Anti Immigration & Illegal Immigration Info - Ongoing Thread

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<TABLE class=media-innerbuffer cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=markerTEXTblueMAJOR colSpan=3>Tancredo plans to keep fighting illegal migrants </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXTred colSpan=3>Denver Post : April 7 , 2008 -- by Anne C. Mulkern </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=3> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=markerTEXTblueMINOR vAlign=top height="100%">"He could start his organization within a month after leaving office, Tancredo said."
</TD><TD width="2%"> </TD><TD vAlign=top><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>Tom Tancredo plans to take his battle against illegal immigration all over the country when he leaves Congress at the end of this year. </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>The Littleton Republican, who ran for president on the issue of illegal immigration, wants to start an organization to work with state and local leaders to pass immigration-related laws.
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>And he's dreaming big.
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>Tancredo would seek laws like one in Arizona that yanks business licenses from employers caught hiring undocumented workers. He likes one in Oklahoma that requires proof of citizenship for government benefits and makes it a felony to knowingly house or transport illegal immigrants.
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>And he favors ordinances like one in a northern Virginia county that allows police officers to question the legal status of anyone stopped for any reason.
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>"When I look at Arizona and Oklahoma, I see movement," Tancredo said. "I see that we have momentum on our side, and I want to keep it going."
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>Since 2006, when Colorado passed several immigration laws, including one toughening identification requirements to get state aid, numerous state and local governments have followed suit. Nine states that year introduced legislation aimed at restricting services to illegal immigrants or their ability to get jobs.
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>Tancredo said he believes there's still great hunger for these types of ordinances and concern that the next president won't toughen immigration laws. Others aren't as sure.
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>States and counties aren't eager to pass laws that increase law enforcement's workload or clog courts, said Tanis Salant, a University of Arizona professor of public administration.
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>After the Oklahoma law passed last May and the Arizona law passed in December, "everyone was expecting that lots of states would start to copy," said Tamar Jacoby, an immigration expert at the conservative Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. "In fact, very few have copied."
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>Virginia, for example, started its legislative year with more than 100 proposed immigration laws, she said. It passed only a few minor ones.
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>Laws like those in Arizona and Oklahoma force businesses to close or discourage them from opening in a state, Jacoby said.
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>She recently started ImmigrationWorks USA, a nonprofit working with business groups in 20 states to prevent laws like those in Arizona and Oklahoma.
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>"Tom Tancredo is a worthy adversary," Jacoby said, but he's not likely to persuade too many.
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>Bay Buchanan, who chaired Tancredo's presidential campaign and is likely to work with him on the new effort, disputes Jacoby's views.
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>"Where the whole state's not ready, you'll see it happening in parts of the state," Buchanan said, citing ordinances in Prince William County, Va.
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>Where there's a desire for change, she and Tancredo could "let them know how it's done, what to do, what not to do, what holds up in the courts."
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>Prince William County acted because of the impact of illegal immigration on schools, hospitals and communities, said Corey A. Stewart, Board of Supervisors chairman.
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>A July ordinance requiring the county jail to check the legal status of inmates has led to 468 deportations with another 280 pending, Stewart said.
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>"Every locality is going to do what's best for it," he said. "The localities can be seen as a laboratory to see what works best."
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>Passing local ordinances and state laws "keeps the pressure on at the federal level," Tancredo said.
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>Tancredo is known for making shocking statements, and that could hurt his ability to work with local governments, said former Colorado Gov. Dick Lamm, a Democrat who agrees with Tancredo that illegal immigration needs to stop.
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>"Tom would have a little bit of difficulty putting together the various coalitions that generally exist on a local level," he said.
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>Tancredo said he knows he is accused of hate-mongering but that such views are just a way to avoid dealing with the issue.
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>He could start his organization within a month after leaving office, Tancredo said.
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>He's not sure what form it would take and whether it would resist political advocacy. If it did, contributions to it would be tax-deductible. If the group backed candidates or prospective laws, contributions would not be tax-deductible.
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>Buchanan said there may be room for both.
</TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>"Whenever the federal government abandons an issue, people at the local level start to do it," Tancredo said. "I would like to help them."
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Dear Mr. M

Thank you for expressing your views about legislation such as H.R. 969 and S.2719, which would declare President Clinton's Executive Order 13166 null and void.

Executive Order 13166 addresses access to federally-conducted and federally-assisted programs and activities for persons who, as a result of national origin, are limited in their English proficiency.

Legislation designed to repeal E.O. 13166 would require most federal documents to be printed only in English, including income tax forms, information materials, and written communications between federal elected officials and constituents. Many of the proposals in this legislation reduce or eliminate federal bilingual education programs and remove requirements that voting ballots be printed in languages other than English. These bills would make it more difficult for the government to collect taxes from non-English speaking citizens, and to safeguard the health and safety of all citizens, including innocent children.

Should this legislation be considered by the Senate, I will keep your views in mind. Thank you again for writing.


Sincerely,
Sherrod Brown

 

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RE: Fire back at Brown

Dear Mr. M:

Thank you for expressing your views about legislation such as H.R. 969 and S.2719, which would declare President Clinton's Executive Order 13166 null and void.

Executive Order 13166 addresses access to federally-conducted and federally-assisted programs and activities for persons who, as a result of national origin, are limited in their English proficiency.

Legislation designed to repeal E.O. 13166 would require most federal documents to be printed only in English, including income tax forms, information materials, and written communications between federal elected officials and constituents. Many of the proposals in this legislation reduce or eliminate federal bilingual education programs and remove requirements that voting ballots be printed in languages other than English. These bills would make it more difficult for the government to collect taxes from non-English speaking citizens, and to safeguard the health and safety of all citizens, including innocent children.

Should this legislation be considered by the Senate, I will keep your views in mind. Thank you again for writing.


Sincerely,
Sherrod Brown
Mr Brown: When is Congress going to quit catering to Immigrants both Legal & Illegal & start catering to their own & drastically reduce legal Immigration limits?... Please watch this powerful video it will take about 15 minutes of your time http://numbersusa.com/video which is actually the biggest part of the issue after all we do this not for ourselves but for future generations... Thanks for watching & take care... Cordially: Jim M-Toledo,Ohio-USA http://numbersusa.com/video

 

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Blast Chertoff!

<TABLE class=media-innerbuffer cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=markerTEXTblueMAJOR colSpan=3>Blast Chertoff for his de-facto H-1B increase </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXTred colSpan=3>NumbersUSA : April 11 , 2008 -- by NumbersUSA </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=3> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=markerTEXTblueMINOR vAlign=top height="100%">On April 2, DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff signed off on an extension of the Optional Practical Training (OPT) visa without a vote in Congress or public debate. Rob Sanchez writes in his Job Destruction Newsletter, "More students on OPTs mean that the available H-1Bs can be used for other types of foreign workers. Effects will be felt all the way up the food chain."

Extending Period of Optional Practical Training by 17-Months for F-1 Nonimmigrant Students with STEM Degrees and Expanding CapGap Relief for All F-1 Students with Pending H-1B Petitions.

Click here to send Secretary Chertoff an email.

http://contact.dhs.gov/Default.aspx



*Use the DHS Press option when selecting a filter for your email.*



A simple message is enough. Here are a few examples of comments that might be helpful (please try to write your message in your own words):

• The OPT extension is a de-facto H-1B increase. It is outrageous that this was implemented with out a Congressional vote or public discussion.
• OPTs have far fewer restraints than those who hire H-1Bs. OPTs don't have protections that H-1B provides such as "good faith efforts" to find American workers or prevailing Salaries that are supposed to keep Americans from being underbid by cheap labor.
• Students and their parents have invested thousands of dollars and years of study to attain jobs that will be given away to H-1B holders and OPTs.
• OPTs will be perpetual laborers who take scarce internships that American students desperately need.

