[Vaquero]

you do it and enforce your borders and when make the feds deploy an expeditionary punitive force against the governator....you get all that great public attention....and its incument upon all border states to do this and do it now........

[G.Mason]

Will anything like this be even possible given the makeup of the courts?

Methinks the cart is before the proverbial horse on this one.

[JesseJane]

[snip]

• MALDEF opposes immigration reform.

• MALDEF opposes securing the Mexican border even to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the U.S. When the Federal government launched ''Joint Task Force Six'' to combat drug smuggling along the border, MALDEF filed suit to halt the project arguing in court that ''it would cause irreparable damage to the human and physical environment in the area.'' What of the irreparable damage being done to the human and environment due to illegal aliens and drug smugglers? On that question, MALDEF is silent.

What is MALDEF's goal? According to Mario Obeldo, former head of MALDEF, ''California is going to be a Hispanic state. Anyone who does not like it should leave.'' In 1998, Obledo was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Clinton.

Who is LULAC, MALDEF, MEChA/MEXA, and La Raza, pillars of the radical ''Hispanic'' lobby ?? click here

[FreedomCalls]

If the have legal "agricultural inspection stations" that all vehicles have to submit to when entering California (even from other states' borders -- not just across the international border) then why can't they have immigration inspection stations?

[FreedomCalls]

Legal experts had mixed views yesterday about whether the courts would allow California to create a border patrol to control illegal immigration

What would be the legal difference between this agancy and the California National Guard? Aren't they charged with protecting the state's borders?

[goldstategop]

States have the right and the duty to step in when the federal government isn't addressing the issue. Just like states should be able to with hold benefits from illegal aliens where this isn't mandated by federal laws. And unfunded federal mandates on the states like EMTALA should be repealed.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[Cold Heart]

Too many "Legal experts". Hire more state police and send them to the "high crime" border area. Call them lettuce police or something.

[BJungNan]

The courts will not allow California to police its own state. Now I have heard everything.

[kellynla]

And BTW, where is our illustrious CA Attorney General?
Under his desk?


CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE 5 EXECUTIVE


SEC. 13. Subject to the powers and duties of the Governor, the
Attorney General shall be the chief law officer of the State. It
shall be the duty of the Attorney General to see that the laws of the
State are uniformly and adequately enforced. The Attorney General
shall have direct supervision over every district attorney and
sheriff and over such other law enforcement officers as may be
designated by law, in all matters pertaining to the duties of their
respective offices, and may require any of said officers to make
reports concerning the investigation, detection, prosecution, and
punishment of crime in their respective jurisdictions as to the
Attorney General may seem advisable. Whenever in the opinion of the
Attorney General any law of the State is not being adequately
enforced in any county, it shall be the duty of the Attorney General
to prosecute any violations of law of which the superior court shall
have jurisdiction, and in such cases the Attorney General shall have
all the powers of a district attorney. When required by the public
interest or directed by the Governor, the Attorney General shall
assist any district attorney in the discharge of the duties of that
office.

[gubamyster]

ping

[NormsRevenge]

Why the surge in interest by the Gub about illegals and borders?

[festus]

After the great depression started and folks started streaming into california the mayor of one of the cities ( not even the governor mind you ) sent his police to the border of California to turn away US citizens attempting to enter the state.

Now we can't even have the state turning away foreign illegals.

Boy do times change.

[goldstategop]

Its not an expansion of government. Its actually a means of enhancing public safety. The first obligation of a government in a civilized society is to to ensure safe communities and enforce the laws. Especially immigration laws that are neglected. Even the Los Angeles Times Sacramento Bureau Chief, George "Slumberin'" Skelton, a committed Lefty, agrees the idea of a California Border Patrol is an idea whose time has come. Voters would approve it handidly and its not about the money - I'd pay whatever it costs to make sure enough 9/11 never happens again on our shores. California can once again be a trendsetter for the rest of the country.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)