Kobe Bryant’s Wife Makes Immigration Law Statement

The point is The Arizona Law is not new. Its already a Federal Law that is not ENFORCED>>>> Every FEDERAL Police Officer in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is allowed to do the exact same thing every cop in arizona is allowed to do on july 29th. Be legal and have nothing to worry about. And if you think this law is what makes cops act in a stereotypical fashion you are ignorant to how the world works and aren’t worth explaining anything too

Are you asking me for specific cases where an illegal act was committed and the accused was not punished? Like Mirdana V. Arizona? What does this have to do with my point? I already said Illegal Immigration is wrong, clipsfan, and OBVIOUSLY illegal. Try and keep up.

I concede to your point about states having to enforce federal laws if the federal government does not, my issue with this isn’t the fact that Arizona passed a law, it’s the law itself. And I don’t think this law will suddenly cause cops to be stereotypical, I just think that it will give cops who are already like that more ammo.

I am with you on the ammo comment. I just think if the Federal Government is going to ignore something that affects every person in one of its states then its the states responsibility to come up with a solution. And I am not totally behind this law, I am just supporting doing SOMETHING about the illegal immigration. It might be a little bias in my support because I work in a field where Illegal Immigrants can and do hurt the economy in a big way. If you have a suggestion to cut immigration without involving the federal government that you can logically support over this new law then i will write a personal letter to jan brewer every week in support

so is it right to go unpunished. If you want to keep up why don’t you stop filibustering around the main reason why there is support for this law (and the main reason that people who are pro Arizona are pointing out)? We keep on mentioning financial reasons: Arizona has a budget crisis, there are plenty of reasons for this. One of the reasons is illegal immigration. Is it really fair to punish those who are legal immigrants and citizens of this country by taking away social services provided by the government; all the while there is little to no reduction on government spending when it comes to illegal immigrants? Don’t you believe that making it merely more inconvenient for an illegal immigrants to be in (or come to) Arizona will make illegals want to leave or just not emigrate there at all. Thus, this will lead to less government spending on illegal immigrants in Arizona and more spending on legal immigrants and current citizens.

Enigmatic like I already stated about your profiling point. IF cops choose to profile that is a statement of the individual cops themselves, not the law at hand. I have already stated that the federal policies on immigration are completely outdated. Also, the main reason why illegal immigration was overlooked is because people had Americans had fat wallets. Now that every American’s wallet is getting thinner, the handouts have to stop somewhere. Although I’m not huge on social services, deadbeat Americans deserve American paid social services. Also, those that are allowed to be here in this country by American law is also deserving of social services due to them being here legally. The fat has to be cut somewhere, and if push comes to shove the ones that should be left out from social services are illegal immigrants. Alas, there is no reduction on government spending on illegal immigrants

I know of a happy, happy place where they don’t check for ID, the military when serving this country.
ummm…I almost forgot and the IRS…..damn I almost forgot….I wonder why that is!!!!ummmmm.

And before the game startd, I saw her shirt and thought she was trying to be cute like am I over 18? I thought yea, u look over 30 legal. Somewhere in louisiana karl is operating heavy machinery and is oblivious to all this

onlyclipsfan, I am WITH you on the illegal immigration tip, homie. I know we gotta cut that fat, and the handouts to those who aren’t even here legally need to stop. I agree. Alls I’m saying is, this law alienates those of us that are here legally. That’s it. That’s my only beef. It’s a tiny beef, but a beef nontheless.

I won’t even dignify lupe’s posts with a response. Except for this one.

Anyways… It is good to know that there are still hoop heads that care about important issues such as politics. The outlook of this country’s future isn’t so bleak as I might make it out to be. I just hope that if someone who has no idea about this subject and wants to learn more actually researches it first and makes their own opinion. It can differ from mine, but there is just too much misinformation out there on this subject.

Keep in mind, the people of this country are the target. Whos pointing the gun? Politickians and the behind th scenes ppl who really run things. Ick cheneys, karl roves, bilderbergers, council on foreign relations, etc. The govt is not for the people, it is for profit for a few ppl. Billions for endless pointless wars, billions for insane bailouts to the culprits. They want us in disorder, they want us divided, they want us arguing over non political ‘issues’ like gays and abortion. They want us distracted

Anyways what the wall really gonna do but keep people in. If someone wants to get here, a 15-20 foot wall aint gonna stop them. But if everyone wanted to get out then there would be an issue.

