Let the media spin begin, following this week’s ruling by a federal judge which allows most of the Alabama Immigration Law to go forward. On Thursday evening’s ABC World News, Diane Sawyer incorrectly referred to the law as the Alabama “Anti-Immigrant” law, which would almost give her viewers the impression that Alabama’s citizens are against people rather than for the economic survival of their state.
ABC talked with sympathetic principals and worried students. One of the students interviewed said “What is the definition on a citizen?” He clearly felt entitled to the benefits of citizenship, and who can blame him? There has been no serious enforcement of immigration law for a very long time, and ICE has refused to properly enforce it.
Strangely, when looking for an official definition of citizenship to offer this student, I found that official government sites such as the IRS still use the term “alien.” I thought we weren’t allowed to use that word anymore:
“You should first determine whether, for income tax purposes, you are a nonresident alien or a resident alien. Figure 1-A will help you make this determination.”
Wikipedia offered a basic definition which appears to require some specific guidelines for qualification as a citizen:
Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United State Constitution provides that “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the juurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State Wherein they reside.”
Alabama will be attacked relentlessly by the left for enforcing the rule of law, yet no one is stepping up to take responsibility for the situation. These school kids are in this position because no one has been enforcing the immigration laws of this country, nor offering a common sense solution to the problem. Meanwhile, states are expected to absorb the overwhelming costs of support for non-citizens to the tune of $113 billion a year, according to a 2010 study:
The cost of harboring illegal immigrants in the United States is a
staggering $113 billion a year — an average of $1,117 for every
“native-headed” household in America — according to a study conducted by
the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR).
In addition to the economic impact, states are encouraged to turn the other way while the less-than-honorable among them break our laws and many are not deported even after breaking the law.
We may or may not agree with the version of enforcement Alabama has chosen, but it is a matter of following the rule of law and presenting the topic of immigration honestly, which MSM anchors like Diane Sawyer apparently choose not to do. You may recall back in May 2010, during the media uproar over the Arizona law, the head of ICE, John Morton, had this to say regarding enforcement:
Morton said his agency will not necessarily process illegal immigrants
referred to them by Arizona officials. The best way to reduce illegal
immigration is through a comprehensive federal approach, not a patchwork of
state laws, he said.“I don’t think the Arizona law, or laws like it, are the solution,” Morton
said.
But that really isn’t his job, is it? ICE is to enforce law, not pick and choose. The states can’t wait for that “comprehensive federal approach” he advocates because it is not forthcoming.
Not surprisingly, overwhelming us with uncontrolled immigration appears to have been recommended by radicals as far back as the Marxist Frankfurt School (point 5 below). These rules, according to Timothy Matthews from Catholic Insight are:
1. The creation of racism offences.
2. Continual change to create confusion.
3. The teaching of sex and homosexuality to children.
4. The undermining of schools’ and teachers’ authority.
5. Huge immigration to destroy identity.
6. The promotion of excessive drinking.
7. Emptying of churches.
8. An unreliable legal system with bias against victims of crime.
9. Dependency on the state or state benefits.
10. Control and dumbing down of media.
11. Encouraging the breakdown of the family.
Rather than refuse to follow the laws voted in by the representatives of this land, it seems like the sincere immigrant advocate would be working with shortening the cost and process of becoming a legal citizen rather than attacking those who want our laws enforced.
If the illegal immigration advocates are truly concerned for this segment of the population, why are they not proposing smart, common sense reform that would have a chance of passing? By refusing to address this huge and devastating problem, the federal government is forcing states to take action, yet attacking them when they do. One might think their intent could be to stir up discontent (and votes), not solve the problem nor enforce the law of the land. Maybe those who like to label others as “anti” immigrant should consider being a little more “pro” active in coming up with some real solutions. Any ideas, Diane?
“Overwhelming us with uncontrolled immigration” is indeed one of their goals. They do the same thing with welfare which illegal aliens sign up for in larger percentages than American citizens. The Obama regime is giving out bonuses to states that sign up the most people for food stamps.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2011/sep/5-mil-performance-bonus-food-stamp-sign
Why do illegal immigrants cost the state more than legal immigrants and citizens? They pay rent that allows landlords to pay property taxes. They pay sales taxes when they buy goods and services. Is it that they don’t pay state income taxes? Don’t they have to have some kind of tax id to get work?
