Now Ohio being pressured into AZ-style immigrant law

An Ohio sheriff known for taking extreme steps to crack down on undocumented immigrants and a Republican state representative are urging the state to pass an immigration law similar to the controversial one in Arizona.

Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones and state House Rep. Courtney Combs have sent a letter to Ohio Governor Ted Strickland asking him to pass a law that "mirrors" the one in Arizona, reports WLWT channel 5 in Cincinnati.

“Our federal government has failed us when it comes to securing the border and stopping the flow of thousands of illegals entering this country on a daily basis," WLWT quoted Rep. Jones as saying. "If the federal government won’t do it, it is time that states take that responsibility upon themselves."












http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0427/ohio-pressured-azstyle-immigrant-law/

idiots.

And a letter from one cracker sheriff can hardly be considered being "pressured".

I can't believe Ohio has an illegal immigration problem anything like Arizona, just from a logistics standpoint.

Thom Hartmann had an interview with Greg Palast the other day. Palast said the Arizona law is a backdoor attempt to intimidate Hispanics from voting. Given Ohio's location, this attempt in Ohio looks more blatantly like a move to suppress voter turnout from minorities.

:)

Lake Erie walleye in the morning.

Here in North Central Ohio I see very few Hispanic folks compared to any other place in the country. There are a bunch of wacko politicians trying to out right wing the rightest wingers in the world. The Republican party here is trying to oust our local, very conservative, Rep because he voted for legal protections for gays. Then we have Jim Jordan as our US Rep. He runs on never having voted yes on anything. It's the rural thing.

How dare they come and pollute our country with their blond hair and blue eyes!

Oh wait, I'm about a century off. Sorry about that.

diversity. We are all proud of our national history of immigration that has produced a fairly unique, diverse country (Canada and a few others may come close) compared to the "Old World".

"It's current immigration that is something to worry about. There are too many of "them" coming from "there"." Of course they said exactly the same thing a hundred years ago (about the Irish and others) and will say again a hundred years from now (about who knows who).

One of the many reasons we suffer from such a conflicted national psyche. :)

You have to look at the right parts of the state. Up on Lake Erie's coastline, for example, there's a lot of tree farming and other similar work done by largely immigrant labor. I don't know what they're fussing about in Cincy, though, except that Cincy's where most of the wingnuts in the state are concentrated.

there are a lot of blue collar folk around here (cincinnati) who blame the mexicans for taking their jobs or something. So this could pass, if we didn't have a dem governor.