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2006-02-11 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Pappy 2006-02-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 If the proposal works, its only going to shift the flow of immigrants to other states, said Democratic Rep. Ben Miranda.

Whereupon those states will presumably take their own action to deal with the increase in the "flow". Once all four border states have similar measures in place, where is there left to go?

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2006-02-11 00:23|| 2006-02-11 00:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Build that fence.

This is the season of faster, higher, stronger. Go for it.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2006-02-11 01:01|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2006-02-11 01:01|| Front Page Top

#3
dittos,

Mo national guard, mo police, mo citizen volunteers, mo look down shoot down bumble bees....

Posted by RD 2006-02-11 05:07|| 2006-02-11 05:07|| Front Page Top

#4 The border is a mess, but what about the millions already here? I was encouraged by a recent meth bust bagged 30 illegals in Colorado, using sheriff's deputies, state police, Homeland Security, and ICE, but only after local citizens were fed up with the drug influx affecting their children. If the law was changed from requiring federal law enforcement only for immigration problems, the local sheriffs would love to take care of business. Congress has handcuffed itself.

Posted by Danielle 2006-02-11 10:18|| 2006-02-11 10:18|| Front Page Top

#5 Texas is also doing the same thing: Perry wants more DPS for border

Posted by ed 2006-02-11 11:54|| 2006-02-11 11:54|| Front Page Top

#6 "They also say investigating crime in immigrant communities could become more difficult, because fewer migrants would cooperate with police for fear of being sent home."

So the only way to ensure cooperation with law enforcement is "don't enforce the law"?

I wish the IRS would employ this doctrine.

"Local officers also lack understanding of complex immigration law, they say."

If that's true,then simplify it."If you're here illegally you're under arrest and will processed back to Mexico." See? That wasn't hard.

Posted by patrol 2006-02-11 14:08|| 2006-02-11 14:08|| Front Page Top

#7 Illegal immigration is a major threat to national identity and cohesion, both in Europa and in the USA, with the added feature of cultural and religious (muslim) secessionism for the former (can't tell how it works for the USA with latin immigrants, since the country has no Nanny-State to feed hostile "guests", I'm sure hispanics are not welfare-magnets).
Oil money has been bankrolling muslim immigration into Europe, is doing so in South America... this has a purpose, and I wouldn't be surprized if there was some kind of "second thought" from Mexico regarding mexican immigration into Southern USA.

I've already said I was ok with GWB in his international work, but from an outside pov,I have the impression he's not doing enough regarding illegal immigration when it comes to his domestic work, but then again I might be reading WND too much.

I've yet to read the Huntington essay ("Who we are" IIRC, had already enough trouble understanding the "clash"), but this issue should top the domestic agenda, even more so when it collides with terror, as with hate/separatist groups like la raza (IE paleostinian problem brewing, with invented people and "liberation struggle")

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-02-11 14:31|| 2006-02-11 14:31|| Front Page Top

#8 Americans agree. Bush is not doing enough against illegal immigration.

Posted by 2b 2006-02-11 14:36|| 2006-02-11 14:36|| Front Page Top

#9 Yes, everyone is against illegal immigration, but they like being able to buy less expensive houses, pay less for gardeners, cleaning ladies, daycare, and restaurant meals. On the other hand, the illegals put their children in taxpayer supported public schools, use taxpayer supported hospital emergency medical care, and so forth. Once the flow is stopped, America's economy is going to be a while rationalizing --perhaps the better part of a decade of pain as some things cost more, and others less.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-02-11 20:22|| 2006-02-11 20:22|| Front Page Top

#10 ..but they like being able to buy less expensive houses,..

Not going to make any difference here in CA, where housing that would be "less expensive" would still largely be unaffordable.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2006-02-11 22:16|| 2006-02-11 22:16|| Front Page Top

#11 TW, there was a time when people worked their own gardens, cleaned their own homes, and in general did the things that illegals do now. I even remember growers recruiting high school students in Iowa to pick strawberries in California. Adherence to the rule of law and the Constitution is the glue that holds the United States together. If we decide that we don't have to pay attention to our laws because we feel sorry for all the illegals that we exploit, then we don't have long as a nation.

Posted by RWV 2006-02-11 22:19|| 2006-02-11 22:19|| Front Page Top

#12 Ditto RWV.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-02-11 22:33|| 2006-02-11 22:33|| Front Page Top

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