Posted on 05/26/2006 10:57:22 PM PDT by soccer_maniac
PHOENIX (AP) - The Legislature approved a bill Thursday that would criminalize the presence of illegal immigrants in Arizona and provide $160 million to help authorities in the nation's busiest illicit entry point with their immigration crackdown.
The legislation also would set fines for businesses that continue to employ illegal immigrants after receiving warnings, require local police agencies to train officers in enforcing immigration law and deny education benefits to immigrants.
The bill, which was approved 33-22 by the House and 16-9 by the Senate, now goes to Gov. Janet Napolitano. Spokeswoman Jeanine L'Ecuyer declined to say whether the governor would sign it, but lawmakers on both sides of the debate predicted a veto.
Officials from Arizona's four border counties have urged Napolitano to reject the bill.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
About $50 million, to be distributed over two years, would go toward radars to help spot illegal border-crossers. Authorities would get another $2 million to crack down on illegal hirings.
The bill would require businesses to fire employees whose Social Security numbers are invalid. Illegal immigrants frequently use forgeries to meet federal employment eligibility requirements.
It would let state prosecutors seek civil penalties as high as $5,000 and the suspension or revocation of business licenses if an employer under investigation fails to stop employing illegal immigrants.
I predict that if she vetoes this bill, after all the other immigration vetoes she's done, she will sink her reelection ship. At least I hope so. I wish there was a nice website with a list of all the bills she has vetoed. I hear she has vetoed more than any other Arizona Governor.
States rights!
I've got $20 that the Jan "All Talk No Action" Napolitano refuses to sign it but moans and whines about how we need to do 'something' and how everybody 'should work together' to create a 'comprehensive' plan that is 'civil' and something referring to 'our humanity.' Any takers?
Here's my prediciton for what it is worth.
Shot down in the courts just like Prop 187 in California. I wa in Elementary school when that passed and I thought my teachers were going to crap a brick.
It passed with a HUGE margin and was signed by the governor and everything. Then the Mexican's lawyers took it to court and got the legislative branch to rebuff the will of the people.
Let me get this straight.
While the Democrat with an (R) next to his name, Arizona Senator McCain is busy giving away everything including the kitchen sink to illegal foreign nationals, the State of Arizona's legislature is trying to save itself from the bill Democrat Senator from Arizona, John McCain (R) significantly helped pass.
Hey McCain who do represent? yourself, or your state.
I know the answer.
Why to go Arizona!!!!!
Keep up the fight.
The best part of all is Sheriff Joe......he is already locking them up and putting them in tent city. God Bless the man, he is upholding the law and calling like it is.
Is this the new "white man's burden"?
"On June 26, Napolitano, in front of a cheering Hispanic audience at the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials annual convention, vetoed H.B. 2345, a bill that would have required voters to show identification at polling places.
Napolitano, seizing a photo-op, brought her red "VETO" stamp to the meeting to delight the partisan crowd as she killed the bill.
To make this ugly scene even more revolting, six of the nine announced Democratic Presidential candidates attended the NALEA conference; two others addressed the convention via satellite. (When will they start to wave pom-poms?)
Without an ID, illegal aliens—or anyone else, for that matter—cannot even rent a video at Blockbuster. But they could vote for Janet Napolitano, a lawyer who promotes law breaking.
And since Napolitano won by fewer than 13,000 votes in 2002, and with tens—if not hundreds—of thousands of illegals registered to vote in Arizona, little wonder she wants to keep that source open to her.
"In Arizona, we want people to vote," said Napolitano."
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Napolitano will get reelected.
We have a great conservative controlled legislature in Arizona. Too bad we have Janet Napalitano (Rat, Az) for a governor that veto's every bill that will stop the illegal invasion of Arizona.
Racist bastards. They obviously have an allegiance to something other than the USA.
Sheriff Joe is about upholding the law, that is what this, is all about...upholding the law, I have been in the Military for 10 active and now as a reservist, I have deployed many times......I would never dream of going to any other country, without proper paper work. I can't imagine having to constantly look over my shoulder... I like living in peace......
(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")
Now, if she's afraid of not getting reelected, then she may very well sign it. (Are Arizonas content to reelect a Democrat governor who exhibited more testosterone than Matt [Limp as a fish] Salmon? ) True, she runs the risk of alienating her alien base. But since ID is now required to vote in AZ, she may be writing them off.
Time to drink: She'll sign.
I wrote to McCain a while back to think of who he represents and not his own ego.
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