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Congresswoman Sue Myrick unveiled the "Scott Gardner Immigration Act" Monday. The proposed legislation offers immigrations reforms that are more strict, more far reaching than almost anything that had been suggested before including requiring local cops in Charlotte and across the United States to be immigration police. Gardner was the Gaston County man killed this summer by a drunk driver. The suspect was in the country illegally. “You're drunk, you're driving, you're illegal, you're deported, period,” Myrick said. Myrick’s act would put people like alleged drunk driver, Ramiro Gallegos, an undocumented immigrant with five previous DUI charges into a national FBI...

Lawmaker: Immigration staffing 'inexcusable'Four days after an N.C. man was killed in a car crash involving an illegal immigrant, U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick has asked federal immigration officials to explain why the state has just one deportation officer. Myrick, R-N.C., wrote to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and other officials about the death of Scott Gardner of Mount Holly, who was killed Saturday when his car was hit by a truck driven by an illegal immigrant later charged with driving while impaired.The wreck marks the fourth time in three years that Ramiro Gallegos, 25, of Supply in Brunswick County, has...

Rep. Sue Myrick of Charlotte, N.C., remains true to the values which swept conservatives into office during the 1994 Republican revolution. Sitting behind her desk in the Cannon House office building, Myrick needed little coaxing to outline the fundamental divide between Republicans and Democrats. "The biggest difference is the Democrats believe that government should run things and tell you what you can and can’t do with your money and with your life--they have a philosophy of bigger government," she asserted. "The Republicans have this philosophy of limited government--that you know how to spend your money better than the government does."...

I recently spoke out concerning how the Bush administration is handling our trade policies. Some in the media are saying I am blaming President Bush for policies for which I voted. Let me set the record straight.I voted for permanent normal trade relations for China, and I voted to give fast track authority to the president. In fact, I have voted for most "free-trade" agreements that have come before Congress.I believe in free trade as long as it is fair trade. I stand by my votes on each of these bills, because there were provisions in each that would help...

So what's behind the Bush bash? Sue Myrick criticize President Bush? Isn't that like Bat Girl criticizing Batman? In SueWorld, Dubya is the alpha and omega. If he says drink the Kool-Aid, Myrick gulps. But there it was. In print: "If he doesn't care about us," the U.S. representative said Tuesday to the Gaston County Chamber of Commerce, "we won't care about him come election time." Myrick called Bush "out of touch." Later, she said, "He was quick to help the steel industry, but not the textile industry." Myrick should be concerned about the jobs the Carolinas are losing. To...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use.Other Republicans have criticized the administration over trade issues BELMONT -- Addressing an audience in the heart of North Carolina's textile country, U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick lashed out at President Bush, calling him "out of touch" on trade issues and saying voters won't forget it in the next election. "If he doesn't care about us, we won't care about him come election time," Myrick, a Republican, told a Gaston Chamber of Commerce audience Tuesday at Belmont Abbey College. "People are angry," she said. "I understand why they are angry, and I agree...

Two N.C. Republican members of Congress have joined those calling on embattled Sen. Trent Lott to resign as the GOP's Senate leader. U.S. Reps. Sue Myrick and Cass Ballenger are the Carolinas' first Republican lawmakers to publicly say Lott should step aside. The Mississippi Republican ignited a firestorm this month after praising Sen. Strom Thurmond's 1948 segregationist presidential campaign during a birthday bash for the S.C. senator. "It's in the best interest of the country if he steps down as leader so we can move forward with what the people want us to do and this isn't an issue forever,"...