Thread: NJ and VA to possibly go 287(g) as a result of elections!!!

-- Republican Chris Christie’s election as New Jersey governor over incumbent Jon Corzine may slow down or kill efforts underway to grant undocumented immigrant students the right to access in-state tuition at New Jersey colleges. Christie said he is opposed to the plan. Christie may also prove more sympathetic to local elected officials and law enforcement chiefs in New Jersey who want to contract with the Department of Homeland Security to carry out immigration enforcement actions normally undertaken by federal agents. The delegation of immigration enforcement to state and local cops is part of a federal program known as 287g, which is controversial in the Latino community.

-- Republican Bob McDonnell, elected governor in Virginia, has proposed that the 287g program be extended statewide so that Virginia state troopers can carry out immigration enforcement actions. (His opponent Creigh Deeds opposed that proposal.)

http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/vi ... d01bd2bd0b

GO MCDONELL!! GO CHRISTIE!!

GO GO VIRGINIA!! GO GO NEW JERSEY!!

let it roll! wonder how many IA's in new jersey and virginia put their homes up for sale today? or just went to the bank and mortgaged them into the ground, only to bail out? ahhhh! either way im thinking alotta packing is being done!

I sure hope so!! Time to gather, pack, gas up and go home to their homeland of citizenship.

Here is the entire article.
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Election Results May Boost Immigration Reform in Congress

New America Media, Blog Report, Marcelo Ballve, Posted: Nov 04, 2009

Viewed through the lens of the immigration issue, the overall results of yesterday’s elections might be called a mixed bag. Republican gubernatorial candidates who promised more hardline immigration stances won races in Virginia and New Jersey.

But two vacant seats in the U.S. House of Representatives (in New York’s 23rd District and California’s 10th District) were picked up by Democrats. As I explain below, these pick-ups should make it just a bit easier for House Democrats to marshal the votes needed to advance on comprehensive immigration reform, which they have promised to do before the end of this year.

The gains couldn’t come at a better time for Democrats eager to move on immigration. Earlier this autumn, 100 House Democrats sent a letter to President Obama reaffirming their commitment to push immigration reform legislation forward. Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) has said he will introduce an immigration bill as early as this month.

Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.) has warned immigration reform needs to happen early next year (well ahead of Nov. 2010 mid-term elections) if it is to succeed.

Below are brief sketches of election results and how they may impact immigration policy, at the state or federal level.

-- In California’s 10th District, just east of the San Francisco Bay, California Lt. Gov. John Garamendi, a progressive Democrat, easily beat out Republican John Harmer.

In upstate New York’s 23rd District, retired Air Force Capt. Bill Owens, a Democrat, beat the upstart conservative candidate Doug Hoffman, who had attracted the support of right-wing talk radio and cable news hosts, and managed to push the Republican Party candidate out of the race.

These two Democratic victories subtly shift the balance of power in the U.S. House of Representatives, according to Matthew Yglesias:

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Yep ... a very bad thing happened in the NY-23, and there was no excuse for it. A Republican who would have voted the party line on cap and trade, health care and amnesty forced out of a race and a seat we'd controlled for 139 years by out-of-state big name Republicans and dishonest media pundits on lies, distortions and misrepresentations ... it's a national disgrace.