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David Brooks: Dems Will Now Push Immigration To Get Latinos To Polls In Nov.

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On Meet the Press yesterday the New York TimesDavid Brooks weighed in on the topic on everyone’s mind this weekend: Arizona’s new immigration law. Echoing his NYT counterpart Paul Krugman, Brooks concern was less about the civil right abuses the law may leave a (very big) open window for, than how this new law will allow the Democrats to push at lot of other important stuff to the side and focus on what will be the hot button item this summer.

First of all, I think this bill in Arizona is an invitation to abuse. You’re going to have the government making decisions on the basis of race. And at what level are they making these decisions? At the cop level, in the worst possible circumstances, when people are angry? It’s an invitation to sort of racial profiling and abuse. So I think it’s terrible. But the worst effect is happening back here because now we have the Democrats promising to have a comprehensive immigration bill before any of the preparatory work has been done, pushing aside a lot of other stuff, like cap and trade and energy. And why are they doing it? For purely political reasons because a lot of Democrats, including Harry Reid who is trying to get re-elected in Nevada, need to really fire up Latino voters to get them to come out to the polls.

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  • The Real Royal King

    Indeed! With all the clamor yesterday, in Arizona, and in churches in Texas, I think no one will have to push too hard.

  • MichelleF

    I have a question for Glynnis and other libs; a large portion of african americans are against illegal immigration and yet they aren’t called racist. Do you consider them racists also? Credit for the question goes to Rush, but I thought it was a great observation.

  • ImNotBlue

    Ah, you gotta love these “post-racial identity political theories.”

  • The Real Royal King

    Michelle, bigotry directed at and discrimination against Hispanics is not racism, is it? It’s an ethnic prejudice. Now, you might say that’s las manzanas and oranges, but it is a distinction we need to keep in mind. I don’t think the wall builders are being racist, but they are bigoted, intolerant and simplistic. “Mr. Hayseed, Tear Down that Wall!”

  • Moderate

    King, stop locking your doors, it is a blatant attempt to keep people out. You must learn to share your goods. Just think of all those poor people that need shelter.

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    Pure political reasons? Kind of like how the Republicans are obstructed everything for pure political reasons without even a reasonable alternative to the Democrat’s proposition.

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    By the way, I eagerly await the first deportation or attempted deportation of a Hispanic American who’s missing his papers or who doesn’t have them at all because they,ve lived in this country their entire life.

  • The Real Royal King

    I eagerly await the first deportation or attempted deportation of a Hispanic American who’s missing his papers or who doesn’t have them at all because they’ve lived in this country their entire life.

    I expect that will happen sooner, rather than later. Just one of the many flaws in this fatally flawed, xenophobic legislation. I guess it’s a good thing that this legislation isn’t targeted to Canadians. The Arizona police would have a very difficult time ethnically profiling then.

  • MichelleF

    King,
    Talk to me when someone close to use is murdered by someone breaking into the country (like the rancher a couple of weeks ago). The polls out today say 71% of AZ’s agree with the law INCLUDING 51% of Dem’s.

  • ImNotBlue

    The_Reasonable_Lib says:
    April 26, 2010 at 2:20 pm
    Pure political reasons? Kind of like how the Republicans are obstructed everything for pure political reasons without even a reasonable alternative to the Democrat’s proposition.

    That’s funny… I was thinking the same thing. Except about all those Democrats and Liberals (especially here on Mediaite) who have yet to give a good solution for how Arizona should deal with the violence, drugs, and smuggling that is hurting their citizens. Seems that you have no problem with it’s the left “saying NO,” without alternative.

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    @ ImNotBlue:
    The left has offered an alternative; amnesty, and I don’t agree with that. I’m not against deportation either. What I’m against is a bill which gives cops the blatant authority to walk up to a person on the street and ask for their papers. What is this; the old south and we’re searching for runaway slaves? Do you realize the volume of hispanics in Arizona? And do you honestly think that it’s the illegals committing these acts? if you do then you’re gravely mistaken. I could go to the suburbs and find more cocain and violence than i do in the inner city, it just doesn’t get reported on as much. Kidnappings, rapings, drugs, these are human acts, they’re not limited to a demographic. Perhaps if you stopped with the “I know you are but what am I” logic, you’d see that.

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  • Averreauxii

    “MichelleF says:
    April 26, 2010 at 4:00 pm

    King,
    Talk to me when someone close to use is murdered by someone breaking into the country (like the rancher a couple of weeks ago). The polls out today say 71% of AZ’s agree with the law INCLUDING 51% of Dem’s”

    Dumbest thing every one keeps regurgitating! They don’t even know WHO killed that rancher! How do YOU know beyond reasonable doubt that it is was an illegal immigrant? The person is a criminal but their legal status is unknown and hence your talking points are based on conjecture. That person could be an American citizen for all we know. There’s nothing that excludes that possibility. Unless Americans in Arizona do not murder other Americans!

  • barry

    If David Brooks is right, then Dems shouldn’t let Repubs and media scare them out of it. IF it’s an effective strategy, the more everyone is arguing about it the better the strategy would, in theory, work.

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