Importing Poverty

IMPORTING POVERTY

by James Hopkins

http://importing-poverty.blogspot.com/

Illegal immigration is just as bad for our economy as shipping jobs overseas. It is importing poverty and taking jobs away from the poor and the middle-class Americans. If illegal aliens want to reside in the United States, they should first be forced to return to their country of origin and go to the end of the line. To hurt our economy even more, illegal aliens have sent over 200 billion U.S. dollars back home since 1996.

It is said that legal workers aren't willing to do many of the jobs given to illegal aliens. The fact of the matter is that these are jobs which Americans used to do and still would do if they were offered viable wages. However, illegal aliens coming directly from poverty are used to working for peanuts and are willing to accept much lower pay than the average American. The average middle-class worker would have to stoop down, lowering their living standards in order to accept such wages that the illegal alien accepts.

A construction company that hired a truckload of illegal aliens could easily place a much lower bid for a contract than a company that hired U.S. citizens. Because of this, more and more middle-class workers are being forced into poverty, accepting lower wages and fewer benefits. In a 1997 study, the National Research Council found that illegal immigration depresses wages for many lower-income workers by as much as 5 percent in 15 years.

It must also be acknowledged that 50 percent of illegal aliens are ex-guest workers here on expired visas. Our federal government knows this, yet refuses to do anything about it. If illegal immigrants were not offered jobs here, few of them would have reason to immigrate. Our governments at all levels need to follow the example set by Hazelton, Pennsylvania. They need to crack down on employers who hire illegal aliens, and deny all social services to illegal aliens.

There is no need for the United States to track down all of these illegal aliens. The way to put a stop to illegal immigration is to simply make it impossible for illegal aliens to find work here.
In addition to employment, illegal immigrants get a number of other perts including, but not limited to, free medical treatment, food stamps, schooling, and WIC. It is the taxpayers who end up paying for all of this. If and when illegal aliens get arrested, it's taxpayers who pay for their court services and imprisonment. Whatever illegal immigration might possibly do for the U.S. economy is easily outweighed by the burden it puts on taxpayers (over $20 billion annually).

If a parent commits a crime and goes to jail, their children don't serve as a free ticket out of jail. Likewise, anchor babies shouldn't be accepted as a pass for their parent(s) to stay here legally in the United States. As stated in the 14th amendment, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States."

What is so very often ignored is the emphasized text in the amendment above which when correctly interpreted means "with respect to any and all applicable laws" which in this case would refer to the parent(s) of an anchor baby being here in the United States illegally at the time of it's birth. This alone voids any automatic citizenship on the grounds that the mother is here illegally, making the child's birth illegal here in the United States. In addition, any illegal alien mother does not hold full allegiance to the United States and is subject to the jurisdiction of her native country, as is the child.

Amnesty is not acceptable. Amnesty just leads to more amnesty. This fact, unfortunately, has been proven time and again. If amnesty were given, most illegal aliens would become unskilled legal immigrants, having access to even more government programs, yet paying very little tax because of their low income. "If illegal aliens were given amnesty and began to pay taxes and use services like households headed by legal immigrants with the same education levels, the estimated annual net fiscal deficit would increase from $2,700 per household to nearly $7,700, for a total net cost of $29 billion."

If we want to continue anywhere near our present living standards and keep from turning into a third-world country, we cannot afford to continue importing poverty. Contact your Congressman and Senators today, and let them know where you stand on illegal immigration.

Selective Amnesty

Greetings CCII Supporters & Friends,

 

The scourge of amnesty for law breakers is always a fearful thought.

As concerned citizens, we fear some elected officials in their most infinite wisdom, will provide a way out for those in the country illegally. This is a way to express compassion for the horrendous plight of the illegal alien, those in the country illegally. After all they are only trying to make a better life for their family. By the way, it is also another way some elected officials encourage people to vote for them. I could go on for the rest of the morning, but you get my drift. You should anyway, if you have been reading the daily postings from CCII.

Amnesty to fighters of illegal immigration is an unacceptable word. We cannot and will not accept any form of amnesty for law breakers. We have written many messages with supporting attachments criticizing the Congress and Senate when they attempt to pass legislation such as the Dream Act (Development Relief Education for Alien Minors). Remember Comprehensive Immigration Reform (S1639) and the 110^th & 111^th Congress? We also condemn The Executive Branch when a memo, order or declaration of policy is issued to provide benefits to law breakers.

Our objective is to inform everyone about any form of forgiving illegal aliens for breaking the law.

President Obama in his infinite wisdom to “Fundamentally transform the United States of America” ordered the United States Citizenship & Immigration Service (USCIS) to find ways and means to provide a back door approach to amnesty for illegal aliens. A year ago they suggested “deferred action and parole in place”. The broadcast media totally ignored the action. We wrote about it on a number of occasions.

Obama has recently announced a new policy called “Prosecutorial Discretion”. We can now add that back door selective amnesty to the list. This 6 page policy statement is all inclusive.

We learn how to walk a step at a time. We get smashed consuming one drink at a time. We drive hundreds of miles one mile at a time. Government has its way one policy at a time.

