OBAMA’S
LA RAZA INFESTED ADMINISTRATION HELPS MILLIONS OF ILLEGALS DEFRAUD AMERICA AND
GRAB AN AMERICAN JOB!
WELFARE
FOR ILLEGALS IN CA NOW EXCEEDS $22 BILLION PER YEAR. AND HALF THE MURDERS IN CA
ARE BY MEXICAN GANGS!
10 Things You Need to Know About Obama’s Amnesty
Yesterday,
the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) began accepting applications for
deferred action through US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). FAIR
has been closely tracking developments in President Obama’s executive amnesty
since its announcement on June 15. Below are some of the things you need to
know about the President’s unilateral changes to U.S. immigration policy.
- President
Obama’s amnesty will add nearly
2 million workers – possibly more – to the U.S. job market. This is a
negligent economic and social policy with over 8% unemployment and half of
recent young college graduates unemployed or underemployed.
- Lax documentation
requirements to prove eligibility. DHS
application instructions explicitly state that only copies of documents
will be required to meet the eligibility criteria for amnesty including
length of presence in the U.S., education, and even identity. Also,
illegal aliens will be able to submit any and all documents they deem
relevant to prove their eligibility. Virtually any form of documentation
will be accepted, from report cards and plane tickets to mere personal
correspondence.
- The
Administration is making this up as they go along. In June,
President Obama touted this policy as the “right thing to do” for some of
the best and brightest. However, it is clear that the educational,
residency and character requirements are becoming increasingly lax as more
details about the implementation of the amnesty emerge.
- No face-to-face
interview required. Most applications will be approved based only on the
documentation submitted.
- Few safeguards
against and limited consequences for filing fraudulent applications or
documents.
If DHS is actually diligent enough to identify fraud, the new amnesty
instructions merely state that the Administration “may” elect to penalize
illegal aliens by denying immigration benefits or placing them into
removal proceedings. However, since illegal aliens are only required to
submit copies – which lack identifiers of authenticity – it is unknown how
USCIS employees will be able to identify fraud in the first place.
- USCIS turns
blind eye to past illegal employment. Illegal aliens may use employment
records to show eligibility for amnesty despite the fact illegal aliens
are barred from working in the U.S. Past employers of illegal alien
applicants are not likely to face prosecution for hiring illegal aliens.
- Family of
deferred action recipients will also reap the benefits. Application
instructions explicitly state that information collected on an
illegal alien will not be used against him or her, or their “family
members and guardians,” for the purpose of immigration enforcement.
- Illegal aliens
granted work authorization can obtain Social Security cards. Illegal aliens
granted deferred action must apply for employment authorization if they
present an “economic necessity.” Once received, DHS work authorization
will allow them to apply for a Social Security Number and possibly other
benefits like driver’s licenses.
- Illegal aliens
with a criminal history DO qualify. DHS says only felony
convictions will make illegal aliens ineligible for amnesty, and even
then, convictions won’t necessarily be considered if they are expunged.
Additionally, criminal convictions in foreign countries will go undetected
and DHS will “exercise discretion” when considering juvenile records.
- USCIS doesn’t
have a great track record. Earlier this year, the
DHS Inspector General found that USCIS
leadership told employees to rubber-stamp applications for immigration
benefits – including work authorization. In
leaked documents to the Associated Press, USCIS estimated that
it will review 3,000 deferred action and work authorization applications
daily, only increasing the pressure to overlook possible fraud and approve
benefits quickly.
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“What's needed to discourage illegal immigration into
the United States has been known for years: Enforce existing law.” …..
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
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ARTICLE BELOW:
The study, based on 2010 and 2011
census data, found that 43 percent of immigrants who have been in the U.S. at
least 20 years were using welfare benefits, a rate that is nearly twice as high
as native-born Americans and nearly 50 percent higher than recent immigrants.
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“The principal beneficiaries of our current immigration policy
are affluent Americans who hire immigrants at substandard wages for low-end
work. Harvard economist George Borjas estimates that American workers lose $190
billion annually in depressed wages caused by the constant flooding of the
labor market at the low-wage end.” Christian Science Monitor
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“Law enforcement and public safety
have taken a back seat to attempts to satisfy immigrant advocacy groups,” Crane
told the panel of congressmen.
“What we're seeing is our Congress
and national leadership dismantling our laws by not enforcing them. Lawlessness
becomes the norm, just like Third World corruption. Illegal aliens now have
more rights and privileges than Americans. If you are an illegal alien, you can
drive a car without a driver's license or insurance. You may obtain medical
care without paying. You may work without paying taxes. Your children enjoy
free education at the expense of taxpaying Americans.”
