Bill would deny bail to illegal aliens

I agree with the posts below, in that "Gosh" and his/her commentary has just gone too far. "Gosh" is now not only coming off as a racist, but now a full fledged homophobe. I call on RTB to cancel his account

Show me the statistics that he is perv. Where are they? Beuller!

Statistics. I mean his Republican mentor was, right? And Justin just fell in line proposing the most ironic bill a bail bondsman ever did.

"I want the child rapists I put back on the streets to be from here."

Thanks for playing.

Just not Mexican speeders.

Nice to know.

Calling all grown ups in Stanly County to run against this opportunistic child bail bondsman that had no competition in the General election.

Welcome to the big leagues Justin. And shame on Stanly County for letting you file unopposed when your Republican mentor got caught with his pants down days before filing.

Bill denied for the IRONY alone.

You are the perv that trained you.

The more I learn about Justin P. Burr...

Well stated...

I just wanted to comment on FFC's mention of Hughes. This is/was the largest PR stunt known to man.

Ms. Hughes was at the Ft. Meyers townhall meeting for Obama to sell his economic stimulus package. After the delivery of his written speech, Pres. Obama opened the floor to questions. A staffer gave the mic to Ms. Henrietta Hughes, who happens to be homeless. After telling her story, she asked Pres. Obama for her "own kitchen and bathroom." Obama walked over and gave her a hug and told her that a staffer would be by soon to talk to her. The staffer ended up giving Ms. Hughes a card with the information of some top-level government official in DC. Soon after it is reported that the wife of a Florida Congressman has a spare house valued at $150,000 and decided to give the house to Ms. Hughes. The Congressman happens to be a Republican...PS. End of story and a fairy tale ending.

First of all, I have been working in the political world most of my life and I know that the people that get into these type of townhall meetings are either diehard supports, volunteers of the party or big time donors. Given Ms. Hughes great seats, my guess is that she was planted or was given a ticket to attend, perhaps she should have been out looking for work, but that is my opinion.

Anyways, she was wearing a well pressed black suit and it is clear that she has on a touches of make-up. Well given that she claimed she lived in a pick-up truck with her 38-year old son, must be hard to iron a suit in the back of a pickup truck as well as put on makeup.

Some on the board will resort to calling me insensitive, but I am just stating the facts of the case.

P.S. why isn't her 38 year old son stepping up and finding a job to help his mother, where is the sense of personal responsibility promoted by Obama?

Continuing on...so Ms. Hughes is the proud owner of house that is valued at $150,000. This is great step up for a woman that has been homeless for some time and cannot find work...

But she will have to pay taxes on the gift of the house, plus the property tax. These obstacles will be hard to overcome since she has no job. Perhaps ole Tim and Tom will show her how to avoid the taxes, but this honestly puts this woman in worse shape. She will only struggle and eventually have the house taken from her and the kind family that donated the house will lose potential money and assets from this contribution.

I am of the opinion that this might have been the greatest PR stunt ever seen.

How come the media is not giving Ms. Hughes the once over as Joe the Plumber received...fair is fair...

Fantastic IDEA! holdem til ICE comes to their 'rescue'...

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How ironic.

"This is just a way to make sure these folks are being held and not put back on the streets," Burr said.

Right Justin. Putting criminals back on the streets is your job.

Occupation: Bail Bondsman.

But only the American criminals, right Justin? Families feel so much safer knowing the crack heads and drunk drivers you make your living unleashing back on our streets are actually from here.

This Burr kid cracks me up. Even funnier than his predecessor, Almond Joy.

It's a redundant proposal that would be a waste of text space in the general statutes and it is grandstanding, posturing, and feel good politics at best. (as are many new laws) There exist ample provisisions in the current body of bail law that allow Magistrates to deny bail to IAs or any other arrestee (including legal immigrants) deemed to be a flight risk based on lack of ties to community, inability to present satifactory valid identification, or ability/propensity to flee to foreign jurisdictions. What is lacking is the political willpower (cojones) in the several judicial districts for the Magistrates, their Judge supervisors, and the District Court first appearance Judges to rigorously exercise these discretions and force the arrestee to make his own case instead of putting a magistrate in the untenable position of being an ICE agent pursuant to a new state law that the ACLU nimrods will probably be able to shoot down. I'm on board with the ostensible spirit of this proposal, but poorly crafted legislation is poorly crafted legislation regardless of the ideology behind it.

Then you'll be willing to have your State & Local taxes raised to build more jail cells and pay for more guards and the costs of detention.

This measure will further dilute the ability to deal with criminals by increasing stats for minor offences, increasing costs and spreading thin resources even more thinly.

Domestic criminals will roam the streets with impunity because our jails will be crowded with people with broken tail lights who overstayed their visas waiting for a backlogged federal system to process them.

The bill has another provision to allow for detention without bail of an immigrant for any other offence not listed as long as ICE agrees to pick up the tab.