RIGHT… a period of time… WE
ALREADY KNOW CONGRESS AND OBAMA WILL DO NOTHING TO EVEN RID US OF CRIMINAL
MEXICANS! ONCE THEY’RE HERE, IN OUR JOBS AND VOTING, IT’S FULL STEAM AHEAD FOR
EACH PARTY TO BUY THE LA RAZA VOTE WITH ENDLESS HISPANDERING, NO E-VERIFY, NO
LEGAL NEED APPLY, AND MUCHO DREAM ACTS!
WHO DO THEY THINK THEY’RE
KIDDING THIS TIME? “FOR A PERIOD OF TIME…?”
“The compromise would
grant students who are the children of illegal immigrants a new kind of
nonimmigrant visa that would let them live in this country legally for a period
of time.”
OH NO! LOOKS LIKE GABY
AND THE OTHER ILLEGALS WILL NOT VOTE FOR RUBIO?
Gaby Pacheco, an immigrant activist for United We Dream, who recently met with Senator Rubio, said the students were tired of waiting for Congress and wanted to break the logjam. She said Mr. Rubio was taking a serious approach to the problem.
Gaby Pacheco, an immigrant activist for United We Dream, who recently met with Senator Rubio, said the students were tired of waiting for Congress and wanted to break the logjam. She said Mr. Rubio was taking a serious approach to the problem.
April 26, 2012
With G.O.P.’s Ear, Rubio Pushes Dream Act
Proposal
MIAMI — When Senator Marco
Rubio first
floated his compromise
version of the Dream Act — the bill, now stalled, that would grant some students in the
United States illegally a path to citizenship — the chances of reviving the
politically charged issue in Congress seemed as dim as the chances of snuffing
out attack ads on the campaign trail.
On Thursday, Speaker John
A. Boehner said as much, calling it “difficult at best” to take up the issue in
the House, where Republicans are pushing for greater border security, not more
forgiving laws. But Mr. Boehner did not close the door, saying “there is always
hope” and adding that Mr. Rubio had spoken to him about his proposal.
“I found it of interest,”
Mr. Boehner said. “But the problem with this issue is that we are operating in
a very hostile political environment.”
Recognizing that his
proposal was never going to be an easy sell for either Republicans or
Democrats, Mr. Rubio said in an interview this week that he was moving forward
with his plan to give students a chance to study and work here legally, albeit
temporarily. The senator said he and his staff had been speaking with
Democrats, conservative Republicans in and out of Congress, immigration advocates and the students
themselves.
The plan seeks to assuage
concerns on all sides, Mr. Rubio added; it cannot serve as a lure to illegal
immigrants but must offer eligible students genuine relief.
“I don’t want to be
unrealistically optimistic about it,” he said, but added, “I have not been
discouraged by anybody in my party.”
The compromise would grant students who are the children of
illegal immigrants a new kind of nonimmigrant visa that would let them live in
this country legally for a period of time. They could work, drive and pay taxes. He would also grant
nonimmigrant visas to the graduates of colleges and trade schools, enabling
them to stay here and work.
The proposal would not
grant them green cards, giving them permanent residency, which sets it apart
from the original Dream Act. With their nonimmigrant visas, they could seek
green cards in the traditional way, either through marriage, family or an employer.
But they could remain in this country legally during that process.
Left with few options, many
students and activists said that they were open to Mr. Rubio’s compromise but
that they would wait to see the complete bill.
Gaby Pacheco, an immigrant activist for United We Dream, who recently met with Senator Rubio, said the students were
tired of waiting for Congress and wanted to break the logjam. She said Mr.
Rubio was taking a serious approach to the problem.
“We need a starting point,”
she said “Right now with the way the country is so polarized and
anti-immigrant, if a Republican starts talking about it and is able to bring
his party into the dialogue, we need to listen to that and give them the
opportunity.”
Mr. Rubio said that he was
still working on the details and that he hoped to introduce a bill once he had
lined up enough support.
The Dream Act passed the
House in 2010 but failed in the Senate. Last year, Senator Richard J. Durbin,
the Illinois Democrat who sponsored the bill, modified it to address some
Republican concerns, but it has not attracted much party support.
Most Republicans view the
bill as a form of “amnesty” to people who have broken the law and as a lure to
undocumented immigrants.
Mr. Rubio, a potential
vice-presidential contender and a Florida Cuban-American, said he was working
to garner support from fellow conservatives. The issue is important to many
Hispanics in the country, a group of swing voters that has largely decried Mitt
Romney’s position on how to handle illegal immigrants.
“I am cautiously optimistic
that we are going to have very significant support among Republicans,” Mr.
Rubio said.
Senator Durbin has
expressed a willingness to consider the senator’s proposal. Most Democrats said
they were waiting to see the details and whether Republicans would back the
plan.
Cheryl Little, a prominent
immigration advocate and lawyer in Miami, said she was pleasantly surprised
when Mr. Rubio called her a few weeks ago to seek her opinion.
Ms. Little would prefer
something permanent for the dreamers, and not a succession of temporary visas,
but she said Mr. Rubio was the lone Republican in Congress trying to address
the issue.
“It’s hard to believe they
will budge,” she said of Republicans, given the election year. “But we are
pushing everybody we can to try to do something to move this forward. I don’t
care if it’s a Republican, a Democrat or an independent. If they have a good
idea, and it’s got legs, we are going to support it.”
Meanwhile, Ms. Little and
other activists are pressuring President Obama to expand a discretionary
provision already granted to the Department of Homeland Security that delays
deportation of these students and allows them to work. That permission is
currently given on a case by case basis.
“The administration should
do what they have the authority to do, and do so now,” Ms. Little said.
A White House official who
was not authorized to speak publicly said President Obama “is using all the
administrative tools he has” and that he supported the Dream Act.
But the official added,
“There is no magic wand. This requires action by Congress.”
Senator Rubio shrugged off
criticism that his plan is a political ploy to attract Hispanics and not a
serious legislative effort to help students here illegally.
“Taking something like this
on politically has just as many pitfalls as it has advantages,” he said.
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ILLEGALS BREAK EVERY LAW IN THIS NATION! THEY DRIVE
ILLEGALLY CONTRACT ILLEGALLY, USE STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS TO STEAL OUR
JOBS.. AND YOU THOUGHT THERE WEREN’T OUT THERE VOTING ILLEGALLY?!?!?
WHY DO YOU THINK OBAMA AND ALL THE LA RAZA DEMS KEEP TALKING
ABOUT THE LATINO VOTE?!?!?
THE FASTEST RISING POLITICAL PARTY IN AMERICA IS NOT THE TEA
BAGGERS! IT IS THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA, AND OBAMA FUNDS IT WITH
OUR TAX DOLLARS!
LaRaza
Calls For Boycott Against Free Speech
No surprise here. Pulling the race/hate card again and using
political correctness La Raza goes after cable shows reporting on illegal
immigration.
"Murguía said she recognized that ultimately the power to change the debate lies with the Hispanic community itself. “Latinos buy products from the advertisers supporting these programs,” she said. “Latinos vote in primaries and in the general election. We have a significant role to play picking winners and losers in both arenas. We need to make it clear to those who embrace hate that they do so at their own economic and political peril.”
http://www.nclr.org/content/news/detail/50375/
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"Murguía said she recognized that ultimately the power to change the debate lies with the Hispanic community itself. “Latinos buy products from the advertisers supporting these programs,” she said. “Latinos vote in primaries and in the general election. We have a significant role to play picking winners and losers in both arenas. We need to make it clear to those who embrace hate that they do so at their own economic and political peril.”
http://www.nclr.org/content/news/detail/50375/
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Friends of ALIPAC,
There is an effort to pass Amnesty for illegal aliens underway in the compromised media and the US Senate today. Currently,we eagerly await the US Supreme Court ruling on Arizona's SB 1070 which could give us a brief opportunity to go on offense against illegal immigration in America!