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Slow path to progress for U.S. immigrants
43% on
welfare after 20 years
Immigrants lag behind
native-born Americans on most measures of economic well-being — even those who
have been in the U.S. the longest, according to a report from the Center for Immigration
Studies, which argues that
full assimilation is a more complex task than overcoming language or cultural
differences.
The study, which
covers all immigrants, legal and illegal, and their U.S.-born children younger
than 18, found that immigrants tend to make economic progress by most measures
the longer they live in the U.S. but lag well behind native-born Americans on
factors such as poverty, health insurance coverage and homeownership.
The study, based on 2010 and 2011
census data, found that 43 percent of immigrants who have been in the U.S. at
least 20 years were using welfare benefits, a rate that is nearly twice as high
as native-born Americans and nearly 50 percent higher than recent immigrants.
The report was
released at a time when both major presidential candidates have backed policies
that would make it easier to immigrate legally and would boost the numbers of
people coming to the U.S.
Steven A. Camarota, the center’s research director and author of the
96-page study, said it shows that questions about the pros and cons of
immigration extend well beyond the sheer numbers and touch on the broader
consequences of assimilating a population defined by tougher socioeconomic
challenges.
“Look, we know a lot
of these folks are going to be poor, we get it. But don’t tell the public it’s
all going great, which is the story line I think a lot of people want to
sell,” Mr. Camarota said. “There is progress over
time. Every measure shows improvement over time, but still, the situation does
not look like we’d like it to look, particularly for the less-educated. They
lag well behind natives even when they’ve been here for two decades, and that
is very disconcerting.”
Federal law requires
that the government deny immigrant visas to potential immigrants who are likely
to be unable to support themselves and thereby become public charges.
On Tuesday, a handful
of Republican senators wrote to the Homeland Security and State departments
asking them to explain why they don’t consider whether potential immigrants
would use many of the nearly 80 federal welfare programs when they evaluate
visa applications.
Neither department
responded to messages Tuesday seeking a response to the senators’ letter.
Expanding
legal immigration is a contentious issue for voters, the vast majority of whom
tell pollsters that they want the levels either retained or decreased.
But most politicians
want legal immigration expanded.
During his time in the U.S. Senate, Barack Obama backed
bills that would have dramatically boosted legal immigration, potentially by
hundreds of thousands a year. As president, he has called for the same thing.
(LA RAZA DEMS FEINSTEIN AND BOXER HAVE THREE (3) TIMES ATTEMPTED
A “SPECIAL AMNESTY” FOR 1.5 MILLION “CHEAP” LABOR ILLEGAL FARM WORKERS. THEY DO
THIS ON BEHALF OF THEIR FILTHY RICH BIG AG BIZ DONORS…. DESPITE THE FACT THAT
ONE-THIRD OF ALL “CHEAP” FARM WORKERS WILL END UP ON WELFARE! – CA NOW PUTS OUT
$22 BILLION PER YEAR IN SOCIAL SERVICES TO ILLEGALS!!! ON TOP OF THIS COUNTIES
HAND OUT MORE, WITH LOS ANGELLES LEADING. L.A. COUNTY PAYS OUT $600 MILLION PER
YEAR IN WELFARE FOR ILLEGALS, PRIMARILY ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS! NOT ONE AMERICAN
(LEGAL) VOTED TO BE MEXICO’S WELFARE STATE! DEMS ARE THE PARTY of ILLEGALS!)
“We need to provide our farms a legal
way to hire workers that they rely on, and a path for those workers to earn
legal status. And our laws should respect families following the rules —
reuniting them more quickly instead of splitting them apart,” Mr. Obama said
in a major speech on the subject in El Paso, Texas, in 2011.
His presumed
Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, in June called for increasing legal
immigration for students who study in high-tech fields and admitting unlimited
family members of those who hold green cards.
“Our immigration
system should help promote strong families as well — not keep them apart. Our
nation benefits when moms and dads and their kids are all living together under
the same roof,” Mr. Romney told the National Association of
Latino Elected and Appointed Officials.
Mr. Camarota’s report took a broad look at the
immigrant population and found that immigrants are contributing to major
changes in American society, including that one-fourth of public school
students now speak languages other than English at home.
It also found that
immigrants as a population lead complex economic lives that aren’t easily put
into one category or another.
Immigrants made up
more than half of all farmworkers, 41 percent of taxi drivers and 48 percent of
maids and housecleaners, but they also represented about one-third of all
computer programmers and 27 percent of doctors.
The statistics varied
greatly by geography. In Massachusetts, native-led households averaged $89,000
in income while immigrant households averaged $66,000.
In Virginia,
immigrant-led households averaged $93,000 in income, far outstripping native
households’ $80,000 average. Likewise, immigrant families averaged a larger tax
burden in Virginia — though they also had higher rates of use of welfare or
Medicaid.
The center found that use of public benefits
varied dramatically based on where immigrants originated.
