{"id":720267,"date":"2010-04-20T14:07:11","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T18:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=82802"},"modified":"2010-04-20T14:07:11","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T18:07:11","slug":"lawmakers-to-arizona-governor-veto-immigration-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/720267","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers to Arizona Governor: Veto Immigration Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reps. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) and Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) denounced Arizona&#8217;s Senate bill 1070 during a press conference on Capitol Hill and urged Gov. Jan Brewer (R-Ariz.) to veto the legislation. The bill, <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/82737\/arizona-senate-passes-controversial-immigration-bill\" >passed by the state Senate yesterday<\/a>, would &#8212; if signed by Brewer in the next five days &#8212; make it a state crime to be in the country illegally, require local law enforcement to ask people about their legal status if officers &#8220;suspect&#8221; someone of being illegal and require immigrants to carry documentation at all times.<span id=\"more-82802\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.blogs.cnn.com\/2010\/04\/20\/latino-lawmakers-urge-veto-of-arizona-immigration-law\/\" >CNN<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;When you institutionalize a law like this one, you are targeting and discriminating at a wholesale level against a group of people,&#8221; Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Arizona, told reporters&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Grijalva, whose district runs from the Mexican border to the outskirts of Phoenix, said the legislation &#8220;is not just mean-spirited, it is directed at a specific population.&#8221; And Gutierrez, D-Illinois, said the measure infringes on the federal government&#8217;s authority over immigration laws.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Gutierrez added in a statement (via a press release) after the conference: &#8220;The Governor should veto the bill and if she  doesn&#8217;t, the President should assert the federal governments&#8217; preeminent role in  regulating and enforcing our nation&#8217;s immigration laws. &#8230; The lunacy of rounding up people because they  look a certain way or are suspected of being in violation of immigration statutes can only lead to  one thing: profiling. I am Puerto Rican, I was born in Chicago, and my  family has been U.S. citizens for generations, but look at my face, listen to  my voice: I could get picked up. Is this what we want in America?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reps. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) and Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) denounced Arizona&#8217;s Senate bill 1070 during a press conference on Capitol Hill and urged Gov. Jan Brewer (R-Ariz.) to veto the legislation. The bill, passed by the state Senate yesterday, would &#8212; if signed by Brewer in the next five days &#8212; make it a state crime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3845,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-31nd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3845"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}