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Legislators OK bills aimed at border issue (Arizona)
Sierra Vista Herald, Sierra Vista Arizona (Capital Media Services) ^ | 03/09/05 | Howard Fischer

Posted on 03/09/2005 4:51:58 PM PST by SandRat

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It's about time she grew some backbone!

The moves come as Gov. Janet Napolitano said Tuesday she will refuse to meet with a group of senators from Mexico who are traveling to Arizona to investigate the effects of Proposition 200.

Those senators, who already have appointments with Attorney General Terry Goddard and Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon, are trying to analyze the law, see its effects on Mexican nationals - and prevent other states from following suit. They also plan to meet with Mexican diplomats and migrants.

Napolitano said during her weekly media briefing she won't sit down with them. Asked why, she responded curtly, "because I don't want to."

Pushed further, the governor said she would be willing to talk with them - but only about what more Mexico and Arizona can do to stop people from coming to the United States illegally.

"But 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."

1 posted on 03/09/2005 4:52:11 PM PST by SandRat
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Breaking News! AZ Gov finds Backbone! Say:....she won't sit down with them. Asked why, she responded curtly, "because I don't want to."


2 posted on 03/09/2005 4:53:47 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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This is a smokescreen to give people the illussion that they are actually doing anything about illegal immigration, and does not even come close to addressing the problem; these are CYA measures only.


3 posted on 03/09/2005 5:07:51 PM PST by deepFR
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Perhaps we now have one state and one governor that is willing to take a firm stand on illegal immigration, but it's my guess she's doing a Hillary on this.


4 posted on 03/09/2005 5:12:04 PM PST by conshack
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To: deepFR

perhaps but it's a start.


5 posted on 03/09/2005 5:14:21 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: conshack

she's in a corner and knows it and she's up for reelection, so of course she's doing a HildaBeast. If we can get something out of it to close the border I and others will take and still vote against her and make sure that the marriage amendment is on the ballot so that she loses big time.


6 posted on 03/09/2005 5:16:49 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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Just meant to look that way. Pro-illegal lobby gives politicians just enough to make it look like they are doing something to address the problem. Of the 13+ million illegals currently in this country, this will effect very few and they know it. Politicians get enough to appear to be doing something to satisfy dumb voters, and pro-illegal lobby continue to shovel the politicians pockets with campaign contributions. Keep watching, only smokescreens.


7 posted on 03/09/2005 5:18:13 PM PST by deepFR
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"The legislation on private prisons, HB 2709, is being pushed by lawmakers who said it will cost less for the state to house Mexicans in their own country than in Arizona."

Wait a minute. These are Mexican nationals, in the US illegally, who commit OTHER crimes WHILE in the US ILLEGALLY, we want to build prisons IN Mexico, to house THEIR Mexican criminals when we take them back to their OWN country, and WE have to pay for housing them?????

Does anybody else see a problem here?

8 posted on 03/09/2005 5:23:16 PM PST by sweetliberty ("To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.")
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Yep but that's the mind set of some of the folks in Phoenix not too bright is it?


9 posted on 03/09/2005 5:26:17 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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Nope.


10 posted on 03/09/2005 5:28:03 PM PST by sweetliberty ("To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.")
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It's about time she grew some backbone!

Don't be fooled. Janet is an ambitious girl, and she wants Johnny's Senate seat someday. So she isn't gonna do anything at all to screw that up, like a certain governor of California who didn't see the train coming.

She would hand over Arizona to Fox tomorrow if she thought she could. She's just cagier than that.

11 posted on 03/09/2005 5:33:15 PM PST by Regulator
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I wish she would hand AZ of to FOX the FOX owned by Murdock of FNC. At least then we might stand a chance. To el Zorro? We'd think the things Santa Ana did on his march to the Alamo were kind in comparison.


12 posted on 03/09/2005 5:36:47 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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"...because I don't want to." and "...that's a matter of Arizona voter sovereignty, quite frankly."

Well hello, Janet. Is this an epihpany? Or are you running for reelection?

13 posted on 03/09/2005 6:14:33 PM PST by HiJinx (They're not vigilantes, they're undocument Border Patrol agents.)
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more like emulating the HildaBeast.
14 posted on 03/09/2005 6:20:27 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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Well hello, Janet. Is this an epihpany? Or are you running for reelection?

I call the latter...

15 posted on 03/09/2005 6:27:27 PM PST by kstewskis ("Tolerance is what happens when one loses their principles"....Fr. A Saenz.)
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FYI: Murdock might own FoxNews, but he publicly endorsed and campaigned for John Kerry.


16 posted on 03/09/2005 6:30:13 PM PST by Happy2BMe (Government is not the solution to our problem, government *IS* the problem.)
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BTTT


17 posted on 03/09/2005 6:32:52 PM PST by Happy2BMe (Government is not the solution to our problem, government *IS* the problem.)
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"Napolitano said during her weekly media briefing she won't sit down with them. Asked why, she responded curtly, "because I don't want to."

Something stinks about her sudden change of heart. I wouldn't even begin to trust her.


18 posted on 03/09/2005 6:37:10 PM PST by dljordan
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OUCH!!!! Ok let me change that I want Napie to sell the state to Laura Ingraham and Ann Coulter in a limited partnership with a 10% interest to Dr. Savage.


19 posted on 03/09/2005 6:38:23 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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Have you got a Rep who will stand up with the brass she's showing.

>>Breaking News! AZ Gov finds Backbone! Say:....she won't sit down with them. Asked why, she responded curtly, "because I don't want to."<<

This sounds like PMS, the last week of the month, been turned down by a sexy flame or she got her butt chewed out by somebody further up the ladder.

Oh well, somedays you're the dog, others you're the hydrant.


20 posted on 03/09/2005 6:39:41 PM PST by B4Ranch (The Minutemen will be doing a 30 day Neighborhood Watch Program in Cochise County, Arizona.)
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