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The Petition to Congress - Stop Illegal Immigration Now!
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Items
We need a real fence: This 3' tall barrier
near Jacumba, California is a joke
Support
the "Social Security for Americans Only" Act
Ron
Maxwell on Bush & Immigration
WashTimes
200
Million Immigrants in 20 Years:
The Bush/Senate/Democrat Immigration Plan Must be Defeated
Up to 6,000 temporary troops who won't
patrol border,
Citizenship & amnesty for illegals. Millions more guest workers.
Will Spanish be official & required language in U.S. in 20 years?
Will CA, AZ and other states leave US to join Mexico?
Sen. Sessions: "The impact this bill will have over the
next 20 years is monumental and has not been thought
through."
The
Day After Election, Bush Conspires With Democrats to Pass Amnesty
Bill
Troops
won't actually patrol border
Sen. Martinez
wants immigrants to run for President
U.S.
of Mexico? 100-200
MILLION Immigrants in 20 years under Bush/Senate Plan!
Heritage
Foundation - 193 Million New Immigrants Report
Sen.
Sessions - 217 Million New Immigrants Report
Just
how much would a 2,300 mile border fence cost (hint-amazingly
cheaper than the amnesty lobby wants you to believe!)
Washington Times Article
Phyllis
Schlafly discusses the real reason behind the push for massive
immigration
NAFTA
"Illegal Immigration Interstate" on fast-track
Border
Agents Angry with Senator McCain
Mexican
Newspaper boasts "Mexican Power" in the U.S.
Mexico's
President Campaigns inside the US for Bush/Senate
Amnesty/Citizenship/200 Million Immigrants Bill
Sen.
Durban's Senate bill amendment: Ask permission from Mexico before
building a border fence!
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The Petition to Congress - Stop Illegal Immigration Now!
EMERGENCY ACTION
Update: June 8, 2007.
We defeated amnesty in the Senate! (Rollcall
vote)This was a grassroots victory and
your efforts to call your Senators paid off.
However, KEEP UP THE PRESSURE and keep contacting
Congress. Never underestimate White House and Congressional
tricks to pass legislation they know Americans strongly
oppose--Congress could be called into a special session by the
President after the election to pass an amnesty bill, or a
"compromise" could be reached at any time which allows
partial amnesty and partial border security. Congressmen
facing election pressures can fall victim to White House threats to
withhold campaign funds unless they vote for amnesty, for example,
so at any time, the House could still vote to approve an amnesty
bill.
Howard
Phillips on the Battle to stop illegal imigration
Call (202-224-3121), visit, write, fax
or E-Mail your Congressman and urge
him to: Refuse to allow ANY parts of the dangerous Senate Bill to be
part of a final bill. The bill must be killed entirely if
even one piece of the Senate bill is agreed to by the House. The
existing House bill, H.R.
4437, must be preserved and enacted.
More
Action
Items on Immigration
The Senate
Roll Call Vote of Shame:
Vote to approve S. 2611, the Amnesty, Citizenship, and
200 million immigrants Bill
This outrageous bill passed 62-36 on May 25, 2006: Voting
"yes" were 38 Democrats, 23 Republicans and one
independent. Voting "no" were 32
Republicans and four Democrats.
The
American Heroes
32 Republicans Voted AGAINST the
Bush/Senate 200 million immigrants bill:
Alexander, Tenn.; Allard, Colo.; Allen, Va.; Bond, Mo.;
Bunning, Ky.; Burns, Mont.; Burr, N.C.; Chambliss, Ga.;
Coburn, Okla.; Cochran, Miss.; Cornyn, Texas; Crapo, Idaho;
DeMint, S.C.; Dole, N.C.; Ensign, Nev.; Enzi, Wyo.; Grassley,
Iowa; Hatch, Utah; Hutchison, Texas; Inhofe, Okla.; Isakson,
Ga.; Kyl, Ariz.; Lott, Miss.; Roberts, Kan.; Santorum, Pa.;
Sessions, Ala.; Shelby, Ala.; Sununu, N.H.; Talent, Mo.;
Thomas, Wyo.; Thune, S.D.; Vitter, La.
4 Democrats Voted AGAINST the Bush/Senate 200
million immigrants bill:
Byrd, W.Va.; Dorgan, N.D.; Nelson, Neb.; Stabenow, Mich.
The
Illegal Immigration Hall of Shame
23 Republicans Voted FOR the Bush/Senate 200
million immigrants bill:
Bennett, Utah; Brownback, Kan.; Chafee, R.I.; Coleman,
Minn.; Collins, Maine; Craig, Idaho; DeWine, Ohio; Domenici,
N.M.; Frist, Tenn.; Graham, S.C.; Gregg, N.H.; Hagel, Neb.;
Lugar, Ind.; Martinez, Fla.; McCain, Ariz.; McConnell, Ky.;
Murkowski, Alaska; Smith, Ore.; Snowe, Maine; Specter, Pa.;
Stevens, Alaska; Voinovich, Ohio; Warner, Va.
38 Democrats Voted FOR the Bush/Senate 200
million immigrants bill:
Akaka, Hawaii; Baucus, Mont.; Bayh, Ind.; Biden, Del.;
Bingaman, N.M.; Boxer, Calif.; Cantwell, Wash.; Carper,
Del.; Clinton, N.Y.; Conrad, N.D.; Dayton, Minn.; Dodd,
Conn.; Durbin, Ill.; Feingold, Wis.; Feinstein, Calif.;
Harkin, Iowa; Inouye, Hawaii; Johnson, S.D.; Kennedy, Mass.;
Kerry, Mass.; Kohl, Wis.; Landrieu, La.; Lautenberg, N.J.;
Leahy, Vt.; Levin, Mich.; Lieberman, Conn.; Lincoln, Ark.;
Menendez, N.J.; Mikulski, Md.; Murray, Wash.; Nelson, Fla.;
Obama, Ill.; Pryor, Ark.; Reed, R.I.; Reid, Nev.; Sarbanes,
Md.; Schumer, N.Y.; Wyden, Ore.
1 Independent Voted FOR the Bush/Senate 200
million immigrants bill:
Jeffords, Vt.
Why
Did They Refuse To Vote?
2 Democrats Did Not Vote on the Bush/Senate
200 million immigrants bill:
Rockefeller, W.Va.; Salazar, Colo.
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Excerpted from Howard Phillips Issues and Strategy
Bulletin February 15, 2008
“Eying the results so far in the U.S. presidential primary race,
Mexican President Felipe Calderon said he is hopeful that the
next administration in Washington will usher in reforms that would
legalize the status of Mexican immigrants.
“ ‘It seems to me that the
most radical and anti-immigrant candidates have been left behind and
have been put in their place by their own electorate,’ Calderon told
the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday, the day after the Super
Tuesday primaries. …”
“Calderon said one goal of his U.S. trip would be to generate
support for immigration reform that would permit millions of Mexican
to work in the U.S.
“He also told the Times that Americans would ‘sooner or
later’ come to understand that the health of the American economy is
linked to integration with Mexico and ‘greater freedom in labor
markets.’ ” Source:
www.NewsMax.com, 2/7/08
Excerpted from Howard Phillips Issues and Strategy
Bulletin June 30, 2007
“▪
Deputize, authorize and train state and local law enforcement people
to identify and prosecute illegal aliens.
