State Senator Steve Gallardo has been pretty high profile these days given the flurry of activity at the Arizona State Capitol. Gallardo isn’t a very large man, but he sure seems to have a large and inquisitive voice when it comes to anti-Immigrant legislation. Gallardo has been very vocal in opposing Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s SB1225 anti-immigrant bill that allows the use of A.R.S. 13-2319 known as the “Coyote Law” as the prosecutorial tool. Ironically as mentioned in the “Three Sonorans”, Sinema at one time sued Joe Arpaio and Andrew Thomas over misuse of the law and is now okay with allowing Joe Arpaio and Thomas’ protege Bill Montgomery to utilize the law as they see fit when it comes to SB1225.

Steve Gallardo will join us tomorrow morning (February 22, 2011) on our Spanish language program to talk about SB1225 and the rest of the anti-Immigrant bills on the agenda at the state capitol. The interview with Senator Gallardo will be conducted in English.

Please join us by listening via www.carlosgalindo.com or if you are in Phoenix tune in to KASA 1540 AM at 7:00 AM.

This should prove to be an interesting interview with a very outspoken State Senator.

So in Arizona you can hold someone against their will, threaten them at gunpoint and sic your dog on them and when it’s all done and over with and charges are brought against you, when the Court rules against you, no problem, Arizona’s anti-Immigrant legislature will create a law specifically crafted to get you out of your misdeed.

At least that’s the case with rancher Roger Barnett who was accused of holding Immigrants at gunpoint and assaulting them, all the while commanding his dog to attack the defenseless Immigrants.

I was interviewed by a reporter from the Christian Science Monitor today via telephone. It was focused on the Brisenia Flores murder in Arivaca Arizona. Our conversation swayed in and out, at times dipping into several high profiles cases here in Arizona in which Latinos were victims of murder. The reporter kept asking me if in fact the case regarding Brisenia Flores was perhaps just a fringe group that had run amok. Well as far as I am concerned Arizona has run amok.

No it wasn’t just Brisenia Flores that was killed by anti-Immigrants. You and I know that this anti-Immigrant sentiment has reached a pitch fever. It has been building for a long time. If you were able to speak to Dr. Rodolfo Acuña he would cite instances back to the 1800′s where Mexicans were scalped and hunted like animals. There has always been a disregard for a Mexican life, especially amongst the ranchers in Southeastern Arizona.

Fast forward to the late 1970′s and you find a young Carlos Galindo attentively sitting in a Court room listening to the case of the Hannigan brothers who according to the Mexican Immigrants that were victims of the Hannigan’s treachery they were severely abused by George Hannigan and his two sons Patrick and Thomas. According to citations from a book written about the incident, “the Immigrants were stripped, and tortured with hot pokers, burning cigarettes, knives and a shotgun filled with bird seed.” George Hannigan died before the trial and the brothers were acquitted by an all white jury. The Feds eventually brought charges against the two and just one brother was convicted and sentenced to three years in prison.

Let’s fast forward once again to 2011 Arizona as we reflect on the murders of Brisenia Flores shot in the face by members of a Minutemen group and Juan Varela killed by a white neighbor yelling “go back to Mexico wetback”, “you’re going to die today.”

You see the pattern? The life of a Mexican has no value. The rhetoric has escalated and the vitriol has saturated the very fabric of Arizonan’s lives. Anglos have been effectively desensitized when it comes to violent acts towards Mexicans and Immigrants in general. And that is exactly why the Arizona State Legislature is willing to write a law that will be retroactive 7 years. It’s all about protecting the Anglo and excusing their violence. The particular law has been crafted to protect Roger Barnett and quash the existing judgment against him. After all, it was just Immigrants he abused.

In a story written in the High Country News on October 9, 2000 by the way the sites slogan is:For People Who Care About The West, the story quotes some disturbing comments from one of the Barnett brothers.

