Posted on 04/20/2010 3:58:47 PM PDT by pissant
WASHINGTON Hispanic leaders in the House of Representatives called Tuesday for President Barack Obama Tuesday to act against Arizona's anti-illegal immigration legislation and to throw his weight behind a comprehensive immigration overhaul.
Reps. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., and Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., demanded a halt to the bill that passed Arizona's Senate Monday. The state's House of Representatives passed it last week. If Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signs it into law, the bill would require immigrants to carry alien registration cards with them at all times and police to check people's immigration status whenever there's "reasonable suspicion" that they are in the country illegally.
Grijalva and Gutierrez said that if Brewer, a Republican, signs the bill into law, the Obama administration should step in to stop it.
"The president of the United States should simply say, 'On the issue of immigration, the Constitution is clear, my power is clear I'm going to regulate immigration in the United States from a federal level,'" Gutierrez said.
Thomas Saenz, president of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund who appeared with the congressmen at a news conference, said that the Department of Homeland Security could end agreements that allow Arizona law enforcement to police immigration laws or the Justice Department could challenge the initiative as a violation of civil rights law.
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Believe it or not, we actually have a bill for that too! The AZ legislature is like the iPhone: "There's a bill for that!"
You're gonna laugh. The other night on the news break on the radio, they described this bill as "making it a crime to be in this country illegally". I told Mrs. Thinking and she was speechless.
“Palin is not pro-illegal immigration. “
I didn’t say she was. However, she, like Bush/McCain and a whole host of other Republicans, is in favor of path to citizenship AMNESTY.
That’s what happens when you define words out of existence ... you have to invent a silly new locution to convey the original meaning.
I like “undocumented alien,” myself - as if they ran their US birth certificates and Social Security cards through the wash by accident.
So THAT's what happened to His Marxiness!
Yeah, amazing how now all of a sudden they want to suborn everything to the Presidency. I sure wasn't pushing that when Bush was in. (For fair disclosure, Bush wasn't nearly as conservative as Obama is liberal)
“I’m Puerto Rican. I was born in Chicago, and my family has been U.S. citizens for generations,” Gutierrez said. “But look at my face, listen to my voice. I’d probably get picked up in Arizona and questioned. Is that what we want in America?”
Thanks for the 10th Amendment ping, HiJinx; post, pissant.
I heard Michael Savage rip the POS Gutierrez tonight on his show. HOORAY Mike!
Nice! Many thanks to the people of AZ. Now let’s dump McCain and get the eligibility law passed. AZ folks are real patriots.
Democrats claiming The Constitution is clear?
Sure is on NBC. Show us the birth certificate.
WOW, you said IT ALL !!!
Those are FACTS, when is the REST of America going to WAKE UP and start PROTECTING THEIR COUNTRY ????
Congressmen like gutierrez ONLY WANT A PRESIDENT WHO HAS TO POWER TO DO ANYTHING HE WANTS TO ANYONE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA !!!!!
Congressmen like gutierrez PICK & CHOOSE ONLY what they want to use from the CONSTITUTION !!!!
“ONCE we had Ronald Reagan, Bob Hope & Johnny Cash”
NOW
“We have OBAMA, NO HOPE & NO CASH”
Well by all means these malcontent traitors should come down here and stop us. They should paint a great red target on their backs and save us a little time!
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