This email is an effort to warn you and get you organized quickly. We have beaten them before and ALIPAC can beat them again, if enough of you rise to the occasion.
The fate of Amnesty for illegal aliens will be decided in this year's elections. There will be legislation that US Senator Marco Rubio, a man that gutted 31 of our illegal immigration fighting bills in the Florida legislature, plans to file soon.
As you can see in these articles, Marco Rubio plans to have his 'Republican Version' of the Dream Act Amnesty in place before college students return to school in Fall 2012! He is also traipsing about with Mitt Romney in Florida today!
Article (Please read, understand, utilize, and circulate)
Rubio Wants GOP DREAM Act AMNESTY for illegals in Place in Time for Fall College Semester
http://www.alipac.us/content/rubio-w...-semester-409/
Dream Act Amnesty Supporter Marco Rubio hits the trail with Mitt Romney
http://www.alipac.us/content/marco-r...tt-romney-414/
TAKE ACTION NOW
Step 1: Call this new Amnesty supporting traitor Senator Marco Rubio and tell him what you think of his illegal alien Amnesty plans.
Remember that all calls are monitored and while you should be firm, don't go over the top or Janet Napolitano of Homeland Security will put you in a bag and hold you up for the nation to see.
Call Rubio's offices with your own version of our sample messages.
"I'm calling to tell Senator Rubio that I am one of the vast majority of Americans who oppose his illegal alien Dream Act Amnesty plans."
or
"I'm calling/writing to tell Senator Rubio that I oppose his illegal alien Amnesty plans and that I will work to make sure that his political career is ended. Accurate polls show that Americans oppose Dream Act Amnesty concepts 2 to 1 (Rasmussen Polling Oct 2007) and Senator Rubio has made a big career mistake trying to become the next John McCain and Lindsay Graham with illegal immigration issues. Dream Act Amnesty for illegal aliens will only encourage more illegal aliens and the courts will eventually allow Marco Rubio's illegal aliens voting rights, which will steal political power from millions of innocent Americans. Rubio's Dream Act Amnesty bill will cost many Americans their votes, jobs, taxpayer resources, and very lives. We need immigration enforcement not Amnesty!"
LIGHT UP THOSE PHONE LINES NOW USING THESE NUMBERS! Remember, calls are the most effective tool you have.
Senator Marco Rubio
DC Office
317 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington DC, 20510
Phone: 202-224-3041
Senator Marco Rubio
201 South Orange Avenue
Suite 350
Orlando, FL 32801
Phone: (407) 254-2573
toll free in Florida 1-866-630-7106
There is an effort to pass Amnesty for illegal aliens underway in the compromised media and the US Senate today. Currently,we eagerly await the US Supreme Court ruling on Arizona's SB 1070 which could give us a brief opportunity to go on offense against illegal immigration in America!
This email is an effort to warn you and get you organized quickly. We have beaten them before and ALIPAC can beat them again, if enough of you rise to the occasion.
The fate of Amnesty for illegal aliens will be decided in this year's elections. There will be legislation that US Senator Marco Rubio, a man that gutted 31 of our illegal immigration fighting bills in the Florida legislature, plans to file soon.
As you can see in these articles, Marco Rubio plans to have his 'Republican Version' of the Dream Act Amnesty in place before college students return to school in Fall 2012! He is also traipsing about with Mitt Romney in Florida today!
Article (Please read, understand, utilize, and circulate)
Rubio Wants GOP DREAM Act AMNESTY for illegals in Place in Time for Fall College Semester
http://www.alipac.us/content/rubio-w...-semester-409/
Dream Act Amnesty Supporter Marco Rubio hits the trail with Mitt Romney
http://www.alipac.us/content/marco-r...tt-romney-414/
TAKE ACTION NOW
Step 1: Call this new Amnesty supporting traitor Senator Marco Rubio and tell him what you think of his illegal alien Amnesty plans.
Remember that all calls are monitored and while you should be firm, don't go over the top or Janet Napolitano of Homeland Security will put you in a bag and hold you up for the nation to see.
Call Rubio's offices with your own version of our sample messages.
"I'm calling to tell Senator Rubio that I am one of the vast majority of Americans who oppose his illegal alien Dream Act Amnesty plans."
or
"I'm calling/writing to tell Senator Rubio that I oppose his illegal alien Amnesty plans and that I will work to make sure that his political career is ended. Accurate polls show that Americans oppose Dream Act Amnesty concepts 2 to 1 (Rasmussen Polling Oct 2007) and Senator Rubio has made a big career mistake trying to become the next John McCain and Lindsay Graham with illegal immigration issues. Dream Act Amnesty for illegal aliens will only encourage more illegal aliens and the courts will eventually allow Marco Rubio's illegal aliens voting rights, which will steal political power from millions of innocent Americans. Rubio's Dream Act Amnesty bill will cost many Americans their votes, jobs, taxpayer resources, and very lives. We need immigration enforcement not Amnesty!"
LIGHT UP THOSE PHONE LINES NOW USING THESE NUMBERS! Remember, calls are the most effective tool you have.
Senator Marco Rubio
DC Office
317 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington DC, 20510
Phone: 202-224-3041
Senator Marco Rubio
201 South Orange Avenue
Suite 350
Orlando, FL 32801
Phone: (407) 254-2573
toll free in Florida 1-866-630-7106
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MAYBE
AMERICANS THAT VOTE DEMOCRAT SHOULD WAKE UP TO WHAT THE DEM PARTY HAS DONE FOR
ALL THAT STAGGERINGLY EXPENSIVE “CHEAP” MEXICAN LABOR!
THEY’RE
TURNING THIS NATION INTO A MEXICAN COLONY FOR LOOTING!
CALIFORNIA
UNDER MEX OCCUPATION:
1.
PUTS OUT $20 BILLION PER YEAR IN SOCIAL SERVICES TO ILLEGALS AGAINST $28
BILLION PER YEAR IN DEFICITS.
2.
ON TOP OF THIS COUNTIES PUT OUT EVEN MORE. MEX-INFESTED LOS ANGELES COUNTY,
WHERE NO LEGAL CAN GET A JOB, PAYS OUT $600 MILLION, PRIMARILY FOR ANCHOR BABY
BIRTHERS = 18 YEARS OF WELFARE.
3.
OF THE TOP 200 MOST WANTED CRIMINALS IN CITY of L.A., 176 ARE MEXICANS, AND
MOST OF THE REST ARE RUSSIANS.
4.
THE CA ATTORNEY GENERAL (LA RAZA DEM FOR OPEN BORDERS) DECLARES THAT NEARLY !!!
HALF !!! OF ALL MURDERS IN CA ARE BY MEX GANGS!
5.
THE LA RAZA FACTION OF THE STATE LEGISLATURE JUST PASSED ANOTHER OCCUPATION
LAW. IT IS NOW ILLEGAL FOR EMPLOYERS TO USE E-VERIFY! VIVA LA RAZA AGAIN! THIS,
AFTER THEY PASSED A LAW HANDING SPECIAL HIGHER EDUCATION DISCOUNTS TO ILLEGALS
AS TUITION RATES FOR LEGALS HAS SOARED 30%!
