Illegal Immigration Takes a Hard Hit in Arizona

Cross posted from CommonSenseAmerica:

Something that may be lost in all of the speechifying today is that the people of Arizona came out swinging against illegal immigration with their ballots yesterday.

From the Arizona Daily Star:

Arizona voters took a machete to the dense jungle of ballot propositions and cut a path to broader restrictions on undocumented immigrants. . .

Passage of Prop. 100 prohibits bail for illegal entrants charged with a serious felony, and Prop. 102 prohibits an undocumented person who wins a civil lawsuit from receiving punitive damages. Likewise, the passage of Prop. 103 hammers home the message that all official business be conducted in English. Prop. 300, which restricts access to public services to illegal immigrants and their children, makes it clear that the majority of voters have no tolerance for the undocumented.

These propositions didn’t pass narrowly, they passed with overwhelming margins of over 70 percent in most cases. This is not a Democrat or Republican issue, this is an American issue and Americans in Arizona united across the party lines.

We’ve already heard President Bush insinuate that perhaps he’ll be able to jam his amnesty program through a Democratic House but politicians, on both sides of the aisle, should learn to listen to the American people, not the lobbyists.

2008 is not far away.

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