The showdown over Arizona's immigration law played out in court and on Phoenix's sun-splashed streets on Thursday, as the state sought to reinstate key parts of the measure and angry protesters chanted that they refused to "live in fear." Dozens were arrested.
A federal judge's decision a day earlier to block the strict law's most controversial elements didn't dampen the raging immigration debate.
The judge has been threatened. Protesters rallied in cities from Los Angeles to New York. The sheriff of the state's most populous county vowed to continue targeting illegal immigrants. Lawmakers or candidates in as many as 18 states say they still want to push similar measures.
Along the U.S.-Mexico border, life continued as before, with officials sending back people who were captured while attempting to cross.
In Phoenix, hundreds of the law's opponents massed at a downtown jail, beating on the metal door and forcing sheriff's deputies to call for backup. Officers in riot gear opened the doors, waded out into the crowd and hauled off those who didn't move. They arrested at least 23 people, and more were detained elsewhere.
Sheriff's spokesman Brian Lee said deputies were able to start the sweep Thursday afternoon and arrested four people: two had warrants for suspended licenses, one had a suspended license, and one was illegally carrying a firearm. He did not know if any were illegal immigrants.
And therein lies the roots of their abject stupidity.
The neighborhood I grew up in was full of wiseguys. Always a need for new wiseguys, because the dumb ones were forever getting pinched and they got pinched because they refused to follow the most simple of credo's.
ALWAYS keep your act in gear with regards to the penny-nickle-dime shit. Your drivers license and vehicle registration/inspection must be up to date, lots of insurance on your wheels, and never, ever have anything in the car that can get you pinched.
But dumb crooks just cannot help being dumb crooks, and savvy cops can always tell just by looking at a car what the driver had inside of it. Same thing with many illegal immigrants. The very fact that they're here illegally makes them criminals, and since that in and of itself is a dumbing down process, they forget to do the little things that would keep them out of trouble. Even the simple act of not using a turn-signal can get you pulled over but to do so would be admitting a lack of machismo.
Don't stop at the red before turning right, don't use the directionals, and pow, Mr. Road Tax Officer gets to hang you on at least two violations and even gets to peek inside the vehicle because you know damned well that that sort of un-mentality leads to giving the cop a ration of shit and then all bets are off.
In occupied cities like NY, L.A., Philly, and the like, the illegal immigrant will be let off with a fine and NEVER asked to provide documentation of citizenship. The poor dumb wiseguy gets tossed in the clink until his boss thinks he's been punished enough for being an idiot, then makes bail but is forever on the cops bad boy list.
And worse. In occupied territory, they'll need to erect lots more jails, and since it'd be a stimulus for the building trades this is win-win.
Bottom line: Arizona doesn't want to be another California.
And PS: I like Califexico better than Mexifornia. Sounds more Mary Poppins-like, thusly apt for the nanny state
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