Friday
Jun182010
Virginia Politician Urging State To Adopt Arizona Immigration Law
Friday, June 18, 2010 at 12:29PM
By Linn Grubbstrom
Talk Radio News Service
The top elected official of a Northern Virginia county located less than 40 miles from the nation's capital says he wants his state to pass a very similar version of the anti-illegal immigration law passed earlier this year in Arizona.
Corey Stewart, the chairman of the Prince William County Board of Supervisors, says he will lobby Virginia lawmakers this year in an effort to persuade them to pass a measure that would increase the power of state and local law enforcement to capture, detain and deport illegal immigrants. The plan Stewart is pushing would also outlaw day laborer centers, places where illegals are known to gather.
Stewart, who earned national notoriety in 2007 for instituting a county-wide crackdown on illegals, told Talk Radio News Service that adopting the Arizona bill would drastically decrease Virginia's crime rate.
"The first two years after the crackdown on illegal immigration in Prince William we had a 37 % drop in the violent crime rate," he said. "Based upon that experience we believe that we would have similar results in the rest of the Commonwealth of Virginia."
In fact, of the 2,000 people arrested last year for major crimes -- including violence -- in Prince William County, only 121 were found to be living in the state illegally. That figure represents a significant decline from the level recorded before Stewart initiated the crackdown two years ago.
However, on a statewide level, over 17% of those arrested in Virginia last year for violent crime offenses were found to be non-residents: A frightening statistic in Stewart's view.
"We need to bring the rule of law to all of Virginia," he told the Washington Post in an interview this week.
Though Arizona has faced mounting threats of economic boycotts by cities and businesses in neighboring states, Stewart insists that enacting such a bill in Virginia would have minimal negative impacts on the state's economy.
"Businesses do even better, because when you crack down on illegal immigration, the quality of life improves and the crime rate goes down and that's the type of environment that businesses want to move to."
Stewart said he expects to encounter push-back on the effort from federal officials, but added that a lack of federal enforcement of the nation's immigration laws has created a need for action on the local level.
"In their typical political fashion I would expect that the Obama administration will try to intimidate the Commonwealth of Virginia, try to sue the Commonwealth of Virginia. But we have to do what is right precisely because the federal government has refused to do anything about illegal immigration."
Talk Radio News Service
The top elected official of a Northern Virginia county located less than 40 miles from the nation's capital says he wants his state to pass a very similar version of the anti-illegal immigration law passed earlier this year in Arizona.
Corey Stewart, the chairman of the Prince William County Board of Supervisors, says he will lobby Virginia lawmakers this year in an effort to persuade them to pass a measure that would increase the power of state and local law enforcement to capture, detain and deport illegal immigrants. The plan Stewart is pushing would also outlaw day laborer centers, places where illegals are known to gather.
Stewart, who earned national notoriety in 2007 for instituting a county-wide crackdown on illegals, told Talk Radio News Service that adopting the Arizona bill would drastically decrease Virginia's crime rate.
"The first two years after the crackdown on illegal immigration in Prince William we had a 37 % drop in the violent crime rate," he said. "Based upon that experience we believe that we would have similar results in the rest of the Commonwealth of Virginia."
In fact, of the 2,000 people arrested last year for major crimes -- including violence -- in Prince William County, only 121 were found to be living in the state illegally. That figure represents a significant decline from the level recorded before Stewart initiated the crackdown two years ago.
However, on a statewide level, over 17% of those arrested in Virginia last year for violent crime offenses were found to be non-residents: A frightening statistic in Stewart's view.
"We need to bring the rule of law to all of Virginia," he told the Washington Post in an interview this week.
Though Arizona has faced mounting threats of economic boycotts by cities and businesses in neighboring states, Stewart insists that enacting such a bill in Virginia would have minimal negative impacts on the state's economy.
"Businesses do even better, because when you crack down on illegal immigration, the quality of life improves and the crime rate goes down and that's the type of environment that businesses want to move to."
Stewart said he expects to encounter push-back on the effort from federal officials, but added that a lack of federal enforcement of the nation's immigration laws has created a need for action on the local level.
"In their typical political fashion I would expect that the Obama administration will try to intimidate the Commonwealth of Virginia, try to sue the Commonwealth of Virginia. But we have to do what is right precisely because the federal government has refused to do anything about illegal immigration."
Reader Comments (13)
It is incredible when the federal government sues a state government for trying to enforce a Federal law that the a$$holes in Washington want to subvert. Impeach Obama and throw his lackeys to the curb.
AFTER THE COUNTRY FLUSHES THE ILLEGAL'S DOWN THE TOILET, THEN WE WILL FLUSH CHAIRMAN MAO YO-BAMA DOWN THE TOILET.
Hillary says: “President Obama has spoken out against the law because he thinks that the federal government should be determining immigration policy.”
