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    Is Napolitano all talk on migrant reform?

    Is Napolitano all talk on migrant reform?

    http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepubli ... s0630.html

    Jun. 30, 2007 12:00 AM

    Eighteen months ago, Gov. Janet Napolitano stood before the Arizona Legislature and vowed to get tough on illegal immigration.

    "We are going to get real about one of the root causes of this problem," she said. "People come here because they want to work and employers here are willing to hire them. If we want to stop illegal immigration, we've got to stop the demand."

    And so the governor, having consulted her mood ring, made an election-year vow to do what eight out of 10 Arizonans had long said they wanted done. To wit: "Those who continue to intentionally hire illegal immigrants should face substantial fines and penalties."
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    On Monday, we'll find out if she meant it.

    Napolitano has until then to veto a raft of bills passed by the Legislature in its final hours, including one that would put the hurt on employers who knowingly hire undocumented immigrants and another that would make it more difficult for the courts to ignore the no-bail requirement of Proposition 100.

    Given her comments of last year, one would think that she would have signed House Bill 2779, the Fair and Legal Employment Act, before the ink was dry on the thing. Instead, she's decided to wait until the last possible minute - the beginning of a holiday week, no less - to announce what she's going to do, fueling suspicions that there may be a weasel factor afoot.

    Advocates for the 500,000 or so immigrants who are in Arizona illegally aren't happy about the bill. Neither are the people who line their pockets with the fruits of the immigrants' labor. For the past week, the business community has been on a mission to get Napolitano to veto the bill, claiming it will put them at a "competitive disadvantage" with other states.

    Somehow, I suspect they'll survive. I'd feel their pain more keenly had they not for years been using the same old arguments to head off any attempt to make them obey the law: Wait for the feds to act. Even after Thursday's collapse of immigration reform, they were singing the same old song.

    "We're encouraged by the substantial advances made during the Senate debate," said Sheridan Bailey, head of Arizona Employers for Immigration Reform. "As a result, the nation is closer to a bipartisan solution to the immigration crisis."

    Yeah, in 2009 . . . maybe.

    The bill on Napolitano's desk would go after the lure that leads people to sneak across the border now: jobs. And though business owners may be gasping into paper bags over the prospect of having to follow the law, all it requires is that they make an effort to find out if the people they're hiring are here legally.

    That shouldn't be so horrifying. Unless, of course, they really don't want to know.

    Sen. Ken Cheuvront doesn't see a problem. The Phoenix Democrat voted for the bill and he owns a restaurant. "Democrats have been saying for a long time you can't continually blame the immigrant, that you also have to hold employers accountable," he said. "This bill does that."

    Which is why Napolitano will sign it.

    That and because last year, she chastised the Republican Legislature for sending her a bill that was a joke. "Weak and ineffective," I think she called it, while noting her own repeated calls for "meaningful employer sanctions."

    And because in the wake of this week's Senate vote, it would be political suicide to veto it and Napolitano isn't the suicidal type.

    She'll sign it and hope that in the ensuing high fives and celebration, nobody will notice what she does about Prop. 100.

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    Napolitano talks the talk but she doesn't walk the walk. Everytime a anti-illegal bill is given to her she vetos it. Citizens of AZ claim to be anti-illegal but the keep re-electing her and McCain. It is really confusing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Beckyal
    Napolitano talks the talk but she doesn't walk the walk. Everytime a anti-illegal bill is given to her she vetos it. Citizens of AZ claim to be anti-illegal but the keep re-electing her and McCain. It is really confusing.


    You're right, she doesn't and it should be interesting to see what she does with this latest opportunity to do something about our problem. Oh, I think she'll sign it but it will probably turn into the same song and dance.

    The few things she hasn't vetoed, she has found every excuse why it couldn't be enforced as written, or has selectively enforced it, or has read into it what she chose to read into it and then has gone on to inform others of how she wanted it interpreted and administered.

    As to the whys of her re-election, who knows. I didn't vote for her. During the first election I think people voted for her because this state was in a shambles due to a multitude of issues and she seemed to be the only one with a clear and concise plan to correct those issues, which she actually has gone a long way in doing. As far as illegals were concerned, it was one of many problems....and at the time, maybe not the most pressing one....but as US Attorney she had successfully and agressively prosecuted thousands, and as AG she went after smugglers big time. So, she had that going for her too. I think people found a lot of hope in her as a governor.

    When everybody was expecting a quick fix to the problem, she had the very valid points that it couldn't be changed overnight, care had to be taken that states did not overstep into federal territory, and that she was looking into states' rights concerning the issue.

    And she did do some things to supposedly tackle the problem. But, over time, her actions have become more contradictory and, I believe, suspicious in that every time something comes up that would be HUGE in turning it around here, she shuttles off to meetings with Mexican officials before taking any action. What's up with that?

    We'll see what happens but hopefully it's now reached a point where she can't fool the people of AZ anymore.
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    She's been toying with us about this bill on employers she has until July 3rd to sign. It passed the legislature quite easily. She has made a couple of announcements like she'd watch how the Senate vote goes and that she's made up her mind, but not telling anyone...

    She's playing with us; stringing us along, only likely to turn against us.

    I did call her office last week, like William asked.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mapwife
    She's been toying with us about this bill on employers she has until July 3rd to sign. It passed the legislature quite easily. She has made a couple of announcements like she'd watch how the Senate vote goes and that she's made up her mind, but not telling anyone...

    She's playing with us; stringing us along, only likely to turn against us.

    I did call her office last week, like William asked.



    That was a peculiar statement wasn't it......that she'd already made up her mind but was waiting to see what happened in DC which, wouldn't change her decision, but only how she worded it?

    That was almost like saying she had two speeches prepared....one if we won, one if we lost.....what does that mean?

    I don't know, I think the woman has really become a hazard to this state and you poor folks in Tucson....how are you all holding up down that way?
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