Concentration camps for undocumented immigrants proposed

I just got this.

I cannot believe that this was even proposed. Have we not learned from the Hitler, have we not learned from the Japanese Interment Camps. Why are we attacking the base of our economy. The United States depends on cheap labor and has created a wall. The United States had no reason to go into countries and create wars. This devasted peoples and their sustainability. We produce the image of great opportunity here, and hold true that we were founded on immigrants but since when did the country founded on immigrants close its borders to immigrants?

My family has been crossing the border for 4 generations, and its that border that kept us here. It was building the railroads that brought my family here the first time and then the Bracero program that invited us the second time. I have four generations of labor in building this country and all the thanks we get is now criminalizing for more cheap labor that will build a wall limiting us from continuing the flow that goes back and forth.

This country needs to stop operating on fear, producing legislation that treats immigrants with human dignity. Immigration reform is a small request by the masses that have produced the wealth of this country. We made it, so why cant we participate in it?

Concentration camps for undocumented immigrants proposed

June 21, 2006.

EFE News Agency

Phoenix, Arizona

The Republican candidate for Governor of Arizona, Don Goldwater,proposed the establishment of concentration camps for undocumented immigrants near the borders. The proposal would also require these immigrants to build the wall along the border.

Goldwater affirmed recently that his intent is to detain undocumented immigrants in a concentration camp in order to use them as the labor force in the construction of the wall and also clean the Arizona desert area that they leave all dirty as they go in.

To accomplish this, he would use the National Guard.

Goldwater, who seeks the Governor nomination of his party, has also said that if elected Governor he would apply an iron fist against illegal immigration.


The Governor vetoed a series of bills that intended to assign immigration law enforcement duties to the local police departments.

To this date, Goldwater surpasses the other Republican candidates in the polls for the Republican nomination for Governor.

The winner in this election would face Napolitano in November who, according to recent polls, is 11 points ahead of Goldwater.

The Republican has openly expressed his opposition to an immigration reform that includes the legalization of millions of undocumented immigrants that live and work in the US, as well as his support of more severe sanctions against those companies and businesses that hire undocumented workers.

Goldwater affirmed that one of his priorities if elected would be securing the border, for which he means to use the members of the Minutemen, the Yuma Patriots and other paramilitary groups to support the law enforcement agencies of Arizona.

Another of his proposals is to make cities enforce immigration laws,and by doing so putting an end to the undocumented workers sanctuaries and the practice of catching and then releasing immigrants without papers.

Goldwater said he supports the expansion of Law 200, approved by Arizona voters in November 2004 that denies undocumented workers access to certain public assistance programs.

It also requires that the employees of these agencies report the undocumented immigrants that seek the assistance of these agencies. Likewise, it asks for proof of citizenship to everyone who registers to vote and at the moment of casting the vote.

The Republican applauded the efforts of the Maricopa County Sheriff, Joe Arpaio, who began capturing undocumented immigrants two months ago under the new states anticoyote law.

This legislation allows local authorities to indict not only the traffickers of undocumented immigrants but also those that pay for their services.