Posted on 05/04/2005 11:39:08 AM PDT by StoneColdGOP
SACRAMENTO, CA: California State Assemblyman Ray Haynes (R-Riverside County) will submit language to the Attorney General tomorrow for a landmark statewide initiative that would establish a separate state police force to patrol California’s international border. Known as the “California Border Police Initiative”, the measure is the first of its kind in the nation.
“The federal government has proven itself incapable of securing our borders, so it is time for Californians to step up and take matters into our own hands,” said Assemblyman Haynes. “This initiative establishes a separate and distinct state police force, much like the Highway Patrol, charged with enforcing immigration laws.”
In neighboring Arizona, private citizens known as the Minutemen are patrolling the borders. Under the proposal by Assemblyman Haynes, California’s new Border Police would be trained and sworn peace officers who would supplement the work of federal border agents. The initiative also allows for the construction of new jail and prison facilities dedicated to housing illegal aliens who are apprehended by the California Border Police before they are turned over to the federal government for deportation. The initiative will need just under 600,000 valid signatures to qualify for the ballot.
“With three million illegal aliens here already and thousands more crossing the border every month, California is ground zero when it comes to illegal immigration,” said Haynes. “Hospital emergency rooms are closing, other public services are being stretched to the breaking point and we have over 48,000 illegal aliens in our prisons. In addition, our loosely controlled border presents terrorists with an easy entry point into our state and country. We cannot wait any longer for the feds to get the job done. We need to police our own border now.”
In addition to submitting the language to the State Attorney General in preparation for a ballot measure campaign, Assemblyman Haynes is also introducing the measure as an Assembly Constitutional Amendment. The organization Rescue California, which gathered over 1.4 million signatures to recall Gray Davis in 2003, is preparing for a signature-gathering effort that would put the California Border Police Initiative on the June, 2006 ballot. A copy of the initiative along with a legal analysis of the state’s authority to enforce federal immigration law can be found at www.RescueCalifornia.com.
yeah, because tax evasion for a mass amt of people is always a better form of defiance. haha what are you thinking? in a perfect world, maybe...but all that will do is cause financial strife for those who get ding'd by the IRS. Doesn't do ANYTHING to intimidate the Fed Gov't. Ask anyone who protested the first gulf war about that one. A job for the federal government, sure.....they've done such a GREAT job on enforcing the laws against illegals already.
The federal government is so arrogant, they won't do anything about it no matter what happens! They've never enforced the law that Reagan had Pete Wilson wheeled into CONgress to vote on from his hospital bed in 1987!!!
This is one of those things that NOTHING coming from the top down is ever going to resolve! Only from the bottom up, like a lowly CA State Senator lauching a petition for a vote of Cauleeforneeuns to take action will ever jar those federal pin-heads to come running and yelling "me too! We wanna help yooooooooooooooo!!!"
I'll go one up on you. I'll agree to have my taxes raised to pay for this.
Dump the cloning (stem-cell) initiative that we got sucked into and replace it with this. That would (blank) the liv'in _hit out of the RATS in Sacto.
For "Thunder on the Border," click this picture:
Clause 3: No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.
a) Actually Invaded - check!
b) Imminent Danger - check!
Time for Ahhhhnold to declare war on Mexico!
I liked the link too. You know I HAD to look. :)
Considering that they just found 41 workers in Tyson Chicken processing to be infected with TB, I think we should again be concerned about this. We are the largest harborer of illegal aliens in this country.
Something needs to be done. The diseases they bring here are NOT curable.
Bump
Now that would constitute a wise use of $$!
Not the real point here. Sometimes it is imperative action be taken regardless of the cost in dollars.
Make no mistake here, this is the equivalent of war as regards our survival as a republic.
I remember McNamara and his accountant's approach to defining success in Nam. It was nuts.
This proposal is like fixing one crack in a dam while up to your shoulders in water that is pouring in from all the other cracks. If they cross through Arizona or Texas, what is to keep them from coming into California.
This is a national problem that needs to be addressed by Bush and Congress. California will just be wasting money on a seperate effort unless they plan to control the California border with the rest of the U.S. also.
This problem can not wait until June, 2006.
What a billborad ! Talk about a pipe dream ! There is no way the Mexicans can take southern cal. Its not logistically possible. They might over run San Diego for awhile, but north of San Diego there are only a severely restricted number of passable highways. They consist of a coastal freeway, a mountain pass, and a vast desert. Defendable logistical territory was acquired by the feds over 100 years ago. Forces have been strategically moved into position for over 100 years now. The truth of the situation is that American forces already in place can overun Mexico just as fast as we did Iraq. Days to Mexico City, not months and not even weeks.
Agreed, but it will get the radical hispanic lobby's frothing at the mouth prior to the 2006 election.. Which will, bring attention to the illegal alien issue, and play a part in the 2006 Senate races. It's a good thing, even the initiative never makes the ballot. JMHO
Of course, I agree with you. Anything that brings more attention to the issue is a good thing.
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