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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE class=contentpaneopen><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top align=left width="70%" colSpan=2>Written by Nedd </TD></TR><TR><TD class=createdate vAlign=top colSpan=2>Tuesday, 13 November 2007 </TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top colSpan=2>
Well, folks, the ACLU is at it again. But this time it didn’t bode well for them, specifically, one of its lawyers who apparently thought he was above the law.
As noted here, Dan Pochoda, the legal director of the ACLU of Arizona, was arrested on Saturday, Nov. 3<SUP>rd</SUP> for trespassing on private property and refusing to leave via an order from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s office.
The ACLU of Arizona seems to have a history of disobeying police orders and causing trouble. As reported here, the former executive director was arrested in 2002 at a protest rally by our current president. Additionally, the ACLU was in full support of illegal aliens crossing our borders during the initial phase of the Minuteman Project and worked to harass Minutemen volunteers, none other more so than Ray Ybarra (search this troublemaker on Google – he and his other “watchmen” also smoked marijuana). Instead of the ACLU defending the civil rights of the Minutemen, they did everything possible (except violence) to obstruct them.
The ACLU also appears to have a penchant for bringing criminal elements in its ranks. Its Orlando chapter has a former crook in its ranks in George Crossley (see second item down the page). More recently, we reported how the former director of the ACLU of Virginia, Charles Rust-Tierney, was convicted of downloading and possessing child pornography, something the ACLU has no problem with, according to its policy manual.
I guess there is a reason why many folks call the ACLU the American Criminal Liberties Union. And this apparently is one of them.
Now back to our “friend” Mr. Pochoda. Apparently this legal director doesn’t even have a cursory understanding of the law. He doesn’t know two things (1) one is not guaranteed a 1<SUP>st</SUP> Amendment right to protest on private property, which is what he did (while the protesters he was claiming to defend were on public property) and (2) that when a police officer asks you to move and move your car, you don’t stubbornly say no.
And you definitely don’t want to do so with Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who has had numerous run-ins with the ACLU, some successful, some not so as noted here.
Read more and watch a short video of the protest at Pruitt’s Furniture store by clicking here. The ACLU’s director is not named in this piece nor is shown in the video (except in a mug shot) but was in the area where the parking lot is seen and he clearly is on private property, unlike the protesters. Sheriff Arpaio, who is beloved by yours truly and numerous Stop the ACLU supporters as well as patriots all over America for his no-nonsense treatment of prisoners, did the job here on Mr. Pochoda.
The stories report that Mr. Pochoda was in the pokey for almost 12 hours and he needed a friend to provide the $150 bail so he could go free.
Hmmm, you would think ACLU lawyers would have a bundle of money on them but this guy didn’t. And how come the state’s director didn’t come to his rescue – or one of the other staffers at the Arizona ACLU?
Also, doesn’t this case raise some skepticism as to whether ACLU lawyers really know what the law is? If they do, then it seems fair to reason that they have an agenda to achieve. If they don’t, then they have some of the dumbest lawyers in their ranks.
Regardless, with friends like the ACLU, I guess their legal directors don’t need enemies, huh?
Take a look at that mug shot once more here. I’d like to offer a couple thoughts as to what this individual’s resemblance might remind you of but if I did, I could be in legal trouble myself. Suffice it to say that you probably wouldn’t want to invite Mr. Pochoda over to your house for dinner.
OK, to be fair with this ACLU bird, he did admit some wrongdoing in this subsequent piece, yet then again he said he didn’t do anything illegal. Well, sir, I know this much – if you are asked by police or property owners to move your vehicle from their property and your bod as well, you comply. By not doing so after 6 requests (a fair number, by the way), you broke the law by disobeying a law enforcement official (and especially one you don’t want to mess with) and essentially, you committed an illegal activity. It’s not rocket science.
Then this most recent story claimed the 65 year old Pochoda was combative. Well, I’ll believe Sheriff Arpaio and his crew, which was hired by Pruitt’s to do the job the store owner claims the Phoenix police weren’t doing, before I’ll believe the ACLU. Pochoda seems to contradict himself in his report, so the article goes. Well, he can dance to whatever tune he wants to but if the ACLU thinks one does not have a right to be ordered off of private property and charged with trespassing for failure to do so, they better get a new legal director – and one who knows how to obey the ACLU. The ACLU thinks they are above it. Mr. Pochoda found out the hard way.
High fives to Joe Arpaio for arresting this yoyo and for his aggressive efforts to curb illegal immigration in his county. Wish all law enforcement officials were as tough on crime and especially illegals as he is.
Read and listen to this 2006 interview and you will definitely smile. And you’ll wish that all sheriffs across America would lock up all illegal aliens and do the job Congress and the federal government won’t do.
And if you get an ACLU state director, lawyer or staffer or two in the process, that’s the icing on the cake. Maybe he or she won’t be in long enough to wear pink undies, do hard labor in 130 degree temperatures and eat bologna sandwiches. But put such a one in cuffs and you have made millions of Americans’ day.
Anyway, score another one for the good guys and Arpaio and his crew.
If only Ray Ybarra was among the arrested. He’s in Texas now, doing the ACLU’s dirty work there. But I would love for him to go to Maricopa County and get in the face of the sheriff to demand tolerance for illegals arrested by Arpaio’s crew. He’d find himself in pink drawers on his puny little carcass. And that would be a sight for all to see. And I think many of us would pay to see that. It would be worth the price of admission.
Well, we can dream, can’t we?
In the meantime, we have Crossley, Eisenberg, Tierney and now Pochoda on the list of ACLU personnel who have found their way in the pen.
Who’s next?
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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE class=contentpaneopen><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top align=left width="70%" colSpan=2>Written by Nedd </TD></TR><TR><TD class=createdate vAlign=top colSpan=2>Tuesday, 13 November 2007 </TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top colSpan=2>Well, folks, the ACLU is at it again. But this time it didn’t bode well for them, specifically, one of its lawyers who apparently thought he was above the law.
As noted here, Dan Pochoda, the legal director of the ACLU of Arizona, was arrested on Saturday, Nov. 3<SUP>rd</SUP> for trespassing on private property and refusing to leave via an order from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s office.
The ACLU of Arizona seems to have a history of disobeying police orders and causing trouble. As reported here, the former executive director was arrested in 2002 at a protest rally by our current president. Additionally, the ACLU was in full support of illegal aliens crossing our borders during the initial phase of the Minuteman Project and worked to harass Minutemen volunteers, none other more so than Ray Ybarra (search this troublemaker on Google – he and his other “watchmen” also smoked marijuana). Instead of the ACLU defending the civil rights of the Minutemen, they did everything possible (except violence) to obstruct them.
The ACLU also appears to have a penchant for bringing criminal elements in its ranks. Its Orlando chapter has a former crook in its ranks in George Crossley (see second item down the page). More recently, we reported how the former director of the ACLU of Virginia, Charles Rust-Tierney, was convicted of downloading and possessing child pornography, something the ACLU has no problem with, according to its policy manual.
I guess there is a reason why many folks call the ACLU the American Criminal Liberties Union. And this apparently is one of them.
Now back to our “friend” Mr. Pochoda. Apparently this legal director doesn’t even have a cursory understanding of the law. He doesn’t know two things (1) one is not guaranteed a 1<SUP>st</SUP> Amendment right to protest on private property, which is what he did (while the protesters he was claiming to defend were on public property) and (2) that when a police officer asks you to move and move your car, you don’t stubbornly say no.
And you definitely don’t want to do so with Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who has had numerous run-ins with the ACLU, some successful, some not so as noted here.
Read more and watch a short video of the protest at Pruitt’s Furniture store by clicking here. The ACLU’s director is not named in this piece nor is shown in the video (except in a mug shot) but was in the area where the parking lot is seen and he clearly is on private property, unlike the protesters. Sheriff Arpaio, who is beloved by yours truly and numerous Stop the ACLU supporters as well as patriots all over America for his no-nonsense treatment of prisoners, did the job here on Mr. Pochoda.
The stories report that Mr. Pochoda was in the pokey for almost 12 hours and he needed a friend to provide the $150 bail so he could go free.
Hmmm, you would think ACLU lawyers would have a bundle of money on them but this guy didn’t. And how come the state’s director didn’t come to his rescue – or one of the other staffers at the Arizona ACLU?
Also, doesn’t this case raise some skepticism as to whether ACLU lawyers really know what the law is? If they do, then it seems fair to reason that they have an agenda to achieve. If they don’t, then they have some of the dumbest lawyers in their ranks.
Regardless, with friends like the ACLU, I guess their legal directors don’t need enemies, huh?
Take a look at that mug shot once more here. I’d like to offer a couple thoughts as to what this individual’s resemblance might remind you of but if I did, I could be in legal trouble myself. Suffice it to say that you probably wouldn’t want to invite Mr. Pochoda over to your house for dinner.
OK, to be fair with this ACLU bird, he did admit some wrongdoing in this subsequent piece, yet then again he said he didn’t do anything illegal. Well, sir, I know this much – if you are asked by police or property owners to move your vehicle from their property and your bod as well, you comply. By not doing so after 6 requests (a fair number, by the way), you broke the law by disobeying a law enforcement official (and especially one you don’t want to mess with) and essentially, you committed an illegal activity. It’s not rocket science.
Then this most recent story claimed the 65 year old Pochoda was combative. Well, I’ll believe Sheriff Arpaio and his crew, which was hired by Pruitt’s to do the job the store owner claims the Phoenix police weren’t doing, before I’ll believe the ACLU. Pochoda seems to contradict himself in his report, so the article goes. Well, he can dance to whatever tune he wants to but if the ACLU thinks one does not have a right to be ordered off of private property and charged with trespassing for failure to do so, they better get a new legal director – and one who knows how to obey the ACLU. The ACLU thinks they are above it. Mr. Pochoda found out the hard way.
High fives to Joe Arpaio for arresting this yoyo and for his aggressive efforts to curb illegal immigration in his county. Wish all law enforcement officials were as tough on crime and especially illegals as he is.
Read and listen to this 2006 interview and you will definitely smile. And you’ll wish that all sheriffs across America would lock up all illegal aliens and do the job Congress and the federal government won’t do.
And if you get an ACLU state director, lawyer or staffer or two in the process, that’s the icing on the cake. Maybe he or she won’t be in long enough to wear pink undies, do hard labor in 130 degree temperatures and eat bologna sandwiches. But put such a one in cuffs and you have made millions of Americans’ day.
Anyway, score another one for the good guys and Arpaio and his crew.
If only Ray Ybarra was among the arrested. He’s in Texas now, doing the ACLU’s dirty work there. But I would love for him to go to Maricopa County and get in the face of the sheriff to demand tolerance for illegals arrested by Arpaio’s crew. He’d find himself in pink drawers on his puny little carcass. And that would be a sight for all to see. And I think many of us would pay to see that. It would be worth the price of admission.