Don Barnett, who is 56, and his brother Roger, 58, grew up right here in Bisbee. Don worked as a deputy sheriff in the 1970s and 1980s. Like many border natives, he remembers when citizens of both countries casually crossed la lÆnea[sic], to drink or shop or work. The Mexicans were different in those days, Barnett says. “They acted like human beings. I guess they had respect then,” he tells me. “Now they’re trespassing. They’re animals.”

These are the guys who Arizona’s legislature plans on saving from having to pay their just dues. Like I said, Immigrants and particularly Mexicans rate pretty low on the totem pole of humanity here in Arizona. So according to ex deputy Sheriff Barnett who is part of the Mexican hunting duo, they are just animals. I mean, we shoot animals for their hide and their meat and sometimes for sport right?

Well according to district 10 Republican Jim Weiers this guy should be let off the hook and he tends to see that justice is done Arizona legislature style. According to Weiers the bill will prohibit any “illegal Immigrant” from being awarded punitive damages. Oh, one more twist, the bill will be retroactive to January of 2004 which will take it back to the date before Barnett’s abuse of the Immigrants and will effectively nullify the appellate Courts decision and alleviate Barnett of the judgment currently owed and awarded to the Immigrants for the abuse they suffered while in his custody.

By the way, Arizona State Rep. James Weiers decided to tack this on as an amendment to HB2191 a cosmetology bill. Talk about burying the truth!

Arizona’s 50th legislative session is clearly out of control. What’s next I ask you? Will we being seeing a bill requiring those of Mexican descent to be tattooed with an M and a number? Let’s see where have I seen that before?

When I received the copy of David Lujan’s email to Arizona State Democratic legislators I wasn’t at all surprised. After all this is the same guy who was absent on the vote against SB1070. Just imagine, what a shame. David Lujan at the time was the house minority leader and a minority to boot. Another state legislator claiming to be pro-Immigrant, but absent when it was time to contest SB1070. If my memory serves me correct Lujan became a Democrat in 2002 and always championed himself as an advocate for education and children. I don’t doubt that Lujan may have accomplished some good deeds in his life, but when it came down to supporting his brown brothers and sisters, he was nowhere to be found. At first he used the excuse that he didn’t know that SB1070 was coming up for a vote, then he claimed to have made prior arrangements to attend his parent’s anniversary party. In any event, Lujan did what any other self serving politician would do, he cut and ran. He didn’t run too far though, since he had a Democratic event to attend that evening and that was a must show since he was vying for the elected position of Attorney General of the State of Arizona.

In any event David Lujan seems to have slipped back into private life. The last time I saw him was a few weeks ago and I was standing there with video camera in hand as he walked out of the elevators at the Arizona State Senate building. He did an about face and turned beet red. I think he figured this was the showdown at the O.K. corral since I had to date, not cornered him face to face on the nolo contendere stance he took on the SB1070 vote, and given my reputation for being inquisitive of our Arizona politicians with camera in hand, he figured today was the day. However I had bigger fish to fry that day and as he finally turned to face the music with a sheepish smile he said “hi Carlos”, I smirked and with a Newman from The Seinfeld show’s voice I said “David”.

I thought to myself, “this guy will go back to just doing his thing and hopefully he won’t meddle in Arizona politics.” I couldn’t be more wrong! Lujan reared his ugly head once again today in the form of an email to Arizona’s Democratic Legislators asking that they support Kyrsten Sinema’s anti-Immigrant bill.

Here it is, read David Lujan’s email for yourself:

I am writing to ask for your support of SB1225, forgery, human smuggling; classification. For some reason, this bill has been labeled an anti-immigrant bill and nothing could be further from the truth. This bill was originally brought forward by then Attorney General Terry Goddard three years ago and increases the penalties for those who are convicted of the crime of forgery if that crime was committed in conjunction with acquiring property that is used as a drop house for human smuggling.

