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LC mayor changes mind on Arizona immigration law
Las Cruces Mayor Ken Miyagishima (Photo by Heath Haussamen)
Las Cruces Mayor Ken Miyagishima says he’s withdrawing a proposed resolution denouncing Arizona’s new immigration law after learning of amendments to the law, the Las Cruces Sun-News is reporting.
The mayor was quoted by the newspaper as saying he learned about the changes to the law on Monday. After reading a copy of the law as it now stands, Miyagishima said he no longer has concerns.
The law was narrowed to require local, county and state law enforcement officers to scrutinize the immigration status only of people who they stop, detain or arrest. It was also amended to disallow ethnicity as the sole reason to suspect someone of an immigration violation.
Miyagishima pointed to the new provision that says immigration must be checked only during a lawful stop and with reasonable suspicion.
“That’s a little stricter than what we have in effect, but it’s essentially the same,” the newspaper quoted Miyagishima as saying. “That wasn’t something I read in the original bill. The House bill addressed a lot of my concerns.”
“Now that I have this, I’m actually OK with it,” the newspaper quoted the mayor as saying.
Miyagishima had originally proposed a resolution denouncing the new law.
Meanwhile, the New York Times ran a profile today of New Mexico and Arizona as two states “side by side, but divided over immigration.” It’s worth a read. Click here to do so.
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Cowardice is so very, very easy nowdays.
Unfortunately, while the changes to the Arizona racial-profiling law superficially look like they “fixed” the problem, in reality, they also added another racial-profiling component to ensure that it is still possible to target Hispanics….and that racial-profiling intent is confirmed in internal e-mails from the authors of the bill…here’s the link to an article about it…
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/04/30/kris-kobach-email/
Its always nice when politicians are told what’s in a bill before they act on them , vote for/or against them. Actually reading them is too much to expect, but that would be nice too.
The can of worms has finally been opened by the legislators in Arizona regarding the illegal immigrant squatters there. Other states now realize that they too are a mirror image of foreign nationals moving into their communities, without the permission of the US Government or the American people. The fuse has been lite, owing to the building crime wave in Phoenix and other cities, which has encroached across the border. For at least twenty years or more of neglect, millions of illegal immigrants families have chosen to break the law of this sovereign country and trespass on its soil. Now the politicians are looking for an easy exit, from the consequences of many administrations refusal to do anything? Because of public outcry they built the fence, but then derailed funding enacting the 2006 Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations bill that gutted the 2006 Secure Fence Act that would have constructed the first 854 miles of the U.S-Mexico border.
But instead under this provision which was first introduced quietly by Sen. Hutchison this summer as S.Amdt. 2466 to H.R. 2368 (the DHS appropriations bill). “The Hutchison amendment gives DHS virtually total discretion over how and where the fence is built,” Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) the princible draftee of the law, stated, ” By eliminating the double fence requirement, the Democratic Congress is going to make it easier for drug and human smugglers to cross our Southern land ,” The an amendment submitted by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-TX, and co-sponsored by Sen. John Cornyn, (R-TX), for the Department of Homeland Security 2008 budget was aimed at gutting the already-approved H.R. 6061 Secure Fence Act, which was adopted with the promise hundreds of miles of (Two) physical fencing that would have assisted secure the U.S. border with Mexico.
Now the single fence remains uncompleted with easy access for remorseless criminals and hoards of illegal aliens. Only the prized actual 50 miles build by the design of Duncan Hunter in Southern California has produced any success. If the fence had been completed, with full funding without deceiving the American Public the border state of Arizona could have survived the relentless surge of illegal immigrants and Phoenix being branded the capitol of kidnapping.border This majority of Americans must know by now that they come last in protection from the invaders. I repeat that Congress can find the money to fight foreign wars and build walls and watchtowers in separating North from South Korea. But it is evident not matter the degree of murders, drug cartels and the free flow of illegal immigrants, they have no intention of constructing the double fence. Now this has come back to haunt DEMOCRATS who voted against it, and should now be ejected in the earliest election.
$3.5 million of this derailment of the real fence funding went to La Raza, a radical hate group which advocates a takeover of parts of the U.S. Southwest by Mexico. Plus a list of “Earmarks” that must be called an outrage, while public safety remain least of there concerns. One representative said of the Liberal-Democrats, ” They’ll nix a protective barrier that would enhance national security, but dig into our pockets for 10 million bucks toward Public Defenders for illegal aliens.” The battle for the life blood of American survival, against this invasion begins with the removal of–ALL–incumbents who voted out the double layer fence.in the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations bill. They are ultimately to blame for the foreign invasion, that is costing not only Arizona billions of dollars in welfare support, for American jobs and crimes at the hands of illegal aliens. Tell everybody you know to derail any chance of a path to citizenship or Amnesty for illegal aliens. No Immigration Reform but enforce the laws enacted in 1986. AND BUILD THE REAL FENCE(S) Call your representative at 202-224-3121 See who should get the boot in the primaries, who are Pro-Amnesty at NumbersUSA.
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