News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Friday, May 12, 2006

Border plan has radar, Guard funds

But provisions include some vetoed earlier
By Howard Fischer
CAPITOL MEDIA SERVICES

PHOENIX — Legislative Republicans offered a plan Thursday to spend $160 million on a border security plan — a plan that includes a provision that could subject the whole package to a veto.

The proposal includes new penalties against companies that knowingly hire undocumented workers.

It also provides $50 million over two years to buy or lease ground radar units to spot people coming across the border illegally. And it has $10 million to station additional National Guard troops along the state's southern border, though it does not spell out whether they will be actually looking for illegal crossers.

But the plan, to be presented to Gov. Janet Napolitano as a single package, still includes language to make it a state crime for people to be in this country illegally.

That is very similar to a measure the governor vetoed earlier this year, at least in part because many law enforcement agencies and prosecutors were opposed.

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