</TD><TD width="2%"> </TD><TD vAlign=top><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>From the Department of Homeland Security: </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>SUMMARY: Currently, foreign students in F-1 nonimmigrant status who have been enrolled on a full-time basis for at least one full academic year in a college, university, conservatory, or seminary certified by U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement's (ICE's) Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) are eligible for 12 months of optional practical training (OPT) to work for a U.S. employer in a job directly related to the student's major area of study. This interim final rule extends the maximum period of OPT from 12 months to 29 months for F-1 students who have completed a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) degree and accept employment with employers enrolled in U.S. </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>Citizenship and Immigration Services' (USCIS') E-Verify employment </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>verification program. This interim rule requires F-1 students with an </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>approved OPT extension to report changes in the student's name or </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>address and changes in the employer's name or address as well as </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>periodically verify the accuracy of this reporting information. The </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>rule also requires the employers of F-1 students with an extension of </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>post-completion OPT authorization to report to the student's designated school official (DSO) within 48 hours after the OPT student has been terminated from, or otherwise leaves, his or her employment with that employer prior to end of the authorized period of OPT. </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>This rule also ameliorates the so-called ``cap-gap'' problem by </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=discussionTEXT colSpan=2>extending the authorized period of stay for all F-1 students who have a properly filed H-1B petition and change of status request (filed under the cap for the next fiscal year) pending with USCIS. If USCIS approves the H-1B petition, the students will have an extension that enables them to remain in the United States. </TD></TR><TR><TD colSpan=2> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

 

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Hope the pics keep on this one

A picture I'd love to have on a T-shirt!!! OR ON A BILLBOARD !!!

Let me make this perfectly clear!

​

THIS IS MY COUNTRY!
And, because I make this statement
DOES NOT mean I'm against immigration!!!
YOU ARE WELCOME HERE IN MY COUNTRY.

Welcome to come through like everyone else has.
Get a sponsor!
Get a place to lay your head!
Get a job!
Live by OUR rules!
Pay YOUR taxes!
And
LEARN THE LANGUAGE LIKE ALL OTHER
IMMIGRANTS HAVE IN THE PAST!!!
AND PLEASE DON'T DEMAND THAT WE HAND OVER OUR
LIFETIME SAVINGS OF SOCIAL SECURITY FUNDS TO YOU
TO MAKE UP FOR ''YOUR'' LOSSES.


If you don't want to forward this for fear of offending someone,
Then YOU'RE PART OF THE PROBLEM!

When will AMERICAN'S STOP giving away THEIR RIGHTS???
We've gone so far the other way .. Bent over backwards not to
Offend anyone. But it seems no one cares about theAMERICAN that's being offended!

WAKE UP America !!! ​

If you agree .. Pass this on.If you don't agree .. Delete it!!!

 

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Lawmaker check

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</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD rowSpan=3> </TD><TD class=t1fromdatetext>From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA </TD></TR><TR><TD class=t1fromdatetext>Date: Monday 14APR08 2:30 a.m. EDT </TD></TR><TR><TD class=t1fromdatetext> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD class=t1redunderbigheader>Congress thinks you lost interest in passing an Enforcement-Only bill this year -- Please act </TD></TR><TR><TD class=t1thinwhitespace> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=t1letterblock vAlign=top align=left>DEAR OPPONENTS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION,

Your NumbersUSA lobbyists heard the same refrain all over Capitol Hill last week:

Many Members of Congress don't feel the need to sign the Discharge Petition to bring the SAVE Act to a vote. Why? Because they think their constituents have lost interest or are distracted by other issues.

Friends, we must change that impression immediately -- starting today.

One thing marks most politicians most of the time: They won't take a stand unless they feel like they have to. It really is up to all of you to make these politicians feel like they have to take a stand for keeping illegal aliens out of American jobs through the SAVE Act.

1. Please go to your NumbersUSA Action Buffet corkboard to send faxes and make phone calls posted there.
http://numbersusa.com/actionbuffet

If your U.S. Representative is among the 249 who have NOT yet signed the Discharge Petition, you will find new actions to take. We only need 32 more to reach the 218 signatures required.

2. If your Representative already signed, please make a phone call to the Representatives of your state who have NOT signed.

It is the only way we can ring the phones off the hook to get their attention.

Capitol Switchboard For All Representatives:
202-224-3121

First, go to our list of all Reps who have signed:
www.numbersusa.com/interests/attrition.html

Scroll down to the second list.

Look for your state in both the Democratic and Republican columns. Note who HAS signed.

To see who hasn't signed, look at the page of all your state's Representatives at:
http://profiles.numbersusa.com/

Click on your state on the map and compare that list with the petition signers list.

If you need more of a script, keep your eyes open for an Alert from us later in the day with more assistance on what to say when you call.

Please open any alerts you get from us today and throughout the week. We have a tremendous amount of work to do if we are to prevent the open borders team from burying the SAVE Act.

THANKS FOR DOING SOMETHING TODAY,

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More give-aways to non-US citizens at OUR expense
Body: Letter by a Florida teacher................ A teacher speaks

This is a subject close to my heart.

Do you know that we have adult students at the school where I teach who are not US citizens and who get the PELL grant, which is a federal grant (no pay back required) plus other federal grants to go to school?

One student from the Dominican Republic told me that she didn't want me to find a job for her after she finished my program, because she was getting housing from our housing department and she was getting a PELL grant which paid for her total tuition and books, plus money leftover.



She was looking into WAIT which gives students a CREDIT CARD for gas to come to school, and into CARIBE which is a special program (check it out - I did, http://www. caribeprogram. com/) for immigrants and it pays for child care and all sorts of needs while they go to school or training. The one student I just mentioned told me she was not going to be a US Citizen because she plans to return to the Dominican Republic someday and that she 'loves HER country.

'

I asked her if she felt guilty taking what the US is giving her and then not even bothering to become a citizen and she told me that it doesn't bother her, because that is what the money is there for!

I asked the CARIBE administration about their program and if you ARE a US Citizen, you don't qualify for their program. And all the while, I am working a full day, my son-in-law works more than 60 hours a week, and everyone in my family works and pays for our education.



Something is wrong here. I am sorry but after hearing they want to sing the National Anthem in Spanish - enough is enough. Nowhere did they sing it in Italian, Polish, Irish (Celtic), German or any other language because of immigration. It was written by Francis Scott Key and should be sung word for word the way it was written. The news broadcasts even gave the translation -- not even close. Sorry if this offends anyone but this is MY COUNTRY.


IF IT IS YOUR COUNTRY SPEAK UP -- please pass this along. I am not against immigration -- just come through like everyone else.


Get a sponsor; have a place to lay your head; have a job; pay your taxes, live by the rules AND LEARN THE LANGUAGE as all other immigrants have in the past -- and GOD BLESS AMERICA!

PART OF THE PROBLEM, Think about this: If you don't want to forward this for fear of offending someone -- YOU'RE PART OF THE PROBLEM! It is Time for America to Speak up If you agree -- pass this along, if you don't agree --- delete it!

 

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Illegal immigrants pay billions in taxes
But many miss their refunds because, fearing deportation, they don't file

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/biz/5695140.html

NASHVILLE, TENN. — The tax system collects its due, even from a class of workers with little likelihood of claiming a refund and no hope of drawing a Social Security check.

