Posted on 03/28/2006 9:42:33 PM PST by NormsRevenge
SACRAMENTO - Frustrated by the federal government's inability to stop the flow of illegal immigration, the state's Republican lawmakers are attempting to put the squeeze on millions of undocumented workers, students and parents in ways unseen since the movement that led to Proposition 187 more than a decade ago.
Assembly and Senate Republicans have proposed 25 measures this legislative session that would restrict illegal immigrants' access to college, block state-funded benefits and encourage police officers to act as immigration agents.
Some of the measures will be vetted at committee hearings in the coming weeks and it's almost certain that most will be blocked by the Democrat majority. But supporters of the measures are counting on new momentum coming from the U.S. Congress, which is debating this week whether to criminalize illegal immigration, or approve amnesty for as many as 12 million undocumented people. And, even if their measures fail, Republican incumbents up for election can use fighting illegal immigration as a popular issue to rally their base in the November elections.
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Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a political analyst at the University of Southern California, said the flurry of immigration legislation has a lot to do with this being an election year.
``Both sides are looking at it as an issue that can mobilize their base,'' she said. ``For the Republicans, that base is the conservative activists. For the Democrats, it's labor, Latino voters.''
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Among the first in a new batch of bills to hit legislative committees is a bill by Sen. Dennis Hollingsworth, R-Temecula. His bill denies state aid to police departments whose officers don't fully cooperate with federal immigration authorities. That bill goes to the Senate Public Safety Committee on April 8.
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Very good idea. Go for it.
Let me get this straight. The lady at the mayor's office was "one of them" meaning illegal? And she laughed when the caller said some of her (the caller's) relatives were gassed? This is from Antonio "Villaracista's" office?
Ahhh, the good old days. Yep, how does that Prop 187 LOOK TO EVERYONE NOW? I wonder if anyone in California is getting a weeeee bit nervous about the illegals showing their collective a$$. Anybody out there starting to feel like their real American Citizenship is meaningless???? Anyone starting to have those "evil" secrete thoughts of railroad cattle cars being some sort of a solution to this disaster? Perhaps a nice big fat WALL AND FENCES?
No? Oh, sure you aren't. Right.
I hope you are right. Seeing the Mexican flags displayed - and the total lack of respect for the U.S. flag - make me sick.
Oh yes. So, I guess that answers the eternal question of "what ever became of. . . ?" Spreading her poison to USC and the world beyond.
"Let me get this straight. The lady at the mayor's office was "one of them" meaning illegal? And she laughed when the caller said some of her (the caller's) relatives were gassed? This is from Antonio "Villaracista's" office?'
this is what i heard from the woman, she didn't have any more details but she seemed shook up telling her account, i believe her.
Repubs can try, but it ain't gonna pass in the legislatures. Hell, we couldn't even get prop 187 into law.
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