Arizona's insane new law started by racist

The SB1070 bill, considered to be the toughest immigration bill in the country, was passed by the Arizona House of Representatives on Tuesday April 13, 2010. The legislation, which will change lives thousands of illegal immigrants and law-abding civilians living in Arizona, passed by a vote of 35 to 21.

The new SB1070 Arizona immigration bill permits the state police to perform checks resulting from "reasonable suspicion" that an individual might be an illegal alien and therefore make arrests for not carrying proper identification papers. So, just who exactly carryies around their birth certificate or working visa papers with them? Prior to this, the police could not stop individuals due to their suspicion that they might be an illegal alien. Police could only ask about an individual's immigration status if they were suspected of being involved in other illegal activities.

The legislation now opens the door to racial profiling, especially for those of Spanish, Central and South American descent.

Arizona state representatives said the purpose of the legislation is to "protect churches, community organizations and civil rights". The irony alone in that statement.

Opponents of the new legislation have been protesting, who fear that it will make Arizona a "police state", and provide another impediment in the relations between the police, state officials and the Spanish-speaking communities.



The sponsor of Arizona's new "Papers, please" immigration is law is Republican State Sen. Russell Pearce, a politician who was caught on tape hugging a neo-Nazi.

But if you want to meet the guy who's taking credit for writing the new law, that would be Kris Kobach, a birther who's running for secretary of state in Kansas. His campaign Website brags, "Kobach wins one in Arizona." He's also an attorney for the Immigration Reform Law Institute, the legal arm of an immigration group called FAIR, the Federation for American Immigration Reform.

FAIR was founded in 1979 by John Tanton, who's still listed as a member of FAIR's board of directors. Seven years after he started FAIR, Tanton wrote this, "To govern is to populate. Will the present majority peaceably hand over its political power to a group that is simply more fertile? As whites see their power and control over their lives declining, will they simply go quietly into the night or will there be an explosion?"

For nine of the first years of FAIR's existence, the group reportedly received more than $1 million in funding from something called the Pioneer Fund. The Pioneer Fund describes itself as based "in the Darwinian-Galtonian evolutionary tradition and eugenics movement." For the last 70 years, the Pioneer Fund has funded controversial research about race and intelligence, essentially aimed at proving the racial superiority of white people. The group's original mandate was to promote the genes of those "deemed to be descended predominantly from white persons who settled in the original 13 states prior to the adoption of the Constitution."

Tanton's organization, FAIR, claims credit for writing Arizona's new immigration law. The link between Fair and the Pioneer Fund makes sense, especially after you read more of Tanton's writing, like this: "I've come to the point of view that for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority and a clear one at that."

In 1997, John Tanton told the Detroit Free Press that America will soon be overrun by illegal immigrants "defecating and creating garbage and looking for jobs."

Today, FAIR makes a living off of suing local and state governments over immigration laws. Tucked inside Article VIII of Arizona's new law is a provision that if groups like them win their cases, a judge may order that the entity "who brought the action recover court costs and attorney fees" -- which could create a nice financial boon for an outfit once funded by people determined to advance an agenda of eugenics and a perpetual white majority.

Congratulations, Arizona. This thing is going to make you really, really famous for a really, really long time.