Posted on 05/03/2010 9:10:39 AM PDT by george76
Under the Mexican law, illegal immigration is a felony, punishable by up to two years in prison. Immigrants who are deported and attempt to re-enter can be imprisoned for 10 years. Visa violators can be sentenced to six-year terms. Mexicans who help illegal immigrants are considered criminals.
The law also says Mexico can deport foreigners who are deemed detrimental to "economic or national interests," violate Mexican law, are not "physically or mentally healthy" or lack the "necessary funds for their sustenance" and for their dependents.
The Arizona law, which is set to take effect in midsummer, authorizes state and local law enforcement officers — during lawful stops only — to determine the immigration status of people for whom there is "reasonable suspicion" that they are in the country illegally. Known as Senate Bill 1070, it was enacted in response to a dramatic rise in violence along the Arizona-Mexico border.
Reasonable suspicion is a legal standard requiring that before someone is arrested or detained there must be reasonable belief that the person has been, is or is about to be engaged in criminal activity.
A Rasmussen Reports poll has found that 70 percent of likely voters in Arizona approve of the legislation, while 23 percent oppose it.
Half of the nearly 1 million illegal border crossings into the United States each year occur in Arizona, according to a report by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), which also said Arizona taxpayers spend more than $2 billion a year on education and health care for illegal immigrants and their children.
"The porous border is virtually a welcome mat for criminal organizations that run drugs and other contraband through the state," the immigration watchdog group said, adding that kidnappings in Phoenix are at a record high.
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Arizona should have adopted the Mexican illegal alien laws word for word. Liberal heads would still be exploding.
Mexico doesn’t recognize “anchor babies” as citizens either.
Does Kalifornya boycott Mexico over their illegal immigration laws?
Nazis! Racists!!
Do NOT try to present facts to Libs; it leaves them ‘no choice’ other than to riot, beat you, and vandalize the town, all for ‘the greater good’.
No other country allows people to just show up and demand they be given a free ride or social benefits.
You can’t emigrate to Australia, for example, just because you want to. You have to have an advanced college degree in a field that they need to even be considered. It doesn’t matter even if you married one of their citizens, you don’t have a right to work there.
Nobody in their right mind believes we should accept these invaders. Send them home, and prosecute anyone that aids and abets their lawbreaking. Impeach politicians that refuse to enforce the law.
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