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Don't Put Undocumented Immigrants in Idaho, Otter Tells Feds
Twin Falls Times-News ^ | July 23, 2014 | By Nathan Brown

Posted on 07/23/2014 5:06:21 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter sent a letter to federal officials Wednesday voicing his opposition to using the state as "a destination or a staging area for the influx of unaccompanied and illegal immigrants entering the United States through our southern border."

In the letter to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Leon Rodriguez, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, and Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell, Otter blames the federal government for creating the current crisis at the border, and says Congress needs to take action to enforce the law.

"Idaho will not open itself to the unwelcome challenges with which other states have struggled at the federal government's hands," Otter wrote. "This entire catastrophe is only further evidence that the federal government continues to fail to administer the law and secure our southern border. The Obama administration seems to have entirely disregarded the impact of its failures on states and taxpayer resources."

(Excerpt) Read more at magicvalley.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Idaho
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; border; illegalaliens; invasion

1 posted on 07/23/2014 5:06:21 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Probably already there. Governors are NOT consulted.


2 posted on 07/23/2014 5:08:23 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s like The Grand Uniter wants the WHOLE country to think about secession?

This is weird.


3 posted on 07/23/2014 5:09:52 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And if obozo goes ahead and does it, what will Gov. Otter do?

Send another letter?


4 posted on 07/23/2014 5:10:33 PM PDT by dynachrome (Vertrou in God en die Mauser)
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To: gaijin

Seeds. First these illegals, then their immediate families, then their extended families, then others from their region.

How do you think all those Scandinavians and Germans arrived in the Midwest? Chain migration.

“The transformation of America.”


5 posted on 07/23/2014 5:14:15 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well, I sure hope not because I want to move there!


6 posted on 07/23/2014 5:16:16 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: dynachrome

He’ll do what rick Perry is doing... Nothing

Oh. that’s right, he’s sending the unarmed National Guard down...in 30 to 45 days, if they get some volunteers...who won’t be authorized, read, sanctioned for going.


7 posted on 07/23/2014 5:17:22 PM PDT by stanne
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To: dynachrome

Maybe the gov will say it is “ unacceptable” as Obama does as he is caving in to Iran, North Korea, Assad, etc.


8 posted on 07/23/2014 5:18:00 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nobody seems to want these urchins, so pResident Soetero must think we’re all terrible racists.
Well, he can **** in his golf cap.


9 posted on 07/23/2014 5:31:01 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Don't Put Undocumented Immigrants in Idaho, Otter Tells Feds

But what do Bluto, Pinto, and Flounder have to say?

10 posted on 07/23/2014 5:32:43 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: jjotto

You are absolutely correct. Except, if they were found to have some kind of sickness, they were removed from the general population.


11 posted on 07/23/2014 5:40:37 PM PDT by crz
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To: Veggie Todd

Well played!


12 posted on 07/23/2014 6:01:16 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Veggie Todd

13 posted on 07/23/2014 6:02:32 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Maybe the Governors should with state troopers and sheriffs arrest the federal agents transporting these illegals and charge them with human smuggling.


14 posted on 07/23/2014 7:04:48 PM PDT by Phil
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To: jjotto

Governors are NOT consulted.


Is this a first?


15 posted on 07/23/2014 7:06:53 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well, there are so many obstacles to doing anything to stop this dumping. There is so much Federal land out west, and so many federal facilities everywhere, that they don’t need to ask a governor for permission. They just show up at some facility with the illegals and drop them off. And some liberal church there will be more than willing to support them.


16 posted on 07/23/2014 7:11:39 PM PDT by mtrott
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They should all be sent to these sanctuary cities and give the residents what they want and the opportunity to pay.

You want ‘em you got them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary_city


17 posted on 07/23/2014 7:29:14 PM PDT by apoliticalone (Global corporatism is the threat to freedom and rights. They want your sovereignty and politicians.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sounds like the opening scenes to the HBO movie, ‘The Second Civil War’. Folks should look up that movie plot.


18 posted on 07/23/2014 7:36:16 PM PDT by jimjohn (You don't get the kind of government you want, or the kind you need. You get the kind you deserve.)
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