Ask any cop in this country how many illegal aliens they see in an
average day. It’s probably dozens. There are hundreds of
thousands of police officers working every day. Do the
arithmetic. How long would it take to identify millions of people
breaking the law by living and working here?”
“▪
Penalize employers who hire illegal aliens. If employers have jobs
Americans won’t do, then they will have to learn to pay higher wages
and improve working conditions. That’s the way the free market
works. Dry up the jobs for illegals, and they will start going
home of their own free will.”
“▪
End
public services and benefits for those who cannot prove they are in
the country legally. The welfare state is a magnet for severely
impoverished people living within walking distance. No more free
schools, no more food stamps, no more free medical care, no more
Social Security checks, no more other giveaway programs for
anyone who cannot prove they are in the country legally.”
“▪
No
driver’s licenses for illegal aliens.
This seems like a no-brainer – something that should not even need
to be stated. But since more than a dozen states currently provide
them knowingly and willingly, obviously common sense is in short
supply in some areas of the country.”
“▪
No
more anchor babies.
Thanks to extra-constitutional court decisions, babies born in the
U.S. to illegal alien parents immediately become U.S. citizens.
This was never the intent of the authors of the Constitution. But
now some legislative action is probably necessary to correct the
problem created in the courts.” Source: Joseph Farah,
WorldNetDaily.com, 6/18/07
Excerpted from Howard Phillips Issues and Strategy
Bulletin, April 30, 2007
SHHH!
MEDIA’S FAVORITE WEAPON IS THE SPIKE
“The media is lying about our illegal immigration crisis. For
example:
*
The
liberal media isn’t going to report the fact that only 2 percent of
illegal aliens are actually picking fruit and vegetables, but 41
percent are on welfare!
* The
liberal media isn’t going to report that 1 in 10 babies born in the
U.S. are to illegal aliens.
* The
liberal media isn’t going to report that 60 percent of Housing
and Urban Development funds go to illegal aliens.
* The
liberal media isn’t going to report that 13 Americans are killed
each day by uninsured drunk driving illegals.” Source: From
Grassfire.org,
HumanEventsOnline.com, 4/19/07
EVERY ILLEGAL
ALIEN HOUSEHOLD COSTS U.S. TAXPAYERS $22,449 ANNUALLY
“A new study by the Heritage Foundation’s Robert
Rector found a household headed by an individual without a high
school education [… about two-thirds of illegal aliens], costs U.S.
taxpayers more than $32,000 in federal, state and local benefits.
That same family contributes an average of $9,000 a year in taxes,
resulting in a net tax burden of $22,449 each year.”
THAT’S MORE THAN
$1 MILLION PER FAMILY PER LIFETIME – – – $2.2 TRILLION TOTAL
“Over
the course of the household’s lifetime that tax burden translates to
$1.1 million. If the lower figure of 12 million illegal aliens is
used for estimation purposes, the total tax burden translates to
$2.2 trillion.
“
‘Would any of us buy shares in a company that we knew would produce
a loss of a million dollars a share,’ asks Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa,
in response to the study. ‘Cheap labor is not cheap at the cost
of over a million dollars per head of household.’ …”
A $3.9 TRILLION
BURDEN DURING THE NEXT DECADE
“About half of
the 17.7 million households studied are illegal aliens. About
two-thirds of illegal alien households are headed by someone without
a high school degree. Only 10 percent of native-born Americans fit
into that category.
“
‘Over the next ten years the total cost of low-skill households to
the taxpayer (immediate benefits minus taxes paid) is likely to be
at least $3.9 trillion,’ Rector writes. ‘This number would go up
significantly if changes in immigration policy lead to substantial
increases in the number of low-skill immigrants entering the country
and receiving services.’ ” Source: WorldNetDaily.com,
4/11/07
Excerpted from Howard Phillips Issues and
Strategy Bulletin, June 15, 2006
THERE’S
NO WALL TO PROTECT AMERICA FROM BUSH’S NAFTA SUPER-HIGHWAY
“The Texas segment of the NAFTA Super Corridor is moving rapidly
toward approval. When built, the Trans-Texas Corridor, or TTC, will be a
major super-highway with six lanes moving in each direction, twelve
lanes across in total, described in the 4,000 page draft environmental
study as including separate lanes ‘for passenger vehicles and large
trucks, freight railways, high-speed commuter railways, and a corridor
for utilities including water lines, oil and natural gas pipelines, and
transmission lines for electricity, broadband and other
telecommunications services.’ …
“The idea is to extend the rebuilt I-35 NAFTA super-corridor
highway all the way from Laredo, Texas, to Canada, with extensions
in Canada to be built out to Montreal in the east and Vancouver in the
west. In Mexico, the super-corridor will connect via Mexican railroads
with the port at Lazaro Cardenas.”
A BIG BOOST FOR CHICOM IMPORTS
“A core design feature is to create a hub in Kansas City. Here the
‘Lazaro Cardenas - Kansas City Transportation Corridor’ will open up
a north-south route through the United States to bring in containers
from the Far East. As described by Kansas City’s Smart Port website: The
Lazaro Cardenas - Kansas City Corridor refers to a trade route linking
Kansas City to key Asia-Pacific Markets via a ships-to-rail terminal at
the port of Lazaro Cardenas in the State of Michoacan,
Mexico. Thanks to an innovative series of international agreements,
infrastructure improvements and new technologies, this corridor is a
reality. …”
FOREIGN CHEAP LABOR PRODUCTS FOR
U.S. CONSUMPTION
“The NAFTA Super Corridor plan is ultimately to reduce the
transportation costs of using cheap labor in China, South Korea and
Indonesia to produce goods for American markets. Bypassing West
Coast ports in the U.S. means bypassing U.S. union wages. Mexican port
and rail transport are expected to keep the shipping costs low. Also,
allowing free access to the U.S. [by] Mexican trucks means that the
containers can be moved through the U.S. by Mexican nationals, again
bypassing Teamster union wages and benefits typically paid U.S. truck
drivers.”
PANAMA CANAL CIRCUMVENTED
“To get a feel for how transportation planners are influenced by
globalist economic thinking, consider this 2005 analysis written by
Leonard Krouner in the Voice of San Diego: The Los
Angeles/Long Beach and Seattle/Tacoma harbors are the only two West
Coast ports between Alaska and Chile that can be used by super-cargo ‘post-Panamax’
ships with a 4,000 standardized cargo container capacity. The ability to
off-load, move, unload, store and distribute cargo from these ships
requires expansion of California’s transportation infrastructure.
Delays increasing costs for cargo movement at the Los Angeles/Long Beach
port such as those extant during the 2003 longshoreman labor unrest, and
the 2004 arrival of too many ships in a single time period with cargo
for distribution prior to the Christmas holidays are motivating mega
importers Wal-Mart and Home Depot to invest in warehouse facilities in
less expensive states such as Georgia.”
NORTH AMERICAN UNION OF
U.S.-MEXICO-CANADA BYPASSES CONGRESS AND THE CONSTITUTION
“None of this would be possible without the extensive work being
done by the U.S. Department of Commerce working groups charged with
implementing by new regulations the Strategic and Prosperity Partnership
of North America, or SPP. The SPP agreement was reached between
President Bush, President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul
Martin during their March 2005 summit meeting in Waco, Texas. The
Bush administration plan is to create a North American Union along the
model of the European Union, put in place by administrative regulations
and departmental working groups under the SPP umbrella.”