Illegal immigrants are paying taxes to Uncle Sam, experts agree. Just how much they pay is hard to determine because the federal government doesn't fully tally it.

But the latest figures available indicate it will amount to billions of dollars in federal income, Social Security and Medicare taxes this year.

One rough estimate puts the amount of Social Security taxes alone at around $9 billion per year.

Paycheck withholding collects much of the federal tax from illegal workers, just as it does for legal workers.

The Internal Revenue Service doesn't track a worker's immigration status, yet many illegal immigrants fearful of deportation won't risk the government attention that will come from filing a return, even if they might qualify for a refund. Economist William Ford of Middle Tennessee State University says there are no firm figures on how many such taxpayers there are.

"The real question is how many of them pay more than they owe. There are undoubtedly hundreds of thousands of people in that situation," Ford said.

Alternative means of filing
But some illegal immigrants choose to file taxes and write checks come April 15, using an alternative to the Social Security number offered by the IRS so it can collect income tax from foreign workers.

"It's a mistake to think that no illegal immigrants pay taxes. They definitely do," said Martha Pantoja, who has been helping Hispanic immigrants this tax season as an IRS-certified volunteer tax preparer for the nonprofit Nashville Wealth Building Coalition.

Among those she has assisted is Eric Jimenez, a self-employed handyman who has worked in Nashville for several years.

He feels obliged to pay taxes — even though, as Pantoja said, "nothing would happen" to him if he did not.

"I have an idea, a mentality, that to be a good citizen you have to pay taxes," he said. "Also, I'm conscious of the fact that the money we pay in taxes supports the schools and all the public services."

Pantoja said she has helped a number of construction workers who, because they are classified as independent contractors by their employers and have no taxes withheld, owe big tax bills come April.

Beyond income tax, they have to pay the full Social Security and Medicare taxes due.

A $9 billion estimate
The Social Security Administration estimates that about three-quarters of illegal workers pay taxes that contribute to the overall solvency of Social Security and Medicare.

The agency estimates that for 2005, the last year for which figures are available, about $9 billion in taxes was paid on about $75 billion in wages from people who filed W-2 forms with incorrect or mismatched data, which would include illegal immigrants who drew paychecks under fake names and Social Security numbers.

Spokesman Mark Hinkle said Social Security does not know how much of the $9 billion can be attributed to illegal immigrants. The number is certainly not 100 percent, but a significant portion probably comes from taxes paid by illegal immigrants.

Nine billion dollars sounds like a lot of money, and it is, but it is only about 1.5 percent of the total $593 billion paid into Social Security in 2005.

The impact on Social Security is significant, though, because most of that money is never claimed by the people who pay it, and it helps cover retirement checks to legal workers.

Federal law prohibits paying Social Security to illegal immigrants, but the administration factors in legal and illegal immigration when projecting the trust fund's solvency.

This is especially important as the 78 million-member baby boom generation begins to leave the work force and draw Social Security checks.

"Overall, any type of immigration is a net positive to Social Security. The more people working and paying into the system, the better," Hinkle said. "It does help the system remain solvent."

The Social Security Administration drew from census and Immigration and Customs Enforcement data in 2007 to project the effects of higher and lower immigration patterns.

If net immigration is high at 1.3 million people a year, the combined trust fund would be exhausted in 2043. But the fund runs out four years earlier if annual net immigration amounts to about half that — 472,500 legal immigrants and 250,000 illegal immigrants.

One indicator as to how many illegal immigrants pay income tax is the 9 million W-2 forms with mismatched names and Social Security numbers it received in 2004. The IRS said those forms reported about $53 billion in wages, and about three-fourths of that, or $40 billion, had taxes withheld.

The IRS also has been issuing Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers for 12 years to foreigners without a Social Security number.

It's believed that many workers who seek the ITINs are in the country illegally. The IRS reported that 2.5 million tax returns were filed with an ITIN in 2004.

Ford said a majority of economists agree that illegal immigrants are a net benefit for the U.S. economy.

He said the tax contributions from illegal immigrants, including sales taxes, property taxes and excise taxes (such as the gas tax), are significant.

He calculates that illegal immigrants contributed $428 billion dollars to the nation's $13.6 trillion gross domestic product in 2006.

 

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Illegal immigrant births, at your expense

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(CBS) It was 5 a.m. and CBS News national correspondent Byron Pitts is with a woman who is nine months pregnant. She's rushed to a south Texas hospital to undergo a C-section - a $4,700 medical procedure that won't cost her a dime. She qualifies for emergency Medicaid.

She gave birth to a healthy, 8 1/2 pound baby boy - born in America. His Mexican mother gave him an American name: Eliot.

Eliot is one of an estimated 300,000 children of illegal immigrants born in the United States every year, according to the Pew Hispanic Center. They're given instant citizenship because they are born on U.S. soil, which makes it easier for their parents to become U.S. citizens.

That's because those babies can eventually sponsor their parents - when they turn 21 years old.

As for Eliot's mother, no longer as fearful of deportation, she told CBS News her name, Fabiola, and her story.

"So your son is an American citizen. What does that mean to you?" Pitts asked.

"I am very glad that he was born. That's why I came here - so my children, my husband and I could have a better life," she said through a translator.

Back in December, when she was six months pregnant, Fabiola, her husband and their two daughters - ages 4 and 11 - crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico into the U.S.

Once on the other side of the river they walked for two hours in search of a better life and free medical care for their unborn child.

"Do many women in Mexico make the choice to have their children in the United States?" Pitts asked.

"Yes," she said through a translator. "I know people who have done that. Things are much better here in the U.S. because they help children so much more."

It's a "better" life ... that American taxpayers help pay for.

Take healthcare for example -- an estimated $1.1 billion per year for undocumented men, women and children, according to the Rand Corporation.

Joe Riley is the CEO of the McAllen Texas Medical Center near the Texas-Mexico border. Forty percent of the children born there, nearly 2,400 last year, were the babies of illegal immigrants.

Riley has seen and heard it all.

"Mothers about to give birth that walk up to the hospital still wet from swimming across the river in actual labor … dirty, wet, cold," he said.

But here to have a child?

"Here to have a child in the U.S.," he said.

McAllen is part of a large hospital system. Like all hospitals, it is mandated by law to treat all emergency-room patients, not verify citizenship.

"We have uncompensated care of over $200 million a year," Riley said.

"Of money that you'll never see again?" Pitts asked.

"Yes," he said.

Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, said: "It is not fair to the taxpayers who have to foot the bill."

Congress has all but given up on comprehensive immigration reform. But lawmakers like Smith want to solve birth citizenship to illegal immigrants, in part by challenging the 14th Amendment, which guarantees U.S. citizenship to any child born in America.

"It seems fundamentally wrong that we ought to give the greatest honor of their citizenship," Smith said. "His or her mother came across the border illegally."

Many Americans who struggle to take care of their own families think it is unfair that they should take care of a family and they are not U.S. citizens.

"I don't understand the resentment," said. "I know that God will help them, too."

That's what Fabiola's doing for young Eliot. Relying on her faith, her family … and the U.S. government.

 

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More letters to Editors

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=650 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=t1letterblock vAlign=top align=left>Everyone,

--Following is the published letters report for the period April 6-12

--BUT FIRST: Californian Thomas Haggerty asks his paper for “fair and balanced reporting” on the immigration issue; Richard Pelto in the state of Washington says this country can’t absorb everyone who wants to come here (Shades of Sen. Gaylord Nelson!); Carol Brister, also in Washington, writes that illegals must now suffer the consequences of their own actions; Bruce Curley in Maryland praises his local sheriff and also complains about the lack of balance in immigration stories; and Oregon writer Val Don Hickerson touches on several aspects of our issue in several letters to two of his state’s newspapers.