Did she pass out free Kool-Aid with that line? Newsflash Hillary: The FEDERAL GOVERNMENT should be ENFORCING the immigration policy we have!!!!!
Clinton’s announcement does not surprise me at all. If the Obamao administration spent as much time ambushing illegals and drug mules in AZ as they have ambushing the state government, we would see real progress. The only reason Americans are getting murdered and thousands of acres in OUR OWN LAND is off limits to our citizens is our Federal Government continues to play politics and takes no real action against illegals. Obamao should be down on the AZ border looking for some a $ $ to kick while Gibbs puts a boot to the throat of this issue (to use their language.)
Control our borders. Now!
I hate racists, this is pure racism.
Section. 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
The above was based on the views toward all persons born or naturalized in the United States. NOT ILLEGAL ALIENS !!!
Not Born Here ?, Not a naturalized citizen of the United States ?, Then go back to your own country, and reside where you are a naturalized citizen !!!
Arizona’s new law is reducing illegal aliens before it is even enacted. Just the mention of enforcing the law sends them running, imagine that! Imagine if our federal government would at least to the same, talk tough, instead of promising amnesty to anyone who can get pass those pesky border guards.
Oti,
You must be Latino to callus racist and if you are Latino then you are racist since it is race that prevents you from seeing the problem with illegal immigration.
Arizona’s new law is reducing illegal aliens before it is even enacted. Just the mention of enforcing the law sends them running, imagine that! Imagine if our federal government would at least to the same, talk tough; instead of promising amnesty to anyone who can get pass those pesky border guards.
If it walks like an illegal, talks like, an illegal it is 97% chance it is a Latino and 88% Mexican Latino.
Look I like Hispanic people like any other people. I just don't any people just strolling in here taking jobs, going to school using our services, useing faulse ID, driving without license and the list goes on and on and on. We have laws and a lot of them they have been put in place. I think they should apply to all people and it why I hate these bastards and the people who hire them. It is not because they are Hispanic it is just wrong and I feel I shoud defend this country again what is an obvious threat. If they were Travelosity Nombs, I would have a problem.
This country is not racist, and I'm tired of those who aren't white always playing the d@mn race card. Hispanics in general are a major problem, they're filthy people, and their country represents that but being filthy is not a crime. What is a crime is smuggling themselves into a country that does not want them here. They steal our jobs, they get free health care, they don't even pay taxes. In my book that's a crime and it's a crime that's gone by unpunished for too long. What happened to the whole limited government thing? It seems to me that the Federal government is getting way to powerful and out of hand. The federal government forgets that it only gets it's power from the people it governs. If it keeps going against the will of the people it wouldn't shock me if drastic sh!t started happening. All the past governments that took advantage of it's citizens got overthrown and as much as our government thinks it's impossible to happen, newsflash it's not. They have no power. A military fights to defend it's country, not to fight it. The only people who find this law offensive is the hispanics, and most of them are illegal so find their opinions don't matter when it comes to speaking out against the law. And this is some sh!t some people compare this law to Nazism, excuse me we don't go around and throw your kind in a furnace, because of two things. One it would smell horrible, and second because this is nowhere close to Nazism. If you think this is like Nazism your probably retarded and you more then likely need to crack open a history book. I'm sick and tired of Obama, he's a failure of a president. He shouldn't have been elected. He doesn't have any experience and look at the oil spill. He went to coast to look cute and get good publicity like he gives a d@mn.
Illegal immigration is a problem, but the Arizona law is not the solution. How would you like to be pulled over for a broken tail-light, and be asked "Papers please."? Only to realize that you do not have your wallet on you. Are you thrown in jail until you can prove your identity? Do you rot there if your family is out of town? What if you are from out of state? What happens then? Think about this. Is this what you are really clamoring for? A fricking police state?!?! . . . All this talk about liberty and freedom, and you want to turn this country into the old Soviet Union or Germany? Why don't we just put check-points everywhere and fulfill your fascist dreams. You want the real way to deal with illegal immigration? You do it with massive fines, jail time and permanent loss of business licenses.
ok if all the illegal immigrats get deported, who is going to build houses, cut the lawns or many other jobs done by immigrats,
we rarely see an american doing those jobs, all they do is sit behind a desk and work on a computer.
The Tea Bag Party are just “haters not debaters” or as others have dubbed them “screamers not dreamers”, with their failed attempts at stopping Healthcare reform, they say they respect the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence but they do not mind passing laws, through weak Governors (no one voted for this crazy) who only cares about getting elected Governor, on the backs of undocumented workers, that will not pass Constitution muster.
