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Enforce The Law!
Illegal immigration may shape Tennessee elections
Illegal immigration is emerging as one of the key issues in this year’s state elections, with Tennessee Republicans planning to make the topic a pillar of their program to sweep state legislative and Congressional elections.
State GOP leaders say illegal immigration — along with the economy and criticism of the Democratic health-care reform plan in Washington — will be one of their main areas of focus in the fall, even in races for the state legislature, which historically has made few attempts to set immigration policy.
Someone might find it educational to read the Constitution.
10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Federalist Papers – 45: The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.
Real interesting reading.
“There is something going on here that is not immediately apparent,” said Gary Gerstle, a history professor at Vanderbilt University who tracks public sentiment on immigration.
Republicans say they are responding to voter outrage over the issue and to actions that have emboldened states to take up the matter, such as a new law in Arizona that lets police detain suspected illegal immigrants on trespassing charges.
I dunno….maybe some of the state Republicans are finally snapping to the fact the we have laws in this country, and the voters are getting pretty fed up with the federal gubmint not enforcing the very laws they created.
Democrats say the strategy is simply a political maneuver that will not lead to policies that reduce illegal immigration. Nonetheless, they are moving to defuse the issue before it can be raised in November.
What it means is that, like national Dems, state Dems don’t give a flying flip about the voters, or the law, and will do all in their power to use both the U.S. Constitution, and the state Constitution as toilet paper. Note to Dems: WE ARE FED UP!
Just last week, President Barack Obama delivered a speech in which he asked Republicans to work with Democrats on an immigration bill. A few days earlier, Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen signed a law that requires local police to check the immigration status of anyone they arrest, despite calls from immigration and civil rights groups that he veto the measure.
What he’s asking is for Republicans to work on an AMNESTY bill, so he can say it’s “bipartisan”. They would do so at their own peril! Ya hear that Graham? McCain? We know D’Bama doesn’t give a damn about the Constitution. Don’t make the same mistake!
Bredesen said he signed the measure in part because he wanted to discourage politicians from continuing to make immigration a campaign issue.
WE, The People have NO problem with immigration. WE, The People have a HUGE problem with ILLEGAL invaders. I really wish these people would get it straight! And it IS a big campaign issue. I repeat….WE ARE FED UP!
Upholding immigration laws will be the central theme of the Republicans’ message to voters, said Rep. Glen Casada, the chairman of the House Republican Caucus.
There is a real good reason for having these laws, and that is to protect the LEGAL American residents. If the federal government will not do it’s job, then it falls upon the states to enforce the laws. That shouldn’t be the case, but since we have feckless weasels in positions of power, more power than they are delegated, someone has to step up to the plate.
“Republicans are really making a mistake on this one,” said John Vile, a political scientist at Middle Tennessee State University. “Hispanics are now the largest ethnic group in the United States. They’ve already lost African-Americans. Do they want to lose them, as well?”
Latino groups will be watching the debate carefully, said Yuri Cunza, president and chief executive of the Nashville Area Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
Did they come into the country legally? Did they go through the proper channels to become legal residents, with an eye on becoming a citizen? Or, did they sneak through the back door, and break the law. Are they working to assimilate, or are they working to change the entire country into whatever they left behind? Legal residents have nothing to worry about, but if they want to encourage breaking the laws of the land, then they can go the hell back where they came from. WE ARE FED UP!
Tennessee’s population of illegal immigrants stood at about 150,000 people in early 2008, according to the Pew Hispanic Center. By comparison, North Carolina had more than twice as many illegal immigrants and Georgia had three times more.
That’s 150,000 too many! North Carolina and Georgia need to deal with their problems too. Will they? We shall see.
Democrats plan to punch back by attacking Republicans’ credentials on the issue, said House Democratic Caucus Chairman Mike Turner of Nashville.
“They’re going to try to attack us on hot-button issues, but when it comes down to the meat-and-potato issues — putting food on the table for Tennessee families — they’re not going to do anything.”
Seriously? That’s the best they’ve got? Democrats don’t give a happy crap whether or not you can put food on your family’s table. If they did, they’d get the hell out of the way, and allow the American people to thrive, instead of working so hard to control. Republicans aren’t innocent in this whole mess, but many are starting to snap. Taking money out of your pocket to feed their ‘social programs’ is not helping you, or the economy. Taking jobs away from illegals, and giving them to LEGAL residents would go a long way in helping get things back on track. Let’s face it, if your children are hungry, you won’t hesitate to clean toilets for minimum wage to feed them. Unless, of course, you really do think you are too good to do such menial tasks, and then, personal opinion…..you ain’t worth spit!
I believe that you have pretty much summed up my feelings on this matter. I would like to bring up a different perspective. If you let all these folks into our country with no screening that means we are letting good and bad people into the country. Many countries have opened up their jails at different times.
It seems common sense to me that I would want good people not criminals around my family. Where is the legal immigrant outrage at allowing these criminals in their neighborhoods? Why aren’t we hearing more from legal immigrants about their frustration on going through the process of becoming a citizen?
I believe that many of these outrages over illegal immigration often show that many of these people are not interested in our country at all. They are only interested in getting rich or enriching their own families. We are being played for a group of people that leaves when they no longer need the money or benefit. We are elevating the exception not the right choice. The right choice is to close the border. Give people time to cross back one way. Then pass what laws need to be passed. They can go through the channels to come back legally if they want to return.
Yes our country was shown as a promise to the world. If you let everyone into this country your promise and shining city will soon be tarnished and dull.
Those legal immigrants who do speak up are ignored by the media. Perhaps the MSM is afraid the person…..gasp…..MIGHT be a conservative, or some such evil creature.
If legals from Mexico and farther south were interested in assimilating, why are so many billboards in Spanish? Why are there government pamphlets printed in so many different languages? Why do WE have to “press 1″? No, there are too many who decided they wanted to remake the U.S. into their home countries, and the ‘leadership’ who accommodates. If they want to live in a slum, then they can go right back where they came from because, personally, I’m sick of seeing their trash on MY streets!
Constitutional law isn’t all in the constitution because our constitutional law is based upon Roman and Saxon Law. Also it is had been amended by Blood, Blood Ink and practice/precedent when the state laws conflicted with the basic precepts our our constitution ie Slavery. That little Armed conflict established that Federal constitution superseded States laws when the tow were in conflict.
The Constitution isn’t that complicated, so I’m not sure why folks are trying to make it out that way. The federal government is limited to certain things, very limited. Usurping power, even after the War of Northern Aggression does not make it any more right then, as now.
If federal law supersedes state, why does California have ‘pot shops’ in direct violation of federal law? Just wondering.