04-19-2005, 04:09 PM
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Join Date: May 2004
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Its starting to heat up
http://www.nbc17.com/news/4388503/detail.html
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Flood Of Illegal Immigrants Prompts Backlash
POSTED: 8:59 am EDT April 18, 2005
RALEIGH, N.C. -- The introduction of six bills in the state House and Senate dealing with Hispanics has brought to the forefront the debate over how to treat hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants in North Carolina.
"It has been percolating up from the grass roots for some time," said Andrew Taylor, a political scientist at N.C. State University. Illegal immigration, he said, "is becoming increasingly visible to people."
The latest bill unleashed a ferocious response and drew national attention from conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh. Introduced Tuesday, the bill would allow undocumented high school students to pay in-state tuition at North Carolina colleges and universities. They now pay the more expensive out-of-state rates.
Although it was launched with the support of former Gov. Jim Hunt in the interest of economic development, the bill lost several co-sponsors after people lambasted it on the radio and in e-mail messages.
One of the co-sponsors who hasn't backed away, Rep. Bill Faison, D-Orange, said he received three e-mail messages in favor of the proposal and 15 against.
"Some of it's pretty hostile stuff," Faison said.
Other bills introduced this session would put the squeeze on illegal immigrants by denying them driver's licenses and some public benefits, and force employers who hire illegal immigrants to cover some of their medical expenses if needed."The issue is heating up," said state Sen. Andrew Brock, R-Davie, who co-sponsored two of the bills that would restrict illegal immigrants' privileges.
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http://www.newsday.com/news/nationwo...%2Cprint.story
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Lawmakers in Arkansas, Colorado, North Carolina, New Mexico and Nebraska have considered allowing the children of illegal immigrants to pay in-state college tuition rates. Iowa lawmakers have looked at making it easier for illegal immigrants to get driver's licenses.
On the other side of the debate, a new Utah law will replace licenses for illegal immigrants with driving-privilege cards that cannot be used to board airplanes or register to vote. A Virginia lawmaker wanted to bar illegal aliens from attending the state's universities.
The most restrictive measures lately have come from Arizona, the busiest illegal entry point on the nation's porous southern border.
"We may not be able to secure the borders as we would like," said Republican state Rep. Russell Pearce. But "we don't have to allow them to get free stuff."
Many states have long been frustrated by what they consider the federal government's failure to crack down on the flow of illegal aliens or overhaul the nation's immigration laws.
In the meantime, Arizona and other states complain that they must shoulder tens of millions of dollars in costs each year for health care and schooling for illegal immigrants and for locking up those who break the law.
Many of the proposed state restrictions against illegal immigrants have a variety of purposes: tightening security post-Sept. 11, making this country less attractive, reducing the burden on states, and sending a message to Washington.
Many of the pro-immigrant proposals are aimed at incorporating illegal aliens into society more smoothly and making use of the big pool of cheap labor they represent to employers.
But Ira Mehlman, spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which favors tighter borders, said: "If we are ever going to get a handle on this huge problem, we have to make it clear to the people who come here illegally that their presence here will not be tolerated."
Critics of illegal immigration said there is little political will to stop the trend because businesses benefit from the supply of cheap labor.
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http://www.newschannel5.tv/2005/4/14...sits-Valley%7D
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EDINBURG -- The Mexican Foreign Secretary says the United States and Mexico will be integrated in the future, and took issue with the Minutemen Project.
EDINBURG - Mexico’s Foreign Secretary told a group of Texas-Pan American students he envisions a day when Mexico and the United States are “integrated.”
Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez Baustista spoke to students about the future of U.S.-Mexico relations. Despite his belief in integration, some students in attendance were not supportive of it.
“I don't believe there will be complete integration here,” Clarissa Pena said. “I don't think that's right.”
"From my stance we should be separate because of terrorism and problems with terrorism,” Aaron Pena said. “We do have to have secure borders and not just have people roaming back and forth."
"Because (the Minutemen) feel frustrated or whatever reason they are doing this,” Derbez said. “They are trying to take the war into their own hands.
“One thing I can tell you is that the U.S. of the 21st century is not the U.S. of the 19th century."
Derbez also added he hopes the group and its members are prosecuted.
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FOR WHAT??!!! Already he seems to want the Mexican law to apply to u.s. terrirtory.
SCREW YOU AND THE MULE YOU ROAD IN ON!!
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