Thread: FL: Kidnapping Prompts Tougher Stance On Illegals

Kidnapping Prompts Tougher Stance On Illegals


POSTED: 10:29 am EDT March 27, 2007
UPDATED: 10:57 am EDT March 27, 2007

PALMETTO, Fla. -- Kidnapping victim Clay Moore might soon have a law named after him.

The Clay Moore Child Abduction Prevention Act would create a 30-year mandatory minimum sentence for illegal immigrants who kidnap minors. U.S. citizens convicted of the same offense would continue to face a 20-year sentence.

U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan said Monday that he will introduce the legislation, which was prompted by the February abduction of 13-year-old boy at a Parrish bus stop. Police said he was taken by a Mexican illegal immigrant. Moore escaped later the same day.


The law would send a message to illegal immigrants that kidnapping, now prevalent in Latin America, is unacceptable in the United States, Buchanan said.

"We cannot let it get started in America," the Republican said. "I want to cut it off now."

Illegal immigration was a key issue in Buchanan's race for Congress last fall.

The man accused of abducting Moore, Vicente Ignacio Beltran-Moreno, was arrested March 7 after agreeing to return from Mexico to turn himself in. Beltran-Moreno had been living in the United States illegally, authorities said.

Cheryl Little, executive director of the Miami-based Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center, said punishments should fit the crime and not one's country of origin.

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The law would send a message to illegal immigrants that kidnapping, now prevalent in Latin America, is unacceptable in the United States, Buchanan said.

That that even needs to be addressed as a clarification is incredible!

Exactly, they better nip this horrible crime in the bud literally before this becomes common place!

Enough, illegal immigration is going to destroy our nation if we do not stop it now.

We have enough legal immigration and American citizens we do not need illegal immigration!