Archive for July 12, 2010
Conservatives Conflate Immigration with Drug War
Supporters of Arizona’s draconian new Immigration Reform bill (pdf) repeatedly cite ONE reason for the need to clamp down on illegal immigration: Drug crime. And so, they target ALL immigrants (or people who just look Hispanic) in fighting America’s failed “War on Drugs”. This is like passing laws against “automobile passengers” to fight “getaway cars”. […]
July 12, 2010
Posted in: myth busting, Politics, Racism