We are losing our national sovereignty and traditional values by government action; one selective enforcement at a time.

Are you angry yet? If not, you are not paying attention!

Get Educated!, Get Inspiried!, Get Involved!, Participate!, Save Your Country!

A Nation Divided

Greetings CCII Supporters & Friends,

The United (Untied) States of America continue down the road of division. We are divided by color such as red and blue, we are divided by historical boundaries such as north and south and we are divided by interpretation of law. Our federal government is supposed to be a unifier, but is it? I can only focus on one of many dividing elements, illegal immigration.

Some states identify themselves as a nation of immigrants, blurring the subject by including legal and illegal together, such as the northeast and western states. Some states relate to the rule of law, such as the middle and southern states. Look at this for an example: 1) Arizona, Georgia, Oklahoma, Missouri, Indiana, South Carolina and Alabama recently passed legislation to stop illegal immigration. 2) Illinois, New York, Massachusetts, Maryland, California and Washington refuse to participate in voluntary employment verification and pass legislation to provide in state tuition to illegal alien students.

So this pattern of a patchwork of providers of jobs and benefits to illegal aliens and the enforcers to end the tragic national calamity continues. The immigrant population has increased 200 % in this century, just 10 years and the question remains, how many are here illegally. No one really knows the answer to that question.

The federal government intends on implementing Secure Communities nation wide by 2013, 42 states with some counties participating. 9 states are totally enrolled. Utah has 11 counties enrolled, Washington County is one of the eleven. New York and Illinois refuse to implement the criminal identification program.

Recently passed legislation to require employers use E-Verify, eliminate state benefits is opposed by the ACLU, Chamber of Commerce, advocacy groups such as LaRaza, Maldef and Lulac, etc.; the illegal alien population is on the move to states where their cheap labor is welcome, such states as New York, Illinois, Washington and Utah. 

Those in the country illegally have another advocate, the federal government. True, ICE has deported over 300,000 criminal aliens, but many are back within a few months. DHS has also audited some employers to eliminate illegal hiring practices. The federal government has also introduced a defacto amnesty program by instituting "deferred action" and "parole in place" . Look for the Dream Act to rear its ugly head again.

Join us on June 23rd at 7:00 PM at the Commission Chambers 197 E. Tabernacle as we discuss the destructive silent invasion of illegal aliens with Utah Representative Carl Wimmer who will drive from SLC to speak to us!

Best Regards,   

What's Wrong With Illegal Immigration Part III

What's Wrong With Illegal Immigration?

By John Eberhard

Part III of III

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

Summary

Unlimited, large-scale illegal immigration is a problem for several reasons:

a. These people are not assimilating to US culture, not learning the language and not becoming citizens, setting up a Balkanization effect that is already in progress.

b. It's an economic drain because liberal activist judges are forcing us to continue to give illegal immigrants free welfare benefits. So while those that work do contribute to the American economy, they don't pay taxes but do receive free benefits and so are by their nature a drain on the economy.

c. The bill coming out the Senate is an amnesty, which is unwanted by a large segment of the American population, but the Senate doesn't seem to care. Politicians on both sides seem terrified of angering legal Hispanic voters. Plus there is no way to enforce the bill and no incentive for illegal aliens to conform to it.

The Solution

After all the above you'd think the solution was complex. It's not. It comes down to two points:

1. Crack down on enforcement of laws against employing illegal immigrants. A few high profile busts will have a chilling effect on the employment of illegal immigrants nationwide. This doesn't require any new laws, just enforcement of existing ones.

2. Simply discontinue all welfare benefits for illegal immigrants nationwide. This will require new legislation at the national level.

Once illegal immigrants can't get a job and can't get any more free benefits, there will be much less incentive to come here, because, after all, it's probably easier to be unemployed in Mexico than it is here. Certainly it would be easier than to live in LA which has some of the highest housing costs in the nation. You won't even need a fence along the US/Mexico border, because you would have removed the incentives to come illegally.

And doing the above will put more pressure on Vincente Fox to get his house in order in Mexico, which is why he is so against any change in the status quo relating to immigration.

Unfortunately, I don't see much political will in Congress to really handle this problem.

Repeal HB116 Resolution Passes GOP Convention

Greetings CCII Supporters & Friends,

After all these years I continue to consider myself the proverbial optimist. After watching a few videos and reading press releases presented by those introducing the Repeal HB116 Resolution and those opposing the Resolution;  I thought State Delegates would approve the Resolution.

After all the Legislative Research and General Council wrote an advisory that many provisions of the legislation could be ruled as unconstitutional. According to the definition of amnesty, the legislation is amnesty for illegal alien workers in Utah before May 10, 2011. Of course the opposition squares in absolute opposition to the Resolution initiators. There is not space or time to speak to all the ramifications of the legislation.

If you are interested in Utah State politics, and I am here to say you should be, you should also be interested in which way Delegates voted and questions arise. Did they vote to represent their Precinct constituents? Did they vote to represent the rule of law? Did they vote in favor of their religious convictions? Did they vote in favor of the business community represented by the Chamber of Commerce and supposed Conservative think tanks represented by the Sutherland Institute?

