DeLay criticizes Houston's policy on illegal immigrants

Houston Chronicle ^ | August 5, 2005 | EDWARD HEGSTROM

[Cincinatus' Wife]

House Majority Leader Tom Delay

About Tom***.....A native Texan, Tom DeLay was born along the banks of the Rio Grande River in the historic border city of Laredo on April 8, 1947. During his childhood, the DeLay family lived in South America for a number of years. His father's career in the oil and gas industry required several job postings to Venezuela's rural interior, and the DeLay family made their home in small towns near the oil fields.

DeLay's years in Venezuela were a formative political experience. His family lived through the turbulence and uncertainty of three revolutions. Two of these events were violent, and neighboring townspeople died at the hands of marauding revolutionaries. DeLay points to this early exposure to political violence as the source of his lifelong "passion for freedom."......***

[GeronL]

Such a law will be over turned by a leftist judge who considers within his power to write the federal budget, "its in the Constitution somewhere I guess..." /sarcasm

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Then let's get it on!

[Nipplemancer]

it'll be overturned by a leftist judge deciding that immigration laws are violations of civil rights.

[Mo1]

He favors idea of withholding federal funding from cities that offer 'sanctuary'

I like the idea .. but I doubt it will get through the Senate

[balch3]

Tom is a great American, but he needs to be careful not to undercut President Bush on this. Let's not forget that the RATS are the real enemy. If this breaks down into intraparty strife over immigaration, they will be the big winners.

[Scribbz]

They are breaking into our house (USA) they (the illegals) should be treated as such!

[international american]

I'm with you. Defeat is not in my vocabulary!

[international american]

Bush dug his own grave, and he better wise up and fast.

[GeronL]

The true enemy is the false ideaology of liberalism (as its commonly know - leftism as it truly is)

[SealSeven]

Robbing a bank is a federal offense also. That doesn't stop law enforcement from arresting a robber.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

There is growing concern about this across the country.

August 5, 2005 - Virginia - Lingamfelter speaks against work centers***...........In October, 26 day laborers were arrested for loitering at the 7-Eleven at Longview Drive and U.S. 1 where they waited for work.

At the time of the arrests, police said they had gotten complaints of public drunkenness, littering and people urinating in public.

The day laborers said they were arrested on the grounds of the Covenant Presbyterian Church, where they had permission to wait.

After the arrests, community leaders in Prince William County formed a task force to study the issue.

The task force recommended that a work center be established for the county's day laborers.

Prince William Board of County Supervisors Chairman Sean T. Connaughton, R-at large, said the county does not support using county money to build or operate a day laborer work center.

Lingamfelter said immigration is a problem for the federal government, and localities should not be unduly burdened with building and operating day labor centers.

The federal government, Lingamfelter said, should better regulate immigration so there wouldn't be a problem.

"When you really look at this, this is symptomatic of a larger problem: 'Do we want our localities to be doing the federal government's job?' " Lingamfelter said.

Local money should be exempt from such considerations, Lingamfelter said.

"The truth of the matter is we need to spend our tax dollars guarding our borders, not building day care for day laborers," Lingamfelter said.

The Herndon Planning Commission voted down the proposal for a work center in the town.

The Herndon Town Council is expected to vote on the $170,000 facility Aug. 16, the Associated Press reported.***

[RoyalsFan]

So you want the majority of republicans to just shup up?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

August 5, 2005 - AP: Immigrants clash with locals on Long Island***...For more than a decade, immigrants from Mexico or Central America have been drawn to Long Island by the prospect of jobs. Many stand on street corners in Farmingville, waiting for contractors, landscapers and others to offer them a day's work at about $10 an hour. Then at night they go back to their illegally crowded single-family homes.

The immigrants, many of whom are thought to have entered the country illegally, have been a source of tension among longtime residents since at least the late 1990s, but things have gotten worse this summer — so bad that the head of the Mexican Consulate in New York City said Farmingville was "clearly a red zone after the Arizona border" in the abuse of immigrants....................***

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bush Interview: "This should not be an amnesty program"

[ArcadeQuarters]

Nice to see someone on the national level who wants to enforce the law and stop the flood of illegal Democrats.

[ncountylee]

"Before Congress takes any significant legislation, we must secure our nation's borders," he said.

Oh my God...He gets it!

[balch3]

I want republicans to show some consideration for the Presidednt, who is dealing with quite a few critical issues (like a war) and needs members of his party working with him, not against him. He already has the other party working against him night and day to try to bring him down. No doubt I will get called a Bushbot shortly.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

GOP courts consensus on border policy (There's a lot to chew on)

[babygene]

"but he needs to be careful not to undercut President Bush on this"

What a stupid thing to say... If Bush is wrong, he needs to be challenged on it. He's not the G. D. king...