Norwood Clears the Way Finally, Some Common-Sense Immigration Reform

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U.S. Rep. Charlie Norwood, R-Ga., noting that his state was being flooded with illegal aliens, got out in front of the immigration issue nearly three years ago when he introduced the Clear Law Enforcement for Criminal Alien Removal Act. Now it's been passed as part of a broader immigration bill and sent to the Senate for action.

Reflecting the congressman's common-sense approach to problems, the CLEAR legislation simply calls for empowering local police authorities to enforce federal immigration law. To have a law that local law enforcement can't enforce is the kind of bureaucratic ineffectiveness that Norwood's been fighting ever since he was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1994.

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Norwood Clears the Way Finally, Some Common-Sense Immigration Reform

His bill languished in Congress until the public's outrage over illegal immigration caught up w...

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