Comments on: America’s Struggle With Slavery Reverberates in Arizona’s Immigration Controversy

By: Charles Boyer

Charles Boyer — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:07:03 +0000

The Arizona laws are disturbingly reminiscent of of the rights denied African Americans for centuries. The Jim Crow Laws that discriminated based on race and excluded people from voting and considering them a threat for taking jobs and bolstering the crime rate echo loudly in this current climate. All who know what the fight for freedom is all about need to stand in solidarity for a humane path to citizenship.

By: Jose Martinez

Jose Martinez — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:05:18 +0000

The federal government is not enforcing the immigration laws already on the books. If, the federal government is not going to protect the sovereignty of the United States of America and it’s people. Then the states themselves have to take charge when, the feds fail to uphold their resonsibility. It really saddens me when I read the above post by Mr. Bernish, and it is chock full of misrepresentations of the Arizona Law SB 1070. I cannot believe the NURFC, would allow someone to post something with an agenda. Someone purposely distorting the entire issue. If, this is view of the NURFC, then I guess, all that I have read up till now is nothing more than just an agenda also. Thank you, this will be the last time I ever visit this site.

By: Mary Deitz

Mary Deitz — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:08:56 +0000

All arguments aside – I don’t think the Constitution was intended to protect illegal immigrants! And although the moral position of providing freedom to all is certainly utopian, the realities are meaningful enough to require some solution before widespread acceptance of illegal immigrants to legal status. The cost that states and communities have to bear – the medical care, the education of ESL students flowing into our public schools, the strain on an already powerless labor force – all have to be addresses and, if no solution is forthcoming on a federal level then the states will simply have to prevail. To draw a comparison to chattel slavery given these facts is, IMHO, wrong.