Consider two recent headlines from the Arizona Republic: “Phoenix Drop House Holds 11 Child Hostages” and “Smugglers Torture Immigrants in Phoenix Drop House.” SB1225 is written to go after the smugglers who are holding these people hostage and torturing them and put them behind bars for longer periods of time. SB1225 could not be used to convict the immigrants who are being smuggled. In that regard, even if you had an unscrupulous prosecutor or law enforcement officer that wanted to somehow misinterpret laws to go after immigrants, SB1225 would not be a tool they would want to use for that purpose because it requires them to prove additional facts to the judge or jury in order to get the higher penalty for forgery, and frankly, any law enforcement officer who was trying to go after immigrants would be just as satisfied with a class 4 felony as they would a class 3 felony because their objective is to deport the person not put them behind bars for longer periods of time. There would be no need for them to prove the extra definition of “drop house” created by this bill just so they could get a class 3 felony instead of a class 4 felony.

Take for example an immigrant who rents a home for his family using a forged document. Without SB1225, law enforcement could decide to go after this individual and charge him with forgery. They could do that today, because forgery is already a crime. If convicted, that person would be guilty of a class 4 felony. For law enforcement whose intent it is to deport that immigrant, they have no reason to take the extra steps of proving the additional facts required in SB1225 just so they can get that person’s conviction raised to a class 3 felony – and that is all that SB1225 does.

So in what situations would SB1225 be useful then? When would we want to get the higher level of felony in order to put someone behind bars longer? In those situations where we have the opportunity to convict the ring leaders of these smuggling operations that are torturing immigrants and holding them hostage. The longer we can put those people behind bars, the safer we will all be including their immigrant victims.

That is the reason Terry Goddard brought this bill forward three years ago, it is the reason that myself and a number of other Democrats have joined Kyrsten in sponsoring this legislation for the last three years, and it is the reason I still support this bill today. I hope that you will support SB1225 as well.

Thank you!

David Lujan

The gall of this guy. Everyone and their mother knows David Lujan’s legacy was his NV on the Arizona State Legislature’s score board and he has the nerve to once again stick his Democratic sunscreen coated Republican nose in Arizona politics. Oh, and it had to be with an issue as sensitive as Sinema’s SB1225.

Well one thing’s for sure, this has turned into another polarizing bill. Unfortunately Sinema’s bill doesn’t polarize Pro-Immigrant and Anti-Immigrant Arizonans alone, this bill will certainly drive a wedge between the Latino community and between the Democratic community.

Well you know what they say, divide and conquer. Sinema’s opportunist personality seems to have fallen perfectly in line for the Republicans.

The old Russian proverb suits Republican Senator Russell Pearce and Democratic Senator Kyrsten Sinema well. “A fisherman can see another fisherman from afar.”

When I saw Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s tweet the other night I wasn’t surprised that I didn’t see a lot of reaction from the pro-Immigrant Latino leaders. Perhaps it wasn’t sanctioned by their head honchos. It seems that what little the Latino pseudo leaders do nowadays, takes forever, because they have to approve “the action” first. Sounds ridiculous to me! Especially when you see a tweet from Joe Arpaio that reads like this one. “We signed up a total of 137 inmates including 15 illegal aliens who wanted to donate their organs.”

So Joe has been hell bent on nabbing “illegals” in his racial profile raids for processing and ultimate deportation. He loves to crunch numbers. As he’s conducting his operations he’s reporting play by play action. Of course he isn’t as damaging as the Phoenix Police is with their constant harassment of brown drivers which in many cases leads not only to a confiscation of their vehicle for not having a driver’s license but in most cases leads to an arrest and a ride to Joe’s jail where with his 287g certification he is authorized to check their legal status which ultimately leads to deportation, of course, not without a lengthy stop at the private prison operated by Corrections Corporation of America for some billable incarceration time to the Feds.

