On February 25, 2010, the People for Change group in Prince George's County Maryland held a town hall forum to discuss the impacts of illegal immigration on local communities. Pro-Amnesty protesters disrupted parts of the meeting, going as far as comparing People for Change, a mostly Black group, to the 'Klan'.
A new poll conducted by Zogby finds that while many minority voters do support an amnesty, the majority favor enforcement efforts that encourage illegal aliens to go home. The full details of the poll can be found on the Center for Immigration Studies website.
The Senate passed legislation today that is the first part of a Jobs package aimed at helping America's 15 million unemployed. But the first bill, H.R.2847, will offer tax credits to employers who hire new workers, including illegal aliens.
Federal immigration authorities had alerted Gebbers Farms that a number of its employees' hiring forms were suspect. Unless those employees could prove they were in this country legally, the company would let them go.
Many couldn't. Like the vast majority of America's agricultural work force, they were illegal immigrants who used fake documents to get jobs picking and packing fruit, in this case in and around this small town on the Columbia River north of Wenatchee.
Approximately 1/2 of immigrant households (both legal and illegal) with kids access welfare services, primarily food and Medicaid. Many argue that immigration is a social issue, but it's a fiscal issue as well. Sign our petition urging Pres. Obama, Speaker of the House Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Reid to stop expanding our welfare system through high immigration numbers.
Allegations that illegal immigrants were working on the $63 million courthouse project came to light last week when a bricklayers union organizer questioned the county.
A new DHS reports estimates that the population of illegal aliens living in the United States declined by nearly 1 million from the start of 2008 to the start of 2009. The report says that 11.6 million illegal aliens resided in the country in January of 2008, but they estimate a drop to 10.8 million in January of 2009.
Rep. Kenny Marchant (R-Texas) has offered the Mortgage E-Verify Act that would require a mortgagor to be verified through E-Verify when applying for a modification of a home loan owned by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac.
A Novato-based group advocating the employment of documented American workers in Novato has collected more than half the required signatures to place an initiative on the Nov. 2 ballot to force employers working with the city to verify the citizenship of workers. http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_14336685
By Brent Ainsworth -- The Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA)
A Novato-based group advocating the employment of documented American workers in Novato has collected more than half the required signatures to place an initiative on the Nov. 2 ballot to force employers working with the city to verify the citizenship of workers. http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_14336685
By Brent Ainsworth -- The Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA)
A Democratic Pennsylvania lawmaker is proposing an E-Verify mandate for the state and private contractors. Rep. John Galloway says it's a way to protect jobs and reduce the state's 8.9% unemployment rate.
The State of California will spend $1 billion in 2010 to jail illegal aliens, and there's little the state can do since the federal government is responsible for securing the nation's borders. The federal government will reimburse California $90 million as part of State Criminal Alien Assistance Program, but Pres. Obama is cutting the program's budget.
The overall unemployment rate dropped to 9.7% in January, but the job market shed 20,000 more jobs than it created. For the second straight month, the number of jobs lost outnumbered the jobs created, while 7 to 8 million illegal aliens remain in the U.S. workforce.
Majority Leader Harry Reid has said the Senate's focus will be on passing a jobs bill with bi-partisan support. Eight Republican Senators, led by Sen. Jeff Sessions, sent Sen. Reid a letter on Thursday asking him to include immigration-related provisions in the jobs bill.
We can now look at what was actually happening on the border (with frightening video to help illustrate) at the same time Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano was telling Congress that the border has been "transformed" under her watch and is now secure enough to pass an amnesty. Also take a look at the similarity between J-No's misleading of the public with Pres. Bush's. . . .
I have spent two of the last three years living safely and happily in countries that currently have Temporary Protected Status: Nicaragua and El Salvador. And I have visited a third: Honduras. While these countries have their respective problems, continued TPS is by no means necessary.
The candidates were asked whether they would force employers to use the E-verify system to ensure that only legal citizens are hired.
Medina: No. "We have a process in Texas. . . . We use the I-9 forms. . . . Also, the Texas driver’s license is an acceptable form of identification . . . yet in Texas we are issuing Texas driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. Stop issuing Texas driver’s licenses toward illegal immigrants would go a long way."
With more than 15 million Americans unemployed, Pres. Barack Obama discussed his plan to put them back to work during his first State of the Union Address. But Pres. Obama failed to mention any type of Immigration Suspension, insisting on the continued importation of 125,000 foreign workers per month.
