Arizona SEO Experts Against Racism
Would you stop this guy from entering Arizona?
I don't read the news. It makes me sick. Sometimes you can't ignore the bad news though. They creep in from all over the place, Twitter, Facebook etc. One of the ugliest news recently has been the racist policies of Arizona. The aim of racial profiling and other racist measures is to prevent Mexican and other refugees from entering the US and staying there.
I don't want to argue here about why made up terms like "illegal immigrants" do not make sense and why hunting refugees like animals and imprisoning them or even letting them die is wrong. I live in a city that has a long history of a bloody border, Berlin. The so called 136 wall deaths were just a few though compared to the hundreds of casualties of the inhumane border regime in the US. In Arizona alone people are dying by the hundreds every year.
I know I have many readers from the US including fellow SEO experts from Arizona. I want you, Arizona SEO experts to speak out on behalf of the desperate refugees and against the racist policies of your regional government.
Let the world know that not all people in Arizona hate immigrants.
Let the world know that SEO professionals have a sense of decency and support human rights.
I repeat, I don't want to discuss those policies or read arguments why the immigrants should die instead of entering the United States. Racism is not an opinion, it's a crime. I will delete such comments. Spread your hate and petty excuses elsewhere. I want SEO experts to speak out and to make a positive effort.
The whole issue sickens me and I can't take it no more. In case you work for an SEO company in Arizona or are an independent SEO consultant there voice support for the cause in the comment section. All SEO pros who add their full name and SEO website URL will be added to this post. In other words they get an authority link in this post.
I may be a fake Mexican with a ridiculous sombrero but that doesn't mean I can ignore the situation in Arizona.
To a degree, it is racisim. To a degree it is also unfounded economic fears. In fact, illegal immigrants do NOT take jobs away from Americans; they do the work Americans refuse to do. Ironically, if all illegal immigrants were to be flushed out, prices for a number of things would go up, making times even tougher for the very people who fear the illegals.
I am a “legal” immigrant and it’s an issue I take very seriously. I don’t agree with racism or profiling for many obvious reasons.
With that said @David it’s not that Americans don’t want the jobs… but, they cannot afford to live and support their families for $5 per hour. So is it the immigrants fault for taking the job? No, absolutely not but it is the fault of the corporate farmer that refuses to pay a living wage. Is it okay for the illegal immigrant to take all the money they make here in this country and send it back home? Absolutely not they are supporting a family but it is not being re-distributed in this economy. So you can see it hurts on many levels. Lets not forget they do not pay #SS or Taxes. So that is another argument.
Will that bring up the prices on things, not any more than they are now. Everything in my humble opinion is very priced. I moved from SF to MS thinking the cost of living would go down. No way, it’s the same actually more expensive to live in MS since the wages are 30% less. I still pay the same thing for food if not more, I still pay the same for a car insurance, airline tickets. Etc. My point being it’s already tough making a decent wage and when you are undercut by people that are willing to take less it hurts communities.
The history of Berlin is a sad one and yet so true but once again I must point out that it was “Germans” on both sides of that wall. There was a world war involved… a different story all together. Here we are talking a different culture a different language and a different economic reality.
My partner works for Public Health so I get the first hand news about how many “illegal” immigrants are given free medicine, free housing, because it’s the right thing to do and they legally cannot ask about citizenship they have to treat people.
There are always two sides to any story actually three, your side their side & the truth. What is the solution I wish I could tell you, but I do know that it’s not right on either side. Americans have a right to protect what few resources they have fought to attain. They have a right to know that their borders are protected with their “tax $”. My 0.02ç
It is true that as illegal as the term “illegal immigrant” might sound, at the end of the day, people tends to forget that those are humans beings.
Can borders be opened to any tom dick and harry to come and work in the US, probably not, because it simple not a workable solution, but surely, it equally right to ensure that the human right that the least priviledged is fully respected.
No parents would ever like to see their kids suffer and be treated like shit just because they are seeking for a better future, so surely authorities around the world have got to do a better job in ensuring humans right are being respected even for the illegal immigrants.
one humble Canadian’s opinion;
Modern Slavery!
That is what US immigration and economic policy equates too. Subsidized corn farming creates a glut of corn on the market, crashing the global price, so corn based products (almost everything in the grocery store has corn derivatives in it) are cheap, as in below true cost. Mexico and other corn farming centers can not compete and millions are put out of work. That’s only a relatively recent example. Add to that the “War on Drugs”, interventions in Central American countries to prevent the onset of socialism while at the same time preventing democracy and economic independence.
