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April 15, 2006

Immigration News

Here are some relevant immigration news links:

Arizona is set to follow a new trend in immigration enforcement by local law enforcement by treating all illegal immigrants as trespassers.

The AP reports:

Two days after a big immigration march in Phoenix, the Arizona Legislature on Wednesday approved legislation to make illegal immigrants subject to the state's criminal trespassing law.

The Senate approved the bill on a 17-12 vote and the House followed with a 33-27 vote, with both Republican-led chambers voting nearly along party lines.

And an illegal immigrant who became a minor celebrity in Minnesota for breaking and entering into a school (trying to further his education of course), surprisingly liked to break into other buildings as well. And he likes to attack the occupants of said buildings.

Breitbart reports:

A young illegal immigrant who became a cause celebre in Minnesota after secretly living in a high school for weeks has been arrested here on home invasion charges, months after he was supposed to have left the country.

Francisco Javier Serrano, 22, had waved goodbye to supporters and journalists who saw him off at the Minneapolis airport in January, but he apparently never boarded his plane for his home country of Mexico.

Two weeks ago, police arrested him after finding him with a knife in an apartment in Boston's North End, struggling with the tenant, who was unharmed, The Boston Globe reported Thursday. He remained in Suffolk County Jail facing home invasion charges and eventual deportation.

In Tuscon a man was arrested for burning a Mexican flag. I never understood why police ever allow protesters to burn flags, not because I think flag desecration should be illegal, but because I think setting stuff on fire in public should be illegal. It is dangerous.

The Arizona Daily Star reports:

A Tucson man was arrested Tuesday for his role in the burning of a Mexican flag as part of a counterprotest at a pro-immigration rally. At about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Tucson police cited Roy Warden, 58, on suspicion of assault, criminal damage and reckless burning, and then released him, according to Sgt. Decio Hopffer.

Posted by Pete at April 15, 2006 07:23 AM

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Comments

I wanted to comment on your nsa part II argument.

you are correct, the past presidents thing is not really that relevant,as you point out (however, there is a huge difference between one instance, which the president may have the authority to do (and for which there is STILL A RECORD) and suspending the entire law (which applies, to all 280 plus million americans, in theory).

the main argument is the constitutional one. there has been a lot of confusion over that,and the media has done a poor job of covering it. please see this article on that. thanks

if you have questions, feel free to email me. this is a pretty big issue, and there is a lot of misunderstanding of the implications of the current constitutioally related arguments.

Ivan Carter
http://www.pressthenews.com


Posted by: Ivan Carter at April 16, 2006 09:32 AM

this article is also helpful

Posted by: Carter at April 16, 2006 09:34 AM