Arpaio get’s hot under the collar when someone tries to lessen his operations as being less damning than that of other police agencies. He outright defends his notoriety as the world’s toughest Sheriff, and he wants the world to know he’s responsible for the most amount of deportations in Arizona.

Well it appears now Sheriff Joe wants to apply a different philosophy to the deportation process. Get out, but leave your organs behind. When you start truly analyzing the hypocrisy of these anti-Immigrant politicians it’s just downright amazing. Imagine how ludicrous that is. To focus solely on the deportation of these unwanted “illegals”, yet to crave their innards for use by U.S. Citizens. It’s truly outrageous!

If, an when, Jan Brewer stops denying dying Arizonans a transplant, these “illegal” innards could very well go to an Immigrant hating U.S. citizen. Hell he could even be a Tea Bagger for all we know.

We shouldn’t be surprised at the hypocrisy from Arizona’s Rethuglicans. While Jan Brewer denied transplants to Arizonans on their deathbed, she transplanted rose bushes from the front of the capitol building to the back lawn where she held her swearing in ceremony, and while Sheriff Joe Arpaio arrests and detains Arizona’s dishwashers and landscapers for ultimate deportation he asks them to leave their illegal internal organs behind. What’s next Arizona?

One thing is for sure Sheriff Joe has got to go!

Carlos E. Galindo is a radio talk show host & political analyst conducting radio shows in both English and Spanish on four radio stations in Arizona. Mr. Galindo is a weekly contributor to KPFK 98.7 FM Los Angeles and has appeared on CNN, Univision and Telemundo as a political analyst. Mr. Galindo is also an Op-Ed columnist on Prensa Hispana Arizona. www.nospinonair.com/www.carlosgalindo.com

When Esther called my “Straight Talk Tucson” show this past Friday, I quickly understood that her and I didn’t see eye to eye on the subject of the 14th amendment and Arizona’s attempt to create legislation that will ultimately be challenged all the bloody way to the the U.S. Supreme Court. I’m okay with people not agreeing with me, honest! I know, I know, as a radio talk show host I tend to be loudmouthed and opinionated, but that in no way demerits my arguments. I have always told my radio listeners and my critics, you may not like my delivery method, but you can’t argue with reason.

Let’s get something straight here, I don’t jump on board an issue defined solely by its left or right slant. I take up an issue based on whether it’s the right thing to do, in other words, whether it’s morally correct and whether it’s good for my state and for my country. Arizona’s attempt to supersede our Federal laws has been evident for a long time. You and I know that. It has increased exponentially since a merry band of misfits took office. It appears the Republicans in Arizona were not happy with just operating as a dictatorship for the last 43 years here in our great state. At one point they became so cocky that whether by design or just following each others lead, they started a concerted effort to repudiate Federal laws and the nation’s civil rights provisions. It didn’t matter if the law said you couldn’t do that, as far as Arizona was and is concerned, they are the law. That was evident when Russell Pearce was interviewed regarding the posted A.R.S. statute that prohibits weapons in the senate chambers at our state capitol. He quickly invoked his right to supersede Arizona’s criminal code while sitting as the Supreme leader of Arizona’s senate. Russell Pearce stated, “The Senate President, just like the Speaker of the House, by constitution, controls, through rule, this chamber,” “and, uh, so uh, again, and I recognize that. It supersedes the law.” If you don’t find that attitude scary and disturbing, then perhaps you might consider moving to North Korea they have a guy a lot like Pearce.

So Pearce, Brewer, Montenegro, Kavanagh, Harper, Gould, and every other Republican that wants to jump on the anti-Immigrant bandwagon throw out words like anchor baby, and illegals and talk about an invasion. It’s no wonder Esther my caller gets hyped up and finds the use of offensive terminology like “anchor baby” acceptable. I would like to know at what time in history it become okay to call Immigrants “wetbacks”, “cockroaches, “illegals” and their U.S. born children “anchor babies”. If you can’t use the “N” word for blacks, the “K” word for Jews, the “S” word for Italians. Well you get the drift. Why would it be acceptable to demean Immigrants, primarily Mexicans in 2011 Arizona? Has Arizona sunk so low that Esther and Arizonans like her, toss offensive words around as part of their normal dialog? I can just imagine what kind of word bantering occurs behind the closed doors of these like minded terror induced brainwashed Arizonans. I would love to be a fly on their wall, with a tiny recorder of course.

