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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-03-10 07:50 AM
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Poll: Arizonans Say Racial Discrimination Is on the Rise
from Mother Jones:





Poll: Arizonans Say Racial Discrimination Is on the Rise

— By Suzy Khimm
| Mon Aug. 2, 2010 8:24 AM PDT


However Arizona's immigration law holds up in court, nearly half of the state's residents believe that the polarizing debate has revealed underlying racial tensions and made Latinos more likely to be discriminated against. The Arizona Republic writes up the results of a poll it recently conducted:

In The Republic's telephone poll of 616 adults, conducted statewide between June 30 and July 12, nearly half of respondents—48 percent —said Latinos are more likely to be discriminated against compared with non-Latinos than they were six months ago. More than a third of respondents disagreed. The rest did not know or had no opinion.


Nearly half of Arizonans also believe the immigration debate has revealed racial problems here and that Latinos are more likely to have their legal status questioned than they were at the start of the year, the poll indicates.


The poll results confirm how the heated controversy about Arizona's controversial law has fueled fear and suspicion within the state, even before any parts of the measure had a chance to take effect. A federal judge blocked the most controversial parts of Arizona's law last week and seems likely to strike them down in her final ruling. But there are still parts of the law that went into effect on Thursday—particularly a measure that outlaws transporting or harboring illegal immigrants—that continue to worry immigration-rights advocates.

It remains to be seen whether there will actually be an uptick in discrimination against immigrants by officials or the public at large in the wake of the law's passage. But it's clear that the measure has created a climate of fear that's divided the state's residents. And it could portend the controversy that's to come in the other states that are still considering broad-sweeping anti-immigration laws like Arizona's. While the federal legislators wanted to defer an immigration overhaul for another day—in part out of fear that the debate would prove too polarizing—it's becoming increasingly clear that they can't escape the heated politics surrounding the issue.


http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/08/poll-arizona-immigration-racial-discrimination



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Karenina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-03-10 10:46 AM
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1. Naaaaaah, ya thimk?
:crazy:
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Kweli4Real Donating Member (792 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-03-10 11:10 AM
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2. Living in Arizona ...
I can tell you that a sizable portion of the respondents were saying, "Yeah, them illegal loving liberals are showing their racism towards good ole americans like me."
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Jefferson23 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-03-10 01:04 PM
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3. The sad part of this ugliness is the percentage of Americans
supporting Arizona immigration as it was written who are not racist but are indeed being deceived by Republicans.

The loss of American jobs began with their good ole boy Ronnie, then Bush1, and Clinton. These folks need information to make clear
to them the jobs stolen are in places like China and India, just to name two.

But who is going to tell them, the MSM? Right!
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classysassy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-03-10 01:10 PM
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4.  Arizona's leadership or lack of
is one reason the hate groups have emerged from their caves.Governor Brewer and Sheriff Joe are two of the hatemongers that have done nothing to abate the hate in this state.In a sane society both would be removed from office.
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