Words of wisdom

‎"I am a human, I consider nothing that is human alien to me."
Publius Terentius Afer (195/185–159 BC)

Follow the money - Key Players That Helped Draft Arizona's Immigration Law

Key Players That Helped Draft Arizona's Immigration Law

Source: NPR News Investigations
Credit: Stephanie D'Otreppe/NPR

Prison Economics Help Drive Ariz. Immigration Law

"NPR spent the past several months analyzing hundreds of pages of campaign finance reports, lobbying documents and corporate records. What they show is a quiet, behind-the-scenes effort to help draft and pass Arizona Senate Bill 1070 by an industry that stands to benefit from it: the private prison industry."

The Next Arizona

"[A] report puts 14 states on its “maybe” list [of being the next Arizona]: Tennessee, Nebraska, Florida, Pennsylvania, Texas, Arkansas, Indiana, Colorado, Minnesota, Virginia, Idaho, Missouri, Kansas and Utah, where lawmakers have proposed both heightened enforcement bills and bills to deal with legal immigration and the undocumented immigrants already in the state."

"In the “less likely” category: Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio and Rhode Island."

http://washingtonindependent.com/101865/the-next-arizona

Cost to defend Arizona immigration law tops $1 million for May, June & July only

"The bill for defending Arizona's newest immigration law has now passed $1 million, and that's for work done only through July.

Gov. Jan Brewer's office on Wednesday released the latest round of invoices from its outside legal counsel, Phoenix law firm Snell & Wilmer. July costs were $621,846.16. May and June costs had totaled $440,520.25."

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/10/27/20101027arizona-immigration-law-cost-through-july.html#ixzz13eZiXLZ3

AZ Gov. Brewer suspected of DUI in 1988 crash ---- no charges filed, why?

Brewer suspected of DUI in 1988 crash; case not pursued

Anti-Illegal Immigration Group Denies Ties to White Supremacists, Nazis

"It may be a bad time to be endorsed by Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, or ALIPAC. The group is once again being accused of ties to white supremacist groups and Nazism, this time by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. The DCCC released a statement Monday alleging that Jesse Kelly, a Republican candidate for Congress from Arizona, “has doggedly pursued the support of a group with known white supremacist, anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi ties.” Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), the committee noted, tied ALIPAC to white supremacists when the group endorsed his primary opponent in March, while the Anti-Defamation League has accused the group of unfairly demonizing illegal immigrants."


http://washingtonindependent.com/101098/anti-illegal-immigration-group-denies-ties-to-white-supremacists-nazis

Georgia Lawmaker Wants Mexican Immigrants Shot

"At a candidate forum last week, Georgia state Rep. John Yates (R) was asked for his recommendations on what to do about illegal immigration in Florida. Yates replied that troops on the border should be given “shoot to kill” orders and that flyers should be dropped in Mexico warning of the new immigration policy."

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/18/immigration-georgia-yates/

Guess who said this against Catholic immigrants.

We should build a wall of brass around the country.
- John Jay, first chief justice of Supreme Court, regarding “Catholic alien invaders,” 1750s

Guess who said this against German immigrants.

Few of their children in the country learn English ... The signs in our streets have inscriptions in both languages ... Unless the stream of their importation could be turned they will soon so outnumber us that all the advantages we have will not be able to preserve our language, and even our government will become precarious.
-Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father, on German immigration to Pennsylvania, 1750s

We are all descended from immigrants!

"Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from [immigrants] and revolutionists." ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Nebraska's Struggle to ensure equality before the law

The story of Nebraska's struggle to ensure equality before the law for all citizens come to a crisis point when the Nebraska Legislation outlawed German as a language in school settings.

 On April 9, 1919, Nebraska enacted a statute called "An act relating to the teaching of foreign languages in the state of Nebraska," commonly known as the Siman Act. It imposed restrictions on both the use of a foreign language as a medium of instruction and on foreign languages as a subject of study.

Siman Act provided that "No person, individually or as a teacher, shall, in any private, denominational, parochial or public school, teach any subject to any person in any language other than the English language."  see, Meyers v. Nebraska, 262 U.S. 390 (1923)

http://www.oyez.org/cases/1901-1939/1922/1922_325

Do you know what our State motto is?

The official state motto of Nebraska is "Equality before the law." The state motto appears on our state seal and state flag.

"Equality before the law" is the principle under which each individual is subject to the same laws, with no individual or group having special legal privileges. No one is exempt or included more than another.