All the liberal anxiety aimed at Arizona's new tough illegal immigration law is surprising, since I don't remember any of it when California passed a law years ago almost the same as Arizona's.
the California Penal Code actually requires that every law enforcement agency in the state shall "fully cooperate with the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service regarding any person who is arrested if he or she is suspected of being present in the United States in violation of federal immigration laws."
Below is a copy of section 834b of the California Penal Code that deals with immigration law enforcement at the local level.
the California Penal Code actually requires that every law enforcement agency in the state shall "fully cooperate with the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service regarding any person who is arrested if he or she is suspected of being present in the United States in violation of federal immigration laws."
Below is a copy of section 834b of the California Penal Code that deals with immigration law enforcement at the local level.
(a) Every law enforcement agency in California shall fully cooperate with the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service regarding any person who is arrested if he or she is suspected of being present in the United States in violation of federal immigration laws. (b) With respect to any such person who is arrested, and suspected of being present in the United States in violation of federal immigration laws, every law enforcement agency shall do the following: (1) Attempt to verify the legal status of such person as a citizen of the United States, an alien lawfully admitted as a permanent resident, an alien lawfully admitted for a temporary period of time or as an alien who is present in the United States in violation of immigration laws. The verification process may include, but shall not be limited to, questioning the person regarding his or her date and place of birth, and entry into the United States, and demanding documentation to indicate his or her legal status. (2) Notify the person of his or her apparent status as an alien who is present in the United States in violation of federal immigration laws and inform him or her that, apart from any criminal justice proceedings, he or she must either obtain legal status or leave the United States. (3) Notify the Attorney General of California and the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service of the apparent illegal status and provide any additional information that may be requested by any other public entity. (c) Any legislative, administrative, or other action by a city, county, or other legally authorized local governmental entity with jurisdictional boundaries, or by a law enforcement agency, to prevent or limit the cooperation required by subdivision (a) is expressly prohibited.
The last sentence prohibits such abominations as San Francisco's "sanctuary" law.
Three years ago Oklahoma passed a similar law:
Three years ago Oklahoma passed a similar law:
House Bill 1804 was passed by overwhelming majorities in both the House and Senate of the Oklahoma Legislature. The measure’s sponsor, State Representative
Randy Terrill, says the bill has four main topical areas: it deals with identity theft; it terminates public assistance benefits to illegals; it empowers state and local police to enforce federal immigration laws; and it punishes employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens.
So what makes Arizona's law special? In fact, what would make any state law special in light of federal law?
President Obama was a spokesperson for those of you ignorant of federal law (apparently all Liberals fall in this category), when he said in Iowa:
"One of the things that the law says is that local officials are allowed to ask somebody who they have a suspicion might be an illegal immigrant for their papers."
If the President believes that is wrong, his complaint is with federal law, not Arizona's.
It is already federal law that an alien in the United States must register and carry certain documents with him while he's in the United States. In fact it's been federal law for 70 years.
Nor is it news to local law officers. They check the immigration status of those they stop on suspicion of a crime.
The federal government has a 24-7 hotline that's been in place for about 15 years for exactly that purpose. And it's being used more than a thousand times a day all over the country.
The defenders of the immigration law say it's essentially the same as federal law -- which the president is bound to uphold.
(The above information was provided by Kris Kobach, a lawyer who is an expert in immigration and who helped construct the Arizona bill.)
So there you have it -- grandstanding by ignoramuses, which seems to be our leaders' most highly developed talent.
So there you have it -- grandstanding by ignoramuses, which seems to be our leaders' most highly developed talent.
Are you sure that's what you want to say, B120ryantScripio1?
ReplyDelete50% of the illegals who are present in the USA today entered legally and then overstayed. 3 million children who ARE US citizens have one or more family members who are not. What are we going to do with them ? Deport the parents and send all the kids to foster care ? MY religion says that is a no no. Step #1 should be to enforce the laws we have about work and make it a crime that will be punished, to hire an illegal. Farm labor costs are 10% of the supermarket costs. Lets put Americans to work at twice what we currently pay for illegals to do that work. It will mean that a head of lettuce will go from 1 dollar to 1.10 in the supermarket.
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That picture up top is just pure ignorance illegal immigrants don’t get anything given to them. As a matter of fact the lack of a social security number gives them the set back of not being able to claim their hard earned taxes. Leaving those taxes to the government to give to Americans who claim unemployment while having a job under the table; is articles like this that are sickening to watch because it shows the lack of knowledge in our citizens.
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