Arizona Flies A False Flag -

The false flag of Arizona Republicans.

PHOENIX – An American citizen was questioned and detained at a weigh station along Val Vista and the 202 freeway, when he pulled his commercial truck in the station for a routine check. “Abdon,” who now refuses to give his last name, provided several pieces of information, but it wasn’t enough. He was handcuffed and taken to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office (ICE) in central Phoenix.

He told Phoenix 3TV, “I don’t think it’s correct if I have to take my birth certificate with me all the time.”

It’s very far from “correct,” but it is now the law in Arizona; what free Americans in the other states refer to as a “police state.”

It was at the ICE office that an ICE agent called Abdon’s wife, and apparently told her that if she didn’t want her husband to go to jail, she had better leave her job immediately and drive home to get her husband’s birth certificate.

Abdon and his wife Jackie, were both born in the United States. They are American citizens. Neither of them however, are Caucasians. But they are both infuriated that now they apparently must carry their most important personal documents with them at all times; keeping them secure at home is out of the question.

“It doesn’t feel like it’s a good way of life, to live with fear, even though we are okay— we are legal,” said Jackie.

You may be legal; but now you have a legislated lower status before the law than white Americans.

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement representative told 3TV that this was “standard operating procedure”; that the agents “needed to verify Abdon was in the country legally,” and that it was not “uncommon” to ask for someone’s birth certificate. She said this incident had “nothing to do with the recently signed bill, or racial profiling.”

Indeed, it will never be “uncommon” for brown-skinned Americans; just for the white Americans.
Because now Abdon will always “look like” an “illegal immigrant” to white Americans; especially the ones compelled by law to put handcuffs on him.

“Abdon”

* The information in this post was provided by Alicia E. Barrón for azfamily.com on Thursday, Apr 22.

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nonnie9999

April 28, 2010 at 6:35 PM 14 years ago

so, are we allowed to ask cops for their birth certificates? i’ll be damned if i’ll be interrogated by someone who might be here illegally.

Propagandee

April 28, 2010 at 10:55 AM 14 years ago

Karma:

The Mexican government warned its citizens Tuesday to use extreme caution if visiting Arizona because of a tough new law that requires all immigrants and visitors to carry U.S.-issued documents or risk arrest.

The AZ tourist industry must be ecstatic.

UPDATE: Wed Apr 28, 2010 at 4:10 PM PDT

Marcos has more:

The total (direct and secondary) impact of the Arizona travel industry in 2008 was 310,000 jobs and $10.2 billion earnings.

Of that amount, Mexico is a huge percentage (PDF).

The results of this study, as in the past, demonstrate the economic importance of Mexican visitor spending to Arizona’s economy. Close to 23,400 wage and salary jobs in Arizona at eating and drinking establishments, retail establishments and other spending-related sectors are directly attributable to Mexican visitor spending. Through local purchases of supplies by businesses and the spending of income derived from visitor-related jobs, these visitors generated almost 7,000 additional jobs in Arizona in 2007-08. These jobs account for a total income of $837.24 million and $3.61 billion in sales….

With Arizona’s international visitorship decimated, the state now must rely on domestic visitors — many of which come from liberal California, where cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles are seeking official boycotts of the state. Late Tuesday, Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento), leader of the California State Senate, also proposed a statewide boycott of Arizona.

Indeed, according to a 2008 report on domestic visitors (PDF) by the office of tourism, 34 percent of all visitors to Arizona came from California. The next largest contributor, Texas, lagged far behind at 5 percent. Liberal Washington, New York and Illinois constitute another 11 percent of the total.