Posted on 05/08/2011 1:25:58 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
While....Janet Napolitano wouldn't comment on Georgia's Arizona-like immigration bill, she said Saturday that state legislative initiatives are not the way to address the issue.
"This is what [President Barack Obama] has said and I’ve been saying, state by state won’t cut it," Napolitano said in a speech to the Atlanta Press Club. "It’s got to be a federal reform of immigration laws."
....Brian Robinson, a spokesman for [GA Gov] Deal, said the governor agrees Congress must address the issue, but said talks in Washington fall apart because Democrats insist on amnesty. In the meantime, states are burdened with the cost associated with illegal immigration such as schools, police and health care, he said.
"We are taking action in the only way that we can," Robinson said.
Napolitano argued that illegal immigration is down 36 percent and said Homeland Security has beefed up audits of employers to catch those who hire illegally.
What troubles her is that the debate on the issue suggests the federal government is asleep at the wheel.
"I think these efforts on a state by state level first of all have predicated a falsity," she said. "The falsity is that there has been nothing done, and that the border somehow is out of control. That is incorrect."
Rep. Matthew L. Ramsey, R-Peachtree City, who introduced HB 87, said he applauds any effort the federal government has made to curb illegal immigration. But he said the fact remains that states, which have had to cut budgets across the board in one of the worst recessions in history, cannot afford to fund those who are here illegally.
"Any suggestion that states should continue to wait for the federal government to do something, with all due respect, is laughable," he said. "We have been hearing that for decades."
(Excerpt) Read more at ajc.com ...
Funny how the TSA can harass US Citizens at airports and now of course they want to expand to train stations? AT THE VERY SAME TIME leave the U.S. Mexican border WIDE OPEN! Seems like law breaking illegal aliens are getting better treatment than law abiding U.S. Citizens with their Constitutional rights.
The federal government doesn’t want states (will sue states) to address their budget outlays — the federal government just wants states to pay the tab and stfu while Progressives fatten the welfare roles and build up their voting block.
It is good to see states standing tall and getting their houses in order.
Progressives want a voting block not a melting pot.
About four hours into a series of contentious arguments that included an attempted lockdown, Speaker Joe Straus sent lawmakers home for Mother's Day and a cooling-off period.
"Everybody realized the mood on the floor was pretty volatile, which is not conducive to good public policy," said longtime legislator Rep. Pete Gallego, D-Alpine. "Every session has a boiling point, and we just hit ours."
Lawmakers have struggled with a massive budget shortfall this year and now face polarizing debate over such emotional issues as immigration, school funding and tort reform. [end excerpt]
FLORIDA: Florida Senate to decide controversial immigration bill
Legislators set aside millions to defend redistricting [excerpt] Republican leaders in both chambers say they need the cash because they're planning to spend up to $20 million litigating over the redrawing of political maps that will begin in earnest this summer. And they're pointing the finger at the Fair Districts amendments voters passed last year to make it more difficult to gerrymander legislative and congressional districts. [end excerpt]
ON! WISCONSIN! Wisconsin Budget Panel Votes To Cut Arts Funding 66 Percent (Dems: "cynical attack on the arts")
ARIZONA (Mex-American studies in Tucson REMAIN core subject not elective) [excerpt] He knew there would be backlash to his proposal to change high school social studies classes in the Mexican American Studies program into electives, rather than core requirements. But the ferocity of the response caught him off-guard. He's been attacked as a racist, an apologist and as a lackey for Horne and Russell Pearce. He's none of those things.
"Did I anticipate how fierce it was? Did I anticipate how personal it would become? Did I anticipate how distorted the argument would become?" he said. "No, I didn't anticipate the magnitude of what's happened."
Pew Hispanic Center [great interactive graphs and informative charts]
Napolitano: Congress must act on immigration, not states.
Decoded: Take away states right to pass laws.
States waiting for the fed remind me of homeowners waiting for the police while being broken into. There comes a time when you have to take matters into your own hands.
