States may get stuck with migrant tab

arizonarepublic.com ^ | November 2, 2002 | Sergio Bustos

[varon]

1. Any illegal alien charged with a felony is not a criminal -- he is an invader.

He is an enemy combatant out of uniform which eliminates Geneva Convention protection and is subject to immediate execution by the state militia ;-)

[TheLion]

Care to comment?

[FITZ]

Should the sheriff inforce his own immigration laws, what would he do with the illegals?

No the sheriff shouldn't. If someone is driving recklessly or drunk, lacks insurance, lacks a driver's license and can't prove he is an American then the sheriff should call INS. If someone breaks a law and doesn't appear to be an American, the same thing. Sheriffs shouldn't try to be like border patrol and stop people to check.

[TheLion]

If the Federal Government isn't doing its job, do the states have any rights?

[rintense]

Well I'm all for getting the RATS out. But the Bush admin. also bears the blame for this, especially since 911 and the Malvo thing.

[mhking]

It's yet another plan by and for the Dems to keep the nation's purse-strings in hand. Each and every one of the employees of the agencies involved are (at least if you listen to the Dems story) beholden to them, and should pay tribute in the form of support and votes.

In other words, more Democratic bilgewater.

[A. Pole]

Until we get the DemoRats out of office, insanity and chaos will reign.

I don't know. It looks to me like bipartisan policy.

[TheLion]

Too bad Buchannan wasn't electable. Maybe he could have kicked some butts!

[rintense]

Too bad Buchannan wasn't electable. Maybe he could have kicked some butts!

Yikes. I used to agree with some of his ideas. Now I think he's just insane and unrealistic. OTOH, the immigration problem couldn't get much worse.

[FITZ]

Maybe they need their own border patrol to keep illegals out of their states. I think though we need to insist on the federal government doing it's job and local law enforcements can assist when they happen to encounter an illegal breaking the law.

Everything else gets too complicated. If you have citizens involved in stopping illegals, they're going to make mistakes. Same thing with local law enforcement, they shouldn't look for illegals but keep looking for other types of law breakers and call the proper agency when one of those is an illegal.

[TheLion]

"bipartisan"...have allways disliked that word for some reason. The Republicans are, imo, afraid of what the Democrats will say if they bring it up. Charges of racism etc. Locally may be the only way to attack the problem.

[TheLion]

I've allways wondered why Bush didn't clean house, especially in the INS. I know Clinton did when he came in office.

[TheLion]

"OTOH, the immigration problem couldn't get much worse". When it gets bad enough, we are ripe for someone that is far out there in ideology....probably ripe for a dictator.

[USA21]

U.S. frees illegal immigrant mistaken for sniper

AFP - 10/31/2002

WASHINGTON - One of two illegal migrants picked up by police on suspicion of being the Washington-area sniper has been set free, a U.S. immigration official announced.

Edgar Rivera Garcia, a Mexican, was released from an Immigration and Naturalization Service detention center in Philadelphia after Mexican diplomats intervened. Rivera and a friend from Guatemala were arrested in an operation involving hundreds of police at a gas station in Richmond, Virginia, south of Washington D.C. on Oct. 21.

Police believed Garcia and his friend, who were driving a white van when they were arrested, might have been snipers who were terrorizing the area because their vehicle matched witness descriptions.

An immigration judge granted Rivera the right to leave the country voluntarily by January 2003 and set a 3,000-dollar bail, INS spokesman Nicky Edwards said.

The INS released no news on the Guatemalan also arrested.

The Mexican consul in Philadelphia, Juan Zavala, said his government put up the bail and has funds to hire lawyers for cases like this.

Rivera, a 24-year-old carpenter, lives in Virginia with his wife and three young daughters, Zavala told AFP.

He will return to Mexico in December, but it is unclear if his family will follow, Zavala added.

John Allen Muhammad, 41, and John Lee Malvo, 17, were arrested on Oct. 24 and charged in the sniper attacks that killed 10 and wounded three in the Washington region.

[USA21]

1999this was in the washington times on jan 13

[FlyVet]

All people employing illegal aliens will also be arrested and fined.

That is a key, for sure. I'd even go for heavy fines without the arrest. Make them pay for deficits to schools, hospitals, and prisons. Let the business survive, but force them to hire citizens or legal guest workers. If that's not "compassionate" enough for our guv, or Prez Fox, let them eat cake. Asking for Fed $$$ to cover the cost of illegals, as Kyl is doing, is a band-aid, as you know. AZ is going bankrupt, and the illegals problem isn't helping. It's nuts.

[ChadGore]

WIN ONE FOR THE GIPPER

Vote on Tuesday.

Do the right thing.

[B4Ranch]

Take them to the County Line and say Adios.

[TheLion]

Why don't you run for Sheriff...not a bad idea. When you drop them off at the border, call the adjacent county and let them know! Maybe they will get the idea.

[TheLion]

Have you seen this thread?