Brewer signed into law;
1. S.B. 1070,
2. No permit conceal weapons law,
3. The famous Birthers law,
4. Banning Ethnic studies law,
5. Could she be behind the Mural in Prescott, Arizona, ordered to be whiten,
6. On deck to pass, no citizenship to babies born to undocumented workers,
7. If she can read she should look up Arizona’s House Bill 2779 from two years ago (which was un-constitution and failed when legally challenged),
8. The boycotted Martin Luther King Day, what idiots don’t want another holiday? Yes, you guessed it Arizona.
Well Arizona, you can boycott new holidays and keep passing crazy laws and the rest of us will continue to challenged them in a court of law and continue to add cities to our Boycott of your state.
I real cannot believe anything that comes out of Brewer’s mouth, in an interview she first said her father had died in Germany fighting the Nazi in World War II (war ended 1945) but of course we find out the truth that father was never in Germany and died in California in 1955. But we are suppose to believe everything else she says, right! No one voted for you for Governor, yet you keep listening to the tiny brains of the crazies and signing into law everything that comes into their feeble minds, it only make you look dumb, stupid or racist, or maybe all three.
As for the Tea Bag Party, their phony patriotism is sickening; they are just racists going by another name. We all know you are just itching to put a sheet on their head? Let’s face it the Republicans had eight years to deal with health care, immigration, energy (remember Cheney’s secret meetings with oil companies where loosening regulation and oversight were sealed), climate change and financial oversight and governance and they failed. It appears that the Republican Party is only good at starting wars (two in eight years, with fat contracts to friends of Cheney/Bush) but not at winning wars as seen by the continuing line of body bags that keep coming home. The Republicans party will continue turned inward to their old fashion obstructionist party (and their Confederacy appreciation roots) because they continue to allow a small portions (but very loud portion) of their party of “birthers, baggers and blowhards” to rule their party. I will admit that this fringe is very good at playing “Follow the Leader” by listening to their dullard leaders, Beck, Hedgecock, Hannity, O’Reilly, Rush, Savage, Sarah Bailin, Orly Taitz, Victoria Jackson, Michele Bachmann and the rest of the Blowhards and acting as ill programmed robots (they have already acted against doctors that perform abortions).
The Birthers and the Tea Bag party crowd think they can scare, intimidate and force others to go along with them by comments like “This time we came unarmed”, let me tell you something not all ex-military join the fringe militia crazies who don’t pay taxes and run around with face paint in the parks playing commando, the majority are mature and understand that the world is more complicated and grey than the black and white that these simpleton make it out to be and that my friend is the point. The world is complicated and people like Hamilton, Lincoln, and Roosevelt believed that we should use government a little to increase social mobility, now it’s about dancing around the claim of government is the problem. The sainted Reagan passed the biggest tax increase in American history and as a result federal employment increased, but facts are lost when mired in mysticism and superstition. For a party that gave us Abraham Lincoln, it is tragic that the ranks are filled with too many empty suits and the crazy Birthers who have not learned that the way our courts work is that you get a competent lawyer, verifiable facts and present them to a judge, if the facts are real and not half baked internet lies, then, and only then, do you proceed to trial. The Birthers seem to be having a problem with their so called “Internet facts”. Let’s face it no one will take the Birthers seriously until they win a case, but until then, you will continue to appear dumb, crazy or racist, or maybe all three. I heard that Orly Taitz now wants to investigate the “Republican 2009 Summer of Love” list: Assemblyman, Michael D. Duvall (CA), Senator John Ensign (NV), Senator Paul Stanley (TN), Governor Mark Stanford (SC), Board of Ed Chair, and Kristin Maguire AKA Bridget Keeney (SC), she wants to re-establish a family values party, that is like saying that the Catholic Church cares about the welling being of children in their care, too late for that. Yee Haw!
It is odd that there has been this big spike in right wing idiocy coming out of Arizona though. Texas has a higher background level of crazy and right now Arizona is like a supernova taking the attention. I wonder how long it will last.
Actually it isn’t that strange. Arizona has been moving gradually towards the middle over the last twenty years. The population has doubled in that time and a big part of that spike wasn’t old retirees who tended to be conservative, but a lot of younger families moving from blue states, etc. In 2008 McCain only received 53.4% of the vote here in Arizona, his sixth lowest vote total among the states he won. Now think about that, his home state was one of his least supportive states. Had McCain been from Texas, Florida, etc., he likely would have lost Arizona.
This state has a long history of very conservative, often racist politics and the supporters of those policies aren’t happy that they are consistently losing ground to moderates and liberals (simply termed as liberals in their tirades). Because of how the state legislature is set up conservatives still have a major majority in both houses but, when Napolitano was governor, she vetoed a lot of their stupidity. In fact she set the record for vetoes in the history of the state. You take her away, bring in Brewer who is a wing-nut’s wing-nut, and you see incredibly stupid legislation that was shut down by a reasonable governor make it out of the state house. At the same time you see an increase in non-conservative population as well as an increase in non-white population and the far white err, right is freaking out.