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Arizona hides her bankruptcy behind racism

Vicky Peláez

29/04/2010

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"We have learned to fly like birds, to swim like fish; but we have not learned the art of living together like brothers"

Martin Luther King

The history of the development of capitalism shows that xenophobia and racism have always been used by unscrupulous politicians in the recurrent cycles of economic crisis, as scapegoats for the discontent and the rage of the majority of the people. To hide the true causes of the financial and economic difficulties, they look to minority groups, pointing at them as the cause of the problems that afflict the nation. This happened in the United States with the Irish, Italian and Jewish immigrants. In this cycle of economic downturn, now it is the turn of the Spanish speaking to be the scapegoats for the financial calamities. In Europe, Sudacas, Afrikans, Moslems and other ethnic minorities are persecuted. They are charged with economic bankruptcies, while the bankers and money lenders -- the true perpetrators of the global crisis continue with their frauds, creating new financial pyramids, ever more sophisticated, increasing their own earnings and causing poverty for the majority of the population.

Here in the United States, one of the poorest states, Arizona, with six million inhabitants, located on the Mexican border, by the will of the Republicans and with the consent of 70% of her inhabitants, was turned into the first police State, when her Governor, Jan Brewer, signed into law SB-1070, that criminalizes some 460,000 undocumented inhabitants. This law, that allows the police to use racial profiling to detain anyone for whom the police have "reasonable suspicions" that they are illegal, also turns Arizona into the first laboratory for the new political and socioeconomic order that the globalizers dream of bringing to the United States, under any pretext, be it terrorism or illegal immigration.

Arizona is bankrupt, with a budget deficit of almost three thousand million dollars, and with an unemployment index of about 20%. The state parks are closed, several government buildings are for sale and businesses are in bad shape. With the new law, lauded by neo-Nazi organizations and the 540 popular militia groups, houses are being emptied, due to the exodus of the immigrants, both undocumented and legal, for fear of police persecution and racial discrimination. Bill Davis, organizer of local militias, is recruiting, via television, war veterans with “experience in killing” to "hunt illegals.”

These racists do not want to accept the fact that in this State, a third of the population are Hispanic immigrants, who comprise the motor of the State's economy, bringing to Arizona 44 thousand million dollars, of which 29 thousand million are generated by 280,000 full time and 80,000 part time undocumented workers, including 1.5 thousand million dollars in taxes. To lose this labor force would be irrational for a State that is bankrupt, and which lacks the resources to apply this, her unconstitutional and criminal law.

The Hispanic community should give them a good lesson; removing their businesses, making them harvest their own crops in 100 degree weather, and forcing them to create and fill all the hard and poorly remunerated jobs. In a short time, Arizona will be a phantom State.

- sent by, Nicaragua Socialista. Free translation from the Spanish done at REFUGIO DEL RIO GRANDE, Texas, EE.UU.

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