Justice Dept Files Suit Against Arizona.

[TwistedTails]

they're only colonies, not proper Americans.

I sincerely hope you never go to one of the protectorates and tell someone they are living in an American Colony. The results would be predictably bad.

Why are we still flogging the race issue here? It is a diversion at best. AZ passed a law that allowed them to enforce a federal law that the federal government wouldn't enforce for political reasons. It is a States rights issue, It is a federal negligence issue, it is a public safety issue. What it is not is a race issue.

Cheers
Twisted

[MMI]

I sincerely hope you never go to one of the protectorates and tell someone they are living in an American Colony. The results would be predictably bad.

Why are we still flogging the race issue here? It is a diversion at best. AZ passed a law that allowed them to enforce a federal law that the federal government wouldn't enforce for political reasons. It is a States rights issue, It is a federal negligence issue, it is a public safety issue. What it is not is a race issue.

Cheers
Twisted

Deny it all you like, they're colonies by another name.

Not a race issue ... nothing to do with HISPANICS (see above)??? Oh well ... if you say so.

Salud!

[TwistedTails]

Deny it all you like, they're colonies by another name.

I denied nothing, as there is nothing to deny. The distinction between colony and protectorate is quite clear.

Not a race issue ... nothing to do with HISPANICS (see above)??? Oh well ... if you say so.

Salud!

If the law specified ANY race, creed, or color, I would be first in line to oppose it. It does not.

Cheers.

[MMI]

I denied nothing, as there is nothing to deny. The distinction between colony and protectorate is quite clear.

Semantics apart, the distinction between a colony and a protectorate is such a fine one as to be non-existent

If the law specified ANY race, creed, or color, I would be first in line to oppose it. It does not.

Cheers.

Not even Southern states (whose political views are surpassed only by the previous apartheid regime in South Africa) would nowadays be daft enough to specify a particular race when formulating their exclusion laws. But it's not how you word your laws, it's how you apply them.

[DuncanONeil]

Semantics apart, the distinction between a colony and a protectorate is such a fine one as to be non-existent

I agree semantics be dammed! The differences are QUITE clear!

Not even Southern states (whose political views are surpassed only by the previous apartheid regime in South Africa) would nowadays be daft enough to specify a particular race when formulating their exclusion laws. But it's not how you word your laws, it's how you apply them.

So here you are taking the position that the authorities have the worst possible reason for deciding that enforcing Federal law is something they should do? That means that you are assuming the outcome of something before it happens. You know what that means, correct?

By the way have you personally read the law??

[DuncanONeil]

Deny it all you like, they're colonies by another name

.

col·o·ny
   /ˈkɒləni/
–noun, plural -nies.

any people or territory separated from but subject to a ruling power.

Therefore places like Guam and Puerto Rico are not colonies!

Not a race issue ... nothing to do with HISPANICS (see above)??? Oh well ... if you say so.

Salud!

Illegal is not a race therefore his position is correct!!

[DuncanONeil]

Agreed!

I sincerely hope you never go to one of the protectorates and tell someone they are living in an American Colony. The results would be predictably bad.

Why are we still flogging the race issue here? It is a diversion at best. AZ passed a law that allowed them to enforce a federal law that the federal government wouldn't enforce for political reasons. It is a States rights issue, It is a federal negligence issue, it is a public safety issue. What it is not is a race issue.

Cheers
Twisted