Controversial Immigration Program Spurs Federal-State Spat

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The law on immigration, illigal immigration, IS THE LAW!!!!!! THAT MEANS ALL
GOVERNMENTAL, STATE COUNTY, FEDERAL ARE TO FOLLOW THE LAW, and no
special considerations by the State, County, Federal, Religous intities are to use various excuses or reasons allowing these "special" ????, illigals to remain or to enter our country, illigally or otherwise.
Some members of my family migrated from Great Britian & Europe back in the 1800's. They were part our countries past civilization who helped build our wonderful country for their future American families. Not for the illigals who without concern or respect for our American immigration laws cross the unprotected North, South, East,West borders. It is obvious our U.S.A. and we REAL US CITIZINS are being involved in a silent WAR designed to weaken our wonderful country and to weaken citizen protection. Wake Up American Citizens. Your ancestors didn't go through the challenges they went through to build our amazing country. We must point out the offenders, especially Washington offenders and rid the Government and the Government attachments to these offenders, no matter what level of Government association is involved.
The neglect by the USA Government of the Immigration Laws is one of the first places to start.
WAKE UP "REAL AMERICAN" CITIZINS. IT'S UP
TO US!!! WE AMERICAN PEOPLE!!!! WAKE UP
PLEASE!!!!!

Goldie of TX 2:26PM March 05, 2012

How soon we forget! We all could go to south Florida for a vacation years ago and it was fun and safe. The whole dynamics changed, and we saw a paradigm shift to major crime and alienation of south Florida. Then president Carter changed the law so anyone from Cuba could come into our country if they were politically persecuted without the necessary paperwork! and That's when Castro emptied his jails, prisons, and insane asylums and sent them packing to our shores! For that he got the Nobel peace prize and we got little Havana A.K.A. Miami and all the drugs, murderers and crime you can afford, and the shaft! Miami Vice series T.V. show was the only positive thing to come from that fiasco!
Now when you visit south Florida you can forget English, our recognized language and you better know how to speak Spanish or you will be left out of the loop! You also need to be careful of where you go or you may be victimized by the boys in the "HOOD". I read a few years ago where a hotel maid was fired because she was NOT fluent in Spanish! If a hotel manager fired a Latino for not being able to speak English OUR government would be all over him and the Civil Liberties Union would be raising he** and would have his job and be pressing for jail time! When will the U.S.American citizen get a fair shake in jobs and a safe country to live in and visit. We don't have to watch the crime shows on T.V. we are living with the crime and our lawmakers and law enforcement are ineffective in dealing with it!

Lee Hansen of MI 3:53PM August 12, 2011

It seems to me that immigration plays a large and positive role in our national history.As I understand it,people from around the globe(who are not barred for legal reasons)continue to legally migrate to the US and apply for their cherished American Citizenship. And rightly so.
Sure we have our own share of problems,but things may well be worse in some other countries. We can no longer afford to 'look the other way' when it
comes to people entering our country,without due process.
I prefer that someone knock and wait for my welcome before entering my home.
To do otherwise is not courteous to say the least and can even be dangerous to
all parties involved. I try to Love my fellow man and I try to assist a person in need. I also welcome people from all parts of the world who are guests of this country.
Peace,Carl J. Humphreys Sr.-FL

Carl J. Humphreys Sr. of FL 9:58PM July 21, 2011

Interesting viewpoints. You should post your ideas about this on www.whitehousevoice.com!

Matthew of LA 1:38PM June 30, 2011

The US agricultural industries are dependent on migrant labor, always have been.
All the chest thumpin' by the nativist Know Nothings are creating a mess for American agriculture. Ronald Reagan recognized the importance of the issue and passed a effective amnesty program that everyone of us have benefited from if we every brought produce from your local grocery store. Without the labor farms are dead in the water. Agriculture states that are passing these horrendous anti-immigration bills are cutting off their own noses, killing their own farm economies. Not all farmers get hundreds of thousands in farm welfare like Michelle Bachmann. We have stronger immigration enforcement than ever, and its hurting our economy.
Its telling that conservative Texas Republicans tried to pass their own tough immigration bill, but got called out for their hypocrisy for leaving a loophole you could drive a bus thru - to exempt agriculture and domestic help. They know its vital to their economy.
States are right to push back against this expensive anti-immigration fanaticism, especially since we're the greatest immigrant nation and immigration has always been one of the best ways to grow our economy and still is.

Dan of ID 9:37PM June 27, 2011

The vermin in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, beaten to a pulp by voters and beaten to a pulp by the courts, are now arm-twisting elected officials to get their cheap-labor and cheap-consumers. It's time to take out this dangerous nationwide collection of filth by any means possible. They are panicky and distracted, they won't know what hit them. Snap!

ZOO of AZ 6:37PM June 27, 2011

Sounds like part of the Obama/Big Sis dog and pony show of pretend enforcement. If you get rid of violent illegal aliens, the remainder of anchor baby manufacturers who produce Dem voters by the millions are then valuable immigrants to be given the world's cheapest commodity eventually--U.S. citizenship.

Luther of LA 6:07PM June 27, 2011

So a criminal gets busted, gets fingerprinted, and those fingerprints electronically go to the FBI to see if he's done bad things elsewhere in this fine land. This happens EVERY DAY in 95% of the police stations.
The only difference is that with Secure Communities those fingerprints also take a run past another federal database of criminals. This database is of people that ICE has had previous dealings with and who are at best not legally in the U.S., at worst they have committed serious crimes inside or outside the U.S. that would normally make them removable or inadmissable.
ICE gets notified if the fingerprints match, and they send an immigration detainer to the jail to hold the subject until ICE can come pick them up - no more than 48 hours.
If you want to change the legal status by granting amnesty - then do it by all means, but until then if a person is illegally in the U.S... they are just that.
Is there ANYONE who doesn't know what will happen to you if you cross the border into the U.S. illegally? There is no secret or surprise. It's EXPECTED to happen if caught.

John of VT 4:25PM June 27, 2011

The lede here (the first paragraph) is slightly misleading. It's ICE's policy not to allow juristictions to choose whether to participate. It is clearly "technically" possible for them to include or exclude individual jurisdictions because they have been doing that as the "roll out" the program.
As to the warning made by ICE spokeswoman "Jurisdictions who ignore detainers bear the risk of possible dangers to public safety." Local law enforcement agencies and the judicial system make such judgements all the time when they decide whether to release someone who has been arrested without charging them or on bail or under many other circumstances. Immigration status is almost never relevant to those decisions.

Jerry of CA 4:11PM June 27, 2011