Posted on 08/15/2005 3:02:13 PM PDT by 11th_VA
Congresswoman Sue Myrick unveiled the "Scott Gardner Immigration Act" Monday.
The proposed legislation offers immigrations reforms that are more strict, more far reaching than almost anything that had been suggested before including requiring local cops in Charlotte and across the United States to be immigration police.
Gardner was the Gaston County man killed this summer by a drunk driver. The suspect was in the country illegally.
“You're drunk, you're driving, you're illegal, you're deported, period,” Myrick said.
Myrick’s act would put people like alleged drunk driver, Ramiro Gallegos, an undocumented immigrant with five previous DUI charges into a national FBI database.
“Had Scott Gardner's killer’s convictions been entered into the database perhaps North Carolina judges would have given him jail time, and not a free pass,” Myrick said.
Myrick was also using Gardner's death to call for a new immigration office, court and detention center in Charlotte, but her proposal offered nothing about how to deal with the three quarters of drunken driving arrests by American drivers.
“Yes they shouldn't be doing it either, but they are citizens of this country,” Myrick said.
Myrick also proposing $10,000 fines for businesses who hire undocumented workers and offering police departments a cash reward for arrests.
Angeles Ortega of the Latin American coalition also wonders whether Gardner's death should spur action on drunk driving -- not immigration.
“It would go out as bounty hunting for heads,” Ortega said. “Drunk drivers are not just Latinos. They come from every race and ethnic group."
Gardner’s family happily lent their name to Myrick's cause.
“If her efforts can keep another family from going thru what we've been going thru, then we will be with her every step of the way,” a family member said.
Congresswoman Myrick's bill would automatically deport any undocumented immigrant convicted of DUI. She is calling on the governor of North Carolina to make it tougher for illegal immigrants to get driver's licenses -- and is threatening to withhold highway money if he doesn't.
Howabout "you're illegal, you're deported, period" with no additional qualifications? You know, as the actual law says?
It would require all state and local law enforcement agencies to report DUI arrests to an FBI database, and would require them to check in with the law enforcement support center to check the immigration status of the people they pull over. That system already exists, but most law enforcement officials are unaware of it or do not know how to use it.
LOL - you beat me to it.
Why wait till they kill someone to deport. As far as hiring an illegal, anyone have any suggestions other than verifying a SS # to a name?
Oh, don't pay any attention to Sue Myrick...she's just thinks she's placating all the textile lintheads who'll vote her to the lowest level of CAFTA hell at the very next opportunity to do so.
I take the easy ones...there are some advantages to being a speed reader and a speed typist, or alternatively to not bothering to actually read the article at all!
=)
Oh stop making so much sense! :)
Well, we will see how long she stands behind it when they call her a Racist, and threaten to block all Hispanics from voting for her.
This scenario (Drunk Illegal kills/maims innocent citizen) has been often repeated and going on since 1985 here in Southern California.
This, I suspect is written to include all illegals, not just hispanics.So go pound sand.
I would like to see a law like this in every state, not only for drunk driving, but for even the most minor offenses, like spitting on the sidewalk.
If you can get work, get a driver's license, and now even get a mortgage to buy property, then why in the he!! do we need visas in the first place?
"If you can get work, get a driver's license, and now even get a mortgage to buy property, then why in the he!! do we need visas in the first place?"
It's an unnecessary impediment to the movement of goods and capital, sarcastically speaking.
We've effectively lost our country and have gotten a bureaucratic muddle of a North American "zone" in its place. We former US citizens are "privileged," and so we are not afforded the same level of "assistance."
Yeah, if she voted for CAFTA, that would be a hard vote for me ...
"Yeah, if she voted for CAFTA, that would be a hard vote for me ..."
She did.
People don't seem to realize that as our border evaporates our laws will need to become more similar. Personally that doesn't sound good too me.
"Personally that doesn't sound good too me."
A government run by bureaucratic-feudal "patrones" to the south, and nanny-stater socialist overlords to the north?
While I don't have the figures handy, I'm quite sure that's just a drop in the bucket compared to how much the illegals already here send to Mexico to fund more illegals to come here.
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