Posted on 04/29/2010 9:02:56 AM PDT by Charles West
Some anticipate that several states are playing watch and see with the Arizonan immigration bill, and if successful, that other states will aim to pass one similar to it. But nobody guessed the dominoes would start falling this quickly, as first Texas and now Missouri are considering whether to pass similar measures.
While many of the usual suspects are throwing the same fit that we saw in Arizona, others in the state are making reasoned arguments that show why the citizens of Missouri benefit most from a sound immigration policy...
(Excerpt) Read more at westernyouth.org ...
I guess the racist inner city politicans from KC and St. Louis can publicly urinate during In Session again, in protest of this.
MY state is doing something smart!?!? We are in the top ten most economically free states per an article posted to FR, we allow CCW, we joined the anti obamacare lawsuit, and now this!??!! GO MO!!!!
It would be nice if MO demonstrated some support to pass this kind of law. McCain carried MO by (I believe) less than 5K votes. If there’s a real appetite in MO for tougher enforcement of existing immigration laws, this would bode well for Republicans and should help whomever ends up being the GOP nominee for the retiring Kit Bond seat.
The KC and St. Louis Democrats did not vote for the immigration bill that passed in 2008.
Oklahoma already did this 3 years ago.
Seems to be working OK for them.
Mexico is threatening to start a trade war with Oklahoma over the fees being charged on wire transfers other than through a bank.
When we passed the tough immigration bill, everyone said it would be overturned but so far only two parts have been overturned which is great. Expect next January with a Republican Governor that the legislature will make it even tougher.
Missouri never seceded during the Civil War, and was not part of the Confederacy. Missouri did retain the legality of slavery until it was abolished by Constitutional amendment (as did Kentucky and Maryland). Thus, Missouri was one of the so-called ‘’border’’ states.
You bet it worked for Oklahoma!!!
Allot of Illegals high tailed it out of OK.
“And it is harder to characterize Missouri as a member of the deep south”
Most of my family is from Missouri, and i can promise you that excluding the metro areas of KC and St. Louis, Missouri is VERY anti-illegal immigrant.
So yes, many are absolutely for stricter enforcement.
While many of the usual suspects are throwing the same fit that we saw in Arizona...The same fit? Please go pi$$ up a rope, Charles.
Heads up Michigan freepers:
Posted: 12:32 p.m. April 29, 2010
Detroit Latinos to rally
against anti-illegal
immigration laws, seek
reform
By NIRAJ WARIKOO
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
Latinos are planning to rally in Michigan this
weekend for immigration reform — including a
group of students who left today from a Detroit
high school and are walking to Ann Arbor in
advance of President Obama’s talk on Saturday,
said community activists.
The states better wake up!
Obama replaces Andrew Jackson on the $20 Bill
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2503185/posts
Ping!
Enforcing the law is a sovereignty issue, State and National.
If our federal government is unwilling to enforce the law, the issue of law and order then rests solely upon the individual sovereign state. The state cannot allow the selective enforcement of law or anarchy will become the order.
Justice for all is only fair when the law is administered equally rather than personally.
That is why the blindfold is on the statue of Justice.
The law does not see color or gender, only the rule, to be applied equally.
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