"Any
reversal on these positions would destroy his credibility, alienate
conservative American voters who outnumber Latino voters, and exert the same
pressures on Mitt Romney that destroyed John McCain and Rick Perry's
campaigns," said William Gheen, the head of the anti-illegal immigration
group ALIPAC. "Not only would a Romney shift on immigration hurt him among
Americans concerned about illegal immigration but it would signal that he
cannot be trusted on any issue or topic whatsoever."
Border hawks warn Mitt Romney not to soften
immigration stance
By
Cameron Joseph - 04/22/12 07:00 AM ET
Immigration hawks are
warning Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee, not to moderate the
hard-line stances on border security and deportation that he took during the
GOP primary.
Conservatives who
focus on an anti-illegal immigration message are worried that Romney will move
toward the political center in the general election election campaign after he
suggested the GOP develop a “Republican DREAM Act.”
"Any
reversal on these positions would destroy his credibility, alienate
conservative American voters who outnumber Latino voters, and exert the same
pressures on Mitt Romney that destroyed John McCain and Rick Perry's
campaigns," said William Gheen, the head of the anti-illegal immigration
group ALIPAC. "Not only would a Romney shift on immigration hurt him among
Americans concerned about illegal immigration but it would signal that he
cannot be trusted on any issue or topic whatsoever."
Romney, took a hard
line on immigration during the GOP primary and said he would veto the “DREAM
Act,” which in its current incarnation would allow some illegal immigrants a
path to citizenship. But he said at a private fundraiser last weekend that his
campaign was “doomed” if he didn’t improve his standing with Hispanic voters.
Romney did not detail policy specifics of a “Republican
DREAM Act” and avoided
discussing those comments when asked about them on Friday in Arizona.
Former Rep. Tom
Tancredo (R-Colo.), a longtime anti-immigration activist, said he was
unsurprised that Romney seemed to be signaling a shift.
“It should be
expected with him,” Tancredo told The Hill. “It’s not as if he’s a guy with a
deep philosophical commitment one way or the other ... there’s nothing you can
count on including any philosophical roadmap for his presidency. I don’t have
any idea what he’ll do, and I’m not sure he does.”
Tancredo said that
any version of the DREAM Act is “simply wrong.”
Romney will spend
Monday campaigning with Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who is working on
introducing his own version of the “DREAM Act” this summer that would give some
illegal immigrants permanent residency rather than a pathway to citizenship.
Many consider Rubio a top contender to be Romney's choice for vice president.
Romney also recently
added former Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie, a centrist on
immigration, as a senior adviser in his campaign.
Latinos are the
fastest growing voting bloc in the country, doubling as a percentage of total
voters in the 20 years between 1988 and 2008. Roughly 9.7 million Latino voters
turned out in 2008 – 7.4 percent of the total – and they supported President
Obama by a ratio of 2:1.
Romney's campaign and
the Republican National Committee have launched efforts to win over Latino
voters. Romney put out a statement on Friday arguing that Obama “has brought
hard times to Hispanics in America.”
Other top Republicans
said they though Romney had boxed himself in on immigration and would be
perceived as a flip-flopper if he tried to move toward the center.
“Anything that you
say and do in public or in your pajamas lives forever in cyberspace,” said Rep.
Steve King (R-Iowa.). “'Etch-a-sketch' is an archaic concept that cannot exist
in the modern social media world so I don’t think that that actually could work
and I don’t think that’s what’s going to be applied.”
King joked that
Gillespie isn’t “completely reformed yet” when asked about his views on
immigration, and pointed out that Romney had stressed his border hawk bona
fides numerous times in Iowa, a key swing state in the presidential race.
“Iowans are going to
want to the hear solid, consistent immigration policy that Mitt Romney has
delivered for five or more years in Iowa,” he said.
When asked if he was
trying to box in Romney on the issue, King laughed.
“I know what I heard
and so does cyberspace,” he said.
Romney’s campaign
declined to comment for this story.
Kansas Secretary of
State Kris Kobach (R), an informal adviser to the Romney campaign who co-wrote
Arizona's controversial immigration law, predicted Romney would stick with his
previous positions on border control.
“Governor Romney and
the Romney team remain firmly opposed to amnesty,” he told The Hill earlier
this week. “I’m not getting any sense he’s changing his positions. He’s staked
them out in the [presidential] debates with considerable specificity. He said
the Arizona bill should be a model. He said the concept of self-deportation
should be one that’s used. I hadn’t heard at all he’s moving and I doubt he
will.”
Kobach said that
Romney’s “DREAM Act” comments didn’t concern him — but said any support of a
bill that changed the status of illegal immigrants is beyond the pale for him.
“I would not be
amenable to any status adjustment for illegal aliens,” he said. “Any status
adjustment to illegal aliens would be amnesty — I would not be in favor of any
of that,” he said.
Tancredo expressed
hope that Kobach could convince Romney to hold his position on the DREAM Act
and keep up the rhetoric he used during the primary, but doubted he would.
“If I were in his
camp I’d counsel him to stand firm on it because I think it’s a winning
political issue, but I don’t know if there’s anyone high the campaign that will
advise him that,” he said. “My guess is Gillespie’s voice will be louder than
Kris Kobach’s."
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PAT BUCHANAN ON OBAMA’S
HISPANDERING FOR THE ILLEGALS’ VOTES:
What is the response of
Barack Obama, who took an oath to see to it that federal laws are faithfully
executed?
He is siding with the
law-breakers. He is pandering to the ethnic lobbies. He is not berating a
Mexican regime that aids and abets this invasion of the country of which he is
commander in chief. Instead, he attacks the government of Arizona for trying to
fill a gaping hole in law enforcement left by his own dereliction of duty.
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TOWNHALL.com
Whose
Country Is This?
Pat Buchanan
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
With
the support of 70 percent of its citizens, Arizona has ordered sheriffs and
police to secure the border and remove illegal aliens, half a million of whom
now reside there.
Arizona
acted because the U.S. government has abdicated its constitutional duty to
protect the states from invasion and refuses to enforce America's immigration
laws.
"We
in Arizona have been more than patient waiting for Washington to act,"
said Gov. Jan Brewer. "But decades of inaction and misguided policy have
created an unacceptable situation."
We
have a crisis in Arizona because we have a failed state in Washington.
What is the response of
Barack Obama, who took an oath to see to it that federal laws are faithfully
executed?
He is siding with the
law-breakers. He is pandering to the ethnic lobbies. He is not berating a
Mexican regime that aids and abets this invasion of the country of which he is
commander in chief. Instead, he attacks the government of Arizona for trying to
fill a gaping hole in law enforcement left by his own dereliction of duty.
He
has denounced Arizona as "misguided." He has called on the Justice
Department to ensure that Arizona's sheriffs and police do not violate anyone's
civil rights. But he has said nothing about the rights of the people of Arizona
who must deal with the costs of having hundreds of thousands of lawbreakers in
their midst.
How's
that for Andrew Jackson-style leadership?
Obama
has done everything but his duty to enforce the law.
Undeniably,
making it a state as well as a federal crime to be in this country illegally,
and requiring police to check the immigration status of anyone they have a
"reasonable suspicion" is here illegally, is tough and burdensome.
