June 29, 2007

Senator Mel Martinez: revive illegal immigration amnesty in the House (recall petition!)

Speaking at a meeting of the Mexico-linked National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO), Republican Party chairman and Senator Mel Martinez said he wants to revive the Bush/Senate massive illegal immigration amnesty scheme, this time starting in the House.

Short answer: see this recall petition.

Longer answer:

[He] challenged [opponents of a massive legalization of illegal aliens] to come up with a solution beyond "just build a fence along the border."

"The voices of negativity now have a responsibility to come up with an answer," RNC Chairman and U.S. Senator Mel Martinez, R-Fla. said.

"How will you fix the situation to make peoples' lives better? How will you continue to grow the economy? How will we bring people out of the shadows for our national security and for the sake of being a country that is just?" he demanded...

By failing to act, the Senate also tied law enforcement's hands, Martinez said...

"We're going to have a hodgepodge of local laws. We will have cities that will declare themselves sanctuary cities. And then we will have others that will make it a felony simply to rent to illegal immigrants."

Then, he yelled, "arghhhhh!" But, seriously, about the only difference between what he said and what Howard Dean would say is that Dean is marginally saner.

Note: the link is a report from Laura Wides-Munoz who, as could be expected, does not disclose that NALEO has a link to the Mexican government.

Posted to Immigration2007a at June 29, 2007 06:51 PM

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