I don’t understand the outrage of anyone for doing this, or the lack of willingness to participate from other state Attorney Generals (i.e. CO and CT). All they are required to do is compile the data and pass it onto ICE. ICE does all the hard work. Probably would be the easiest part of their jobs.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) _ Three Virginia congressmen want federal officials to make it easier for police to determine whether criminal suspects are illegal immigrants.

Police in many localities now use the honor system, asking suspects from other countries about their immigration status when they’re arrested. A national database lets police check their criminal history.

But Republican Congressman Eric Cantor said that database doesn’t include immigration status, which is maintained in a separate database by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

In a letter to the Department of Homeland Security, Cantor and fellow Virginia Republicans Thelma Drake and Rob Wittman ask officials to create a solution, like linking the two databases or giving police automatic access to the ICE database.

Because it means progress with the resolution and shows people are tired of the ILLEGAL aliens. This isn’t PC and goes against the grain of the apologists. Once we are beyond the PC crap, the sooner we will be able to get on with this rule of law for ALL of the US, not just the few communities and states that have stepped up. Once the OK bill is positively defended in court, the flood gates will open and you will see more states adopting the 1809 bill out of OK. Other states are in a wait and see mode right now. We will see how many will come forth once it has withstood the court’s scrutiny.

Feeling better yet?

You really don’t have your act together. Why don’t you go through the sex offender list and break it down that way, then we can see how the proportions compare.

McCain cautions candidates on immigration

The hot-button issue of immigration doesn’t appear to be going away anytime soon – at least not in Republican circles.

In an interview aired on NPR’s “Morning Edition” Monday, John McCain suggested that strong anti-immigrant rhetoric contributed to two recent, high-profile Republican congressional losses –Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, who badly lost to Democrat Robert P. Casey Jr. in 2006, and Jim Oberweis, who lost the heavily Republican seat of former House Speaker Dennis Hastert this month in a special election in the Chicago exurbs.

“I know that there have been some races, like here in Pennsylvania, where Senator Santorum emphasized that issue [immigration] and lost by a large number,” McCain said on NPR.

“We just had a loss of Denny Hastert’s seat out in Illinois. The Republican candidate out there, I am told, had very strong anti-immigrant rhetoric also, so I would hope that many of our Republican candidates would understand the political practicalities of this issue.”

http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/0308/McCain_cautions_candidates_on_immigration.html

The group is made up of offenders from diverse countries, ranging from Cuba and Honduras in Latin America to Scotland and Germany in Europe.

No Greg…Amnesty is on the way…it is you who have lost.