Racial Profiling happens without this law. I live in phoenix, most my friends are of a different race and guess what? The cops are not going to change how they treat anyone. They already profile everyone. Now they are just allowed to ask questions which apparently is unconstitutional. They can’t just arrest you for being mexican, if you have ID of any kind then you are free to walk after saying “yes officer here is my identification.”
Things like this are worth protesting over? How about the atrocities in Darfur? Oh wait that isn’t happening on the same land mass so you people think this is more important. Go protest something that effects you personally. Not something that will only negatively effect illegals and those to stupid to follow a simple law like have some form of identification on you at all times. Which is already in the constitution.

HEY, HAS ANYONE FORGOTTEN THAT NONE OF US SPEAK IROQUOIS, NAVAJO, OR APACHE?? Someone mentioned the irony–this is the irony, we are ALL immigrants to this land, some came voluntarily while others were forced, but NONE of us are “native”. Puhleeze!

Cheryl, no one on this planet is ‘native’ except a couple folks around the great rift valley

NBK is being awful here. “Cops are going to profile anyway, might as well make it legal”
GREAT!~ God bless American thinking.

I saw a very interesting show on National Geographic TV about the mapping of the human genome. The show, using DNA tracing, implied that every single human on our planet can have their lineage traced back to a group of people in Southeast Africa. This group splintered into several groups that traveled all over Africa and the Middle East, eventually populating what is now Europe, Asia and Russia(I need a geography major to let me know if Russia is considered to be in Asia or Europe). At that time, among other points in history, there was a land bridge connecting the Russia to what is now Alaska. People who had been roaming and living in Siberia wandered across the land bridge to North America, eventually spreading all the way to the Southern tip of South America. So, based on the Human Genome mapping, I guess I’m saying that nobody is illegal. Or everyone is illegal. I forget what my point was supposed to be. Celts-Magic is distracting me.

Jukai ur the man. I’d bet nbk prolly didn’t have anything against waterboarding either, whatever it takes to get the job done. Just the same sort of dissconnect that happened after 911. When people like NBK made an exception while Bush used the patriot act as to illegally spy on AMERICANS of middle eastern descent . And set in motion a climate of fear and discrimination against these mostly peaceful and wonderful people.Pathetic. Its like a disease. That was illegal, as well as a violation of this countrys constitution. But that was different… I also find it humorous that NBK thinks he’s somehow more informed because he’s from AZ. Lmao, dude ur in loser denial. I am glad however to read the comments of Slamers of ALL RACES who won’t turn thier back on a fellow man.

Arizona is a sh!tty state masked behind a facade of sunny vacation sites. I’m glad I don’t live in that sad f*ck of a state.
And what about the law banning all “cultural studies,” or how teachers who speak with ACCENTS are no longer allowed to teach in Arizona? What the f*ck do you call that?
Before, when cultural studies meant affirming European heritage, hey, the government was all for it. Now that its about teaching Spanish as a second to Latinos or letting THEM be proud of their heritage, it’s suddenly a threat to the f*cking country with the potential to “overthrow the US government?” Get the f*ck out of here.

@Teddy: Well, it’s not like segregation of immigrants is a new thing. In Ontario new immigrants’ qualifications might as well count for nothing for the most part. You could be a surgeon or an accountant, and it isn’t recognized. I had a friend from Egypt whose father had to sit through medical school again just so he could practice in Ontario.

@nbk: Darfur? Here’s the thing: if we can’t fix racism in our own backyard, in our own heartland, in this day and age, do we have the right to go into someone else’s continent and reprimand them for their wrongdoings?

I’m truly glad I came back to SLAMONLINE in the last couple of months. The level of discourse is fantastic. We talk regularass noise when it comes to bball opinions, but get into actual (factual studies) debates over social issues. Some people make some pretty boneheaded statements (myself included) from time to time, but overall the back and forth is very interesting. I’ve certainly worked the Google on my Internet machine checking out points made by other posters. I don’t agree with some stuff that’s been said, but every point is a chance to check out a different perspective and learn something new. Thanks to all.

@Teddy: Okay, so my last comment didn’t get through. Anyway, search for “toronto star complaints overwhelm human rights watchdog” and read that article. Beneath our most multicultural of cities, there is a stronger undercurrent of racism than we’d like to admit.

Jukai your flat out ignorant and mindlessly reading what I’m saying. Cops are going to stereo type regardless of this law it is not ok – but the law only stipulates that an officer can ask for identification under a suspiscious circumstance. They can’t walk into the f’n grocery store and ask every dark skinned person in the building to line up with their id’s. They can’t arrest you on supiscon of anything. It is already in our NATIONS CONSTITUTION that a person must have some form of identification unless said person is attached by law to a specific gaurdian. Your assuming bs is your own problem. Stay out of situations you don’t fully understand.