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    Mexico slams Georgia migrant law
    The Mexican government has condemned a tough new immigration law passed in the US state of Georgia on Monday.
    Presidential spokesman Ruben Aguilar said the legislation discriminated against Mexicans and that diplomats would monitor how it was applied.
    The law, which will take effect next year, prevents illegal immigrants from receiving many social services.
    It will also require police and employers to report undocumented workers to the Immigration Service.
    Complex issue
    The signing of the legislation comes amid deadlock in the US Congress about how to deal with illegal immigration, as well as nationwide protests by worried Latino groups.
    "The referred legislation incurs discriminatory acts against the Mexican population and those of Mexican origin," Mr Aguilar said.
    "It is a partial measure that fails to resolve the complex phenomenon of immigration between Mexico and the United States in an integral manner."
    Since becoming Mexico's president in 2000, Vicente Fox has been pressing for reforms that would allow more Mexicans to work legally in the US.
    'Not anti-immigrant'
    Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue, who signed the bill, said it was intended to ensure that everyone who lives in Georgia abides by the laws there.
    "It is our responsibility to ensure that our famous Georgia hospitality is not abused, that our taxpayers are not taken advantage of and that our citizens are protected," Mr Perdue.
    "I want to make this clear: we are not, Georgia's government is not, and this bill is not anti-immigrant," Gov Perdue said.
    The law, which will take effect in July 2007, will also impose prison terms for human trafficking and limit the services commercial companies can provide to illegal immigrants.
    BBC correspondents say the move has come at a difficult time in the US as there have been country-wide protests over a federal immigration law currently being debated in the Senate.
    "It is a punitive bill," said the president of the Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Sara Gonzalez.
    "This is a very complicated issue, and I don't see any good coming out of this."
    There are an estimated 11 million undocumented workers in the US.

    Story from BBC NEWS:
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/h...as/4921000.stm

    Published: 2006/04/19 01:40:05 GMT

    © BBC MMVI
    To sit down with these men and deal with them as the representatives of an enlightened and civilized people is to deride ones own dignity and to invite the disaster of their treachery - General Matthew Ridgway

  • #2
    If they don't like the new law, they can stay out of the great state of Georgia and any other state that will soon follow with similer laws. It is a shame the morons in congress cant pull their heads out of their asses long enough to put politics aside and come up with a solution to a problem that won't be swept under the rug. Until the feds do something, it will be up to the states to do what they can to put an end to this madness.
    Removing a single turd from the cesspool doesn't make any difference.

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    • #3
      Where in the h3ll does anyone get off thinking that ILLEGAL entry into a country entitles you to anything?
      sigpicUSS North Dakota

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      • #4
        Originally posted by bonehead
        If they don't like the new law, they can stay out of the great state of Georgia and any other state that will soon follow with similer laws. It is a shame the morons in congress cant pull their heads out of their asses long enough to put politics aside and come up with a solution to a problem that won't be swept under the rug. Until the feds do something, it will be up to the states to do what they can to put an end to this madness.
        Ironic, we're to a point where the federal government deals with domestic issues
        that they have no constitutional authority and the states have to lead on the foreign policy when it comes to out borders.
        F/A-18E/F Super Hornet: The Honda Accord of fighters.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by troung
          Mexico slams Georgia migrant law
          The Mexican government has condemned a tough new immigration law passed in the US state of Georgia on Monday.
          Presidential spokesman Ruben Aguilar said the legislation discriminated against Mexicans and that diplomats would monitor how it was applied.
          The law, which will take effect next year, prevents illegal immigrants from receiving many social services.
          It will also require police and employers to report undocumented workers to the Immigration Service.
          http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/h...as/4921000.stm

          Published: 2006/04/19 01:40:05 GMT

          © BBC MMVI

          I see no problem with this law. Everyone blames the immigrant for "Taking money in social services away from US citizens.". I don't. I blame the voters in that state. We elect those that make the laws that provide full access to everyone. Finally someone is rolling that back:)

          Now some of the problems with enforcing this new law.

          Report a suspected illegal to ICE, they don't care. Just ask your local law enforcment agency.

          I say suspected illegal because , and I've asked this before, someone tell me how to identify an Illegal alien.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by BenRoethig
            Ironic, we're to a point where the federal government deals with domestic issues
            that they have no constitutional authority and the states have to lead on the foreign policy when it comes to out borders.
            Georgia can only make laws that are relevent within its own state. (although a good idea should be copied by the other states) Our current U.S. congress is getting more and more useless everyday and is starting to encroach the impotence and fraudulance of the U.N. We need a wholesale change to the personnel in our goverment or we will slowly, but surely slip into irrelevency in the international scene as we degenerate into third world status.
            Removing a single turd from the cesspool doesn't make any difference.

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