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Thanx for bringing up the Clear Act - Best! Many of us are not aware of all bills and that is why FR is invaluable!

From The Hill (a great site!)

Norwood criticizes Baca on CLEAR Act

From Rep. Charlie Norwood (R-Ga.):

I was shocked to read in The Hill last week (“Norwood bill rekindles debate on role of local law enforcement units”) a quote from my colleague, Rep. Joe Baca (D-Calif.), reacting to my bill, The CLEAR Act (H.R. 2671) — bipartisan legislation to address the criminal alien crisis in our nation.

His quote read: “They could arbitrarily select any individual. People like me; I’m dark-skinned. And they’ll ask me for identification.”

That is 100 percent wrong. Here’s what The CLEAR Act is: A bipartisan bill that clarifies for our nation’s 600,000 local and state law officers their inherent legal authority to enforce U.S. immigration laws in the normal course of carrying out their everyday duties. It also gives them the appropriate funding, training, and access to data they need to effectively do this.

The CLEAR Act most definitely is not a bill to promote racial profiling, as Rep. Baca suggests.

I wish Joe would have taken the opportunity to explain how we can fix our badly broken immigration system, which has given us 80,000 criminal aliens and just 2,000 federal agents to find them. Or even why he apparently thinks our local and state law enforcement officers are incapable of enforcing immigration laws during the normal course of their duties without engaging in racial profiling. Instead, Joe chose to engage in ethnic scare tactics. That’s too bad.

We’re left to wonder. Maybe Joe thinks the system we have is just fine – and putting criminals back on the street is not such a bad policy? Who knows?

What we do know is that Joe’s ethnically divisive response has no place in today’s debate. Putting 80,000 criminals back on the street is not the problem or concern of just one ethnic group – but instead, all Americans.

Washington, D.C.

I wish Joe would have taken the opportunity to explain how we can fix our badly broken immigration system, which has given us 80,000 criminal aliens and just 2,000 federal agents to find them.

Wonder if Joe Baca will answer Norwood's question about what he would do to fix the broken immigration system besides amnesty everyone and open the borders? Being a democrat I doubt it, he wants to make sure those illegal voters stick around.