But what choice did Arizona have?
The
state has a fiscal crisis caused in part by the burden of providing schooling
and social welfare for illegals and their families, who consume far more in
services than they pay in taxes and who continue to pour in. Even John McCain
is now calling for 3,000 troops on the border.
Police
officers and a prominent rancher have been murdered. There have been
kidnappings believed to be tied to the Mexican drug cartels. There are nightly
high-speed chases through the barrios where innocent people are constantly at
risk.
If
Arizona does not get control of the border and stop the invasion, U.S. citizens
will stop coming to Arizona and will begin to depart, as they are already
fleeing California.
A country that cannot control
its borders isn't really a country anymore, Ronald Reagan reminded us.
What
we are talking about here is the Balkanization and breakup of a nation into
ethnic enclaves. A country that cannot
control its borders isn't really a country anymore, Ronald Reagan reminded us.
The
tasks that Arizonans are themselves undertaking are ones that belong by right,
the Constitution and federal law to the Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs
Enforcement, and Homeland Security.
Arizona
has been compelled to assume the feds' role because the feds won't do their
job. And for that dereliction of duty the buck stops on the desk of the
president of the United States.
Why
is Obama paralyzed? Why does he not enforce the law, even if he dislikes it, by
punishing the businessmen who hire illegals and by sending the 12 million to 20
million illegals back home? President Eisenhower did it. Why won't he?
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OBAMA
THE HISPANDERING PRESIDENT SELLING OUT HIS OWN COUNTRY FOR THE ILLEGALS’ VOTES!
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Because
he is politically correct. Because he owes a big debt to the Hispanic lobby
that helped deliver two-thirds of that vote in 2008. Though most citizens of
Hispanic descent in Arizona want the border protected and the laws enforced,
the Hispanic lobby demands that the law be changed.
Fair
enough. But the nation rose up as one to reject the
"path-to-citizenship" -- i.e., amnesty -- that the 2007 plan of
George W. Bush, McCain, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama envisioned.
Al
Sharpton threatens to go to Phoenix and march in the streets against the new
Arizona law. Let him go.
JOBS?
NO LEGAL NEED APPLY HERE!
Let
us see how many African-Americans, who are today frozen out of the 8 million
jobs held by illegal aliens that might otherwise go to them or their children,
will march to defend an invasion for which they are themselves paying the
heaviest price.
Last
year, while Americans were losing a net of 5 million jobs, the U.S. government
-- Bush and Obama both -- issued 1,131,000 green cards to legal immigrants to
come and take the jobs that did open up, a flood of immigrants equaled in only
four other years in our history.
What
are we doing to our own people?
Whose
country is this, anyway?
America
today has an establishment that, because it does not like the immigration laws,
countenances and condones wholesale violation of those laws.
Nevertheless,
under those laws, the U.S. government is obligated to deport illegal aliens and
punish businesses that knowingly hire them.
This
is not an option. It is an obligation.
Can
anyone say Barack Obama is meeting that obligation?
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FAIRUS.org
The
Administration's Phantom Immigration Enforcement Policy
According
to DHS’s own reports, very little of our nation’s borders (Southwestern or
otherwise) are secure, and gaining control is not even a goal of the
department.
By
Ira Mehlman
Published on 12/07/2009
Townhall.com
Published on 12/07/2009
Townhall.com
The
setting was not quite the flight deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln with a
“Mission Accomplished” banner as the backdrop, but it was the next best thing.
Speaking at the Center for American Progress (CAP) on Nov. 13, Homeland
Security Secretary Janet Napolitano declared victory over illegal immigration
and announced that the Obama administration is ready to move forward with a
mass amnesty for the millions of illegal aliens already living in the United
States.
Arguing
the Obama administration’s case for amnesty, Napolitano laid out what she
described as the “three-legged stool” for immigration reform. As the
administration views it, immigration reform must include “a commitment to
serious and effective enforcement, improved legal flows for families and
workers, and a firm but fair way to deal with those who are already here.”
Acknowledging
that a lack of confidence in the government’s ability and commitment to
effectively enforce the immigration laws it passes proved to be the Waterloo of
previous efforts to gain amnesty for illegal aliens, Napolitano was quick to
reassure the American public that those concerns could be put to rest.
“For
starters, the security of the Southwest border has been transformed from where
it was in 2007,” stated the secretary. Not only is the border locked up tight,
she continued, but the situation is well in-hand in the interior of the country
as well. “We’ve also shown that the government is serious and strategic in its
approach to enforcement by making changes in how we enforce the law in the
interior of the country and at worksites…Furthermore, we’ve transformed
worksite enforcement to truly address the demand side of illegal immigration.”
If
Rep. Joe Wilson had been in attendance to hear Secretary Napolitano’s CAP
speech he might well have had a few choice comments to offer. But since he
wasn’t, we will have to rely on the Department of Homeland Security’s own data
to assess the veracity of Napolitano’s claims.
According
to DHS’s own reports, very little of our nation’s borders (Southwestern or
otherwise) are secure, and gaining control is not even a goal of the
department. DHS claims to have “effective control” over just 894 miles of
border. That’s 894 out of 8,607 miles they are charged with protecting. As for
the other 7,713 miles? DHS’s stated border security goal for FY 2010 is the
same 894 miles.
The
administration’s strategic approach to interior and worksite enforcement is
just as chimerical as its strategy at the border, unless one considers
shuffling paper to be a strategy. DHS data, released November 18, show that
administrative arrests of immigration law violators fell by 68 percent between
2008 and 2009. The department also carried out 60 percent fewer arrests for
criminal violations of immigration laws, 58 percent fewer criminal indictments,
and won 63 percent fewer convictions.
While
the official unemployment rate has climbed from 7.6 percent when President
Obama took office in January to 10 percent today, the administration’s worksite
enforcement strategy has amounted to a bureaucratic game of musical chairs. The
administration has all but ended worksite enforcement actions and replaced them
with paperwork audits. When the audits determine that illegal aliens are on the
payroll, employers are given the opportunity to fire them with little or no
adverse consequence to the company, while no action is taken to remove the
illegal workers from the country. The illegal workers simply acquire a new set
of fraudulent documents and move on to the next employer seeking workers
willing to accept substandard wages.
In
Janet Napolitano’s alternative reality a mere 10 percent of our borders under
“effective control” and sharp declines in arrests and prosecutions of
immigration lawbreakers may be construed as confidence builders, but it is hard
to imagine that the American public is going to see it that way. If anything,
the administration’s record has left the public less confident that promises of
future immigration enforcement would be worth the government paper they’re
printed on.
As
Americans scrutinize the administration’s plans to overhaul immigration policy,
they are likely to find little in the “three-legged stool” being offered that
they like or trust. The first leg – enforcement – the administration has all
but sawed off. The second – increased admissions of extended family members and
workers – makes little sense with some 25 million Americans either unemployed
or relegated to part-time work. And the third – amnesty for millions of illegal
aliens – is anathema to their sense of justice and fair play.
As
Americans well know, declaring “Mission Accomplished” and actually
accomplishing a mission are two completely different things. When it comes to
enforcing immigration laws, the only message the public is receiving from this
administration is “Mission Aborted.”
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Lou Dobbs Tonight
Monday, September 28, 2009
And T.J. BONNER, president of the National Border Patrol Council, will weigh in on the federal government’s decision to pull nearly 400 agents from the U.S.-Mexican border. As always, Lou will take your calls to discuss the issues that matter most-and to get your thoughts on where America is headed.
