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The New Hanover (N.C.) County Commissioners have passed a resolution supporting Arizona’s immigration state law. The resolution also calls on our State Legislature to pass a similar law.  Of course that opportunity was missed as North Carolina’s General Assembly just ended their session with the Democrat majority in charge not even allowing two separate resolutions to come up for a vote, requesting permission to bring up legislation similar to Arizona’s. In a recent NC Civitas statewide poll, 64% of North Carolina voters support the Arizona immigration law.

Yvonne Pagan, a member of N.C. Governor Beverly Perdue’s new Hispanic/Latino Advisory Council, was quoted in the Wilmington Star News as saying ”North Carolina isn’t facing the same (immigration) issues as Arizona”.   What planet is Ms. Pagan on?   Secondly, why isn’t there a Governor’s Advisory Panel on illegal immigration or a Governor’s Panel of reducing unemployment in our state?  I suppose Ms. Pagan isn’t aware that illegal immigrants are costing our state over $1 billion per year (see NC Impact) and that illegal immigrants are holding over 150,000 jobs in our state which have nothing to do with agriculture.

Isn’t it also interesting that the Obama administration’s Department of Justice is suing the state of Arizona over its state immigration law, which mirrors federal law.  All the while there are “sanctuary cities” in the USA which give illegal immigrants a free ride and thwart federal immigration law, but this same U.S. Department of Justice hasn’t gone after those city governments!   Maybe we need to change the name of the Department of Justice to the Department of Preferential Bias.

And to coin a phrase from Congressman Bilbray, “The Obama Administration is denying the State of Arizona the opportunity to do something, while the federal government takes the opportunity to basically do nothing.”

The NC Civitas Institute in Raleigh began an on-line contest to determine which piece of legislation introduced in the NC General Assembly this past session was the WORST BILL. Thirty-two “bad bills” were selected for consideration in a NCAA-type March Madness competition and citizens cast over 10,000 votes during a period of eight weeks. State Senate bill S.848 which was introduced [but did not pass] would have allowed, by statute, illegal immigrants to enroll in our North Carolina Community College System and our (sixteen) University of North Carolina campuses. North Carolina citizens voted S.848 as the WORST LEGISLATION to be introduced in the NC General Assembly.

What of course did happen is the NC Community College Board decided recently to allow illegal immigrants to enroll in our NC Community College System [all 58 campuses]. NC LISTEN is working to deny this atrocity, which could go into affect by mid-2010. More to follow on this effort. Wonder how the above contest for worst bill must make the NC Community College Board feel, given their actions? I would suggest it should make them feel like a bunch of idiots, which they are in my opinion. In the middle of one of the worst recessions in American history, our NC Community College Board decides to help illegal immigrants enroll in college when our state unemployment rate is 11% and citizens need help with retraining and education to be better able to acquire a job.