Friday, July 16, 2010

IMMIGRATION DIVIDES COUNTRY - TO BE MEX OCCUPIED OR SPEAK ENGLISH???

Immigration re-
enters national
debate

Updated 2h 12m ago

By Kathy Kiely, USA TODAY

Four years ago, immigration was a major issue in
congressional campaigns across the country.
Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords won her first
term representing a southern Arizona district in
2006 against a Republican she described as "an
immigration hard-liner." Two years later, she says,
she was surprised that the nation's broken borders
got hardly a mention in the presidential campaign.

This year, after the still-unsolved March shooting of
rancher Robert Krentz along the Mexican border in
Giffords' district, "immigration is back," she said.

A controversial new Arizona statute would allow
police officers who are enforcing another law to
demand identification from suspected illegal
immigrants. Giffords says the law was prompted in
part by Krentz's death, in an area traversed by illegal
immigrants. The law is set to take effect later this
month unless a federal judge supports a legal

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