Well, we can dream, can’t we?
In the meantime, we have Crossley, Eisenberg, Tierney and now Pochoda on the list of ACLU personnel who have found their way in the pen.
Who’s next?
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For those of you who know Dr. Matloff's work, you know he has been a tireless supporter of tech jobs for Americans.
You'll find this first blog fascinating. Please continue to check back for more and please leave your comments at the end of the article.
Here is the link.
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NumbersUSA </TD></TR><TR><TD class=t1redoversmallheader vAlign=top align=left>P.S. We can triple our membership quickly if our members email their friends about us and they in turn email theirs. Polls show that most Americans agree with NumbersUSA's positions but, despite our recent rapid growth, most American voters still have never heard of us. You can help change that by forwarding this email widely. (Note: depending on your email provider, you may need to send this as an "attachment.") </TD></TR><TR><TD class=t1redundersmallfooter vAlign=top align=left colSpan=2>This may be a good time for you to make sure that you've let us know all of the areas you are interested in. In order to further customize the type of alerts you receive click here http://www.numbersusa.com/survey?action=longlist
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</TD></TR><TR><TH align=left>Date: </TH><TD>Jul 9, 2008 2:49 PM</TD></TR><TR><TH>Subject: </TH><TD>SEND 'EM BACK! </TD></TR><TR><TH>Body: </TH><TD class=blacktextnb10 style="WORD-WRAP: break-word"><CENTER>
We have been hammered with the propaganda that it is the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us
RIDICULOUS!!!!
"THIS"
IS WHERE YOUR MONEY GOES!
$11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year
$2..2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens
http://www. cis. org/articles/2004/fiscalexec. html
$2..5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal a liens http://www. cis. org/articles/2004/fiscalexec. html
$12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English! http://transcripts. cnn. com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt. 0. html
$17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies
http://transcripts. cnn. com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt. 01. html
$3 Million Dollars a DAY is s pent to incarcerate illegal aliens
http://transcripts. cnn. com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt. 01. html
30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens
http://transcripts. cnn. com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt. 01. html
$90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers
http://premium. cnn. com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt. 01. html
$200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens
http://transcripts. cnn. com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt. 01. html
The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens.
In particular,their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US http://transcripts. cnn. com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt. 01html
During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries.
Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroine and marijuana, crossed into the U S from the Southern border
The National Policy Institute, "estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period"
http://www. nationalpolicyinstitute. org/pdf/deportation. pdf
In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to
their countries of origin
http://www. rense. com/general75/niht. htm
"The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States "
http://www. drdsk. com/articleshtml
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The total cost is a whopping
$338..3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR!
Are we THAT stupid???</CENTER>
If this doesn't bother you then just delete the message.
If, on the other hand, if it does raise the hair on the back of your neck, I hope you forward it to every legal resident in the country including every representative in Washington, DC- five times a week for as long as it takes to restore some semblance of intelligence in our policies and enforcement thereof
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LadyInRed </TD></TR><TR><TH align=left>Date: </TH><TD>Jul 9, 2008 2:49 PM</TD></TR><TR><TH>Subject: </TH><TD>SEND 'EM BACK! </TD></TR><TR><TH>Body: </TH><TD class=blacktextnb10 style="WORD-WRAP: break-word"><CENTER>
We have been hammered with the propaganda that it is the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us
RIDICULOUS!!!!
"THIS"
IS WHERE YOUR MONEY GOES!
$11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year
$2..2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens
http://www. cis. org/articles/2004/fiscalexec. html
$2..5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal a liens http://www. cis. org/articles/2004/fiscalexec. html
$12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English! http://transcripts. cnn. com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt. 0. html
$17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies
http://transcripts. cnn. com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt. 01. html
$3 Million Dollars a DAY is s pent to incarcerate illegal aliens
http://transcripts. cnn. com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt. 01. html
30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens
http://transcripts. cnn. com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt. 01. html
$90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers
http://premium. cnn. com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt. 01. html
$200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens
http://transcripts. cnn. com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt. 01. html
The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens.
In particular,their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US http://transcripts. cnn. com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt. 01html
During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries.
Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroine and marijuana, crossed into the U S from the Southern border
The National Policy Institute, "estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period"
http://www. nationalpolicyinstitute. org/pdf/deportation. pdf
In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to
their countries of origin
http://www. rense. com/general75/niht. htm
"The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States "
http://www. drdsk. com/articleshtml
<CENTER>
The total cost is a whopping
$338..3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR!
Are we THAT stupid???</CENTER>
If this doesn't bother you then just delete the message.
If, on the other hand, if it does raise the hair on the back of your neck, I hope you forward it to every legal resident in the country including every representative in Washington, DC- five times a week for as long as it takes to restore some semblance of intelligence in our policies and enforcement thereof
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Your Calls Needed to Save E-Verify
Call your Representative to Preserve Employers' Ability to Verify Legal Status of Employees
FAIR has learned through several House staffers that the House Leadership is planning to bring to the House floor a bill to reauthorize E-Verify. E-Verify is a proven and effective tool that allows employers to electronically verify the work authorization of newly hired employees. If this reauthorization does not pass, E-Verify will expire on November 1, 2008 leaving employers without this vital tool to combat illegal immigration. Call your Representative to Preserve Employers' Ability to Verify Legal Status of Employees
While the reauthorization of E-Verify is a step in the right direction, we have also learned from several House sources that Rep. Sam Johnson (R-TX) is attempting to amend the bill with language that potentially could render E-Verify useless. His amendment requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to enter into an agreement with the Social Security Administration (SSA) to provide SSA funds for all costs associated with implementing the E-Verify program. Additionally, the amendment would prohibit SSA from using any of their own funds to carry out E-Verify. What this means is that if the DHS and SSA ever fail to enter into a reimbursement agreement, E-Verify could be rendered inoperable as the SSA database could not be used to verify an employee's social security number.
House Leadership is considering bringing E-Verify to the floor soon. It is important that you call your Representative and urge them to:
- Reauthorize E-Verify in its current form to allow employers to continue to verify the legal status of their new employees.
- Reject Rep. Sam Johnson's language which could render E-Verify useless.
- Preserve E-Verify as a vital tool to combat illegal immigration.
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The House Ways and Means Committee is trying to kill the E-Verify employment verification system by adding worthless restrictions to Rep. Calvert's bill (H.R. 19) to fund the system for a further seven years. The Committee has required:
1)the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to reimburse the Social Security Administration for all costs related to the E-Verify program and
2)If DHS and the SSA cannot come to an agreement then the E-Verify program will not be funded.
The first stipulation is not outrageous, but the second provision certainly is. This is nothing more than an attempt to kill the E-Verify system, the only program available to employers to verify the identity and legality of potential employees.
Please call your Rep. and urge him/her to make sure that the E-Verify program is funded in full with no restrictions!
You are receiving this phone request because a Rep(s) from your state is either on the Ways and Means Committee, on the Judiciary Committee, or a member of the House leadership. Go to your http://numbersusa.com/actionbuffet for the phone numbers to the Reps in your State.
1)the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to reimburse the Social Security Administration for all costs related to the E-Verify program and
2)If DHS and the SSA cannot come to an agreement then the E-Verify program will not be funded.
The first stipulation is not outrageous, but the second provision certainly is. This is nothing more than an attempt to kill the E-Verify system, the only program available to employers to verify the identity and legality of potential employees.
Please call your Rep. and urge him/her to make sure that the E-Verify program is funded in full with no restrictions!
You are receiving this phone request because a Rep(s) from your state is either on the Ways and Means Committee, on the Judiciary Committee, or a member of the House leadership. Go to your http://numbersusa.com/actionbuffet for the phone numbers to the Reps in your State.
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</TD></TR><TR><TH align=left>Date: </TH><TD>Jul 9, 2008 4:55 PM</TD></TR><TR><TH>Subject: </TH><TD>How long does the U.S. have ?? - thx LadyInRed </TD></TR><TR><TH>Body: </TH><TD class=blacktextnb10 style="WORD-WRAP: break-word">----------------- Bulletin Message -----------------
From: LadyInRed
Date: Jul 9, 2008 4:05 PM
<CENTER>This is the most interesting thing I've read in a long time,
The sad thing about it, you can see it coming
I have always heard about this democracy countdown, It is interesting to see it in print, God help us, not that we deserve it!
HOW LONG DO WE HAVE?
About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh , had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier
"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government"
"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury"
"From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship"
"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years"
"During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence
1 from bondage to spiritual faith
2 from spiritual faith to great courage
3 from courage to liberty
4 from liberty to abundance
5 from abundance to complacency
6 from complacency to apathy
7 from apathy to dependence
8 from dependence back into bondage
Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St, Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the
2000 Presidential election
Number of States won by:
Democrats: 19
Republicans: 29
Square miles of land won by:
Democrats: 580,000
Republicans: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by:
Democrats: 127 million
Republicans: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents
in counties won by:
Democrats: 13
Republicans: 2
"In aggregate,
the map of the territory
Republican won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country
Democrat territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare"
Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some
forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase!
If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal's and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years!
If you are in favor of this, then by all means, delete this message
If you are not, then pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom!
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Bruce </TD></TR><TR><TH align=left>Date: </TH><TD>Jul 9, 2008 4:55 PM</TD></TR><TR><TH>Subject: </TH><TD>How long does the U.S. have ?? - thx LadyInRed </TD></TR><TR><TH>Body: </TH><TD class=blacktextnb10 style="WORD-WRAP: break-word">----------------- Bulletin Message -----------------
From: LadyInRed
Date: Jul 9, 2008 4:05 PM
<CENTER>This is the most interesting thing I've read in a long time,
The sad thing about it, you can see it coming
I have always heard about this democracy countdown, It is interesting to see it in print, God help us, not that we deserve it!
HOW LONG DO WE HAVE?
About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh , had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier
"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government"
"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury"
"From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship"
"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years"
"During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence
1 from bondage to spiritual faith
2 from spiritual faith to great courage
3 from courage to liberty
4 from liberty to abundance
5 from abundance to complacency
6 from complacency to apathy
7 from apathy to dependence
8 from dependence back into bondage
Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St, Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the
2000 Presidential election
Number of States won by:
Democrats: 19
Republicans: 29
Square miles of land won by:
Democrats: 580,000
Republicans: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by:
Democrats: 127 million
Republicans: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents
in counties won by:
Democrats: 13
Republicans: 2
"In aggregate,
the map of the territory
Republican won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country
Democrat territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare"
Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some
forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase!
If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal's and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years!
If you are in favor of this, then by all means, delete this message
If you are not, then pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom!
