Posted on 08/16/2010 5:21:22 PM PDT by Kaslin
The Border: The Sunshine State's attorney general not only supports Arizona in court but has proposed a law tweaking the objections and going even further. Punishing criminals and protecting citizens sounds good to us.
Florida attorney general and gubernatorial candidate Bill McCollum isn't waiting for the final word on Arizona's court-challenged SB1070. He's sponsoring a Florida version that deals with the legal objections while ending the concept of sanctuary cities and providing for enhanced penalties when illegal aliens commit crimes.
McCollum will no doubt be accused of political motives and opportunism. He will be accused of being racist.
But if anything needs to be debated and decided in the crucible of democracy in an election year, it should be whether states can protect their borders and their citizens if the federal government won't meet its constitutional and legal obligation to do so.
Like Arizona's law, McCollum's proposed statute announced last week, to be sponsored in the Florida legislature by state Rep. William Snyder, would require police officers to verify a suspect's immigration status during all lawful stops, detentions and arrests when reasonable suspicion exists.
McCollum's office said the Florida proposal is strengthened against "potential constitutional challenges."
It addresses the objections the federal judge raised in the Arizona case by better clarifying the "reasonable suspicion" circumstances in which officers should check immigration status.
The law differs from the Arizona law in that it would allow judges to consider immigration status when setting bail.
Illegal immigrants would also face stiffer criminal sentences than legal residents who committed the same crime.
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Okay, you changed my mind.
I’m voting for Scott.
I must have missed the part where Perot actually got elected, can you link me to his record?
Maybe I can direct you to Freeper Davidosborne.
I try to forget the Clinton years, along with the Carter years and the Obama years.
Do you think that is why so many folks think I have Alzheimer’s Disease?
Yes?
I didn’t ask if you were one of Florida’s many seasoned citizens, just if you had Perot’s record as an elected official.
For the record I voted for him twice and I am not ashamed to admit it, every man should admit to being wrong twice in his lifetime.
Don’t mean to be any trouble, but Jacquerie seems to be looking at non-favored candidates in Florida. Perhaps he would be interested in your guy.
While we are confessing to errors, I voted for Nixon twice (in general elections), similarly I voted for Dole in 96 and Marrou (I think), in 1992. I thought I mentioned I have forgotten the Clinton years, so don’t remember if Perot ever got in. I take it that he didn’t.
I am voting for Scott too and here’s why, not every company accused of wrong doing is guilty, some instead of going through years of costly legal wrangling just pay the fines so that they can continue to operate.
BP comes immediately to mind and they didn’t even wait for charges to be brought against them.
But was it the right move?
It saved the jobs of thousands of nurses and surgeons, it kept hospitals open, it provided health insurance to millions and it was a tough decision to make,
McCollum on the other hand has never had to make that decision he has always been the one to force that decision on others, be fined or go bankrupt defending against the legal apparatus of our government.
Thank you!
I see what you mean, I had to go back to my OWN page and see no flag is flying there anymore either, hmmmm!!!
Which in reality you voted for Slick Willy!!!
Really???
Seems he had to make some very serious decision 1998 on the Monica Lewinsky/Paula Jones case!!!
Which in reality you voted for Slick Willy!!!
No, had I voted for slick willy I would have voted for slick willy, each time I voted for Perot I voted against either party knowing Perot could not possibly win, it was a matter of voting against what I did not want knowing I had no choice in the what I was going to get.
Was he Paula Jones’ lawyer?
Scott made the same mistake as Bill Gates.
The way to avoid the Clinton Justice Dept was to donate big $.
At the table or on the menu.
so let me see if I got this right...
If Scott had bribed McCollum none of that would have ever happened????
No.
Big donors to the Clinton machine were rewarded.
You’d prefer that he stay true to his first position?
Or maybe, just maybe listening to the polls is a way to listen to his constituents?
Giving him crap because he decided to do the right thing is so....so...so REPUBLICAN of you.
Clinton governed by poll watching too. It suits those without core beliefs.
So you would prefer than McCollum did nothing and held true to his original position?
That makes a lot of sense. Not.
Not a thing wrong with an elected representative listening to the voice of the electorate.
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