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You are campaigning every day, and, appreciate your time, and why does florida need this law? >> well, right now, florida has a lot of problems with drug trafficking coming in with illegals bringing drugs into our state from the west and, quite frankly, this law does several things, one, it takes a provision of the arizona immigration law, something similar to it, and, says when a police officer stops, detains or arrests somebody and they have reasonable suspicion the person is an illegal immigrant, for example not having a drivers license or not one that looks like it is real, they have the m...

The federal law and federal policy that exists, in the primary area of immigration law, i spent many years on the immigration committee in the u.s. congress and i understand these laws, that are there and this is simply giving our law informant clear advice, clear direction, and what they should do, providing judges with the power to consider in the -- issuing bonds, the fact that somebody might in an illegal which is now questionable and, there are a number of things that enhance the powers of our local police should they wish to use it. and mandates when they are stopped for another crime, t...

Immigrants in our state, you are -- you have a higher, greater sentence. bill: on the judicial side it is tougher, as well and you know what happened in arizona, they struck down a lot of the measures and did not survive why will it survive in florida, do you think? >> well, first of all, we have changed the provide visiting to comply with the judge's criticism of the arizona bill and, secondly i'm one of the attorney generals along with michigan and others that are defending the law in arizona against the constitutional challenge. and i don't think it stands up on appeal and seems the basis o...

Discussion and in virginia they crafted the language in the law that says you may ask about citizenship and not that you should or can. and, virginia argues that that will pass legal muster, unlike what happened in arizona, and, i think that -- they'd disagree with what you are suggesting as to whether or not it would stand in front of a judge. >> this -- it's not an inquiry issue, the question of whether or not they make a phone call to the immigration service and ask them the way the police have a right to ask, mandates they pull the trigger each time and make the phone call into the immigra...

Which controls venice and the state, that they will be able to impose overnight parking restrictions, provided that the city provide a safe parking lot for these vehicles to go as an alternative to parking on the street. patti ann. patti ann: william lajeunesse, live in venice, california, thanks. bill: and california, sending hollywood and offer it cannot refuse, sony corleone, the man who played it, has advice for tinseltown politicos. patti ann: and florida's attorney general argues his state needs an immigration law like arizona. why this law would actually go a step further. bill mccollum...