Many legislators aim to copy Ariz. immigration law

[Valin]

AP:

6/25/10

BOISE, Idaho — Arizona's sweeping new immigration law doesn't even take effect until next month, but lawmakers in nearly 20 other states are already clamoring to follow in its footsteps.
Gubernatorial candidates in Florida and Minnesota are singing the law's praises, as are some lawmakers in other states far from the Mexico border such as Idaho and Nebraska. But states also are watching legal challenges to the new law, and whether boycotts over it will harm Arizona's economy.

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Lawmakers or candidates in as many as 18 states say they want to push similar measures when their legislative sessions start up again in 2011. Arizona-style legislation may have the best chance of passing in Oklahoma, which in 2007 gave police more power to check the immigration status of people they arrest.
Bills similar to the law Arizona's legislature approved in April have already been introduced in Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Minnesota, South Carolina and Michigan, but none will advance this year.

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"If the feds won't do it, states are saying, 'We're going to have to do it,'" said Idaho state Sen. Monty Pearce. Pearce's second cousin is the author of the Arizona law, Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce, who like Monty Pearce is a Republican.
The debate is putting pressure on Congress and the Obama administration to act. In 2007, when states like Idaho and Kansas were making English their official languages as part of an immigration-related push, then-President George W. Bush failed to persuade even many Republican allies in the U.S. Senate to agree to combine increased border enforcement with a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants.


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[NCTexan]

I posted this on The Porch... but Governor Brewer's brilliant 60 second video is worth reposting.

 

Hopefully the RNC gets the message on effective communications.

 

[Rheo]

I posted this on The Porch... but Governor Brewer's brilliant 60 second video is worth reposting.

 

Hopefully the RNC gets the message on effective communications.

 

 

That was really good.

[Argyle58]

Arizona's sweeping new immigration law doesn't even take effect until next month, but lawmakers in nearly 20 other states are already clamoring to follow in its footsteps.

Gubernatorial candidates in Florida and Minnesota are singing the law's praises, as are some lawmakers in other states far from the Mexico border such as Idaho and Nebraska. But states also are watching legal challenges to the new law, and whether boycotts over it will harm Arizona's economy.

 

And yet, the MSM will still not show any interview with anyone who actually supports Arizona's law.......unless it is someone whom they are portraying as a right wing, racist nut job, Tea Partier.

[AceRimmer]

Arizona's sweeping new immigration law doesn't even take effect until next month, but lawmakers in nearly 20 other states are already clamoring to follow in its footsteps.

Gubernatorial candidates in Florida and Minnesota are singing the law's praises, as are some lawmakers in other states far from the Mexico border such as Idaho and Nebraska. But states also are watching legal challenges to the new law, and whether boycotts over it will harm Arizona's economy.

 

And yet, the MSM will still not show any interview with anyone who actually supports Arizona's law.......unless it is someone whom they are portraying as a right wing, racist nut job, Tea Partier.

 

What else would you expect? They're going to toe the Anointed One's party line, irregardless of the truth.

[nickydog]

I posted this on The Porch... but Governor Brewer's brilliant 60 second video is worth reposting.

 

Hopefully the RNC gets the message on effective communications.

 

 

That was really good.

She is one gutsy woman.

[Pepper]

That's a good video, NCTexan.

[Valin]

I posted this on The Porch... but Governor Brewer's brilliant 60 second video is worth reposting.

 

Hopefully the RNC gets the message on effective communications.

 

 

That was really good.

She is one gutsy woman.

 

 

Can we say raising star?