Lawful Employment Ordinance

Greetings CCII Supporters & Friends,

Recently I sent a message explaining the Lawful Employment Ordinance, I attached a copy of the six page document for you to read and study. It's the same document Russell Sias spoke to us about at our last public meeting, asking us to support the hard work that has been accomplished in this endeavor; to secure for those lawfully present in the U. S., the right to work free of taxpayer subsidized illegal alien competition. 

The first phase of this program commenced in filing the document with the County Clerk's Office in Salt Lake County and Washington County. It will be filed tomorrow with the Utah County Clerk's Office. It's the first step in the up hill climb to place a measure on the ballot at the 2012 general election. It's a herculian effort by citizens who are concerned about the future of our nation, concerned about the future of our children and grandchildren.

On May 26, 2011 the United States Supreme Court determined that an Arizona law enacted in 2007 allowing Arizona courts to suspend or revoke licenses to do business in Arizona if an employer knowingly or intentionally employs an unauthorized alien and requires all employers in the state to use E-verify, was not preempted by federal law. Wow! We have been waiting for that for a long time.

Today is Flag Day, a GREAT day to express patriotism. It was a wonderful day to file our document with the County Clerk, our way to express patriotism to protect citizen jobs, that's what it is all about.

Another reason today is a GREAT day is; Representative Lamar Smith (R-Texas) the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee announced he will introduce a composite bill before the House Subcommittee on Immigration. This assembled legislation brings together numerous separate E-Verify bills with the intention of passing national legislation to require all employers use E-Verify. Just exactly what our Lawful Employment Ordinance proclaims.

Yes, today was a GREAT day! 

What's Wrong With Illegal Immigraton

What's Wrong With Illegal Immigration?

By John Eberhard

Part II of III

http://www.commentaryusa.com/commentary/illegal-immigration/whats-wrong-with-illegal-immigration.html

Welfare - The Monkey Wrench in the Works

The second major problem with uncontrolled illegal immigration (along with non-assimilation), is welfare benefits for illegal immigrants. Welfare benefits for illegals creates a drain on the economy, and it attracts the wrong type of person to come to our country.

You may recall Prop 187 from 1994 in California. This proposition would have stopped all welfare benefits for illegal immigrants in California. At the time these benefits added up to over $3 billion per year. In the 12 years since then this figure has probably doubled. Prop 187 was passed by 59% of California voters, but was ruled unconstitutional by one liberal judge. I still don't get how it is unconstitutional to say that people who come here illegally from some other country, and aren't US citizens, shouldn't get free benefits - to the tune of $3 billion per year. But that's liberal judicial activism for you.

So in essence, we are being told by liberal judges that we HAVE to give illegal immigrants free welfare benefits (including health care, free education, etc.). Even in California which has been on the verge of bankruptcy for the past two years. So we can't afford it, the people don't want it, but we are forced to do it.

Then, in the face of that, we have people protesting because we want to limit the flow of illegal immigrants coming here. So we have to give them free benefits, we can't take those away, and according to the protesters, they have a right to come here and we have no right to tell them they can't or limit the flow. How many things are wrong with that?

In addition, it seems extremely obvious that welfare benefits for illegals forms an alluring carrot to attract millions more to come. And what type of person would be attracted to come to the US to receive free benefits? Is it the type of person who would work hard and help build the community? Or is it the type of person who would be a parasite on the community? We are told by the illegal immigration advocates that these people just want to work. If that is so, then why can't we take away the free welfare benefits? If someone wants to work then why does he need welfare benefits?

Clearly, the illegal immigration advocates are being disingenuous (i.e. dishonest) in the way they are promoting the issue and in the reasons they are giving. Clearly, part of their goal is the old Marxist story of socialist re-distribution of wealth.

How the Parties View Illegal Immigration

Neither party has really tackled the issue of illegal immigration solidly or honestly.

The Republican Party has stayed away from better enforcement of the immigration laws, it is reported on radio talk shows, because they view illegal immigrants as a cheap labor source. Apparently top Republicans feel that having a "cheap labor source" is good for business, especially certain industries such as agriculture.

In case, you haven't followed the issue, "cheap labor source" is a code phrase for "we don't have to pay them minimum wage." In other words, since these people are in the country illegally, and they are hired under the table and paid cash, they can be hired for less than minimum wage.

Some Republicans have been saying that illegal immigrants will "do the jobs that Americans won't do." I don't buy this, period. I consider it an insult to Americans.

