Posted on 05/10/2010 8:58:09 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
He has vowed to follow Arizona's lead and pass a tough new anti-illegal immigration law. “We are stopping the retreat. No more retreat,” he said in a local radio interview. “Federal government, if you are not going to do it, we are going to do it.”
Mr. McInnis's comments are but one example of how the Arizona firestorm has hardly scared off politicians in other states around the country. In some cases, it might actually be encouraging them.
Oklahoma is looking at passing tougher penalties for illegal immigrants caught with firearms. South Carolina might make it illegal to hire workers on the side of the road. In addition, state immigration legislation is also being considered in Idaho, Utah, Missouri, Texas, North Carolina, Maryland, Minnesota, and Colorado.
In many cases, the potential legislation is merely part of the perpetual national debate about immigration, which has taken form in more than 200 state-level immigration bills being signed into law each year from 2007 to 2009, notes Catherine Wilson, a political scientist at Villanova University in Philadelphia.
But there could be at least a shade of political opportunism as well, says Steven Schier, a political scientist at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn.
“This all means that Republicans elsewhere see political advantage in pressing for Arizona-style laws,” he says.
That would not be unprecedented.
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
It's catching
Thank God
Meanwhile in FL we have amazing RINO idiots like Crist and Rubio-Estefan.
The premises of this article are breathtaking! Ignore the 66% plus of all U.S. citizens who support the Arizona law and cite “the anger sparked by Arizona’s immigration bill nationwide – including protests and calls to boycott Arizona”. Thus, the will of the majority means nothing as long as there are those who throw a temper tantrum.
Of course, this line of reasoning could not possibly be applied to the Tea Parties! In that case the “anger” is a reprehensible attribute of the opposition which shows their inherent inclination towards violence.
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Whenever President Bush talked about immigration, his approval ratings went down.
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How, exactly, does Arizona's law "threaten[] to undermine basic notions of fairness"? Why is it unfair to enforce the immigration laws? Most Americans would say that it undermines basic notions of fairness when our government deliberately refuses to enforce the laws Congress has passed, to the disadvantage of our citizens. And as far as trust between police and "communities" is concerned--assuming we are talking about communities of American citizens--one would think it would improve trust if citizens can see that the laws are being enforced. It's funny, isn't it: liberals love to talk about the "rule of law" when they are trying to create never-before-seen "rights" belonging to enemy combatants. But where is the "rule of law" when the laws relating to immigration are studiously ignored, if not deliberately undermined?
What is most striking about Obama's harsh condemnation of the state of Arizona is its political myopia. It is hard, offhand, to think of precedents for a President denouncing a state law in such vituperative fashion. Evidently Obama doesn't think he has a chance of carrying Arizona in 2012--assuming that he intends to run for re-election, which I am starting to doubt. More broadly, he seems to have learned nothing from the Bush administration's experience with comprehensive immigration "reform."
I agree with you.
I guess the CSM missed all those polls showing how popular this law is. What 15% wanted it repealed?
See #6...
The question should be, “Why are 39 states ~not~ considering immigration bills?”
Arizona immigration law: Embarrassment or way forward for Republicans?
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Despite President Obama calling it "misguided" and given its potential for European-like paper-checking of citizens by police, the tough new Arizona immigration law provides something new for a Republican Party wandering in the wilderness: An impactful idea.
In signing the bill Friday afternoon, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) shook up the political world by calling the new immigration law a solution "to a crisis we did not create, and which the federal government has refused to address."
Taken together with hundreds of other anti-illegal immigration bills proposed and passed by state legislatures in recent years, the Arizona law, which gives police new powers to detain anyone suspected of being illegal, is also a repudiation by sidelined conservatives of George W. Bush's conciliatory stance on immigration.
The reply should be “MARYLAND?!? Maryland is actually gonna do something halfway gutsy for a change?!?”.
[just when I’d gotten used to everything in the stores having bilingual labels]
add michigan to that list
Because they are smart?
I think the Media is trying to get the sheeple back in line ....
The media can go —— themselves
Regardless of how this all turns out, I’m proud of Governor Brewer. It took a lot of courage to do this. She understands that Arizona is in deep financial trouble right now. We’ve got to find a way out of this mess that Napolitano left and this was an excellent start. My 2 cents.
Ping!
They all stink. The RINO FL GOP stinks. Bill McCollum is better than all three. He has a conseravtive running against him for gov and McCollum may lose.
If the Bush klan had let McCollum run instead of Mel Martinez than we would not be here.
Rubio blocked AZ-like bills in the FL house. Crist is just slime like Meek. Jeff Greene is another joke.
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