Monday, September 28, 2009
And T.J. BONNER, president of the National Border Patrol Council, will weigh in on the federal government’s decision to pull nearly 400 agents from the U.S.-Mexican border. As always, Lou will take your calls to discuss the issues that matter most-and to get your thoughts on where America is headed.
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PERHAPS THE ARTICLE SHOULD BE TITLED “OBAMA AGAINST ALL OF
AMERICAN BUT ILLEGALS, AND HIS BANKSTER DONORS!
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Black America vs. Obama?
"The Disappearing Black Middle Class" ran the headline over the Chicago Sun-Times story. And the statistics from the Economic Policy Institute were indeed sobering.
In 2007, best year of the Bush era, white households had a median net worth of $134,280, compared with $13,450 for black households.
By 2009, the median net worth for white households had fallen 24 percent to $97,860. For black households, it had plummeted 83 percent to $2,170, a near wipeout.
As Algernon Austin of EPI's Program on Race, Ethnicity and the Economy put it, "In 2009, for every dollar of wealth the average white household had, black households had two cents."
One explanation for this surely is the wave of foreclosures on subprime mortgages, a large share of which were held by African-Americans.
But while unemployment among white men has surged in the Great Recession, among black men it has hit 16 percent, the highest level since the Department of Labor began to keep records in 1972.
Ominously, things are likely to get worse, because Bill Clinton's assertion, "The era of big government is over!" is today palpably true.
Not only in Wisconsin, Ohio and New Jersey, run by Republicans, is this so, but in liberal mega-states like New York and California. There, Govs. Andrew Cuomo and Jerry Brown run the show, and government payrolls are also being slashed and government pensions pared back.
From Greece to Portugal to Ireland to Italy, an age of austerity has begun. And now that age is about to begin in Barack Obama's Washington.
Why should this adversely affect black America?
Because not only are African-Americans disproportionately the beneficiaries of federal programs, from the Earned Income Tax Credit to aid for education and student loans, they are even more over-represented in the federal workforce than they are on state payrolls.
Though 10 percent of the U.S. civilian labor force, African-Americans are 18 percent of U.S. government workers. They are 25 percent of the employees at Treasury and Veterans Affairs, 31 percent of the State Department, 37 percent of Department of Education employees and 38 percent of Housing and Urban Development. They are 42 percent of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., 55 percent of the employees at the Government Printing Office and 82 percent at the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency.
When the Obama administration suggested shutting down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage giants whose losses of $150 billion have had to be made up by taxpayers, The Washington Post warned, in a story headlined, "Winding Down Fannie and Freddie Could Put Minority Careers at Risk," that 44 percent of Fannie employees and 50 percent of Freddie's were persons of color.
In Washington, D.C., we have also seen the result of government cuts on African-American leaders who had to approve those cuts.
When Mayor Adrian Fenty stood behind schools chancellor Michelle Rhee, who fired hundreds of teachers, most of them African-American, the wards east of the Anacostia cut him dead. In 2010, Fenty was thrown out by many of the black voters who elected him.
Not only are African-Americans over-represented among government employees, these jobs are the backbone of the black middle class. For federal pay and benefits in recent years have far outstripped those of the private sector.
From 2000 to 2010, the number of federal employees earning over $150,000 increased tenfold. That number doubled in the first two years alone of the Obama administration. The average pay of federal civil servants in 2009, after benefits were factored in, was $123,000, twice the average pay and benefits of $61,000 in the private sector.
Indeed, because of the salaries and benefits that District of Columbia and federal employees receive, Washington is first among all metropolitan areas in per-capita income. And the three congressional districts north and west of the city in Maryland and Virginia are among the top 10 in the nation in average income.
The half-century since the Great Society was launched in the mid-1960s have been the salad days of the government sector. No segment of the population has benefited more than black America.
But with the U.S. government running its third deficit of 10 percent of gross domestic product, and Obama talking of cutting $4 trillion from future spending, those days are over. And as black America benefited immensely from the Great Society, so it is likely to hurt most as the cuts come.
Already, black voices are beginning to blame the black president whom fate has chosen to preside over the downsizing.
Obama, says Princeton professor Cornell West, "lacks backbone." He is a "black mascot of Wall Street and a black puppet of corporate plutocrats. ... I don't think in good conscience I could tell anybody to vote for Barack Obama."
Incredibly, the question must be asked.
Is this Democratic administration about to go to war with its base? Is black America souring on Barack Obama?
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http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/06/alipac-obamas-pursuing-executive.html
OBAMA QUIETLY PURSUING HIS BIT BY BIT BY BIT AMNESTY BY
NON-ENFORCEMENT!
ALIPAC NOTE: The US Constitution does not allow the President to
make policy out of legislation that has been defeated in Congress 8
times. These new authoritarian orders are not Constitutional and we are
asking all of our supporters to be ready for emergency measures in defense of
the American Republic in the coming weeks. This unlawful AMNESTY for
ILLEGAL ALIENS will not stand!
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White House loosens border rules for 2012 elections
The Daily Caller
06/20/2011 | Updated: 7:31 PM 06/20/2011
President Barack Obama’s administration is quietly offering a quasi-amnesty for hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants aiming to win reelection by mobilizing a wave of new Hispanic voters without alienating the populous at large, say supporters of stronger immigration law enforcement.
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White House loosens border rules for 2012 elections
The Daily Caller
06/20/2011 | Updated: 7:31 PM 06/20/2011
President Barack Obama’s administration is quietly offering a quasi-amnesty for hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants aiming to win reelection by mobilizing a wave of new Hispanic voters without alienating the populous at large, say supporters of stronger immigration law enforcement.
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SHOCKING FACTS ON OBAMA’S FUNDING OF THE MEXICAN SUPREMACIST
MOVEMENT OF LA RAZA
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WHEN DO YOU HEAR A POLITICIANS TALK
ABOUT ELECTIONS WITHOUT MENTIONING THE
“LATINO VOTE”? NO ONE TOLD THESE POLS THAT JUST BECAUSE LA RAZA BREAK ANY AND
ALL LAWS AND ORDINANCES IN THIS NATION, IT’S ACCEPTABLE TO GO OUT AND ILLEGALLY
VOTE AS WELL?
THERE IS NOT A DEM, FROM OBAMA DOWN,
WHO IS NOT HISPANDERING FOR THE ILLEGALS’ VOTES, AND PROMISING THEM AMNESTY,
DREAM ACTS, NO E-VERIFY, OUR JOBS, OR AT LEAST, CONTINUED NON-ENFORCEMENT!
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Update and Release on NC Victory
against bogus Mexican ID for illegals
ALIPAC Responds to NC Legislator's Personal Attacks
http://www.alipac.us/article6196.html
ALIPAC Responds to NC Legislator's Personal Attacks
http://www.alipac.us/article6196.html
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“Through love of having children,
we are going to take over.” AUGUSTIN
CEBADA, BROWN BERETS, THE LA RAZA FASCIST PARTY
http://www.aztlan.net/anchor_baby_power.htm
http://www.aztlan.net/anchor_baby_power.htm
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/7165215?fr=yvmtf
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ILLEGALS VOTING
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Republicans on the House Administration
Committee want to shore up voter registration
rules in the wake of a Colorado
study that found as many as 5,000 non-citizens in the state took part in
last year’s election.