On the Democratic Party side, we have people like Teddy Kennedy saying that illegal immigration is a "right" and that this is a civil rights struggle. Getting past the point of how ridiculous this is (it's like saying some stranger has a "right" to my wallet), my bet is that their true motivations are twofold:

a. They see that block of 11-12 million illegal immigrants, if they give them enough welfare giveaways, as natural future Democratic Party voters.

b. It's part of the old, tired, Marxist idea of redistribution of wealth, meaning they want tons of immigrants to come here illegally so they can take yours and my tax money and give them all kinds of welfare, and in the face of this we have the Senate working right now on a compromise bill, that is basically a guest-worker amnesty. Lots of Senators are insisting that it is not an amnesty, but let's face facts. It removes the major penalty that is currently supposed to be imposed on someone who comes here illegally, which is deportation.

The other problem with any proposal of this type is that there is no way to enforce it and no real incentive for the illegal immigrants to come forward and go through the new steps being proposed; pay a fine, learn English, get on the track to citizenship, etc. If we don't have enough manpower now to deport illegal immigrants (we deported 200,000 last year) then how would we have enough manpower to enforce and manage this new, complicated guest-worker amnesty system?

Recent polls show on amnesty show differing amounts of support, from about half the population to be against any kind of amnesty, to 99% against amnesty.

(See the last Section very soon Part III)

Illegal Immigraton Consequences

Greetings CCII Supporters & Friends,

There are dozens of interesting news items from coast to coast written about the nation's most devastating problem, illegal immigration. Some writers think it's the cat's meow, but most consider the consequences as the destruction of America as we know it. I tend to believe the majority, and if we as a nation do not come to grips with this national calamity, the present adult generation and those generations following us, will live in a nation totally transformed from an independent, freedom and liberty loving people to a third world diluted, regulated and oppressed society. 

Millions of vibrant young men and women graduated from college recently. Some found a decent job but most are settling with second and third rate employment if they are fortunate to find it. Read this Washington Post article about how highly skilled temporary and permanent immigrants in the United States now outnumber lower-skilled ones, marking a dramatic shift in the foreign-born workforce. Yet, the government continues to legally allow 3.1 million foreign-born workers into the country via the numerous Visa programs.This WP article is alarming and if it does not spur your frustration, nothing will.

The recent SCOUS ruling on the Arizona 2007 Legal Workers Act has created a footing to encourage many states to introduce and pass similar legislation, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama and Texas come to mind. It also brings the proverbial ACLU and Chamber of Commerce to challenge most laws passed by states to require employment verification (E-Verify). Representative Steve Sandstrom intends to introduce a similar bill at a proposed special session in September. Read this Deseret News article. 

The ACLU functions nation wide. If you wonder where their funding comes from, check out this Fox News Link. Most of ACLU operating capital comes from large foundations including the Ford Foundation and the Soros Open Society Institute

Whenever we get a good bill passed, invariably it is challenged by the ACLU, Hispanic advocacy groups (LaRaza, Maldef), Southerland Institute and the Chamber of Commerce. HB497 is no exception. Click on this link to read more about Sandstrom's bill. The ACLU is joined by Mexico and 13 other South American Countries in the law suit.

Here's a reminder to attend the Re-Districting Committee meeting in St. George on Saturday, I sent it a couple of days ago.

Saturday June 11th at 3:00 PM, the State Committee on Re-Districting will conduct a seminar at the Eccles Fine Arts Center on the DSC Campus, (Corner of 700 E & 100 S). If you are interested in re-districting (And you should be) please attend this important meeting. Utah State Representative Don Ipson (Dist 75 Washington County) is on the Committee.

I realize this message is loaded with information and supporting links. It's time to spend MORE time on fighting this destructive national problem. So, Get Educated!, Get Inspired!, Get Involved!, Participate! - Save Your Country!  It's up to us, we are serving, the ball is in our court, it's the final quarter.

Best Regards,

What's Wrong With Illegal Immigration? by John Eberhard

What's Wrong With Illegal Immigration?

By John Eberhard

Part I of III

http://www.commentaryusa.com/commentary/illegal-immigration/whats-wrong-with-illegal-immigration.html

There has been a great deal of controversy recently about illegal immigration, which was initiated by Congress's considering several bills attempting to reform the area.

Latinos in the Los Angeles area have been protesting, waving Mexican flags, students have been cutting school, and various politicians have been weighing in on the issue. Teddy Kennedy made a speech recently, which compared the issue of illegal immigration to earlier civil rights struggles by blacks and women. In other words, he was saying that illegal immigrants have a right to come here illegally and efforts to limit their illegal immigration are an infringement on those rights. Other immigration supporters have chimed in with this line.

I've decided to weigh in on this issue. There are a couple of things wrong with illegal immigration.