--As always, this memo is intended for participants in this program, plus a few friends, and not for wide distribution. Editors tend not to publish letters they suspect are part of an organized letter-writing campaign. So, please refrain from cc:ing us on your letters-to-the-editor and from talking about the program in public forums.

--And please remember to include the full name of the paper that ran your letter and the date.

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Index:

The Badger Herald (Wis.) – 4/8
(1) Dave Gorak

North County Times – 4/8
(2) Thomas Haggerty

St. Paul Pioneer Press – 4/8
(3) Marsha Krantz

The Seattle (Wash.) Times – 4/8
(4) Richard Pelto
(5) Linda H. Thom
(6) Haydee Pavia

The Seattle Times – 4/10
(7) Carol Brister

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Carrol County (Md.) Gazette – 4/3

(8) Bruce Curley

The World (Ore.) – 6/30/07
(9) Val Don Hickerson

The Oregonian (Ore.) – 7/7/07
(10) Val Don Hickerson

The Oregonian (Ore.) – 8/3/07
(11) Val Don Hickerson

The Oregonian – 9/3/07
(12) Val Don Hickerson

The World (Ore.) – 11/6/07
(13) Val Don Hickerson

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The Badger Herald (Wis.) – 4/8

Greenfield’s ‘broken’ logic

Ryan Greenfield’s statement that our sovereignty and the rule of law are “strained cliches” is insulting and displays how little thought he has put into the immigration issue (“Awe an example of broken policy,” April 7).

Beginning with the American Revolution, more than 1.3 million Americans have died defending these “cliches” while in the service of this country. Greenfield should apologize to all who have worn the uniform; he is where he is today because others stepped up when it counted.

And can we put a lid on the nonsensical statement that our immigration system is “broken?” What is broken is our government’s will to enforce its own long-standing laws that were created primarily to protect American workers. Had we been acting like a “nation of laws” for the past several decades, the Awe family and other illegals would not have been encouraged to thumb their noses at the rules we have in place. Nearly 50 percent of our illegal alien population are visa overstayers, many of them having done so intentionally because they believe our government is not serious about strict enforcement.

Also broken is a national school system that fails to instill in our children a sense of loyalty and respect for their country and a mainstream media that have failed miserably in their responsibility to give their readers and viewers fair and balanced coverage of a public policy issue that affects every aspect of our daily lives.

Dave Gorak
Executive Director
Midwest Coalition to Reduce Immigration
LaValle, WI
608-985-7864
mcri@mwt.net

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North County Times – 4/8

Let's have some fair and balanced reporting

Regarding a letter printed by a Paul Martinez insinuating the Minutemen hunt down illegal aliens and take the law into their own hands (Letters, April 4): The North County Times knows full well that is a blatant lie and that they are being used as a propaganda arm of the illegal-alien, open-border lobby.

North County Times, I pity you. You print false statements from dubious sources without a shred of evidence to support complete falsehoods. I, for one, would like to see some fair and balanced reporting for a change at NCT.

Thomas Haggerty
San Marcos, Calif.

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St. Paul Pioneer Press – 4/8

Cancel program or demand transparency

Thank you very much for "Worker visa program shrouded in questions" (April 4). It is about time this little-discussed scandal made the front page. If our two head-in-the-sand senators cannot expedite the Pioneer Press's Freedom of Information Act request to immigration services, they should consider proposing cancellation of the H-1B program altogether for lack of information alone. Their willingness to just rubberstamp this stuff unquestioned says something disturbing about who is buying their votes.

On second thought, maybe our three presidential candidates should consider expediting this request for information as well, since it seems that nobody has the slightest idea who is using how many H-1B and L1 visa holders and for what purpose, or how many have overstayed illegally.

Marsha Krantz
St. Paul, Minn.

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The Seattle Times – 4/8

Immigration nation

The real question: How much more can the U.S. take?

Editor, The Times:

What was not said in "I never wanted to come back here to live,"
[Times, page one, April 6> is more important than what was said. The narrative of the lengthy story is that immigrants who break the law coming to the U.S. are deported, and thus penalized unfairly for doing so. Why? The headline says it all: They don't want to go back!
A financially struggling Seattle Times paid a reporter and photographer to go all the way to Mexico to find this out. A short paragraph may have contained the question most deserving of the prominent two-and-a-half pages devoted to this story. A local immigration officer is quoted as saying, "This country can't absorb them all." The question: Can it?

In 1972, the Rockefeller Commission said "there was no advantage to the U.S. having more population" than existed then, which was 260 million. Traditional census undercount has us now at about 307 million. How many people can this country absorb without dire consequences?

The writer of this story ignores the costs of that impact on this nation and this region, and instead focuses on the deportees' plan to return. One can only wonder why The Times would consider that front-page news.

Richard Pelto
Kenmore, Wash.

Sobering statistics

More than 6 billion people live on Earth. Five billion of them could benefit financially by moving to the U.S. Four billion are poorer than the average Mexican, such as Ana Reyes.

Every year, 2 million immigrants come to America. Every year, the world's population increases by 75 million.

As sad as it is, we cannot save the world from overpopulation, poverty and bad government. They must save themselves.

Linda H. Thom

Coupeville
Island County, Wash.

More sad truths from Ground Zero

The story about Ana Reyes says, "For all the attention illegal immigrants get in the U.S. — from those who believe they're a drain on social services to advocates who say they do the jobs Americans won't — little is known about what happens to them after they're ushered by U.S. immigration authorities through revolving doors into Mexico's border towns."

Boo hoo! I'm drowning in tears! I live in California, Ground Zero for illegal immigration. According to a recent report by Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, it costs Californians $10.5 billion a year to educate, medicate and incarcerate illegal aliens. I'm on a fixed income and could lose my home to higher property taxes.

As for "doing the jobs Americans won't," that's a lie. Americans are displaced from the work force because employers are addicted to taxpayer-subsidized cheap labor.

Haydee Pavia
Laguna Woods, Calif.

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The Seattle Times – 4/10

Shine a bright light on lawmakers first

While I am empathetic to the Reyes family, I am also an American citizen who believes that people like Ana Reyes have had ample opportunities to legalize themselves. [" 'I never wanted to come back here to live,' " Times, page one, April 6.> But what bothers me more is the fact that The Seattle Times and nearly every other paper in America focuses its attention on the plight of the illegals, while ignoring the people we should be pressuring to ensure that our immigration policy is no longer flouted and ignored.

Congress, the president and every elected official in this country have the obligation to require mandatory document verification. They should be holding all employers accountable and closing the "unknowingly hired" loopholes. There is no excuse for not properly securing both borders or tracking visa overstays, requiring the IRS and Social Security Administration to cooperate to stop duplicate-number use and alerting American citizens when their IDs are used fraudulently. They should be informing cities across America that sanctuary status will lead to federal funding cuts.

Illegal aliens made their choices, and if caught, should suffer the consequences. American citizens have spoken loud and clear as to what they want our leaders to do. Why, then, can't The Times and others support the citizenry by exposing the fraud that continues to entice and exploit humans so we can end illegal immigration once and for all?

Carol Brister
Lake Stevens, Wash.