COMMERCE AND TRANSPORTATION
DEPARTMENTS DIRECTED TO GIVE MEXICO FREEDOM FROM INSPECTION
“The U.S. Department of Transportation is actively working on a
Free and Secure Trade program that would create special lanes to allow
trucks from Mexico to cross the U.S. border with minimal electronic
inspection, reducing the U.S. border with Mexico to no more than a
speed-bump for authorized Mexican trucks entering the country.”
SCOTUS AIDED BUSH’S NAFTA SCHEME
“On June7, 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court in the case Department
of Transportation v. Public Citizen ruled in favor of the Bush
administration’s argument that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration lacked the authority to exercise environmental controls
to prevent Mexican trucks from openly operating in the U.S. under NAFTA.
This ruling was key in the Bush administration’s determination to
open U.S. borders to Mexican trucks under the trade agreement. Had
the Supreme Court decided otherwise, the NAFTA Super Corridor project
would have suffered a setback.”
TRILATERALISM HAS AN ADDITIONAL
MEANING
“I continue to argue that a ‘follow the money’ strategy must
be utilized to understand why President Bush has refused to close our
border with Mexico, pushing instead for ‘comprehensive immigration
reform’ legislation that would allow the vast majority of illegal
immigrants now in the U.S. to remain under a ‘guest worker’ or ‘pathway
to citizenship’ provision. The underlying agenda of the Bush
administration seems to be to create a NAFTA-plus environment in which
workers, trade and capital will be allowed to flow unimpeded within the
trilateral North American community consisting of the United States,
Canada and Mexico.” Source: Dr. Jerome Corsi, WorldNetDaily.com,
6/1/06
“Quietly but systematically, the Bush Administration is
advancing the plan to build a huge NAFTA Super Highway, four
football-fields-wide, through the heart of the U.S. along Interstate 35,
from the Mexican border at Laredo, Tex., to the Canadian border north of
Duluth, Minn.”
MEXICAN GOVERNMENT IN CHARGE OF
INSPECTIONS
“Once complete, the new road will allow containers from the Far
East to enter the United States through the Mexican port of Lazaro
Cardenas, bypassing the Longshoreman’s Union in the process. The
Mexican trucks, without the involvement of the Teamsters Union, will
drive on what will be the nation’s most modern highway straight into
the heart of America. The Mexican trucks will cross border in FAST
lanes, checked only electronically by the new “SENTRI” system. The
first customs stop will be a Mexican customs office in Kansas City,
their new Smart Port complex, a facility being built for Mexico at a
cost of $3 million to the U.S. taxpayers in Kansas City. …”
NASCO FUNDED WITH YOUR TAXES
“NASCO, the North America SuperCorridor [sic] Coalition Inc., a ‘non-profit
organization dedicated to developing the world’s first international,
integrated and secure, multi-modal transportation system along the
International Mid-Continent Trade and Transportation Corridor to improve
both the trade competitiveness and quality of life in North America.’
Where does that sentence say anything about the USA? Still, NASCO has
received $2.5 million in earmarks from the U.S. Department of
Transportation to plan the NAFTA Super Highway as a 10-lane
limited-access road (five lanes in each direction) plus passenger and
freight rail lines running alongside pipelines laid for oil and natural
gas. One glance at the map of the NAFTA Super Highway on the front page
of the NASCO website will make clear that the design is to connect
Mexico, Canada, and the U.S. into one transportation system.”
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT CONSIDERED -
NOT CONSTITUTIONAL IMPACT
“The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is overseeing the
Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) as the first leg of the NAFTA Super Highway.
A 4,000-page environmental impact statement has already been completed
and public hearings are scheduled for five weeks, beginning next month,
in July 2006. The billions involved will be provided by a foreign
company, Cintra Concessions de Infraestructuras de Transporte, S.A. of
Spain. As a consequence, the TTC will be privately operated, leased to
the Cintra consortium to be operated as a toll-road.”
WHY IS THIS SCHEME TO END U.S. AS
WE KNOW IT NOT DEBATED IN CONGRESS?
“The details of the NAFTA Super Highway are hidden in [plain] view.
Still, Bush has not given speeches to bring the NAFTA Super Highway
plans to the full attention of the American public. Missing in the move
toward creating a North American Union is the robust public debate that
preceded the decision to form the European Union. All this may be for
calculated political reasons on the part of the Bush Administration.
“A good reason Bush does not want to secure the border with Mexico
may be that the administration is trying to create express lanes for
Mexican trucks to bring containers with cheap Far East goods into the
heart of the U.S., all without the involvement of any U.S. union workers
on the docks or in the trucks.” Source: Jerome Corsi, Human Events
ONLINE, 6/12/06
Excerpted from Howard Phillips Issues and
Strategy Bulletin, May 31, 2006
AMNESTY BY ANOTHER NAME
"Abraham Lincoln liked to place this
hypothetical before audiences: if you call a dog’s tail a leg, how
many legs does a dog have. ‘Five,’ his listeners would
invariably respond. No. Calling a dog’s tail a leg doesn’t make
it so, Lincoln would retort. A dog has four legs. President 43 would
be wise to brush up on President 16. No matter how many times
President Bush says his amnesty program isn’t amnesty, it’s
still amnesty. Rewarding lawbreakers with citizenship is actually
worse than amnesty. Not only does it absolve the criminal of the
crime, but it awards a bonus – citizenship – to the criminal
that he would not have received had he obeyed the law and waited in
line." Source: Dan Flynn, www.flynnfiles.com,
5/16/06
GWB HAS IGNORED BORDER PATROL LAW
"In February 2005, the president signed into
law a bill that was supposed to add 10,000 new border patrol agents
along America’s border with Mexico. But the president’s 2006
budget funded only 210 new agents. Budget restraints were cited for
the drastic cutback. Now he asks Congress for money to hire 9,000 to
12,000 new agents. He would also deploy National Guard troops to
‘back up’ the border patrol."
BUSH PUTS "MEXICO FIRST"
"Throughout his address, the president kept
referring to the immigrants and their rights and desires. What about
those of us born in America, or who legally immigrated? Don’t
we have a right to preserve the nation the way it was handed down to
us, with our English language, our culture and our loyalty to this
country?"
DOES IT MAKE SENSE TO IMPORT 193 MILLION MORE
IMMIGRANTS?
"There is more to the immigration issue than
the president revealed in his speech. The Senate Immigration Reform
Bill, now under consideration by the Senate, runs to 614 pages. With
a document that long, there is bound to be some hidden mischief.
Robert Rector, senior research fellow in domestic policy studies at
the Heritage Foundation, says the bill would allow up to 193
million new legal immigrants in the next 20 years. Such a staggering
number comprises 60 percent of the current U.S. population. Is
our economy so strong and our national identity so weak we could
absorb so many immigrants in so short a time, or at any time? …"
WHY MAKE IMMIGRATION AN ENTITLEMENT FOR
FOREIGNERS?
"This isn’t about ‘fairness,’ or being a
‘welcoming society.’ If anything close to the current Senate
bill passes, we will be a different nation. Sen. Jeff Sessions,
Alabama Republican says the Senate bill would make immigration to
the United States an ‘entitlement.’ Mr. Sessions told The
Washington Times, ‘The decision as to who may come will almost
totally be controlled by the desire of the individuals who wish to
immigrate to the United States rather than the United States
government.’ …"
SWITZERLAND SHOWS WISDOM
"I prefer how the Swiss government handles
immigration and citizenship to the virtual open-door policy
advocated by the president and the Senate bill. The Swiss appreciate
tourists and businesspeople, but if one wishes to become a Swiss
citizen, the government makes it difficult. The Swiss want to
preserve their culture. There is no ‘right’ to be a Swiss
citizen. Being born in Switzerland doesn’t automatically make one
Swiss. The government regulates the right of citizenship through
descent.
