(Russell) Pearce moves to officially ban illegal immigrants from schools, driving (AZ)

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Source: East Valley Tribune

The president of the state Senate introduced legislation Monday to ban illegal immigrants from state universities and community colleges, make it a crime for them to drive in Arizona and include new public school reporting requirements that could induce the parents of children not here legally to keep them home.

SB 1611 ... would require cities to evict anyone in public housing who cannot prove legal presence in this country. The Appropriations Committee also will debate SB 1308 and 1309 which together are designed to deny citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants born in this country, and SB 1405 which would prohibit hospitals from providing non-emergency care to illegal immigrants and require officials to call federal immigration authorities.

Current law says those who cannot prove legal presence in this country cannot get the discounted tuition available to Arizona residents. But they may enroll if they pay the full out-of-state tuition and fees. SB 1611 would preclude their admission entirely. Pearce said it is irrelevant that the fees these students are paying may help keep tuition down for Arizona residents. "They can't be employed'' in this country, Pearce said, making their education not a benefit to Arizona. And he disputed the contention that out-of-state tuition covers the full cost of educating students at universities or community colleges.

SB 1611, set for hearing this afternoon, also would put companies that do not use a federal database to check the status of new workers out of business. The section aimed at employers is designed to put teeth into a 2007 law allowing a state judge to suspend or revoke the business licenses of firms found guilty of knowingly hiring undocumented workers. That law requires companies to use E-Verify, a federal database of authorized workers, though there is no penalty for failing to comply. The result, said Pearce, is only about 25 percent of Arizona firms actually check to see if new workers are in this country legally.

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1. There's already a Police State in America

It's Arizona...it's also a death penalty State for certain people needing life saving transplants...talk about ridding the country of its surplus population...Arizona is definitely the leader...and they don't discriminate:sarcasm:

[Daemonaquila]

2. Dead on.

However, the AZ disease is spreading. We're so focused on that madhouse (for good reason) that other states are sneaking similar changes under the radar.

[BenzoDia]

3. Illegal or not, it's unhealthy for the country to have large groups of uneducated people running

around. If someone is here illegally, wouldn't it be better to educate their kids so that one day they can contribute back into the system?