Arizona passes border law criminalizing illegal aliens
Arizona lawmakers have approved legislation that would criminalize the presence of illegal aliens and seeks to cut off job opportunities that attract illegal border crossers.
"The House and Senate may not get anything done. So we have an obligation to respond, since this is not just a national border [that's being compromised], it's the Arizona border," said state Rep. Russell Pearce, lead sponsor of the bill that passed the Legislature Thursday.
The bill, which calls for revoking business licenses for repeatedly hiring known illegal aliens and bars illegals from some state services including child care and adult education, has passed both chambers of the Republican-controlled Legislature, but is expected to be vetoed by Gov. Janet Napolitano, a Democrat,
Mrs. Napolitano earlier vetoed a bill that would have expanded the state's trespassing statutes to allow the arrest of illegal aliens who wind up there. She has vowed to veto any further measures that would have this same effect.
"Shame on her if she does veto it," said Mr. Pearce yesterday, adding it is the first time the Legislature has passed a tough immigration-reform law and provided money to enforce it.
"People are fed up, and this would take jobs away from illegals and the free stuff they are now getting."
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http://www.washtimes.com/national/20060526-110741-1674r.htm
The Senate's amnesty pill
On Thursday, by a vote of 62-36, the Senate passed a reckless immigration bill which, among other things, grants amnesty to the estimated 11 million illegal aliens already in the country; paves the way for a projected 66 million additional immigrants by 2026; creates a temporary-worker program which Sen. Jim DeMint rightly called "neither temporary nor work-based"; allows illegals to enjoy Social Security and tax-credit benefits for illegal labor; lacks the tougher border controls proposed by Sen. Johnny Isakson; cuts by nearly half the 700-mile barrier the House proposed for the southern border; guts what little immigration-enforcement powers local police might wield; increases long-term federal spending by an estimated $30 billion or more; and might even require consultation with Mexico to construct barriers along the border. If this isn't immigration abdication, we don't know what is.
http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20060526-093027-7390r.htm
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Vicente Fox: Senate Bill a Reward for Mexicans
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/5/27/101759.shtml
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It begins: MSM slants immigration battle in favor of Senate bill
The moment of truth is at hand, my friends. Will you side with the angry, hardline, doctrinaire forces of darkness? Or with those who have brought “compassion” to this benighted land?
It’s not just the New York Times, of course. Mickey Kaus catches his hometown paper engaged in the same garbage and calls them on it. Loudly. And the Chicago Tribune’s blog reports that mean old Jim Sensenbrenner is dissing the Senate. He gots to RECOGNIZE.
http://hotair.com/archives/the-blog/2006/05/26/it-begins-msm-slants-immigration-battle-in-favor-of-senate-bill/