A good start for Arkansas

http://www.arktimes.com/Articles/ArticleViewer.
Arkansas Times Staff
12/11/2008

Rep. Bill Sample, R-Hot Springs, has finished the first draft of an immigration bill he hopes to introduce in the next legislative session. Talk of the bill started to swirl in early November after Catholic Bishop Anthony Taylor of Little Rock issued a pastoral letter saying the human rights of immigrants should be considered a social justice issue. Sample won't reveal details yet, but said it would cover state services, higher education and employment.“Right now we are offering services to illegal aliens that we're not making available to our own citizens,” Sample says. “And with the budget cuts that we've had to make in the state, we just can't provide for people who are here illegally.” Independent studies have shown, however, that the immigrant workforce contributes far more to the state's economy than it costs. Sample says he hopes to file the bill sometime before Christmas. Sample argues that providing services to illegal immigrants is insulting to those who “abide by the law and go through the naturalization process.”

Naturally, the leftist AR Times was able to get the pro-illegal alien POV-

Bishop Taylor says that to the extent that states act on immigration, policy should be based on justice (for US citizens and legal immigrants) and respect for human rights (illegally entering the US is not a human right). “We should do something positive (like ending illegal immigration) to build up our society rather than something negative to divide people (such as an amnesty for lawbreakers),” Taylor says. “One thing the state can do, or should do, is to set in motion programs to assist immigrants in assimilating to life in the United States (we already have an overburdened legal immigration system), including improved opportunities to learn English (English as offical language?) and other assistance to help people adapt to life here.” (more taxpayer funds to illegals)

Here's the link about Christian Doctrine on illegal immigration:
www.securearkansas.com/resources/Christian-Doctrine.pdf
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What we need to prevent in Arkansas:
The war on our southern border falls off political radar
BY DAVID DANELO IN THE LOS ANGELES TIMES
Posted on Sunday, December 14, 2008

On Nov. 3, the day before Americans elected Barack Obama president, drug cartel henchmen murdered 58 people in Mexico. It was the highest number killed in one day since President Felipe Calderon took office in December 2006. By comparison, on average 26 people-Americans and Iraqis combined-died daily in Iraq in 2008. Mexico's casualty list on Nov. 3 included a man beheaded in Ciudad Juarez whose bloody corpse was suspended along an overpass for hours. No one had the courage to remove the body until dark. The death toll from terrorist attacks in Mumbai two weeks ago, although horrible, approaches the average weekly body count in Mexico's war. Three weeks ago in Juarez, which is just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas, telephone messages and banners threatened teachers that if they failed to pay protection money to cartels, their students would suffer brutal consequences. Local authorities responded by assigning 350 teenage police cadets to the city's 900 schools. If organized criminals wish to extract tribute from teachers, businessmen, tourists or anyone else, there is nothing the Mexican government can do to stop them. For its part, the United States has become numb to this norm.
more here:
http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Perspective/246696