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70% of the people in Arizona support the new law and 30% of the state is Hispanic random thoughts Send a noteboard - 28/04/2010 10:51:08 PM
So either almost every single white person in the state supports that law or there are a fair number of Hispanics who support it as well. I think the most twisted bit of logic here is that illegal immigration has grown the Hispanic population to such a s size that it is no longer in our best interest to slow it down because they have become such a large voting block. I do wonder if democrats would feel the same way if Hispanics were voting 60% republican instead of the other way around. More poor uneducated people means more support for the democratic party.

I don't put much faith in studies done by liberal groups who are out to support and argument. Real science doesn’t have a political agenda and the group you sited does.

If all of the illegal immigrants were to leave Arizona at once it would upset the system and cause problems but that isn't going to happen. They could see a significant decrease and they would not suffer from it. Keep in mind one of the biggest problems and the one this law is aimed at is not the people who have been there for years and are contributing to the economy but the transits who are just passing through headed further north and the people involved in smuggling.

If Arizona can drive the new immigrants to New Mexico and California they can loose a lot of the problems that come with them and that should more then make up for the extra arrest.

Sorry but I call BS that this is going have a negative impact on Arizona tourism. If voting against MLK day didn’t hurt I don’t how this will. There may be people expressing concern but those people are concerned for living. I would want to see a real impact on tourism before I believed this has any real impact

You do need a certain number of low paid labors to keep an economy going but we can check that one off because the mob who run up to truck every time I pull into Loews leads me to believe there isn’t a shortage. As for property values that make me chuckle, can you point to an area where property values rose as the result of large numbers of Hispanics moving into the area?
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that is also true - 26/04/2010 05:44:40 PM 918 Views
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mmmm Tamale. - 28/04/2010 08:53:13 PM 958 Views
a minor point.... - 29/04/2010 06:30:22 AM 1014 Views
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you are correct - 29/04/2010 06:39:29 AM 1362 Views
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Worst reasonable case scenario - 28/04/2010 06:48:29 PM 942 Views
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That's funny... - 27/04/2010 01:57:14 AM 1305 Views
echo chamber much? - 27/04/2010 04:14:53 PM 1061 Views
there's also 53% of us who think this will lead to violating civil rights. - 27/04/2010 05:19:29 PM 915 Views
Re: there's also 53% of us who think this will lead to violating civil rights. - 28/04/2010 12:40:42 PM 973 Views
Those incidents are horrible - 28/04/2010 01:07:39 PM 954 Views
Re: That's funny... - 28/04/2010 12:30:41 PM 997 Views
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activist group liberal group claims it will cost money, what a shocker *NM* - 27/04/2010 04:23:11 PM 424 Views
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but all of that ignores the long term savings - 28/04/2010 03:24:50 PM 927 Views
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I will admit - 28/04/2010 07:01:55 PM 960 Views
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70% of the people in Arizona support the new law and 30% of the state is Hispanic - 28/04/2010 10:51:08 PM 1182 Views
real science? - 28/04/2010 11:06:13 PM 967 Views
I linked to it further up the thread and you responded - 28/04/2010 11:19:51 PM 951 Views
ah, I think I missed it for some reason - 29/04/2010 12:18:13 AM 1015 Views
who has time to read all of this crap *NM* - 29/04/2010 04:26:11 AM 408 Views
I'm familiar with the Rasmussen poll - 28/04/2010 11:31:30 PM 1275 Views
Here's Judge Napolitano's response to this - 27/04/2010 02:19:49 PM 967 Views

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