Mexicans were most
likely to use means-tested benefit programs, with 57 percent, while 6 percent
of those from the United Kingdom did. The rate for native-born Americans is 23
percent.
Mr. Camarota said a key dividing line is
educational attainment. Immigrants who have been in the U.S. 20 years and who
have bachelor’s degrees or higher make slightly more than the average
native-born American. But immigrants with only high school educations make less
no matter how long they have been in the U.S.
“The fact is the
less-educated in particular — they don’t do well over time,” he said. “It’s not
reasonable to expect an immigrant who comes to America with only a high school
education to close the gap with the native-born.”
Scholars debate
whether the current wave of immigrants will assimilate differently from those
in the 1800s and at the start of the 20th century.
George Borjas, a Harvard University
professor, has argued that second-generation Americans — the children of
today’s immigrants — will fall behind in wages by about 10 percent by 2030.
(THE BELOW STATS HAVE
NOTHING TO DO WITH ASSIMILATION! COME TO MEXIFORNIA WHERE 90% OF ALL SERVICE
SECTOR AND CONSTRUCTION JOBS ARE HELD BY MEXICANS. YOU WON’T HEAR THEM SPEAKING
ENGLISH!)
But in “Assimilation
Tomorrow,” a report released in November, Dowell Myers and John Pitkin said
immigrants of the 1990s eventually will attain high rates of homeownership and
71 percent will become U.S. citizens by 2030.
Those authors said
immigrants were set back by the recent recession but were still on track to
follow the same assimilation path as previous waves of immigrants.
(THE THING IS… MOST SOURCES PUT THE
NUMBER OF ILLEGALS AT 40 MILLION AND BREEDING FAST! THERE ARE 12 MILLION OF
THESE “11 MILLION” ILLEGALS IN SOUTHERN CA ALONE!)
They also said a
program to legalize the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S.
would be critical to helping assimilation.
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“What we're seeing is our Congress and
national leadership dismantling our laws by not enforcing them. Lawlessness
becomes the norm, just like Third World corruption. Illegal aliens now have
more rights and privileges than Americans. If you are an illegal alien, you can
drive a car without a driver's license or insurance. You may obtain medical
care without paying. You may work without paying taxes. Your children enjoy
free education at the expense of taxpaying Americans.”
FAIR Legislative Update July 30, 2012
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At a Capitol Hill press
conference last Thursday, leaders from the two unions representing Immigration
and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and Border Patrol agents denounced the
Obama Administration's immigration policy. Flanked by Senators Jeff Sessions (R-AL),
Chuck Grassley (R-IA), and David Vitter (R-LA), these two union leaders painted
a stark picture of the state of immigration enforcement across the United
States.
ICE union leader Chris Crane, who represents over 7,000 agents,
decried the Obama Administration's policy of "prosecutorial
discretion," which directs enforcement agents to release illegal aliens
who do not meet the Administration's enforcement priorities. Calling it "a
failing policy," Crane described how the Department of Homeland Security
(DHS) had launched it without any planning or foresight. "Every manager in
the field is interpreting these new policies different," Crane said.
"It's impossible to even get a picture of what our priorities are now. I
have never seen or heard of the type of fly by the seat of your pants,
disorganized confusion in a law enforcement organization like what we are
currently experiencing at ICE." (CQ Transcript, July 26, 2012)
Mr.
Crane also sharply criticized the President's new policy that grants
"deferred action" to illegal aliens who meet the eligibility criteria
for the DREAM Act. In particular, he warned of wide-spread abuse of the
process. "Prosecutorial discretion for DREAMers," Crane said,
"is solely based on the individual's claims. Our orders are: if an alien
says they went to high school, then let them go; if they say they have a GED,
then let them go. Officers have been told that there is no burden for the alien
to prove anything. .... At this point, we do not understand why DHS has any
criteria at all, as there is no requirement or burden to prove anything on the
part of the alien. We believe a significant number of people who are not
DREAMers are taking advantage of this practice to avoid arrest." (Id.)
Meanwhile Border Patrol Council President George McCubbin
criticized the attempt by DHS to portray the drop in illegal alien arrest rates
as a sign of success. The drop in arrest rates, McCubbin said, had more to do
with the Administration's change in enforcement tactics than its success at
combating illegal immigration. He noted as examples, DHS's termination of
immigration checks at transportation hubs near the border and its recent
decision to close nine border patrol stations. "Apprehensions at just one
of our stations have fallen from over 600 annually to just under 30 even though
now they have 10 times the number of agents assigned to that one station."
In short, McCubbin said, "Our agency has made it impossible for the agents
to go out there and do their jobs." (Id.)
