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12-19-2006, 12:34 AM #1
MN - Pawlenty Calls For Stricter Immigration Laws
http://wcco.com/seenon/local_story_352223635.html
Dec 18, 2006 9:34 pm US/Central
Pawlenty Calls For Stricter Immigration Laws
Pat Kessler
Reporting
(WCCO) St. Paul On Monday, a federal grand jury indicted 20 people arrested last week in an immigration raid at a Worthington meat packing plant. The grand jury also charged 19 people with knowingly using fake I.D. documents.
That news came as immigration advocates protested the raid in St. Paul at Sen. Norm Coleman's office.
Gov. Tim Pawlenty said he wants tougher immigration laws against undocumented workers in Minnesota, an example of the political reverberations being felt hundreds of miles away from Worthington, Minn.
"It's a joke," said Pawlenty of the current laws. "I mean, it's a joke."
The governor says he'll re-submit a bill requiring immigrants to carry fraud-proof identity documents and allowing local police to ask for proof of citizenship.
"We need to know without question, beyond fraud, who is here, who they are, why they are here, how long they are staying and when they are supposed to go," said Pawlenty.
But advocates for undocumented immigrants say the Swift Plant raid showed the need for a guest worker program for jobs Minnesotans won't do, calling the governor's get-tough approach "anti-immigrant."
"The immigration system right now does not allow people to come in and work with permission," said David Skovholt of the Minnesota Immigrant Freedom Network. "It encourages people to come in and work in situation like what happened at swift."Support our FIGHT AGAINST illegal immigration & Amnesty by joining our E-mail Alerts at https://eepurl.com/cktGTn
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12-19-2006, 01:09 PM #2
IL is becoming quit the 3rd world, maybe there is hope for MN. maybe in the near future we will be draging our poor legal butts ... & tax dollars to MN, home of the free & legal.
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12-19-2006, 01:17 PM #3
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Re: MN - Pawlenty Calls For Stricter Immigration Laws
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