A report by the Las Vegas Review-Journal found that illegal aliens receiving dialysis treatment were costing the hospital more than $2 million per month. Nevada taxpayers are forced to pay for a situation that the report says "continues to worsen."
A new study commissioned by the Chicago Urban League and the Alternative Schools Network reveals the negative impacts of illegal immigration on low-skilled American workers, specifically teens and young adults.
In a speech to the Manufacturers Association, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned of the dangers of high immigration numbers. Like the United States, workers unions in Israel want an increase in immigration numbers, but Netanyahu is looking to pass strict immigration enforcement laws.
In an op-ed piece published by the Daily Caller, Rep. Gary Miller criticizes the Administration and Congressional leadership for not doing enough for America's 15 million unemployed. Specifically, Rep. Miller says that the Gutierrez Amnesty bill introduced in the House would "jeopardize millions of jobs for Americans and legal residents."
A bill passed by the Arizona Senate Committee on Public Safety and Human Services would expand the immigration enforcement efforts of local police. The bill would allow police to arrest suspected illegal aliens and crackdown on the employers that hire them.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) has introduced a bi-partisan House Resolution along with Rep. Frank Kratovil (D-Md.) and 20 other House Members that would state the House's resolve to 1) mandate the nationwide use of E-Verify, 2) secure the borders, and 3) prevent any amnesty as part of an immigration reform bill.
The pro-enforcement, anti-amnesty Senatorial candidate, Scott Brown (R-Mass.), has defeated Martha Coakley for the seat left vacant by the passing of Edward Kennedy. Brown has taken a strong stance on immigration enforcement and puts the Administration's hopes for a mass amnesty at risk.
Things have been a little quiet around our Washington D.C. office this week. The Senate is out of session until next week, and even though the House is back, they’ve spent most of their time on retreats and planning the next six months before turning their attention to the mid-term elections. We at NumbersUSA used the downtime to begin preparing our website for a busy year.
Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), who also serves as the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, criticized Pres. Obama's 'catch-and-release' immigration policy after learning of an incident in Massachusetts. The policy of allowing suspected illegal aliens to go back to work keeps jobs away from American workers.
Charles' blog raises even more questions about why the SEIU is fighting so hard for illegal foreign workers while its current union members find it so hard to keep their jobs in the face of foreign labor competition. The SEIU led the way last week in sponsoring the pro-amnesty march in Washington and in attacking NumbersUSA's freedom of speech and mobility.
A vote scheduled in the New Jersey state senate to allow illegal aliens to receive state-subsidized, in-state tuition rates at the state's colleges and universities was canceled on Monday. The bill's sponsor said he lacked the necessary votes to pass the measure when Senators came under constituent pressure, in-part due to phone calls from NumbersUSA Members.
A scheduled vote in the New Jersey state senate was postponed last week, likely indicating that they didn't have enough votes to pass a measure allowing illegal aliens to pay in-state tuition rates at the state's public universities and colleges.
NumbersUSA members have contributed nearly 100 comments on why they think their national religious leaders are aggressively lobbying for more foreign workers while a new Zogby poll finds that large majorities of Christians and Jews oppose importing more immigrant workers. Take a look at the comments . . .
Roy appeared on Fox & Friends on Jan. 3, 2010 to discuss a new Zogby poll that revealed the differing opinions of church leaders and their followers on immigration issues. For more information, see http://www.numbersusa.com/content/nusablog/beckr/december-28-2009/zogby-poll-finds-few-pew-agree-their-pro-amnesty-religious-leaders-a
As of January 1, 2010, Utah’s Driving Privilege Card (DPC) will only be issued to individuals who are not able to prove legal presence in the United States. This change makes the DPC a clear and unambiguous illegal alien identification card.
Professors at the University of California, San Diego are developing a cell phone with a GPS system that would help illegal aliens find water stations while crossing the desert along the Southwest border. Since the university is a public institution, the research and development is being funded by taxpayer dollars.
Mayor R. Rex Parris of Lancaster, Calif., located about 60 miles north of Los Angeles, is requiring the city's businesses to verify the eligibility of its new hires using E-Verify.
The Census Bureau reported today that the U.S. population has increased by 1% in 2009, adding another 2.6 million people. According to the bureau, the population is now 308,400,408, and the 2009 increase is due to an increase in births, amounting to a new American every 14 seconds.
Under the current immigration law and enforcement regime, the United States is experiencing a higher rate of immigration, legal plus illegal, than ever before in our history, and it is driving a destructive population increase. At current levels, conservative estimates see our population reaching half a billion by mid-century and possibly 1 billion by 2100.