Or are they lower income earners so they receive more in government services than they pay in taxes?
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Or are they lower income earners so they receive more in government services than they pay in taxes?
That’s the answer. It’s quite common for illegals to work under the counter for cash so they don’t pay income based taxes. At the same time, they get free health care at hospital emergency rooms (often the most expensive kind of care), education for their kids, and other benefits that vary by state. These cost far more than what they may be paying in sales taxes.
There was a news story earlir this week that indicated Hispanics are now the number one group receiving welfare benefits even though they make up less than 15% of the population. Before that, more Caucasians received welfare. When you consider that there are perhaps four times as many Caucasians as Hispanics, that’s a very high proportional representation on the welfare roles.
My wife is a legal immigrant, as are my stepsons. Many of our closest friends are legal immigrants. When we married, my wife and I applied for her permanent resident status (she was a foreign university student). We had to sign forms indicating that if at any time she needed welfare benefits, she could be deported. This was in 1983. I don’t know if those rules are still on the books. Basically, the illegals are saying that legal immigrants are chumps for obeying the rules. Without checks on illegal immigration, they’d be right. Why obey the laws when you can get stuff for free by entering the country illegally?
States will try this first and then be forced to try a State version of civil disobedience.
After that, who knows.
First, illegals are not immigrants. for anyone to say that IF one is against illegals, THEN, one is against immigration is the height of malicious stupidity.
An immigrant is an individual who acknowledge the nation as a legal domain and applies to its legal infrastructure to enter the domain either as a potential citizen or permanent resident.
An illegal does none of these actions.
Second, the real problem is the refusal of the federal government to carry out its constitutional obligations with regards to immigration: protecting the border and processing valid immigrants and deporting illegals. The federal government has over the decade refused these duties and even more so, under Obama.
The problem of illegals, who number well over ten million, has been sloughed off to the States. But the States are legally constrained; they can’t prevent them coming and they can’t deport them.
In fact, the federal govt effectively forbids the States from even finding out who is illegal! There is a ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy in place for illegals within the federal govt. The State police are forbidden to ask, employers are forbidden to ask, school are forbidden to ask!
When States try to discover if someone, caught in a criminal act is also an illegal, by asking for documentation, … the federal govt refuses to acknowledge the State’s action of self-protection. Obama’s administration is suing Arizona and Alabama for doing just this. but, it is the LAW in the US, that all permanent residents, visa holders etc, must carry documentation with them at all times! But, despite this being the law, the federal govt is suing those States for asking for those documents!
Should a nation be obliged to provide social services to non-citizens? No. But the federal govt is forcing the States to do just this, not merely by refusing to stop and deport illegal migration, not only by forbidding States to even find out IF an applicant for a social service is an alien..but..by forcing States to provide those services to any and all!
The 1982 Supreme Court decision forced States to provide education from K-12 to all residents of a domain. All that is required for school entrance is the residential address, no proof of citizenship, permanent residency etc.
Same with hospitals and medical care. Same with driver’s licenses. As for work, it is considered discriminatory for an employer to ask for documentation. But, the vast alien underground network provides social security cards as a regular service and the federal govt does nothing about this violation of its laws.
WHY has the federal govt abrogated its constitutional duties? Why has it sloughed off the support of these aliens to the States, and not only hampered but legally fought against those States when they tried to protect themselves from the costs of supporting aliens? Why?
One key element of the ruling is the school question for immigration status. even if I were a blindly open borders person, I would go along with because it establishes a finite-period group of illegal aliens brought as inambulatory minors; that is fly in the ointment of the Perry tuition plan – it made no distinction by time period brought and did not sunset after the end of the school term in which the law was signed.
Personally, it is “stop-and-detain” that is the only objectionable part going even beyond the Arizona pale. Arizona law enforcement, having lived in the southwest, will get a 95 percent or above on a hypothetical “citizen or illegal” test. I imagine that beyond the Huntsville/Fort Aniston area which has scond and even third generation Mexican-Americans, bubbas are going to be overzealous, woe be any Chicano/Tejano/Miami Cubano who passes through.
REDUCING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION WITH E-VERIFY.