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Rep. Gregg Harper (R-Miss.), the
panel’s chairman, called the study “a disturbing wake-up call” that should
cause every state to review its safeguards to prevent illegal voting.
“We simply cannot have an electoral system that allows thousands of non-citizens to violate the law and vote in our elections. We must do more to protect the integrity of our electoral processes,” Harper added.
Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler, a Republican, told the panel that his department’s study identified nearly 12,000 people who were not citizens but were still registered to vote in Colorado.
Of those non-citizen registered voters, nearly 5,000 took part in the 2010 general election in which Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet narrowly defeated Republican John Buck.
Subjects: Voter fraud, Colorado, non-citizens, voters, driver's license, study, registration, committee, US House, Republicans.
March 31, 2011
Debbie Siegelbaum
The Hill
Colorado conducted the study by comparing the state’s voter registration database with driver’s license records.
“We know we have a problem here. We don’t know the size of it,” Gessler said in testimony to Administration’s Elections subcommittee.
He told Harper that Colorado would look to create a registration system that would allow his department to ask that some people provide proof of their citizenship in writing.
If individuals did not respond to the request, their registration as voters would be suspended.
Rep. Charles Gonzalez (D-Texas) raised doubts about the reporting, noting that the study itself said it was based on inconclusive data and that it was “impossible to provide precise numbers” on how many people who were registered to vote in the state were not citizens.
Gonzalez asked Gessler, a former prosecutor, if he would have pursued a court case on such evidence.
Gessler responded that the goal of the study was to expose voter registration issues and pursue administrative avenues to resolve them.
“We don’t have a screen for citizenship on the front end when people register to vote,” he said.
“We simply cannot have an electoral system that allows thousands of non-citizens to violate the law and vote in our elections. We must do more to protect the integrity of our electoral processes,” Harper added.
Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler, a Republican, told the panel that his department’s study identified nearly 12,000 people who were not citizens but were still registered to vote in Colorado.
Of those non-citizen registered voters, nearly 5,000 took part in the 2010 general election in which Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet narrowly defeated Republican John Buck.
Subjects: Voter fraud, Colorado, non-citizens, voters, driver's license, study, registration, committee, US House, Republicans.
March 31, 2011
Debbie Siegelbaum
The Hill
Colorado conducted the study by comparing the state’s voter registration database with driver’s license records.
“We know we have a problem here. We don’t know the size of it,” Gessler said in testimony to Administration’s Elections subcommittee.
He told Harper that Colorado would look to create a registration system that would allow his department to ask that some people provide proof of their citizenship in writing.
If individuals did not respond to the request, their registration as voters would be suspended.
Rep. Charles Gonzalez (D-Texas) raised doubts about the reporting, noting that the study itself said it was based on inconclusive data and that it was “impossible to provide precise numbers” on how many people who were registered to vote in the state were not citizens.
Gonzalez asked Gessler, a former prosecutor, if he would have pursued a court case on such evidence.
Gessler responded that the goal of the study was to expose voter registration issues and pursue administrative avenues to resolve them.
“We don’t have a screen for citizenship on the front end when people register to vote,” he said.
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GOP says 5,000 non-citizens voting in Colorado a 'wake-up
call' for states
By Debbie Siegelbaum - 03/31/11 01:23 PM ET
The Hill
Republicans on the House Administration Committee want to shore up voter registration rules in the wake of a Colorado study that found as many as 5,000 non-citizens in the state took part in last year’s election.
Rep. Gregg Harper (R-Miss.), the panel’s chairman, called the study “a disturbing wake-up call” that should cause every state to review its safeguards to prevent illegal voting.
“We simply cannot have an electoral system that allows thousands of non-citizens to violate the law and vote in our elections. We must do more to protect the integrity of our electoral processes,” Harper added.
Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler, a Republican, told the panel that his department’s study identified nearly 12,000 people who were not citizens but were still registered to vote in Colorado.
Of those non-citizen registered voters, nearly 5,000 took part in the 2010 general election in which Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet narrowly defeated Republican John Buck.
Colorado conducted the study by comparing the state’s voter registration database with driver’s license records.
“We know we have a problem here. We don’t know the size of it,” Gessler said in testimony to Administration’s Elections subcommittee.
He told Harper that Colorado would look to create a registration system that would allow his department to ask that some people provide proof of their citizenship in writing.
If individuals did not respond to the request, their registration as voters would be suspended.
Rep. Charles Gonzalez (D-Texas) raised doubts about the reporting, noting that the study itself said it was based on inconclusive data and that it was “impossible to provide precise numbers” on how many people who were registered to vote in the state were not citizens.
Gonzalez asked Gessler, a former prosecutor, if he would have pursued a court case on such evidence.
Gessler responded that the goal of the study was to expose voter registration issues and pursue administrative avenues to resolve them.
“We don’t have a screen for citizenship on the front end when people register to vote,” he said.
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/153079-gop-says-5000-non-citizens-voting-in-colorado-a-wake-up-call-for-states?page=2#comments
By Debbie Siegelbaum - 03/31/11 01:23 PM ET
The Hill
Republicans on the House Administration Committee want to shore up voter registration rules in the wake of a Colorado study that found as many as 5,000 non-citizens in the state took part in last year’s election.
Rep. Gregg Harper (R-Miss.), the panel’s chairman, called the study “a disturbing wake-up call” that should cause every state to review its safeguards to prevent illegal voting.
“We simply cannot have an electoral system that allows thousands of non-citizens to violate the law and vote in our elections. We must do more to protect the integrity of our electoral processes,” Harper added.
Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler, a Republican, told the panel that his department’s study identified nearly 12,000 people who were not citizens but were still registered to vote in Colorado.
Of those non-citizen registered voters, nearly 5,000 took part in the 2010 general election in which Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet narrowly defeated Republican John Buck.
Colorado conducted the study by comparing the state’s voter registration database with driver’s license records.
“We know we have a problem here. We don’t know the size of it,” Gessler said in testimony to Administration’s Elections subcommittee.
He told Harper that Colorado would look to create a registration system that would allow his department to ask that some people provide proof of their citizenship in writing.
If individuals did not respond to the request, their registration as voters would be suspended.
Rep. Charles Gonzalez (D-Texas) raised doubts about the reporting, noting that the study itself said it was based on inconclusive data and that it was “impossible to provide precise numbers” on how many people who were registered to vote in the state were not citizens.
Gonzalez asked Gessler, a former prosecutor, if he would have pursued a court case on such evidence.
Gessler responded that the goal of the study was to expose voter registration issues and pursue administrative avenues to resolve them.
“We don’t have a screen for citizenship on the front end when people register to vote,” he said.
