walking among us & taking our jobs. (Real jobs, we might add.)
While I have nothing personal against Canadians, excessively polite & pale-skinned people named “Gord” should certainly be considered fair game under the new regime.
This law has caused my parents – quiet, non-political, “don’t-rock-the-boat” kinda folks – to rethink their regular winter trip to Arizona.
They are thinking of staying home. In Edmonton. In the winter.
Willingly.
Vancouver’s Young Canadians suggest some alternate destinations:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KNUnLaRekg&a=7ykW4ArkcRA&playnext_from=ML
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I have to disagree that Arizona is dreary (outside of Phoenix). Places like Sedona, Flagstaff, and Monument Park are some of the stunning scenery in the West. Moreover, the foothills and canyons around Phoenix have a kind of austere beauty to it which are really beautiful on clear days.