The man who made that statement, Cochise County Supervisor from Bisbee, Paul Newman, is a drunken jerk Democrat who is all in favor of "undocumented immigration".
Obviously the Dims have all agreed on a strategy to take the issue from the Stupid Party. Declare an Emergency, blame the Feds (they deserve it, actually!), demand cash, and portray yourself as a "concerned American" - while continuing to pander to the Reconquista gangsters.
You are grasping straws if you think that this action in Cochise county or the action of the govs of AZ-NM has anything to do with immigration reform or that this action indicates these people are moving to the right. You are also grasping straws if you think the democratic party or Hillary is moving to the right.
The facts:
Dems and Pubs of the border states are unified in trying to get the feds to re-imburse the border states for these costs. The problem is that members of Congress from non-border ststes refuse to appropriate the money.
As governer, Bush was very strident in trying to get the feds to re-imburse. As Prez, his 02-05 budget requests included money for re-imbursement, but congress wouldn't appropriate. His 06 budget dropped this only because he is trying to minimize the projected deficit. Within the last 2-3 months, Bush administatively moved to release un-tapped Medicaid money to re-imburse the states on medical costs. Of course, Bush was criticized for this by most everyone at FR. I have no doubt that you were one of the most strident complainers.
Currently, Kyl of AZ plus Cornyn and Hutchinson of Texas(republicans) are the leaders in trying to get Congress to appropriate, but all dems and pubs fom the border states are unified on this issue.
Yeah, and they want to get some more tax monies funneled into their district....
susie
Is he the county supervisor who runs a restaurant and bragged about hiring an illegal from El Salvador as a dishwasher, then personally transporting him to another state?