One can only wonder what type of violence all this hateful language could invoke. I mean you could end up with a white neighbor coming over to a Latino neighbor’s front yard and start an argument over one of Arizona’s laws like SB1070 and it could escalate to the point where the white neighbor could start using foul words like “wetback” and “go back to Mexico” and eventually he could pull out a gun and kill the Latino neighbor. After all, the use of these type of words desensitizes people. These type of words make you hate and want to kill. Oh wait, that already happened on May 6, 2010 when Gary Thomas Kelley killed Juan Varela. How many more arguments leading to violence can we expect because of irresponsible rhetoric and panic inducing misinformation coupled with misdirected legislation that targets a certain sector of Arizona? The Latinos!

This hateful rhetoric has got to stop and it’s got to stop now! As far as I’m concerned anytime I hear someone use this type of language I’m going to call them out on it, or in the case of Esther the “anchor baby” lady, I’m going to dump the call and flush it. What will you do the next time you hear that kind of rhetoric?

Carlos E. Galindo is a radio talk show host & political analyst conducting radio shows in both English and Spanish on four radio stations in Arizona. Mr. Galindo is a weekly contributor to KPFK 98.7 FM Los Angeles and has appeared on CNN, Univision and Telemundo as a political analyst. Mr. Galindo is also an Op-Ed columnist on Prensa Hispana Arizona. www.nospinonair.com/www.carlosgalindo.com

Here we are 2 years and counting into the Obama administration and the minute the Rethuglicans get there chance to gain some power after Bush’s catastrophic administration, the arrogance begins to show. It’s only been a few months since the right has taken the house after gaining support from the bowl of granola (fruits, nuts and flakes) calling themselves the Tea Party. They’re already settling into that arrogant comfort that the Bush administration was so good at displaying. I mean the right is just giddy about the way they’re able to manipulate the Democra-apathetic party and the rest of the country. Bush and Cheney were so full of themselves when they were in power that they resorted to arrogant one and two word responses to questions from reporters or their constituents. The way they saw it, they were untouchable.

I found this nugget on point written in December of 2008 in the Huffington post:

The interviewer asks Bush about Iraq and his legacy and what he thinks it all means. Bush listens to the question with a very happy smile on his face, and says he had to keep the country safe, then quickly gets to:

One of the major theaters against al Qaeda turns out to have been Iraq. This is where al Qaeda said they were going to take their stand. This is where al Qaeda was hoping to take…

But the interviewer interrupts him with “But not until after the U.S. invaded.”

Bush looks disoriented by the question, blinks his eyes repeatedly, semi-stammers and says vaguely,

Yeah… that’s right. So what?

“So what?” Wow. Great answer, huh?

And then in a clip from an interview with our usually invisible vice-president, Cheney is asked about Iraq, and is confronted with the fact that 2/3s of the country have concluded that the war in Iraq was not worth doing. Cheney’s answer:

So?

Bush: So what? Cheney: So?

Here are the links to see for yourself: Bush and “So what?” Cheney and “So?”:

Well it’s obvious that House Speaker John Boehner (pronounced baner not boner) pulled a page out of George Bush’s book. Why give your constituents answers when you can blow them off and tell them to go to hell with a few words. Well it looks like the Republicans might actually be working their way to complete sentences. Cheney was “So?”, Bush was “So what?” and now Speaker Boehner demonstrates his linguistic skills by muttering three words “So be it!”.

