Rasmussen Reports

Poll: 79% want U. S. troops on the Mexican border

Seventy-nine percent (79%) of U.S. voters now say the military should be used along the border with Mexico to protect American citizens if drug-related violence continues to grow in that area. — This marks a 21-point jump in support for the use of the U.S. military along the border in just two months…

here

Federation for American Immigration Reform Audio Report

Podcast: FAIR talks about Rep. Gutierrez Nationwide Mass-Amnesty Tour

With the stock market crashing and the economy in shambles, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) and several other amnesty-supporting politicians are in the midst of a 17-city tour to show their support for mass amnesty. Are Rep. Gutierrez and the mass amnesty special interest groups laying the ground for an amnesty fight in the fall?

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CNN

Guarding the U.S.-Mexico border, live from suburban New York

When her baby girl takes an afternoon nap, or on those nights when she just can’t sleep, Sarah Andrews, 32, tosses off her identity as a suburban stay-at-home mom and becomes something more exotic: a “virtual deputy” patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border…

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National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers

Mexico leads the world as the country with the highest number of emigrants

Mexico leads the world as the country with the highest number of emigrants, according to UN statistics. The estimate is that from the year 2010 to 2050 three hundred thirty-four thousand persons will leave Mexico each year. After Mexico, the countries with the highest emigration are China…

HERE

NewsMax.com

“…The oversight is beginning to draw fire from other quarters as well. In North Carolina, state legislators have introduced legislation that would require all state contractors receiving federal funds to verify workers’ residency. ..”

75 in Congress Demand No Stimulus for Illegals

Tuesday, March 10, 2009 5:49 PM

By: David A. Patten

Seventy-five members of Congress asked House leaders on Tuesday to shut down a loophole allowing billions in economic stimulus funds to go to some 300,000 construction workers who are in the country illegally.

“I believe that this figure may be low,” Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., tells Newsmax. Stearns adds, “We owe it to the American workers and to American taxpayers to ensure that their money does not go to employ workers in our country illegally.”

The House version of the $787 billion stimulus package signed by President Obama included a requirement that the legal residency of all employees hired through stimulus spending be verified. As Newsmax reported Monday, that provision was mysteriously stripped from the legislation before it went to the conference committee that reconciled the House and Senate versions of the legislation.

MORE HERE

THANK YOU!

On to the Senate.

NOTE: MALDEF lobbied against the bill outside the House chamber from at least noon until the vote. I watched and was able to obtain one of MALDEF lawyer Peter Isbister’s handouts. If I get time, I will post it later. AND, I will post the names of the House Reps who voted against a bill that says we should enforce the 2006 state law that says we should obey the 1986 federal law on immigration, employment and administrating public benefits.

After I sleep about 10 hours.

ADDED 11:40 Friday morning: Click here to see how Georgia Reps voted on passing HB 2 in the Georgia House.

YOUR CALLS AND E-MAILS MADE A HUGE DIFFERENCE!

Galway (Ireland) Advertiser sc

Grealish appeals to Obama to assist Irish illegal aliens

Galway West TD Noel Grealish has written to President Barack Obama, appealing to him to “regularise the position” of the 50,000 Irish [illegal aliens] in the US. — Dep Grealish said yesterday, that as part of his ongoing representations on behalf of the [illegals], he has written to President Obama directly

HERE… and repeat after me: ILLEGAL IS ILLEGAL.

Illegal alien opportunity bill passes Georgia House unopposed today

Authored by Rep. Larry O’Neal, HB 438 – state legislation aimed at “creating jobs” – could reward job creation for and by illegal aliens in Georgia with tax breaks and incentives passed the Georgia House today 164-0.

HB 438: “A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 2 of Chapter 7 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to imposition, rate, computation, and exemptions regarding income tax, so as to provide for the comprehensive revision of the income tax credits for qualified jobs, investment, investment property, and projects; to provide for procedures, conditions, and limitations; to provide for an effective date; to provide for applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes”.

The way the bill is currently written, illegal aliens who operate businesses in Georgia could access the tax credits and waivers outlined in the legislation by hiring other illegal aliens. There is no present requirement in the legislation for the employer to be a citizen or legal alien or that employers use E-Verify to help insure that the jobs go to citizens or legally present aliens.

