Thursday, July 29, 2010

Video: Where are your papers?



Local actors stage a street performance to poke fun and raise questions about Arizona’s controversial new immigration law.

If you’re walking past Trade and Tryon Streets today between noon and 1 p.m., you may be asked for your "papers" by a small group of actors. The local troupe, led by screenwriter Glenn Hutchinson, plans to use some subtle guerrilla tactics to get the lunch crowd's attention.

“We don’t want to be to confrontational,” Hutchinson said. “But hopefully that will stop someone to say what are you talking about.”

Hutchinson says the play dramatizes how Arizona’s SB 1070 could lead to racial profiling and violate the Bill of Rights. Local actors include Cecilia Becerra, Javier Gonzalez, Nuri Antomarchy, Patrick Mawn, Sarah Provencal, Cindy Kistenberg, and Holly Howell.

A federal judge took a large swipe at the law yesterday when she blocked two of the most controversial sections. U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton's injunction affects a requirement that police determine the immigration status of people they stop and think are in the country illegally. She also forbade the state from charging anyone with failure to possess immigration documents, a crime under the new law.

Hutchinson said yesterday afternoon that he was “happy to be under the stress to rewrite the play,” but added that the struggle for immigrant rights is far from over. The Arizona governor and supporters of the law expressed confidence that the law would be upheld under appeal.

An uptown rally opposing the Arizona law is still scheduled for tonight at 6:30 in Marshall Park.

20 comments:

Harriet said...

I'm a republican, I don't want illegals(mexicans) in my freakin country. I'm sick of minorities!!!!! What happened to the old south.

Anonymous said...

OBAMA! "ALWAYS THE TYRANT"? NO PRESIDENT SINCE LINCOLN HAS PROVEN TO BE A TRUE TYRANT LIKE THE MORON IN THE WHITE HOUSE. NO PRESIDENT HAS DONE MORE TO UNDERMINE THE VERY CONSTITUTION HE SWORE TO UPHOLD. THIS MARXIST USES TAXPAYER MONEY TO FURTHER HIS RADICAL LEFT-WING AGENDA, AND THE COUNTRY HAS NEVER HAD A MORE "POWER HUNGRY" TYRANT THEN OBAMA! HMMM! MAYBE LINCOLN!

Anonymous said...

anon 1108, rant on. Your statement contains no facts, only right wing talking points. Any fool could do that.

barkomomma said...

Jeez what a lame arguement.

If you get stopped by a cop, the first thing they ask for is "license and registration."

If you start into a nightclub, you get carded.

If you buy beer at a grocery store, you get carded.

Heck, if I'm going out for a run, I take my license so if something were to happen, I could be IDENTIFIED.

It ain't a problem if you ain't done nothing wrong.

Anonymous said...

Can one of you liberals out their please explain, if "illegal immigrants" are a plus for the economy, why the hell is Califoria which has more illegals then any other state have a 30 billion dollar deficit?

Anonymous said...

Tell us how you really feel, Harriet.

Dale Johnson said...

Picked up my repaired iMac and the clerk required that I show her the original printed paperwork I was given when dropping off the unit for repair, and required that I show a picture ID, my drivers license, before she'd get my iMac and release it to me. And I had to pay my $250 service charge, of course.

Apple has greater security for serviced items than GOVCO has for illegal entry into the US.

Wonderful.

DJ

Anonymous said...

I am a LEGAL immigrant. When you receive your green card in the mail, the letter states to keep said card with you at all times for identification. It's normal!

I understand some of the reasons for the illegals wanting to live here but I paid a lot of money and spent a lot of time to do things the legal way. Perhaps it would cost us a little less if there weren't so many illegals.

Dale Johnson said...

If asked "Where are your papers?" I'd answer:

Auto/Tag registration--in glove box
Proof of insurance--in glove box
Boat registration--in boat glove box
Trailer registration--in boat glove box
Drivers license--in wallet
BCBS insurance card--in wallet
Library card--in wallet
Sam's membership card--in wallet
Birth certificate--in firebox safe at home

All papers I have to offer if requested by others--why should immigrants not have to carry identification, expect not to have to carry. Why should SOP not extend to them? Because it would make it too easy to identify the illegals, not because they are being treated differently than any other American.....

Anonymous said...

California has ten of the telwve cities with 15% unemployment. The gov. has declared a fiscal emergency. California is what America will soon look like, from sea to shining sea! What California really needs is S.B. 1070 ungutted! A real sheriff like Joe Arpaio wouldn't hurt.

Anonymous said...

I always have my passport when I visit a foreign country.

If they say to keep it with you at all times, then I do that.

I used to keep my draft card on me at all times, too, during the Vietnam war.

Because I was at the right age and sex to be "profiled" as a "draft dodger" and the law required that I keep the card with me to prove my status.

