Maybe I'm a little fuzzy on this stuff, but I don't think the US deports illegal aliens that commit felonies like rape. Misdemeanors usually get a ticket out of the country, but not violent felonies.
Moreover, I would have a hard time believing that an illegal immigrant with a clean record who posts bond can get "work papers and a driver's license." Mr. Ross seems to be suggesting that getting arrested somehow legalizes their status and paves the way toward citizenship. I'm not an Arizonan, but if that's what the law allows they might have to amend it.
i guess if you only have a minute for commentary then context and logical development of your argument has to go out the window.
Whatever stirs a controversy. This is what sb1070 reads.
IF AN ALIEN WHO IS UNLAWFULLY PRESENT IN THE UNITED STATES IS
28 CONVICTED OF A VIOLATION OF STATE OR LOCAL LAW, ON DISCHARGE FROM
29 IMPRISONMENT OR ASSESSMENT OF ANY FINE THAT IS IMPOSED, THE ALIEN SHALL BE
30 TRANSFERRED IMMEDIATELY TO THE CUSTODY OF THE UNITED STATES IMMIGRATION AND
31 CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT OR THE UNITED STATES CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION.
I wish people would read the bill before weighing in on it. It takes 5 or so minutes to do so. I continue to hear arguements from both sides that are invaild due hearsay.
I wish people would read the bill before weighing in on it. It takes 5 or so minutes to do so. I continue to hear arguements from both sides that are invaild due hearsay.
And that is wishful thinking.
I thought wishful thinking was what got the law passed in the first place.
If our President, Attorney General and Director of Homeland Security don't have time to read the law before commenting on it why should we have to? It is more fun to make uninformed comments on a law than doing all that boring reading.
You haven't shopped at Whole Foods lately.And the rest of us don't want to pay $5 for a tomato.
You haven't shopped at Whole Foods lately.
If our President, Attorney General and Director of Homeland Security don't have time to read the law before commenting on it why should we have to? It is more fun to make uninformed comments on a law than doing all that boring reading.
You might be surprised at how rarely our legislators read what they vote on. I spent a session as chief of staff for a state senator once and I had to read and prep summaries each night of what would be voted on the next day. Included in the suumary was my recommendation of how to vote. Seriously.
When the senator didn't have time to read my summaries, I was taken to the floor and told the senator how to vote as the bills came up.
And I wasn't the only staffer who was doing this.
So I wasn't half surprised when this came up. They were probably waiting for their staffs to read and digest the bill for them. I'm not excusing them by any means, but this is the reality of American politics. Both sides of the aisle, as well.
And the rest of us don't want to pay $5 for a tomato.
You think you're not paying $5 for a tomato now? Sure you may not be paying it at the grocery store, but you are every month when you pay your ever increasing health insurance premiums so that they can cover the tens of millions of dollars in free health care that illegal immigrants receive every year. You're paying it in taxes so that we can continue to fund the social programs that they flock here to leech off of, or in California where tax dollars pay to house and feed inmates and over one third of our prison population is comprised of ILLEGAL immigrants.