Posted on 07/18/2006 5:55:33 AM PDT by conservativecorner
State lawmakers are offering more than 500 bills this year targeting state-mandated services, illegal aliens and the employers who hire them, responding to a growing chorus of public opinion nationwide calling for stricter enforcement of immigration laws.
Led by Georgia, where benefits for illegal aliens were cut and stiff sanctions placed on employers who hire illegals, and by Colorado, which banned nonemergency services to those in the country illegally, at least 39 states have either proposed or passed similar legislation.
Lawmakers have focused on constituency concerns regarding an estimated 10 million to 12 million illegal aliens now in the country, resulting in rising costs for education and medical care, higher crime rates and exploitation by employers.
Georgia lawmakers passed and Gov. Sonny Perdue, a Republican, signed legislation this year requiring adults seeking benefits to prove their U.S. citizenship, sanctioning employers who hire illegals and requiring companies with state contracts to check employees' legal status. The Georgia laws also require police to check the legal status of people they arrest.
The bill's author, state Sen. Chip Rogers, called it "the strongest single bill in America dealing with illegal immigration -- bar none." He told The Washington Times that it was intended to send a message that "while the federal government is not enforcing its immigration laws, the state of Georgia takes those laws seriously."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
It is difficult to seriously consider what anyone says once they repeatedly use this bogus number. (read lie)
There have been reports that the actual number is 2 to 3 times that number, if not higher.
The American people would never be coerced into allowing 30-40 million lawbreakers a free ride, but 10 million does not seem so bad. Thus the repeated lie of 10-12 million.
Overcrowding the schools, overcrowding medical facilities, and generally causing chaos on the streets of small towns.
From your lips to God's ears!
FR Posted on 07/14/2006 9:49:06 AM PDT by SiliconValleyGuy
"We need to work together, which will require making tough choices to get a bill that is not perfect, but is meaningful, and fair and comprehensive" ... Karl Rove, speaking to La Raza, 11 July, 2006
The definition of ‘fair,’ (always a dangerous concept when viewed from a political-power, bureaucracy-entrenched perspective), appears to have taken a sharp left, anti-sovereignty, extra-Constitutional turn as seen through the eyes of the Bush administration and the majority of American ‘leadership’ in Washington:
Being ‘fair,’ according to Karl Rove and his powerful and growing ilk, appears to include:
* Having the fruits of the American citizens’/taxpayers’ labor siphoned off, by an increasingly unaccountable federal government, to pay for social services, education, legal fees and court costs for criminals who are living and working in this country illegally.
* Allowing citizens of another country, whose leadership is among the most corrupt in the world, to enter this country at will in order to feed like parasites off of a convoluted, cancer-ridden system of government that no longer bears any resemblance to the original-intent limited-government blueprint that once insured individual liberty, justice, and national sovereignty more practically and nobly than any other outline ever conceived by the mind of man.
* Allowing representatives of the Mexican government to have a say (sometimes even more of a say than the American citizenry) as to how, and how resolutely, we patrol the very borders across which their own countrymen are invading our republic.
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Rove told to La Raza that he and the illegals would work together to get amnesty, increase illegals' take from the US Treasury, and to deliver our Social Security system to Mexico. Now this is exceptionally significant in the context of Rove's behind-the-scenes campaign for Rudy Guiliani's 2008 candidacy. Rudy has the amnesty monkey on his back, and he won't be able to shake it off easily.
Gonna get a bit crowded in those elite liberal envclaves, won't it? Then again, maybe those "tolerant and compassionate" liberals will open their homes to the illegal squatters.
"Karl Rove on "Fairness"
Correction: This is Karls new nic here on FR.
KarLaRazaRove.
KarLaRazaRove.....gotta remember that one.....LOL.
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States doing the jobs the Nation won't.
I go with the figure of 20 million illegal immigrants as estimated by
the Wall Street firm Bear Stearns.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0516/p01s02-ussc.html
Bear Stearns is in the bidness of MAKING money, hence they have a real interest in
getting good numbers.
Unlike the guvmint and other entities.
This article tosses in as fact that Federal law requires public education be provided for illegals.
Does anyone know if that is actually true ? I hear it tossed out as fact so often, yet it seems hard to believe such an unfunded mandate could extend to someone who is living here in violation of Federal law.
Doing the job that Congress won't do.
Hazelton set a great example and it should be followed across the country. Unfortunately, it took violence and loss of life for it to happen. We need to get our borders secured and our laws enforced before our illegal invaders, our 'reconquistas' become to us, what the Palestinians are to Israel.
Every time I read about another state or local politician taking on the job that the Federal government won't do, I e-mail them. It's surprising that they e-mail back and are grateful to hear from folks across the country sending encouragement and support!
But...I thought border enforcement advocates had been discredited! That's what amnesty pushers were telling us....funny how the laws are going through then, isn't it?
Anyway, this is what I prefer. Force action on the state level. Delay any bills till G.W.B.'s out of office. Find someone that will enforce the laws we already have on the books in the '08 Republican primaries and get them elected. That's my goal and, so far, it's on track.
My tagline .....
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