Thread: Lawmakers: Let's Bar Illegal Immigrants from Social Service

Lawmakers: Let's bar illegal immigrants from social services
Alison Hawkes, Times Capital Bureau
06/21/2006
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HARRISBURG - Some Pennsylvania lawmakers who say federal immigration policy is failing are seeking state regulation of illegal immigrants by barring them from receiving state-funded social services, penalizing hiring businesses and giving law enforcement broader arrest powers.

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Ten House members gathered Tuesday to introduce a package of bills they hope will crack down on illegal immigrants in Pennsylvania, who number more than 100,000, according to a 2005 study by the Pew Hispanic Center.

Pennsylvania lawmakers' approach, called the National Security Begins at Home package, would do the following:

* Prohibit state government agencies from providing government services, except emergency medical care, without documentation of legal status. Welfare, unemployment benefits and education, among other services, would be banned.

* Require county and municipal corrections staff to determine nationality and lawful status of any person confined to jail for a felony or drunken driving.

* Turn over any identified illegal immigrant to federal authorities, and the state would submit an invoice to the federal government for "the cost of the illegal alien."

* Impose criminal penalties on anyone who knowingly hires an illegal immigrant.

* Give police and other law enforcers the right to arrest people when immigration status is in question for up to 30 days

Sounds good to me! Do it and enforce it.

To all the members here from Pennsylvania, let's start pounding on our state representatives!
If loser bush won't do it, we'll do it state by state. It'll get done with or without him. He should be damned ashamed of himself.

Sure do wish NC would do that

Good luck citizens of Pa. I live in Georgia so if you are in need of assistance talk to our wonderful Governor Perdue. Bush won't do his job as he is too busy jetsetting around the world trying to spread democracy while slowly stripping Americans of theirs. What a study in contrasts. He has the audacity to tell other nations that for democracy to suceed they must be a nation of laws and they only have to look to the U.S. as an example. I read an article regarding the latest transpirations in the N. Korean crisis where Ambassador Bolten stated "If you acquiesce in abberant behavior you simply encourage the repetition of it which obviously the U.S. does not do". If this administration would only practice at home what it preaches to the rest of the world we wouldn't be in the political, social and economic quagmire we are in.

TANCREDO AND SESSIONS IN 2008!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by ruthiela

Sure do wish NC would do that

I wish Maryland would do the same too. Go for it,and enforce it!!