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February 10, 2005
New Mexico Considering Prohibiting Immigration Enforcement by State Authorities; Arizona Allows Undocumented Status to be Aggravator for Sentencing
A member of the New Mexico Legislature introduced a bill prohibiting state law enforcement officers from enforcing federal immigration laws. The policy is designed to encourage noncitizens to report crimes and cooperte with local police wihtout fear of being deported.
Meanwhile, the Arizona Court of Appeals held that a sentence for a non-immigration crime may be enhanced based on the offender's status as an undocumented immigrant. The defendant, convicted of aggravated DUI, was sentenced to 4.5 years instead of the presumptive 2.5. Story here, opinion here.[Jack Chin]
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America was once a nation of people with common sense, national pride and guts. Now America is the land of Wimps with a government of traitors to the millions of predecessors who gave all to to be free.
America is headed for trashing and extinction
by ignorant immigrants who will turn America into the same lousy country as the one they left.
In two generations America will but a memory.
Posted by: Harold Robertson | Apr 11, 2007 5:23:14 PM