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Carrol County (Md.) Gazette – 4/3

Open Forum: Where’s the balance in story on illegal immigration?
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The Gazette gave voice to law-breaking, pro-illegal alien advocates like Maryland House (Casa de Maryland) and the NAACP, but did not balance the story with representatives from Numbers USA or the Center for Immigration Studies (‘‘Hispanics feel threat of immigration checks,” March 27).

I would like to thank Frederick County Sheriff Chuck Jenkins for myself, my family, my neighbors, my country and all law-abiding Americans, including legal immigrants, for using a common-sense and fair approach to the problem of illegal immigration.

It’s a shame that Maryland House (Casa de Maryland), the same people who live off my tax dollars and publish comic books that encourage illegal aliens to not respond to officers of the law when they ask questions, is also encouraging criminal activity, lying and cheating, and will stop at nothing until the country is overrun with illegal aliens.

When Sheriff Jenkins clearly states that he will return illegal aliens to their country of origin when they commit crimes in our country, Maryland House (Casa de Maryland) engages in fear mongering saying that illegal aliens are afraid to leave their homes.

Please. That kind of nonsense no longer works. Look at how Americans rose up and defeated the amnesty bill that Bush, Kennedy, McCain and many wealthy and powerful Democrats and Republicans tried to ram through the Congress in the middle of the night. Americans are no longer going to fall for this kind of nonsense.

We see the rampant illegal alien crime, the anchor babies, the drug dealing, the murders, the rapes, and we ask, what is going on? Why are my tax dollars supporting these people? Why is my government giving them a driver’s license when they are here illegally? Why should I pay to educate, house, provide health care for, and jobs for these illegal aliens?

Illegal aliens create significant costs for taxpayers mainly because they are unskilled, not because they are illegal. Most lack a high school diploma. Such people pay relatively little in taxes regardless of legal status because they earn so little in the modern American economy.

Research indicates that the net fiscal drain (taxes minus costs) would triple if we legalized illegal aliens. Unskilled illegal aliens are costly, but unskilled legal immigrants cost even more because they can more easily access social programs.

A strategy of attrition through enforcement, on the other hand, is both realistic and avoids the problems of illegal immigration by making illegal aliens go home or self-deport.

A March 2005 Immigration and Naturalization Service report estimates that 165,000 illegal aliens go home each year, 50,000 are deported, and 25,000 die. But many more than that come in.

If America becomes less hospitable to illegal aliens, many more will simply decide to go home. To do this, we should enforce the law that bars illegal aliens from holding jobs by using the national databases that already exist to ensure that each new hire is legally entitled to work here.

In 2004, only three employers were fined for hiring illegal aliens. The Internal Revenue Service must also stop accepting Social Security numbers that it knows are bogus. We also need to make a much greater effort to deny illegal aliens things like driver's licenses, bank accounts, loans, in-state college tuition, and other supports, like Maryland House, that make it easy to rip off Americans.

Local law enforcement can play a vital role, and Sheriff Jenkins is to be honored, not vilified, for understanding this fact. When an illegal alien is encountered in the normal course of police work, the immigration service should pick that person up and deport him or her.

Attrition through enforcement is really the only option if we want to solve our illegal immigration problem. Implementing such a policy will save taxpayers money, help American workers at the bottom of the labor markets, and restore the rule of law.
God bless you and thank you, Sheriff Jenkins, for enforcing the will of the American public. Most support your efforts. I’m sorry the loudmouths get the media attention, but please keep enforcing the rule of law.

Bruce Curley
Mount Airy, Md.

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The World (Ore.) – 6/30/07

Illegals costly and devastating to U.S.

I agree with Charles Babington's column, headlined, "Divisions run deep over stalled immigration bill" (The World, June 8) but for different reasons.

I believe that some senators are not listening to their constituents who overwhelmingly reject amnesty and want our government to enforce existing immigration laws both in the interior and at our ports and borders. That also includes tracking and penalties for visa-overstays.

Not only are they not including the staggering cost to American taxpayers in their discussions (the Heritage Foundation estimates $2.5 trillion), but they do not consider the social devastation caused by adding more people to our already over-populated country (300 million last October).

There are those who think a bad bill is better than no bill, but I am not one of them Our country that I defended in the U.S. military for 30 plus years deserves the best that our government can provide. Senate Bill 1348 does not give us that.

Congress should serve those of us who elected them, not big business lobbyists and individuals who have broken our laws to enter and stay here.

Val Don Hickerson
Bandon, Ore.

(10)
The Oregonian (Ore.) – 7/7/07

Choose not to steal ID

To me, Gosia Wozniacka's front-page article, "Illegal workers turn to ID theft" (July 1), seems a little late since illegal immigrants have been using fake and stolen identification for many years. It is only recently that our government has began to address the problem that makes it front-page news.

The article's continuation on page eight has a sub-headline that reports, "Little choice but to buy ID, worker says." This tells me that illegal immigrant workers are not using the "choice" to self-deport or not invade our country in the first place.

The next-to-last paragraph says, "Immigrant activists say most undocumented workers ... should not be blamed for the inevitable results of flawed immigration laws."

It should more correctly read "unenforced immigration laws," since our government has not been doing what it promised 21 years ago in the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act.

Val Don Hickerson
Bandon, Ore.

(11)
The Oregonian – 8/3/07

Day labor site: Don't aid illegal workers

Here is one answer to Anna Griffin's question in her article, "Where to put day laborers" (July 29). If they are not legal U.S. residents, put them on a bus back to their home countries.

By creating a day labor site for illegal immigrants, Portland and Oregon become magnets for more invasion of our country. It also does a disservice to the more that 14 million unemployed or underemployed American citizen workers whose jobs are being lost and wages reduced by those who are breaking U.S. immigration laws to come and work here illegally.

Jim Ludwick, president of Oregonians for Immigration Reform, is correct when he tells us that no matter how it is financed a day labor site for illegal immigrants is "aiding and abetting illegal activity."

Val Don Hickerson
Bandon, Ore.

(12)
The Oregonian – 9/3/07

Immigration factors

In my view, Katherine Corcoran's article, "Another nice mess" (Sept. 16), gives some good advice by talking about issues that Mexico should address to prevent poor, unemployed and undereducated people from leaving their country and invading ours. I believe, however, that other factors should be included.

First is Mexico's small rich class and large poor class. Mexico is the richest Third World country. There are billions of people worldwide who are worse off then Mexicans.

Second, the effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement on Mexico's economy should be included.

Third, 80 percent of U.S. citizens want less immigration, not more.

Fourth, and most vital, is U.S and world overpopulation. Having passed 300 million last October, we should consider a reduction in population, not an increase.

Val Don Hickerson
Bandon, Ore.

(13)
The World (Ore.) – 11/6/07

We ignore dangers of overpopulation

Two recent articles headlined, "Officials have no backup plan for Southern drought" (The World, Oct.20) and "Nations freshwater supplies dwindling, (The World, Oct. 27), address an issue that is long overdue.

While the second article makes occasional reference to the cause, as with the first article, it only suggests Band-Aid approaches for a solution.

Demographers and other scientists have been telling us both the cause and solutions for decades. It's past time that every citizen of this country and the world become aware of the cause and use it in every personal and public decision. The cause is overpopulation.

The U.S. population of 303 million is more than three times the sustainable level that was reached near the beginning of the last century. According to NumbersUSA, 86 percent of U.S. population growth between 2000 and 2002 was due to immigration, both legal and illegal and their offspring.

In my view, solutions should include securing our borders and enforcing already existing immigration laws, returning to 1970s replacement level births for native American women; and providing overpopulation consequences and birth-control information to other world countries.

