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Originally Posted by Riot
Regarding immigration reform, which has little to do with Presidents and much to do with Congress and the Senate, I'll continue to support aggressive immigration reform. You are right, they have avoided this subject at all costs the past 20 years.
Regarding Presidents, I voted for Obama, and I guarantee I'll vote for him again in 2012.
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You'll "continue to support aggressive immigration reform."? What aggressive reform has there been?
I specifically said Washington has done nothing - just naming the administrations since 1986, but as Harry Truman wisely said, "The buck stops here."
This is a 34-page report which some of you may or may not want to read in its entirety, but I urge you to read the chart on page 4 entitled
State-by-State Changes in Illegal Immigrant Populations
http://s3.amazonaws.com/thf_media/2009/pdf/sr0066.pdf
It is a comparison - state by state - of the increase in undocumented alien population in 1980 as compared to 2008.
If those numbers don't astound and concern you, well.... I guess it's okay to just open up the floodgates, let anyone into the country that wants in, and just forget about it.
Washington is not going to do a thing about this until they are forced. I applaud Arizona for striking the first bell. Other states will soon follow.
This IS the Arizona law -
"For any lawful contact made by a law enforcement official or agency of this state...where reasonable suspicion exists that the person is an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States, a reasonable attempt shall be made, when practicable, to determine the immigration status of the person."
It may be ruled unconstitutional, but it will take time and it just might get those D.C. suits and skirts off their dead butts and start doing something about it because they stand to lose more votes by angry citizens than they can expect to gain by even entertaining the thought of giving amnesty to illegal aliens. A promise made in 1986 that there would not be another amnesty.
I'd say some of those border states could say, "taxation without representation".