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Arizona Judge Tells Sheriff "Reveal Password Or Face Contempt"
An anonymous reader writes "Four days ago, deputies from the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office in Arizona conducted a raid against the county government building hosting computers for a law enforcement database. After threatening to arrest county employees who would stop them, the officers proceeded to secure the room and promptly changed passwords on many of the servers. In a hearing on Friday, a Superior Court judge threatened to hold members of the Sheriff's Office in contempt if they did not reveal the passwords by next Wednesday. Following this, the Sheriff's Office claimed to be conducting an investigation against other Superior Court judges. Courts have asked for passwords before, but never under conditions like this."
You're quite right. The original immigrants I was talking about never really did understand the idea of accepting the culture of the new land, did they?
I'll never understand this argument. Have you ever heard of China town? Or little Italy? Immigrants take a few generations to assimilate to their new country. I live in Arizona and this idea of "illegal" immigration I find offensive to the very core of what America stands for. We are the land of the free, the home of the brave. We accept all walks of life, any creed, anyone willing to work to make a living which is the American dream.
When did America become so xenophobic? If it wasn't for open immigration almost none of us would be here today, why do we now condemn it? What is gained by not providing a path to citizenship for anyone that is in our country?
You simply can't enforce the borders or immigration laws without turning the border into a militarized zone and as someone that routinely goes to Mexico for vacation fun I don't support this. I even grew up in VT on the border to Canada driving up to Montreal for some fun nights too. This is good for everyone. We can and should help each other. Helping the world is how the U.S. got to become a super power. We should be good neighbors and not treat people from other countries like criminals. This does no one any good.