Assume these illegals to be future GOP votes if made legals, and bam, bam, bam, the border would be closed annd the deportations huge. No more of the queer-baits puting on their act.
It gives one that distinct feeling.
Like - duh, things that do not change remain the same.
The immigration laws are there all they have to do is carry hem out.
We don't need immigration reform which in the minds of Napolitano and Obama is an open door policy, we need enforcement.
The states are doing your job for you, Nap, because you AREN’T doing it.
The states are doing your job for you, Nap, because you AREN’T doing it.
CONgress has two duties in this regard.
Art 1, Sec 8, Cl 4:
To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization (which means immigration)
Art 4, Sec 4, Cl 1:
Section 4
The United States shall guarantee to every State... and shall protect each of them against Invasion
To say the States can’t do anything is utter bullshit and amounts to slavery and/or subjugation.
That’s equivalent to saying that if I hire someone to wash my windows and they fail to do it, I am totally prohibited from washing them myself or hiring A BETTER WINDOW WASHER!!
That bore repeating!
March 15, 2011
Dear Senator Russell Pearce,
I am compelled to write to you about a recent event that occurred to me. I currently work as a substitute teacher in the west valley areas of Phoenix, Glendale, and Peoria. I was called upon to teach history and language arts for 8th grade at a Glendale public school. The number of students I had in each class ranged from 28 to 38 children, which were almost all Hispanic and a couple of Black children. The day started out as usual turning on the television listening and watching the announcements and saying the Pledge of Allegiance. During the Pledge of Allegiance I notice the vast majority of students refusing to stand and say the pledge. I asked the students why they refused to say the Pledge of Allegiance and they responded by saying, "we are Mexicans and Americans stole our land."
The teacher's instructions were for the students to read a few pages and answer the questions regarding Mark Twain in their history textbook and to finish their final drafts to Senator Steve Gallardo thanking him for his position on Illegal Immigration rights. Their teacher apparently had showed them a video with Senator Steve Gallardo and Lou Dobbs. Most of the students came unprepared for class not possessing paper and pencil. I provided the students with paper and pencils only to have them wade-up the paper and throw it at each other along with their pencils.
The students' final drafts that I read were basically the same. Most of them stated they were in the country illegally, White Americans are racist, and that they came here for a better life. I asked the class if America adopted Mexico immigration laws would Americans still be consider racist?
That question they could not answer and called me a racist for asking it. I mentioned that my wife and children are Hispanic so how could I be racist? I asked the students to stop speaking Spanish in class because it was impolite to speak a language in front of people who may not speak that language. Their response was that Americans better learn Spanish and their customs because they are taking their land back from us.
When it came to completing the Mark Twain assignment only 10 students completed it out of all my classes. Most of the students refused to open the book, tore the pages out of the book, or threw the textbooks at each other. I thought are these the students we are trying to educate with taxpayers money. I have found that substitute teaching in these areas most of the Hispanic students do not want to be educated but rather be gang members and gangsters. They hate America and are determined to reclaim this area for Mexico. If we are able to remove the illegals out of our schools, the class sizes would be reduced and the students who wanted to learn would have a better chance to do so and become productive citizens.
I applaud and support your efforts to stop this invasion into our state and country. When the citizens of a country are forced to speak the invaders language, adopt their customs, and forced to support them, are we not a conquer nation? I do not want to see our state and nation turned into a third world country. Thank you for standing up to this invasion. You may contact me by phone, e-mail, or mail. Thank you, again.
Sincerely,
Tony Hill
How about enforcing the immigration laws on the books right now? The states are simply enforcing the law.
A "future" law that allows open borders and amnesty is problematic and in the future. Reform is always taking place in one way or another, but proposed reform is not the same as current law! (unless you are a Democrat)
There are laws!
Enforce them!
Send legislators (with too much time on their hands) home to work a real job for 10 months out of the year (or 11)!
Congress HAS acted on immigration you douchebag. There are plenty of laws on the books to keep this scum out, you just choose not to enforce them. F U!
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