AZ:GOP Blasts League Of Cities for Suit vs. Immigrant Law

Texas2step · ALIPAC Super Hero Joined: Apr 30, 2006 Posts: 5883

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Tucson Region

GOP blasts league of cities for suit vs. immigrant law

By Howard Fischer
Capitol Media Services
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 11.25.2009

PHOENIX — Gov. Jan Brewer and top Republican leaders lashed out Tuesday at the League of Arizona Cities and Towns for its lawsuit challenging a new law designed to crack down on illegal immigrants getting public benefits.

"At a time when Arizona is suffering from budget deficits of unprecedented proportions and the state is struggling to meet the basic needs of its citizens, it is outrageous and shocking that the League of Cities and Towns would challenge legislation designed to protect the very entities that it was intended for," the governor said.

Brewer said Arizona voters have shown several times, starting with the 2004 election, that they do not want taxpayer money going to help those in the country illegally. She said changes approved by lawmakers in an August special session will plug holes in that law.

And Sen. Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, who authored the bill, said the cities should be embarrassed to "side with lawbreakers over law keepers."

But Ken Strobeck, executive director of the League of Arizona Cities and Towns, said Brewer is misstating his organization's objections in its lawsuit.
"The law is already clear in Arizona that cities and towns cannot, and do not want to, provide public benefits, public services to people who are in the country illegally," he said.

What concerns league members, he said, are new provisions that subject public employees to up to four months in jail for failing to report illegal immigrants. It also allows any Arizona resident who believes public benefits are being provided to illegal immigrants to sue.

"We don't want to have a flood of new lawsuits over something that we believe was improperly enacted," he said.

Attorneys for the cities say the law is flawed because the language about illegal immigration was not enacted in a separate bill of its own, but included in a larger measure dealing with the state budget. That, the lawsuit claims, makes the maneuver unconstitutional.

House Speaker Kirk Adams, R-Mesa, said that requiring cities to do more to crack down on services to illegal immigrants is related to the budget.

"A budget just isn't about spreadsheets or numbers in a column," he said.

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/318925.php

ELE · ALIPAC Super Hero Joined: Oct 25, 2007 Posts: 5730

What concerns league members, he said, are new provisions that subject public employees to up to four months in jail for failing to report illegal immigrants.
Great, it is against the law to hire illegals.

It also allows any Arizona resident who believes public benefits are being provided to illegal immigrants to sue.

Maybe if the legal citiznes sued the gov't would stop giving illegals services and goods they don't deserve.

grandmasmad · Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 1:54 pm Post subject:

subject public employees to up to four months in jail for failing to report illegal immigrants.

What's wrong with that?
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WorriedAmerican · Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 2:05 pm Post subject:

swatchick · Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 2:20 pm Post subject:

Dixie · Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 2:41 pm Post subject:

http://www.azleague(dot)org

Just another bunch of non-elected people trying to run your life.

Dixie
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jean · Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 3:06 am Post subject:

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Why aren't our immigration laws enforced?

builditnow · Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 6:29 am Post subject:

WorriedAmerican · Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 11:04 am Post subject:

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WorriedAmerican · Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 11:41 am Post subject:

laughinglynx · Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 5:59 pm Post subject:

We voted a few years ago to cut out illegals and about a year ago they found the law was not enforced and illegals were still draining the system.

Politicians have this knack for writing laws in such a way that no one understands them so they have to run through the court system with "wise Latina" women to interpret them for us.

No means NO. What is so hard to understand about that. It's not that difficult. If you are not legally a citizen in our system you don't get benefits. Including Social Security.

swatchick · Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 8:34 pm Post subject:

Florida has had a law for a long about illegals not being able to buy property and were still allowed to. In fact during the last election they wanted to change that but people were smart enough to keep it. Now if only they would enforce it. A large percentage of homes in foreclosure were ones bought by illegals be it border jumpers or those who overstayed visas.

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Texas2step · ALIPAC Super Hero Joined: Apr 30, 2006 Posts: 5883

laughinglynx wrote from Arizona:

"We voted a few years ago to cut out illegals and about a year ago they found the law was not enforced and illegals were still draining the system.

Politicians have this knack for writing laws in such a way that no one understands them so they have to run through the court system with "wise Latina" women to interpret them for us.

No means NO. What is so hard to understand about that. It's not that difficult. If you are not legally a citizen in our system you don't get benefits. Including Social Security."

Reply:

Does anyone know the reason(s) why the state law passed in Oklahoma which bars illegal aliens from receiving state services appears to be working while that in Arizona is not? Is it because of the huge influx of population to Arizona and the Southwest from other parts of the country which has given rise to the almost universal use of Latin American workers in the construction industry to meet the demands for new homes, etc.? Oklahoma, I believe, remains primarily a faming and ranching state with a smaller, more stable population with far less demand for new housing - thus local people there really are affected directly by illegal foreign workers taking jobs without any accuring benefit to the state's economy, and thus have a real interest in seeing the law enforced?

Georgia was the first state in the nation with the courage to pass such a law, but it does not seem to be enforced at the county level as required. Because of its strong agricultural economy, Georgia farmers need workers which they say the current U.S. H-2A "Temporary Workers in Agriculture" Visas program is too cumbersome and expensive to provide.

After the Southwest, ethno-centric Hispanic special interest groups targeted the Southeastern United States as the "next Hispanic homeland", resulting in a massive influx of immigration, legal and illegal, to that entire area.