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	<title>FrontPage Magazine &#187; Russell Pearce</title>
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		<title>How America Can Stand By Arizona</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 04:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The key steps to combat the enemies of border security. ]]></description>
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<p>I knew Arizona’s SB 1070 would be controversial when I introduced it, but I did not expect the national immigration debate to revolve around a state law.</p>
<p>While the anti-American open borders Left attacks me and the law as “racist,” “nativist” and their other empty pejoratives, the vast majority of the people of Arizona and America support the law.</p>
<p>Naturally, politicians of both parties on the state and local level are trying to jump on the bandwagon as the election approaches.</p>
<p>On the state level, dozens of gubernatorial and attorney general candidates are campaigning to enact SB 1070 style legislation. Even Democrats like Georgia’s Roy Barnes say they’d sign such a bill.  Of course a politician’s promise isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.</p>
<p>Even if they would in fact sign the bill, they must also pledge to fight the Obama administration and its far left buddies like the ACLU and Mexican American Legal Defense Fund who are sure to file lawsuits and do whatever they can to block implementation of the law.</p>
<p>On the federal level, just saying “I support SB 1070” is even emptier without any commitment to fight the open borders agenda of the Obama administration and the courts.</p>
<p>Any Senate candidate who supports SB 1070 needs to guarantee that they will vote against any activist judge.  Any RINO who voted for a board member of “LatinoJustice” (which filed an amicus brief against SB 1070) like Sonia Sotomayor knew how she would vote on immigration cases.</p>
<p>Additionally there is legislation that can affect the legal challenges against SB 1070.</p>
<p>Sen. Robert Menendez’s Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2010 would try to nullify every single state and local law that fights illegal immigration.  Congressman Luis Gutierrez’s CIR ASAP Act  with over 100 Democratic co-sponsors does the same thing.</p>
<p>Menendez’s bill also restricts the 287(g) program to allow state and local law enforcement to enter into formal agreements with federal immigration authorities to fight illegal immigration.   Gutierrez’s bill completely repeals it.</p>
<p>287(g) is a useful program, but it is unfortunately viewed by many as a permission slip that must be granted by the federal government to allow states and localities to enforce immigration law.  Former INS Commissioners Doris Meissner and James W. Ziglar wrote an Op Ed in the <em>Washington Post</em> claiming that SB 1070 is unconstitutional because it goes beyond what is permitted by 287(g).</p>
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		<title>The Question of Birthright Citizenship</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 04:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did the Constitution framers really intend citizenship for the children of illegal aliens? ]]></description>
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<p>When the open borders lobby runs out of excuses for amnesty, their final resort is to “do it for the children.”  Last year Nancy Pelosi told a crowd in San Francisco that &#8220;Our future is about our children” and, &#8220;Taking parents from their children &#8230; that&#8217;s un-American.&#8221;</p>
<p>When the Speaker of the House considers enforcing our immigration laws “un-American,” it becomes the constitutional duty of the States to stand against illegal immigration.  This is why I introduced SB 1070 into the Arizona legislature, which has prompted a much needed national debate about immigration.</p>
<p>Sure enough, we’ve heard the same complaints about separating families.  Congressman Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) put together a Congressional panel against SB 1070.  He trotted out ten-year-old Catherine Figueroa whose illegal alien parents had stolen identities of American citizens and were detained.  She sobbed lines that no doubt were scripted by her handlers: “Please help us, children don’t know what to do without their parents.”</p>
<p>I truly sympathize with Catherine, but her law-breaking parents are the ones responsible for her situation.  SB 1070 and all other immigration laws do not split up families.  Arizona Jan Brewer very sensibly pointed out that there is nothing stopping the children from going back with their parents to their nation of origin.</p>
<p>But the truth is that these people do not care about reuniting families. They simply use children like Catherine for cheap political gain.</p>
<p>She is not the first.  A few years ago, the poster child and poster mother for breaking immigration law under the guise of not “separating families” was Elvira Arellano and her son Saul.  Elvira, who had been deported in 1997, broke back into the country and obtained a fraudulent social security number.  In 2002, she was arrested for Social Security fraud, but due to our lax immigration courts, she was released and wasn’t ordered to see an immigration judge until 2006.</p>
<p>With these facts, most Americans would see this as yet another example of how we fail to enforce our laws.  But Elvira had an illegitimate son with an unknown father in 1999.  Under a misinterpretation of the 14<sup>th</sup> Amendment, Saul became a US Citizen.</p>
<p>Instead of going to court, Elvira holed herself up in Adalberto United Methodist Church in Chicago&#8211;which proclaimed iself a  “sanctuary”&#8211;and stayed there for a year.  Meanwhile, Saul travelled to Mexico where he spoke before the Mexican Congress to attack our laws.  Eventually, Elvira snuck out and was detained and deported.</p>
<p>She then started a group called La Familia Latina Unida (United Latino Family) in Mexico.  But instead of bringing her son with her, pro illegal alien activists have given him legal guardianship and they parade him across the country away from his mother.</p>
<p>This would not be a problem if we ended our absurd practice of giving birthright citizenship to the children of illegal aliens.</p>
<p>The 14<sup>th</sup> Amendment states “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United   States and of the State wherein they reside.”  This clause was added specifically for the purpose of ensuring that the children of freed slaves would receive American citizenship.</p>