Meanwhile there is a strong incentive to go to America for work, since there is none at home. To work the jobs Americans don’t want to do and at pay levels Americans don’t want to accept. The “immigrant” takes 100% of the risk. Companies that hire mexicans, at low wages and zero benefits, are not punished for employing “illegal workers”, yet benefit from the low cost of that labor. Those workers face arrest, detention, imprisonment, deportation and in some cases death, yet there is a steady fresh supply of that labor force.
Besides the obvious of maids, nanny’s, and fruit pickers, there are some large corporations that focus on employing immigrant labor. Large slaughterhouses, for one, that process corn fed cows (cows don’t eat corn naturally, duh) employ thousands of mexicans. They even bus them from the border, burning corn based bio-fuels. How’s that for irony?
Average Joe American just jumps to the knee jerk reactions of patriotism or racism and blame it on the visible “other” and are oblivious of the deeper root causes, of which they are part of. America builds a wall and militarized zone on the border to appease average Joe, yet continues with economic policies that force poor people to find ways over, under, around that wall at any cost.
Arizona’s new laws may be now placing some of that risk on the employers (will they actually enforce that part of it?), but also placing more risk on anyone with brown skin.
Show me your papers!
Show me your paperrrrrssss!!!!!
It is a shame that my comment was deleted. There was certainly nothing offensive in it. I guess open minded debate is not allowed.
So you don’t read the news – fair enough. But before you go off and make serious accusations about the Arizona law as being racist – and by extension its supporters – don’t you think the responsible thing to do would be to read the law first?
I dare you to read it – it’s only 20 pages long and I promise it won’t take up too much of your time. Then please point out exactly where the text authorizes racial profiling.
The fact is it doesn’t.
All the best,
Len
Len Penzo dot Com
thank you for taking on a serious issue, very brave indeed.
I don’t with any kind of racism. It is something that is frequently happening. I hope there is something that we could do to put an end to this. But that seems to be impossible.
I used to live in Phoenix and I’m not proud of what is going on there. I heard TV talk show host Keith Oberman talk about how the Arizona economy will take a $75 million hit because of this fiasco. What is the governor there thinking?
For me it is also in both parties..Work force of those people are keeping the job well done for America but at the same time,those jobs are supposed for the people or legal immigrants who came here in order to have a good life etc…I think,We just need to do the right thing in order to have a better result. i also felt bad for those who got sent back to their country. well I guess,that’s the beginning of an end. Let’s just do the right thing,Follow or the rules and regulations in order to have a good and health future. I know in my heart as A human that those people who are crossing the border illegally in order to come here are desperate on their own country but at the same time,Americans and legal immigrants are the once suffering from those illegal deeds of other people
So if 70% of your crime was caused by Turks who refused to learn German, get a job, or pay taxes. And instead they collected welfare from your hard work…
You wouldn’t have a problem with that?
In Arizona in the last 3 years, 70% of all crimes were committed by ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.
It’s a fact.
I would say look it up, but obviously that’s not going to happen.
Illegal Immigrants are simply people who are too lazy to file paperwork, and pay taxes. They aren’t law abiding hard working citizens. Maybe they were 40 years ago.
Do they deserve a better life? Sure everyone ones. But that doesn’t mean they should lie cheat steel or commit any other crime to get it. That’s why they’re illegal, they’re breaking the law.
American people don’t have a problem with people who want to come there and work. They don’t think they’re taking all the jobs.
They’re just pist off because they sneak under a fence, don’t pay taxes but demand welfare, and the worst part is that our spineless government gives it to them.
What were they thinking in Arizona? Hm I don’t know, maybe let’s start defending ourself from people who are part of a society that has made a statement to take our land?
Remember the Louisiana purchase, when the US took 2/3 of it’s land from Mexico…well they didn’t just forget that and let it go…they want it back. They still consider it Mexico!
I guess you should really read up a little more on both sides of the story before making a post, it will make your blog a lot better for the readers not to hear this garbage.
Vic: This is a lie. You don’t even read the statistics you allegedly cite.
Just read this:
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/04/29/arizona.immigration.crime/index.html
Most violent crime down there is probably racists shooting immigrants or immigrants working, living and breathing illegally.
You are exactly the kind of racist I don’t want to see on my blog. Do you know what? You’re illegally on my blog as I’ve written that I don’t accept spreading racist propaganda here.
SEO has very little to do with immigration law!
This is a really great post, thanks. I am a big believer in Ethical SEO in the broadest possible sense. I don’t mean following Google’s guidelines, I mean using SEO for Ethical purposes.
Good post nice to see you doing your bit making people aware of just how cruel the world can be – when people feel threaten by immigration and become racist in expressing this view ( due to lack of intelligence) – but sadly its a world wide situation.
I appreciate you expressing things of real world and say SEO should not be and is not bound by borders of countries, especially when we all are talking on “Global village”.