Opponents of immigration law call for boycott of Arizona Iced Tea, but it is made in NY...

[posty]

Idiots...

 

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2...sfired_ire.html

 

Opponents of Arizona's new anti-immigrant law are calling for a boycott of the state's products - including the popular Arizona Iced Tea.

 

The problem: Arizona Iced Tea is actually brewed in New York.

 

Online, misguided tea fans vowed to switch to Lipton or Snapple.

 

"Dear Arizona: If you don't change your immigration policy, I will have to stop drinking your enjoyable brand of iced tea," Twittered Jody Beth in Los Angeles.

 

"It is the drink of fascists," wrote Travis Nichols in Chicago.

 

The company did not return messages asking if they planned to set the public straight.

 

Founded in Brooklyn in 1992, the firm was based in Queens before moving into a new $35 million headquarters in Nassau County last year.

 

The new state law allows cops to demand citizenship papers from anyone they think looks illegal.

 

Actual Arizona firms facing a boycott: Cold Stone Creamery, U-Haul and Best Western.

Edited April 28, 2010 by posty

[The Holy Roller]

Morans.

[Perchoutofwater]

I was planning on taking my wife on a nice romantic trip to San Francisco this summer, but after I heard that people there are calling for a boycott of all things AZ, I'm beginning to rethink that trip. We might be going to the Grand Canyon instead. Hell, since Arizona recognizes Texas CHL's I might even get a coyote while I'm there, if they are still running.

[driveby]

Instead of boycotting Arizona why don't these people volunteer to take in a family of illegals and provide them sanctuary.

 

Now that would make a difference.

[SayItAintSoJoe]

Idiots...

 

Founded in Brooklyn in 1992, the firm was based in Queens before moving into a new $35 million headquarters in Nassau County last year.

 

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2...l#ixzz0mPoaUiVP

 

 

I knew they should have gone with "Brooklyn Ice Tea".

[bushwacked]

I boycott Arizona Iced Tea because it taste like piss.

[driveby]

I boycott Arizona Iced Tea because it taste like piss.

I'll take your word for it.

[Azazello1313]

hey, the arizona diamondbacks play the rockies 3 blocks away in an hour. maybe I should go buy a ticket and protest. it is a pretty nice day out...

[CaP'N GRuNGe]

I just look forward to all the money our state is going to waste on lawsuits coming out of this new bill from cops pulling over people for driving while brown. Good job Arizona!

[driveby]

I just look forward to all the money our state is going to waste on lawsuits coming out of this new bill from cops pulling over people for driving while brown. Good job Arizona!

I think net net it's going to cost the state less than what it's costing now.

[CaP'N GRuNGe]

I think net net it's going to cost the state less than what it's costing now.

 

Maybe. I still think the key is:

 

1) Secure the borders. This is the feds job and they have done a poor job.

2) Create a legalized path to entry if the demand is really their for this labor. Tax it accordingly.

3) Don't give certain benefits to non-citizens like in state tuition, etc. AZ has already passed a law(s) like this which I support.

4) Prosecute employers that hire illegals. Vigourously.

5) Increased trade with Mexico. Better to buy goods from south of the border than China. Encourage their labor to stay home.

[I Like Soup]

Don'tcha just love to see other American States turn on their brethren States? Hey morans!, you are affecting more Americans with your pompous grandstanding. California especially, their illegal immigrant populations has just killed them financially from what I understand.

[The Holy Roller]

Maybe. I still think the key is:

 

1) Secure the borders. This is the feds job and they have done a poor job.

2) Create a legalized path to entry if the demand is really their for this labor. Tax it accordingly.

3) Don't give certain benefits to non-citizens like in state tuition, etc. AZ has already passed a law(s) like this which I support.

4) Prosecute employers that hire illegals. Vigourously.

5) Increased trade with Mexico. Better to buy goods from south of the border than China. Encourage their labor to stay home.

 

[SEC=UGA]

Don'tcha just love to see other American States turn on their brethren States? Hey morans!, you are affecting more Americans with your pompous grandstanding. California especially, their illegal immigrant populations has just killed them financially from what I understand.

 

Easy, Cali was trying to do the same thing in the 90's, prop 187 was it?

[Perchoutofwater]

Maybe. I still think the key is:

 

1) Secure the borders. This is the feds job and they have done a poor job.

2) Create a legalized path to entry if the demand is really their for this labor. Tax it accordingly.

3) Don't give certain benefits to non-citizens like in state tuition, etc. AZ has already passed a law(s) like this which I support.

4) Prosecute employers that hire illegals. Vigourously.

5) Increased trade with Mexico. Better to buy goods from south of the border than China. Encourage their labor to stay home.

 

I'm all for what you've listed above, problem is, the federal government won't do #1, or they will do it for a few years until it things calm down a bit, and then they will stop again.

[I Like Soup]

I'm all for what you've listed above, problem is, the federal government won't do #1, or they will do it for a few years until it things calm down a bit, and then they will stop again.

 

Or rather, they ignore it because it is a political shiiitstorm. Good job.