Anonymous said...

I'm a democrat, I don't want illegals(mexicans) in my freakin country. I'm sick of minorities!!!!! What happened to the old south.

Anonymous said...

I'm glad they didn't ask me where my papers were. Miss Liberty would have been knocked on her liberty blue butt! I'm sooooo sick of liberals and their pushy ways. Illegal is illegal. Every American has to carry ID. I'm totally in favor of the Arizona law.

Anonymous said...

CAN ANYONE BELEIVE IT? ANTONIO VILLRAIGOSA, THE MAYOR OF THAT SCUMMY LOS ANGELES IS GIVING ADVICE
TO ARIZONA. THE LAST TIME THAT LEFT-WINGER KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING WAS WHEN HE POKED THAT T.V. HOG!
HEY ANTONIO! FROM BELL CITY ,CA. TO LA. AND OAKLAND, YOU GET THE GOV. YOU DESERVE, SCUMBAG!

David I said...

That video is so absurd. They talk about the Bill of Rights yet fail to realize the Bill of Rights is only applicable to citizens of the United States. If you're an illegal immigrant it doesn't apply to you. Neither does the UNITED STATES Constitution, the UNITED STATES Declaration of Independence, or any other law that is designed for UNITED STATES citizens. This isn't the Canadian Bill of Rights, nor the Mexican Bill of Rights, nor the Russian Bill of Rights, etc... Illegal immigrants have NO rights in this country. Why? Because they are illegal. Lady Liberty is and has always been open to all immigrants who want to come here LEGALLY. She doesn't service criminals.

NC needs to draft a bill similar to AZ's SB 1070. The Federal Gov't states immigration law is their area, but since they have chosen for numerous years now not to enforce it the States must. No other country in the world would allow this to happen. I've traveled to several countries across the globe and every single one of them have required all non-citizens to carry their passport, visa, etc. with them at all times. The people who try to compare this to Nazi Germany are too simple minded to even realize they are comparing apples to rocks. (It's not even close enough to use apples to oranges since it is not even remotely similar)

Anonymous said...

Maybe someone in the pro illegal alien camp should start yapping about why we should allow illegals to continue to break the law.


Seriously Franco....what good does it serve this country to advocate a particular group of people who intentionally break specific a law.

There is a front door and a back door...

Explain to this simpleton why you promote the breaking of our immigration laws when there is a legal way to achieve their goals....

As far as laws are concerned there is no difference between ignoring people who drive around drunk, and ignoring illegal border crossers.

Anonymous said...

Whites are sick of all these damn racial profiling racist white cops out there discriminating against legal white citizens with their license checks or breath checks for alcohol, making you walk the line or touch your nose or recite the alphabet etc ...

Whites even card whites when trying to buy alcohol in the stores or at the ABC stores. Racism.

How about whites getting pulled over by white cops for speeding or stop sign, traffic light violations? They demand your license and give you a lot of hell and grief.

White cops are always racially profiling white citizens for anything. At concerts they watch you like hawk. At schools, airports, etc.

Whites are sick of this racism and racial profiling of whites by whites. Damn it.

Can Obama help whites? He is half white anyway. Or AG Holder? Or any of their Fed judges they have in their pockets?

look at the stats. 99% of all tickets are to whites by white cops. Thats clear racism and raical profiling.

And dont try to say whites are guilty ...

Anonymous said...

BIG NEWS FROM PHOENIX! THE SCUMMY TRASH FROM BANKRUPT L.A. CAME TO PHOENIX. THEY WAVED THEIR MEXICAN FLAGS, THEY ALSO WAVED THE FLAG WITH THAT MARXIST MURDERER "CHE GUEVARA". S.B.1070 GOT "GUTTED" , THE OBAMA BOYS HAD THE FIX IN. SHERIFF JOE ARPAIO TOOK CARE OF THE DRUNKEN TROUBLE MAKERS, THEY WERE ARRESTED. THEY LEFT THE PLACE "LITTERED" TO THE MAX. THESE SAVAGES WILL NEVER BE GOOD ENOUGH TO BE ANYTHING BUT "MEXICAN TRASH",AMERICA DON'T WANT THEM, AND NEITHER DOES MEXXXICO!

Anonymous said...

Wow what a large amount of blissful people, ignorance is bliss!
Everyone that enters the US, illegal or not still has basic rights, check your law books people. It's about being human not legal.

Anonymous said...

Blissful ignorance?

Muslim terrorists have basic rights in America? Mexican drug dealers? Mexican drug war killers? Illegal criminals have basic rights?

In Mexico the cops kill immigrants and dump them since thats the law. They kill Americans too. Over 200 have been killed in the last few yrs and triple that have vanished.

Basic rights? Ignorant.