Liberals Won’t Like What This Governor Just Did to Protect Citizens and Enforce the Law
Being tough on illegal immigration has to be more than just talk, and Texas is leading the way.
Texas led a coalition of states to stop the former president’s attempt to defer deportation of certain illegal aliens.
After voters sent Donald Trump to the White House, the previous administration halted the amnesty attempt and suspended the court case.
Now the governor, Greg Abbott, has signed a bill into law that bans “sanctuary” cities, counties, and universities in his state, effective September 1. He said on Facebook Live that residents expect their government to keep them safe, “and that is exactly what we are going to do by me signing this law.”
As expected, some politicians don’t believe protecting American citizens should be the higher priority.
Opponents of the law were quick to condemn the signing. Thomas Saenz, president of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, said that the law was a “colossal blunder” and that the lawmakers who championed it were small-hearted.
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Saenz said the law would alienate “nearly half the state population” and make people subject to widespread racial profiling. He said the law undermines voters’ rights to choose elected officials who set local policy, makes the job of local law enforcement more difficult by straining relationships with immigrant communities and would cost Texas in trade and tourism, as well as legal challenges.“This racist and wrongheaded piece of legislation ignores our values, imperils our communities and sullies our reputation as a free and welcoming state,” Terri Burke, executive director of the ACLU of Texas said in a prepared statement. “We will fight this assault in the courts, at the ballot box, and in the streets if we have to.”
The United States has a process of welcoming foreigners: legal immigration. Regardless, the new law allows the police to ask about immigration status during detention, which any sovereign country has the prerogative to do.
The Liberal Fascists won't like this. They want to have a place where criminals can torment their citizens.
I don't understand. What is wrong with LEGAL immigration? Is there any country in the world that has a law permitting ILLEGAL immigration? If I were caught breaking a law here where I can never become a citizen but have a valid residency visa legally obtained I would be thrown out of this country so fast i wouldn't have time to pack - and I have NO complaints about that.
We're the only country held to this standard, Buzz. Try wandering into Mexico illegally-they will jail you. Do it to the United States, if anyone catches you, they deport you instead of imprisoning you. Its hypocritical, but it's been normalized for so long in the U.S. some factions think of it as its okay.
Six - face palm
That is the stupidest statement I read so far this morning.....Perhaps it should be posted on your other article "The dumbest thing I have seen all decade".
There is certainly a different opinion about the immigration debate but NO ONE WANTS THEIR CITIZENS TORMENTED BY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. Could you be even more divisive and misleading?
I personally think we need to have stricter laws. We need to be able to know who is in our country and immigrants need to understand that there is a process in place that needs to be followed.
I personally think we need to have stricter laws. We need to be able to know who is in our country and immigrants need to understand that there is a process in place that needs to be followed.
We already have laws. If democrats would follow the law instead of undermining it, then the illegal aliens would get the message and stop jumping the damn fence.
If democrats would follow the law instead of undermining it
Well folks, it looks like we've got a runner up.
So only democrats don't follow the laws? Interesting.....So just to be clear, you think only democrats are business owners, correct? Because I'm pretty sure part of the immigration problem is businesses hiring illegal immigrants.
So only democrats don't follow the laws? Interesting.....So just to be clear, you think only democrats are business owners, correct? Because I'm pretty sure part of the immigration problem is businesses hiring illegal immigrants.
Only Democrats support sanctuary cities which invite illegal aliens to stay. Regardless as to what employers do, if Democrats would enforce the law, illegal aliens wouldn't be around to work for anybody.
if Democrats would enforce the law, illegal aliens wouldn't be around to work for anybody.
1ofmany - that's naive at best and i'm calling BS. Businesses have been hiring illegal immigrants forEVER and no law or wall is going to stop that.
1ofmany - that's naive at best and i'm calling BS. Businesses have been hiring illegal immigrants forEVER and no law or wall is going to stop that.
Sure it will. Illegal aliens keep coming because they know they can stay. Trump has already put a big dent in illegal immigration simply by being more aggressive in enforcing the law. If more cities and states pitch in, illegal immigration can be reversed. Again, cheers to Texas and boos to Democrats and their awful sanctuary cities.
NO ONE WANTS THEIR CITIZENS TORMENTED BY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.
Actually the govt wants illegal immigrants if they can turn them into legal voters ...
Or illegal voters.
Good for Texas. It's about time that people revolt against the open border lunacy of the democrats. Support for sanctuary cities is one of the main reasons that I would never support a democrat for president.
Domestic crime far outpaces all crimes committed in the U.S. .
But several studies , over many years, have concluded that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than people born in the United States. And experts say the available evidence does not support the idea that undocumented immigrants commit a disproportionate share of crime.
“There’s no way I can mess with the numbers to get a different conclusion,” said Alex Nowrasteh, immigration policy analyst at the libertarian Cato Institute, which advocates more liberal immigration laws.
I'm not justifying illegal immigration … but let's call things what they actually are and not single-out demographics we don't like.
As for …
As expected, some politicians don’t believe protecting American citizens should be the higher priority.
Agreed … among them would be the ones subsidized by the NRA, the ones who oppose clear air and water regulations, workplace safety protections, funding for medical research …
I hate it when someone spits in my face and tells me "it's raining".
And while we're at it, I also hate it when the actual perpetrators of fake news … call every fact that doesn't suit their agenda … "fake news"! In doing so, they fuck us over twice.
I doubt we have accurate statistics on crimes committed by illegal aliens. Anyway, I don't care how many crimes illegal aliens commit relative to citizens. If the illegal alien weren't here, then he would commit ZERO crimes.
well said 1. I support the actions of the governor of the great state of Texas.
I'm not justifying illegal immigration … I'm merely setting the record straight.
When the argument is on your side as it is regarding people here illegally, once you start making false allegations to back your argument, you weaken it.
Sure there are lots of other crimes out there. Amongst all the other forms of enforcement for crimes out there, the subject here is illegal aliens, not everything else.
the subject here is illegal aliens, not everything else.
When an unsubstantiated, false allegation is posited to make a case, if for no other reason than its factual inaccuracy, it needs to be addressed and corrected. It is the ones who broach the false information who are guilty of the "everything else," not those who correct the record.
Beyond that, since it is inarguable that "illegal immigrants" are in fact, here illegally, by adding false elements to that argument, the integrity and/or knowledge or lack thereof regarding those who do so, get called into question.
I'll be happy to discuss the complex issue of illegal immigration with anyone who will do so based on facts and reality, but I won't ignore bad information intended to simplify a complex issue created by politicians and misrepresented thereafter by pandering to xenophobia and unfounded fears.
Like it or not, understand it fully or not, there are adverse economic and humanistic consequences that would result from the simplistic "solutions" offered up by politicians who pander to uninformed and ill-informed would "throw out the baby with the bathwater".
If you have "unwanted" occupants in your house, you might first try to determine what you did or didn't do to draw them there. For example, while Mr. Trump and supporters want to blame much of illegal entry on drug dealers doing "business" in America, it might make sense to acknowledge and deal with the reality that, Americans willing to be the buyers and users of illegal substances are the marketplace for the dealers. The LEGAL use of opioid pain killers cost more lives and more money than do illegal drugs coming from Mexico. Put the problems in perspective of scope … not demagoguery and demographics.
And get after employers (like Republican-backing Corporate farms) that hire illegals as cheap labor instead of American workers at a living wage.
There's some of the "everything else" that needs to be in the illegal immigrants/aliens discussion.
This story is way too long for a bumper sticker.