Posted on 08/19/2005 9:00:41 PM PDT by TERMINATTOR
Northern Marianas is adopting new immigration legislation designed to restrict illegal aliens.
Governor Juan Babauta says the law is timely because the territory is faced with the closure of some garment factories.
Most of the foreign workers affected by the closures are being repatriated.
Mr Babauta says the new law will allow officials to detect, detain and repatriate any foreigners who try to stay in the islands illegally.
Four major garment factories have already shut down on the main island, Saipan.
More than 2,300 foreign workers, mostly from China, lost their jobs due to the closures.
I wonder why neither of our two major political crime families, the Republicans and Democrat's, have managed to come up with anything as practical as this?
Of course we'd need a wall along the border first.
"Detect, detain and repatriate" - What a concept!
Common sense approach. Citizens should come first in a nation's job market, foreigners last. Why won't our government exercise any common sense?
You have to go to Saipan to find a Republican with spine?
Geeze, some w#$^&(ks are more enterprisiong than others; that is a LOOOONG swim from anywhere!
What's the problem then?
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