"People who wish to be naturalized in
Switzerland must live at least 21 years in the country; submit to
complete integration into Swiss life, which includes familiarity
with Swiss habits, customs and traditions; comply with the Swiss
rule of law; and demonstrate they are no danger to Switzerland’s
internal or external security. Local towns may add other
requirements." Source: Cal Thomas, The Washington Times,
5/21/06, p. B1
REAGAN WAS WRONG – BUT HE TOLD THE TRUTH
"Perhaps I can shed some light. Two decades
ago, while serving as attorney general under President Ronald
Reagan, I was in the thick of things as Congress debated the
Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. The situation today
bears uncanny similarities to what we went through then.
"In the mid-80’s, many members of Congress
– pushed by the Democratic majority in the House and the Select
Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy – advocated amnesty
for long-settled illegal immigrants. President Reagan considered it
reasonable to adjust the status of what was then a relatively small
population, and I supported his decision.
"In exchange for allowing aliens to stay, he
decided, border security and enforcement of immigration laws would
be greatly strengthened – in particular, through sanctions against
employers who hired illegal immigrants. If jobs were the attraction
for illegal immigrants, then cutting off that option was crucial.
"Beyond this, most illegal immigrants who could
establish that they had resided in America continuously for five
years would be granted temporary resident status, which could be
upgraded to permanent residency after 18 months and, after another
five years, to citizenship."
SIMPSON-MAZZOLI COMMITMENTS WERE NOT KEPT
"Note that this path to citizenship was not
automatic. Indeed, the legislation stipulated several conditions:
immigrants had to pay application fees, learn to speak English,
understand American civics, pass a medical exam and register for
military selective service. Those with convictions for a felony or
three misdemeanors were ineligible. Sound familiar? These are pretty
much the same provisions included in the new Senate proposal and
cited by its supporters as proof that they have eschewed amnesty in
favor of earned citizenship.
"The difference is that President Reagan
called this what it was: amnesty. Indeed, look up the term ‘amnesty’
in Black’s Law Dictionary, and you’ll find it says, ‘the 1986
Immigration Reform and Control Act provided amnesty for undocumented
aliens already in the country.’ "
KENNEDY-McCAIN BILL REPEATS FLAWS OF 1986 SCHEME
"Like the amnesty bill of 1986, the current
Senate proposal would place those who have resided illegally in the
United States on a path to citizenship, provided they meet a similar
set of conditions and pay a fine and back taxes. The illegal
immigrant does not go to the back of the line but gets immediate
legalized status, while law-abiding applicants wait in their home
countries for years to even get here. And that’s the line that
counts. In the end, slight differences in process do not change the
overriding fact that the 1986 act law and today’s bill are both
amnesties."
THEY SHOULD GO HOME AND GET IN LINE
"There is a practical problem as well: the 1986
act did not solve our illegal immigration problem. From the
start, there was widespread document fraud by applicants.
Unsurprisingly, the number of people applying for amnesty far
exceeded projections. And there proved to be a failure of political
will in enforcing new laws against employers.
"After a six-month slowdown that followed
passage of the legislation, illegal immigration returned to normal
levels and continued unabated. Ultimately, some 2.7 million people
were granted amnesty, and many who were not stayed anyway, forming
the nucleus of today’s unauthorized population. …
"The fair and sound policy is to give those
who are here illegally the opportunity to correct their status by
returning to their country of origin and getting in line with
everyone else. This, along with serious enforcement and control
of the illegal inflow at the border – a combination of incentives
and disincentives – will significantly reduce over time our
population of illegal immigrants." Source: Edwin Meese III, The
New York Times, 5/24/06, p. A27
BROWNBACK AND McCAIN BACK SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS
FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS
In rejecting an amendment by Senator John Ensign (R-Nev.),
the U.S. Senate voted "to allow illegal aliens to collect
Social Security benefits based on past illegal employment – even
if the job was obtained through forged or stolen documents.
" ‘There was a felony they were
committing, and now they can’t be prosecuted. That sounds like
amnesty to me,’ said Sen. John Ensign, the Nevada Republican who
offered the amendment yesterday to strip out those provisions of the
immigration reform bill. ‘It just boggles the mind how people
could be against this amendment.’ The Ensign amendment was
defeated on a 50-49 vote." Source: Charles Hurt, The
Washington Times, 5/19/06, pp. A1, 14
GOP Senators who voted (H. Roll Call 130, 5/18/06)
to allow Social Security benefits for illegal aliens were: Brownback
(KS), Chafee (R.I.), DeWine (Ohio), Graham (S.C.), Hagel (Neb.),
Lugar (Ind.), Martinez (Fla.), McCain (Ariz.), Specter (Penn.),
Stevens (Alaska), and Voinovich (Ohio).
WITH BILINGUAL BALLOTS, ENGLISH IS NOT THE
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
" ‘Of course not.’ That was Attorney
General Alberto Gonzales’s answer Sunday on ABC’s ‘This
Week’ when asked whether he would favor prohibiting
bilingual ballots.
" ‘Of course not?’ Did he mean, ‘This is
not something about which decent people differ’? …
"The federal government’s chief law
enforcement official may need a refresher course on federal law
pertaining to legal immigrants. …"
WHY DO BUSH AND GONZALES RETREAT FROM
PRO-ASSIMILATION LANGUAGE POLICY?
"Congress passed, and President Theodore
Roosevelt signed, legislation requiring people seeking to become
naturalized citizens to demonstrate oral English fluency. In 1950
the requirement was strengthened to require people to ‘demonstrate
an understanding of the English language, including an ability to
read, write, and speak words in ordinary usage in the English
language.’
"Hence, if someone needs a ballot written in a
language other than English, that need proves the person obtained
citizenship only because the law was not enforced when he or she
sought citizenship. So one reason for ending ballots in languages
other than English is that continuing them makes a mockery of the
rule of law, including even the prospective McCain-Kennedy law that
pro-immigration groups favor.
"It contains several requirements that those
aspiring to citizenship demonstrate ‘a knowledge of the English
language’ or ‘English fluency’ in order ‘to promote the
patriotic integration of prospective citizens into the American way
of life’ and into ‘American common values and traditions.’ How
can legislators support language such as that and ballots in
multiple languages?"
SECTION 203 MUST BE DROPPED
"Fifty-six House Republicans have sent a
letter, instigated by Rep. Steve King of Iowa, asking that Section
203 of the Voting Rights Act be allowed to expire. When the
measure was enacted in 1965, it said nothing about bilingual
ballots. Section 203, requiring bilingual ballots in
jurisdictions with certain demographic characteristics, was added in
the 1975 extension of the act. …"
VOTING RIGHTS ACT IS FUNDAMENTALLY FLAWED
"But what public good is advanced by
encouraging the participation of people who, by saying they require
bilingual assistance, are saying they cannot understand the nation’s
political conversation? By receiving such assistance they are
receiving a disincentive to become proficient in English. …
"Declaring English the national language is
a mere gesture. But by ending bilingual ballots, American law would
perform its expressive function of buttressing, by codifying and
vivifying, certain national assumptions and aspirations. Among
those is this: The idea of citizenship becomes absurd when sundered
from the ability to understand the nation’s civic
conversation."
