Kaine: ‘Odd consequences’ to illegal immigration crackdowns

Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine on Tuesday attacked the federal government for failing to craft an enforceable immigration policy but also criticized the handful of local governments undertaking their own crackdowns on illegal aliens.

“It’s an outrage that the federal government has basically had a consensus that the existing immigration laws don’t work, but they won’t enforce them and they won’t come up with a new set of laws they are willing to enforce,” the governor said Tuesday on WTOP’s “Ask The Governor” program. “The federal government is just dumping this responsibility, that is just as pure a federal responsibility as there is, onto state and local governments.”