Thread: FL: Harrell, Brown Push for Immigration Laws

Harrell, Brown Push for Immigration Laws

By Michael C. Bender | Tuesday, February 5, 2008, 08:40 PM




Rep. Gayle Harrell introduces immigration bills while members of the Florida Immigration Coalition protest the legislation.

Calling illegal immigration a “major problemâ€

It is wrong for any state to cut services to legal residents in order to give services to those who are not citizens of the United States Of America. This is happening all over the country and it is not right. It is unfair for citizens to have to take a backseat for state and federal funded assistance in order to give this same assistance to illegal aliens. This is very wrong and our government knows that it is wrong. And yet they continue to do wrong by their own citizens. What is this country coming to?

[quote]It wasn’t immediately clear what Harrell used to determine the state’s cost to provide services to undocumented workers. Even Rep. Don Brown, one of the state’s most active lawmakers on immigration, acknowledged that such a figure would be based on anecdotes and circumstantial evidence.

“The much larger issue involved here is the sovereignty of our nation and the sovereignty of our state,â€