What Next? Grilling Puppies?
By Greg L | 25 August 2007 | Illegal Aliens, Virginia Politics | 8 Comments
The Democrats are starting to respond to our requests to have Governor Kaine enroll in the Section 287(g) Program which would allow local police officers to process for deportation illegal aliens who have been convicted of crimes such as rape, murder, and child abuse. From VB Dems, the response is “Giving Virginia’s State Police immigration enforcement authority is a stupid idea.“
Just let this new campaign strategy for Governor Kaine and House Democratic Caucus Chairman Brian Moran sink in for a moment. If what VB Dems is saying is representative of their position on this, Governor Kaine and the House Democratic Caucus believes it is preferable to release convicted sex offenders who are illegal aliens back into our communities when there is the alternative of having them removed from the country. That is about the most politically toxic idea I think I have ever heard, short of advocating barbecuing puppies and kittens.
Just to make things even more interesting, Eileen Levandosky follows up with this:
I strongly suspect from my multiple discussions with Senator Stolle that granting immigration enforcement authority to the State Police will be revealed as being a bad idea.
Senator Stolle, who represent Virginia Beach, has been notorious for killing legislation which attempts to address the illegal immigration issue, legislation that consistently passes the House of Delegates with overwhelming bi-partisan majorities. When a bill gets to Senator Stolle’s committee, he will opine that the legislation won’t work, that the problem is too difficult to solve in such a manner, or some such nonsense, and have the bill killed. One of these bills was HB 1618, Delegate Jeff Frederick’s bill to enroll the Commonwealth in the Section 287(g) Program, which passed the House by a vote of 69-31. Now that we see who Senator Stolle is apparently listening to — someone who thinks that having illegal aliens who have been convicted of rape continue their unlawful presence in the Commonwealth — his opponent Craig Hudgins now has the perfect campaign theme to rid the Commonwealth of it’s most notorious traitor. Hopefully he will.
Please tell me that Senator Stolle is going to call the Section 287(g) program “stupid”. Please tell me Governor Kaine will say the same thing. And please, visit the online petition calling for this program to be adopted in Virginia and sign it.
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Just by happenstance, I noticed that John Stirrup was signature #100 on the petition.
Cool!
Where are the signatures of the rest of our elected representatives?!!!
Advocator
Good point.
I didn’t notice any candidates either? Why do you think is ?
Illegal immigration is the single most important issue in the upcoming elections(my opinion). The illegal invasion has gone on way too long
corr
Why do you think THIS is?
With the stand our PWC BOCS has taken on illegal aliens…and their support for the 287(G) program within PWC…it is amazing to me that I see not a single one of their names on the petition. Did I miss their names on the list? Perhaps they would support the petition haven’t seen it. Hmmmmmm…
….and where are the names of our HOD candidates?
freedom
Look again please. The Honorable John Stirrup was #100.
OK, Lafayette…I missed John Stirrup…but where are the rest of these elected officials who support 287(g) at the local level?
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