Immigration Resolution Gets Zero (0) GOP Support (Press Enterprise May 23, 2006) State Assembly offers its Ideas to Congress and White House..

Immigration Resolution Gets Zero (0) GOP Support (Press Enterprise May 23, 2006) State Assembly offers its Ideas to Congress and White House..
This is the band wagon that the GOP should be jumping on and doing everything in their power to see to it that a comprehensive Immigration Law, + Reform to Gain Citizenship = Strong Support down the line. Poo Poo'ing this now is where they will loose support down the road!!

I hope the GOP Wakes up before it is to late!!


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Immigration resolution gets zero GOP support



IMMIGRATION: State Assembly offers its ideas to Congress and the White House.

10:00 PM PDT on Monday, May 22, 2006

By JIM MILLER
The Press-Enterprise

State Assembly members representing the Inland area were split Monday on a resolution calling on Congress and the White House to "take a comprehensive, bipartisan, and well-reasoned approach" to overhauling the country's immigration system.

The measure called on U.S. lawmakers to reject any proposal that "criminalizes" illegal immigration and to support legislation that encourages citizenship.

Monday's resolution passed the Assembly, 43-27, with no Republican support.

Proponents included Assemblyman Joe Baca Jr., D-Rialto, and Assemblywoman Gloria Negrete McLeod, D-Chino.

Opposing it were Inland lawmakers John J. Benoit, R-Palm Desert; Bill Emmerson, R-Redlands; Ray Haynes, R-Murrieta; and Todd Spitzer, R-Orange.

Assemblyman Russ Bogh, R-Beaumont, was absent.

Assemblywoman Bonnie Garcia, R-Cathedral City, abstained. Sixty percent of the residents of her border-area district are Latino, based on 2000 census data. But Garcia called Monday's resolution "mean-spirited" toward Congress and the White House.

"I don't think we need to editorialize in these resolutions," she said. Reach Jim Miller at (916) 445-9973