[JoJoTheWebToedBoy]

Maybe. I still think the key is:

 

1) Secure the borders. This is the feds job and they have done a poor job.

2) Create a legalized path to entry if the demand is really their for this labor. Tax it accordingly.

3) Don't give certain benefits to non-citizens like in state tuition, etc. AZ has already passed a law(s) like this which I support.

4) Prosecute employers that hire illegals. Vigourously.

5) Increased trade with Mexico. Better to buy goods from south of the border than China. Encourage their labor to stay home.

 

Ding, Ding, Ding............ We have a winner

[Brentastic]

Maybe. I still think the key is:

 

1) Secure the borders. This is the feds job and they have done a poor job.

2) Create a legalized path to entry if the demand is really their for this labor. Tax it accordingly.

3) Don't give certain benefits to non-citizens like in state tuition, etc. AZ has already passed a law(s) like this which I support.

4) Prosecute employers that hire illegals. Vigourously.

5) Increased trade with Mexico. Better to buy goods from south of the border than China. Encourage their labor to stay home.

This makes sense, especially the last one.

[driveby]

Game, Set and Match.

 

Deconstructing the Outrage [Victor Davis Hanson]

 

 

I have been trying to collate all the furor over the Arizona law, much of it written by those who do not live in locales that have been transformed by illegal immigration. These writers are more likely to show solidarity from a distance than to visit or live in the areas that have been so radically changed by the phenomenon.

 

On the unfortunate matter of "presenting papers": I have done that numerous times this year — boarding airplanes, purchasing things on a credit card, checking into a hotel, showing a doorman an I.D. when locked out, going to the DMV, and, in one case, pulling off a rural road to use my cell phone in a way that alarmed a chance highway patrolman. An I.D. check to allay "reasonable suspicion" or "probable cause" is very American.

 

On the matter of racial profiling: No one wishes to harass citizens by race or gender, but, again unfortunately, we already profile constantly. When I had top classics students, I quite bluntly explained to graduating seniors that those who were Mexican American and African American had very good chances of entering Ivy League or other top graduate schools from Fresno, those who were women and Asians so-so chances, and those who were white males with CSUF BAs very little chance, despite straight A's and top GRE scores. The students themselves knew all that better than I — and, except the latter category, had packaged and self-profiled themselves for years in applying for grants, admissions, fellowships, and awards. I can remember being told by a dean in 1989 exactly the gender and racial profile of the person I was to hire before the search had even started, and not even to "waste my time" by interviewing a white male candidate. Again, the modern university works on the principle that faculty, staff, and students are constantly identified by racial and gender status. These were not minor matters, but questions that affected hundreds of lives for many decades to come. (As a postscript I can also remember calling frantically to an Ivy League chair to explain that our top student that he had accepted had just confessed to me that in fact he was an illegal alien, and remember him "being delighted" at the news, as if it were an added bonus.)

 

On the matter of equality, fairness, and compassion, it is even more problematic. Literally thousands of highly skilled would-be legal immigrants from Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Europe wait patiently while others cut in front and illegally obtain what others legally wait for — residence in the U.S. Meanwhile, millions of Mexican-American, African-American, and poor white citizens have seen their wages fall because of competition from illegal aliens who will work for far less compensation. It is a bit strange that those of the upper classes are outraged over Arizona without empathy for entry-level U.S. workers or lower-middle-class taxpayers who end up paying the most for illegal immigration. But then, those who express the most moral outrage often are the least sensitive to the moral questions involved (see next).

 

On matters of Mexico's outrage: The Mexican government has a deliberate policy of exporting human capital on a win/win/win/win logic: Dissidents leave central Mexico in a safety-valve fashion; Mexico saves on social services; remittances come back as the second largest source of foreign exchange; and a growing expatriate, lobbying community becomes nostalgic and fonder of Mexico the longer it is absent from it. To hide all this, the Mexican government usually plays the racial prejudice card, although most arrivals from Oaxaca will tell you that racism is more perncious in Mexican society than north of the border. This is a government, after all, that cannot provide the security, legal framework, or social services for indigenous peoples in its central interior but has no such problems when it is a question of attracting affluent North Americans to live in second homes along its picturesque coasts.

 

There is plenty of cynicism involved — not on the part of the exasperated voters of Arizona, but rather from domestic political, religious, ideological, and ethnic interests that in patronizing fashion seek new dependent constituents; from Mexico that in amoral fashion censures others for the sins it commits; and from a strange nexus between corporate employers and ethnic lobbyists who see their own particular profit and influence enhanced through the ordeal of millions of poor aliens, and the subsidies of the strapped and now to be demonized taxpayer.

[The Mucca]

I wonder if their is a quota on how many illegals a cop has to catch in a year

[TimC]

Instead of boycotting Arizona why don't these people volunteer to take in a family of illegals and provide them sanctuary.

 

Now that would make a difference.

 

Ummm, because they are filthy Mexicans. That's why.

[I Like Soup]

Ummm, because they are filthy Mexicans. That's why.

Please stop profiling Tim, Mexicans aren't filthy, they are greasy.