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Posted on 05/08/2011 1:25:58 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
While....Janet Napolitano wouldn't comment on Georgia's Arizona-like immigration bill, she said Saturday that state legislative initiatives are not the way to address the issue.
"This is what [President Barack Obama] has said and I’ve been saying, state by state won’t cut it," Napolitano said in a speech to the Atlanta Press Club. "It’s got to be a federal reform of immigration laws."
....Brian Robinson, a spokesman for [GA Gov] Deal, said the governor agrees Congress must address the issue, but said talks in Washington fall apart because Democrats insist on amnesty. In the meantime, states are burdened with the cost associated with illegal immigration such as schools, police and health care, he said.
"We are taking action in the only way that we can," Robinson said.
Napolitano argued that illegal immigration is down 36 percent and said Homeland Security has beefed up audits of employers to catch those who hire illegally.
What troubles her is that the debate on the issue suggests the federal government is asleep at the wheel.
"I think these efforts on a state by state level first of all have predicated a falsity," she said. "The falsity is that there has been nothing done, and that the border somehow is out of control. That is incorrect."
Rep. Matthew L. Ramsey, R-Peachtree City, who introduced HB 87, said he applauds any effort the federal government has made to curb illegal immigration. But he said the fact remains that states, which have had to cut budgets across the board in one of the worst recessions in history, cannot afford to fund those who are here illegally.
"Any suggestion that states should continue to wait for the federal government to do something, with all due respect, is laughable," he said. "We have been hearing that for decades."
(Excerpt) Read more at ajc.com ...
Funny how the TSA can harass US Citizens at airports and now of course they want to expand to train stations?
Don’t you know, the rule of law only applies to you and I and conservatives all, but not to illegals or Dems. Get with the program.
blackdog -=> But even media types have to weigh prior public statements when reporting on new ones? Or are they just that lazy?
Those are some darned good questions, dog. All I can tell you is from my own experience with the hard-core leftists in my family: There are no prior public statements; either ‘I mis-spoke’” or that’s in the past, why do you have too bring THAT up?” — the most-used is “I didn’t say that.”
How do we communicate with people so lacking in self-awareness that they don’t even know what they’ve said hours, days, months, or years ago?
My answer is “I don’t.”
Well, let’s call her bluff: introduce a rider in a bill funding the DHS authorizing all local and state LEOs to assist in immigration enforcement by doing exactly what the Arizona law authorized Arizona LEOs to do.
The immigration laws are there all they have to do is carry hem out.
True but the last president to do so was Ike D.C. is no longer a place for statesmen it’s a floor for lets make a deal.
Assume these illegals to be future GOP votes.
Bothe sides are guilty they have no excuse it’s a pure sell out of American laws.
Kral Marx smiles
They get to start all over again every day. Yesterday's words are just that. With such a habit pattern, they are responsible for nothing but hindsight and second guessing of others. The public's tolerance of the phenomenon is sickening. It's like "I'll love you in the morning."
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