AMERICA IS UNITED BY CREED, NOT ETHNICITY
"What makes Americans generally welcoming of
immigrants, and what makes immigrants generally assimilable, is that
this is a creedal nation, one dedicated to certain propositions, not
one whose origins and identity are bound up with ethnicity. But if
you are to be welcomed to the enjoyment of American liberty, then
America has a few expectations of you. One is that you can read the
nation’s founding documents and laws and can comprehend the
political discourse that precedes the casting of ballots."
AMEN! Source: George Will, The Washington Post, 5/25/06, p.
A29
McCAIN KENNEDY – 614 DANGEROUS PAGES
"We tried to monitor it and study it and
actually read this 614-page bill, and I have a responsibility and I
am going to fulfill my responsibility. …"
$29 BILLION FOR MISNAMED "EARNED INCOME"
TAX CREDIT
"The Congressional Budget Office has concluded
that the earned-income tax credit will pay out to those who came
into our country illegally $29 billion over 10 years. … The
average recipient of it receives $1,700. Lower-income people get a
larger amount. … They will be the ones who will particularly
qualify for this. …"
$50-60 BILLION ADDED ANNUAL WELFARE BURDEN FROM
AMNESTY WOULD BE IMPOSED ON CITIZEN TAXPAYERS ($500 BILLION TOTAL)
"[Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation
says] this bill represents the greatest increase in welfare in 35
years. With the provisions and benefits that will be in it, he
estimates that year 10 through year 20, the cost could be $50 to $60
billion a year to the taxpayers because it takes some time for the
people who are adjusting and becoming citizens and/or legal
permanent residents to really begin to make the claims. …
"[H]e is not exaggerating the numbers,
because that is based solely on the amnesty provisions, not the
provisions that will allow 3 times to 4 times as many people to come
into the country legally in the next 20 years as come in today, and
many of them will go on welfare because that whole system is not
based on identifying people with skills and educational levels that
would indicate they would be more than low-wage workers — so it
could really be more than that. But $50 billion a year over 10 years
is $500 billion. …"
HEALTH REQUIREMENTS NOT APPLIED TO FAMILY MEMBERS
"Family members of H-2C visa holder need not be
healthy. Under current law, aliens must prove that they are
admissible and meet certain health standards. Many times, visa
applicants must have a medical exam to show that they do not have a
communicable disease. They have to be up-to-date on immunizations,
and cannot have mental disorders. Spouses and children of H-2C visa
holders, however, are not required to have a medical exam before
receiving a visa. …"
"BLUE CARD" ALIENS GRANTED MORE RIGHTS
THAN U.S. CITIZENS
"The work requirement for a blue card can be
satisfied in a matter of hours. Under the AgJOBS component of the
substitute, illegal alien agricultural workers who have worked 150
‘workdays’ in agriculture over the last 2 years will receive a
‘blue card,’ allowing them to live and work permanently in the
U.S. However, because current law defines an agricultural ‘workday’
as 1 hour of work per day — the bill language restates that
definition on page 397 — an alien who has worked for as little as
150 hours — there are 168 hours in a week — in agriculture over
the last 2 years will qualify for a blue card.
"Blue card aliens can only be fired for just
cause, unlike an American citizen worker who is likely under an
employment at will agreement with the agricultural employer. …"
THOUSANDS MORE LEGAL SERVICES LAWYERS WOULD BE
FUNDED TO AID ILLEGALS
"Because blue card aliens are not limited to
working in agriculture, this employment requirement will follow the
alien at their second and third jobs as well. The bill goes as
far as setting up an arbitration process for blue card aliens who
allege they have been terminated without just cause. Furthermore,
the bill requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to pay the fee
and expenses of the arbitrator. American citizens do not have a
right to this arbitration process, why are we setting up an
arbitration process for blue card aliens paid for by the American
taxpayer.
"Regarding free legal counsel, the AgJOBS
amendment goes further than paying for arbitrators, it also provides
free legal counsel to illegal aliens who want to receive this
amnesty. The AgJOBS amendment specifically states that recipients
of ‘funds under the Legal Services Corporation Act’ shall not be
prevented ‘from providing legal assistance directly related to an
application for adjustment of status under this section.’
Interestingly, page 414 of the bill requires the alien to have an
attorney file the application for him. Not only will AgJOBS give
amnesty to 1.5 million illegal aliens, it would have the American
taxpayer pay the legal bills of those illegal aliens. This is
unbelievable and unacceptable. We should not be rewarding illegal
aliens who break our laws with free legal counsel and a direct path
to citizenship. …"
LOWER COLLEGE TUITION FOR ILLEGALS THAN FOR
AMERICAN CITIZENS
"Regarding in-State tuition for illegal aliens,
current law provides that: [A]n alien who is not lawfully present in
the United States shall not be eligible on the basis of residence
within a State (or a political subdivision) for any postsecondary
education benefit unless a citizen or national of the United States
is eligible for such a benefit (in no less an amount, duration, and
scope) without regard to whether the citizen or national is such a
resident.
"The DREAM Act would eliminate this
provision and allow illegal alien college and university students to
be eligible for in-state tuition without affording out-of-state
citizen students the same opportunity. Thus, the University of
Alabama could offer in-state tuition to illegal alien students while
requiring citizens residing in Mississippi to pay the much higher
out-of-state tuition rates.
"Allowing all illegal aliens enrolled in
college to receive in-state tuition rates means that while American
citizens from 49 other states have to pay out-of-state tuition rates
to send their kids to [*S5032] UVA, people who have illegally
immigrated to this country might not. Out-of-state tuition rates
range from 2 to 3 ½ times the in-state resident tuition rate.
…"
BACK TAXES CAN BE EVADED
"[T]he plain language of the bill doesn’t
require them to pay all their back taxes at all. They get an option
to pick and choose which 3 years they want to pay their taxes.
Presumably, they can forget and not pay the taxes for the high
years. How silly is that? …"
AMNESTY FOR EMPLOYERS WHO VIOLATE THE LAW
"How about the employers? They get tax
amnesty. Employers of aliens applying for adjustment of status —
amnesty — ‘shall not be subject to civil and criminal tax
liability relating directly to the employment of such an alien.’
That means a business that hired illegal workers does not have to
pay the taxes they should have paid. Why? This encourages employers
to violate our tax laws and not pay what they owe the Federal
Government. They are excusing these employers and giving them
amnesty from not withholding taxes. That is a very bad thing. Every
American business knows they have to pay their withholding
taxes."
ILLEGALS TO BE PROTECTED – EVEN WITHOUT AMNESTY
"What about illegal alien protection? The alien
and their families who file applications for amnesty ‘shall not be
detained, determined inadmissible, deported, or removed until their
applications are finally adjudicated, unless they commit a future
act that renders them ineligible with amnesty.’ With tens of
millions of applications, this amnesty, this provision essentially
guarantees an illegal alien years of protection in the United
States, even if they do not qualify for the amnesty." Source:
U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), www.HumanEventsonline.com,
5/25/06
Excerpted from Howard Phillips.com
RADICAL LEFTISTS – SOME TAX SUBSIDIZED – ORGANIZE
PRO-ILLEGALS DEMONSTRATIONS
Hundreds of thousands
of people have marched in opposition to restrictions on illegal
immigration.
