[television is just wrong]

All 50 states should start doing this.

[television is just wrong]

This sure would help California with our deficit.

[Restore]

If the federal government doesn't pay, it should take custody of some 3,600 immigrant criminals now in state prisons...

Only 3,600? We've got over 40,000 illegals in the Los Angeles County Jail system alone!

[NorCalRepub]

wow.....like many others just bashed Calif for this problem on an earlier thread......should I now say that Arizona created this problem and maybe they should learn how to control their own borders and not let illeagals in? Of course not, this is happening all over and the feds need to step up and solve this problem. Bush and Congress need to reimburse all states that have to take care of the problem they seem ao unwilling or unable to solve.......

[Marine Inspector]

Ping.

[Iron Eagle]

FYI -- Several states have already sued for this and lost. Several circuit Courts of Appeal have decisded the issue, and all have dismissed the suits.

Believe it or not -- Bush did the same thing when he was governor of Texas -- he and Chritie Todd Whitman both sued in the Presidential election year -- and lost in different Federal Courts.

[Migraine]

Ought to send Mexico the bill, and, if they won't pay, then extract it from trucks coming into AZ from Mex.

[drypowder]

From California: Come on Arnie, they are crippling the state. Get on board and help start the momentum.

[Hacksaw]

But hasn't ol' Janet tried to thwart measures that discourage illegal immigration? Hasn't this babe been part of the problem, and is now asking the nation at large to pick up the tab?

[dirtboy]

Gov. Janet Napolitano announced Tuesday that she has billed the federal government for nearly $118 million in unreimbursed costs for imprisoning illegal immigrants who committed crimes in Arizona.

The tab would be quite a bit lower, Janet, if you didn't so actively obstruct efforts to keep out the illegals in the first place. What a joke.

[Michael.SF.]

Didn't Gov. Wilson of California try this when he was in office? As I recall, he was talking of a law suit against the feds?

[VeniVidiVici]

Anybody know if there is a legal reason the border states can't use the National Guard on the border?

[citizen]

Duplicate invoices to El Presidentes Bush and Fox.

[HungarianGypsy]

Isn't she the one who wants to give illegals driver's licenses and opposes prop. 200?

[Clemenza]

I remember Florida's Dem Socialist Governor Lawton Chiles did this before the '94 election to show that he was "getting tough" on immigration. He then talked out of the other side of his mouth promising Haitian voters not to worry about a cut in bennies.