[Vision2020] Sali Seeks to Delay Mexican Consulate

[Tom Hansen]

Just when you thought that Bill Sali couldn't get more ignorant, I am here 
to tell you . . .

>From today's (May 1, 2008) Spokesman Review -

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Sali seeks to delay Mexican consulate 
Todd Dvorak 
Associated Press
May 1, 2008

BOISE – Rep. Bill Sali, R-Idaho, is urging Secretary of State Condoleezza 
Rice to hold off opening a Mexican consulate in Idaho until the government 
can show the office won't aid illegal aliens.

Sali, a conservative first-term congressman, sent Rice a letter Wednesday 
saying Idaho residents deserve guarantees that Mexican consular offices 
will not help illegal aliens obtain identification cards that can be used 
to receive government services or other benefits.

"Our government has the moral and constitutional duty to take into 
consideration how foreign consulates affect our fellow citizens here in 
our own country," Sali wrote in the letter to Rice that was made available 
to news media.
 
"While I appreciate the important role that the Mexican and other foreign 
consulates play in facilitating trade and assisting their citizens in 
distress just as our foreign consulates do, that is not the issue at stake 
here," he added.

Sali asserted that the State Department has done little to assure 
residents that a consular office would not be used to aid illegal 
immigration.

The State Department did not return phone messages from the Associated 
Press on Wednesday.

In March, Sali received a letter from the State Department saying an 
application for a consular office in Boise is pending.

Idaho is one of several states without a Mexican consulate, but a grass-
roots effort to open one has been under way for several years. Supporters 
say they have collected about 10,000 signatures on a petition requesting a 
Mexican consular presence in the state.

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Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"People who ridicule others while hiding behind anonymous monikers in chat-
room forums are neither brave nor clever." 

- Latah County Sheriff Wayne Rausch (August 21,
2007)

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