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Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Boomer with Attitude / News Arizona GOP: Turn doctors into immigration cops
Posted By John Grooms on Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:45 PM
Republican state lawmakers in Arizona are proposing a law that would require hospitals to check whether a patient is in the country illegally. It’s as if they woke up one morning and thought, “What can we do to make Arizona more of a police state? Let’s see, we already make our cops stop people and ask for their green cards — but that’s hung up in the courts for now — so what could show the world, especially those damn Meskins, that we’re super-badasses? I’ve got it! Let's catch people when they’re so sick they have to go to the hospital! Genius or what?”
The bill is vigorously opposed by many doctors and others in the medical field who say the law would keep some immigrants from seeking needed care. Which is true enough, but real ruff & tuff Amer’cans don’t give a rat’s ass about sick Meskins; plus why shouldn’t health care professionals and hospital workers be turned into immigration agents?
Arizona Senate President and Bad-ass Hombre Russell Pearce, a Republican, says the bill would “provide an important tool to fight illegal immigration” — and he's right, in a way; specifically, in the way that Germans turning in their Jewish neighbors was “an important tool” in ridding that country of people the government thought were a menace. “We’re going to enforce our laws without apology,” Reichsmarschall Pearce, er, rather, Sen. Pearce told the Associated Press.
The bill was deleted from the Arizona Senate Judiciary Committee agenda on Monday because of lack of support in that committee. Backers, however, say they will consider the bill in other committees.
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