These articles by The World should provide a wake-up call to citizens that nature is already providing solutions because humans are ignoring the problems.

Val Don Hickerson
Bandon, Ore.

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Need more Phone calls!-Thanks!

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</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD rowSpan=3> </TD><TD class=t1fromdatetext>From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA </TD></TR><TR><TD class=t1fromdatetext>Date: Thursday 1MAY08 12:15 a.m. EDT </TD></TR><TR><TD class=t1fromdatetext> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD class=t1redunderbigheader>May Day marchers will shout for amnesty -- you can make a short phone call for SAVE </TD></TR><TR><TD class=t1thinwhitespace> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=t1letterblock vAlign=top align=left>DEAR FRIENDS,

Today, we need to concentrate all of our energies into a 30-second phone message to our Members of Congress.

We need a massive outpouring of tens of thousands of these little messages to counteract the pro-amnesty May Day marches that are scheduled all across our nation today.

By the time Members of Congress see the marches on TV news this evening, they will know from your phone calls that most voters not only oppose an amnesty but want to start driving the 12 million illegal aliens home by passing the SAVE Act (H.R. 4088).

Most of Congress still would prefer to just sidestep the illegal immigration issue this year. Your phone calls will remind them that the voters expect them to act.

Call your 2 Senators and 1 U.S. Representative at:

202-224-3121

Or call them at their local numbers. You can see those by clicking on http://numbersusa.com/myMembers

No need to argue or debate. Just say something like this:

My name is xxx xmxmx. I'm calling in support of the SAVE Act. The best thing you could do for American workers on this May Day is to pass the SAVE Act -- H.R. 4088.

or

You may want to comment about the pro-amnesty May Day marches and note that their goal of amnesty works against the interests of American workers whose wages are depressed because of the presence of 12-20 million illegal aliens.

I've asked for very little activism lately (except for those of you in a few localities where a lot is going on). So, I hope you will join this mobilization to move the SAVE Act forward.

We got the nearly miraculous 185 signers on the Discharge Petition (that would force a floor vote) rather quickly. But we still have only 186. We need 32 more to get the necessary majority.

You may never have made a phone call to Congress before. You may have thought you never would.But you can do this. Please prove to yourself that you can do it. Make the phone call now.

THANKS,

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Illegal Aliens Demand 'Rights' and 'Reforms'

Posted by Bobby Eberle
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I was planning to take the day off today and start my weekend a little bit early. However, I had the misfortune of reading the AP story on the May Day marches by thousands of illegal aliens who are demanding their "rights." Not only is the notion of lawbreakers taking to the streets to demand legal benefits completely outrageous, but the way the "news" story is worded is completely insane. When people break the law, there should be consequences. We should not close down streets in order for them to "show unity." What is going on here?!?! If you go by the AP's story, it's like there is no such thing as an "illegal" alien.
For your humor and amusement, the AP story titled "Thousands rally in May Day effort for immigration reform" is filled with plenty of quotes that show the bias and the slant that liberal media takes on this issue. In the second paragraph, the story talks about marchers across the country who "demanded citizenship opportunities for the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. and an end to raids and deportations." Did I read that correctly? People come into this country illegally, and then "demand" citizenship and an end to enforcing the laws that are on the books to stop illegal activity?

Here's one quote to start things off:

''We come here to fight for legalization. We're people. We have rights,'' said Eric Molina, an undocumented factory worker who immigrated to Zion, Ill., from Mexico.
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Of course, the AP refers to this person as an "undocumented factory worker." Give me a break! Undocumented? You mean the employer was having a bad day and lost Mr. Molina's paperwork? The person is an ILLEGAL ALIEN, and is not only being allowed to stay in the country, but is being interviewed about it. In addition, the whole use of the phrase "immigrated to" has been completely twisted by the liberal press. Immigrants are people who come to this country legally and work to become part of the American fabric. They are not people who sneak across the border, use fake Social Security cards, and wave signs of their home countries during marches.
Here's another quote:

''People have been stopped and deported in the last week. This is a community living in fear,'' said Veranes, a researcher for the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades. ''You never know when you're going to be stopped by Border Patrol and now the police.''
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Isn't it the job of the Border Patrol and the police to enforce our laws and protect our borders? Why are people surprised when a person who comes to this country illegally is deported? The outrage! I'm sure jewelry thieves don't take to the streets and start demanding their rights. How dare the authorities take those diamond rings from them?
In addition, the AP uses more of their misleading language to account for the smaller number of marches from the previous year. The writer states, "Some said participation likely was lower because many immigrants increasingly fear deportation." Wrong! I guarantee there is no immigrant in the United States of America who fears deportation. There may be some illegal aliens who fear deportation, but that is not the same thing, and the Associated Press should make that clear.
Illegal immigration hurts America. It is a national security concern that must be addressed from top to bottom. The borders must be protected. Immigration laws must be enforced. America welcomes more legal immigrants than any other country in the entire world. We need to continue to do it the right way!

 

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Help your Congressman make up his mind OK?

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</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD rowSpan=3> </TD><TD class=t1fromdatetext>From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA </TD></TR><TR><TD class=t1fromdatetext>Date: Sunday 4MAY08 11:30 p.m. EDT </TD></TR><TR><TD class=t1fromdatetext> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD class=t1redunderbigheader>One more Congressman signed SAVE petition -- only 31 to go to victory in U.S. House </TD></TR><TR><TD class=t1thinwhitespace> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=t1letterblock vAlign=top align=left>DEAR FRIENDS,

Send your congratulations to all of our NumbersUSA faxer/phoners in Idaho:

After all the phone calls and faxes in last week's surge effort, the hold-out Rep. Bill Sali (R-Idaho) has signed the Discharge Petition to force a House floor vote on the SAVE Act (H.R. 4088).

(Look at the petition list as well as details about the Save Act.)

The freshman was one of only a few Republicans who still had not signed. The states of Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Wyoming and Delaware (with small delegations) now have no Representative who has NOT signed the Discharge Petition. Congrats to all of you from those states.

It will take 218 signatures to go around Speaker of the House Pelosi (D-Calif.) who thus far has refused to allow a vote unless an amnesty is attached to the bill.

The fact that we are up to 187 signatures is really quite phenomenal. Now, it is mop up time in which we have to fight for every new petition signer.

CONGRESSMEN SAY THEY AREN'T GETTING ENOUGH PRESSURE FROM VOTERS

There are well more than 31 U.S. Representatives who tell our NumbersUSA lobbyists that they would vote for SAVE if it comes to the floor -- but they won't sign the Discharge Petition that would force the vote.

The main reasons these Members of the House aren't signing the petition?

Some Democratic Representatives indicate they really want to sign the petition but they are nervous about how the House's Democratic leadership would respond to their going against the leadership's opposition to passing SAVE and taking jobs away from illegal workers. These Members are asking for a lot more pressure from their constituents so they can tell Speaker Pelosi that they had no choice but sign the petition.

Quite a number of other Democrats say they likely will vote for SAVE if forced to vote but oppose the idea of going around Speaker Pelosi. They say they have no interest in signing the Discharge Petition because they are hearing from so few of their constituents that they want the petition signed.

Some of the remaining Republican Representatives not on the petition are getting much pressure from business lobbyists NOT to sign. They say the only way they would defy the business lobbyists by signing the petition is if they hear from a lot more constituents than they've been hearing from.

