Well, that didn't take long at all: Less than two months into his tenure as Kansas secretary of state, illegal-immigration crusader Kris Kobach has already helped state lawmakers draft a knockoff of Arizona's controversial immigration bill.
Remember yesterday, when we told you how the Republicans' stronghold in Topeka meant certain and swift death for the recently introduced medical-marijuana bill? This is just like that, only the exact opposite.
The bill is being drafted by "influential" Rep. Lance Kinzer, a Republican from Olathe and the chairman of the powerful Judiciary Committee, the Associated Press reported this morning. But Kobach is unsurprisingly in the mix, helping legislators tailor the bill to Kansas and, through his powers of square-jawed seduction, putting the bill in position to survive the Legislature, gain support in the polls and eventually get signed by Gov. Sam Brownback.
"Support for an SB 1070-style bill in Kansas is every bit as strong as in Arizona, if not even more so," Kobach told me this morning. He said the bill will be introduced in the House today, and that the odds of it eventually passing are "very high."
Kobach said he's been working with Kinzer and other lawmakers on a statewide immigration bill since at least 2007. This bill will include many pieces of previous years' legislation but will also include "most of the provisions" of Arizona's bill. Those include requiring local and state law enforcement, during the course of a routine investigation or arrest, to check the immigration status of anyone suspected of being undocumented. The bill would also make illegal immigration a state crime.
Kobach has been helping lawmakers here and around the country draft bills targeting illegal immigrants for years. His job as secretary of state has only made it easier for him to work with Kansas lawmakers, he said, because he spends so much time in Topeka and in the Capitol.
And according to him, the Legislature there has a mandate to get aggressive on illegal immigration. During the rancor over SB 1070, Kansans "made it very clear to legislators that they would like to see similar legislation in Kansas," Kobach said.
We're about to find out whether he's right.
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Maybe American corporations should stop making their country a worse place to live.
rman33: I'm man enough to make you shut the Fuck up, problem is, you gotta come to a mexican eighborhood for me to do it, on the Westside, that's where I live, and where you can find many honest hard working "legal" hispanics at, Dude, come see me anytime time you want! now get back in line at Starbucks, read your stock market report, plan your next Klan meeting, and once and for all! "Shut the Fuck Up" Westide Mike
Rman33, it's Saturday morning, did you go to Home Depot to hire a Mexican to help your lazy, prejudice, probably from OP Kansas, punk-ass around your house? When I read that post I had visions of you! lol!
What? Really? Are you really dumb or what?
"Our ancestors" shaped and CHANGED the USA. Our ancestors came from all parts of the old world to this new world. They DIDNOT learn the language of the local natives (huh, American Indians). They adpoted American English as a language.
Boy, a boy, you really read need to go back and read up on youir OWN history.
Hey rman33, don't you have a job? all you do is post on this blog? all day long? maybe a few mexicans can come over and out work, out hustle and show you how to get ahead, your comments display your hatred to the Hispanic culture, are you from Sugar Creek? Get a job- get a life before some worthy mexican takes it from you, and will probably do it better then you can! lol
All criminals, yourself included, try to justify their actions with lame excuses claiming the end justifies the means. Why you violate the law is irrelevant – you are still a criminal under US statutes and no amount of lame diatribe makes you less of one. Most of us can’t wait for the day when Kobach’s bill becomes law. Then you will have every opportunity to tell the judge your sob story right before you are sent to prison for illegal entry.
As a law abiding citizen I don’t hire illegals – I turn them in to INS.
As for the rest of your comments you aren’t even man enough to try and save your own country. You run away from your country like a coward. You sure as hell aren’t man enough to make me “shut the fuck up” as you so eloquently put it. You never will be.
By the way, it’s obvious to anyone reading this that all of these comments are being written by the same person. No matter how many fake names you use, people see right through you. Moron.
People love to throw around the word "criminal" or "illegal" like it justifies their actions of spewing hatred. Anyone ever put that together? I hope none of you have ever smoked weed, or driven over the speed limit, pirated music, et cetera. You fucks. Find some bigger fish to fry. I'm sure there are plenty of naturalized disadvantaged youth you could be mentoring at Operation Breakthrough, or perhaps volunteering at a homeless shelter. Warning, they are probably not white. I know that's a sticking point for a lot of you.
