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, April 13, 2007

Ariz., N.M. urge feds to pay tab of immigration

Until states are repaid, defer aid to offenders, letter says

Mary Jo Pitzl
The Arizona Republic
Apr. 13, 2007 12:00 AM

The federal government should defer foreign aid to the countries that are the biggest sources of illegal immigration into the U.S. until Washington has paid the states' costs for jailing illegal border crossers.

That's the latest proposal from Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, as they continue their pressure on the federal government to pick up the cost of illegal immigration.

"It is time for Congress to make full federal funding for states' immigration costs a condition precedent to future foreign aid funding," the border governors, both Democrats, wrote in a letter to the congressional sponsors of immigration-reform measures.

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