Governor Jerry Brown Signs Slew of Illegal Immigrant-Friendly Bills

• well Jennifer, pretty high and mighty attitude, congratulations on that. i personally want everybody to apply for citizenship, and enjoy what good things america has to offer. that being said, i have Mexican/American neighbors who have been good to me when i was sick, and have become friends, they must be racist too. i say that because they are as disturbed as i am about the influx of Mexicans that have flooded into our formerly quiet and peaceful neighborhood. they are obnoxiously loud at ALL hours (ignoring polite request to turn down  their sub-woofer powered car and home stereos) there are beer cans in our yards from the adults, food and candy rappers from the kids, and that's just the beginning  there is not enough room here to cover the activities that we have observed from our new neighbors. they have a nice little cell phone network, that warns everyone when the police are approaching....suddenly the music is quiet and everyone is indoors. does it matter that they are illegals who are not required to show one lousy piece of documentation, much less abide by our legal system, which they laugh at ?.... it matters to those of us who have been trying to sell our homes and find a safer quieter place to live because the cops tell us their hands are tied. do you think that makes us Racist ? i am a proud liberal who voted for Governor Brown, for better or worse (oi ! )  so i could care less what judgmental *?#%^&! like yourself think. i would LOVE to have some Canadian or European immigrants (we have allot of Russians here, who DO respect their Neighbors). i'm not going to call you stupid, i don't know you well enough to make that judgement, but as a Citizen of the U.S.A. (i'm white, of Irish descent, born in Pakistan... how do you like that ?) I'M SICK OF THIS Garbage AND SICK of people who want to blindly throw out the welcome mat, no Screening required.....  at the expense of EVERYBODY ELSE.... that being said, i hope you have a lovely day my dear..... Peace !

• Yes, by all means what California needs to do is make life less of a headache for the criminals residing in their state and take on the extra expense associated with providing services to the criminals and their children.

• And you're a traitor to people who are honest.

• I never mentioned Hitler.

• The anti defamation league has asked that references to Hitler be left out of the immigration debate.

• If a business uses E-Verify and the person later turns out to be here illegally, they are off the hook. Look up Obama's silent raids, the people are turned lose to find new jobs, and the business has it's fine removed if it cooperates. What will the illegal community do next year when Obama is gone?

• If your parents received green cards and you were under 18 and living at home, you should of received your green card, unless you had felonies against you.

• "We call things racism just to get attention. We reduce complicated problems to racism, not because it is racism, but because it works."   --- Alfredo Gutierrez, political consultant, as quoted by Richard de Uriarte, The Phoenix Gazette, March 14, 1992

• Brown is a traitor to the honest people of California. "We call things racism just to get attention. We reduce complicated problems to racism, not because it is racism, but because it works."  --- Alfredo Gutierrez, political consultant, as quoted by Richard de Uriarte, The Phoenix Gazette, March 14, 1992

• So Bigriggs, you're talking about a politician who's "pandering."  But you didn't say who he's pandering to.  So if he's not pandering to a group of VOTERS, then who is he pandering too? Honestly, you expect me to believe that a career politician would make the mistake to pander to a group who can't re-elect him?  Get real.  You must be new to democracy to think something that stupid.

• ALL ILLEGALS should be deported!! Or, for those that don"t have a problem giving them money and services, here's a novel idea: you people, and only you people pay. Our state and country is going to Hell!! 

• pan·der /ˈpændɚ/ verb pan·ders; pan·dered; pan·der·ing [no obj] disapproving : to do or provide what someone wants or demands even though it is not proper, good, or reasonable — Nice reading comprehension. Where exactly did I write anything about voters??? I double and tripled checked and still am unable to find the word voters in my post. Please point it out to me. I will not be able to get anything done today until I am shown the word voters in my post. I'll be waiting with baited breath. Well, I waited about 30 seconds before I realized you would not be able to properly answer. Why is that? The lack of the word voters in my post. There is a reason for that ommision. I realize that illegals are not able to vote (unless thay have a stolen or fraudulent id, which is a real possibility) and responded to the original poster with my concern. These polticians pander to a certain base that bitch and moan on a daily basis about how unfair life is for them in this country. Not their country, my country. They complain about our laws, our crazy notion about following these laws and that they should enjoy all the luxuries of being an American citizen.  They drain resources from each and every city and state using services meant for those legal citizens that have less. They have nobody to blame but themselves. End of story. Have a nice day.

