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Lou Dobbs Tonight -- CNN -- November 30
Dobbs:
This nation is confronted by an illegal immigration crisis, and
that crisis is certainly not limited to a handful of border-states.
It affects the entire nation. And our federal government has
abandoned its responsibility to secure our borders, to secure
our ports and to administer an intelligent visa program. As Bill
Tucker reports now this year lawmakers in all 50 states have
introduced legislation to deal with the impact of that illegal
immigration crisis.
Bill Tucker: Illegal immigration is not a border state
issue. One thousand five hundred sixty-two pieces of legislation
are a testament to that. That's how many bills have been introduced
in 50 state legislatures so far this year dealing with immigration,
almost three times as many as last year; 244 of those bills have
become law in 46 states.
Don Balfour (R), Georgia State Senate: We need to be able
to guard the borders and obviously states can't do that, but
then if we can't do that part, what can we do? I think our constituents
across this nation are asking for us to get involved, to do whatever
we can do.
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