"We can't afford to expand immigration, when in terms of integration, we can't cope with the existing immigration, " argued Edmund Stoiber, governor of Bavaria, and the conservatives' candidate to challenge Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in Autumn elections.
Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy said his state had an existing ban on assault weapons, but the lack of a similar law at federal level made it difficult to keep them out of the state.
Father-of-three Steve Lukacs, a governor at one of the schools in Tunbridge Wells facing expansion, said adding extra classrooms put pressure on existing school halls, canteens and playing fields.