Posted on 04/18/2006 10:18:22 AM PDT by BradtotheBone
Gov. Janet Napolitano vetoed a bill that would have criminalized the presence of illegal immigrants in Arizona, citing opposition from police agencies that want immigration arrests to remain the responsibility of the federal government.
The proposal would have expanded the state's trespassing law to let local authorities arrest illegal immigrants anywhere in Arizona, the nation's busiest illegal entry point. Congress also had considered criminalizing the presence of illegal immigrants in the country.
In a letter to lawmakers, Napolitano said she opposes automatically turning all immigrants who sneaked into the state into criminals and that the bill provided no funding for the new duties.
"It is unfortunate that the Legislature has once again ignored the officials who are most directly affected by illegal immigration and instead has passed yet another bill that will have no effect on the problem but that will impose an unfunded burden on law enforcement," Napolitano wrote Monday.
Supporters said the bill would have given Arizona a chance to get a handle on its vast border problems by providing a second layer of enforcement to catch the tens of thousands of immigrants who slip past federal agents each year.
Republican Sen. Barbara Leff of Paradise Valley, who proposed the bill, said the governor has painted herself as tough on illegal immigration by declaring a state of emergency at Arizona's border, but has taken little action to back up her rhetoric.
"I don't think the governor wants to do anything about this problem," Leff said. She said the bill would have been a means to detain illegal immigrants until federal agents can pick them up.
The Democratic governor, accused by her Republican critics of being soft on immigration, has vetoed other immigration bills from the GOP- majority Legislature within the past year, including a proposal to give police the power to enforce federal immigration laws.
While immigrants provide the economy with cheap labor, Arizona spends tens of millions of dollars each year in health care and education costs for illegal workers and their families. An estimated 500,000 of the state's population of about 6 million are illegal immigrants.
The only way I care to have our military ask questions of well armed intruders is with a note taped to the tip of a Hellfire missile.
As far as I'm concerned, armed border incursions should be regarded as an act of war.
She also acted earlier against law that would protect against voter fraud by illegal aliens.
Janet has now created a guaranteed pro janet constituency and has steered the country towards future civil strife.
All those potential illegal votes are too much for Janet to resist.
What a sell out!
This Dem wing nut socialist governor needs to go!
The problem in a nutshell:
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From Charles Krauthammer via Bill Hobbs:
The only conclusion one can draw is that for liberal Democrats, America's strategic interests are not just an irrelevance, but a deterrent to intervention. This is a perversity born of moral vanity. For liberals, foreign policy is social work. National interest - i.e., national selfishness - is a taint. The only justified interventions, therefore, are those which are morally pristine, namely, those which are uncorrupted by any suggestion of national interest.
Hence the central axiom of left-liberal foreign policy: The use of American force is always wrong, unless deployed in a region of no strategic significance to the United States.
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Viva Mexico! ( sarc.) What Janet fails to see is that she has assured one more step toward a future war with Mexico and eventual civil strife like Northern Ireland, in the Southern border states of the USA
I'd say the Arizona Republicans have their issue and need to nail her big time!
She retains the "Right to Confiscate Citizens Guns" should there be trouble while doing all she can to create it.
A while back she vetoed legislation that would permit Concealed Weapons Carry Holders from simply being in a restaurant that serves liquor even though they could not drink under the law while Carrying.
At the same time she refused to even speak for restricting Peace Officers from carrying
weapons while under the influence..
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Thursday, April 20, 2006
It's not surprising really.
The emergency powers reform bill that we have been alerting you to hit a bump in the road earlier this week when it landed on the desk of anti-gun Gov. Janet Napolitano (D).
SB 1425 would ban the confiscation of firearms and ammunition during a state of emergency, and prevent a repeat of what happened in New Orleans this past September, when police officials stole the firearms of law-abiding residents. (You can view this disgusting footage at http://www.gunowners.org/notb.htm on the GOA website.)
This common sense legislation overwhelmingly passed the Arizona House and Senate, but Gov. Napolitano showed her true colors by vetoing it.
The bill now goes back to both houses for an override attempt.
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