<p>The drafters of this Amendment made it very clear that this was not intended for illegal aliens.</p>
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		<title>Arizona or San Francisco?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 04:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>I am State Senator Russell Pearce, the author of SB1070, which was signed by Governor Jan Brewer.  Fear mongering and misinformation is the tool of the Left against this common sense legislation.</p>
<p>Paul Kantner of the 1960s rock band Jefferson Airplane once remarked, &#8220;San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality.&#8221;  When I first heard that San   Francisco was planning to boycott Arizona over the SB 1070, this description seemed apt.</p>
<p>However, when neighboring Oakland&#8217;s city council voted 7-0 to boycott Arizona last week, and President Pro Tem of the California State Senate Derrell Steinberg announced a campaign in the legislature to boycott us, it became clear that San Francisco is merely ahead of the California crazy curve.</p>
<p>Why did I propose SB 1070?  I saw the enormous fiscal and social costs that illegal immigration was imposing on my state.  I saw Americans out of work, hospitals and schools overflowed, and budgets strained.  Most disturbingly, I saw my fellow citizens victimized by illegal alien criminals.</p>
<p>The murder of Robert Krentz—whose family had been ranching in Arizona since 1907—by illegal alien drug dealers was the final straw for many Arizonans.  But there are dozens and dozens of other citizens of our state who had been murdered by illegal aliens. Currently 95 illegal aliens are in Maricopa County jail for murder.  When do we stand up for Americans and the rule of law? If not now, when?  We are a nation of laws, a Constitutional Republic.</p>
<p>Most of the hysterical critics of the bill do not even know what is in it. SB1070 simply codifies federal law into state law and removes excuses and concerns about states’ inherent authority to enforce these laws and removes all illegal &#8220;sanctuary&#8221; policies.</p>
<p>The law does not allow police to stop suspected illegal aliens unless they have already come across them through normal &#8220;lawful conduct&#8221; such as a traffic stop, and explicitly prohibits racial profiling.  Illegal is not a race, it is a crime.</p>
<p>Aside from the unfounded accusation of racial profiling, the chief complaint about the bill is that it infringes on federal jurisdiction by enforcing laws.  Arizona did not make illegal, illegal.  It is a crime to enter or remain in the U.S. in violation of federal law. States have had inherent authority to enforce immigration laws when the federal government has failed or refused to do so.</p>
<p>For all their newfound respect for the authority of federal immigration law, the open borders advocates who oppose SB 1070 have no problems with &#8220;sanctuary cities&#8221; across the country that explicitly obstruct federal immigration authorities to protect illegal aliens, even though are illegal under federal law (8 USC 1644 &amp; 1373.)</p>
<p>In 2008, San   Francisco began a campaign to encourage illegal aliens to take advantage of the city&#8217;s public services.  Mayor Gavin Newsom stated, &#8220;We have worked with the Board of Supervisors, Department of Public Health, labor and immigrant rights groups to create a city government-wide public awareness campaign so that immigrants know the city won&#8217;t target them for using city services.&#8221;</p>
<p>The results were tragic. A few months after the campaign, Edwin Ramos, an illegal alien and member of the MS 13 gang, murdered San Francisco resident Tony Bologna and his two sons who he mistook for rival gang members.  Ramos had a lengthy criminal record including a felony assault on a pregnant woman.  He was arrested on gang and weapons charges and promptly released just three months before the murder.  Not once did San   Francisco report him to immigration authorities.</p>
<p>One month after the murder of Bologna, illegal alien Alexander Izaguirre stole Amanda Keifer&#8217;s purse and then intentionally ran her over with an SUV, laughing as she hit the pavement and fractured her skull.   Four months earlier, Alexander Izaguirre had been arrested for felony dealing of crack cocaine.  Not only did San   Francisco refuse to turn him over to immigration authorities, they expunged his record and helped get him a job, which is criminal in and of itself.</p>
<p>Keifer asked the obvious question, &#8220;If they&#8217;ve committed crimes and they&#8217;re not citizens, then why are they here?  Why haven&#8217;t they been deported?&#8221;</p>
<p>The answer is that politicians like Gavin Newsom and Phoenix Mayor Gordon put the interests of illegal aliens before the safety of American citizens.</p>
<p>Our law is already working.  One can just scan the newspapers and see dozens of headlines like &#8220;Illegal Immigrants Leaving Arizona Over New Law: Tough, Controversial New Legislation Scares Many in Underground Workforce Out of State,&#8221;</p>
<p>In contrast, American citizens are leaving California.  For the last four years, more Americans have left the state than have moved in.</p>
<p>In criticizing the SB 1070, Barack Obama said, &#8220;Our failure to act responsibly at the federal level will only open the door to irresponsibility by others.&#8221;  There is nothing irresponsible about enforcing our law, but President Obama is right in that this is only necessary because the federal government does not do its job.</p>
<p>But the solution is not &#8220;comprehensive immigration reform,&#8221; a euphemism for amnesty. This will only encourage more illegal immigration.  And making illegal aliens legal does nothing to change the social and fiscal costs they impose on Arizona or the nation as a whole.  The Heritage Foundation&#8217;s research puts the cost of amnesty at over $2.5 Trillion dollars.</p>
<p>The federal government simply needs to enforce its immigration laws by cracking down on employers of illegal aliens, securing our borders, and deporting illegal alien criminals.</p>
<p>If states understand states rights and our Constitutional duty and responsibility to our citizens this legislation in Arizona will be a model for states across the nation and the federal government, it will end illegal immigration to America, but President Obama is looking towards San Francisco instead.</p>
<p>State Senator Russell Pearce represents Arizona’s 18<sup>th</sup> Legislative District.</p>
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