Like Crane, McCubbin also
had strong words regarding President Obama's policy of "prosecutorial
discretion." "The action taken by President Obama undermines
immigration enforcement. Fraud will run rampant and our agents will have to err
on the side of caution to grant prosecutorial discretion so that they don't put
themselves into a position where they may find themselves involved in a civil
lawsuit. ... The agents we represent are not happy regarding this. We feel as
if we are political victims." (Id.)
The press conference came
just days after FAIR released its report President Obama's Record
of Dismantling Immigration Enforcement, a step-by-step look at how the President has undermined
immigration enforcement and the rule of law. To watch the press conference in
full, visit FAIR's YouTube page here.
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OBAMA FUNDS LA RAZA
SUPREMACY WHICH OPERATES OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE UNDER LA RAZA VP CECILIA MUNOZ
CECILIA MUNOZ IS ONE OF OBAMA’S MANY LA RAZA SUPREMACIST
OPERATING OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE. NO ADMINISTRATION IN HISTORY HAS BEEN SO
INFESTED WITH A FOREIGN BASED POLITICAL PARTY AS OBAMA’S.
THE FASTEST GROWING POLITICAL PARTY IN
AMERICAN IS THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA –THE PARTY of ILLEGALS AND
MEXICAN SUPREMACY. THEIR GOAL IS OBAMA AMNESTY OR CONTINUED NON-ENFORCEMENT, NO
E-VERIFY, OPEN BORDERS AND DE FACTO CITIZENSHIPS WITH DRIVERS’ LICENSES!
VIVA LA RAZA! YOU ARE! OBAMA HAS
SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED THE FUNDING TO EXPAND MEXICAN SUPREMACY IN OUR BORDERS!
On Thursday, Director of Intergovernmental
Affairs Cecilia Muñoz blogged that the Department of Homeland Security will
review its entire deportation caseload - that's 300,000 cases -to "clear
out low priority" cases and "make more room to deport people who have
been convicted of crimes or pose a security risk."
Obama's
lowest priority: some deportation cases
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
PresidentObama is in a pickle.
Immigration enforcement actually is working - or, at least, it was working.
Under the Obama
administration, the government has removed almost 400,000 illegal immigrants
annually. That's 4 percent of the 10 million illegal immigrants estimated to be
living in America - and it sends a warning to those thinking of illegally
entering the United States.
Thanks to the Secure
Communities program, which requires local law enforcement to share arrestees'
fingerprints with Washington, about half of those deported have criminal
records. According to the administration, the vast majority of the rest either
re-crossed the border after deportation or were recently caught.
So what did the White House
announce last week? On Thursday,
Director of Intergovernmental Affairs Cecilia Muñoz blogged that the Department
of Homeland Security will review its entire deportation caseload -that's
300,000 cases - to "clear out low priority" cases and "make more
room to deport people who have been convicted of crimes or pose a security
risk."
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.,
told the New York Times that the policy would protect youths with clean
criminal records whose parents brought them into the country when they were
minors. That is, he likened the Obama policy to his proposed legislation, the
Dream (Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors) Act.
On the one hand, the policy
seems smart - let the government concentrate on deporting threats to public
safety.
On the other hand, the
White House essentially has announced that individuals who break federal
immigration law are a "low priority" and unlikely to face legal
consequences. So much for deterrence.
Worse, the new policy will
allow individuals who have been caught up in a Secure Communities' review to
apply for work permits. Mark Krikorian, executive director of the
pro-enforcement Center for Immigration Studies, said that the new policy makes
getting arrested equivalent to winning the lottery: "Their fellow illegal
aliens who were not arrested don't get work authorization."
Krikorian calls the new
policy "administrative amnesty." Obama failed to persuade Congress to
change the law. Now with the 2012 presidential election looming, he changed
policies implemented in the Clinton and George W. Bush years by fiat.
Bush's Secure Communities
program enabled Obama to boast that his administration delivered the greatest
number of illegal immigrant removals ever - 395,165 - in Fiscal Year 2009. In
2010, the number fell. Last month, he told the National Council of La Raza,
"Here's the only thing you should know. The Democrats and your president
are with you."
Re-election, after all,
is his highest priority.
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FROM
JUDICIAL WATCH
GET ON THEIR E-NEWS!
Obama Starts Suspending Deportations TO BUILD HIS PARTY BASE of ILLEGALS
Last
Updated: Tue, 08/23/2011 - 4:14pm
Keeping its promise to suspend
deportations for a broad class of illegal immigrants, the Obama Administration
has officially started the process that’s expected to spare tens of thousands
from removal in the coming months.
Among the first illegal aliens to
benefit from the president’s backdoor amnesty plan is a Mexican man living in
Florida. He got busted a few years ago after applying for a work permit and was
earmarked for deportation. Earlier this month local media portrayed the man,
Manuel Guerra, as a desperate undocumented workertrying to build a new life after
fleeing violent street gangs in his native Mexico.
