Posted on 01/17/2011 5:17:03 PM PST by moonshinner_09
Last year on the campaign trail, Gov. Rick Scott and other Florida Republicans ran on a promise to crack down on illegal immigration. Now in office, they're running into the limits, practical and political, of a state trying to set its own immigration rules.
We welcome reasonable steps from state leaders to curb illegal immigration. However, the difficulties that leaders in Florida and other states are confronting on their own underscore the need for a national overhaul of immigration policy.
Ultimately, it's up to Congress, not 50 legislatures.
Mr. Scott promised to bring to Florida an immigration law like the one Arizona passed last year, using the issue to bring Bill McCollum to his knees. Arizona's requires police to check the immigration status of people stopped or arrested if police suspect they are in the country illegally.
The law has been a lightning rod for controversy, mainly because of its potential to promote racial profiling by police. Yes, we know profiling is barred in the law, but how would a cop on the beat come to suspect that someone is an illegal immigrant?
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
What good is a flippin’ “overhaul” when we aren’t enforcing the laws we already have. To hell with an “overhaul”. Build a fence and enforce the immigration laws that are already on the books. We’ve already been had too many times by these commie “reform” laws.
“Over-Haul” my flippin’ a%&!!!
these twirps will do anything to avoid manning up and doing the job their employers We the People tell them to do!!!
I’m 46 years old and we’ve had guest worker programs for my whole life. More programs won’t solve anything.
Watch them. They are already sliding around the issue.
Watch them. They are already sliding around the issue.
Wall Street and Corporate America owns Wash DC. Dems want illegals for future voters and corporate America wants cheap labor to counter American wages. I once told a buddy of mine that if we reduced corporate taxes to zero, corporate America will still move factories overseas, because the Chinese worker will work for less. Right now as we speak corporate America is taking their profits and using it to train Indian workers to speak more fluent American English so they don’t sound so foreign. They are also taking profits to tweek the Chinese tech work force to be more proficient and innovative like American workers. Why do you think corporate America is doing all this even during the pro business GWB years???? When a member of your family does not account how detrimental his actions can affect his own family is no longer a member of the family and should be treated as such. Given the meltdown caused by Wall Street after they lobbied and cahooted with scheming Clinton admin in carrying out liberal social programs by bypassing taxes and using private money, and how corporate America do not consider themselves as Americans (like one CEO said, my responsibility is not to report problems, but determine how to make money from the problem, if people are unemployed that is the taxpayers problem). Guess what I am willing to join the Dems in stripping the ability of corporations from lobbying or donating to political parties. If entities do not believe in the concept of a nation or belonging to America, then why should we want them to influence Congress and elections. The difference between liberals and fly over country Americans is fly over Americans still believe in America. The difference between Wall Street and Main Street Americans is Main Street Americans have a sense of belonging to a country.
Enforcement of current laws makes more sense than a national immigration overhaul.
A new media is really what is needed. We saw that in spades in Tucson.
A trip home and closing the border would solve the whole problem
I agree. Operation Wetback II. Round em up and kick em out. Immigration reform completed.
Ping!
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