The Problems of Non-Assimilation

Since the United States is the most prosperous country on Earth, it is a privilege to move here. It is not a right. Trying to compare illegal immigration to earlier civil rights struggles is ridiculous.

The United States has, as does every country in the world, a right to limit immigration and control immigration. There are a variety of reasons why the US and every country has this right and should have this right.

One reason we have the right to limit the number of people who immigrate here, is because we want to make sure they assimilate to our culture and way of life. There is, naturally, a limit to how many people could assimilate into a country at any one time.

Why do we want them to assimilate or why do we have the right to demand that they assimilate?

First of all, we have a tradition in America where people moving here from other countries have assimilated; they have learned the language, learned our laws, become citizens, paid taxes, and so on. We have never required them to leave their own customs behind, but we do require that in general they become part of the group here. And you'll notice that despite many different peoples here with many customs and backgrounds, most Americans get along pretty well. The last major civil strife occurred 141 years ago.

There is a phenomenon that has been observed in some countries, which some smart person has named "Balkanization." "Balkanize" is defined by the Miriam Webster Online Dictionary as "to break up (as a region or group) into smaller and often hostile units." The term comes, of course, from the Balkans, the countries occupying the Balkan Peninsula; Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Greece, & Turkey. You may have heard of a lot of fighting and unrest in that region over the past 15 years, based largely on differing customs, languages, ethnic hatreds and so on.

We have also seen a Balkanization effect in Canada, where the French-speaking people of Quebec have tried several times to secede.

We are seeing a definite Balkanization in France, caused by large-scale Arabic immigration in recent years, and by the French government foolishly permitting the Arab immigrants to set up isolated enclaves where police aren't even allowed in. This recently erupted in full-scale riots in Paris.

Now in America, with massive amounts of illegal immigrants, most from Mexico, we are seeing a true Balkanization effect. The bilingual educational program has allowed the youth of this group to continue to speak Spanish and not to learn English. And how many times have you called some company you deal with and heard "for English, press 1..."? Many companies have worked hard to court the non-assimilating Hispanic population, and in so doing have made it easier for them to be here. Some banks are now even giving home loans to illegal immigrants.

Many of these people have no intentions of assimilating to America. They aren't learning the language, learning the laws, or becoming legal so they can pay taxes or get a driver's license. Some are even staying here only temporarily so they can send money home to family in Mexico (no wonder Vincente Fox wants things to stay as they are).

If you look at past generations of immigrants to America (mine from Germany in the early 1900s), and the way those generations adapted to life here, it is totally different from what the current illegal immigrants are doing. The current illegal immigrants, most of them from Mexico, have no respect for our laws, our customs, our way of life. Note that recent demonstrators have been waving the Mexican, not the American flag.

Several authors have written books recently on this Balkanization of America and how this alone could potentially destroy the country.

Many illegal immigration advocates say that any hostility towards illegal aliens is a symptom of racism. I saw a column in the paper recently that made that claim. What they are not willing to confront is that Americans have played by the assimilation rules for hundreds of years, and that it is actually natural to feel hostility towards someone who comes in, breaks the law, doesn't play by the rules, doesn't learn the language, and has no respect for the country or the system, and collects $5-6 billion in free services per year in California, paid for by his taxes.

(See the next section very soon – Part II).

Benefits for Illegal Aliens

Greetings CCII Supporters & Friends,

America! Such a Country!  Benefits galore for law breakers? You asked the right question. Take a look at this:

*  Take a look at the attached article about Earned Income Tax Credit for the illegal alien. Remember the power point we showed at one of our public meetings last year about the subject? I attached it for your review again.

*  Then take a look at the WSJ article about New Mexico and the subject of driver license. Only 2 states provide a driver license to illegal aliens, Washington and New Mexico. (Utah provides a Driver Privilege Card). Illegal aliens flock to those two states to obtain a driver license, no questions asked and use it to obtain millions of dollars of benefits, buy houses, open bank accounts, identification of most anything,

America! Such a Country!. Yet, we have near 20 million unemployed, a national debt of $14.4 trillion and a yearly national debt of over $1.5 trillion and we continue to lose near a half million jobs every week.

Please review these attached documents. 

WSJ New Mexico Driver License 6-11.doc

http://tinyurl.com/3cxn78p

Illegal Aliens & EITC IRS.doc

http://tinyurl.com/3rfpcgc

EITC Analysis

http://tinyurl.com/4yc2ts2

My final question. When is this insanity going to stop?

Get Educated!, Get Inspired!, Get Involved!, Participate! - Save Your Country!