This week the 27-year-old, who has
lived in the U.S. illegally for more than a decade, became the poster child for
Obama’s newly implemented amnesty program. Federal immigration authorities
officially suspended his deportation, according a mainstream newspaper
report that says Guerra had been caught in a“tortuous and seemingly failing
five-year court fight against deportation.”
Guerra
was spared after a working group from the departments of Homeland Security and
Justice met to start reviewing 300,000 deportation cases pending before
immigration courts nationwide. Under Obama’s new plan, authorities will have wide discretion to halt deportationsand will be encouraged to do so in
cases where illegal immigrants attend school, have family in the military or
are primary bread winners.
The stealth amnesty plan was first
introduced last year in case Congress doesn’t pass legislation to legalize the
nation’s 12 million undocumented immigrants. Earlier this year political
appointees at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), actually
issued a directive to enact “meaningful immigration reform absent legislative
action.” The plan includes delaying deportation indefinitely (“deferred
action”), granting green cards, allowing illegal immigrants to remain in the
U.S. indefinitely while they seek legal status (known as “parole in place”) and
expanding the definition of “extreme hardships” so any illegal alien could meet
the criteria and remain in the country.
This goes hand in hand with the
president’s new blueprint for immigration reform, which was recently issued by
the White House. Titled “Building A 21stCentury
Immigration System,” the plan strives to strengthen the U.S. economy and“competitiveness”
by creating a legal immigration system that reflects the nation’s “values and
diverse needs.” After all, it claims that the“overwhelming majority” of people
living in the U.S. with “no legal status” are“simply seeking a better life for
themselves and their children.”
The president’s new plan, which has
already allocated $8 million to community groups that operate immigrant
“integrational programs,”also expands “anti discrimination provisions of
immigration law” and provides more “comprehensive anti-retaliation
protections.”
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FROM JUDICIAL WATCH
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2011/jun/nclr-funding-skyrockets-after-obama-hires-its-vp
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2011/jun/nclr-funding-skyrockets-after-obama-hires-its-vp
NATIONAL COUNSEL of LA RAZA "THE
RACE" - MEX FASCISM IN OUR BORDERS:
NCLR Funding Skyrockets After Obama Hires Its VP
NCLR Funding Skyrockets After Obama Hires Its VP
06/17/2011
A Judicial Watch investigation reveals that federal funding for a Mexican La Raza group that for years has raked in millions of taxpayer dollars has skyrocketed since one of its top officials got a job in the Obama White House.
The influential and politically-
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Liberty Links
The Outrages of the Mexican Invasion
By Tom DeWeese
Illegal immigration is about much more than fighting terrorism. The fact is, illegal Mexican’s are pouring across our borders and as a result, American tax-paid services like education and healthcare are being pushed to the brink of collapse.
It is an incomprehensible arrogance exercised by both Mexican and American officials who, while promoting illegal immigration, see no problem in letting U.S. taxpayers foot the bill. Each new report of activities along the Mexican border appears to be more outrageous than the last.
The Mexican government of President Vincente Fox has basically demanded that the United States accept and care for citizens of his country who are sneaking in illegally. Fox has become increasingly vocal in demanding that the United States create an amnesty and work-visa programs to legalize more than three million illegal Mexicans now living in the United States.
In addition, apparently President Fox has decided to use his own version of Fidel Castro’s Muriel Boat Lift to rid his country of riff-raff he no longer wants. In 1978, Castro purged his prisons of murderers, thieves and drug dealers and put them in an armada of boats headed for America’s shore. The resulting crime wave flooded jails, overworked police and community budgets made living in Miami, Florida, almost unbearable for a time, and still inflicts the community’s culture. Much the same is now happening in Mexican border states, as crime rises and quality of life diminishes.
Meanwhile, American leaders seem to be encouraging such activity. As more than 10,000 illegal Mexicans flood into the nation every day, there is little concern on Capitol Hill and virtually no legislation pending to deal with the issue. Those like Congressman Tom Tancredo of Colorado, who vocally oppose the open border policy, are ignored. President Bush has again called for the amnesty that President Fox seeks. New U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, Tony Garza, assured Mexico that reaching an accord legalizing the status of Mexican immigrants – without giving them citizenship – continues to be a top Bush Administration priority.
The Fox Administration now appears to be working a strategy to recruit local American officials that will all but dissolve the border between the two nations, even before Congress can take legislative action.
Consider these actions by the Mexican government inside the United States in just the past few months.
Item: The Mexican government has issued more than 800,000 slick, pocket-sized identification cards to both legal and illegal immigrants. Those cards are being distributed through Mexican consulates all over the United States.