Who’s checking them
out?
In fact, many of the
march organizers represent organizations funded with our tax
dollars, including Legal Services lawyers, the Mexican-American
Legal Defense and Education Foundation, La Raza Unida, and many,
many others.
Some of the groups
involved in organizing the demonstrations are hard-core
Marxist-Leninist entities.
As reported in The
Washington Times (4/11/06), "One
of the key organizers of the immigration protests and rallies
nationwide including yesterday’s in Washington, is a group whose
leaders are tied to the Workers World Party, a Marxist organization
that has expressed support for dictators Kim Jong-il of North Korea
and Saddam Hussein of Iraq.
"Act Now to Stop
War and End Racism (ANSWER) Coalition, which also has proposed a
nationwide boycott on May 1 to protest congressional efforts at
immigration reform and border security, is an offshoot of the
International Action Coalition, an anti-capitalism group founded by
former Attorney General Ramsey Clark.
"In a press
release celebrating a March 25 rally in Los Angeles against
immigration-law enforcement that drew 500,000 people, ANSWER said it
helped organize ‘a major contingent in the march’ and provided
logistical support. The march was co-chaired by Juan Jose Gutierrez,
director of Latino Movement USA, who also is a member of ANSWER’s
Los Angeles steering committee. …
"Founded three
days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United
States, the organization describes itself as a ‘coalition of
hundreds of organizations and prominent individuals and scores of
organizing centers in cities and towns across the country’ that
have campaigned against ‘U.S. intervention in Latin America, the
Caribbean, the Middle East and Asia…and for civil rights and for
social and economic justice for working and poor people inside the
United States.’
"ANSWER also
organized the first national anti-war rally after the September 11
attacks, a demonstration that brought 25,000 people to Washington
and 15,000 to San Francisco on Sept. 29, 2001.
"The Workers World
Party, a communist organization in the United States founded in
1959, describes itself as a party that has, since its founding,
‘supported the struggles of all oppressed peoples’ and opposes
"all forms of racism and religious bigotry.’ In addition to
sponsoring or directing numerous popular-front groups, it was
instrumental in founding ANSWER through the International Action
Coalition.
"Its March 25
rally in Los Angeles and its planned ‘Great American Boycott of
2006" on May 1 are part of a series of large-scale events [that
the] coalition hopes will sway lawmakers to put millions of illegal
aliens in the United States on track toward permanent residency and
U.S. citizenship."
Excerpted from Howard Phillips Issues and
Strategy Bulletin #735, February 15, 2004
BUSH WOULD ADD 14 MILLION ILLEGAL ALIENS TO VOTING
AND WELFARE ROLLS
"If George Bush’s amnesty for between 8
million and 14 million illegal aliens is enacted, you can kiss the
old America goodbye.
"Consider what the president is saying with
his amnesty. He is telling us that he cannot or will not do his
constitutional duty to defend the states from invasion. He is saying
that he simply cannot or will not protect our borders or enforce our
immigration laws. He is saying he will no longer send illegal aliens
back."
PAT BUCHANAN ASKS: IS IMPEACHMENT WARRANTED?
"Not long ago, this would have produced
calls for impeachment and cries that, ‘If Bush won’t enforce our
laws, let’s elect a president who will.’
"By offering amnesty and residency to
millions who broke in line, broke our laws, and broke into our
country, Bush is not only rewarding wholesale criminality, he
proposes to legalize it. …"
U.S. WORKERS FORCED TO CHOOSE LOW PAYING JOBS OR
UNEMPLOYMENT
"As there must be billions of people willing to
come and work for a fraction of our minimum wage – and exploit our
social safety net – the number who could come under the Bush guest
worker program is almost infinite.
"Imagine a car wash that employs 40
African-American, Latino, and white working-class folks at $8.00 an
hour each. A new car wash down the street opens up, offering 40 new
jobs at $5.15 an hour. No Americans apply. Under Bush’s
proposal, that employer would be free to go to Asia, Africa, and
Latin America, round up workers and bring them in.
"The new car wash with its foreign workers then
drives the old car wash with its American workers out of business. Taxpayers
are then forced to subsidize the newly unemployed – and pay for
the medical care, food stamps, rent supplements, welfare, and
schooling of all the new immigrants and their families, provide
legal services when they get in trouble, and pay for more cops to
police their neighborhoods.
"And every child born of a guest worker
would, under our 14th Amendment, become an American
citizen, automatically entitled to all the benefits of citizenship.
…"
THIS IS SURELY A BIGGER THREAT THAN IRAQ
"The real threats to America’s survival do
not come from the Sunni Triangle. They come from within."
Source: Patrick Buchanan, The Wanderer, 1/22/04, p. 5
Excerpted from Howard Phillips Issues and
Strategy Bulletin #736, February 29, 2004
TED KENNEDY PRAISES BUSH FOR ILLEGAL ALIEN
PROPOSAL
" ‘In announcing his proposal, President Bush
recognized America’s proud tradition of welcoming immigrants,’
said Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, the subcommittee’s
ranking Democrat. ‘He acknowledged the essential role that
immigrants have had and continue to have in our nation’s life.’
…
"Labor Department Deputy Secretary Steven
Law said the Bush proposal would ‘bring undocumented workers out
of the shadows into the mainstream economy, allowing them to more
easily establish credit, invest and purchase items like appliances,
homes and automobiles.’"
LAWBREAKERS TO BE REWARDED
"Critics, including the Federation for American
[I]mmigration [R]eform, which supports limited immigration, say
passage of the Bush proposal will reward lawbreakers by allowing
foreign nationals who illegally entered the United States to remain
without penalty. They add that it will encourage future illegal
immigration. …
"Last month, Mr. Bush proposed, as a set of
principles and not specific legislation, a broad temporary-worker
program that would allow millions of illegal aliens now in the
United States to remain during renewable three-year periods without
penalty and, eventually, to apply for permanent legal
residence."
EASY COME, EASY GO
"Illegal aliens who could prove they were
employed in this country on Jan. 7, the day the program was
announced, could stay, even returning to their home countries and
then coming back to their U.S. jobs.
"The White House painstakingly has denied that
the program offers ‘blanket amnesty,’ even though the aliens who
gained entry to the United States illegally to obtain jobs – often
with phony identification documents – will face no
penalties." Source: Jerry Seper, The Washington Times,
2/13/04, p. A14
Excerpted from Howard Phillips Issues and
Strategy Bulletin #737, March 15, 2004
GWB SHOULD ENFORCE EXISTING IMMIGRATION LAW
"The White House yesterday said a new
immigration review is under way that could lead to amnesty for
millions of illegal aliens living and working in the United States.
"Confirmation of the review came during a White
House briefing, just two days after Homeland Security Secretary Tom
Ridge said during a town hall meeting in Miami that the government
had to ‘afford some kind of legal status’ to the 8 million to 12
million illegal aliens in the country. …
"Rep. Tom Tancredo, Colorado Republican and
chairman of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus, said Mr.
Ridge should resign if he is unable or unwilling to enforce existing
immigration laws. He said the secretary’s comments would ‘open
a floodgate’ of illegal aliens ‘trying to sneak into the United
States in order to be first in line for amnesty.’