E-Verify! So what is E-Verify? E-Verify originated at some stage in President Bush administration in 1986. This computer verification system has been updated and revised over many years and now growing in popularity, amongst the 271, 460 honest business concerns, as of last June. Then since the 1986 Simpson/Mazzoli bill (The Immigration Reform and Control (IRCA) Act) intended to stop the flow after the mass amnesty but the surge of illegal persons has not stopped and now the population has risen above 20 million or more. E-Verify require employers to inspect documentation from each newly hired employee, to prove his or her identity and eligibility to be hired in the United States. This act led to the Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, requiring employees to confirm of their work eligibility, and employers to certify that the documents presented credibly appear to be legitimate and to relate to the individual. The only problem where the E-Verify is concerned today, it’s not mandated and only on a volunteer basis in most situations.
This is not anything about anti-Hispanic, black, white, Asian or any other nationality. There is a huge space between the legal and illegal. Plus these illegal newcomer majorities have no interest in assimilation; learning the language but here for all the money entitlement programs. Research what foreign nationals can claim—IN YOUR STATE– that are denied to the gullible taxpayers. It’s specific in condemning 30 years of unfortunate administrations of nonchalant enforcement of illegal immigration. This is completely indifferent to the after effects of growing populations of people without no papers and no rights. We must hope that the next president has a policy of strengthening our boundaries and our immigration laws, which entails policing with E-Verify, Secure Communities and the 287G federal training policies for local authorities.
Thanks to patriotic Americans as Kris Kobach, a constitutional lawyer and the Kansas Secretary of State, Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona’s Maricopa County, Tom Tancredo has message of this never ending invasion has suddenly flowed to the surface and the people have finally realized the monetary, social consequences of the spreading poverty.
This year Rep. Lamar Smith’s has sponsored a mandated E-Verify bill (H.R. 2885), known as the “Legal Workforce Act” to substantiate as the most predominant problem solver for Americans in the jobless lines. Lamar Smith’s E-Verify bill is the only true method we have, to contain this contagion of people, who think they are justified in trespassing in this sovereign nation. For years the federal government has ignored the claims, that they have ignored the mass movement of illegal aliens entering America illegally. It was the prior Wednesday that the House Judiciary Committee passed Smith’s Legal Workforce Act afternoon 22-to-13. Only two amendments were approved by the committee, including one offered by Chairman Smith himself. The bill, H.R.2885, would require all employers to use E-Verify within 2 years for all non-agricultural new hires, while requiring federal, state and local agencies to check current employees as well within 6 months.
In Alabama a federal judge Blackburn opened the door to further enforcement, which next to E-Verify is the most extreme law in the land, against the illegal alien invasion. Alabama, Indiana, Georgia and Arizona are the only states who have passed state laws, to protect its own legal citizens that are not in favor of financially supporting anybody who slips across our permeable fence or dodges other port entries. It’s understandable that every foreigner who is poor, the deprived want to come to America. But with our own citizens, green card holders and legal foreigners hurting financially, no illegal alien should ever be hired, now or ever.
The financials are astronomical either through legal means or through extensive fraud. Whether its most entitlement being absorbed by the foothold baby citizenship law, or the crushing effect of money in health care, education and imprisonment. Billions of dollars have gone to satisfy people who have come through sponsorship, using the CHAIN MIGRATION laws. These laws have been forced upon us by the courts, that laid down the law that taxpayers must financially support people from abroad, whether we like it or not.
A permanent, E-Verify in future terms will become the most important tool, to divide legal workers from foreign nationals, returning the opportunity to all persons here legally. All the information on those who are out to defeat it and everything you want to know is available at NumbersUSA and Judicial Watch. Readers are offered the chance to read daily newspaper information, which generally is not seen in the Liberal press and startling disclosures at their website.
You as a taxpayer and a voter can attribute your influence, to millions of TEA PARTY members, independents, lost liberals, Democrats and Republicans by adding to the people’s push for America’s new lease on life. Contact your own local Senator or Representative or federal politician at 202-224-3121. Do you yearn to stop to illegal immigration, a brand new tax code with no loopholes for the wealthy or corporation and other slippery entities? Do you desire smaller government and uncorrupted lawmakers? Do you crave fair Trade Treaties, not what we have at this present time? Only the TEA PARTY can give you the freedom from overreaching government; the reams of regulations are stopping people from creating new businesses.
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