California Conservative

Based on the quotes from this Washington Times article, it’s apparent that law enforcement people didn’t like the Kennedy-McCain immigration legislation. Here’s a lawman that didn’t hate seeing McCain-Kennedy go down the drain:

“It seems that maybe the ’silent majority’ was heard after all by federal legislators,” said Richard K. Jones, the sheriff of Butler County, Ohio. “No one I spoke with liked the feds’ idea of watered-down immigration reform.” Sheriff Jones, who called on state officials last week to issue a “resolution of nonsupport” for the federal reform proposal, said the bill’s demise means that Ohio, and other states, should enact legislation to deal with what he called a “continuing illegal-immigration crisis.”
“Let’s create stricter state laws to go after employers who hire persons who are in this state illegally,” he said. “Also, let’s make English the official language of the state. Those who live in Ohio should know our language. Taxpayers should not have to pay for interpreters in schools, and U.S. citizens living here shouldn’t have to learn another language.”

Most senators heard more than they wanted to about McCain-Kennedy:

“We had way more response than we could handle,” said Stephen Elliott, president of Grassfire.org, a conservative Internet group that called for volunteers for a petition drive and instructed people how to barrage lawmakers with telephone calls and e-mail. The group gathered more than 700,000 signatures on petitions opposing the bill, delivering them this week to senators in Washington and in their home states.

The grassroots’ passion was obvious. The cloture votes failing were a testament to the power of the grassroots’ online lobbying campaign, too. The message got sent loud and clear that we demanded to be listened to.

Lawmakers in other states have sought to make illegal aliens subject to arrest under state and local criminal-trespassing laws since U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)[...]generally does not respond to pick up illegals unless they have committed a crime.

Think about that paragraph. Then get irate. ICE won’t enforce the laws already on the books. Then Ted Kennedy and John McCain ask us to take them seriously when they say that their bill is about enforcement? That’s insulting. Actually, insulting is understatement.

Technorati Tags: ICE, Ted Kennedy, John McCain, Law Enforcement, Illegal Immigration

Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

This entry was posted on Saturday, June 9th, 2007 at 11:45 pm and is filed under Author: Gary Gross, Homeland Security, Immigration, Subversives. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.