Posted on 08/28/2007 11:00:00 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine does not want to create a statewide partnership with federal immigration officials that would allow state agencies to identify illegal aliens and begin deportation procedures, despite calls from the state's attorney general and anti-illegal-immigration groups.
"The governor does not object to localities choosing to enter into localized agreements with [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement]," said Kevin Hall, Mr. Kaine's spokesman. "He has concerns, however, about asking state troopers to assume primary enforcement of federal immigration responsibilities."
The Virginia State Crime Commission's task force on illegal aliens last month discussed introducing legislation mandating all sheriffs and jail administrators to participate in the 287(g) program as a way to streamline statewide immigration enforcement. The 287(g) program trains local and state law-enforcement officials to identify illegal aliens and begin deportation proceedings...
The anti-illegal-alien group Help Save Virginia created an online petition asking Mr. Kaine to order the state police, the state Department of Corrections and the state Department of Motor Vehicles to enter into the 287(g) program...
Virginia Attorney General Robert F. McDonnell, a Republican, earlier this year asked Mr. Kaine to reconsider his opposition to statewide 287(g) training — a request that Mr. McDonnell last week said still stands...
Mr. Hall said in Virginia, state police, the DMV and state corrections department work closely with ICE...
State police officials in 2004 considered pursuing 287(g) training for officers who are members of a task force on gangs and terrorism, but determined that it wasn't necessary and could inhibit illegal aliens from reporting crimes, Geller said...
DMV officials notify ICE when a person is found to be an illegal alien after presenting fraudulent documents or through his or her own admission, DMV spokeswoman Melanie Stokes said.
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For politicians, the danger of being voted out of office is more important than Laws.
Try not paying your state income tax and see if Gov Kaine is in a forgiving mood concerning the law. All Dems are the same, no matter what they say during a campaign.
Do an end run around the eyebrow.
Man thinks the Mexicans will make him our dictator Fur Shur.
It’s worth reminding folks that AlQaida picked Virginia as its exclusive source for STATE ISSUED DRIVER’S LICENSES for a very good reason ~ we have these doggone fools, top to bottom, both parties, who think it’s cute somehow to let in the foreign criminals from every nation on Earth.
Dear Kaine, I hope you like being just a plain old citizen, cause you will not be in public service mush longer....If you can’t serve American citizens, you serve something else.
The Eyebrow isn’t worried about “being voted out of office”. Virginia governors cannot run for reelection while in office. Good, bad or indifferent (or in Kaine’s case, both bad and ugly) they’re gone after one term.
I bet he has delusion of running for Senate. He’ll more likely end up in ignominious obscurity, like Wilder.
Yes, you are correct. I forgot about that.
“He has concerns, however, about asking state troopers to assume primary enforcement of federal immigration responsibilities.”
Yea, they need to be out enforcing those “abuser fees” on the residents of VA. What a moron. The voters in Nothern VA are killing the rest of us.
There is something seriously wrong with Kaine. Maybe he wants to protect terrorists.
A shame he was elected governor.
Deliberate moron if you ask me. Keeps his priorities in a shoe box in the closet. You are right about the People’s Republic of Northern Virginia, and I live in the middle of it.
“He has concerns, however, about asking state troopers to assume primary enforcement of federal immigration responsibilities.”
He has no concern, however, about asking state troopers to assume primary revenue collection responsibilities through civil fines for traffic infractions.
Run
This is great fodder for a letter to the editor....
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