The cards list the holder’s birth date, place of birth, U.S. address and encoded information to prevent fraudulent duplication. Over the past year, Mexican officials have been openly lobbying local police departments, banks and local government agencies in the United States to accept the cards, making it easier for the holders to get jobs, open bank accounts get government services. The strategy is to work the system from the bottom up, making the cards acceptable on the local level before Congress can pass any legislation concerning the activity. That way, Mexico believes, the Congress will have no choice but to simply rubber stamp approval of the practice.
As a result of Mexico’s efforts, today more than 800 U.S. police departments, 15 cities and 13 states now accept the cards as valid ID. At least 66 U.S. banks, led by Wells Fargo and Bank of America, have also agreed to accept the cards, opening tens of thousands of new bank accounts in states across the country, from California to Georgia.
Why would Mexico spearhead such a program, losing its own citizens? Mexico is reaping a bonanza as immigrants send more than $10 billion per year back to relatives at home. That figure equals what Mexico earns in annual tourism dollars.
Item: Mexican ambulance drivers are transporting hospital patients unable to pay for medical care in Mexico to facilities in the United States. They know that the federal Emergency Medical Act mandates that U.S. hospitals with emergency-room services treat anyone who presents themselves for care, including illegal aliens. The ambulances are driving through unguarded portions of the border with "little resistance" at the instruction of Mexican officials.
The cost is being paid by the American taxpayers in more ways than money. Medical service in affected communities is being severely damaged as hospitals absorb more than $200 million in unreimbursed costs. Some emergency rooms have shut down because they cannot afford to stay open. That means local tax-paying Americans are either denied medical care or have to wait in long lines for service as the illegals flood the facilities.
The costs are staggering. The Cochise County, Arizona Health Department spends as much as 30 percent of its annual $9 million budget on illegal aliens. The Copper Queen Hospital in Bisbee, Arizona, has spent $200,000 in uncompensated services out of a net operating budget of $300,000.
The University Medical Center in Tucson may lose as much as $10 million and the Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center, also in Tucson, has lost $1 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2002. Rural hospital facilities face losing the use of routine helicopter transportation for patients who need further treatment in big city facilities because the cost of transporting illegals is eating up the budgets. If that happens, the quality of healthcare in those rural areas would be diminished back to1980 levels.
In California, the losses are calculated to be about $79 million, with $74 million in Texas, $31 million in Arizona, and $6 million in New Mexico. All of these costs are dumped on American taxpayers simply because the Mexican government, void of protest from the U.S. government, has decided to raid the American cookie jar.
Item: Schools are suffering the same fate as medical care as illegal aliens fill classrooms, bloat budgets, and rob taxpayers of decent facilities for American children. Federal law and an incredible Supreme Court ruling ban schools from denying free education to illegal aliens.
Moreover, state run colleges and universities are being forced to allow illegal aliens to receive in-state tuition discounts that are supposed to be reserved for residents of that state. In California, a new law (Assembly Bill 540) allows undocumented high school graduates who have been in residence in California for three years to enroll in community colleges and the California State University and University of California systems without paying nonresident tuition. The government is even opposed to allowing schools to report illegal aliens or to deny them enrollment.
Item: Several cities have declared themselves "safe haven" for illegal aliens and refuse to enforce immigration laws. Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, New York City and even Falls Church, Virginia (in sight of the Pentagon), have all declared to be sanctuaries for illegal aliens. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that, "people who are undocumented do not have to worry about city government going to the federal government." In other words, these city governments refuse to uphold federal law or defend American borders.
Item: On several occasions, heavily armed Mexican soldiers have actually crossed over into United Sates territory and fired on U.S. Border Patrol personnel. In one case, a Border Patrol helicopter over U.S. soil was fired upon by a 10-man unit of what appeared to be Mexican soldiers wearing tactical vests and carrying high-powered rifles. In another case, sixteen heavily armed Mexican soldiers in Humvee military vehicles chased American Border Patrol officers more than a mile into U.S. territory.
Why were the Mexican soldiers attacking U.S. agents? Border Patrol officials confirmed that the Juarez drug cartel has placed a bounty of $200,000 on U.S. lawmen.
Item: The U.S. Border Patrol is using tax dollars to advertise the establishment of eight "rescue beacons" along the border to help illegal aliens find they way. A strobe light is used to direct illegal aliens to the beacons to help with night crossings. During the day a reflective mirror guides the crossers.
The one minute commercials are expected to run in 2003 on TV stations in Mexico and in the border city of Yuma, Arizona. "Officials want to reach viewers in the interior parts of Mexico, where potential border crossers may know little about the treacherous terrain and nothing about the beacons," the Associated Press reported.
