May 12, 2010

The public broadly supports a new Arizona law aimed at dealing with illegal immigration and the law's provisions giving police increased powers to stop and detain people who are suspected of being in the country illegally.

Fully 73% say they approve of requiring people to produce documents verifying their legal status if police ask for them. Two-thirds (67%) approve of allowing police to detain anyone who cannot verify their legal status, while 62% approve of allowing police to question people they think may be in the country illegally.


As has been the case since last fall, the public is highly critical of Barack Obama's handling of immigration policy. Just 25% approve of the way Obama is handling the issue, while more than twice as many (54%) disapprove.

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This bill never became law.

H.R. 4437 [109th]: Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005

To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to strengthen enforcement of the immigration laws, to enhance border security, and for other purposes.

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Sponsor: Rep. James Sensenbrenner [R-WI5]
Cost: $7 per American over the 2006-2010 period.
Status: 
Introduced--Dec 6, 2005
Referred to Committee    
Reported by Committee--Dec 8, 2005
Amendments (32 proposed)
Passed House--Dec 16, 2005
Senate Vote--(did not occur)
Signed by President--(did not occur)

This bill never became law. This bill was proposed in a previous session of Congress. Sessions of Congress last two years, and at the end of each session all proposed bills and resolutions that haven't passed are cleared from the books. Members often reintroduce bills that did not come up for debate under a new number in the next session.

Votes: Dec 16, 2005: This bill passed in the House of Representatives by roll call vote. The totals were 239 Ayes, 182 Nays, 13 Present/Not Voting.
Last Action: Jan 27, 2006: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.


Jan 27, 2006 - Referred in Senate. This is the text of the bill after moving from the House to the Senate before being considered by Senate committees. This is the latest version of the bill currently available on GovTrack.

HR 4437 RFS

109th CONGRESS

2d Session

H. R. 4437

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
December 17, 2005

Received
January 27, 2006
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary



     TITLE I--SECURING UNITED STATES BORDERS

SEC. 118. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING ENFORCEMENT OF IMMIGRATION LAWS.

(a) Findings- Congress finds the following:

    (1) A primary duty of the Federal Government is to secure the homeland and ensure the safety of United States citizens and lawful residents.

    (2) As a result of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, perpetrated by al Qaida terrorists on United States soil, the United States is engaged in a Global War on Terrorism.

    (3) According to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, up to 15 of the 9/11 hijackers could have been intercepted or deported through more diligent enforcement of immigration laws.

    (4) Four years after those attacks, there is still a failure to secure the borders of the United States against illegal entry.

    (5) The failure to enforce immigration laws in the interior of the United States means that illegal aliens face little or no risk of apprehension or removal once they are in the country.

    (6) If illegal aliens can enter and remain in the United States with impunity, so, too, can terrorists enter and remain while they plan, rehearse, and then carry out their attacks.

    (7) The failure to control and to prevent illegal immigration into the United States increases the likelihood that terrorists will succeed in launching catastrophic or harmful attacks on United States soil.

    (8) There are numerous immigration laws that are currently not being enforced.

    (9) Law enforcement officers are often discouraged from enforcing the law by superiors.

(b) Sense of Congress- It is the sense of Congress that the President, the Attorney General, Secretary of State, Secretary of Homeland Security, and other Department Secretaries should immediately use every tool available to them to enforce the immigration laws of the United States, as enacted by Congress.

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Sooner than later, some deranged zealot is going to gross the Mexican border and set off a atomic bomb and kill a lot of innocent US citizens.

I wonder what the politicians will say then?

All for the possibility of cultivating potential sympathetic votes...for politics...for maintaining power.

Shows what an elected officials will do to maintain a power base.

Think about the type of person that would disregard the obvious in order to seem sympathetic to a group of voters to maintain an elected office.

I can't think of a word to describe it.


Please, whatever your Party, don't vote for an incumbent. Don't think you vote wasted if the senior member wins. A message needs to be sent to the cronies in Washington. And even a tight race sends a pointed notice.

Steve G

Unfortunately, we live in an age of terrorism. We can not afford to have an open border. Solutions I am short on, but it is easy to see the problem.


Ray

LasVegas wrote on May 27^th, 2010 at 12:22am:

And his administration will declare this to be a great victory of toughness and reform, while in practice having virtually no effect whatsoever. Hope and change, baby.

Linda_Howell wrote on May 26^th, 2010 at 11:13pm:

Honestly, I didn't even know what the term "incumbant" meant until about 5 years ago.  Do you think most voters do?

deltadarlin wrote on May 27^th, 2010 at 8:39am:

Reality is, many of them do anyhow. They pull the lever for whoever Katie Couric tells them to.

Jimi wrote on May 23^rd, 2010 at 10:29am:


Illegals only get jobs when an American feels that his/her 'need' for cheap labor outweighs the legal obstacles to hiring an illegal. Those legal obstacles have not scared many people.

Jobs are the magnet that will keep pulling people here without the necessary permits. If you build a fence on the border, they will enter on planes saying they are going to visit Disney or New Orleans, and then they will find a job and forget to return. They have little to lose, while the factory owners and farmers with US citizenship have a lot to lose. The only way to solve the problem is to bitch-slap any citizen or legal immigrant who employs illegal aliens. Seize their assets and give them hard jail time. The jobs would dry up, and people would return to their home countries.

stevegeebe wrote on May 26^th, 2010 at 11:03pm:


Maybe, but maybe they will smuggle it in through a cargo container - why not insist that every one of millions of containers that enters the US every years gets thoroughly inspected before we let it into our port cities? Sure, it would cost many billions of dollars and that would be tacked on to the price we pay for just about everything ... but if we conjure up the vision of a nuclear fireball over a US city, shouldn't we be devoting 100% of all activity to prevent that??

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The so called tea party owes big time to the major liberal news media. By their incessant reporting of a group that wasn't all that exciting, they pumped it up enough to make people wonder enough to check it out. It's still smaller than reported but it will never appear so and that's the genius of it.

Charlie

monty wrote on May 27^th, 2010 at 4:10pm:



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I wondered why news of business sanctions was so quiet.

monty wrote on May 27^th, 2010 at 4:10pm:


Those who are crossing the border illegally can't afford to go to anywhere USA (longd damned walk to get to Disney World) and stay at Motel 6, much less buy a plane ticket and go to Disney World or new Orleans.

If they had that kind of money, they wouldn't need to come here.

AdoreInVegas wrote on May 28^th, 2010 at 1:58pm:

Have you actually attended a Tea Party?  Just wondering...

AdoreInVegas wrote on May 28^th, 2010 at 2:09pm:

So, what I'm gathering is that all of the tea partiers scared you except for one?

Sounds like a scary place to live.