</B>We will be sending most of you very specific instructions on what we desperately need you to do in your part of the country to keep the pressure on passing SAVE (led by Rep. Heath Shuler, D-N.C., and Rep. Brian Bilbray, R-Calif.).

But for Monday, please do this:

1. Take any actions shown on your Action Buffet corkboard.

2. Look on the list of Discharge Petition signatures to see if your own U.S. Representative is shown there. If not, phone his/her office and make a quick case for signing the petition.

If your Representative has signed but another Representative in your part of the state has not, consider phoning his/her office.

CONGRESSIONAL SWITCHBOARD: 202-224-3121

We cannot let up now. As you can see in the New York Times article below, I commented on last week's pro-amnesty marchers as pushing for amnesty to reward illegal aliens so they can STAY, while most Americans want more enforcement that causes illegal aliens to LEAVE.

That is what the SAVE Act would do. That is the reason why Speaker Pelosi and her fellow House leaders do not want to risk a vote on it.

But large numbers of her Democratic Members would like to vote if they just get enough pressure from voters back home. Let's give it to them.

THANKS FOR STARTING OFF THE WEEK WITH A PUSH FOR THE SAVE ACT,

NEW YORK TIMES
May 2, 2008

Crowds Are Smaller at Protests by Immigrants

By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD

LOS ANGELES — Thousands of immigrants and their supporters marched in several cities on Thursday to demand civil rights at a time when crackdowns against illegal immigrants are rising.

The May Day demonstrations were significantly smaller than in previous years, and gone were calls for a nationwide boycott of businesses and work, as protest leaders had urged last year. The Spanish-language D.J.’s who had heavily promoted previous marches stuck largely to their regular programming. And disagreements among advocates over the best approach to winning legal status for illegal immigrants had diminished organizing firepower, with many groups turning their attention to voter registration and citizenship drives.

In many cities, including New York, Chicago, Houston and Los Angeles, crowds were a small fraction of those in previous years, with few people outside protest areas even aware that marches were under way.

Some supporters said they had lost a rallying cry in the stalled effort in Congress to revamp immigration law. At the same time, with the government stepping up border and immigration enforcement, a cloud of fear has settled over immigrants who were worried that the rallies would lead to more sweeps.

Milwaukee had one of the more robust turnouts, with thousands of people gathering, as they did last year. Protesters called on the presidential candidates, each of whom has supported Congressional efforts to allow a way for certain illegal immigrants to gain legal status, to make immigration issues a priority.

“We want a commitment from the three presidential candidates to pass humane immigration reform in the first 100 days in office,” said Christine Neumann-Ortiz, director of Voces de la Frontera, the main organization behind the Milwaukee march.

In Los Angeles, where riot police officers beat and shoved demonstrators and journalists last year, some marchers were concerned about trouble, though across the nation the marches were largely peaceful.

“Today the police didn’t bring their batons,” Jorge Reyes called out in Spanish from a truck in downtown Los Angeles. “Today they came in peace to help us legalize the 12 million immigrants in this country.”
Messages on T-shirts and signs and protest leaders with bullhorns demanded an end to immigration raids that have led to an increasing number of deportations. The United States deported 280,000 people last year, a 44 percent increase over the previous year.

Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa of Los Angeles, who has called on the Department of Homeland Security to halt most workplace raids, joined business and labor leaders on Wednesday to announce the results of a study that found the raids harmful to the economy. The study said 50 percent or more of workers in some local industries were in the country illegally, and it projected great harm to the region if businesses closed or moved because of the immigration sweeps.
Supporters of tighter controls on immigration said the rallies had done little but energize their backers. Leaders of NumbersUSA, one of the larger groups advocating a clampdown on illegal immigration, urged its members to call members of Congress and use the rallies to help make their case.

“The marchers say suspend the rule of law and reward illegality,” said Roy Beck, executive director of NumbersUSA, which says its membership has swelled to more than 600,000 from 112,000 three years ago.

“Our callers say what your constituents really want is enforcement,” Mr. Beck added. “We want to take away the jobs magnet and basically create an inhospitable environment for immigration law breakers so more and more will decide to go home or not come.”

Counterdemonstrators appeared at some rallies, including in Boston, where the police had to separate demonstrators who became embroiled in profanity-laced exchanges.

Though meager, the crowds were often festive and melded a variety of causes. A rally in Union Square Park in Manhattan drew several hundred people invoking socialism, police violence and Sept. 11 conspiracy theories, in addition to immigrant rights.

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The Subcommittee on Social Security will hold a hearing on employment eligibility verification systems on May 6 in order to delay or even sabotage a vote on the enforcement-only SAVE Act (H.R. 4088). Please call the representative(s) from your state who serve on the subcommittee and show your support for the SAVE Act and E-Verify.

Background

Subcommitte Chairman Michael R. McNulty (D-N.Y.) tipped his hand – and revealed the subcommittee’s bias against verification systems – when he announced the hearing, stating that Congress “should not compound the problems of a flawed system. And it is essential that we not increase the workload of the Social Security Administration," and "it is essential that we not increase the workload of the Social Security Administration."

Apparently, the subcommittee thinks outlaw businesses and illegal aliens should be protected until SSA records are perfect, and this bogus hearing has been arranged to slander the E-Verify program, rather than constituting a constructive debate over the merits of the actual SAVE Act.

The Subcommittee will hear testimony from “invited witnesses only,” all but ensuring that our side will not be represented at the hearing. However, Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.), the sponsor of the SAVE Act, is tentatively scheduled to participate on the panel.

The E-Verify system (formerly known as “Basic Pilot”) has been around since 1996 to help employers comply with federal immigration laws. It has been studied multiple times by Congress, universities, and the Social Security Administration itself. Every report has found it to be easy, reliable and effective. Click here to learn more about E-Verify.

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Send this to all the Illegal Alien ass kissers

Actual letter from an Iowa resident sent to his senator)

The Honorable Tom Harkin
731 Hart Senate Office Building
Phone (202) 224 3254
Washington DC , 20510

Dear Senator Harkin,

As a native Iowan and excellent customer of the Internal Revenue Service, I am writing to ask
for your assistance. I have contacted the Department of Homeland Security in an effort to
determine the process for becoming an illegal alien and they referred me to you.

My primary reason for wishing to change my status from U.S. Citizen to illegal alien stems from
the bill which was recently passed by the Senate and for which you voted. If my understanding
of this bill's provisions is accurate, as an illegal alien who has been in the United States for five
years, all I need to do to become a citizen is to pay a $2,000 fine and income taxes for three of
the last five years. I know a good deal when I see one and I am anxious to get the process started
before everyone figures it out.
Simply put, those of us who have been here legally have had to pay taxes every year so I'm excited
about the prospect of avoiding two years of taxes in return for paying a $2,000 fine.
Is there any way that I can apply to be illegal retroactively?


Additionally, as an illegal alien I could begin using the local emergency room as my primary health care
provider. Once I have stopped paying premiums for medical insurance, my accountant figures
I could save almost $10,000 a year.

Another benefit in gaining illegal status would be that my daughter would receive preferential
treatment relative to her law school applications, as well as 'in-state' tuition rates for many colleges
throughout the United States for my son.

Lastly, I understand that illegal status would relieve me of the burden of renewing my driver's license
and making those burdensome car insurance premiums. This is very important to me given that I still
have college age children driving my car.

If you would provide me with an outline of the process to become illegal (retroactively if possible) and
copies of the necessary forms, I would be most appreciative.

Thank you for your assistance.