• Ah, you guys are Neo Nazis. It all makes sense now.

• No, I never said that. You seem to have forgotten exactly *HOW* Arnold got elected.

• Are you suggesting that every recall results in the same replacement governor?  What an odd thought you have.

• Businesses that break the law and rely on illegal labor deserve to have "their workforce" removed and deserve to be fined.  Their profits should be given to law-abiding businesses and to reimburse taxpayers who have shouldered the public burden of those low-wage illegal workers.  Those businesses are unfairly competing against law-abiding businesses. Getting back to your alleged concern that businesses might get away with hiring illegal workers even with the E-Verify system - that's why we need to get the IRS and social security to cooperative to go after identity thieves.  Then E-Verify would be even more accurate!

• moonbeam  at  it  again  what an idiot

• moonbeam is  a  depraved  liberal ass  clown

• forcefully  deport  all illegals  now ..filthy  cockroaches

• moonbeam  is still an idiot ,,,,,,,and  sadly making  it  unsafe  for  us  citizens.. CA spends  billions  every  year  on  illegals..the  jails and  emergency rooms  are  filled  with them ...deport  all illegals  now  forcefully we  need  a  final solution now just  like  germany  had

• I agree Eric. My husband is Hispanic and we went through Nebraska in May. We couldn't get directions, people were rotten to us. I was told to go home (not my husband) and I'm native American and White. I was disgusted at the treatment based on appearance we couldn't even get any locals to speak with us when we were bringing business to their "white" community.

• Fred maybe you cannot read, maybe you are a product of the California school system but every reference to illegal always has Mexican in it. That is racist. Also if you look legal what color do you think you would most likely be? Surely not white?

• How racist. Stupid and illegal Mexican in the same sentence. Goes to show you that T-Tards don't understand illegals can be Canadian, Australian, French, British. Oh wait... GOP's aren't concerned with the ones who look legal. They also hyprocritically claim not be racist but claim that you can tell if someone is "illegal" by outside appearances. I lived in Minnesota and Washington. Tons of Canadian illegals 10 years ago, get there money at vending machine all the time. But the T-tards aren't concerned with those who look white. Now that is hypocrisy.

• E-Verify puts a lot of pressure on businesses to find "legals", however, if the documentation checks out and they a few months later the place is raided and its found the legal person submitted "real documents" and used someone else's information then how can we fine them out of existence. I believe the fines issued were in the are of $50 million. While its all grand that we can fine people out of existence we aren't fixing the problem. And we are making businesses want to leave the United States because we are fining and jailing their workforce.

• You are not an illegal alien if your parents are green card holders and you have an application pending on your green card/getting valid visa to stay.  Sorry, that was an incomplete spot... however, this does make you go into INLIMBO status, but still legal if you have a visa request pending. Sucks, but I know a lot of people that have requests pending as well.

• You are not an illegal alien.  b/c your parents are green card holders (unless their green card expired and they reside in the US illegally and work illegally while you go to school), even though you don't have your green card.  Even if you had your green card, are you qualified for this grant b/c you're not a US citizen? Seems to me that the financial aid packages were initially made for citizens and not other students of different nationality.  It's one thing to have private donors make scholarships/grants for ANYONE to win/apply for.  It's a different thing to allow illegal immigrants access to these grants that were intended for US citizens and/or legal aliens.  I'm not sure if legal aliens were ever in contention for these grants in the first place. Sure, you get your education, you're still not legally allowed to work in the US until you're a legal resident... The real issue is rules, every country has them... illegal immigrants cut in line of all the other immigrants that are doing it through legal means.  I don't have the right to pick and choose what my tax dollars go to, so the STATE shouldn't have the right to pick and choose what laws to follow either.  If I did, I'd pick and choose not to pay taxes on a few things I completely disagree with how the state and the US are doing.

• Yeah, remember how well things worked out with that recall election last time? Oh wait...

• "Pandering" to a group of people who <b>can't vote</b>? Wow, you really thought this one out.  Great job using your head there.

• Except that's not what's happening. Nice try with the strawman argument though.

• And you're a partisan douchebag.  Good job coming out of the closet as an idiot.

• This is not good news about immigration. It's just more pandering from a politician that cares more about illegals than he does legal citizens of this great country.

