Posted on 07/31/2002 7:42:38 PM PDT by Selmo
Well I don't diagree with you .. but when some folks talk about my way or the high it tends to scare voters which is exactly what the liberals want .. The Votes
Yes, but that might change so that the alien felons can avoid deportation after serving their sentences, according to a guest/caller on the Roger Hedgecock show last Friday, 7/26.
Last week, 7/23/02, the House Judiciary committee held a Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session where they voted for Barney Frank's "Family Reunification Act of 2001", H.R. 1452, which has this in the summary, among other things:
revise the conditions under which the Attorney General may cancel the removal of certain aliens from the United States, including cancellation of removal for humanitarian or public benefit reasons for certain aliens convicted of aggravated felonies.
While Ashcroft might be careful with granting exceptions, a future AG, perhaps under a liberal administration, might let many released felons stay in this country. We have enough home-grown felons; we don't need alien felons to stay here, too, just so they can stay with their families. They should have thought of the deportation risk before committing their crimes.
5 Republicans on the committee voted with Democrats for this bill, including Darryl Issa (North county San Diego, CA) and Committee Chairman Sensenbrenner, saying that having the AG make the decisions is better than having Congress pass private bills to grant exceptions. 15 Republicans voted against HR1452.
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(b) CANCELLATION OF REMOVAL FOR CERTAIN OTHER PERMANENT RESIDENTS FOR URGENT HUMANITARIAN REASONS OR SIGNIFICANT PUBLIC BENEFIT- Section 240A of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1229b) is amended by adding at the end the following:
`(f) CANCELLATION OF REMOVAL FOR CERTAIN PERMANENT RESIDENTS FOR URGENT HUMANITARIAN REASONS OR SIGNIFICANT PUBLIC BENEFIT-
`(1) IN GENERAL- In the case of an alien otherwise eligible for cancellation of removal under subsection (a), except that the alien has been convicted of an aggravated felony that renders the alien unable to satisfy the requirement in subsection (a)(1)(C), the Attorney General may cancel removal of the alien under such conditions as the Attorney General may prescribe, but only--
`(A) on a case-by-case basis for urgent humanitarian reasons, significant public benefit (including assuring family unity), or any other sufficiently compelling reason; and
`(B) after making a written determination that the cancellation of removal poses no danger to the safety of persons or property.
`(2) RELEASE FROM DETENTION PENDING DECISION- Subsection (a)(4) shall apply to release of an alien applying for cancellation of removal under this subsection in the same manner as such subsection applies to an alien applying under subsection (a).'.
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I agree. It is actually about not deporting convicted felons released from jail. It also waives deportation for some regular aliens and allows deported foreigners to return.
The requirement is for "humanitarian or public benefit," but family unification appears to qualify.
Gray Davis' administration did not try to defend Prop. 187, but constantly tries to make the state attractive to illegal aliens -- low-cost health insurance, welfare, in-state (subsidized) tuition rates for illegals to attend college, etc. The Anaheim police accept Mexican consular ID's now, even though illegal aliens aren't even supposed to be here. The L.A. county ballots (presumably for actual citizens) are available in many languages, but immigrants can sue if the translations have errors.
If immigration were only a federal matter, California should stop providing so many incentives to aliens to avoid undermining federal policy.
Not to mention drug dealers and child molesters, who obviously have low rates of true rehabilitation.
from the article: One of every seven prison beds in California is occupied by a criminal illegal immigrant, officials said.
If 1/7 are illegal aliens, how many are/were legal aliens? Permanent resident aliens who commit felonies are supposed to be deported after serving their jail sentences, too.
Deportation of felons is our chance to prevent further crime by bad people who slipped through the INS sieve. If the INS mistakenly allowed a criminal to be here legally, he should lose that privilege once he commits crime.
HR1452 gives the Attorney General the authority to perpetuate that mistake, given as flimsy a reason a "family". Many aliens have "family" in their home countries, too. If the felon stays here, he many commit more crime and land in jail again. Given the 3-strikes laws, he might even have a sentence enhancement, costing the state more, even though it all might have been prevented by deporting and blocking re-entry.
I think HR1452 will increase incarceration costs in the future. Since Feinstein seems somewhat concerned by illegal immigration, I hope she votes against this bill if it ever reaches the Senate.
Maybe because the average American doesn't know what this is??
You guys bring them in, you pay to keep them in jail.
I don't see why the rest of us have to help.
Luis, if you were a Californian in '94 would you have voted for prop 187? You know, the successful measure intended to cut off benefits to illegals, with the exception of educational and emergency medical?
It was a federal judge that threw it out, it is the federal government that refuses to effectively guard the borders, and the federal government that refuses to police the enterior.
Maybe if the rest of the country has to help pay the costs of illegal immigration they'll realize it for the problem that it is.
Prop 187 had a problem in its wording if I remember correctly. The benefits should have been rolled back at the State level without voting into place such a flawed proposition. I would have voted for it, but I would have known that it was going to be seriously challenged as discriminatory.
You can't target legislation against a specific group of people, it will always be challenged in Court as discriminatory.
I would furthermore, vote out of office every politico that even dreams about more welfare programs.
California does the exact opposite.
Ants.........
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