Heated exchange in SC Senate over proposed immigration bill

[struggle4progress]

Robert Kittle
Published: May 20, 2010
... State Law Enforcement Division Chief Reggie Lloyd told senators ... “If everybody wants us to go chase illegal immigrants, we’re glad to do that. If you tell us to take a hill, we will do that. But we don’t have the resources and the ability to do what everybody’s asked us to do today" ... Ilia Rivera, a native of Puerto Rico who .. lives in Greenville, told Sen. Grooms ... “We don’t have money for education and now you’re looking money for this?“ ... Roan Garcia-Quintana, a Cuban American political activist and supporter of the bill, jumped in. “Why don’t you go back to where you came from?“ he asked Rivera, who told him she’s from Puerto Rico and is a veteran of the U.S. Army ... http://www2.counton2.com/cbd/news/local/article/heated_exchange_in_sc_senate_over_proposed_immigration_bill/139575/

Bill to put SC in line with AZ's immigration law prompts shouting match after meeting
By Seanna Adcox
... Roan Garcia-Quintana, a Cuban American who advocates anti-illegal immigration bills, said the women should go back where they came from if they don't like it here. Neither of the women is an illegal immigrant. One of the protesters, Ilia Rivera, of Greenville, shouted she's Puerto Rican and an Army veteran ... "Someone will stop me. I'm very sure they're going to," Rivera said about the bill. "I'm Puerto Rican and look like I'm Latino." Ines Alvarez, also of Greenville, called the bill racist. A U.S. citizen originally from Panama, she is running as a Democrat to represent Greenville in the House, saying the Legislature needs an advocate for Hispanics ... http://www.canadianbusiness.com/markets/market_news/article.jsp?content=D9FQQSBG4

S.C. Senate subcommittee takes up Arizona-like bill on immigration enforcement
Though the chances of the bill passing during the evaporating legislative session are near zero, a South Carolina Senate subcommittee is meeting to consider a bill inspired by a similar and very controversial law in Arizona ... http://charleston.thedigitel.com/politics/sc-senate-subcommittee-takes-arizona-bill-immigrat-21287-0520

[Lint Head]

1. Thank God I moved away from that racist state long ago.

I was born there. I saw the racism up close in the 60's. Nothing has really changed. It's just done 'on the sly' instead of blatantly.
I have relatives that live there that are as racist as the day is long. There is a great African American Senator from there.
Representative James E. Clyburn is a brave man to lives there and fight for his state.