<CENTER>BIG HUGS
FROM
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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: Wednesday 9JUL08 6 p.m. EDT </TD></TR><TR><TD class=t1fromdatetext> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD class=t1redunderbigheader>Your phoning & faxes delivered the message ---- Plan to kill E-Verify being reconsidered </TD></TR><TR><TD class=t1thinwhitespace> </TD></TR><TR><TD class=t1letterblock vAlign=top align=left>CONGRATULATIONS, FRIENDS,
I alerted all of you earlier today on my home page blog that the U.S. House leadership was in deep backroom maneuvering to pass a convoluted amendment that would make it possible for Congress to kill the E-Verify program next year without doing anything -- and without being accountable for directly doing so.
We needed immediate mobilization of America's citizens to let the Members of the House know that the E-Verify program to keep illegal aliens out of jobs is wildly popular -- and that the citizens will pay close attention to anybody who messes with it.
You all are fantastic!
Members of the House Ways & Means and Judiciary Committees, as well as the leadership of both Parties, were hammered with phone calls and faxes all afternoon.
We have just received reassurance from our allies on the Hill that the enemies of E-Verify got the message -- at least for the moment.
Negotiations are supposed to be back on track for re-authorizing E-Verify without any seeds of self-destruction.
(Like many government programs, it has to be re-authorized every few years. If Congress doesn't re-authorize it by November, it will be eliminated, and illegal aliens will have pretty much free run of any job they want in America.)
Leaders of the U.S. House know that they would face a gigantic public backlash if they were to directly and clearly kill the popular E-Verify program, so opponents have been toying with a sneaky amendment that would allow Congress to kill E-Verify next year simply by not taking a certain kind of funding action.
As of this morning, the supporters of illegal foreign workers had worked themselves into bargaining strength to undermine E-Verify for next year. That was a departure from what we had heard from the House Democratic and Republican leadership just days ago -- that they had agreed to pass the Calvert/Shuler bill which is a 10-year re-authorization of E-Verify. The expectation was that it would be brought up next week for a floor vote.
Both Republicans and Democrats were involved in the anti-E-Verify effort.
The E-Verify program is perhaps the most effective way to drive illegal aliens out of the country.
The most pressing need right now is to make E-Verify mandatory for every employer in the country (something the SAVE Act by Rep. Shuler, D-N.C., would do).
But while the federal government stalls, many states and local governments are making E-Verify mandatory for businesses in their jurisdiction. The increasing number of governments doing this has thrown supporters of illegal immigration into a panic. They are involved in a massive campaign involving tens of millions of dollars to stop the SAVE Act from being passed and to cripple E-Verify even as a voluntary program.
NumbersUSA will be constantly vigilant and will oppose any and every attempt to weaken the current E-Verify, while doing all it can to make it mandatory.
Thanks to all of you who answered the call this afternoon.
For now, we are pulling down our phone and fax action notes. But we will come right back to you the minute we sense any new danger.
THANKS, EVERYBODY,
P.S. Please create a habit of checking the NumbersUSA home page daily to make sure you don't miss out on breaking immigration news, blogs and actions to take.
</TD></TR><TR><TD class=t1redoversmallheader vAlign=top align=left></TD></TR><TR><TD class=t1redundersmallfooter vAlign=top align=left colSpan=2>This may be a good time for you to make sure that you've let us know all of the areas you are interested in. In order to further customize the type of alerts you receive click here http://www.numbersusa.com/survey?action=longlist
As a NumbersUSA subscriber, you will receive occasional emails about immigration-related opportunities. If you want to increase or reduce the frequency of these emails, click here and choose from Total Activism, Moderate Activism, or Limited Activism at the bottom of your registration form: http://www.numbersusa.com/user
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I alerted all of you earlier today on my home page blog that the U.S. House leadership was in deep backroom maneuvering to pass a convoluted amendment that would make it possible for Congress to kill the E-Verify program next year without doing anything -- and without being accountable for directly doing so.
We needed immediate mobilization of America's citizens to let the Members of the House know that the E-Verify program to keep illegal aliens out of jobs is wildly popular -- and that the citizens will pay close attention to anybody who messes with it.
You all are fantastic!
Members of the House Ways & Means and Judiciary Committees, as well as the leadership of both Parties, were hammered with phone calls and faxes all afternoon.
We have just received reassurance from our allies on the Hill that the enemies of E-Verify got the message -- at least for the moment.
Negotiations are supposed to be back on track for re-authorizing E-Verify without any seeds of self-destruction.
(Like many government programs, it has to be re-authorized every few years. If Congress doesn't re-authorize it by November, it will be eliminated, and illegal aliens will have pretty much free run of any job they want in America.)
Leaders of the U.S. House know that they would face a gigantic public backlash if they were to directly and clearly kill the popular E-Verify program, so opponents have been toying with a sneaky amendment that would allow Congress to kill E-Verify next year simply by not taking a certain kind of funding action.
As of this morning, the supporters of illegal foreign workers had worked themselves into bargaining strength to undermine E-Verify for next year. That was a departure from what we had heard from the House Democratic and Republican leadership just days ago -- that they had agreed to pass the Calvert/Shuler bill which is a 10-year re-authorization of E-Verify. The expectation was that it would be brought up next week for a floor vote.
Both Republicans and Democrats were involved in the anti-E-Verify effort.
The E-Verify program is perhaps the most effective way to drive illegal aliens out of the country.
The most pressing need right now is to make E-Verify mandatory for every employer in the country (something the SAVE Act by Rep. Shuler, D-N.C., would do).
But while the federal government stalls, many states and local governments are making E-Verify mandatory for businesses in their jurisdiction. The increasing number of governments doing this has thrown supporters of illegal immigration into a panic. They are involved in a massive campaign involving tens of millions of dollars to stop the SAVE Act from being passed and to cripple E-Verify even as a voluntary program.
NumbersUSA will be constantly vigilant and will oppose any and every attempt to weaken the current E-Verify, while doing all it can to make it mandatory.
Thanks to all of you who answered the call this afternoon.
For now, we are pulling down our phone and fax action notes. But we will come right back to you the minute we sense any new danger.
THANKS, EVERYBODY,
P.S. Please create a habit of checking the NumbersUSA home page daily to make sure you don't miss out on breaking immigration news, blogs and actions to take.
</TD></TR><TR><TD class=t1redoversmallheader vAlign=top align=left></TD></TR><TR><TD class=t1redundersmallfooter vAlign=top align=left colSpan=2>This may be a good time for you to make sure that you've let us know all of the areas you are interested in. In order to further customize the type of alerts you receive click here http://www.numbersusa.com/survey?action=longlist
As a NumbersUSA subscriber, you will receive occasional emails about immigration-related opportunities. If you want to increase or reduce the frequency of these emails, click here and choose from Total Activism, Moderate Activism, or Limited Activism at the bottom of your registration form: http://www.numbersusa.com/user
NumbersUSA - relies upon individuals like you to reach its goal of an environmentally sustainable and economically just America.
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Dr. Chuck Baldwin
Biographical Profile
Chuck Baldwin is a citizen of the United States of America just like you and me. The difference is that he is not an elected politician offering the same old political answers. Chuck Baldwin has talked the talk and walked the walk. He doesn’t have a history of flip-flops and he does not test the wind every time he takes a position. Refreshing isn’t it? Have you ever thought what you would do if you were elected President of the United States? Chuck has done just that and he is providing the right answers to the important questions.
Chuck Baldwin was born in La Porte, Indiana on May 3, 1952. He is married to the former Miss Connie Kay Cole. Chuck and Connie were married on June 2, 1973 after meeting in college. They have three cherished and wonderful children and all three are married with families of their own.
Chuck graduated from La Porte High School in 1971 and attended Midwestern Baptist College in Pontiac, Michigan for two years. After he and Connie married and upon graduation they moved to Lynchburg, Virginia where he enrolled in Liberty Bible Institute at Liberty University. Since he earned his Bachelor and Master Degrees in Theology, Chuck has received two honorary Doctorate Degrees.
Chuck is a founder and minister at the Crossroad Baptist Church in Pensacola, FL. Under his leadership the Church was recognized by President Ronald Reagan. Many conservative political and values leaders have spoken in his church including Patrick J. Buchannan, Pueblo Intelligence Officer Lt. Commander Steve Harris, Congressman Joe Scarborough and Ambassador Alan Keys to name just a few.
Chuck Baldwin is also a radio talk show host and an accomplished author. He moderates a daily, a one hour long call-in show where he addresses current event topics from a conservative point of view. The program is considered to be the most influential voice in the Florida Panhandle for conservative principles. Thousands of citizens are informed and rally to a call to action on issues that are so important to our nation’s future.
Chuck is also a newspaper and internet columnist whose articles and political commentaries are carried by a host of internet sites, newspapers, and news magazines.
He has had the honor of meeting with former Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush, Sr. and Governors Bob Martinez, Fob James, Jr. and Jeb Bush. He has also been officially recognized by the Escambia County Florida Sheriff’s Department as an Honorary Deputy Sheriff. He received the “National Medal of Patriotism” award from the American Police Hall of Fame and is a volunteer chaplain at the State Prison in Century, Florida.
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Staff LoginDr. Chuck Baldwin
Biographical Profile
Chuck Baldwin was born in La Porte, Indiana on May 3, 1952. He is married to the former Miss Connie Kay Cole. Chuck and Connie were married on June 2, 1973 after meeting in college. They have three cherished and wonderful children and all three are married with families of their own.
Chuck graduated from La Porte High School in 1971 and attended Midwestern Baptist College in Pontiac, Michigan for two years. After he and Connie married and upon graduation they moved to Lynchburg, Virginia where he enrolled in Liberty Bible Institute at Liberty University. Since he earned his Bachelor and Master Degrees in Theology, Chuck has received two honorary Doctorate Degrees.
Chuck is a founder and minister at the Crossroad Baptist Church in Pensacola, FL. Under his leadership the Church was recognized by President Ronald Reagan. Many conservative political and values leaders have spoken in his church including Patrick J. Buchannan, Pueblo Intelligence Officer Lt. Commander Steve Harris, Congressman Joe Scarborough and Ambassador Alan Keys to name just a few.
Chuck Baldwin is also a radio talk show host and an accomplished author. He moderates a daily, a one hour long call-in show where he addresses current event topics from a conservative point of view. The program is considered to be the most influential voice in the Florida Panhandle for conservative principles. Thousands of citizens are informed and rally to a call to action on issues that are so important to our nation’s future.
Chuck is also a newspaper and internet columnist whose articles and political commentaries are carried by a host of internet sites, newspapers, and news magazines.
