Wisconsin law dealing with illegal immigration proposed

Someone has stepped up to the plate concerning the ILLEGAL immigration situation in Wisconsin.

People suspected of crimes in Wisconsin would have to prove they were legally in the United States or be turned over to federal immigration authorities under a bill that will be introduced next year in the newly Republican state Legislature.

“I want Wisconsin to be recognized as a state that will be on the side of Arizona,” said bill author Rep. Don Pridemore (R-Hartford).

But he noted Wednesday that his bill is smaller in scope than the Arizona law that has drawn international attention and a lawsuit by the U.S. Department of Justice.

“This is minor in comparison of what could be done and should be done by the federal government,” Pridemore said.

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Under Pridemore’s bill, those arrested or charged with a crime would have to show they are legally in the state with a passport, birth certificate, immigration documents or other records, if police had a reasonable suspicion they were here illegally.

They would be held in jail for up to 48 hours. If they could not prove legal presence in the state by then, they would be turned over to immigration authorities.

Pridemore noted the bill applied only to those under suspicion of violating a law. Someone pulled over for a broken tail light might have to prove his identity, but a passenger in the vehicle would not, he said.

The bill would allow citizens to sue municipalities and counties if they did not believe they were enforcing the immigration law. Those communities could pay fines of $500 a day for not complying with the law.

The bill also would prevent local governments from passing ordinances barring officials from inquiring about the immigration status of those receiving public services. Pridemore said he put that in the bill in response to a Madison ordinance, which would be automatically repealed if the bill passed.

Dealing with ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION needs to be done in Wisconsin.  As soon as the economic crisis facing the state has been dealt with it should be a priority to pass this or something even closer to Arizona’s law.

As state Senator Grothman points out:

“It sure is frustrating that the federal government under Clinton, Obama and Bush seems not to take our immigration laws seriously,” Grothman said. “I have a lot of sympathy for Representative Pridemore’s efforts.”

That’s the key if the federal government took immigration seriously, this proposal wouldn’t be needed.

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Wednesday Hero

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PFC Chance Phelps
19 years old from Dubois, Wyoming
3 Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force
April 9, 2004

“I don’t think anything can prepare you for two young men standing in the living room telling you your son’s been killed,” said Gretchen Mack, mother of PFC Chance Phelps. “It’s just surreal. They were crying.” The last time she had talked her to son was a few days before his death. “He said, ‘Mom, I’m fine.’ He sounded great. It was really good to be able to talk to him. It made us feel better.”

PFC Phelps was KIA while battling insurgents just outside of Baghdad, Iraq.

Friends recall Phelps as a fun-loving, hard-nosed kid. “He was big but didn’t throw his size around to intimidate people”, said Jarod Estey. “He was probably the toughest kid I knew growing up in grade school. He was probably the biggest kid, too — well-built and strong. But he was real easy going. He always had a smile on his face.”

“He was very in tune politically,” said his mother. “He knew what he wanted for this country. … He told me after 9/11, ‘I absolutely have to go. I’ve got to do something.’” But joining the military isn’t anything new for the family. His father, John Phelps, is a Vietnam veteran. And his sister, Kelley, works at the Pentagon and is engaged to an Army sergeant.

“He had an unusual amount of zest,” said his mother. “He just possessed this quality that he had to be in the thick of things all the time. He was very, very positive, very funny. … His main thing in life was making people laugh.”

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These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.

We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

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Commerical “too hot” to air?

Perhaps the major networks refusing to air this ad on the U.S. national debt would like to explain why it is too controversial to air.  There needs to be a realization that the “exploding” national debt is ripping to shreds the idea of the American dream.

It’s time to face reality when it comes to the potential effects of this massive debt.  It’s time to face reality when it comes to expansion of government.  It’s time to realize that fiction could turn into reality if policy doesn’t change.

Like it or not this commercial does that.  Unfortunately “the elites” at some networks appear to be unable to handle the truth.

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Ribble feels like Jimmy Stewart

Interesting, but not surprising.

The 8th Congressional District’s new congressman has never held elective office before. So Republican Reid Ribble says he feels a bit like Jimmy Stewart in the 1939 classic movie “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.”

“Matter of fact, when I won my election I got four copies of it as gifts,” he said

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Ribble says it’s impossible not to be impressed by the surroundings of more than two centuries of making law.

“You stop and it does make you pause and say ‘Look at the giants of American history who have served here’, guys like Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln,” Ribble said. “You look at how the American people view Congress today with an approval rating of less than 20 percent.”

Ribble says this freshmen class hopes to reclaim that image over the next two years.

Hopefully Congressman-elect Ribble and the other newcomers to the Washington D.C. scene remember why they were elected.  If they remember that and understand “we the people” will be holding their feet to the fire that image will be reclaimed.

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