Border vigilantes threaten the life of Arizona

[refuse_resist]

Border vigilantes threaten the life of Arizona legislator

by
Ernesto Cienfuegos
La Voz de Aztlan

Los Angeles, Alta California - January 25, 2007 - (ACN) The Arizona state representative who introduced HB 2286, a bill that would make it a felony to conduct vigilante operations along the US/Mexico border while armed, has received death threats through e-mail. Lawmaker Kyrsten Sinema told Phoenix news reporter Claudia Rivero that many of the e-mails are signed by people who claim to be members of the Minutemen vigilantes.

Ms. Kyrsten Sinema said that she has received hundreds of e-mails in just the last 48 hours. The legislator added, "One person in Arizona threatened to kick me in the uterus so that I would no longer have the ability to bare children." She forwarded the threatening e-mails to the FBI and the Arizona Department of Public Safety.

The above behavior is very typical of these hateful bigots. In California both Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villargairosa and State Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante received similar death threats during and soon after the large pro-immigrant marches that took place in Southern California last year. These same type of bigots also threaten to "bomb" an elementary school that serves children of Mexican descent in El Sereno, California.

California needs a law similar to the one which HB 2286 proposes to implement in Arizona. The state has experienced a number of incidents in which armed vigilantes terrorised Mexican migrants along the border. One of these incidents is reported at http://la.indymedia.org/news/2005/07/133863.php There is presently a lobbying effort to have state Senator Gloria Romero sponsor such a bill. Also, the Hispanic Congressional Caucus is contemplating federal legislation that would make any kind of anti-Mexican border vigilantism a fedral "hate crime".

http://aztlan.net/arizona_legislator_threaten.htm

[Mikhail Frunze]

How exactly does the global proletariat benefit from the import of cheap labour? The labor union movement throughout much of its history in America has started and strongly supported legislative initiatives to restrict immigration. The only positive aspect I can see about immigration is that it has the potential to revolutionize the proletariat due to stagnant wages and rising costs.

Immigration from Latin America is pushed by some petit-bourgeois ethnocentric groups composed of mestizos that are racist against Mexico's indigenous people. Immigration is also pushed by corporations eager for cheap labor. The only rational argument in favour of immigration is that it can help to strengthen the proletarian movement. But immigration can also have the effect of provoking right-wing fascist movements by polarizing immigrants and natives. Immigration and multiculturalism have at times sparked nationalist sectarianism. In Spain, for example, there was virtually no support for fascism after the transition to bourgeois democracy. But due to increased immigartion it has been reported that right-wing sentiments have increased:

Last weekend's brawl between Spanish youths and Latin American immigrants in a blue-collar suburb of this capital has authorities worried about a possible surge of xenophobia against the country's burgeoning foreign-born population.
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-spa-fears-o.../22/2267615.htm (http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-spa-fears-outbreak-xenophobia-after-brawl-involving-migrants-/2007/01/22/2267615.htm)

[Janus]

The border debate is definitely getting more heated and controversial.

Ariz. border encounter gets political (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070128/ap_on_re_us/border_threat;_ylt=Aj3u_OGqm3.icu9Kb6gkve9vzwcF;_y lu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--)

As more and more border incidents occur, the strength of the anti-immigration hardliners is going to increase as more and more people rally to their cause.