He has had the honor of meeting with former Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush, Sr. and Governors Bob Martinez, Fob James, Jr. and Jeb Bush. He has also been officially recognized by the Escambia County Florida Sheriff’s Department as an Honorary Deputy Sheriff. He received the “National Medal of Patriotism” award from the American Police Hall of Fame and is a volunteer chaplain at the State Prison in Century, Florida.
None of the other Candidates even come close to THIS Candidate
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Memorial day speech om illegal immigration. ......05- 26-2008
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After graduating from La Porte High School in 1971 Chuck attended Midwestern Baptist College in Pontiac, Michigan, for two years. He then married and moved to Lynchburg, Virginia. He enrolled in the Thomas Road Bible Institute (now known as the Liberty Bible Institute at Liberty University) and graduated with his Bible Diploma. He then earned his Bachelor of Theology and Master of Theology degrees via external degree programs from Christian Bible College in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Chuck received his first honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Christian Bible College. He received his second honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Trinity Baptist College in Jacksonville, Florida. On this occasion Dr. Baldwin brought the Commencement Address to a crowd of over 5,000.
He is the founder-pastor of Crossroad Baptist Church in Pensacola, Florida. Dr. Baldwin and his wife met with four others on June 22, 1975, for the first meeting of the Crossroad Baptist Church. The church was organized in September of that year. Six acres of prime property were purchased in 1978. In 1985 the church was recognized by President Ronald Reagan for its unusual growth and influence. The church has gone through five building programs and has just move into its current 750-seat auditorium and office complex. The church plans to next construct a gymnasium/youth center. Some of the choice spiritual and political leaders of the nation have spoken in this pulpit including Liberty University Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Reform Party Presidential Candidate Pat Buchanan, Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore.
He is also a radio talk show host of a lively, hard-hitting radio talk show called, "Chuck Baldwin Live." This is a daily, one hour long call-in show in which Dr. Baldwin addresses current event topics from a conservative Christian point of view. This program, which has been on the air for nearly seven years now, has been highly successful in helping to elect conservatives to local, state and national offices. "Chuck Baldwin Live" is regarded as perhaps the most influential voice in the Florida Panhandle for conservative, Christian principles. Thousands of concerned citizens are being informed and inspired to social and political activism as a direct result of this radio talk show. Chuck's guest list reads like a "Who's Who" from both the local and national scene. The program made its national debut in early May 2001 on the Genesis Communications Network.
From 1980-1984 Dr. Baldwin served as Pensacola Chairman, and then State Chairman of the Florida Moral Majority. Through these efforts many successful rallies and conferences were conducted. (One rally drew nearly 2,000 people during a driving rain storm.) Pro-family legislation was enacted, and Christians were educated as to moral-political information and involvement. Also, thousands of new conservative voters were generated.
Chuck has authored two books. The first is entitled "Subjects Seldom Spoken On" which contains eleven sermons not normally addressed. The second, "This Is The Life," is a verse-by-verse exposition of the Epistles of John. Numerous theological booklets have also been written by Dr. Baldwin, including the popular, "Let's Look at Legalism." Through his radio program Dr. Baldwin has edited and produced "The Freedom Documents." This volume contains over fifty of the most important and influential documents of American history. No where else that we know of can you find these great, historic documents under one title. Chuck also writes daily editorials that are sent to thousands of subscribers electronically. These editorial opinions are carried by several newspapers, newsletters, and Internet web sites around the country.
Chuck has appeared on virtually every local media outlet in the Pensacola, Florida area including television, radio, and newspaper. He has also appeared on national television networks, including CNN and MSNBC. ABC television news once filmed his radio broadcast for a feature story. He has appeared on prime time national news shows such as Scarborough Country on MSNBC and Anderson Cooper on CNN. He has also appeared on the German Radio Network, and the British Broadcasting Corporation's television network. Chuck has also been featured in national magazines and newspapers such as Esquire, The Miami Herald, and The Washington Times.
On May 2, 2004, Constitution Party Presidential Candidate Michael Peroutka asked Dr. Baldwin to join him as his Vice Presidential running mate for the 2004 general election. The Constitution Party officially selected Michael Peroutka as its Presidential candidate and Dr. Chuck Baldwin as its Vice Presidential candidate at its national convention in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania on June 25th and 26th, 2004.
On April 26, 2008, state delegates of the Constitution Party elected Chuck Baldwin to be their Presidential candidate during their national nominating convention in Kansas City, Missouri. Chuck won the nomination with a percentage vote of 74% to 24% over Ambassador Alan Keyes.
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Assessing Overall Candidate Promises
</TD></TR><TR bgColor=#000066><TD bgColor=#ececec>EDITOR'S NOTE: All of a candidates' actions and promises on immigration are considered in these three overarching categories --
- what do you do with the 12-20 million illegal aliens already here; <LI class=bodytext>what do you do to stop future illegal immigration, and
- what do you do to protect American workers and communities from the current peak flood of foreign workers?
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Overall Policies on Future ILLEGAL Immigration
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Overall Stance on Permanent Legal Numbers
</TD></TR><TR bgColor=#000066><TD bgColor=#ffffff>EDITOR'S NOTE: Stances on specific legal immigration categories (Chain Migration, Lottery, Worker Importation & Birthright Citizenship) are shown lower on this page. This category contains additional comments, especially any positions about what the overall annual immigration number should be. The overall grade on legal numbers on the Grid is based on this section and the four specific categories.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=#000066><TD bgColor=#ffff99>OFFICIAL STANCE on reducing LEGAL immigration numbers: "Legal immigration would be suspended or vastly reduced until the present population of new immigrants can be stabilized."</TD></TR><TR bgColor=#000066><TD bgColor=#ffffff>Please email information.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=#000066><TD bgColor=#ff0000>
Assessment of Past Immigration Actions
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Assessing Specific Stances on LEGAL IMMIGRATION
</TD></TR><TR bgColor=#000066><TD bgColor=#ffffff>EDITOR'S NOTE: Unless the following four categories of legal immigration are changed, current policies will add 100 million additional people to the United States over the next few decades.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=#000066><TD>Chain Migration
</TD></TR><TR><TD bgColor=#ffff99>OFFICIAL STANCE: "Chain migration policies would be stopped immediately. Each relative must apply on their own merits, not just relationship."</TD></TR><TR><TD>Please email information.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=#000066><TD height=39>Visa Lottery
</TD></TR><TR><TD bgColor=#ffff99>OFFICIAL STANCE: "Visa Lottery will be STOPPED."</TD></TR><TR><TD>Please email information.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=#000066><TD>IMPORTING FOREIGN WORKERS
</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=center bgColor=#ffff99>OFFICIAL STANCE: "We oppose the abuse of the H-1B and L-1 visa provisions of the immigration act which are displacing American workers with foreign."ConstitutionParty.com</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=center>Please email information.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=#000066><TD vAlign=center>Citizenship for Births to illegal Aliens
</TD></TR><TR><TD bgColor=#ffff99>OFFICIAL STANCE: Would end birthright citizenship for illegal aliens. Baldwin2008.com</TD></TR><TR><TD>Please email information.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=#000066><TD bgColor=#ff0000>Assessing Specific Stances on ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
</TD></TR><TR bgColor=#000066><TD bgColor=#ececec>EDITORS NOTE: Here are 8 very important steps needed to halt illegal immigration. Aspects not included in this section are included in the section above about Overall Policies on Future Illegal Immigration.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=#000066><TD>MANDATORY WORKPLACE VERIFICATION
</TD></TR><TR><TD bgColor=#ffff99 height=49>OFFICIAL STANCE: "Would promote and implement E-Verify to the fullest. Should states pass laws that would prohibit E-Verify (such as California is considering at this very moment), then Federal funds would be withheld until these laws are withdrawn or nullified."</TD></TR><TR><TD class=bodytext>Please email information.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=#000066><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD bgColor=#ffff99>OFFICIAL STANCE: Any employer who consciously hires illegal aliens would go to jail. Baldwin2008.com</TD></TR><TR><TD>Please email information.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=#000066><TD>
LOCAL ENFORCEMENT of IMMIGRATION
</TD></TR><TR><TD class=bodytext bgColor=#ffff99>OFFICIAL STANCE: Cities will receive full Federal government support in the local enforcement of immigration laws.</TD></TR><TR><TD class=bodytext>"If the American people will aggressively communicate with their local and state officials and insist that they put their foot down on illegal immigration, they will respond!" Newswithviews.com</TD></TR><TR bgColor=#000066><TD bgColor=#000066>
ENTRY/EXIT SYSTEM AT BORDERS
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BORDER SECURITY
</TD></TR><TR bgColor=#000066><TD bgColor=#ffff99>OFFICIAL STANCE: We will utilize whatever force is necessary, including regular military personnel, to effectively secure our borders immediately. Baldwin2008.com</TD></TR><TR bgColor=#000066><TD bgColor=#ffffff>"By sealing the borders and by cutting off the money supply to illegal aliens, the problem of illegal immigration would dry up" Baldwin2008.com</TD></TR><TR bgColor=#000066><TD bgColor=#000066>SANCTUARY CITIES POLICIES
</TD></TR><TR bgColor=#000066><TD bgColor=#ffff99>OFFICIAL STANCE on cities and states that forbid certain enforcement of immigration laws: "As President, Chuck Baldwin will apply pressure to reverse 'sanctuary' laws and will issue indictments against city councils and mayors who allow such laws to be on the books."</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top>
"Chuck would deport illegal alien invaders and financially punish entities that flaunt the law." Ogresview.com
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</TD></TR><TR bgColor=#000066><TD bgColor=#ffff99>OFFICIAL STANCE on allowing illegal aliens to obtain driver's licenses: "Absolutely no Driver's Licenses for illegal aliens, to include the withholding of Federal funds from States with such policies." Newswithviews.com</TD></TR><TR bgColor=#000066><TD class=bodytext bgColor=#ffffff>Please email information.</TD></TR><TR bgColor=#000066><TD bgColor=#000066>
STATE AID TO ILLEGAL STUDENTS
</TD></TR><TR><TD class=pleasesendinfo bgColor=#ffff99>OFFICIAL STANCE on granting illegal aliens in-state tuition, scholarships and other assistance: . . Would not allow tax dollars to be used to pay for illegal aliens’ education, social services, or medical care. Baldwin2008.com</TD></TR><TR><TD class=pleasesendinfo bgColor=#ffffff> </TD></TR><TR bgColor=#cccccc><TD>GENERAL INFORMATION - Born on May 3, 1952, to Mr. & Mrs. Edwin J. Baldwin in La Porte, Indianahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Porte,_IndianaChuck's father, Ed Baldwin was a welder by trade and a converted alcoholic.
