Healey Talking Tough on Immigration
       In the wake of immigrant demonstrations all over the country in the last two days, Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey is now taking up the conservative mantle regarding illegal immigrants.
       She told reporters: “What I’d like to see happen is for the federal government to seal our borders, figure out who’s here illegally – we think it’s 11 million people, but it could be many more – and then find a process by which they can sort through and see who could be appropriate American citizens.”
       Although she only specified dangerous gang members and those who had criminal records in other countries as targets for deportation, she also suggested that immigrants who were not aspiring to “productive citizenship” would also be undeserving of staying in the country.
       “What we need to do is find a rational way to figure out who deserves to stay here in America and who should be deported for purposes of safety,” she stated. She also asserted that the federal government has been negligent in dealing with the problem of illegal immigration.
       According to a national poll done by Gallup (March 27), 80 percent of the public want the federal government to get tougher on illegal immigration. An IQ Research poll (March 10) found 92 percent of those questioned said that securing the U.S. border should be a top priority of the White House and Congress.