well said!!!!
Guys . . . this is silly:
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Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson is choosing a county with a large farmworker population to announce an immigration policy Tuesday that will include stripping federal grant money from cities and states that don’t report illegal immigrants.
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A president has no authority to do this. Congress authorizes grant money, and then further votes to spend it. Much of it is DoD research. The president signs those bills into law. Once he does, he is required by law to enforce that law he signed. All he can do is ask Congress to include in that law text mandating that states report illegals. A Democrat Congress won’t do this. This is silly.
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A major part of the plan will be to reduce the number of illegal immigrants by increasing enforcement of existing law. Sanctuary cities, where city employees are not required to report illegal immigrants to federal authorities, would lose discretionary federal grants, said a campaign source who didn’t want to be named because the plan hasn’t been announced.
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This is incorrect. This is not a policy subject to executive order. The president has no authority to do such a thing. That money flows by law because of bills signed. To do this Congress has to structure the bills accordingly and a Democrat Congress won’t.
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Thompson will also call for stronger laws to force employers to verify that workers aren’t illegal immigrants, a more rigorous system to track who is coming in and out of the country and a plan to increase prosecution of “coyotes,” smugglers who bring illegal immigrants across the Mexican border, the source said. He will also talk about border security.
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This also is stupid. The courts right this moment have prevented the SS number verification process that would have led to employers dismissing employees whose numbers did not match their names. The laws on the books were unfolding to permit no match letters to be sent, but the courts stopped it. Just what new laws does Thompson’s advisors think are going to get through a Democrat Congress?
Employers are in a situation where if they take action to fire people for this reason, they will be sued by the ACLU lawyers representing illegals and have to pay to defend themselves — probably bankrupting their business. If they do not fire these people, the Federal government would like to come in and sue them and bring criminal charges.
Employers are caught in the middle.
This is an enormous risk by Thompson. He is proposing a policy that has already been stopped by the courts and runs the very considerable risk of reinforcing the aura of poor staff work and lack of attention to detail in that campaign.
Given this appears to be a flip flop on Fred’s part (I agree with the post above #38), (not to mention a steal from Duncan Hunter’s playbook), I expect we’ll have to do a lot of reading between Fred’s lines again in order to see through this little dog and pony show. No doubt in my mind, positions don’t change on a dime and anything he’s proposing will equate to Bush’s “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” = no amnesty AMNESTY and a ‘technologically’ (un)secured border. I’ve no reason to trust Fred Thompson now.