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Important documentary regarding the racist laws approved by the Prince Williams county board in Virginia.

According to the filmmakers Annabel Park and Eric Byler who have posted the videos in their YouTube channel:

This channel is an “Interactive Documentary” about the politicization of the immigration issue, currently being shot in Northern Virginia…

Because of the timliness of the immigration issue, we decided to create this real-time, interactive documentary page — breaking with the usual documentary post production method that delays public feedback for months and months. We hope our YouTube videos can help alleviate the bitter fight in Prince William County and promote greater understanding and empathy.

According to Rudy Giuliani, if he becomes president he will work to legalize the immigration status of all undocumented workers currently in the country.

In response to a question by Richard Pope, 75, about the 12 million illegal immigrants already here, Giuliani said, “I would say come forward, get your … tamper-proof ID card, get photographed and fingerprinted, and we will check you out.”

He added, “If you want to work, pay your fair share and we’ll sign you up. People who don’t sign up we will find and throw out of the country.”

Giuliani also said those workers who came here illegally but who qualified for the ID card could eventually become eligible for citizenship.

“If they ever wanted to become citizens, I would say they would have to pay a fine so it’s not amnesty,” Giuliani said. “Also they have to get at the back of the line, not get ahead of anybody else.”

Wow! This sounds as a pretty reasonable first step, although I would love to see the fine print.

Too bad there are a few small problems: his position is pretty much unacceptable to the rest of his party, you can never tell how long he will take to flip-flop, and unfortunately the remaining 90% of his program stinks. Otherwise, I think he is the perfect candidate.

A number of Latino organizations and others in Arizona have united to set up a network of hotlines for people to report bigots engaged in racial profiling.

This is in response to the much criticized Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s hotline, launched last month, that encourages people to report information on undocumented immigrants.

As if you could tell who is undocumented and who is not by simply looking at their faces. Oh! wait…… You actually can….! The undocumented ones must be the “browns”……at least in the minds of the bigots.

“We need this hotline taken down,” said Rep. Steve Gallardo, a Phoenix Democrat. “This hotline is solely set up for racial profiling. . . . We need Sheriff Joe Arpaio to do his job in enforcing the laws without using race as the sole purpose of trying to determine if someone is here illegally.”

Agreed!