The Indians were here first, you just took it from them, and screwed it all up from that point on, white folks are a sick race, my elders were oh so right!
Yep, White America sure has screwed up America! then want to blame it on migrants, such stupidity!
Hey rman33, it's you white folks that hire all of the mexican landscappers, you own the business's that hire these immigrants, the dudes from Mexico don't, see white folks like you every saturday at Home Depot on Linwood and Main picking up migrant workers from Mexico to take to their construction sites, or homes for work. Guess what? these dudes have Johnson County Plates and drive Toyota Trucks. Quit hiring them, then dogging them in the same text! So shut the fuck up, white people are just as guilty for hirng these cats from Mexico who are only trying to survive in this world to support their families, as we are all doing! quit being so hateful!
rman33: Sure are alot of ignorant white folks as you screwing up things, very racist and ignorant, I just laugh at your ignorance!
Finally, someone realized the need to protect the citizens of United States.
Stop those who choose to disobey our country's law should not be rewarded and they place
our citizens in harms way of any terrorist all type criminals...Sure there are people
who come here to work but they must enter legally or face the threats of coyotes
drug smugglers and prosecution.If our government says everyone can have a free pass to come into this country what protection as citizens do we have in our homeland. If you allow a child to steal where is the lesson to be learned or the respect for what right and wrong.
Hopefully, this law will be a good one that will be enforced.
the difference is our ancestors learned the language and didn''t ask the USA to change .
Unless you have immediate family already in the U.S. or have very specialized skills/higher education you have no chance of getting into this country legally....so that means poor immigrants are shit out of luck. Now let's assume you do have family in the U.S.; if you applied today it would take about 15 years for everything to be processed because they are so backed up with past applications. It is a freaking joke! I love when Anglos talk about "my ancestors did it the right way and came here legally!" During the 1700s-1800s that wasn't a hard feat. As long as you weren't carrying any infectious diseases, you were pretty much in. And guess what, your ancestors didn't speak English either unless they were English or Irish. I love how nativist attitudes have survived after all these years!
When your family immigrated they probably recieved a new last name and were instantly citizens. All i'm saying is that we need to improve the immigration process so that people can do it legally. Where is a day laborer allowed to register in the states without being instantly deported? There is way too much judgement going around. Allow these people a chance to prove they are valuable citizens and workers before tagging them as illegal criminals.
Speaking of ignorant, you might want to take a look in the mirror. You don't even understand the meaning of the word 'racist'. There are only three races: Caucasian, Negroid and Mongoloid. Last time I checked the predominant race in Mexico was Caucasian - the same race you are presuming that I am (you could be wrong). You must believe I am being ‘racist’ against myself. In fact my comments, unlike yours, are devoid of any mention of race or ethnicity. I could have been talking about Canadians for all you know. The important point that a tard like yourself needs to understand is that there are many here illegally. They are criminals regardless of ethnicity. The fewer criminals this nation has the better off we are.
As for who “invited me to America?” - no one. I was born here as were my immediate ancestors. In fact some of my ancestors were here long before there was an America or a Mexico or a Spain for that matter.
As for Redman1 (who is obviously the same person or at least related to Mike Midtown) who thinks ‘whites’ are in his words “Fucking up things”, can we point to Mexico as a proud example of what your ‘non-white’ people are capable of? It’s such a wonderful place. No wonder so many flee it. If there were one ball amongst all the men in Mexico then they would never leave their country. They would fight to change it and be proud to call it ‘their country’. Maybe you need a whitey in charge down there?
IT'S EITHER MILLIONS WE SPEND NOW OR A HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS PLUS LATER?
