Amid protests, Kobach pushes immigration laws

Kansas.com ^ | , Feb. 16, 2012 | BRENT D. WISTROM

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TOPEKA — With protesters chanting and pounding drums outside the Capitol, Secretary of State Kris Kobach, one of the nation’s most prominent advocates of illegal immigration crackdowns, urged lawmakers Wednesday to force employers and law enforcement officers to help chase off illegal immigrants. “There’s no question that if a state passes laws to discourage illegal immigration … then you will see some self-deportation,” Kobach told the House State and Federal Affairs Committee. The protesters outside said those laws are more likely to produce discrimination, worker shortages and costly lawsuits. “If Mr. Kobach, who is promoting, not only here in Kansas but all over the country, laws that are separating our families, that are leaving children without their parents, and they’re hurting everyone in our community, we will not stand for that,” Sulma Arias, executive director of Sunflower Community Action, told more than 300 people at the south steps of the Statehouse. Lawmakers are considering a raft of controversial immigration-focused bills this week, several of which have failed in recent years.

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Police say the immigration checks are a bad idea that would destroy decades of work building trust through community policing. “Creating a state law which pits local police against thousands of citizens will destroy this cultivated relationship,” the testimony says. “Crimes will no longer be reported by many of our Hispanic population. This lack of reporting serves the criminal element quite well.”

It also serves them quite well to have lack of law enforcement.Most Illegals only report crimes, when it will benefit them.

separating our families, that are leaving children without their parents, and they’re hurting everyone in our community, we will not stand for that,”..ohhhhhhh i'm scared..

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Pounding drums? Why, to prove that they aren’t serious? We already knew that.

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"separating families that are leaving children without their parents,...." (aka illegal alien parents flee leave behind their "anchor babies,") I think not!

If these illegal alien parents leave their children behind instead of taking them back home with them, south of the river, we can open up orphanages for them. It's a shame if those parents care so little for their children that they would leave them behind, then they never belonged with their children in the first place.

Me thinks that these are mere hollow threats intended to scare lawmakers from voting the removal of illegal aliens for fear we would have numbers of children roaming the streets, homeless.

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FAIR’s 2010 study, “The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on United States Taxpayers” estimated at $442 million the annual state and local fiscal costs borne by Kansas taxpayers resulting from an estimated 70,000 illegal aliens and 13,700 of their U.S.-born children.

http://www.fairus.org/site/DocServer/USCostStudy_2010.pdf?docID=4921

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"The Kansas Chamber of Commerce leads a broad group of major industrial and agricultural business organizations in an effort to help illegal workers get temporary passes to work in sectors that face worker shortages, such as landscaping, farming and construction."

Uh, huh and I have two sons-in-law, one who lost his job in landscaping to illegal aliens and another in construction that can hardly get or keep a job, not because KS is doing construction but because the employers would rather hire illegals (KS is a right-to-work state so the citizens aren't losing because of high union labor - no it's because of cheap illegal labor!!!)

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Where does “immigration” end and “invasion” begin?

When foreigners stop believing it's a “privilege” to be allowed in the US legally, and start to declare/demand that it's their “right” to come and/or remain in the US illegally.

The "police" often cited by pro-illegals are almost always the politically appointed commissioners, chief, etc.. They are merely parroting the party line from a politician boss who's selling out the country for both votes and the federal subsidies to illegals and their families that flow into their locality.