Your Loyal Constituent,
Donald Ruppert
Burlington , IA


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</TD></TR><TR><TH align=left>Date: </TH><TD>May 6, 2008 6:01 PM</TD></TR><TR><TH>Subject: </TH><TD><SCRIPT type=text/javascript>document.write(MySpace.Util.applyWBRToHTML("McCain To Attend La Raza Convention...Also In My Blog!!!", {frequency: 5}));</SCRIPT>McCai<WBR>n To Atten<WBR>d La Raza Conve<WBR>ntion<WBR>.<WBR>.<WBR>.<WBR>Also In My Blog!<WBR>!! <NOSCRIPT></NOSCRIPT></TD></TR><TR><TH>Body: </TH><TD class=blacktextnb10 style="WORD-WRAP: break-word">Sen. John McCai<WBR>n, the de facto<WBR> Repub<WBR>lican<WBR> presi<WBR>denti<WBR>al nomin<WBR>ee, annou<WBR>nced he will atten<WBR>d the natio<WBR>nal conve<WBR>ntion<WBR> of La Raza,<WBR> a radic<WBR>al Hispa<WBR>nic lobby<WBR> tied to the movem<WBR>ent to recon<WBR>quer the South<WBR>weste<WBR>rn U.S. that was part of Mexic<WBR>o befor<WBR>e the Mexic<WBR>an-<WBR>Ameri<WBR>can War that ended<WBR> in 1848.



Thoug<WBR>h La Raza bills<WBR> itsel<WBR>f as a civil<WBR> right<WBR>s organ<WBR>izati<WBR>on, the group<WBR>'s name liter<WBR>ally means<WBR> "The Race.

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La Raza was conde<WBR>mned in 2006 by Rep. Charl<WBR>es Norwo<WBR>od, R-<WBR>Ga., as a radic<WBR>al "<WBR>pro-<WBR>illeg<WBR>al immig<WBR>ratio<WBR>n lobby<WBR>ing organ<WBR>izati<WBR>on that suppo<WBR>rts racis<WBR>t group<WBR>s calli<WBR>ng for the seces<WBR>sion of the weste<WBR>rn Unite<WBR>d State<WBR>s as a Hispa<WBR>nic-<WBR>only homel<WBR>and.

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Norwo<WBR>od has calle<WBR>d on La Raza to renou<WBR>nce its suppo<WBR>rt of the Movim<WBR>iento<WBR> Estud<WBR>ianti<WBR>l Chica<WBR>no de Aztla<WBR>n – which<WBR> sees "The Race"<WBR> as part of an ethni<WBR>c group<WBR> that one day will recla<WBR>im Aztla<WBR>n, the mythi<WBR>cal birth<WBR>place<WBR> of the Aztec<WBR>s. In Chica<WBR>no folkl<WBR>ore, Aztla<WBR>n inclu<WBR>des Calif<WBR>ornia<WBR>, Arizo<WBR>na, Nevad<WBR>a, New Mexic<WBR>o and parts<WBR> of Color<WBR>ado and Texas<WBR>.



McCai<WBR>n, who stead<WBR>fastl<WBR>y oppos<WBR>ed effor<WBR>ts to build<WBR> a fence<WBR> along<WBR> the U.<WBR>S.<WBR>-<WBR>Mexic<WBR>an borde<WBR>r and suppo<WBR>rted legis<WBR>latio<WBR>n to permi<WBR>t illeg<WBR>al alien<WBR>s to remai<WBR>n in the U.<WBR>S., also annou<WBR>nced the launc<WBR>h of his campa<WBR>ign'<WBR>s Spani<WBR>sh langu<WBR>age websi<WBR>te.



The annou<WBR>nceme<WBR>nts came on Cinco<WBR> de Mayo,<WBR> the day comme<WBR>morat<WBR>ing an 1862 battl<WBR>e fough<WBR>t by Mexic<WBR>an troop<WBR>s.



"<WBR>Today<WBR>, we join toget<WBR>her to remem<WBR>ber the sacri<WBR>fice that these<WBR> Mexic<WBR>an patri<WBR>ots endur<WBR>ed, as well as the strug<WBR>gles of all those<WBR> aroun<WBR>d the world<WBR> striv<WBR>ing for freed<WBR>om," said McCai<WBR>n in the state<WBR>ment.<WBR> "We recog<WBR>nize as well the impor<WBR>tant frien<WBR>dship<WBR> that exist<WBR>s betwe<WBR>en our count<WBR>ry and Mexic<WBR>o, and celeb<WBR>rate the many contr<WBR>ibuti<WBR>ons Mexic<WBR>an-<WBR>Ameri<WBR>cans have made to our socie<WBR>ty, cultu<WBR>re, secur<WBR>ity and econo<WBR>my.

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SEE PRESS<WBR> RELEA<WBR>SE BELOW




For Immed<WBR>iate Relea<WBR>se
May 5, 2008



Conta<WBR>ct: Press<WBR> Offic<WBR>e
703-<WBR>650-<WBR>5550





ARLIN<WBR>GTON,<WBR> VA -- U.S.

Senat<WBR>or John McCai<WBR>n today<WBR> issue<WBR>d the follo<WBR>wing state<WBR>ment on Cinco<WBR> de Mayo as his campa<WBR>ign annou<WBR>nced sever<WBR>al new Spani<WBR>sh effor<WBR>ts:

"<WBR>Cinco<WBR> de Mayo comme<WBR>morat<WBR>es an impor<WBR>tant momen<WBR>t in the histo<WBR>ry of Mexic<WBR>o's path to freed<WBR>om. On this day in 1862,<WBR> a small<WBR> group<WBR> of Mexic<WBR>an troop<WBR>s overc<WBR>ame overw<WBR>helmi<WBR>ng force<WBR> to win the Battl<WBR>e of Puebl<WBR>a. Today<WBR>, we join toget<WBR>her to remem<WBR>ber the sacri<WBR>fice that these<WBR> Mexic<WBR>an patri<WBR>ots endur<WBR>ed, as well as the strug<WBR>gles of all those<WBR> aroun<WBR>d the world<WBR> striv<WBR>ing for freed<WBR>om. We recog<WBR>nize as well the impor<WBR>tant frien<WBR>dship<WBR> that exist<WBR>s betwe<WBR>en our count<WBR>ry and Mexic<WBR>o, and celeb<WBR>rate the many contr<WBR>ibuti<WBR>ons Mexic<WBR>an-<WBR>Ameri<WBR>cans have made to our socie<WBR>ty, cultu<WBR>re, secur<WBR>ity and econo<WBR>my.

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The Cinco<WBR> de Mayo state<WBR>ment can now also be found<WBR> on the Spani<WBR>sh secti<WBR>on of the offic<WBR>ial campa<WBR>ign websi<WBR>te at http:<WBR>/<WBR>/<WBR>espan<WBR>ol. johnm<WBR>ccain<WBR>. com, which<WBR> the campa<WBR>ign launc<WBR>hed today<WBR>. This part of the websi<WBR>te will featu<WBR>re regul<WBR>ar updat<WBR>es in Spani<WBR>sh throu<WBR>ghout<WBR> the elect<WBR>ion.



Final<WBR>ly, as part of his commi<WBR>tment<WBR> to talki<WBR>ng with all Ameri<WBR>cans durin<WBR>g this presi<WBR>denti<WBR>al campa<WBR>ign, the McCai<WBR>n presi<WBR>denti<WBR>al campa<WBR>ign annou<WBR>nced that John McCai<WBR>n will atten<WBR>d the La Raza Annua<WBR>l Conve<WBR>ntion<WBR> in San Diego<WBR> on July 14, 2008.





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