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Article: REP. SALI ASKS STATE DEPARTMENT TO DELAY APPROVAL OF MEXICAN CONSULATE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- April 30, 2008
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Rep. Bill Sali, R-Idaho (1st CD), has issued the following news release:
In a letter sent today, Congressman Bill Sali asked Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice to delay opening a Mexican consulate in Boise until the government can assure Idahoans that a consulate will not foster the continued presence of illegal aliens in Idaho. The letter follows a meeting Sali had with senior State Department officials in which the Department's bureaucrats expressed considerably more concern about whether the consular office would follow local zoning laws than whether it would aid people in breaking federal immigration laws.
"Our government has the moral and constitutional duty to take into consideration ...