Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania -- Americans are fed up with inaction by the federal government on illegal immigration and that's why states and local governments increasingly are adopting laws and ordinances, state and local experts say.
"People don't believe that the efforts the federal government is making now -- with beefing up border patrols, raiding businesses -- are really doing anything about illegal immigration," said James Lee, president of Susquehanna Polling, who has conducted national and state polls on the issue.
But the actions taken by Hazleton Mayor Louis Barletta to crack down on illegal aliens in his city "hit a nerve with Americans," Lee said. "The support was universal, whether they were Republican or Democrat."
Posted by tyne at March 22, 2007