Illegal Protest

More good news for your Friday! We certainly have been getting a LOT of good news lately and that is twisting the pants of the pro-illegals in a BIG way. Nothing makes me happier than seeing this country start to exhibit some COMMON SENSE and some SELF-PRESERVATION! Down with Sanctuary Cities and UP with cities and states which support our LAWS!

The Salt Lake Tribune - Governor signs bill cracking down on illegal immigration

Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. signed a comprehensive anti-illegal immigration bill into law on Thursday.

The new law will allow local law enforcement agencies to enforce immigration laws and forces some employers to verify the U.S. documentation status of their workers. It goes into effect July 2009.

“It’s a good step forward on addressing immigration,” said Lisa Roskelley, a spokeswoman for Huntsman.

Earlier in the legislative session, Huntsman had said he didn’t believe states should be passing anti-illegal immigration laws to deal with a federal issue. Roskelley said Huntsman changed his mind on the issue because he’s hopeful the illegal immigration problem will be resolved by Congress and a new administration in early 2009 before the Utah law goes into effect.

Antonella Romero Packard, a Republican and Utah Hispanic/Latino Legislative Task Force spokeswoman, said she isn’t surprised Huntsman signed SB81, but she can’t believe lawmakers passed such a detrimental law that affects so many Utahns - legal and illegal - without studying its repercussions on the state. The people it will affect the most are people who don’t look white and will have to justify they live in Utah legally, even though many were even born here, she said.

“I’m disappointed,” Packard said. “I don’t think [Huntsman] understands the implications of it.”

Supporters of the law had said it was a good start but a compromise, especially pushing back the effective date more than a year.

The law will force public employers and their contractors to verify the legal status of workers, and enlist local law enforcement agencies to help enforce federal immigration statutes. It will also be a Class A misdemeanor to conceal, harbor, transport or shelter undocumented immigrants, though church, charitable and humanitarian assistance groups are exempted.

Here is the group which Antonella Romero Packard represents in Utah:

Honduras Maya de Utah
Address: 284 E. Pavilion Circle
Saratoga Springs UT 84045
Contact Information: Antonella Packard
Telephone: 801-651-1262
E-mail: antonella2005@gmail.com

See other “multicultural” groups in Utah here!

Oh and read here where Antonella Packard apparently seized the shooting in Trolley Square as a platform to urge “more assistance for refugees”. Excerpt:

To wit: Check out the Salt Lake City shooting story. Those of you who read my blogs already know that the murderer has been positively identified as a moslem. If you go to the Salt Lake Tribune’s website, you will read the official response from the Utah Islamic community. They want money. Not only that, they insist that moslems would not do these things if we would just give them more money.

And here’s the kicker. The Salt Lake Tribune is actually sympathetic to this position, and printed the following official response from representatives of the Utah Consortium of Minority Groups:

“Antonella Packard, president of Honduras Maya de Utah, and Renetta Coppard, executive director of the Latin-American Chamber of Commerce, both asked for more assistance for refugees. Packard said more inclusion of refugees in the community is needed.

“We came to Utah to be Americans,” Roth said. “Instead, we’re isolated and afraid.”

Sounds like your boy just murdered a bunch of innocent people and you’re politicizing the murder as an excuse to ask for handouts. Amazing. Pardon my French, but fucking amazing!!!

Need I say more about the loyalties of this Antonella Packard retard? Yeah we care about what you have to say.. NOT!

A little good news for a Friday!

WASHINGTON —  State lawmakers around the country are proposing hundreds of bills this year aimed at curbing illegal immigration, but experts say the cost and public opposition will keep many from becoming law.

Uh.. no.. it is more like.. judges are FINALLY ruling in favor of the Constitution and proving that State laws to fight illegal immigration are NOT pre-empting Federal Law but Sanctuary Cities ARE pre-empting Federal Laws by choosing NOT to uphold immigration laws!

Lawmakers in at least eight states are now sponsoring legislation similar to Oklahoma, which last May passed the nation’s most comprehensive anti-immigration law.

It restricts illegal immigrants’ access to driver’s licenses and other IDs, limits public benefits, penalizes employers who hire them and boosts ties between local police and federal immigration authorities.

The bills are among more than 350 immigration-related proposals unveiled in state legislatures in the first two months of this year, according to a count by The Associated Press.

Sharma Hammond, staff attorney for the legal arm of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, believes states have been galvanized by the collapse two years running of a congressional solution.

“They feel like they have to take it into their own hands because the federal government is doing nothing,” said Hammond, whose group helps states write the comprehensive bills and favors a freeze on nearly all immigration.

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This just in from Associated Press. Now if only once we can keep them from just moving to another employer and if only we can actually SECURE the border, we’d be in great shape!  H/T to Kathleen Appel for the story.

Feds to Raise Fines for Hiring Illegal Aliens

By EILEEN SULLIVAN – 3 hours ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government says it will raise by 25 percent the fines it will levy against employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants.

Attorney General Michael Mukasey and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced the increase, which is the first boost in fines in nearly a decade.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the federal agency responsible for investigating illegal hirings, has stepped up its enforcement of the employer sanctions law in the past year, leading to a dozen major busts. Currently, fines range from $2,000 to $10,000 depending on the offense. The agency says some penalties could include at least six months in jail.

This just in from Jeff Schwilk of San Diego Minutemen. Yay for Canada!

TRANSLATED FROM:

http://www.laopinion.com/ciudad/?rkey=00000000000003254550

The government of Canada denied entrance to their country to the Mexican activist Elvira Arellano, who last Sunday arrived at the Vancouver airport to participate in a demonstration.

By Telephone from Michoacán, where she already had returned, Elvira did not want to comment. “I could not enter Canada, but I cannot comment”, she mentioned. (Could it be because she’s a convicted criminal fugitive alien???)

Elvira Arellano went to the northern country to participate in an event at the border with the United States, on the Canadian side, the activities were carried out by members of the Migrant March III that left last February 2 from San Diego, California.

Elvira Arellano was an undocumented immigrant that called international attention in August 2006, when she took refuge in a church of Chicago avoiding deportation to Mexico. A year after its confinement left the temple to promote a migratory reform and in one of its first activities in Los Angeles was arrested by immigration agents and deported to Mexico.

“This is not right”, said Enrique Morones, leader of the caravan, “many activists arrived at both sides of the border to meet her, but they wouldn’t let her in”.

Morones added that the location where the encounter would have taken place on Monday, is a park that crosses the border, known as Peace Arch State Park.

In spite of the absence of Elvira, the activists carried out in at the location a vigil and a protest.

“She was going to participate with us at the Canadian side, it was going to be a moment of reflection and of prayer at the border, to carry the message that your vote is your voice, but she could not arrive”, commented Morones.

“In theory she should have no problems entering being a Mexican”, commented a source that asked not to be identified “What must have happended is that due to her record in the United States they (Canadian immigration officials) saw her as a possible candidate to remain illegally in Canada… they share lists with the United States”.