Officials of the United States who are required to defend our borders and uphold the Constitution and the laws of the federal government have chosen instead to ignore the fact that we even have a border with Mexico. So great is the Mexican invasion that the U.S. government has decided to accept illegal aliens as a economic fact instead of trying to stop it.
Meanwhile American society is suffering. Our standard of living is diminishing. Taxpayers are being robbed of the services they pay for as their plight is dismissed by arrogant officials from both Mexico and the United States.
If the United States would at least support an effort to stop the flood of illegal aliens; if the U.S. Government would file a protest to the Mexican government to demand that they stop the ambulance drivers; if the U.S. Government would stop allowing the use of the Mexican-created ID cards; if the U.S. Government would stop forcing schools and other government services to give free rides to illegal aliens – then the onslaught would begin to subside. All of those things would be easy to do and require no addition money.
They horrible truth is that there is no movement on Capitol Hill, no elected leader to rally troops to demand such actions, even though recent polls show overwhelming support by Americans for stronger action against illegal immigrants. It is up to the American taxpayers to apply pressure on our elected officials to demand an end to these outrageous policies.
The only alternative is for each taxpayer to understand that for every two dollars they earn, one may have to be set aside to pay for our free-loading Mexican cousins to live in our country with all of our benefits, yet free of our laws and our taxes.
This is our land, not Mexico’s. It’s high time we told that to our own leaders and especially to the government of Mexico.
© 2008 American Policy Center
The Outrages of the Mexican Invasion
By Tom DeWeese
Illegal immigration is about much more than fighting terrorism. The fact is, illegal Mexican’s are pouring across our borders and as a result, American tax-paid services like education and healthcare are being pushed to the brink of collapse.
It is an incomprehensible arrogance exercised by both Mexican and American officials who, while promoting illegal immigration, see no problem in letting U.S. taxpayers foot the bill. Each new report of activities along the Mexican border appears to be more outrageous than the last.
The Mexican government of President Vincente Fox has basically demanded that the United States accept and care for citizens of his country who are sneaking in illegally. Fox has become increasingly vocal in demanding that the United States create an amnesty and work-visa programs to legalize more than three million illegal Mexicans now living in the United States.
In addition, apparently President Fox has decided to use his own version of Fidel Castro’s Muriel Boat Lift to rid his country of riff-raff he no longer wants. In 1978, Castro purged his prisons of murderers, thieves and drug dealers and put them in an armada of boats headed for America’s shore. The resulting crime wave flooded jails, overworked police and community budgets made living in Miami, Florida, almost unbearable for a time, and still inflicts the community’s culture. Much the same is now happening in Mexican border states, as crime rises and quality of life diminishes.
Meanwhile, American leaders seem to be encouraging such activity. As more than 10,000 illegal Mexicans flood into the nation every day, there is little concern on Capitol Hill and virtually no legislation pending to deal with the issue. Those like Congressman Tom Tancredo of Colorado, who vocally oppose the open border policy, are ignored. President Bush has again called for the amnesty that President Fox seeks. New U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, Tony Garza, assured Mexico that reaching an accord legalizing the status of Mexican immigrants – without giving them citizenship – continues to be a top Bush Administration priority.
The Fox Administration now appears to be working a strategy to recruit local American officials that will all but dissolve the border between the two nations, even before Congress can take legislative action.
Consider these actions by the Mexican government inside the United States in just the past few months.
Item: The Mexican government has issued more than 800,000 slick, pocket-sized identification cards to both legal and illegal immigrants. Those cards are being distributed through Mexican consulates all over the United States.
The cards list the holder’s birth date, place of birth, U.S. address and encoded information to prevent fraudulent duplication. Over the past year, Mexican officials have been openly lobbying local police departments, banks and local government agencies in the United States to accept the cards, making it easier for the holders to get jobs, open bank accounts get government services. The strategy is to work the system from the bottom up, making the cards acceptable on the local level before Congress can pass any legislation concerning the activity. That way, Mexico believes, the Congress will have no choice but to simply rubber stamp approval of the practice.
As a result of Mexico’s efforts, today more than 800 U.S. police departments, 15 cities and 13 states now accept the cards as valid ID. At least 66 U.S. banks, led by Wells Fargo and Bank of America, have also agreed to accept the cards, opening tens of thousands of new bank accounts in states across the country, from California to Georgia.
Why would Mexico spearhead such a program, losing its own citizens? Mexico is reaping a bonanza as immigrants send more than $10 billion per year back to relatives at home. That figure equals what Mexico earns in annual tourism dollars.
Item: Mexican ambulance drivers are transporting hospital patients unable to pay for medical care in Mexico to facilities in the United States. They know that the federal Emergency Medical Act mandates that U.S. hospitals with emergency-room services treat anyone who presents themselves for care, including illegal aliens. The ambulances are driving through unguarded portions of the border with "little resistance" at the instruction of Mexican officials.