Listen, this isn’t just about the arrogance, the abuse of power, the lack of transparency and the failure to take responsibility for poor decisions. We’re talking about responses given to questions that deal with important issues. In the case of both Bush and Cheney it had to do with the fact that the Iraq war was a failed and deceptive war and was launched on false fears after selling Americans a false bill of goods. In Boehner’s case we are talking about a question directed to Boehner about the loss of a million jobs. A million Federal jobs. His response reflects an attitude of “I don’t give a damn”.

Speaker Boehner cried and sobbed during interviews. He cried about how hard he worked to get to where he’s at, how he mopped his daddy’s tavern and worked his way up to Speaker of the House of these great United States. The problem is, now that Speaker Boehner has made it to the top he’s forgotten about the average worker like those millions that will lose their jobs because of his political ideology.

I sure as hell hope the voters remember those words in 2012 when these arrogant Republicans ask for their vote. When Boehner and the rest of the klan say, “I was just trying to do my job”, make sure you say “so”, when he says “I want another chance to show you I can do better”, say, “so what” and when he says, If you don’t vote for me and the rest of my compadres we will lose the house again and I won’t be speaker of the house” “boo hoo”, make sure you say, “so be it”.

As I watched Senator Kyrsten Sinema on Sunday Square Off this morning I quickly put on my rubber boots and prepared to listen to this supposed round table debate between A Republican, Rep. John Kavanagh (R) District 8 and Kyrsten Sinema (D?) district 15. Chip Scutari of Scutari & Cieslak a public relations firm sat in the physical middle, but as is customary with Sunday Square Off the guy sitting in the middle always leans right ideologically.

The first issue to come up was the counterclaim filed this last week by the state of Arizona in which the Governor & her Puppet ex Superintendent of Public Education and now State Attorney General Tom Horne named the federal government as counter-Defendants in the original claim filed by the feds against Arizona and it’s anti-Immigrant legislation titled SB1070. As I watched Kavanagh verbalize his support for the counter claim with his never diminishing New York twang, I couldn’t help but remember the several run ins he and I have had in which he has stood his ground on the issues he supports. Failed ideology and all, Kavanagh will not deviate from his anti-Immigrant stance. I’m certain Kavanagh, a retired New York Port Authority cop from Queens arrived to Arizona with a frustration pent up from not being able to openly attack Immigrants in New York (spoken with an accent), and decided he would use Arizona’s Immigrant population as his whipping boy. Kavanagh makes no bones about being a staunch supporter of any law focused on attacking Arizona’s Immigrant population.

On the other hand as I watched Kyrsten Sinema once known as a staunch supporter of Immigrant rights and defender of the underdog, I couldn’t help but notice how she carefully crafts her words to make sure she doesn’t deviate to far to the left, lest she alienate some potential Republican voters. Hell, Sinema is just now working on wooing the right to her corner with bills like her very own sponsored SB1225. Her anti-Immigrant legislation helps Sinema start to change her über liberal image and slowly peel off some of that Democratic clothing in a slow and revealing political strip tease. It may be sexy and alluring to the right but it certainly has some on the left and most in the pro-Immigrant corner in an uproar. This newly revealed Sinema clearly displays her political opportunism and her desire to do whatever it takes to get the ultimate prize. She has her sights set on the big picture and she isn’t going to allow her traditional stance on Immigration and liberal issues get in the way of her political achievements.

As the debate shifted on Sunday Square Off to the 14th amendment and the Republicans efforts to change the birthright citizenship aspect of the amendment at a state level, I watched Sinema argue that the legislation had no legal merit and that some people think it’s just bad for business. Having a legal mind I can fully understand arguing something from a purely technical aspect as to whether or not this type of legislation or any lawsuit that it may invoke has legal merit or would ultimately have the potential of prevailing in our highest courts, but that’s not the Sinema of yesteryear. At no time did Sinema bring up the humanitarian or the mean spirited aspect of the bill, nor did she point out the fact, that this, Arizona’s 50th legislative session is saturated with anti-Immigrant bills that clearly serve just one purpose, that is to pursue those low skilled laborers that Arizona’s businesses so desperately need to stay in business and to at least allow Arizona’s economy to churn at a snail’s pace as it has since Arizona’s focus shifted to Immigrant hating.

