Still Holding Strong!

The blog I read was, Curious Cat's Guide to Texas Poltics by Rob Catledge. Rob wrote the same article I did for blog 7 but we both had different view points. Rob didn’t voice much opinion about Arizona’s new law he focused more on that Austin should be more focused on Austin itself and not about other states. He did say though that we should just sit back and see what really happens with the law and not be quick to judge Arizona. He also said Rasmussen poll showed that 70% of Arizona voters favor the new law. This shows me he did research on the topic. He believes that the boycott shouldn’t even be taking place and that Austin city council job is to worry about Austin business not other people. Rob also doesn’t understand why Austin is trying to tell residents of another state how to run their state.
I respect Rob’s argument and see the point of telling Austin to be more focused on its own regular day to day activities. But like I stated before I don’t agree with this law at all racial profiling is still a big deal in this law and they can’t just send officers out there and ask them to make a decision between who is legal and who isn’t. That’s not what they are train to do and can’t be taught that either. Even though Austin has its own problems, banning travels from Austin to Arizona is still smart because maybe other cities will follow and won’t be scared to voice their opinion. We know that Washington and San Francisco already are doing the same kind of ban and those are big cities. Rob believed we are jumping on a “bandwagon” just because these two cities did it and I don’t believe that’s the case I think we are trying to send out a strong message that not a lot of people support this law.
The idea of not sending city officials to Arizona to protect them from incidents like being question or any racial profiling is smart. But Rob said that “What makes him think the environment will be hostile? Are the police stationed on the corner, accosting everyone who walks by? Will they breakdown doors and interrupt dinner to check on immigration status?” Maybe they won’t be but we aren’t sure and we don’t want to find out if we send these city officials there and something bad happens before we have to ban it after so we might lay down the ban of traveling now before something bad happens. I think many people still stand strong on that the law should be removed and not enacted at all and hope the federal government can do something about it.