Posted on 05/21/2010 7:36:10 PM PDT by rxsid
"17 more states planning Ariz. 'illegal' crackdown
But ICE chief says feds might not 'process' illegals arrested by state
In what is developing into a standoff between states and the federal government that could be bigger than gun control or even health care, 17 states have launched versions of Arizona's immigration law, even as federal officials say they may not bother to process illegal aliens caught by the states.
William Gheen, president of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, which has been trying to get officials to address the open southern border for years, warned the consequences could be dire.
"They've told the American public to go eat cake," he said.
His organization is assembling the list of state efforts to emulate the Arizona law, which makes it illegal under state as well as federal law to be in the state without documentation.
Seventeen states are now filing versions of Arizona's SB 1070, which is designed to help local police enforce America's existing immigration laws," ALIPAC said in a report today.
The report said numerous national and local polls indicate 60 to 81 percent of Americans support local police enforcing immigration laws.
Gheen said the states where some form of immigration crackdown is under development include Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas and Utah."
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"17 more states planning Ariz. 'illegal' crackdown
Alabama and Georgia need to follow suit.
Good.
Go Oklahoma
where is TEXas?
Thanks for the ping.
Wish California were next.
Sounds like the crowd who protests health care
That was my thought too. It of course is not surprising.
Arrest/sentence them then hire India to house them on the cheap.
What will the regime say if the states simply make camps for them, lock the doors and throw the keys away?
Would be really big if Texas would get something like this passed
Here in western N.C. ,the heart of southern apple pickin’ our good sheriff (Davis) has been questioning and detaining law breaking illegal non citizens for a couple of years now.
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It figures Kentucky is not among those listed.
It will be great if this happens. Republican legislators need to get it done! The Leftists are far wide of the American mainstream on this issue. We should be pushing this from now until November and then beyond!
The federal govt is a pathetic joke, its up to the states to take care of their own business, the way it should be. DC has abdicated their responsibility.
That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Awesome, with Nevada and Texas joining, that will get almost the entire southern border except stupid California.
We need New Mexico too, not as difficult as California.
I would dump them in DC.
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