We have been – and are – issuing business licenses to illegal aliens in Georgia. Nothing in the legislation prevents them from accessing the taxbreaks in this little beauty.

Feel stimulated yet?

I personally explained the faults in the bill to many in the House, including some in leadership positions.

They didn’t seem to hear me. Maybe your Reps will hear you?

The bill (HERE) now goes to the Senate. More here.

Here is needed sample language (in bold) that will prevent this travesty and which I have given to the author’s office and handed to several others in the House – days before the vote this morning:

SECTION 1.

Article 2 of Chapter 7 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to imposition, rate, computation, and exemptions regarding income tax is amended by revising Code Section 48-7-40.24, relating to income tax credits for qualified jobs, investment, investment property, and projects, to read as follows:
“48-7-40.24.
(a) As used in this Code section, the term:
(1) ‘Business enterprise’ means any business or the headquarters of any such business which is engaged in manufacturing. Such enterprise or organization, whether corporation, partnership, limited liability company, proprietorship, association, trust, business trust, real estate trust, or other form of organization (which provides a notarized affidavit attesting to use of the federal employment verification system now known as “E-Verify” or any successor federal employment verification system) and engaged in or carrying on any business activities within this state, except that such term shall not include retail businesses.

(2) ‘Eligible full-time employee’ means an individual holding a full-time employee job created by a qualified project (and who is eligible to work in the United States according to 8 USC and who submits a notarized affidavit swearing to being either: a U.S. citizen or lawfully present alien. Lawful alien status shall be verified using the federal Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system by the Commissioner. Until such verification is made, the sworn affidavit shall serve as proof of eligibility…)

What is the unemployment rate in Georgia now…8% ?

Are there other “stimulus” bills under the Gold Dome that will benefit illegal aliens and encourage them to remain in Georgia?

ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL

Houston Chronicle

Immigration courts struggle as number of cases soars

..Nationally, the number of immigration prosecutions has increased significantly in recent years. Immigration judges received more than 334,000 matters — including bonds, motions and removal proceedings — in 2007, up from roughly 290,000 in 2002…

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Is The Illegal Immigration Issue Back?
By Gary O. Reese
InsiderAdvantage Georgia

(3-9-09) With the media focus on the progress of transportation legislation, Sunday liquor sales, the ongoing budget cuts and who in the legislature may or may not be paying their income taxes, little coverage has been devoted to another issue: illegal immigration.

The issue was a red-hot and Georgia received international media attention in 2006 when the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act (GSICA) became law. Three years later, local government compliance with mandates in the law dealing with public benefits is reportedly spotty.

Authored by Rep. Tom Rice, House Bill 2 would put teeth in GSICA. It passed out of House Appropriations last week. Rice’s bill would penalize non-compliant municipal and county governments’ by withholding Local Assistance Road Program funding.

A full House floor vote will likely come this week.

Georgia immigration activist D.A. King, who lobbied in favor of the law three years ago, held a news conference in the Capitol on the first day of session to outline the alleged shortcomings of local governments in verifying employment and benefit eligibility required by the law.

According to King, GSICA is merely state law mandating compliance with existing federal immigration law by insuring that jobs and benefits go only to citizens and lawful alien residents. “We are actually debating legislation saying that we will enforce legislation passed three years ago saying that we will obey existing federal immigration law”, King said Sunday.

In 2006, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution labeled GSICA a “responsible” effort by the state to use its limited powers to address the illegal immigration problem.

Opponents of the bill, including the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), say a down economy is no time to burden local governments with compliance and verification requirements for employment and taxpayer-funded benefits and services. Given the state’s soaring unemployment numbers, the sinking economy and cutbacks in services, it could be interesting to see how legislation that punishes local governments for not doing exactly that fares in the House; and to see who else opposes the enforcement legislation.

Equally interesting will be a watch to see if amendments are offered to exclude illegal aliens from the benefits proposed for job creation in HB 438, authored by Rep. Larry O’Neal. Insiders say that the way the bill is currently written, illegal aliens who currently operate businesses in Georgia could access the tax credits and waivers outlined in the legislation by hiring other illegal aliens.

King, president of the Dustin Inman Society, has promised protest rallies at the Capitol if language is not changed to require use of the federal employment eligibility verification system called “E-Verify” to screen any new employees hired for jobs covered in O’Neal’s legislation. He says only legally resident business owners should receive any of the bill’s benefits.

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