After graduating from La Porte High School in 1971 Chuck attended Midwestern Baptist College in Pontiac, Michigan, for two years. He then married and moved to Lynchburg, Virginia. He enrolled in the Thomas Road Bible Institute (now known as the Liberty Bible Institute at Liberty University) and graduated with his Bible Diploma. He then earned his Bachelor of Theology and Master of Theology degrees via external degree programs from Christian Bible College in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Chuck received his first honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Christian Bible College. He received his second honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Trinity Baptist College in Jacksonville, Florida. On this occasion Dr. Baldwin brought the Commencement Address to a crowd of over 5,000.
He is the founder-pastor of Crossroad Baptist Church in Pensacola, Florida. Dr. Baldwin and his wife met with four others on June 22, 1975, for the first meeting of the Crossroad Baptist Church. The church was organized in September of that year. Six acres of prime property were purchased in 1978. In 1985 the church was recognized by President Ronald Reagan for its unusual growth and influence. The church has gone through five building programs and has just move into its current 750-seat auditorium and office complex. The church plans to next construct a gymnasium/youth center. Some of the choice spiritual and political leaders of the nation have spoken in this pulpit including Liberty University Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Reform Party Presidential Candidate Pat Buchanan, Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore.
He is also a radio talk show host of a lively, hard-hitting radio talk show called, "Chuck Baldwin Live." This is a daily, one hour long call-in show in which Dr. Baldwin addresses current event topics from a conservative Christian point of view. This program, which has been on the air for nearly seven years now, has been highly successful in helping to elect conservatives to local, state and national offices. "Chuck Baldwin Live" is regarded as perhaps the most influential voice in the Florida Panhandle for conservative, Christian principles. Thousands of concerned citizens are being informed and inspired to social and political activism as a direct result of this radio talk show. Chuck's guest list reads like a "Who's Who" from both the local and national scene. The program made its national debut in early May 2001 on the Genesis Communications Network.
From 1980-1984 Dr. Baldwin served as Pensacola Chairman, and then State Chairman of the Florida Moral Majority. Through these efforts many successful rallies and conferences were conducted. (One rally drew nearly 2,000 people during a driving rain storm.) Pro-family legislation was enacted, and Christians were educated as to moral-political information and involvement. Also, thousands of new conservative voters were generated.
Chuck has authored two books. The first is entitled "Subjects Seldom Spoken On" which contains eleven sermons not normally addressed. The second, "This Is The Life," is a verse-by-verse exposition of the Epistles of John. Numerous theological booklets have also been written by Dr. Baldwin, including the popular, "Let's Look at Legalism." Through his radio program Dr. Baldwin has edited and produced "The Freedom Documents." This volume contains over fifty of the most important and influential documents of American history. No where else that we know of can you find these great, historic documents under one title. Chuck also writes daily editorials that are sent to thousands of subscribers electronically. These editorial opinions are carried by several newspapers, newsletters, and Internet web sites around the country.
Chuck has appeared on virtually every local media outlet in the Pensacola, Florida area including television, radio, and newspaper. He has also appeared on national television networks, including CNN and MSNBC. ABC television news once filmed his radio broadcast for a feature story. He has appeared on prime time national news shows such as Scarborough Country on MSNBC and Anderson Cooper on CNN. He has also appeared on the German Radio Network, and the British Broadcasting Corporation's television network. Chuck has also been featured in national magazines and newspapers such as Esquire, The Miami Herald, and The Washington Times.
On May 2, 2004, Constitution Party Presidential Candidate Michael Peroutka asked Dr. Baldwin to join him as his Vice Presidential running mate for the 2004 general election. The Constitution Party officially selected Michael Peroutka as its Presidential candidate and Dr. Chuck Baldwin as its Vice Presidential candidate at its national convention in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania on June 25th and 26th, 2004.
On April 26, 2008, state delegates of the Constitution Party elected Chuck Baldwin to be their Presidential candidate during their national nominating convention in Kansas City, Missouri. Chuck won the nomination with a percentage vote of 74% to 24% over Ambassador Alan Keyes.
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Gwinette (Ga.) Daily Post – 6/22
(1) D.A. King
The Seattle Times – 6/24 (Online only)
(2) Haydee Pavia
The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer – 6/24
(3) Haydee Pavia
The Marietta (Ga.) Daily Journal – 6/25
(4) D.A. King
Daily Record (N.J.) – 6/28
(5) Lois Culhane
News-Topic (N.C.) – 7/2
(6) Tom Shuford
Montgomery County (Md.) Gazette – 7/2
(7) Al Eisner
Star-Tribune (Minn.) – 7/3
(8) Dell Erickson
The Baltimore Sun – 7/3
(9) Al Eisner
The Oregonian – 7/5
(10) Val Don Hickerson
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Gwinette (Ga.) Daily Post – 6/22
Governments fail to follow law, verify their employees
By D.A. King
A December 2005 Atlanta Journal-Constitution/Zogby poll showed that about 80 percent of Georgia citizens were fed up with the illegal immigration and illegal employment crisis and wanted the state government to address the issue.
Happily for most Georgians, in April 2006, State Sen. Chip Rogers, R-Woodstock, was successful in seeing his comprehensive reform bill, the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act (Senate Bill 529) signed into law.
On July 1, 2007, the law went into effect.
No one - including Sen. Rogers and those who lobbied for the bill - imagined that the elected officials of nearly all of the state's local governments would fail to comply with the language of the law.
But that is exactly what is happening.
SB 529 requires local governments - municipalities and counties - to obtain a Memorandum of Understanding with the federal government to use a database called the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements system to screen applicants who have sworn that they are in the U.S. lawfully and are eligible for what the feds call "public benefits."
Of the 535 municipalities and 159 counties in the state, an April list provided by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security shows that a grand total of nine entities are either enrolled in SAVE or have applied for the system designed to verify that public benefits go to those who are eligible.
Gwinnett County and all of its cities are among the governments absent from the list.
While the term "public benefits" brings to mind welfare and social benefits, according to the law, they also include all "professional licenses, or commercial licenses provided by an agency of a State or local government or by appropriated funds of a State or local government" (8USC1621).
Each time a Georgia city or county issues or renews a business or commercial license without obtaining a sworn affidavit of citizenship or lawful presence in the U.S. from the applicant - and then verifying that status using the SAVE program - that local government is in clear violation of the law.
Sadly, violating laws aimed at illegal employment and illegal immigration is not a rarity these days.
In a war on terror and with brave border patrol agents risking their lives to apprehend illegal border crossers from all over the world, the concept that we would reward those who elude apprehension with a business license seems unproductive.
Not to mention illegal.
SB 529 also requires all public employers - the state itself and local governments are employers - to use the no-cost federal E-Verify database to be sure that newly hired employees have legal immigration status and are eligible to work in our nation.
On that, the local governments aren't doing so well, either.
Nearly half of Georgia's county governments have not obtained authority to use E-Verify. When it comes to the Georgia municipalities, the numbers get even worse: The Atlanta Business Chronicle recently reported that "only about one-quarter of Georgia cities had signed up for the program."
Georgians should be asking how many illegals are being paid with taxpayer funds because of the non-compliance.
Some contractors doing business with government are also required to use E-Verify and on July 1, many more will come under the rule.
One can only imagine the howls were the same governments to refuse to enforce the laws that grant taxpayer-funded education and medical care to those who have no legal right to live or work in our nation.
While some who profit from continued non-compliance will likely vehemently come out against enforcing Sen. Rogers' law, most Americans should be asking why their own local governments are not obeying it. After all, it is an election year.
D.A. King is president of the Georgia-based Dustin Inman Society, which is opposed to illegal immigration and illegal employment
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The Seattle Times – 6/24 (Online only)
Another sob story
The illegal alien sob stories are starting to flood newspaper pages again.
So Julie Quiroz's mother struggles while deported?
I am a law-abiding, taxpayer Hispanic U.S. citizen and I live in California, ground zero and the welfare state for illegal aliens. It costs my state $10.5 billion a year to educate, medicate and incarcerate illegal aliens. California has a $20 billion budget deficit.
It is not a matter of if but when California succeeds in overturning Proposition 13 to raise property taxes to care for illegal aliens.
When that happens, I will lose my home because I will not be able to pay higher taxes on it. I am a senior citizen on a fixed income who paid her taxes and obeyed the laws of her country. How do you like that for a sob story? Will a benefactor come to my aid? I think not.
Haydee Pavia
Laguna Woods, Calif.
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The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer – 6/24
Corrupt government won't enforce immigration laws
I have news for Sen. Dole. We don't need immigration reform. We need government reform.
Our elected officials have become so corrupt they no longer want to enforce our immigration laws, preferring to accommodate their patrons, those greedy merchants who benefit from taxpayer-subsidized cheap foreign labor.
Haydee Pavia
Laguna Woods, Calif.
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The Marietta (Ga.) Daily Journal – 6/25
D. A. King: Cobb, cities turn blind eye to new law on illegal immigration
By D. A. King
Guest Columnist
It's impossible to say how many illegal aliens - including potential terrorists - have been enabled, encouraged and rewarded with business licenses by Cobb County and its six cities since last July.
The tools provided from keeping exactly that from happening are not being used here, and we may never know - but even one is too many.
What we do know is that these governments are among the huge majority of local governments in Georgia that have failed to comply with state Senator Chip Rogers' (R- Cobb) 2006 Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act (SB 529).
SB 529 requires that local governments - municipalities and counties - obtain a "Memorandum of Understanding" (MOU) with the federal government to use a federal data-base called the "Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements" (SAVE) system to screen non-citizen applicants who have sworn that they are in the U.S. lawfully and are eligible for what the feds call "public benefits."
Of the 535 municipalities and 159 counties in the state, a June 23 list provided by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security shows that a grand total of nine entities in Georgia are authorized to use the SAVE program - which is designed to verify that public benefits go to those who are eligible.
While the term "public benefits" brings to mind welfare and social benefits, according to the law, they also include all "professional licenses, or commercial licenses provided by an agency of a State or local government or by appropriated funds of a State or local government." That includes issuing and renewing these little local revenue enhancing permits.
Alone among the Cobb governments, the county is the only one to have bothered to obey the law and enroll in SAVE - but it is not using the system to verify applicants for business licenses.
I know. As the president of an unincorporated Cobb-based corporation, the nonprofit Dustin Inman Society, last week, I (belatedly) applied for and received a "Cobb County Business License, Business Registration, Occupational Tax Certificate."
Ours is marked "Regular License."
SB 529 is essentially a state law saying that in Georgia, we must obey and help enforce long standing federal law. What a concept.
Under that law, what is supposed to happen when someone applies for a public benefit is that he or she must sign an affidavit swearing that they are either a U.S. citizen or a "qualified alien" lawfully present in the United States. If it is the latter, the applicant's eligibility (using immigration status) for public benefits must be verified using the SAVE system.
