{"id":3604,"date":"2010-07-29T01:15:20","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T01:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=3604"},"modified":"2010-07-29T01:46:36","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T01:46:36","slug":"political-stupidity-meme-alert-arizona-vs-rhode-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=3604","title":{"rendered":"Political Stupidity \/ Meme Alert &#8211; Arizona VS Rhode Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Political%20Stupidity%20%2F%20Meme%20Alert%20-%20Arizona%20VS%20Rhode%20Island\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>In the last week, I have heard all over talk radio that it&#8217;s unfair to single out Arizona for wanting to enforce immigration law, when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=0CBkQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.boston.com%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Frhode_island%2Farticles%2F2010%2F07%2F06%2Fri_troopers_embrace_firm_immigration_role%2F&amp;ei=vtVQTObuD4GksQPSlKmbDQ&amp;usg=AFQjCNE5ly6Lo_EhAV9vG3rSEBWufYxJhQ\">Rhode Island is doing that very thing<\/a>! Why aren&#8217;t people and states and city counsels boycotting them?\u00a0 Why doesn&#8217;t the government sue them???? Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/2010\/07\/28\/very-preliminary-thoughts-on-the-arizona-immigration-case\/\">Volokh<\/a>, I made this comment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I haven\u2019t done much research into the ruling, so I won\u2019t comment on it.  But here is a question that is nagging at me: Why didn\u2019t Arizona do the  exact same thing that RI is doing? It certainly looks like you don\u2019t  need a separate state law to achieve the same results, as RI has shown.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well&#8230;\u00a0 Here is the difference! Arizona, through the passage of its law would force all its officers to become immigration enforcement officers! <a href=\"http:\/\/newsblog.projo.com\/2010\/07\/ri-arizona-immigration-measure.html\">Rhode Island<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Supporters of Arizona&#8217;s new illegal-immigration law have in recent weeks  cited Rhode Island as a state where police have been quietly carrying  out comparably tough enforcement without a court challenge from the  Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p>But in Rhode Island, both sides of the debate agree that the  executive order Governor Carcieri issued in 2008 is far less sweeping  than the Arizona law, which takes effect this month.<\/p>\n<p>Comparisons of the two approaches are intended to rationalize the law  in Arizona, generally more conservative than Rhode Island, by  suggesting it&#8217;s already more or less in place in a heavily Democratic  state, said Steven Brown, a leading critic of the governor&#8217;s order and  executive director of the Rhode Island affiliate of the American Civil  Liberties Union.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The only reason I can see individuals focusing on Rhode Island is  for political purposes and stretching what&#8217;s happened here as a way to  try and compare a largely Democratic state &#8212; a blue state &#8212; with a red  state, and somehow claim that Rhode Island should be looked at  similarly,&#8221; Brown said.<\/p>\n<p>The Arizona law also makes it a state crime for immigrants to not  carry immigration documents; Rhode Island&#8217;s executive order has no such  provision.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona&#8217;s law generally requires local police officers, while  enforcing other laws, to question a person&#8217;s immigration status if there  is a &#8220;reasonable suspicion&#8221; that the person is in the country  illegally.<\/p>\n<p>Rhode Island&#8217;s order directs the State Police to help with  immigration enforcement and encourages &#8212; but, importantly, does not  require &#8212; local police to seek a suspect&#8217;s immigration status.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The more I&#8217;m reading and absorbing about this case, the more I&#8217;m siding with the Obama administration on this specific case. Arizona should have followed Rhode Islands lead. This is looking more and more like a political gambit, and the Republicans will ride it all the way to the November elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Political%20Stupidity%20%2F%20Meme%20Alert%20-%20Arizona%20VS%20Rhode%20Island\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>In the last week, I have heard all over talk radio that it&#8217;s unfair to single out Arizona for wanting to enforce immigration law, when Rhode Island is doing that very thing! Why aren&#8217;t people and states and city counsels boycotting them?\u00a0 Why doesn&#8217;t the government sue them???? Over at Volokh, I made this comment: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,27,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3604"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3607,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3604\/revisions\/3607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}