Cuccinelli, House Republicans advancing illegal immigration agenda with McDonnell and Stewart
By JR Hoeft | Sunday, August 29th, 2010 | PolicyAttorney General Ken Cuccinelli and four members of the House of Delegates from Prince William County have teamed up to write legislation for the Commonwealth of Virginia, within the confines of federal law, regarding illegal immigration.
Cuccinelli, along with Delegates Scott Lingamfelter (R-31), Bob Marshall (R-13), Jackson Miller (R-50), and Rich Anderson (R-51) are developing “legislative initiatives to forward Virginia’s role in welcoming legal immigrants as well as its role in devising appropriate state-level responses to illegal immigration.”
The team first met Thursday and is expected to gather several more times before the beginning of session to hammer out a comprehensive policy.
“Thursday’s meeting between Prince William legislators and Attorney General Cuccinelli was a major step in fulfilling our legislative responsibilities for facilitating and welcoming legal immigrants to our country, while also developing policies that protect our citizens, commonwealth, and country from the threats posed by federal inaction on matters of illegal immigration,” said Del. Anderson.
Two weeks ago, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell petitioned Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to enter into what is known as a 287(g) partnership with the Virginia State Police. The agreement permits state law enforcement to legally enforce immigration law, and is a move the governor requested the previous administration make when he was then attorney general.
Prince William, which has long been a hot-bed for the illegal immigration discussion, is led by County Supervisor Corey Stewart. Of the governor’s request, Stewart said:
When ICE grants Virginia the 287(g) authority, it will be a force multiplier for Prince William County’s own effort. A unified Commonwealth-wide effort will result in better coordination with ICE. When Prince William County adopted strict enforcement policies and our Rule of Law resolution, it drove criminal illegal aliens to other counties. A Virginia-wide policy will send a strong message.
Ultimately, to address illegal immigration in Virginia, we’re going to have to adopt an Arizona-like statute. The 287(g) authority is a key component, but you need a policy that directs law enforcement to make checks, prohibits localities from adopting sanctuary policies, and provides officers all the tools they need to fight illegal immigration.
Virginia is apparently following the Stewart playbook of first entering into the 287(g) agreement, with the General Assembly then writing immigration legislation in the mode of Arizona.
Also of note, there is no one from the State Senate helping to work on the legislation.
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7 Responses to "Cuccinelli, House Republicans advancing illegal immigration agenda with McDonnell and Stewart"
How about a new tact to this issue with real solutions; first, rather than refer to it as illegal aliens, let’s address it as illegal employers or illegal consumers!
I’d love to see a Glenn Beck-sized turn out in DC to raise our voices in opposition to illegal immigration. We spend billions of dollars on these invaders and yet some politicians love to think of the votes of their supporters they might garner. Big business drools over cheap labor and the American taxpayer gets the bill…in money and criminal activity.
Hey Wally, how about we go after all criminals. Illegal is illegal whether it’s the aliens or the business that hire them.
@Jennings
I quite agree! Yet in the agenda above I see no mention of those who benefit from IAs being here. No sense mowing down the dandelions if you don’t pull the roots that feed them. Agree?
We need a sherrif Joe Arpaio and a Jan Brewer in DC. Then we need to enforce the existing laws on the books. In the mean time hold the employer accountable and make it so damned expensive to break existing hiring laws that it is not worth the price.
As usual it is all about money money money.
It’s ironic that while a majority of Mexicans live on the breadline, the ones they vote to power who screw them the worst live in the lap of luxury. Yes I said that.. they are exploited for $$
These men are Virginia’s Heros. They have the guts to stand up for legal Americans and not for the Illegals Aliens that are destroying our nation and economy while they are intenionally dumping countless Anchor Babies for our tax dollars to support and educate. We have watched in disbelief and anger as our neighborhoods have slowly deteriorated to a state of disrepair due to Illegal Immigrants using our communities as boarding homes. We also have Legal and Illegal Hispanic Immigrants renting these homes to Illegals and then the Illegals sublets the homes again so they both make money while the homes slowly fall into disprepair and here in Spotsylvania County our Administration and Board of Sumpervisors have ignored the problem and have done absolutely nothing to stop it. We had one home where the Hispanic home owners rented the home for $850 a month and then the 2 Illegal Immigrant renters subleted the 3 bedroom home to 20 other Illegal Immigrants for $100 a month each. So the Hispanic home owners made $850 a month and then the Illegal Renters made $2000 or over twice the Home Owners income and neither never paid one dime of taxes and the home is left in a state of disrepair.
Our Hospitals and Social Services are drained as are programs such as free lunches in school. Take a trip to your County’s Social Servie Office for a peak of what I mean not to mention most Counties provide the Illegals with Translators and Public Messages in Spanish all at the tax payers expense for individuals that shouldn’t even be here. We have watched one example of 8 Illegal Immigrant women in our Community have 3 and 4 children each over the past 5 years none of these Illegal women speak a word of English or work but have 3 or 4 children that all have been born in our local Hospitals at tax payers expense and then we have to feed, house and educate them. We have watched many Hispanic homes in our Community habor and house these Illegal women who appear in our Community days or weeks before they are to give birth with the the premeditated intentions of having their child here in the US for it to be a US citizen. It’s just one more of the Politically Correct Crap that is destroying our Country because of a lack of good old Common Sense. If neither parent is a Legal Resident of this Country than any child born to both Illegal Alien parents in the US should not be an American citizen but rather should be a citizen of it’s parents native country. Why should legal Americans pay for Illegal to sneak into this Country only to drop their babies here for Americans to support. What a great deal to sneak into another Country and have children so that the Country’s legal citizens can pay for the Medical, living expense, food, housing and education for someone who’s only claim to fame is that they entered our Country Illegally and then we reward them. It’s common sense you don’t allow this and this is never what the 14th Amendment was meant to protect. It’s just as stupid as not securing our Borders. We use our Armed Forces protect everyone else in the World but our Country’s Borders. If the US Politicians are saying we have 15 Million Hispanic Illegals then you know it’s more like 30 Million and then this doesn’t count all the illegal and legal children of these Illegals so you can be looking at number of 60 million or more of individuals that are here through Illegal means that can change the entire demographics of this country and shift the normal voting power of this country and all they had to do was enter the country Illegally. No one has a problem with Legal Immigration but Americans will never accept or want Amnesty for Illegal Aliens who think they deserve more than every other Illegal Immigrant that waits their turn and respects and enters this great Nation legally. Respect is earned and Illegals have earned nothing but contempt. They enter our Country Illegal, exploit our Country and then start demanding even more rights. Their only right is the leave and enter this country legally like everyone else. Leave and take your Gangs with you.
I believe 100% of what your saying. If the people who make it okay for illegals to be here had to live next to them and were not in these gated communities where they never have to be around them and live near them they would change their tune. all these people who type this kind of thing and believe this, how many of us would actually protest this and do something about it…that’s why the country is the way it is today. We stand by and watch our country be destroyed and actual americans lose jobs and retirement and benefits because we are giving it away to them. Maybe we should move to mexico and take it over the way they have done here and let them have this country and all the people who want them here can stay here with them.
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