Yesterday Arizona’s governor signed into law legislation
making it a crime to be an undocumented immigrant.
It is the first state in the country to do so.
Word has it the xenophobes’ next target is Colorado.

(Mike Keefe 4.24.10)

"SB 1070, also known as the “Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhood Act,”
would allow police officers to arrest a person based on “reasonable suspicion ” that he or she
is an undocumented immigrant. Police departments could face lawsuits by individuals who believe
they are not enforcing the law." 

Isn’t that great?  The fear-based, angry white mob that would be better served directing its rage
at Wall Street, NAFTA, CAFTA, etc. can now sue the police for not arresting enough people of color.

As Martin Niemöller said in 1946:
"THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist.

THEN THEY CAME for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up."

Niemöller knows from whence he speaks; he spent time in Dachau.