When I made my application, I was not required to show any ID and was never asked to complete or sign the mandated affidavit.
On issuing business licenses, Cobb County is in clear violation of the law. As is Marietta and every other city in Cobb.
Because this longtime American studies immigration and the laws that are meant to regulate that process, I know how dry and boringly "political" all of this can sound to people who don't spend all day monitoring the crimes of illegal immigration, illegal employment and illegally obtaining - and dispensing - public benefits.
Think about it this way: Right now, brave Border Patrol agents are risking their lives to do what they can to stop illegal immigration into our children's nation.
Those illegal aliens who escape apprehension at our borders and make it to Cobb County can go get a business license and begin to look for a better life - courtesy of our local governments. The same governments we count on to protect us from the costly realities of illegal immigration and the same governments charged with implementing key parts of the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act. Feel safer?
If the gravity of this state of affairs still does not hit the reader, think about this: How loud would the howls be if the same governments were to refuse to enforce the laws that grant taxpayer-funded education and medical care to illegals?
SB 529 was signed into law by Gov. Sonny Perdue more than two years ago and went into effect almost exactly a year ago. Sadly, there is much more to this story of government non-compliance. Stay tuned.
A widely recognized authority on illegal immigration, D.A. King is president of the Cobb-based Dustin Inman Society, named after a Georgia youth who lost his life to illegal immigration.
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Daily Record (N.J.) – 6/28
Illegal Immigrants and College
Why no stories about taxpayers?
To the Editor:
Rather than giving in-state college tuition to illegal aliens, how about giving college scholarships to New Jersey residents? There is certainly a better use of my tax dollars than subsidizing people who have no right to live in my country. I notice that all of these news articles start with a sob story for the illegal alien. Why not start with a story on the horrific tax burden New Jerseyans bear for illegal alien benefits like Section 8 housing and food stamps and free hospitalization and free education for illegals?
Felipe Vargas already received $80,000 in free education from New Jersey taxpayers. That is $80,000 that should have gone to a legal American student. Although Vargas was brought here as a child, his parents were quite aware that they were entering the country illegally. When you break the law, you pay the consequences. I would suggest that Vargas attend a university in the country in which he is a legal resident. I am sure that he speaks fluent Spanish, so language is not an issue. Vargas is now at an age where he understands his illegal status. He and his family need to leave the country and apply for legal status just like legal immigrants have done for more than 100 years.
As an aside, why don't you write a story about the horrific effects of illegal immigration on U.S. citizens? How about the $320 billion legal citizens pay per year for illegal benefits? How about the 25 Americans murdered each day by illegals? How about the hospitals going bankrupt due to free care to illegals who have baby after baby, year after year, with nary a thought to paying for these children? How about the additional taxes we are paying for people who have no right to be here? I see many sympathy stories for illegals. How about one for the American taxpayer for a change?
Lois Culhane
Manalapan, N.J.
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News-Topic (N.C.) – 7/2
The consequences of enrolling illegal immigrants
The intersection of illegal immigration with education has large consequences.
The immediate issue: Should students illegally living in North Carolina be admitted to our community college system? The numbers seeking admission are small. "If they' re willing to pay their own way," writes Edward Terry, "Why deny them an education?" ("Education is no Battlefield, " June 26).
There would be unintended consequences. The admission of illegal immigrants to community colleges would ratchet up pressure to take the next logical step: granting a path to citizenship to such students. On reaching age 21, the students could petition to legalize their illegal alien parents. Legalization of illegal students would thus reward the illegal behavior of the parents, ensuring more of the same. It would also put in motion chain migration of extended family --- thanks to the generous "family reunification" provisions of the 1965 Immigration Act.
That's higher ed.
The major impact of illegal immigration on education is at the K-12 level. In 1977, lawyers for a group of children illegally in Texas sued the state seeking a free public education. The case, Plyler v. Doe, eventually reached the Supreme Court, which in 1982 ruled, 5 to 4, that the children were entitled to free taxpayer-funded schooling.*
The constitutional language on which the decision was based is from the 14th Amendment: "No State shall . . . deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
The 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868, was meant to secure the rights of newly freed slaves, that is, American citizens. The Amendment's vague, sweeping language, however, has potential for expansive interpretations of all sorts. That potential was tapped by a liberal court majority in 1982.
Plyler v. Doe has transformed --- is transforming --- neighborhoods and communities across the nation. In the process, it is normalizing illegal immigration.
Chief Justice Warren Burger, writing for the dissenting minority, concluded with a common-sense observation many readers will appreciate:
"The major flaw in the court's reasoning, of course, is that illegal aliens are not, by definition, citizens of the United States. No matter how you parse it, the equal protection clause just does not apply to people who are in this country illegally. They aren't Americans."
Tom Shuford
Lenoir, N.C.
(7)
Montgomery County (Md.) Gazette – 7/2
Stop support for day labor centers
Dozens of people from Help Save Maryland participated in the June 21 rally against the taxpayer-funded day labor centers in Derwood and Silver Spring.
Help Save Maryland has opposed the establishment and funding of these centers from the beginning. But there are liberals in this state who actually believe that the illegal immigrants who use these day labor centers are the backbone of our economy. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The public should wake up and stop supporting these centers.
Al Eisner
Wheaton, Md.
(8)
Star-Tribune (Minn.) – 7/3
Labor deficiencies?
American solutions
Ronald Bosrock's June 30 column about skill-based immigration says the world's labor is the labor market for U.S. corporations. Bosrock failed to mention that our governments, colleges, universities and corporations have the responsibility for solving any alleged skill-based labor deficiencies. In short, alleged problems are to be resolved by Americans.
If an increase in skills-based immigration is considered, then the following must be implemented first:
• Such immigration must be a part of the total immigration quota (including illegal aliens);
• All illegal aliens are deported and genuine border security is implemented.
• Immigration practices and policy are transferred to the Labor Department.
• All claimed shortages filled by foreign labor must be temporary, and workers must return annually to their homeland and reapply.
• The practice of allowing instant citizenship of any baby born and family "re-unification" must be denied.
• Colleges and universities must have in place the curricula to match alleged needs, and employers must have programs to provide Americans with the skills alleged to be lacking.
Dell Erikson
Minneapolis
(9)
The Baltimore Sun – 7/3
Immigration raid a good first step
Kudos to law enforcement in Anne Arundel County for being proactive in enforcing the laws against illegal immigration ("46 held in immigration sweep," July 1).
Nearly four dozen people remain in federal custody after one of the biggest illegal immigration busts in Maryland in recent years.
Federal and county officers raided 15 houses in search of illegal aliens who have been working for Annapolis Painting Services Inc.
Of course, Casa de Maryland responded to the raid with a protest ("Advocates rally after raid, arrests," July 2).
But Anne Arundel County did the right thing. I hope that Montgomery County will now take a cue from its neighbor and do its job by enforcing the law and ridding this sanctuary for illegal immigrants of some of those immigrants.
Al Eisner
Wheaton, Md.
(10)
The Oregonian – 7/5
No more sanctuary
Thank you for printing the article "ID rules tightening for driver's licenses" (June 29). Finally, our state is moving away from being a "sanctuary" for illegal immigrants. Two years ago, The Pew Hispanic Center estimated that Oregon had 175,000 illegal immigrants.
Illegal immigrants cam here from as far away as the East Coast because Oregon was the only state west of the Mississippi that knowingly issued them driver's licenses. They then returned home and used the Oregon license to obtain one in their home state.
Without this incentive, let's hope that many of those 175,000 in Oregon will leave, stop overcrowding our roads, schools, hospitals, and prisons at taxpayers expense and stop decreasing wages for legal Americans by working for less.
Val Don Hickerson
Bandon, Ore.
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Gwinette (Ga.) Daily Post – 6/22
(1) D.A. King
The Seattle Times – 6/24 (Online only)
(2) Haydee Pavia
The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer – 6/24
(3) Haydee Pavia
The Marietta (Ga.) Daily Journal – 6/25
(4) D.A. King
Daily Record (N.J.) – 6/28
(5) Lois Culhane
News-Topic (N.C.) – 7/2
(6) Tom Shuford
Montgomery County (Md.) Gazette – 7/2
(7) Al Eisner
Star-Tribune (Minn.) – 7/3
(8) Dell Erickson
The Baltimore Sun – 7/3
(9) Al Eisner
The Oregonian – 7/5
(10) Val Don Hickerson
(1)
Gwinette (Ga.) Daily Post – 6/22
Governments fail to follow law, verify their employees
By D.A. King
A December 2005 Atlanta Journal-Constitution/Zogby poll showed that about 80 percent of Georgia citizens were fed up with the illegal immigration and illegal employment crisis and wanted the state government to address the issue.
Happily for most Georgians, in April 2006, State Sen. Chip Rogers, R-Woodstock, was successful in seeing his comprehensive reform bill, the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act (Senate Bill 529) signed into law.
On July 1, 2007, the law went into effect.
No one - including Sen. Rogers and those who lobbied for the bill - imagined that the elected officials of nearly all of the state's local governments would fail to comply with the language of the law.
But that is exactly what is happening.
SB 529 requires local governments - municipalities and counties - to obtain a Memorandum of Understanding with the federal government to use a database called the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements system to screen applicants who have sworn that they are in the U.S. lawfully and are eligible for what the feds call "public benefits."
Of the 535 municipalities and 159 counties in the state, an April list provided by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security shows that a grand total of nine entities are either enrolled in SAVE or have applied for the system designed to verify that public benefits go to those who are eligible.
Gwinnett County and all of its cities are among the governments absent from the list.
While the term "public benefits" brings to mind welfare and social benefits, according to the law, they also include all "professional licenses, or commercial licenses provided by an agency of a State or local government or by appropriated funds of a State or local government" (8USC1621).
Each time a Georgia city or county issues or renews a business or commercial license without obtaining a sworn affidavit of citizenship or lawful presence in the U.S. from the applicant - and then verifying that status using the SAVE program - that local government is in clear violation of the law.
Sadly, violating laws aimed at illegal employment and illegal immigration is not a rarity these days.
In a war on terror and with brave border patrol agents risking their lives to apprehend illegal border crossers from all over the world, the concept that we would reward those who elude apprehension with a business license seems unproductive.
Not to mention illegal.
SB 529 also requires all public employers - the state itself and local governments are employers - to use the no-cost federal E-Verify database to be sure that newly hired employees have legal immigration status and are eligible to work in our nation.
On that, the local governments aren't doing so well, either.
Nearly half of Georgia's county governments have not obtained authority to use E-Verify. When it comes to the Georgia municipalities, the numbers get even worse: The Atlanta Business Chronicle recently reported that "only about one-quarter of Georgia cities had signed up for the program."
Georgians should be asking how many illegals are being paid with taxpayer funds because of the non-compliance.
