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Bucking the Judge’s decision
Posted by Kim on August 28th, 2005
Governor Lynch is not going to do anything to change this. He’s not into protecting the state from the ever increasing problem we have with illlegal immigrants. You see these illlegals everywhere you turn. They have jobs they shouldn’t have; they drive cars without licences; they don’t speak English and won’t even try.
Not dissuaded by a recent court ruling, several state legislators want to reshape New Hampshire’s laws to better control illegal immigration.
Their nascent legislation aims to strengthen local and statewide efforts on several fronts because the federal government has failed to act, they said.
“The federal government either can’t or won’t do the job,” Rep. Andy Renzullo said. “So if the federal government can’t do anything and the state can’t do anything, you’ve got to say, ‘Who’s going to do something?’ ”
Renzullo and two other representatives – all Republicans from the district covering Hudson, Litchfield and Pelham – are each drafting bills for the upcoming legislative session. The legislators said their bills have the initial support of more than 100 of their colleagues.
Rep. Jordan Ulery’s bill will call for stiffening monetary penalties on companies that knowingly hire illegal immigrants. Rep. David Buhlman seeks to prohibit the Department of Health and Human Services from granting benefits, with the exception of emergencies, to illegal immigrants.
Renzullo wants to allow local police the authority to cite illegal immigrants for trespassing, a move to undo a district court decision that stopped the police departments in New Ipswich and Hudson from employing this tactic.
“We’re going to, in essence, overrule the judge,” Buhlman said of Jaffrey-Peterborough District Court Judge L. Phillips Runyon’s ruling this month that local use of the trespass law to target illegal immigrants undermined congressional authority.
It’s one of the dumbest things to ever happen in New Hampshire. That judge is not in his right mind. This is the same judge who lets drunk drivers get off with the most lenient punishments, slaps rapists with a fine and allows sex predators to go scott free.
But New Hampshire’s two representatives in the U.S. House want to make it one.
Reps. Charles Bass and Jeb Bradley share the sentiment that the federal government hasn’t done enough. They also want tighter borders and more efficient documentation of immigrants.
They point to their backing of several federal legislative initiatives to demonstrate their work in curbing illegal immigration, including a provision in a homeland security bill that allows state and local police to detain and
transport people who are in the country without proper paperwork.Bass, for one, said “it’s embarrassing” that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement “doesn’t have the interest or the personnel or the resources to . . . support local police efforts to enforce immigration.”
Good luck on this project.
August 29th, 2005 at 9:21 pm
They’ll get no where with this. Too many people like having the illlegals around…to do the scutter work at cheap rates.
August 30th, 2005 at 12:43 pm
Is it Saturday yet? Friday, atleast?
Today’s dose of NIF – News, Interesting & Funny … It’s Kerry-180 Tuesday
August 31st, 2005 at 3:10 pm
I don’t know — 100 representatives support it already? I love to see people stand up to these asshole judges who think they rule the world. Go get them damn illegals, New Hampshire!