• dang you are stupid... you must be an illegal mexican

• Are you reading the comments? Few posters have a problem with LEGAL immigration - you know, where the prospective immigrant actually applies to legally reside in the country as federal LAW requires? Ever heard of that process? And what if millions of white supremacists started illegally pouring into the country? Would you be eager to defend their "rights" to illegally invade the country and by so doing to irreparably damage it? If you say yes I'll give you credit for an honest, if foolish consistency. If you say no then it's clear you only care about Illegal immigrants when you think they will further your political agenda.

•  I am a 22 year old college student who's not eligible, qualify, or "entitle" to government grant or financial aid. Although my parents are both permanent resident (green card holders), it was very unfortunate for me not to have a green card due to complications regarding immigration laws. All my tuition and expenses in school (which is up to a total $20,000 per year) are paid by mother out of her own pocket through hard work and struggle. She hopes that I will pursue and complete my education. Notice I enrolled into college 2008 and so far I am very content with academic grades; but due to expensive tuition, I have to skip school sometimes to work and save up some money. This is the second semester (equivalent to a full year education) that I have to skip school because my family cannot afford the standard tuition. All I have to say that I am grateful for these considerate laws and bills that benefit us "illegal aliens". True that we have no rights in this country for we are not citizens of America, but still we are forever grateful for the fruits this country has provide for us and there is not enough words to express our gratitude. Thank you Governor Brown. You light up hope in our hearts.

• I'm going to go out on a limb here, but what the hell...   I give credit where it's due, and blame where it's due.   "Illegal immigrants" are being scapegoated right now, and blamed for everything that's wrong with our society and our economy much like gay people have been scapegoated for just about everything...  It's never as simple as "remove this one desired element, and everything will peacefully return to the "Happy Days" world of the 1950s.  (Curious, anyone who remembers the 1950s - was it really as nice as people think?   Are you worse off now?) Immigrants, being people (though citizens of Arizona and Alabama may disagree) DO contribute to our economy.  They buy food, pay rent, pay money to use our public transportation, buy gasoline for their cars...   They DO pay taxes.  (Taxes are so far embedded into many things that you don't even realize it most of the time.)   The food that they buy (and often pick!) has to be packaged, delivered, and sold by others.  If we really DID manage to just "make the all go away" (like what was practically done in Alabama over the last two weeks) it would HURT us.   All of a sudden, tons of homes empty?   Drop in rents (good for renters).   Also, drop in construction jobs.   Who needs to build new houses when there are so many empty ones? Georgia is already finding out what their bigotry against immigrants is costing.   Massive amounts of crops rotting in the fields because there is no one to pick them.   That's going to drive up produce prices (the supply will be MUCH smaller now) and kill all the jobs of the people (legal or otherwise) who would pick, pack, ship and SELL all that (now missing) food.   It will take the farmers YEARS to recover from the damage that one season of state-sponsored bigotry will cause them.  God help them if they don't come to their senses and kill that law soon. Yes, we pay to have the illegal immigrants' kids educated.  But like I said, they buy gas, groceries, pay rent, take the bus...  So they're probably paying for their own kids' education.  Maybe not much more than that.  But they're HERE if you need someone to do work.  There are theives, rapists, murderers and drunks among them.   Just like in our ordinary every-day society of American-born citizens.   Most of the illegal immigrants just want an honest day's pay for an honest day's work. I think Governor Brown is smart to realize that while immigrants are the unpopular scapegoats of the day, educating people can only make the world (or at least our little corner of it) a better place.

• Does this guy think he's Governor of Mexico?  Why all the pandering to foreigners? California voters, please wake up.  The legislature and the governor are one monolithic bunch with no checks and balances.  Time to change that.  We need to recall the governor and vote out the legislature.  Let's replace them with people that will really serve the citizens of California.

• Why is it tha anytime good news about immigration are given there are a 100 negative comments from ppl who have no life but time to dedicate to spread hate and racism

• He's really bending over backwards with the pandering....

• Which laws are you referring to when you say "illegal" exactly?

• This is not simply an "immigration reform" issue, this is an "illegal immigration reform issue." The term "illegal" being the key point here. No one has an issue with immigration. But there is protocal that needs to be followed.

• Gov. Brown is actually 'El Chapo' of the Sineloa  Cartel , incognito.

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