Albuquerque 1, the Sanctuary Duo 0

I am disappointed that I never received responses from either Ken Sanchez or Rey Garduno in regard to my email messages discouraging their resolutions for the City of Albuquerque to boycott Arizona and disallow Mayor Berry from having prisoner's immigration status verified. It seemed reasonable that at least one of the Sanctuary Duo would respond, to send up some fiery rhetoric based solely on emotion and without any semblance of logic. Regardless, the Sanctuary Duo lost their cynical political ploy for attention:

a proposal to boycott city services connected to Arizona was voted down, and an attempt to block Mayor Berry's new immigration policy was also shot down.

And, on another note, the easiest criticism of those who oppose immigration law is that they have no understanding of what the actual law is. And, those in opposition proved themselves ignorant once again:

At the meeting, about two dozen people against Mayor Berry's policy wore stickers on their shirts that read “Keep Albuquerque Immigration Friendly.”

It is this misunderstanding and frankly, the absolute refusal of the opposition to become informed in any way shape or form that is most disheartening. It is simple to misrepresent the people attempting to make Albuquerque safer as being anti-immigrant. One can only hope that real debate can one day exist with those on the other side actually being thoughtful instead of insulting.