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House OKs 4 measures on entrants of people who cross the border illegally.
AZSTARNET ^
Posted on 03/09/2005 3:13:00 PM PST by Happy2BMe
Governor won't discuss Prop. 200 with visiting Mexican lawmakers
By Howard Fischer
CAPITOL MEDIA SERVICES
PHOENIX - State lawmakers approved four measures Tuesday aimed at least in part at the problem of people who cross the border illegally.
By a 39-19 vote, the House gave its final approval to House Bill 2259, which would allow a judge to impose a harsher sentence on someone convicted of a crime if that person is not in this country legally.
The House also approved:
* Denying bail to illegal entrants accused of certain crimes. The measure, House Concurrent Resolution 2028, would need voter approval.
* Enacting new laws designed to crack down on human smuggling. Senate Bill 1372 now goes to the governor.
* Pursuing the construction of private prisons in Mexico, under House Bill 2709, to house citizens of that nation convicted of crimes here.
It goes next to the Senate.
The moves come as Gov. Janet Napolitano said Tuesday she will refuse to meet with a group of Mexican senators traveling to Arizona to investigate the effects of Proposition 200. The law approved by voters last year requires Arizonans to show proof of citizenship when registering to vote and evidence of legal status when seeking some public services.
The Mexican senators, who already have appointments with Democratic Attorney General Terry Goddard and Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon, are trying to analyze the law, see its effects on Mexican nationals and prevent other U.S. states from following suit. They also plan to meet with Mexican diplomats and migrants.
Napolitano, a Democrat who faces re-election next year, said during her weekly media briefing that she won't sit down with the Mexican senators, "because I don't want to."
She said she would be willing to talk with them only about what Mexico and Arizona can do to stop people from coming illegally to the United States.
"Proposition 200 is the law," she said. "It's been enacted by the people of our state, it's being enforced in Arizona and I think that's a matter of Arizona voter sovereignty, quite frankly."
TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: aliens
Clone the Arizona governor 49 more times and we've got the immigration crisis licked.
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posted on
03/09/2005 3:13:04 PM PST
by
Happy2BMe
To: Happy2BMe
Didn't she try to block prop 200?
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posted on
03/09/2005 3:15:50 PM PST
by
rocksblues
(Liberalism is a sickness not a political ideology)
To: JohnHuang2; keri; international american; Kay Soze; jpsb; hershey; TomInNJ; dagnabbit; Pro-Bush; ...
GOVORNOR NAPOLITANO AIN'T TAKIN' NO CRAP FROM NO MEXICAN SENATOR - ping.
(Mexico is now sending its Senators into our states to deal directly with our government and state officials and pave the illegal immigration road with sold out American Open Border politicians.)
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She said she would be willing to talk with them only about what Mexico and Arizona can do to stop people from coming illegally to the United States.
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posted on
03/09/2005 3:19:45 PM PST
by
Happy2BMe
(Government is not the solution to our problem, government *IS* the problem.)
To: rocksblues
Apparently she has done a '180. At the very least she recognizes that meeting with foreign government officials in secret meetings over the future of Arizona won't go over with Arizona (legal) voters.
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posted on
03/09/2005 3:21:38 PM PST
by
Happy2BMe
(Government is not the solution to our problem, government *IS* the problem.)
To: Happy2BMe
Yup The Deomcrats are claiming this issue, the GOP will be very very sorry it is trying to force open boarders on the nation.
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posted on
03/09/2005 3:27:24 PM PST
by
jpsb
To: Happy2BMe
Hope you are correct. The best thing that could happen for us, is that politicians realize that American voters are serious about their way of life!
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posted on
03/09/2005 3:27:57 PM PST
by
rocksblues
(Liberalism is a sickness not a political ideology)
To: rocksblues
If so he has seen the light and is repenting. Good for her!
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posted on
03/09/2005 3:28:27 PM PST
by
jpsb
To: jpsb
This issue will bust 2008 wide open. It's up for grabs to whoever can close the border.
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posted on
03/09/2005 3:30:07 PM PST
by
Happy2BMe
(Government is not the solution to our problem, government *IS* the problem.)
To: Happy2BMe
Seems to me the leadership in the Democrat party is for border control and the leadership in the GOP is for open boarders. Exceptions to each are numerious, but that's how things appear to be shaping up.
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posted on
03/09/2005 3:33:19 PM PST
by
jpsb
To: Happy2BMe
The moves come as Gov. Janet Napolitano said Tuesday she will refuse to meet with a group of Mexican senators traveling to Arizona to investigate the effects of Proposition 200.
>>>
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Hear, HEAR!!
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posted on
03/09/2005 3:33:47 PM PST
by
ApesForEvolution
(I just took a Muhammad and wiped my Jihadist with Mein Koran...come and get me nutbags.)
To: jpsb
The GOP's inaction says it all.
Hint: UNDERGROUND ECONOMY
This is not a good thing. All the hell this country needs is to have a president elected in 2008 that ushers in everything we reelected President Bush to put a stop to in 2004.
So obvious.
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posted on
03/09/2005 3:35:29 PM PST
by
Happy2BMe
(Government is not the solution to our problem, government *IS* the problem.)
To: jpsb
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posted on
03/09/2005 3:43:24 PM PST
by
Dubya
(Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father,but by me)
To: Happy2BMe
I voted for W for two reason Iraq, and federal judges. Plus as a vet there is NO WAY I could ever vote for Hanoi John ever not for anything. It makes me sick that Hanoi John is a US Senator, the people of Mass should be ashamed of themselves and Mass should be reduced to the status of a territory for electing such pieces of $$$$ as Kerry and Kennedy.
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posted on
03/09/2005 3:49:56 PM PST
by
jpsb
To: Happy2BMe
Yeah, lemmie dig out my " Clone O Matic"....: )
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posted on
03/09/2005 5:33:42 PM PST
by
international american
(Tagline now fireproof....purchased from "Conspiracy Guy Custom Taglines"LLC)
To: jpsb
"I voted for W for two reason Iraq, and federal judges."
Those are the 2 main reasons for me as well. i would sooner cut my own throat than vote for Kerry. I grew up in Newton, Massachusetts.......full of subhuman protoplasm.
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posted on
03/09/2005 5:37:24 PM PST
by
international american
(Tagline now fireproof....purchased from "Conspiracy Guy Custom Taglines"LLC)
To: Happy2BMe
If ANY elected official in this country meets with ANY Mexican officials for any reason other than wanting to cooperate in CLOSING the borders to illegal crossing should be immediately recalled or impeached for breaching their oath of office. Meeting for any other reason shows the American official is looking out for the interests of the illegals and NOT the citizens of this country.
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posted on
03/09/2005 5:43:26 PM PST
by
hophead
("Enjoy Every Sandwich")
To: hophead
Bush will soon met with Fox, closing the boarder will not be on the agenda. But opening Social Security to illegals will. Done Deal.
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posted on
03/09/2005 5:51:22 PM PST
by
jpsb
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