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Dole: Hagan bill 'opportunism'

A spokesman for U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole says a recent bill is too late.

Responding to a Dome item from this morning, Hogan Gidley said that Democratic nominee Kay Hagan's co-sponsorship of a bill to require companies check workers' immigration status is "common sense."

"However, it's almost comical to see Mrs. Hagan's desperate political opportunism in introducing an immigration enforcement bill after doing nothing about illegal immigration during her 10 years in Raleigh," he wrote in an e-mail to Dome. "Mrs. Hagan's do-nothing approach to illegal immigration is why North Carolina has been called a 'Mecca' for illegal immigration by her hometown paper."

Gidley was referring to a March 2, 2006, article in the Greensboro News-Record about a Brazilian man living in New Jersey who sold fraudulent N.C. driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.

"Critics say the incident shows North Carolina remains a mecca for illegal immigrants seeking licenses they can't get in states with more hard-nosed licensing systems," the article noted.

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Re: Dole: Hagan bill 'opportunism'

Submitted by bkittner on June 3, 2008 - 1:42pm.

I'd say Liddy Dole's jumping on the illegal-immigration bandwagon, not Hagan's, is actually opportunism of the highest order.

What else have you done for us, lately, Liddy? Nothing at all.

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Re: Dole: Hagan bill 'opportunism'

Submitted by jjsmith2 on June 2, 2008 - 10:05pm.

I was responding to this quote by the Dole spokesperson

"However, it's almost comical to see Mrs. Hagan's desperate political opportunism in introducing an immigration enforcement bill after doing nothing about illegal immigration during her 10 years in Raleigh,"

eta: I see where the confusion comes from in my second paragraph.

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Re: Dole: Hagan bill 'opportunism'

Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on June 2, 2008 - 7:22pm.

Hagan is a co-sponsor of S2002.

— RTB

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Re: Dole: Hagan bill 'opportunism'

Submitted by jjsmith2 on June 2, 2008 - 6:50pm.

And what have you done Liddy? What have you done in terms of immigration? What have you done for the State of North Carolina?

Your research team should do a better job of researching bills. S2002 is a bill introduced by Sen. John Snow, not Kay Hagan, which takes provisions from the Congressman Shuler's SAVE Act and places them on the state level; and has a House companion bill introduced by Rep. Charles Thomas.

In 6 years she has accomplished nothing for North Carolina.

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