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/153079-gop-says-5000-non-citizens-voting-in-colorado-a-wake-up-call-for-states?page=2#comments
Friends of ALIPAC,
Many of you will remember that ALIPAC went on national television as the first guest of Election Day 2010 on Fox News to warn the nation that illegal aliens would be voting in large numbers. Since that time, we have contended that illegal alien voters helped stall the American public's political revolution, especially west of the Mississippi river in places like Nevada and Colorado. Now, even more solid evidence is emerging to back our claims. The article we have for you to distribute is ground breaking and shocking. A new study in Colorado says that a comparison between voter registration data and driver license data indicates the following concerns. First they find that 12,000 non US Citizens or many more have committed the felony of registering to vote in Colorado! Second, they found that at least 5,000 non citizens and illegal aliens, perhaps many more, committed the felony of voting in the 2010 elections! Each non citizen and illegal alien who votes in an election has stolen the voice of an American citizen! This outrage must be addressed immediately as the entire credibility of US Elections have now been cast into doubt. Please read, and distribute the article below. Every member of Congress and each member of your state's local governments must receive copies. If you do not respond to our request to forward this article to ALL AMERICAN LAWMAKERS, then please take out a piece of paper and write your name on it and a small note explaining that you surrender your nation to illegal alien invaders today. For those of you willing to take an hour to help save your nation, grab this article and run with it! We will be counting on our homepage how many of you respond and how many people read this article! Article to post, forward, report, circulate, etc... ------>> 5,000 non-citizens voting in Colorado a 'wake-up call' for states http://www.alipac.us/article-6198-thread-1-0.html <<----- |
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Illegal
Aliens Turn To Identity Theft ..................... (Wait Till Victims Try To
Retire......!!!)
Jan. 8, 2008
WICHITA, Kan.
When U.S. Air Force veteran Marcos
Miranda had his identity stolen, he went from being a valued customer and
employee to a government statistic — one of thousands of identity theft victims
caught up each year in the crackdown on illegal immigrants.
Identity theft has been a growing worry in the United States, but a rise in federal prosecutions of immigrants offers a new wrinkle on the problem. As better systems are developed for verifying employment, illegal immigrants are assuming the names and government-issued ID numbers of Americans like Miranda to thwart detection at workplaces, get driver's licenses and obtain credit.
Miranda first learned someone else was using his identity in 2000 when he was arrested on a warrant for unpaid traffic tickets at the border after a visit to relatives in Mexico. The 24-year-old Texas man was released after paying a $340 fine for violations he never incurred. Although his money was eventually returned, his nightmare was just beginning.
The most common start to identity theft is for the perpetrator get hold of someone's Social Security number, which is part of the system used to record people's earnings for federal retirement benefits. Once a person takes a job in the U.S., the first thing his employer will likely ask for is his or her Social Security number.
In Miranda's case, that's why he has gotten repeated letters from the federal tax officials demanding thousands of dollars in back taxes for wages paid to someone using his name and Social Security number to work at a pork slaughterhouse in Holton, Kansas. Miranda watched his once-high credit rating plummet as creditors reported unpaid bills incurred by others.
"Even though I am Hispanic, I am against illegal immigration," Miranda said. "Even though a lot of them come to work, there are always bad apples. (Identity theft) has really made my perspective ... negative about immigration."
A Mexican national accused of stealing Miranda's identity pleaded guilty last month to one count of using fraudulent documents in a plea deal with federal prosecutors. Joel Rojas-Morales, 27, will be sentenced in March.
"That way he knows crime doesn't pay in America. Maybe in Mexico it does. But here, it may take some time, but the long arm of the law catches up to you," Miranda said.
Chris Joseph, the defense attorney representing Rojas-Morales, is sympathetic to identity theft victims like Miranda.
"I have no reason to doubt that is absolutely true. There is no question he is a victim of identity theft," Joseph said.
Identity theft has been a growing worry in the United States, but a rise in federal prosecutions of immigrants offers a new wrinkle on the problem. As better systems are developed for verifying employment, illegal immigrants are assuming the names and government-issued ID numbers of Americans like Miranda to thwart detection at workplaces, get driver's licenses and obtain credit.
Miranda first learned someone else was using his identity in 2000 when he was arrested on a warrant for unpaid traffic tickets at the border after a visit to relatives in Mexico. The 24-year-old Texas man was released after paying a $340 fine for violations he never incurred. Although his money was eventually returned, his nightmare was just beginning.
The most common start to identity theft is for the perpetrator get hold of someone's Social Security number, which is part of the system used to record people's earnings for federal retirement benefits. Once a person takes a job in the U.S., the first thing his employer will likely ask for is his or her Social Security number.
In Miranda's case, that's why he has gotten repeated letters from the federal tax officials demanding thousands of dollars in back taxes for wages paid to someone using his name and Social Security number to work at a pork slaughterhouse in Holton, Kansas. Miranda watched his once-high credit rating plummet as creditors reported unpaid bills incurred by others.
"Even though I am Hispanic, I am against illegal immigration," Miranda said. "Even though a lot of them come to work, there are always bad apples. (Identity theft) has really made my perspective ... negative about immigration."
A Mexican national accused of stealing Miranda's identity pleaded guilty last month to one count of using fraudulent documents in a plea deal with federal prosecutors. Joel Rojas-Morales, 27, will be sentenced in March.
"That way he knows crime doesn't pay in America. Maybe in Mexico it does. But here, it may take some time, but the long arm of the law catches up to you," Miranda said.
Chris Joseph, the defense attorney representing Rojas-Morales, is sympathetic to identity theft victims like Miranda.
"I have no reason to doubt that is absolutely true. There is no question he is a victim of identity theft," Joseph said.
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
MONITOR
An illegal immigration
link to identity theft
A
massive sweep at Swift meat-processing plants this week could lead officials to
'document rings.'
By Faye Bowers | Correspondent of The Christian Science
Monitor
PHOENIX
The latest
roundup of illegal immigrants caught working in the US with fraudulent
identifications - the largest single such work-site action ever - raises new
questions about a link between illegal immigration and the growing problem of
identity theft.
Federal raids
Tuesday at six meat-processing plants owned by Swift & Co. in six states
resulted in the arrests of 1,282 people for immigration violation - with 65
also charged with identify theft or other criminal charges.
The
investigation is continuing, say officials with US Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE), with the hope that some of the newly arrested workers will
lead law officers to "document rings" that provided the stolen
identities. The 10-month operation began in February, when ICE learned that
"large numbers" of undocumented immigrants might be using Social
Security numbers assigned to US citizens.
"We
believe that the genuine identities of possibly hundreds of US citizens are
being stolen or hijacked by criminal organizations and sold to illegal aliens
in order to gain unlawful employment in this country," said Julie Myers,
ICE assistant secretary. She called it "a disturbing front in the war
against illegal immigration."
The fraudulent
document business has long been a thorn in the side of immigration officials,
making it hard for them to crack down on companies for knowingly hiring illegal
workers. Indeed, even as ICE agents conducted Tuesday's raids at the Swift
plants, a joint task force in Arizona - made up of state, federal, and local
law- enforcement officials - was arresting 12 suspects and seized numerous fake
drivers' licenses, resident alien cards, Social Security cards, and vehicle
titles.
Metropolitan
Phoenix, a major immigrant-smuggling hub, has become a place where the false ID
business is thriving, law-enforcement officers say. They estimate that 1,000 to
1,500 "coyotes," or smugglers, stash thousands of undocumented
immigrants in drop houses throughout the valley, where they wait until false
identification and transportation can be arranged to places as far away as
Seattle and Miami.
"I would
say that 90 percent of the transactions dealing with the sale of human cargo,
those smuggled across the [Arizona] border, occur right here," Angel
Rascon-Rubio, an ICE special agent, testified at a federal court hearing last
year.
The Phoenix
area is ideal for smugglers, officials say, because it is fairly easy to reach
from Mexico but far enough from the border to avoid border patrol enforcement.
It has broad access to the rest of the country via air and car. Moreover, the
large Hispanic neighborhoods provide cover for drop houses and new immigrants.
On one of
Phoenix's quiet residential streets lined with stucco tract homes live two men
who came to the US illegally but gained legal status - along with some 3
million others - under the federal 1986 amnesty program. David and Raul, who
will give only first names, are in the business of helping newly arrived
illegal immigrants acquire fake documents.