"Dan Stein, executive director of the
Federation of American Immigration Reform (FAIR), questioned what
security interests of the United States were being served ‘by
granting legal status to people whose identities cannot be confirmed
and who already have shown an unwillingness to observe U.S. law?
" ‘The law has to be respected before you
grandfather in the very people who disrespected it,’ he
said."
AMNESTY FOR ILLEGALS WAS TRIED UNDER REAGAN
"Congress approved an amnesty program in 1986,
granting legal status to 2.7 million illegal aliens then in the
country. The program contained increased enforcement and penalty
policies aimed at ending illegal immigration, although the illegal
alien population in the United States today is more than twice the
total in 1986. …
"Mr. Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox
had agreed to consider granting permanent residency, or green cards,
to as many as 3 million Mexicans living illegally in the United
States." Source: Jerry Seper, The Washington Times,
12/12/03, pp. 1, A16
Excerpted from Howard Phillips Issues and
Strategy Bulletin #738, March 31, 2004
TOM TANCREDO
SAYS BEST IMMIGRATION POLICY IS TO ENFORCE THE LAW
"Shock and awe – that’s how critics have
reacted to Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge’s proposal to
offer citizenship to more than eight million illegal aliens.
"Congressman Tom Tancredo says he is very
discouraged by the suggestion that some kind of legal status needs
to be conferred on those who are in the U.S. illegally. The
Colorado Republican, who is chairman of the House Immigration Reform
Caucus, confesses he is not happy with Ridge’s comments, made
during a recent town hall meeting in Miami. …
" ‘I’m so discouraged that the Secretary of
Homeland Security said this country has to develop an immigration
policy and then try to enforce it,’ the congressman says. ‘Well,
you know what? We have one, Mr. Secretary. It’s against the law to
come into this country without our permission. If you do, you’re
supposed to be deported.’
"Tancredo has his own suggestion for the
Security Secretary. ‘If he doesn’t like the law, he should come
to Congress, to the President, and ask to have it be changed. But he
cannot pick and choose what laws he wants to enforce and which ones
he does not.’ " Source: Chad Groening and Bill Fancher,
American Family Association, 12/17/03
BUSH LETS FOX SET GROUND RULES FOR U.S.
CHICKENKOOP
"President Bush acceded to the demands of
Mexican President Vicente Fox and halted plans to fingerprint and
photograph all migrants entering the United States across the
southern border.
"During a news conference held after a morning
meeting between the two men yesterday, Mr. Fox expressed his
appreciation to Mr. Bush for scaling back the scope of the US-VISIT
program, exempting Mexicans who hold so-called ‘laser visas’
from going through the additional security check. …
"Laser visas include a digital photograph
and biometric identifiers, such as fingerprints, for each
cardholder. Mexican nationals coming into the United States began
carrying them in October 2002.
"Mr. Bush said his decision to drop the
fingerprint-and-photograph requirement for visa-holding Mexicans is
‘very reasonable,’ and was happy for the ‘progress’ the two
countries are making on immigration matters."
BUSH REAFFIRMS SUPPORT FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS
"He also defended a proposal he made in January
to grant worker cards to millions of illegal aliens now in the
United States that would award temporary legal status for several
years at a time." Source: James G. Lakely, The Washington
Times, 3/7/04, pp. 1, A4
Excerpted from Howard Phillips Issues and
Strategy Bulletin #710, January 31, 2003
MEXICO’S COUNTERFEIT ID CARDS THWART U.S.
COUNTER-TERRORIST MEASURES
"The Mexican government, despite concerns by
U.S. law-enforcement authorities and immigration officials, is
handing out thousands of identity cards to Mexican nationals in this
country, including those here illegally.
"The ‘matricular consular cards’ cost
about $25, are good for five years and can be obtained from a
Mexican consular office with a birth certificate and a photo
identification issued in either Mexico or the United States."
EACH IDENTITY CARD IS A "LICENSE TO
STEAL" FROM U.S. TAXPAYERS
"The cards have been used by Mexican nationals
to obtain social services, establish bank accounts, open utility
accounts and obtain building permits. They also have been used as
legal identification for those who have been detained by state,
local and federal law-enforcement authorities."
MEXICAN ID’s ARE VIRTUAL PROOF OF ILLEGAL ENTRY
" ‘The most important thing to understand
about these Mexican matriculas is that they are almost absolute
proof that the bearer is an illegal alien,’ said Dan Stein,
executive director of the Washington-based Federation for American
Immigration Reform."
LEGAL IMMIGRANTS AND TOURISTS DON’T NEED PHONY
PASS FROM VICENTE FOX
" ‘Legal immigrants can get valid U.S.
documents, like state-issued driver’s licenses, while visitors can
prove their identity with a passport and a valid visa. The only
people who would need these consular-issued IDs are illegal aliens,’
Mr. Stein said."
BUSH ADMINISTRATION COLLABORATES BY ACCEPTING
PHONY ID’s AS VALID
"Aside from tacitly recognizing the presence of
people who are violating the law, Mr. Stein said the U.S.
government – in allowing the cards to be used as identification
– has placed critical national security matters in the hands of
the foreign governments that issue the cards."
POLITICAL PANDERING OVERRIDES NATIONAL SECURITY
" ‘We know that corruption is prevalent in
the Mexican government, and yet we are relying on a chain of
faceless Mexican bureaucrats to vouch for the identities of millions
of people, about whom the only thing we know for certain is that
they’ve broken our immigration laws,’ he said.
" ‘Clearly, our policy-makers are still
more serious about maintaining a flow of cheap labor for a handful
of business interests or currying favor with a few self-appointed
ethnic spokespeople, than they are about controlling illegal
immigration or addressing national security,’ he said."
Source: Jerry Seper, The Washington Times, 1/21/03, pp. 1,
A18
U.S. SOCIAL SECURITY FOR MEXICANS COULD COST $345
BILLION
" ‘U.S. Social Security May Reach to Mexico,’
blared a Washington Post headline last month: A U.S.-Mexico
agreement would send hundreds of millions of dollars in Social
Security benefits annually to roughly 37,000 Mexican workers. But
this and other news reports actually dramatically underestimated the
true scope of the accord. If top officials at the State Department
and the Social Security Administration have their way, up to $345
billion could be siphoned from the Social Security ‘trust fund’
over the next two decades – mostly to people who worked in the
U.S. illegally."
INCLUSION OF 7-11 MILLION ILLEGALS JEOPARDIZES
SOCIAL SECURITY INCOME OF U.S. CITIZENS
"The media reports quoted a relatively low cost
because the Mexico pact is supposedly modeled after deals the U.S.
already has with 20 other countries…. But the Mexico accord is
different in one key respect: It makes illegals from Mexico
eligible for Social Security benefits, which will make the cost
skyrocket.
