South Carolina legislators want illegal immigrants sent to prison

[Thom Little]

Illegal immigrants would spend five years in prison and lose their cash and cars under legislation a Charleston lawmaker is pushing.

"My message is South Carolina is not going to be a haven for illegal aliens. Go visit and live in some other state," said Rep. John Graham Altman, a Charleston Republican.

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Legislators in 21 states this year introduced more than 80 bills targeting illegal immigrants and their access to public services, including education and health care; let local police make immigration arrests or force government service agencies to report illegal immigrants.

Immigrant advocates say the bills unfairly target illegal immigrants while not addressing the issue of businesses that hire them. They say the legislation, much of which is stalled in committees, shows growing antagonism and hostility against immigrants, particularly Hispanics.

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Altman's felony trespass legislation is one of the toughest introduced in the nation. But he said that is what is needed to deal with illegal immigration. "If they were an invading army with guns and bayonets, the federal government would do something about it," Altman said. "This is an invading army. The guns and bayonets are not visible."


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[DRoseDARs]

1. Erm, isn't the point of getting illegals out to make it so they aren't...

...using the resources of this country? Wouldn't sending them to prison, uh... use this country's resources? Typical rethuglican non-thinking. :eyes:

[wickerwoman]

4. Exactly.

Spending money to feed, house, educate and provide medical care for people (especially women with children) who are gainfully employed and contribute to the economy is bleeding heart socialism.

Whereas paying money to feed, house, educate and provide medical care for incarcerated men who contribute nothing to the economy (except clean sheets and maybe license plates) is justice.

Let's see, my family is starving in Ecuador and I can't get a job but I won't go to South Carolina on the off chance someone rats me out and I have to go to jail (where I'll probably eat better than I have in years.)

When are they going to wake up to the fact that the only way to stop illegal immigration is to go after the companies that hire them?

[RagingInMiami]

2. As if our prisons are not already overcrowded with

non-violent drug offenders.

[Eugene]

3. Guns and bayonets? Illegal immigrants are workers, not bandits.

Altman is drumming up hate and fear.

[flordehinojos]

5. there is a flavor of WHITE SUPREMACY in the proposed bill where yet again

another group of human beings is thought of as lessthan human beings.

[Judi Lynn]

6. Aren't these the same mental giants who believe women who are

found to have used drugs while pregnant should be thrown in prison? I believe they passed a law making it mandatory for doctors to inform the authorities if they discover their pregnant patients are doing drugs, and for hospitals delivering the babies to inform authorities if they discover drugs in the blood tests.



One of these people is "Rep. John Graham Altman, a Charleston Republican."

[Island Blue]

7. I want people who hire illegal immigrants sent to prison.

They're the ones cashing in and making big bucks off of the misery and desperation of others. Send the fat cats to prison, not the folks who are coming here so they can make a few American dollars to send home to their families. (JMO)

[oldcoot]

8. What are the going to do with the children?

So what is going to happen to the children of illegal aliens? Will they also be sent to prison?

[hatrack]

9. After they finish with remodeling the kitchen, clipping the hedges . . .

And detailing the car, I assume?

"Those damned illegals!" vs. "It's just too expensive to pay more than minimum wage and offer benefits!!"

:eyes:

[mitchum]

10. Altman is a South Carolina traditionalist...

he prefers to have the "nigras" do the manual labor for him

[Strawman]

11. When you can't govern competently...

find some scapegoats to blame everything on. Preferably foreign, dark skinned, and poor.

Yes, in America the powerless, not those who actually wield power, are responsible for everything that's wrong with society.

What a con.