I just received a message from the Convention floor, Utah State Delegates voted the RIGHT WAY! They voted to PASS the Repeal HB116 Resolution by a vote of 833 to 739, 53 % FOR with 47 % against the Resolution. A total of 1,572 Delegates remained in place to take part in the final portions of the Convention Agenda.

Happy Days happen occasionally, Jim Flohr VC CCII

Representative Stephen Sandstrom: Repeal HB116

Representative Stephen Sandstrom Calls for Repeal of HB116

OREM - At the Republican Convention this weekend, Republican delegates and elected officials will be voting on a resolution for the repeal of HB 116. I strongly encourage them to support the resolution to repeal HB116.

The state of Utah is at a major crossroads, the cultural and economic future of our state are at stake.

During the last year as I worked on my Illegal Immigration Enforcement Act, I personally received thousands of letters, calls, and emails from citizens across our state. I encourage all those who supported my enforcement legislation to contact their legislators and delegates and ask them to support the resolution calling for the repeal of this misguided piece of legislation.

I am encouraged by Arizona, Oklahoma and other states who have recently had their illegal immigration legislation validated by the United States Supreme Court. This shows that at the state level, we can effectively curb the threat of illegal immigration.

As my Illegal Immigration Enforcement Act faces its court challenge by the ACLU and La Raza, I am disgusted and appalled by the Mexican Government and several other Latin American states and their attempt to influence the US legal system in support of illegal aliens from their countries.

As I am now proceeding with a comprehensive E-Verify law for the State of Utah that will have real penalties and consequences for those that hire illegal aliens, I am troubled that the same organizations that supported HB 116 and who say that they want to end all new illegal immigration to the State of Utah and the rampant identity theft that it brings with it are now lining up to fight my proposed comprehensive E-Verify legislation.

This only shows that their previous assertions that they support the rule of law and sincerely want to end illegal immigration while protecting Utah’s children from identity theft was only political posturing and untruthful.

They want to keep the status quo in Utah that turns a blind eye to companies that want to hire illegal immigrants, to continue to sacrifice Utah children to identity theft for profits and to ensure that Utah employers have an unlimited source of poorly paid, illegal immigrant labor.  

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Appeal for Republicans to Unite

Utah Republicans should unite against HB116

By BRANDON BECKHAM June 15, 2011
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/opinion/51976926-82/bill-republican-governor-repeal.html.csp

As expected, supporters of House Bill 116 launched a campaign to fight Republican delegates who, through their effort to repeal the law, are defending the U.S. Constitution and Republican immigration platforms. The opposition has lost the argument with little to stand on.

Utahns have spoken. They want HB116 repealed and replaced. I’ve heard this sentiment across the state. Now HB116 supporters are willing to attack character in a last-ditch effort to save this flawed bill.

Jeremy Roberts, the newly elected Utah County Republican Party secretary, claims repeal supporters are against the LDS Church, calling us racists who want to “begin rounding up brown people.” He has stepped over the line. I call for Roberts to issue a public apology after making untruthful comments about good Americans who have done nothing but help the party. If this is the type of leadership we can expect from Roberts, I would ask that he step down. I also ask that he respect differing opinions and focus on the issue, not character assassination.

Is Roberts’ goal to unite or divide our party further on this issue? I choose to unite.

As Americans, Utahns and Republican delegates, we are unapologetic for fighting illegal immigration, defending the Constitution and the principles of the Republican platform. If we don’t stand by these principles, there is no point in being Republican. Therefore, when legislation is passed that is contrary to our principles and the Constitution, we will work to navigate the misguided back on course. The repeal campaign was necessary after the Legislature narrowly passed the bill and the governor refused to veto it in the face of mounting opposition.

One hundred-plus delegates (including Roberts) met with the governor on March 8. They left work and traveled to the Capitol to civilly express their concerns about HB116 and ask for a veto. Two days later, delegates returned to the Capitol, delivering letters asking for a veto. People from all over Utah made hundreds of veto calls.

The governor promised to meet with us again before signing the bill. That never happened. Hours after he signed the bill, we were allowed to meet. We delivered a 4,500-signature veto petition. The governor said, “I’m uncomfortable with this bill.” We asked, “Why did you sign it?” He replied, “We have to do something. Doing nothing is not an option.”

However, doing the wrong thing isn’t an option either. We informed the governor we were going to work to repeal HB116. He replied, “If we need to repeal it, let’s do it.”

During our campaign we have maintained respect, civility and an open line of communication with those of the opposing side. We have always desired to facilitate some agreement to fix the legislation and make it constitutional. I believe that is not only reasonable, it is the right thing to do. The Repeal 116 campaign would unite the party and allow us to take up other important issues.

I respectfully ask the governor to lead the HB116 discussion toward a vetted solution. I ask that Sen. Curtis Bramble, Rep. Holly Richardson, House Speaker Rebecca Lockhart, Sen. Stuart Reid and Rep. Bill Wright make honest efforts to address our concerns and fix the law. Why would anyone want to continue the party division that HB116 created? The outcome would be only negative. It is my hope that will not be the case.

We are ready and waiting when they are.

Brandon Beckham is a Republican state delegate from Orem Precinct 40.