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The measure would allow Kentucky law enforcement officers to determine the immigration status of someone who is stopped for another reason, such as a traffic offense, and who is suspected of being an illegal immigrant.
The proposal also would allow police to arrest illegal immigrants on trespassing charges for setting foot in Kentucky.
I don't get the people who are supportive of illegal immigrants. If any of us went to another country, snuck in and got caught, we would face a large fine, jail time, and in some countries being shot! They sure wouldn't be giving us freebies such as healthcare for sneaking into their land. I am all for people coming here the right way. If you come here illegally, you are breaking the law and just like if I get caught going over the speed limit I will get a ticket, they should be deported if they are caught. Period. Glad to see KY is standing up for itself and its citizens.
I don't disagree with deportation or this law in general. if i get pulled over i have to show my i.d., why shouldn't everyone? seems sensible to me. the thing i do not support is people acting as if these immigrants are less than human pieces of trash. the vast majority are simply trying to work (harder than just about any american btw) to support family. If you want to get pissed at someone, blame the people who make money of the backs of illegals by hiring them. if there were no jobs here, they wouldn't come here.
I have few doubts the main motivation behind the anti-immigrant bill is racism. Go ahead, turn Kentucky into a papers please society with police checkpoints. While the cops are standing on the side of the road, causing traffic jams and pulling people over to ask if they're citizens, your home is being robbed, your kids are on meth, you wait forever on the officer to file a traffic report. Then you'll fuss when state and local taxes rise considerably to pay for the additional police presence to take care of the other problems you neglected while you tried to rid your pretty bluegrass of people desperate to work instead of seeking an integrated solution. Good job, you'll say, as you sit down to eat the plate of boiled feed corn which cost you ten dollars a pound. Oh, but that's not going to happen to you. It'll happen to somebody poorer, who will probably go somewhere else and look for work that pays.
But that's just Kentucky - build your house in the valley and farm the hills, and cry for help to jeebus when it floods.
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