They are not
part of an organized crime family, they say - just part of a network of
established immigrants who help others attain what they've achieved. They are,
in effect, the go-betweens from those who bring the immigrants and those who
make the fake ID papers - a service they say they provide for free.
"A coyote
will call and say, 'Does your boss need more workers?' or 'Can you help get
this person some papers?' " says David, whose main job is as a landscaper.
"It's easy. I'll have a number for a [document] guy and call him. We'll
meet at the major intersection out here, say, in half an hour. I give him $50
or $100, whatever he's asking, a photo of the person, and a name," he
adds. "About 45 minutes later, he'll call me to come meet him on the same
corner with the papers - a Social Security card and a green card."
If that won't
work, David adds, he drives to the nearest Food City, a chain that specializes
in Hispanic goods. There, he says, he just asks around. "There are even
guys there who'll hand you business cards - they're in the business of
providing fake documents."
Raul, who works
in construction, says it's not uncommon to get a call from a coyote in the
morning and, by afternoon, have jobs and fake documents for the newly arrived
illegals. The two won't tell how many illegal immigrants they help, but say
they get called at least weekly.
All of the
arrests at the Swift plants Tuesday targeted illegal immigrants who held actual
- not fake - Social Security numbers. Many businesses that make use of
immigrant labor participate in a national test program for employers called
Basic Pilot, an online system to verify employees' Social Security numbers.
But the
fake-documents manufacturers are wise to this, say David and Raul. In Arizona,
they assign Social Security numbers that begin with 601 - numbers the
government apparently assigns people from Arizona. Employers then don't readily
recognize a fake document, and, the men say, it takes at least a year for the
government to recognize a duplicate number. That means the illegal immigrant
can work in the US for up to a year before being sent home.
Arizona Gov.
Janet Napolitano set up an Arizona Fraudulent Identification Task Force in July
2005 as part of a crackdown on crime related to illegal immigration. Since
then, the task force has focused in part on fraudulent documents. In doing so,
it has issued more than 100 search warrants resulting in 178 defendants charged
with 1,400 crimes, says Leesa Morrison, director of the Arizona Department of
Liquor Licenses and Control.
"Most
astounding," adds Ms. Morrison, "is that in this short period our
undercover agents have purchased over 1,000 fraudulent immigration documents.
What's frightening is that [they] are able to purchase a three-pack - a
driver's license, a Social Security card, and a permanent-resident card - for
about $160 on the street."
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Crossing the ID border
The
Monitor's View
Americans learned last
week they can no longer look the other way when someone else hires an illegal
worker. A federal raid on six Swift & Co. meatpacking plants in the US
nabbed more than 1,250 "undocumented" migrants - and dozens were charged
with using the IDs of real people, perhaps even of children.
The
usual practice for many of the estimated 12 million illegal migrants living in
the US has been to buy fake IDs with made-up numbers and names. But organized
rings in at least 10 cities now sell authentic-looking Social Security cards
and some 26 other types of IDs with real names.
These
IDs make it even more difficult for employers to reject illegal workers - if
employers even bother to check. Such forgery has reached an
"epidemic," say federal officials, with illegal migrants and their
handlers now violating both the privacy rights and economic rights of innocent
Americans.
In one
case, a man named Jason Smith found he owed $12,000 in back taxes because an
illegal immigrant used his Social Security number to work at a chicken plant
for three years.
To
avoid detection, fake-ID rings often use a child's identity. Usually, only when
the children reach 18 would they find out they have a record of bad credit or
other financial complication. One Mexico-based ring's reach is so
"breathtaking," a federal judge stated in one case, that it hits
"at the heart of the sovereignty of the United States."
Most
identity theft is done to steal money, not work in someone's name. But with
about 1 in 30 Americans now having their financial identities stolen each year,
and with illegal migrants making up nearly 1 in 20 workers, a dangerous link
has been made between two massive violations of law. Government is cracking
down on ID theft, but both states and Congress have only begun to come to grips
with illegal migration - despite the threat of terrorists using fake IDs to
hide in the US.
A
federal system that allows employers to check Social Security IDs is flawed
because it cannot detect cases where migrants use legitimate names and numbers.
(Swift & Co. uses the system, but only a fraction of companies do.)
Even if
this system is improved, ID thieves may find new ways around it. And expanding
a guest-worker program for Mexicans may only be compromised by other ways of
forging documents; in addition, that program may never be large enough to curb
the flow of illegal migration.
Another
offered solution - "earned amnesty" - would be difficult if illegals
simply buy fake records to claim they've been in the US for years. And amnesty
is hardly a reward to give those who knowingly commit the felony of identity
theft.
Congress
recently boosted border enforcement and raised fines on employers who hire
illegals. Both measures are good first steps and need to be pursued effectively
for years. Companies need to raise wages high enough to attract legal workers,
while law enforcement needs to show a consistent record of cracking down on
employers who knowingly hire illegals.
No
one's true identity can ever be stolen. But Americans need to know that both
their financial and border security are not at risk.
*The fake ID
business: some previous busts
April 2005:
In Florida, immigration agents arrested 52, including several state Department
of Motor Vehicles officials, alleged to be part of a scheme to make and sell
fake driver's licenses and hazmat licenses to more than 2,000 illegal
immigrants. The same month, other sweeps revealed fraudulent license schemes in
Michigan and Maryland.
May 2005:
In Mississippi, Cedric Carpenter and Lamont Ranson pleaded guilty to conspiring
to sell fake documents to members of Abu Sayyaf, a Philippines-based Islamist terrorist
group.
February
2006: A lieutenant in the Mexican-based Castorena family organization, a
fraudulent document outfit that controls cells in 33 states, was sentenced in
Denver to 11 years in prison. More than 50 members of this international
counterfeit operation have been prosecuted in Denver alone. Its leader, Pedro
Castorena-Ibarra, was arrested in June by Mexican officers and is awaiting
extradition to the US.
March 2006:
Agents busted seven counterfeit-document labs in Los Angeles and charged 11
people with supplying fraudulent immigration and identity documents.
June 2006:
In Boston, immigration agents arrested nine people accused of running a phony
document ring. They seized document-forging tools and six computers at five
homes. The sweeps led to the arrests of 13 undocumented Brazilian and
Guatemalan nationals.
Sources: US
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Associated Press
“This organization is considered by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a branch of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as one of the largest internationally, with connections in Central America and Mexico.”
“Identity theft is the fastest
growing white collar crime in America today and is often motivated by organized
rings that sell these stolen identities to illegal aliens seeking illegal
employment.
This story was first broken on the Wake Up America Talk Show "A Minuteman Project Chapter" Hosted by Steve Eichler.
Go to: WWW.Wakeupamericausa.com
A Mexican
clan of document forgers operates in 33 states, including Illinois. In Chicago,
their annual take is around $2.5 million, and their main collaborators are gang
members. Los Angeles - In 1848 what came to be called the Gold Rush started.
People came to California from all over the world to seek their fortunes. The
idea of getting rich without much effort was the main reason they left their
countries and headed for the promised land to seek the precious metal. And so
did Pedro Castorena-Ibarra and Manuel Leija-Sánchez, albeit 138 years later. In
1987 they found their goldmine in California. At that time the United States
Congress had just passed a law giving amnesty to the undocumented who were
living in the country.
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