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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: twyacht on February 22, 2011, 09:07:55 PM
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http://radio.woai.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=119078&article=8203908
Bill Calls for Illegals to Be Dumped at Offices of Congressmen
Says all illegal immigrants should be ‘taken to the office of a US Senator or Congressman and left there’
By Jim Forsyth
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
This should get their attention.
A measure filed by State Rep. Lois Kolkhorst (R-Brenham) would allow any law enforcement agency that has custody of an illegal immigrant to take the illegal to 'the office of a U.S. Senator or Representative' and leave them there.
1200 WOAI news reports the measure also allows county sheriff's deputies or city police officers to 'request an agent or employee of the United States Senator or United States Representative to sign a document acknowledging the release or discharge of the illegal immigrant at the senator's or representative's office.
The measure covers individuals who are 'not a citizen or national of the United States' and who is 'unlawfully present in the United States.'
Kolkhorst concedes the measure is a 'cry for help' to convince federal officials to secure the border, but she says she is serious about getting the measure approved by the Legislature.
The measure doesn't specify what the Senator or Congressman is supposed to do with the illegal immigrant, but calls on the law enforcement agency to 'maintain a record of each illegal immigrant released or discharged who is not transferred to the custody of the Untied States Immigration and Customs Enforcement.'
Illegal immigration has emerged as a top priority of the Republican super-majority in the Texas Legislature, and this is just one of several dozen bills introduced in Austin to deny jobs, housing, and government benefits to illegals.
Several thousand people are expected to descend on the state capitol today to denounce the measures, and to call on the federal government, not the states, to handle matters related to immigration.
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I say bus them to D.C. and put them on the Capitol Steps.... Let them appeal to the sanctuary city Congresscritters for asylum,...
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At our local jail, if they arrest an illeagal, they contact ICE. If ICE doesn't pick them up in 48 hours they have to let go. Guess what, ICE very rarely picks any of them up. And people wonder why we have so many illeagals >:(
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Makes more of a point than sending a TEA bag ;D
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" Several thousand people are expected to descend on the state capitol today to denounce the measures, and to call on the federal government, not the states, to handle matters related to immigration."
And what are the states supposed to do when the Feds FAIL TO DO THEIR DUTY!!!!!!!! >:(
This chaps my ass more than any other part of this whole debate. The feds OBVIOUSLY aren't going to do the job. If the were the Border Patrol would be backed up by the National Guard, and this would no longer be an issue. That it is means that the feds have dropped the ball and it must now be carried by the states.
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At our local jail, if they arrest an illeagal, they contact ICE. If ICE doesn't pick them up in 48 hours they have to let go. Guess what, ICE very rarely picks any of them up. And people wonder why we have so many illeagals >:(
So, take them down to the ICE building and handcuff each end of the string of illegals to the front door. Take the next string to the back door. ICE will have to do something with them sooner or later.
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HerkNav, the annoying part is they would let them go, and charge YOU with kidnapping or Violating THEIR civil rights. >:(