"Today, people who worked in the U.S. illegally
can receive Social Security benefits for that period only if they
become citizens or permanent legal residents. The new agreement
would lift this requirement for Mexican illegals. …
"There are between 7 and 11 million illegals
in the U.S. – about half of whom are from Mexico. Allowing them to
receive Social Security benefits would dramatically inflate the
number of new beneficiaries, and cause the Social Security trust
fund to hemorrhage hundreds of billions of dollars. …"
DISABILITY BENEFITS WILL ALSO COST BILLIONS
"One of the biggest areas of fraud is
disability benefits. If someone works, on average, six months per
year, he can – upon becoming disabled – qualify for benefits
equal to up to two-thirds or more of his average salary. Law
firms and others out to make a quick buck place ads, particularly in
towns near the Mexican border, urging people to seek Social Security
disability benefits. Along I-10 in El Paso, drivers can spot
both English- and Spanish-language billboards promising to help the
‘disabled’; for people who heed the call of those billboards,
the payout can be generous. …"
ONE ILLEGAL COULD COST U.S. TAXPAYERS ONE-HALF
MILLION BUCKS
"If a 24-year-old Mexican national who has
worked illegally in the U.S. for three years is able to present
documents from a friendly doctor and either a W-2 or pay stubs that
indicate $12,000 in annual earnings, he will be eligible for the
following: nearly $8,000 per year in disability income (adjusted for
inflation), until age 65, at which point he would receive the same
amount as retirement pay. (If he manages to get an
under-the-table job in the U.S. or Mexico, he will be able to
double-dip for a second income stream.) If he is survived by his
wife or dependents, his family would be able to receive up to almost
$12,000 annually. If he dies at 60, and his widow lives to 85, U.S.
taxpayers will be on the hook for nearly a half-million dollars.
That’s for one worker brought into Social Security by the
pact." Source: Joel Mowbray, National Review, 1/27/03,
pp. 22, 24
Excerpted from Howard Phillips Issues and
Strategy Bulletin #720, June 30, 2003
ILLEGAL ALIENS, HAVING BROKEN LAWS OF ENTRY, MAY BREAK OTHERS EVEN MORE SERIOUS
"It’s every mother’s worst nightmare: A
9-year-old girl, dragged from her San Jose, Calif., home in broad
daylight, is kidnapped and raped over three days before being
released by her attacker.
"The story made headline news all week. Now,
here is the story behind the story that the liberal media has failed
to tell.
"The man arrested and charged with nine felony
counts related to the terrifying abduction and sexual assault is an
illegal alien. As of this writing, not a single newspaper covering
the story has bothered to report on the accused attacker’s
immigration history. The San Jose Police Department confirmed his
illegal status to me in a phone call on Thursday morning. He was
arraigned under the name ‘Enrique Sosa Alvarez,’ but a
fingerprint check identified him as ‘David Montiel Cruz.’ As ‘Cruz,’
this man was previously convicted of auto theft. Both ‘Alvarez’
and ‘Cruz’ may be aliases. Police spokeswoman Katherine Unger
told me: ‘We just don’t know.’ "
CRIME UNPUNISHED IS COMPOUNDED – WITH TRAGIC
RESULTS
"Ms. Unger said the department is still not
clear on his country of birth. Some neighbors say he was Guatemalan;
others report that he often wore a cap bearing the Mexican flag. …
"Time and again, out protectors have failed
to screen out criminal menaces whose primary goal is not to seek a
better life in America, but to make life miserable for everybody
else.
"A 9-year-old girl may have been brutally
raped, scarred forever, partly because of the federal government’s
failure to enforce its borders. According to neighbors’
accounts, ‘Alvarez’ was a violent thug who beat his girlfriend,
harassed his community and held no job.
"Without solid verification of ‘Alvarez’s’
identity, it’s impossible to know whether he had a history of
child abduction or child molestation in his native country. We also
don’t know whether immigration officials are responsible for
letting ‘Cruz/Alvarez’ loose in violation of federal law after
his auto theft conviction. Criminal aliens are supposed to be taken
immediately into federal immigration custody after serving their
sentences. But as the Justice Department’s inspector general
reported, the Immigration and Naturalization Service’s failure to
track foreign-born inmates led to the release of 35,318 criminal
aliens into the general population in 2000 – roughly one-third of
whom went on to commit serious crimes." Source: Michelle
Malkin, The Washington Times, 6/15/03, p. B1
Excerpted from Howard Phillips Issues and
Strategy Bulletin #721, July 15, 2003
BUSH MAY SPEND U.S. TAX DOLLARS TO PROVIDE SOCIAL SECURITY PAYMENTS TO MEXICANS LIVING IN
MEXICO
"With Social Security facing projections of
insolvency, an Administration plan would hasten that crisis by
sending hundreds of millions of dollars in Social Security payments
to Mexican citizens living in Mexico – including those who have
worked illegally in the United States."
ILLEGAL ALIENS WOULD BENEFIT
"Under current law, people who worked
illegally in the U.S. can only become eligible for Social Security
benefits by becoming citizens or legal permanent residents. But
officials at the State Department and Social Security Administration
(SSA) are preparing a scheme that would pay benefits to illegal
aliens who have returned to Mexico."
DIFFERENT THAN 20 OTHER BILATERAL DEALS
"The agreement would be part of a series of
executive agreements designed to ensure that people from one country
working in another have their Social Security taxes paid into the
home country’s social security systems. The U.S. has 20 such
treaties with other [countries], but this one would be
dramatically different – not only in sheer numbers of people
affected, but also because it would be the first to make illegal
aliens eligible for Social Security benefits for their illegal
employment."
$ BILLION PER YEAR PRICETAG IS A COSTLY WAY TO BUY
VOTES
"The annual cost to the U.S. of the 20 existing
accords is about $183 million; the agreement with Mexico is expected
to cost Social Security between $720 million and $1 billion each
year, and possibly much more."
WORK IN MEXICO COUNTS TOWARD ELIGIBILITY TO TAP U.S. "SOCIAL SECURITY TRUST FUND" –
FRAUD IS NOT A DISQUALIFICATION
"Mexican citizens who did not work in the U.S.
long enough to qualify for benefits also would be able to receive a
monthly check from the U.S. government, because the plan would allow
applicants to add in the number of years worked in Mexico. Mexican
officials also are reportedly pushing to make U.S. Social Security
benefits available to Mexicans who used false Social Security
numbers while working in the U.S. …
"An internal SSA memo says that the agreement
could be in effect as early as October of this year. …"
TCC URGES YOU TO TAKE ACTION
"Contact your congressional representatives
[call 202-224-3121] and demand that action be taken to stop this
agreement. Urge them to actively support the No Social Security
for Illegal Immigrants Act of 2003 (H.R. 1631), introduced by
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), which would bar illegal aliens from
being eligible for Social Security benefits." Source: FAIR
Immigration Report, May 2003, pp. 1, 2
Excerpted from Howard Phillips Issues and
Strategy Bulletin #732, December 31, 2003
MEXICAN IDs ARE TICKETS OF ADMISSION TO THE U.S.
WELFARE STATE
"The Treasury Department said yesterday that it
will leave in place rules that allow financial institutions to
accept Mexican identification cards, called Matricula Consular,
which often are used by undocumented immigrants to open bank
accounts.
"The decision, which extends to all
foreign-issued identification, is considered a victory for
immigration and Hispanic groups that have protested efforts to
prohibit use of the identification cards. Financial institutions,
too, had opposed any change in the rule.
"The federal government and other critics say
the cards could be interpreted as de facto amnesty for illegal
aliens.
"The cards, moreover, can be counterfeited
easily and pose a risk to homeland security, opponents note. …
"The cards are issued by Mexico’s consulates
to its citizens living abroad and show the date of birth, a current
photograph and the address of the card holder. Many of the cards
have been issued to Mexicans in the United States, including those
here illegally.
"Card holders have used them to open bank
accounts, turn on utilities, check out library books, get driver’s
licenses or other basic services in some communities and
states." Source: Associated Press, The Washington Times,
9/19/03, p. A3
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