The chairman of an Indiana House committee says he'll decide in the coming days whether the committee will take up a
bill aiming for an Arizona-style crackdown on illegal immigration.
The bill approved by the Senate would allow police officers to seek proof of immigration status if they have a reasonable
suspicion a person is in the country illegally.
House public policy committee Chairman Bill Davis of Portland says he doesn't want to put people in the country legally
in fear of racial profiling and believes police officers have enough responsibilities.
Bill sponsor Sen. Mike Delph of Carmel says he's supporting changes to the proposal, including setting a higher legal
standard for police agencies to check a person's citizenship or immigration status.
A broad coalition of local business, religious and political leaders have come out against the measure, citing fears it would portray the state as unwelcoming, chase away business prospects and cost millions to defend if challenged by the federal government.
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In this comment stream is a person named "Ali" - I want to congratulate him and Kudos to him. Here is an example of someone following the law. He did what is right. He deserves to be here.
But then you have people who sneak across the border. Or worse, take a raft to Miami - which the US Gov't says if you can make it ashore, then stay. Florida needs to do something about that as well.
I know a lot of immigrants do not speak english but as Americans we are being selfish. These people come to our country because they do not have the means to take care of their families back home. They work and send most of that money back home to their families. I agree they should do it legally but we make it so hard for them to come here. Unless you marry a citizen it could take 10 years to get a green card/visa to come over.
This bill is way past due here in Indiana and the rest of the country. I am just completely taken back is how in the last ten years the immigration laws just doesn't apply anymore. WHY?
I know way to many people that are looking for work and everyone of us know where the illegals are working. We all have talked about how to obtain one of these jobs, which is to tell the employer that we will work for nothing and work twice as long. We as citizens of Indiana can not afford to work for that. Unless we all live in one house. Is that where we are heading with this agenda that the people that oppose this are wanting?
Mr. Davis please work this out where it doesn't hurt anybodies feelings at all but still gets the job done. If it takes changing a word or two then by all means do it. Work the problem but please get the job done.
We must put an end to instant citizen birthright for infants of illegal aliens and stop the hemorrhaging of money from State education and free health Care and a overcrowded prison setting. It is known now that 200.000 babies of illegal aliens are born in this nation annually and the burden of welfare falls on the backs of hard-pressed taxpayers. We can no longer afford the Liberal progressives Tax and Spend doctrine for the 20 million plus illegal aliens who have settled here. Every patriotic American must embrace the TEA PARTY CAUCUS, which in reality is a splinter organization of tens of millions divorced from the Republican elites. The TEA PARTY now is our salvation from the billions of dollars, to support foreign nationals and their families and the unceasing avalanche that arrives by jet as overstays on expired visas and through the undermanned borders.
That should make Mike Delphs head spin;)