The group, led by Rep. Duncan D. Hunter, R-El Cajon, and including Rep. Brian Bilbray, R-Solana Beach, would mandate that 350 miles of fence be built along the border with Mexico, require employers to verify a worker's legal status and deny federal funds to local governments that provide sanctuary to illegal immigrants.
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The legislation has little chance of moving forward, said Ali Noorani, executive director of the National Immigration Forum, a group that favors comprehensive immigration reform, including legalizing some of the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants living in the country.
"I think what Congressman Hunter is offering is his perspective and it is part of a diminishing minority perspective," Noorani said. 
www.northcountytimes.com (http://www.northcountytimes.com/articles/2009/04/23/news/sandiego/zeed10f33cb3c080d882575a1006b1b89.txt - broken link)
Gee, I wonder if he made this idiotic statement before or after the announcement of the mexican version of the ebola virus being brought to America.
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