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Attacks on bill are baseless

| May 3, 2010 9:00 PM

There is a lot of hysteria on the part of some over the Arizona immigration law.

Pulitzer Prize winner Linda Greenhouse has called Arizona a “police state” and compared it to the Soviet Union and “apartheid-era South Africa.”  Jesse Jackson referred to the new law as “terrorism for the innocent.” 

There is no basis in fact for making such unreasonable comments and there is nothing in the bill to warrant the emotional excess of any legal citizen of this country.  The bill was created because the federal government has failed to control the problem of illegal immigration, and only those who are here illegally will have anything to fear from the new law.

There are provisions within the law itself which prohibit profiling. Clearly, the bill is intended to protect law-abiding citizens of the state of Arizona.

I believe that Idaho should stand with Arizona and adopt similar legislation.  The Federation for American Immigration Reform estimated that in 2005 there were about 34,000 illegal aliens in Idaho and that number has most likely increased in the last five years. 

Deporting them would return a large number of jobs to workers who are legally allowed to be here.

MONTE HEIL

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