How Latinos In Arizona And In Other States Will Strike Back

Arizona Republicans better kiss their power in the state “goodbye.”

The adoption of the anti-immigrant legislation that Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed on Friday could greatly affect the outcome of future elections in the state by delivering Latino voters to Democrats on a silver platter.

Proposition 187, Big Mistake

It was back in 1994 when former California Governor Pete Wilson and the then majority Republican state legislature approved Proposition 187 or the Save Our State initiative, a bill that denied services to undocumented immigrants and granted power to authorities to arrest anyone they suspected was in the country illegally. Proposition 187 was perhaps the worst mistake that Republicans made in California’s history and it cost them the state assembly and legislature until this day.









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If they go to the polls and if their vote is counted...And the GOP is well positioned to effect whether they go to the polls and if the vote is counted.

And it's nice to know that they're not laying down and waiting to be run over.

The idea of angry latinos flipping Arizona from deep Republican Red to Democratic Blue is a lovely thought, as are the thoughts of Jan Brewer, either McCain or Hayworth ceding McCain's senate seat to a Democrat, and formerly-safe Arizona state representatives' and state senators' seas falling to Democrats like nine-pins. But something, two things actually, have to happen FIRST.

Those Arizona latinos who are US citizens are going to have to register to vote. Then they will actually have to go to the polls and cast their ballots on Election Day if not before, assuming Arizona has something like Texas' early voting system.

One of the reasons this bill got signed into law has been Arizona latino voters' previous apathy and low voter turnouts. If they'd voted in earlier state elections in the same proportions as they comprise Arizona's population, Brewer might have chosen to veto. If they had turned out 90 percent of their possible voters, Republicans wouldn't DARE come up with such odious legislation as the bill just passed.

I'm not blaming Arizona latino voters for what happened. That bill was a right-wing Arizona Republican Rosemary's Baby. But Arizona latino citizen-voters could have prevented it from happening if they'd acted much earlier.

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a lot of "undocumented" eastern europeans are here "illegally"..if a contractor does`t want to draw attention they`ll hire eastern euros.it seems each country has it`s own specialty.