The cost is being paid by the American taxpayers in more ways than money. Medical service in affected communities is being severely damaged as hospitals absorb more than $200 million in unreimbursed costs. Some emergency rooms have shut down because they cannot afford to stay open. That means local tax-paying Americans are either denied medical care or have to wait in long lines for service as the illegals flood the facilities.
The costs are staggering. The Cochise County, Arizona Health Department spends as much as 30 percent of its annual $9 million budget on illegal aliens. The Copper Queen Hospital in Bisbee, Arizona, has spent $200,000 in uncompensated services out of a net operating budget of $300,000.
The University Medical Center in Tucson may lose as much as $10 million and the Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center, also in Tucson, has lost $1 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2002. Rural hospital facilities face losing the use of routine helicopter transportation for patients who need further treatment in big city facilities because the cost of transporting illegals is eating up the budgets. If that happens, the quality of healthcare in those rural areas would be diminished back to1980 levels.
In California, the losses are calculated to be about $79 million, with $74 million in Texas, $31 million in Arizona, and $6 million in New Mexico. All of these costs are dumped on American taxpayers simply because the Mexican government, void of protest from the U.S. government, has decided to raid the American cookie jar.
Item: Schools are suffering the same fate as medical care as illegal aliens fill classrooms, bloat budgets, and rob taxpayers of decent facilities for American children. Federal law and an incredible Supreme Court ruling ban schools from denying free education to illegal aliens.
Moreover, state run colleges and universities are being forced to allow illegal aliens to receive in-state tuition discounts that are supposed to be reserved for residents of that state. In California, a new law (Assembly Bill 540) allows undocumented high school graduates who have been in residence in California for three years to enroll in community colleges and the California State University and University of California systems without paying nonresident tuition. The government is even opposed to allowing schools to report illegal aliens or to deny them enrollment.
Item: Several cities have declared themselves "safe haven" for illegal aliens and refuse to enforce immigration laws. Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, New York City and even Falls Church, Virginia (in sight of the Pentagon), have all declared to be sanctuaries for illegal aliens. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that, "people who are undocumented do not have to worry about city government going to the federal government." In other words, these city governments refuse to uphold federal law or defend American borders.
Item: On several occasions, heavily armed Mexican soldiers have actually crossed over into United Sates territory and fired on U.S. Border Patrol personnel. In one case, a Border Patrol helicopter over U.S. soil was fired upon by a 10-man unit of what appeared to be Mexican soldiers wearing tactical vests and carrying high-powered rifles. In another case, sixteen heavily armed Mexican soldiers in Humvee military vehicles chased American Border Patrol officers more than a mile into U.S. territory.
Why were the Mexican soldiers attacking U.S. agents? Border Patrol officials confirmed that the Juarez drug cartel has placed a bounty of $200,000 on U.S. lawmen.
Item: The U.S. Border Patrol is using tax dollars to advertise the establishment of eight "rescue beacons" along the border to help illegal aliens find they way. A strobe light is used to direct illegal aliens to the beacons to help with night crossings. During the day a reflective mirror guides the crossers.
The one minute commercials are expected to run in 2003 on TV stations in Mexico and in the border city of Yuma, Arizona. "Officials want to reach viewers in the interior parts of Mexico, where potential border crossers may know little about the treacherous terrain and nothing about the beacons," the Associated Press reported.
Officials of the United States who are required to defend our borders and uphold the Constitution and the laws of the federal government have chosen instead to ignore the fact that we even have a border with Mexico. So great is the Mexican invasion that the U.S. government has decided to accept illegal aliens as a economic fact instead of trying to stop it.
Meanwhile American society is suffering. Our standard of living is diminishing. Taxpayers are being robbed of the services they pay for as their plight is dismissed by arrogant officials from both Mexico and the United States.
If the United States would at least support an effort to stop the flood of illegal aliens; if the U.S. Government would file a protest to the Mexican government to demand that they stop the ambulance drivers; if the U.S. Government would stop allowing the use of the Mexican-created ID cards; if the U.S. Government would stop forcing schools and other government services to give free rides to illegal aliens – then the onslaught would begin to subside. All of those things would be easy to do and require no addition money.
They horrible truth is that there is no movement on Capitol Hill, no elected leader to rally troops to demand such actions, even though recent polls show overwhelming support by Americans for stronger action against illegal immigrants. It is up to the American taxpayers to apply pressure on our elected officials to demand an end to these outrageous policies.
The only alternative is for each taxpayer to understand that for every two dollars they earn, one may have to be set aside to pay for our free-loading Mexican cousins to live in our country with all of our benefits, yet free of our laws and our taxes.
This is our land, not Mexico’s. It’s high time we told that to our own leaders and especially to the government of Mexico.
© 2008 American Policy Center
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