Posted on 04/27/2011 11:49:14 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
President Barack Obama has waded into the fierce debate over illegal immigration in Georgia, strongly criticizing the state’s Arizona-style legislation on immigration enforcement.
In an interview with WSB-TV Tuesday, Obama said of House Bill 87: “It is a mistake for states to try to do this piecemeal. We can’t have 50 different immigration laws around the country. Arizona tried this, and a federal court already struck them down.”
“The truth of the matter is that we’ve done more on enforcement than any previous administration,” he said. “We have more border patrols. We have been engaging in serious enforcement crackdowns on employers who are hiring undocumented workers.”
The author of HB 87 -- Republican Rep. Matt Ramsey of Peachtree City -- issued a prepared response Wednesday, saying Georgia has been forced to take action because the federal government has failed to secure the nation's borders. Illegal immigrants, Ramsey said, are sapping Georgia's taxpayer-funded resources.
"Unlike the federal government, the state of Georgia actually balances its budget each year and we simply cannot afford to wait on solutions from Washington, D.C.," Ramsey said in an e-mail. "We will continue to take decisive and necessary action as a state to enforce the rule of law and protect our citizens from the problems posed by the federal government’s failure to live up to its most basic responsibility to secure our nation’s borders."
Meanwhile, a spokeswoman for Gov. Nathan Deal has confirmed the Republican governor intends to sign the bill some time in the first two weeks of May.
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Obama can’t do jack about this Georgia immigration law. He’s complaining just to keep the Hispanics voting for him in 2012
Obama can use this video to maybe help him pull his own head out of his ass.....
http://miles.obrien.wimp.com/videos43ll/cad3add30ad616d71ba30ddc02c24b2f_cork.flv
Ping!
The president has been criticized for failing to comment on the package of immigration laws Utah legislators approved in March. Among other things, Utah’s laws, which would go into effect in 2013, make it possible for illegal aliens to hold a job.
“This is hypocritical,” U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, said in a statement to the Associated Press. “If (the Justice Department) chooses not to take legal action against Utah’s unconstitutional law, it will be clear the Administration bases their decisions on their own political views rather than constitutional principle.”
Does anyone else think these "Hispanic-owned stores" are owned by anchor babies all grownup? This, IMHO, is a good example of why Deal needs to sign the bill ASAP. Every day we have more illegal immigrants giving birth to children who will, one day, be putting their ethnicity and pocketbooks before what's good for our state.
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