Just like the Great Land Rush of the 19th century, hundreds of thousands even millions of illegal aliens will be fleeing different States enacting policing laws. Idaho, Florida Utah, Missouri, Texas, North Carolina, Maryland, Tennessee, Minnesota and of course the great State of Arizona, who is battling for survival in the biased-oriented court system.,In swarms they will be loading their trucks, packing their families and leaving less hospitable locations. They are heading they think to other States with easy welfare pickings, with brought and sold legislators where the laws are not enforced. Even the cash strapped, Sanctuary State of California has numerous counties ready to embark with E-Verify, as a mandatory verification warning to foreign nationals you better not apply for a job here, as the business owner is unlikely to take the risk of losing his business license. Other States are introducing laws including the federal 287 (g) law to train local police in arrest and detain suspicious individuals on hold for ICE agents.
Secure Communities a program that expedites fingerprints gathered by local law enforcement agencies to the FBI and then through a federal (ICE) immigration database to identify undocumented immigrants. Over a thousand jurisdictions in 40 States and others ready to participate. All these enforcement programs cost millions of dollars, but it touches nowhere near the hundreds of billions of dollars extracted from your taxes to support illegal aliens. The border remains frighteningly open and their is no program to guarantee that foreign airline passengers will leave after their entry visa expires? American immigration laws have been mocked since the 1986 amnesty law by both the US Government and the businesses that hire discount labor. If their was a real effort by any administration to halt the illegal alien invasion, any illegal invader would be facing a felony, not a stupid minor infraction.
I joined the Tea PARTY as more and more taxes are being taken, to support the education, health care and other social welfare programs in pandering to the illegal immigrants. I am also an activist of the million plus membership of NumbersUSA pro-sovereignty organization, that allows free faxes to your resident State Representative or even the leadership in Washington. You can also contact your politicians through the Switchboard in DC at 202-224-3121. Their is a Pdf file "Illegal Aliens and American Medicine."that every American should assimilate. It will probably give you heartburn and the billions of dollars we are paying to support health care for illegal aliens, that should be going in the pensions of old American warriors, OUR senior citizens, OUR homeless, Our blind, our sick, handicapped and those citizens living in poverty. This is just part of the deception and collusion of our legislators, who have been corrupted by special interests. We should bring our military home from Afghanistan, Iraq and other support bases, and place them along the US border, Canadian border fully armed with orders to fire.
Illegal immigrant states like Texas New York State and Illinois's, specially in California and Nevada, has no real ID verification where there was massive voter fraud through absentee ballots use; I truly believe.
Why is it that anyone who considers illegal immigration a problem, considered a racist? I am grateful for the AZ law and this proposed legislation. Yes, my family immigrated here, but did so legally, and became productive, tax-paying ctizens. I don't think that is too much to ask. Mind you, the Arizona law only allows law enforcment to scrutinize resident status only after the subject has been lawfully contacted. That means they violated a law, or are under investigation for criminal behavior.
towhitemanrman33: Why are people like you so ignorant and racist? Who invited you to America?
torman33; It's just white people doing what they do best- Fucking up things, now have a nice day!
Even if the Kansas law temporarily ends up in limbo like the Arizona law, at least the illegals will have something to fear. Right now they have nothing to fear. Eventually the Supreme Court will uphold the Arizona law or some amended form of it. What a wonderful day it will be when these criminals constantly have to look over their shoulder wondering if at any moment their life will be torn apart by the state or federal agents bursting through the door and dragging them back to the border or better yet, prison. That is the life of a criminal - a life of fear and angst. Hope they enjoy the fear. They’ve earned it.
If they want to make amends for their crimes and stop looking over their shoulders then they should go home. Stop trying to make our country a worse place to live. Go home and make your country a better place to live.
The inscription on the statue of liberty reads: "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,..." Kobach's ancestors were immigrants. We've come along way from arriving at Ellis Island and being processed, today's immigrant typically don't have the financial means to apply for citizenship. How about introducing a bill to allow these hardworking people a method of applying for citizenship without having to pay thousands of dollars? My wife is a Chinese national and it cost us about $4,000 in application fees to get her a green card. It's becoming disgusting how we forget the trials our ancestors experienced coming to this country. I don't see any Native Americans calling for tighter immigration controls, just white Republicans.
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