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Andrew Heyman lives and works in Seattle Washington USA. His true vocation is political writing and agitating for the radical idea that a society that is governed by, and serves the needs of the people is best.
Andrew is also the member of a wonderful family with his loving wife, Pam, and the proud father of 2 wonderful children, Josie and Adam. They all keep him from becoming immersed in blogging to an unhealthy degree, and remind him of why he cares about what is going on in this world in the first place.
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Immigration and Police State Tactics
Let's look at how the war against EYE-legals is going in Arizona, and who is getting swept-up in it:
Juan Carlos Ochoa, a naturalized U.S. citizen who lives in an upper-middle-class subdivision near Phoenix named Laguna Hills, can't find a job because a government database classifies him as a possible illegal immigrant. Pauline Muñoz, a 39-year-old mother of six who was born in Phoenix, has been afraid to leave her apartment since being held by sheriff's deputies for 15 hours for a driving infraction -- an example of what she believes is racial profiling.
15 hours for a moving violation? That my friends is a drop in the bucket next to the deluge of racial charged police state tactics that are coming our way if we allow this nonsense to continue.
Of course Maricopa County Sheriff Arpaio denies that there is any racial profiling going on at all:
Arpaio has maintained that he is not targeting suspects based on race and that the sweeps were in response to complaints of crime from business people and community leaders.
On Friday, he continued with a second day of sweeps in Guadalupe, despite the objections of the mayor and hundreds of protesters. He said he was considering doing more sweeps in Mesa after eight state legislators signed a letter asking him to focus his crime-suppression activities on the southeast Valley.
"We are going to arrest any illegal immigrants we come across," Arpaio said.
Who exactly is Arpaio looking for?
A girl in her confirmation dress stands during Confirmation Mass on the plaza in Guadalupe Friday night. Sheriff's patrol cars circled the plaza during the mass, the second day of a sweep by MCSO in the town.
She's dangerous! It's an invasion! Our American heritage is threatened!
And what kind of name is Arpaio anyway? Maybe he is an EYE-legal.