Posted on 01/21/2005 10:31:24 AM PST by gubamyster
Posted: 01/21/05 - 10:16:10 am MST
Idaho Press-Tribune staff
BOISE - Gov. Dirk Kempthorne's office has notified Canyon County commissioners that it has received their disaster declaration request and will review it.
Tuesday, the commissioners passed a resolution to declare the county a disaster area because of illegal immigration. The matter rests in Kempthorne's hands now.
"We have replied to the commissioners that the governor and his staff will give it a thorough review," Kempthorne spokesman Mike Journee said Thursday. "Because of its unique nature, it is something we're going to have to take a pretty close look at."
Commissioner Robert Vasquez wrote the resolution that asked for the disaster declaration.
Vasquez asked his fellow commissioners to consider the request in response to the publication of a Mexican government, comic book-style guide that provides safety advice for illegal immigrants planning to cross into the United States.
He said the book, titled "Guide For The Mexican Migrant," has set the stage for "an imminent invasion of illegal aliens" into the United States and Idaho.
Vasquez and Commissioner David Ferdinand voted for the resolution. Commission Chairman Matt Beebe expressed support for the resolution's concerns but abstained from voting on it.
The commissioners said undocumented immigrants are costing the county millions of dollars and it needs relief from what Vasquez calls an "invasion."
Vasquez has cited a 20 percent increase over 5 years of illegal immigrants making applications for county welfare.
Journee said he did not know how long it would take for the governor to make a decision.
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Let the mexican govt. pay the taxes the American people just don't want to pay anymore.
"undocumented immigrants are costing the county millions of dollars"
WHY doesn't our government get this? Neither party is willing to address this issue, in the meantime our States are being drained of $$$. Right now here in MA we have a terrorist attack notification, several chinese nationals are planning some kind of attack rumor has it but officials here say if captured they can't hold them because they did not commit a crime, HELLO, they are ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS smuggled into this country.
The fine money could be put to use to hire more border patrol officers and to build up the borders.
That would mean enforcing the law. They couldn't then claim that the system is broken, so they can "fix" it with their liberal, freedom robbing replacement.
sad but true.
LOL!!! Good for those commissioners! This is great news, excellent move.
I grew up in Canyon County. My mother still lives there, and I visit a couple of times a year. I would imagine that a lot of the farm workers there are illegals. When I was a kid, most of the farm workers were migrants - during the growing season, we'd see a lot of pickups with mostly Texas and Arizona license plates. The pickups usually had campershells, and the back of the pickups were usually filled with children. I've been told that a lot of the farm workers there now have settled in the area, and don't travel from state to state.
Disaster area? One county in Idaho? What are the words to describe Los Angeles county? I call it Tijuana norte.
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