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Some of my New York friends are legal immigrants from Nigeria, and while they understand why many come here illegally, they are more frustrated by the fact that illegal immigrants are undermining their own legal efforts to become citizens.

I've always kind of seen it like, if I go into a convenience store and steal a candy bar, I'll probably get arrested. Because it's illegal. It doesn't matter if I'm hungry or not, if I'm black, white, or hispanic; it doesn't matter. I've done something illegal, and there are proper channels to go through to do what I did legally; like purchasing the candy bar at the counter.

I'm confused though, because the Dems around where I live tend to want the USA to be more like Europe; except on illegal immigration. (European countries don't much like people living in their country illegally either.)

To the Author, you write, "Kanye, The Coup and Chris Rock shouldn’t bear this burden alone."

What "burden" are you referring to? Skipping one lousy tour date? "Standing up" from thousands of miles away from the front lines?

Let's face it. The Sound Strike artists are risking close to nothing. The impact to the artists is very minimal. They may lose a few AZ fans...and money made at concerts in AZ (which can be made up in a different city)...but what are they truly "losing" or "sacrificing"?

Burden. What a joke. The AZ fans are the ones carrying the "burden".

This is a question of "borderless" politics, and one dismissed on its face. Borders constitute individual integrity, whether one's personal borders, those of home, discipline, town, village, or nation. All borders are subject to violation and overlap, but too much violation and the individual (person, nation, discipline) dies, and too much overlap, the identity is compromised or usurped. Illegal immigration is akin to rape and burglary, granting univited and unauthorized access to another's belongings or property. To the degree that it is evident in America, from the Latino community, it is a potentially lethal problem, that is played out in fatalities wrought by illegals who miscomprehend our home. They must abandon their humanity in order to escape detection, say when they hit someone with their car and must flee for having no license or papers. On the "racial" front, this massive (some say 20 million) invasion of illegals is generated by the white effort to renege on Civil Rights promises made to blacks, and these "minority" members take up space in employment and education, that our deprived ancestors fought for to grant their progeny. In history, Latino (Spanish and Portuguese) slave raiders were the vanguard force against Africa, and dominated the "trade" for quite a few decades, and I have yet to see any amends offered from them. Their relations with us, though, fell somewhat short of the inhumanity of the white supremacist, who gained the upper hand here in the U. S., and who has dominated the world economy and politics ever since, and so, they seem to be more on a par with our current concerns. But, being and claiming European heritage, the Latino also seems more appealing to the white supremacist, as a group to be exploited, and less familiar with - more victimable by - the tactics of oppression. It is alright to protest wrongs against others, but when wrongs against your own are unrelenting and evident, it does more harm than good. I'd encourage black artists to fund the rescue of our youth who are rising up in the ranks of the dead, injured, arrested, and uneducated about themselves and their own and their country's history, and about the general science of the world, and the general mechanics of society. To address the larger and specific problem of Latino illegal immigration, our national policies should more soundly address the difficulties of our neighboring countries. There is also a large element of the "La Raza" platform that states the American territory is land stolen from native cultures, and that the children of illegals, born as American citizens, is a way a staking that claim. Indeed, the Federal government should protect the national border, but failing, the duty falls to the involved states. This particular law, and the controversy around it, mystifies me, because I thought it was standard procedure that an arrest determines the proper identity, history, and jurisdictions involved with the person arrested.

I happen to be a black man that is SUPPORTING Arizona's immigration law. Want to read the details behind my support? Follow this link: http://bit.ly/aJocm2

I think that the selection of responses to the poll question are very narrow and designed to shape a certain viewpoint. I actually support the bill, but not because I think Latinos are racist towards Blacks. I support the bill because many illegal immigrants, primarily Latinos, are sneaking across Arizona's border, which is against the law, and the federal government has not been enforcing the current immigration laws that are on the books nor has it been supportive of states that try to curtail illegal border-crossing. So, I think that a state is within its rights to develop rules that basically force the government to enforce the existing immigration laws. Both the Republicans and Democrats in Congress and the White House are hestitant to do anything about illegal immigration because they don't want to lose the Hispanic vote. I don't think turning a blind eye to the millions of Latinos that illegally cross the border is fair to the many immigrants that actually go through the proper channels to be in this country. Why is it okay to blatantly break immigration laws, but not okay to break other laws? I wasn't aware that I could pick and choose the federal laws that I want to disregard (such as, paying my taxes), but my bad, I guess only illegal immigrants have that privilige.