Best Regards, 

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Rasmussen Statistics

                                                       Greetings CCII Supporters & Friends,

Rassmusen Poll takes a general run of the mill survey and publishes a wide variety of statistics. The article covers a lot of the subjects associated with illegal immigration including employment verification, renting to illegal aliens, sanctuary cities and border security. If you have time to check out the identified links,

The DMN article talks about how Utah is coping with its Hispanic population growth. There are some interesting numbers that may interest you. With a few states passing legislation to counter their illegal immigration population and Utah encouraging law breakers to migrate here, we will continue to feel the devastating consequences associated with this national tragedy.

 Another DMN article describes Utah farmer's plight with migrant labor. After reading the article, I wonder if the farm owners who say they need foreign labor to do the work Americans refuse to do and end up paying near $14 per hour including wages, transportation & housing, considered paying Americans a decent wage of $14 per hour. I'll bet they would find plenty of legal workers to do their menial tasks if they paid them a proper wage.

Tomorrow is a special tribute to the 222nd and 213th deployment at the Burns Arena on Thursday June 2nd at 6:30 PM. This City link will lead you to a link to explain details.

Plan to attend and demonstrate your support for our troops. Best Regards, Jim Flohr VC CCII

U. S. Chamber of Commerce Deserves our Thanks

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Deserves Our Thanks

By Ronald W. Mortensen, May 31, 2011

http://www.cis.org/mortensen/chamber-deserves-our-thanks

Now that the Supreme Court has upheld Arizona's mandatory E-Verify program, the U.S. Chamber deserves a huge vote of thanks.

If the U.S. Chamber had not challenged Arizona's law, opponents of mandatory employment verification would have been able to continue to tell the states that they could not mandate the use of E-Verify.

However, that argument no longer holds up and the Chamber has actually opened the flood gates for all states to implement a mandatory E-Verify program. Now all a state has to do is to copy the Supreme Court-certified Arizona law, pass it and, voila, employers are required to enroll in E-Verify.

How long will it take for legislators to act? Well, Utah state Rep. Steven Sandstrom has already opened a bill file to enact the Utah version of the Arizona E-Verify/employer sanctions law. And, he has called on the governor to call a special session of the legislature in September.

In addition, thanks to the U.S. Chamber, employers and apologists for illegal aliens are now relegated to arguing that E-Verify is a failed system, that it is not advantageous for employers to use it, and that it discriminates against minorities. Their media shills are already helping them push out this argument.

However, once again, thanks to the Chamber, none other than the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court has directly addressed and shot down each of these arguments. According to Chief Justice Roberts:

The Federal Government reports that "E-Verify's successful track record….is borne out by findings documenting the system's accuracy and participants' satisfaction." Brief for United States Amicus Curiae 31. Indeed, according to the Government, the program is "the best means available to determine the employment eligibility of new hires." U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, E-Verify User Manual for Employers 4 (Sept. 2010).

In addition, a footnote in the opinion states that:

Statistics from Fiscal Year 2010, however, indicate that of the 15,640,167 E-Verify cases submitted, 98.3% were automatically confirmed as work authorized, 0.3% were confirmed as work authorized after contesting and resolving an initial nonconfirmation – an avenue available to all workers – and 1.43% were not found work authorized….As JUSTICE BREYER notes, the initial mismatches (the 0.3%) are frequently due to "incorrectly spelled [names] in government databases or on identification documents." Post, at 19. Such a hazard is of course not unique to E-Verify. Moreover, JUSTICE BREYER's statistical analysis underlying his conclusion that E-Verify queries, at least initially, wrongly "suggest[] that an individual [i]s not lawfully employable" "18% of the time>/i>" needs to be understood for what it is. Post, at 8. If E-Verify initially indicated that two individuals were not found work authorized, and later revealed that one of those determinations was incorrect, JUSTICE BREYER would be able to exclaim that the error rate was 50%. [link added]

Chief Justice Roberts also lets employers know that it is in their best interest to use E-Verify because "both the federal and Arizona law accord employers a rebuttable presumption of compliance with the law when they use E-Verify to validate a finding of employment eligibility."

Finally, the Court's opinion shoots down the assertion that Arizona's E-Verify and employer sanctions law will lead to employment discrimination by pointing out that both federal and state anti-discrimination provisions protect workers. This, of course, was previously confirmed by an independent evaluation of the E-Verify program that found that use of E-Verify actually reduces discrimination in the hiring process against foreign-born workers and that workers' privacy and civil rights have been strengthened.

So, in its desperate effort to provide its members with an unlimited supply of illegal labor, the U.S. Chamber ended up shooting itself in the foot and giving E-Verify and employer sanctions a huge boost.

All I can say to the U.S. Chamber is: Thanks.