Some contractors doing business with government are also required to use E-Verify and on July 1, many more will come under the rule.
One can only imagine the howls were the same governments to refuse to enforce the laws that grant taxpayer-funded education and medical care to those who have no legal right to live or work in our nation.
While some who profit from continued non-compliance will likely vehemently come out against enforcing Sen. Rogers' law, most Americans should be asking why their own local governments are not obeying it. After all, it is an election year.
D.A. King is president of the Georgia-based Dustin Inman Society, which is opposed to illegal immigration and illegal employment
(2)
The Seattle Times – 6/24 (Online only)
Another sob story
The illegal alien sob stories are starting to flood newspaper pages again.
So Julie Quiroz's mother struggles while deported?
I am a law-abiding, taxpayer Hispanic U.S. citizen and I live in California, ground zero and the welfare state for illegal aliens. It costs my state $10.5 billion a year to educate, medicate and incarcerate illegal aliens. California has a $20 billion budget deficit.
It is not a matter of if but when California succeeds in overturning Proposition 13 to raise property taxes to care for illegal aliens.
When that happens, I will lose my home because I will not be able to pay higher taxes on it. I am a senior citizen on a fixed income who paid her taxes and obeyed the laws of her country. How do you like that for a sob story? Will a benefactor come to my aid? I think not.
Haydee Pavia
Laguna Woods, Calif.
(3)
The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer – 6/24
Corrupt government won't enforce immigration laws
I have news for Sen. Dole. We don't need immigration reform. We need government reform.
Our elected officials have become so corrupt they no longer want to enforce our immigration laws, preferring to accommodate their patrons, those greedy merchants who benefit from taxpayer-subsidized cheap foreign labor.
Haydee Pavia
Laguna Woods, Calif.
(4)
The Marietta (Ga.) Daily Journal – 6/25
D. A. King: Cobb, cities turn blind eye to new law on illegal immigration
By D. A. King
Guest Columnist
It's impossible to say how many illegal aliens - including potential terrorists - have been enabled, encouraged and rewarded with business licenses by Cobb County and its six cities since last July.
The tools provided from keeping exactly that from happening are not being used here, and we may never know - but even one is too many.
What we do know is that these governments are among the huge majority of local governments in Georgia that have failed to comply with state Senator Chip Rogers' (R- Cobb) 2006 Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act (SB 529).
SB 529 requires that local governments - municipalities and counties - obtain a "Memorandum of Understanding" (MOU) with the federal government to use a federal data-base called the "Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements" (SAVE) system to screen non-citizen applicants who have sworn that they are in the U.S. lawfully and are eligible for what the feds call "public benefits."
Of the 535 municipalities and 159 counties in the state, a June 23 list provided by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security shows that a grand total of nine entities in Georgia are authorized to use the SAVE program - which is designed to verify that public benefits go to those who are eligible.
While the term "public benefits" brings to mind welfare and social benefits, according to the law, they also include all "professional licenses, or commercial licenses provided by an agency of a State or local government or by appropriated funds of a State or local government." That includes issuing and renewing these little local revenue enhancing permits.
Alone among the Cobb governments, the county is the only one to have bothered to obey the law and enroll in SAVE - but it is not using the system to verify applicants for business licenses.
I know. As the president of an unincorporated Cobb-based corporation, the nonprofit Dustin Inman Society, last week, I (belatedly) applied for and received a "Cobb County Business License, Business Registration, Occupational Tax Certificate."
Ours is marked "Regular License."
SB 529 is essentially a state law saying that in Georgia, we must obey and help enforce long standing federal law. What a concept.
Under that law, what is supposed to happen when someone applies for a public benefit is that he or she must sign an affidavit swearing that they are either a U.S. citizen or a "qualified alien" lawfully present in the United States. If it is the latter, the applicant's eligibility (using immigration status) for public benefits must be verified using the SAVE system.
When I made my application, I was not required to show any ID and was never asked to complete or sign the mandated affidavit.
On issuing business licenses, Cobb County is in clear violation of the law. As is Marietta and every other city in Cobb.
Because this longtime American studies immigration and the laws that are meant to regulate that process, I know how dry and boringly "political" all of this can sound to people who don't spend all day monitoring the crimes of illegal immigration, illegal employment and illegally obtaining - and dispensing - public benefits.
Think about it this way: Right now, brave Border Patrol agents are risking their lives to do what they can to stop illegal immigration into our children's nation.
Those illegal aliens who escape apprehension at our borders and make it to Cobb County can go get a business license and begin to look for a better life - courtesy of our local governments. The same governments we count on to protect us from the costly realities of illegal immigration and the same governments charged with implementing key parts of the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act. Feel safer?
If the gravity of this state of affairs still does not hit the reader, think about this: How loud would the howls be if the same governments were to refuse to enforce the laws that grant taxpayer-funded education and medical care to illegals?
SB 529 was signed into law by Gov. Sonny Perdue more than two years ago and went into effect almost exactly a year ago. Sadly, there is much more to this story of government non-compliance. Stay tuned.
A widely recognized authority on illegal immigration, D.A. King is president of the Cobb-based Dustin Inman Society, named after a Georgia youth who lost his life to illegal immigration.
(5)
Daily Record (N.J.) – 6/28
Illegal Immigrants and College
Why no stories about taxpayers?
To the Editor:
Rather than giving in-state college tuition to illegal aliens, how about giving college scholarships to New Jersey residents? There is certainly a better use of my tax dollars than subsidizing people who have no right to live in my country. I notice that all of these news articles start with a sob story for the illegal alien. Why not start with a story on the horrific tax burden New Jerseyans bear for illegal alien benefits like Section 8 housing and food stamps and free hospitalization and free education for illegals?
Felipe Vargas already received $80,000 in free education from New Jersey taxpayers. That is $80,000 that should have gone to a legal American student. Although Vargas was brought here as a child, his parents were quite aware that they were entering the country illegally. When you break the law, you pay the consequences. I would suggest that Vargas attend a university in the country in which he is a legal resident. I am sure that he speaks fluent Spanish, so language is not an issue. Vargas is now at an age where he understands his illegal status. He and his family need to leave the country and apply for legal status just like legal immigrants have done for more than 100 years.
As an aside, why don't you write a story about the horrific effects of illegal immigration on U.S. citizens? How about the $320 billion legal citizens pay per year for illegal benefits? How about the 25 Americans murdered each day by illegals? How about the hospitals going bankrupt due to free care to illegals who have baby after baby, year after year, with nary a thought to paying for these children? How about the additional taxes we are paying for people who have no right to be here? I see many sympathy stories for illegals. How about one for the American taxpayer for a change?
Lois Culhane
Manalapan, N.J.
(6)
News-Topic (N.C.) – 7/2
The consequences of enrolling illegal immigrants
The intersection of illegal immigration with education has large consequences.
The immediate issue: Should students illegally living in North Carolina be admitted to our community college system? The numbers seeking admission are small. "If they' re willing to pay their own way," writes Edward Terry, "Why deny them an education?" ("Education is no Battlefield, " June 26).
There would be unintended consequences. The admission of illegal immigrants to community colleges would ratchet up pressure to take the next logical step: granting a path to citizenship to such students. On reaching age 21, the students could petition to legalize their illegal alien parents. Legalization of illegal students would thus reward the illegal behavior of the parents, ensuring more of the same. It would also put in motion chain migration of extended family --- thanks to the generous "family reunification" provisions of the 1965 Immigration Act.
That's higher ed.
The major impact of illegal immigration on education is at the K-12 level. In 1977, lawyers for a group of children illegally in Texas sued the state seeking a free public education. The case, Plyler v. Doe, eventually reached the Supreme Court, which in 1982 ruled, 5 to 4, that the children were entitled to free taxpayer-funded schooling.*
The constitutional language on which the decision was based is from the 14th Amendment: "No State shall . . . deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
The 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868, was meant to secure the rights of newly freed slaves, that is, American citizens. The Amendment's vague, sweeping language, however, has potential for expansive interpretations of all sorts. That potential was tapped by a liberal court majority in 1982.
Plyler v. Doe has transformed --- is transforming --- neighborhoods and communities across the nation. In the process, it is normalizing illegal immigration.
Chief Justice Warren Burger, writing for the dissenting minority, concluded with a common-sense observation many readers will appreciate:
"The major flaw in the court's reasoning, of course, is that illegal aliens are not, by definition, citizens of the United States. No matter how you parse it, the equal protection clause just does not apply to people who are in this country illegally. They aren't Americans."
Tom Shuford
Lenoir, N.C.
(7)
Montgomery County (Md.) Gazette – 7/2
Stop support for day labor centers
Dozens of people from Help Save Maryland participated in the June 21 rally against the taxpayer-funded day labor centers in Derwood and Silver Spring.
Help Save Maryland has opposed the establishment and funding of these centers from the beginning. But there are liberals in this state who actually believe that the illegal immigrants who use these day labor centers are the backbone of our economy. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The public should wake up and stop supporting these centers.
Al Eisner
Wheaton, Md.
(8)
Star-Tribune (Minn.) – 7/3
Labor deficiencies?
American solutions
Ronald Bosrock's June 30 column about skill-based immigration says the world's labor is the labor market for U.S. corporations. Bosrock failed to mention that our governments, colleges, universities and corporations have the responsibility for solving any alleged skill-based labor deficiencies. In short, alleged problems are to be resolved by Americans.
If an increase in skills-based immigration is considered, then the following must be implemented first:
• Such immigration must be a part of the total immigration quota (including illegal aliens);
• All illegal aliens are deported and genuine border security is implemented.
• Immigration practices and policy are transferred to the Labor Department.
• All claimed shortages filled by foreign labor must be temporary, and workers must return annually to their homeland and reapply.
• The practice of allowing instant citizenship of any baby born and family "re-unification" must be denied.
• Colleges and universities must have in place the curricula to match alleged needs, and employers must have programs to provide Americans with the skills alleged to be lacking.
Dell Erikson
Minneapolis
(9)
The Baltimore Sun – 7/3
Immigration raid a good first step
Kudos to law enforcement in Anne Arundel County for being proactive in enforcing the laws against illegal immigration ("46 held in immigration sweep," July 1).
Nearly four dozen people remain in federal custody after one of the biggest illegal immigration busts in Maryland in recent years.
Federal and county officers raided 15 houses in search of illegal aliens who have been working for Annapolis Painting Services Inc.
Of course, Casa de Maryland responded to the raid with a protest ("Advocates rally after raid, arrests," July 2).
But Anne Arundel County did the right thing. I hope that Montgomery County will now take a cue from its neighbor and do its job by enforcing the law and ridding this sanctuary for illegal immigrants of some of those immigrants.
Al Eisner
Wheaton, Md.