As I rewound the Sunday Square Off recording time and time again in order to make sure I was properly analyzing what I was interpreting as three Republicans slightly deviating from a common point of view, I heard Sinema end the show by stating “Actually, I love Russell, we get along very well, not always on policy matters, but on personal matters we do.” Sinema was referring to self proclaimed Senate Tea Party President Russell Pearce. Wow! Kyrsten Sinema loves Russell Pearce!

Look, let me clarify, I’m well aware that attorney and legislators of which Sinema is one and the same, often take up the roles of Wolf & Sheepdog also known as Ralph E. Wolf and Sam Sheepdog. If you’re as old as I am you’ll remember the cartoon series based on “Don’t give up the sheep”, ironically named and appropriately coined while we’re referring to Sinema. In the cartoon Ralph E. Wolf and Sam Sheepdog clock in every morning, say their hellos, and chase each other around, beating each other up, and at the end of the day they clock out saying their goodbyes and wishing the other well.

However when we are talking about 2011 Arizona you would not expect to see and hear the supposed lead defender of Immigrant and gay rights and highest profile “liberal” swapping saliva with the most high profile anti-immigrant nazi-hugging nativist Republican in Arizona.

Well, one thing is for sure, I sure hope Sinema hurries up and finishes that political strip tease. Anyway, some of us know what’s underneath, and it ain’t pretty!

Carlos E. Galindo is a radio talk show host & political analyst conducting radio shows in both English and Spanish on four radio stations in Arizona. Mr. Galindo is a weekly contributor to KPFK 98.7 FM Los Angeles and has appeared on CNN, Univision and Telemundo as a political analyst. Mr. Galindo is also an Op-Ed columnist on Prensa Hispana Arizona. www.nospinonair.com/www.carlosgalindo.com

When I left to go to the press conference at the Sandra Day O’Connor United States Courthouse I had no idea I would get assaulted by Russell Pearce the self proclaimed Senate Tea Party President. I was equally unaware that Jan Brewer would be so cynical about the murder of two Latinos.

I asked Brewer why she had never mentioned nine year old Brisenia Flores allegedly murdered by members of a minutemen organization and Juan Varela a fifth generation American of Mexican descent allegedly killed by Gary Thomas Kelley after shouting racial slurs like “go back to Mexico wetback” and “your going to die today wetback”. I reminded Brewer that when someone tragically stole the life of Rancher Robert Krentz she stood up proudly and demanded justice.

Our governor’s response was nothing short of insensitive and out of touch with reality. She is so focused on her anti-Immigrant agenda that she completely ignored the question. She stared at me and looked away. Maybe she thought I was an “illegal” and therefore did not rate in her Anglo Saxon world. After all I am a Mexican Immigrant. I recall a reporter asking Brewer in April of 2010 whether she knew what an illegal looked like and after stuttering for a few seconds she admitted she didn’t know what an illegal looked like.

After I asked the question Brewer simply turned away from me and directed herself to Howie Fischer a State Capitol Bureau Correspondent and Anglo Saxon. That was certainly a mistake for Brewer,  he rephrased the same question I had asked and she was forced to give a response.

Brewer was quick to deny that this a one sided battle and further stated that we had to stop the cartels from coming over and killing people. She said the Feds were responsible for protecting our public safety, health and welfare.

It’s hard to understand Arizona’s spin masters, they want to secede from the United States, yet they want the feds to take care of them.

In the end Brewer did what Brewer does best, she spun the story, blamed it on illegals and the feds, and went on to hurriedly take more questions because her nose was growing by the second.

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