YouTube: Says Florida Law Will Go Further Than Arizona's

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum has proposed tougher curbs against illegal aliens in his melting-pot state that he said would go "one step further" than a similar contested Arizona law.  Presenting the proposed measures at an event in Orlando McCollum said, “This legislation will provide new enforcement tools for protecting our citizens and will help our state fight the ongoing problem created by illegal immigration."

"This legislation will provide new enforcement tools for protecting our citizens and will help our state fight the ongoing problem created by illegal immigration.  "Florida will not be a sanctuary state for illegal aliens," said McCollum, accompanied by Rep. Will Snyder.  

Anticipating criticism of racial profiling, McCollum's office said his proposal for Florida "will not allow for racial profiling."  McCollum's office went on, his proposed legislation offers more teeth than the Arizona law by giving judges and law enforcement officers more tools in dealing with illegal immigrants, from bond rulings through to sentencing.

YouTube video of AG McCollum’s announcement:

“Currently they are permitted to do [but not required] so it’s voluntary.

“They also, at the time they stop or arrest somebody, will have to have a reasonable suspicion that that person is an illegal before they make that check.

“And there is a specific provision in the bill that says there shall not be any racial profiling.”

McCollum said the Florida proposal goes “one step further” than the law in Arizona. The Obama administration opposed the Arizona measure, and a federal judge has blocked the law’s most controversial provisions.

“We will allow judges to consider a defendant’s immigration status when setting bond,” McCollum explained. “Someone is more likely to flee the country if they’re here illegally and they’ve committed a crime.

“It allows the attorney general to sue any official or agency that implements a policy that restricts the enforcement of immigration laws. Under the Arizona law citizens can sue. Under our proposal we think it’s more prudent to have the attorney general have the right to sue.”

“We also require that Florida businesses use E-Verify [an Internet-based program run by the federal government] to assure that people they hire are authorized to work,” McCollum told reporters.

 “And we have in this law a safe harbor provision that says that if businesses do make this check and are told that somebody is legal, and then they later discover they are not legal, they’re protected from being fined.”

Socialist Barack Hussein Obama won’t enforce federal law so sates like Arizona, Virginia, and Florida are stepping up to the plate protecting American citizens.

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