CA: GOP group plans bill to bar aid for illegal immigrants (California Republican Assembly)

Sna Diego Union-Tribune ^ | 8/4/04 | Michael Gardner - Copley News Service

[judgeandjury]

Priceless quote from the guy who wants to give you know whom drivers' licenses. If they are here to work, there should be no problem with their not mooching off the taxpayers. Something I'm sure Gil Cedillo can appreciate.

Cedillo is an American-In-Name-Only. At heart, he's a passionate racist who always places race before nationality. The only thing that Cedillo cares about is helping his fellow Latinos, and that includes Latino illegal aliens.

[heleny]

I think it failed for lack of sufficient time. We've got six months to place it on the March 2006 primary ballot. Let's roll!

Maybe they had a self-imposed deadline to try to get it on this fall's ballot. I can't remember.

[Happy2BMe]

Trust me. When this gets appealed by any one of the SUPER-POWERFUL Mexican lobby machines and hits the desk of the first appellate district judge (or the 9th Circus if it makes it that far), it will be deader than Lori Hacking's baby.

[goldstategop]

Is there a constitutional right for illegal aliens to receive benefits and services NOT required by federal law? I haven't seen one.

[Happy2BMe]

"Is there a constitutional right for illegal aliens to receive benefits and services NOT required by federal law? I haven't seen one."

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It's protected under the "rights" given them by the oligarchy.

[bam]

Is there a constitutional right for illegal aliens to receive benefits and services NOT required by federal law? I haven't seen one.

IIRC, the federal judge ruled the original 187 unconstitutional by saying that the State of CA was usurping (with 187) the rights of the federal government which has sole authority for determining immigration policy and enforcement.

IMO, logically it would be the other way around. That is, states that knowingly give benefits (not required or specifically allowed by federal law) to illegal immigrants are usurping the immigration regulatory power of the federal government because by giving those benefits the state is determining that it is okay to be here to get the benefit -- but lawfully only the federal government can say it's okay to be here.

I may be mistaken, but I think the Kansas Kobach lawsuit which deals with giving in-state tuition to illegal aliens is based on that line of thinking. Also, why would Hatch need the Dream Act to give states the right to give in-state tuition, if they already have that right?

[bam]

Thanks for the info.

[South40]

If approved by voters, the initiative would bar undocumented immigrants from collecting retirement, welfare, unemployment or disability checks. They would not qualify for housing subsidies or food stamps. And they would no longer be eligible for cheaper in-state college tuition or receive loans and scholarships.

The fact that they are eligible for these things now shows how F'd up this state really is.

Retirement? From whom?

[South40]

Stop handouts to ILLEGALS ping!