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Immigration and politics
Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones has been in the news a lot lately expounding on his favorite topic: immigration.
Immigration has been touted as one of the hot-button issues during this year’s presidential election, and reporters William Hershey and Jessica Wehrman had a great package of stories in Sunday’s paper on the issue locally.
- In this story, they talk about the problems with the current system, how it is threatening to tear one West Chester Twp. family apart and what sheriff Jones wants to do about it.
- This story takes a much broader view at this complicated issue, what’s been done to address it at the state and federal levels, discrimination some say the current system leads to, and how a 2006 stabbing in Mason plays into all of this.
- An analysis of Democrat Barack Obama’s and Republican John McCain’s stances on the issue can be found here. To some, these views beg the question ‘do both back amnesty?’ Find an answer to that here.
- Though he’s one of the most prominent local Republicans, Jones said he would have to hold his nose to vote for McCain, largely due to this issue.
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What do you think about this issue? Do you agree with Jones? Which presidential candidate has the best approach to these problems?
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By Bobbie
August 19, 2008 1:39 PM | Link to this
The sheriff needs to investigate that tunnel that was found in Hamilton. That’s how the illegals are getting past old Rickie.