Thursday, May 14, 2009

It is a Sad State...

...of affairs when legislation is required to get certain cities to enforce United States immigration laws. One such piece of legislation that would attempt to do away with the "Sanctuary City" for illegal immigrants concept here in Texas has made it through committee and, as I understand it, is one vote short of reaching the Senate floor.

SB 358, a bill relating to the enforcement of state and federal laws governing immigration by certain governmental entities, passed the Senate Transportation & Homeland Security committee with a vote of 5 to 4.

Enforcing our immigration laws, detaining and deporting illegal immigrants, does reduce violent and other crime. Illegal immigration is a major problem and doing away with "Sanctuary Cities" will go a long way towards removing the welcome mat for illegal immigrants.

Call your state Senator today and ask that they help get SB 358 to the Senate floor.

3 comments:

Old NFO said...

That is pretty sad JR- Somebody must be courting those "voters" they hope to have...

W W Woodward said...

Problem: Immigration and drug laws today, firearm registration and confiscation tomorrow?

TomR said...

WW Woodward - there is no Constitutional protection for illegal aliens like there is for firearms. Of course with the Dems these could be reversed tomorrow