(10)
The Oregonian – 7/5
No more sanctuary
Thank you for printing the article "ID rules tightening for driver's licenses" (June 29). Finally, our state is moving away from being a "sanctuary" for illegal immigrants. Two years ago, The Pew Hispanic Center estimated that Oregon had 175,000 illegal immigrants.
Illegal immigrants cam here from as far away as the East Coast because Oregon was the only state west of the Mississippi that knowingly issued them driver's licenses. They then returned home and used the Oregon license to obtain one in their home state.
Without this incentive, let's hope that many of those 175,000 in Oregon will leave, stop overcrowding our roads, schools, hospitals, and prisons at taxpayers expense and stop decreasing wages for legal Americans by working for less.
Val Don Hickerson
Bandon, Ore.
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2nd Immigration Law Firm Under Fire for Stiffing U.S. Workers
By Norm Matloff, Thursday, July 10, 2008, 11:24 AM
In this press release found below, the Department of Labor (DOL) announced that it has initiated a "supervised recruitment" action with Cohen & Grigsby, the immigration law firm of "TubeGate" fame. This is the firm whose videos on YouTube showed employers how to legally avoid hiring Americans when they are sponsoring a foreign worker for a green card. DOL now will be giving Cohen & Grigsby's green card applications extra scrutiny.
This comes on the heels of DOL's having initiated an audit of Fragomen, the nation's largest immigration law firm, also on alleged irregularities in the green card process. (Read my previous blog on this)
As I've said before, I believe that both firms have been complying with the law and regulations. What they've been doing is ugly but legal. This of course illustrates my frequent theme that the employers and immigration lawyers don't have to cheat, as the gaping loopholes make it easy to circumvent the spirit of the law while staying within the letter of the law.
Why, then, is the DOL going after these two firms? My guess is that it's for show, to divert attention from the real issues, which are the loopholes. This has been a favorite tactic of the industry lobbyists.
On the other hand, it could be an issue of pride. Though the DOL has clearly been politicized, there are some there who don't view their jobs as tools of Big Business. I can imagine them having the feeling that the employers and lawyers are humiliating them and making a mockery of their jobs, causing an intense desire among some in DOL to take action to show that DOL has some backbone.
Below you'll find an editorial on DOL's action in Immigration Daily, a publication by ILW for immigration lawyers. ILW has been highly critical of--"hostile toward" would be a more accurate description--DOL for its action with Fragomen, and now is equally outraged by the new sanction on Cohen & Grigsby. ILW's view of the two cases is just as interesting as the sanctions themselves, because ILW admits that, as it stated in an earlier editorial on the Fragomen case (http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/Archive/Fragomen2.txt), the law and regulations as written do NOT protect American workers.
Both of the articles below, one from DOL and the other from ILW, point out something often overlooked in the H-1B/green card debate: The law itself (INA 212(a)(5)(A)) states that no alien may be admitted to the U.S. for employment unless the Sec. of Labor finds that there is a labor shortage in the field. DOL must then write regulations to implement that law (the reference to "20 CFR 656" below). Those regs require the employer who wishes to sponsor a foreigner for a green card to advertise the job etc. That already creates a huge loophole, as there is no requirement that the employer really try to fill the job with an American. (Ironically, the law for H-1B-dependent employers does have such a requirement.) See the point? The law requires the Sec. of Labor to insure that Americans get hiring priority, but neither the law nor the regs directly require the employer to make a good faith effort to hire an American; the only requirement is indirect, by directing the employer to place newspaper ads and so on. This loophole is subtle but huge. There are many other loopholes as well, which is why I believe that Cohen & Grigsby did comply with the law and regs.
Again, these regs have huge loopholes--placed there under pressure from the immigration lawyers, mind you--but ILW contends that DOL shouldn't be doing even that much.
Once again, the real import of these two actions is not that the law firms violated green card law, but rather that they legally exploited very bad features of that law. I hope that Congress keeps this in mind as it comes under increasing pressure to liberalize the employment-based green card programs. The Fragomen and Cohen & Grigsby cases, plus ILW's correct admission that the law and regs do not protect American workers, should be seen by Congress as clear evidence that the green card programs should NOT be expanded. I hope they realize this and have the courage to resist the industry's pressure. I'll have more to say about this, including some interesting new information on the Fragomen case, in the next day or two.
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By Norm Matloff, Thursday, July 10, 2008, 11:24 AM
This comes on the heels of DOL's having initiated an audit of Fragomen, the nation's largest immigration law firm, also on alleged irregularities in the green card process. (Read my previous blog on this)
As I've said before, I believe that both firms have been complying with the law and regulations. What they've been doing is ugly but legal. This of course illustrates my frequent theme that the employers and immigration lawyers don't have to cheat, as the gaping loopholes make it easy to circumvent the spirit of the law while staying within the letter of the law.
Why, then, is the DOL going after these two firms? My guess is that it's for show, to divert attention from the real issues, which are the loopholes. This has been a favorite tactic of the industry lobbyists.
On the other hand, it could be an issue of pride. Though the DOL has clearly been politicized, there are some there who don't view their jobs as tools of Big Business. I can imagine them having the feeling that the employers and lawyers are humiliating them and making a mockery of their jobs, causing an intense desire among some in DOL to take action to show that DOL has some backbone.
Below you'll find an editorial on DOL's action in Immigration Daily, a publication by ILW for immigration lawyers. ILW has been highly critical of--"hostile toward" would be a more accurate description--DOL for its action with Fragomen, and now is equally outraged by the new sanction on Cohen & Grigsby. ILW's view of the two cases is just as interesting as the sanctions themselves, because ILW admits that, as it stated in an earlier editorial on the Fragomen case (http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/Archive/Fragomen2.txt), the law and regulations as written do NOT protect American workers.
Both of the articles below, one from DOL and the other from ILW, point out something often overlooked in the H-1B/green card debate: The law itself (INA 212(a)(5)(A)) states that no alien may be admitted to the U.S. for employment unless the Sec. of Labor finds that there is a labor shortage in the field. DOL must then write regulations to implement that law (the reference to "20 CFR 656" below). Those regs require the employer who wishes to sponsor a foreigner for a green card to advertise the job etc. That already creates a huge loophole, as there is no requirement that the employer really try to fill the job with an American. (Ironically, the law for H-1B-dependent employers does have such a requirement.) See the point? The law requires the Sec. of Labor to insure that Americans get hiring priority, but neither the law nor the regs directly require the employer to make a good faith effort to hire an American; the only requirement is indirect, by directing the employer to place newspaper ads and so on. This loophole is subtle but huge. There are many other loopholes as well, which is why I believe that Cohen & Grigsby did comply with the law and regs.
Again, these regs have huge loopholes--placed there under pressure from the immigration lawyers, mind you--but ILW contends that DOL shouldn't be doing even that much.
Once again, the real import of these two actions is not that the law firms violated green card law, but rather that they legally exploited very bad features of that law. I hope that Congress keeps this in mind as it comes under increasing pressure to liberalize the employment-based green card programs. The Fragomen and Cohen & Grigsby cases, plus ILW's correct admission that the law and regs do not protect American workers, should be seen by Congress as clear evidence that the green card programs should NOT be expanded. I hope they realize this and have the courage to resist the industry's pressure. I'll have more to say about this, including some interesting new information on the Fragomen case, in the next day or two.
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U.S. Department of Labor Initiates Supervised Recruitment of Permanent Labor Certification Applications Filed by Immigration Law Firm
The U.S. Department of Labor today announced that it has begun placing pending permanent labor certification applications filed by the Cohen & Grigsby law firm into department-supervised recruitment. Supervised recruitment requires the employer to receive advance approval from the department for all recruitment efforts to ensure that U.S. workers are fully considered for available positions.
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DOL Grasps At Straws
DOL issued yet another press release about yet another law firm: "Last year,the department began auditing applications filed by Cohen & Grigsby as aresult of information indicating the firm may have improperly advised itsclients regarding the recruitment of U.S. workers. Because of concerns identified in the audits, the department is requiring supervised recruitment for certain applications filed by Cohen & Grigsby." Contradicting itself on the same page, the press release says that DOL had "begun placing pending permanent labor certification applications filed by the Cohen & Grigsby law firm into department supervised recruitment." Which is it - certain applications or all pending applications?
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Thursday, we told you about backroom efforts to add a destructive amendment to a bill to reauthorize E-Verify. The proposed changes could render the program all but worthless if they were added to the bill. Your calls have made a difference and FAIR has confirmed that House Members are negotiating language to reauthorize E-Verify.
Background on the Backroom Maneuver:
What we know today:
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Thursday, we told you about backroom efforts to add a destructive amendment to a bill to reauthorize E-Verify. The proposed changes could render the program all but worthless if they were added to the bill. Your calls have made a difference and FAIR has confirmed that House Members are negotiating language to reauthorize E-Verify.
Background on the Backroom Maneuver:
- E-Verify is the electronic employment authorization system Homeland Security maintains in conjunction with the Social Security Administration. Voluntary use of this system is growing rapidly and states are beginning to require local contractors and businesses to use it to help stop the employment of illegal aliens.
- Under federal statute, E-Verify is set to expire in November.
- Should Congress fail to reauthorize the program by November, the law that created E-Verify will expire and this vital program to fight illegal immigration will cease to exist. Time is running out as there are only a few weeks left to conduct business before Congress recesses for election campaigning.
- Over the past few weeks, House Leadership planned to bring Rep. Ken Calvert's (R-CA) bill to reauthorize E-Verify to the floor.
- Thursday, FAIR learned from a number of Capitol Hill sources about backroom efforts to add destructive language to this bill.
- Hill staffers told us that new language, offered by Rep. Sam Johnson (R-TX), would:
- Require the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to enter into an agreement with the Social Security Administration (SSA) to reimburse SSA for all costs associated with implementing the E-Verify program;
- Prohibit SSA from using any of their own funds to carry out E-Verify.
What we know today:
- House staffers have told us that your calls have been very effective in letting Representatives know -- in no uncertain terms -- that you would not tolerate any destructive changes to E-Verify.
- In one case, a staffer told us that Representatives' offices were "freaking out" over all the calls they were receiving.
- Your calls forced Members of Congress and their staffs to enter into negotiations about how E-Verify will be brought to the floor.
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Our newly redesigned NumbersUSA website now has blogs from Roy and others on our newly redesigned home page. You may already know that (if not, check it out!).
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But did you know that Numbers Members can now also post their own comments in reaction to our bloggers? It's fun and easy.
So far, Roy has written blog entries on topic like the need to reauthorized E-Verify without the strings attached. Many members have talked back on this one.
Norm Matloff, our great ally at University of California, Davis, has posted on the government's crackdown on a crooked immigration law firm that traffics in visa "fixing." Members are hopping mad about this problem too.
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