WBURHomeland Security: Mass. Required To Participate In Immigration Program

BOSTON — The Department of Homeland Security says it will overrule Gov. Deval Patrick on his decision to opt out of a controversial federal immigration program.

An agency official told the Boston Globe that Massachusetts will be required to participate in the Secure Communities program by the year 2013.

The program shares fingerprints of everyone arrested in the state with federal immigration officials.

The program is meant to help deport serious criminals. But Patrick said the state won’t sign up because the database check has led officials to deport many non-criminals.

But Republican state Rep. Richard Bastien said the state is missing out on a valuable law enforcement tool.

Patrick originally said the program was mandatory, but now he said he understands it’s not. Massachusetts is the third state to reject Secure Communities.

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  • Anonymous

    As the TEA PARTY emanates from the
    decrepit, but still flourishingly Republican Party, my vote will go to Rep.
    Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) in 2012. To me, and possibly millions of other TEA
    Partier’s that she rivals all of the other presidential possibilities. With a
    (B-) grade on her stand against illegal immigration, she is a very sharp lady
    and unless you are against feminine personages in the White House for whatever
    reason, she is distinctly ahead of the class. Her score card so far as
    attributed to her illegal immigration record that is important to taxpayers, as
    she has stated that opposes Immigration reform that really is a disguised
    Amnesty. If it wasn’t for such a non-profit Foundation as the Heritage, the
    amount of money to support another amnesty of $2.6 TRILLION DOLLARS would have
    not released. Dollar numbers like this remain intentionally unrecorded,
    especially in the Liberal oriented media.
     

    This makes absolute conclusive
    sagacity, when the first main 1986 Immigration act cost $76 Billion. What
    really doesn’t make any sense, that the Pew Research Center, delivered an explosive
    problem, that while our own unemployed walk the streets, 8 million foreign
    nationals plus have jobs. In the same issue “Attrition through Enforcement” is
    the mandatory operation of E-Verify, Secure Communities on a nationwide
    policing basis. She also opposes any federal funding for Sanctuary City
    ordinances, and a much tougher border for our national security. The
    controversial instant citizenship for babies of illegal parents has drawn her
    ire, plus she wants to reduce all immigration legal and illegal. Bachmann is
    intensely loyal to an America to free ourselves of this blight of a
    multiculturalism society. She sees it as highly volatile to the English
    language and is embittered by the changes, she sees as eroding our way of life.

    We do have the rampant illegal
    immigration in Sanctuary States as California and Nevada so we must watch for election
    fraud in voter registrations, as well as many other States? The 2012 voter attendance
    could very well be a turning point in immigration law, without too much interference
    from adverse entities, who see this as a constraint to their power. The
    Governor of California, the Mayors of big cities of San Francisco and Los
    Angeles are ineffective and in the Leftist Capitol monopoly of Sacramento and
    are unlikely to enforce any E-Verify, Secure Communities as they don’t want to demonize
    the illegal population. Only by dislodging the hypocrites in Sacramento from
    their “Super-Glue” seats, will anything change to release the taxpaying public
    from the ordeal from the $26 billion dollar deficit? Then again, is Massachusetts
    Governor Deval Patrick going to renege on  E-Verify or the police law
    “Secure Communities?” How many other Governors throughout America are
    going to drop out.of these policing laws, without thinking of the
    ramifications on taxpayers? Illegal aliens will begin pouring across
    their state border, searching for the public welfare trough.
     

    With the E-Verify law and Secure
    Communities law recognized by the Supreme Court, as one journalist stated”
    The dam has been breached.’ This removes the torment from State Capitols that
    can now go ahead, spreading the good news that the Liberals, cannot easily rescind.
    States now have the right to activate their own mandated E-Verify, so all
    workers must pass through the verifying steel gauntlet for a job. Businesses
    have finally are going to be held liable through sweeping audits, that if they
    knowingly hire illegal alien workers, their goose is cooked? Now the penalty
    phase must be rigidly enforced, which should include not only a canceled
    business license for a week, but at least six months, but loss of company
    assets, large fines and for incorrigible companies six months to five years in
    jail.
     

    This would be a harsh example for
    anybody, willing to take the risk on hiring illegal labor. As ugly as it might
    seem American citizens and legal residents, should carefully observe employed
    at their workplace. Because of the rampant fraud in companies of every
    imaginable situation, there has been an upsurge in Whistle Blowers. People
    should not betray themselves in spiteful retaliation to get back at an
    unreasonable manager or an owner, who refuses to raise their wages. This is for
    the sake of placing a jobless legal countryman, who has a family to support or
    a home behind in several payments. Only to validate legal workers who are just
    being hired, just doesn’t cut it. Everybody on the payroll should be checked
    and those with irregularities had better travel to the nearest Social
    Security office. This will save any human services department being sued for
    discrimination by any legalized immigrant who thinks he has a right to work.

    None of these deterrents would have
    been needed if every administration over the past thirty years, had
    accomplished building a real border fence, and defended the nation with the
    laws provided in the 1986 Immigration Act. Liberals, Democrats, Republicans and
    other party affiliates, with the bleeding hearts of churches and a wide
    array of special interests groups are to blame for this mess. By pulling the
    desperate, the indigent, the impoverished, the criminals, the economic
    foreigners here, we are now drowned in a federal and State wide financial
    reservoir of debt. America is a magnet for every poor nation’s people in the
    world. But by taking in these unfortunates, it just adds to the layers of our
    own under unprivileged, forcing them further into poverty? It’s inconceivable
    to thousands of pro-sovereignty organizations, why the legislators never made
    it a felony to trespass in the United States, without proper documents? No
    other industrial country is lax in its laws as the US, otherwise police would
    have a right to question a person on their immigration status; specially today
    with people coming across our Southern border, with intentions to harm us?

    If Congress is under new federal management in
    2012, Tea Party representatives will never again let different party entities;
    drive America to the brink of insolvency. Try explaining it to your children
    or grandchildren, that when they are taxpayers in future years, the IRS man is
    going to arrive demanding extra money from their wages to pay for the support
    of illegal people who came here from our uncompleted border fence, or arrived here as
    a tourist and had no intentions of leaving?

    Liberals for some obscure reason see
    the TEA Party as a waning minority of old, white people. But if you wander
    around the huge crowds, you see a growing discontent from every race of
    ordinary people. The Tea Party does not discriminate against any person of
    color as long as they came through legal immigration channels to join the
    American people. It is important to understand that immigrants, who apply to
    come here, should have the necessary skills to earn a living and already be
    secure in a job from a reputable company. Rooted American workers should have
    first priority, when it comes to any kind of highly skilled occupations.
    America is in the doldrums economically through undeclared wars on two fronts,
    costing a million a day. If you see American rebounding back from this nasty
    recession, look towards the new faces in Congress, as not yet corrupted by
    political ambition, wealth and power. I don’t see this in the Conservative
    moderates known as the Tea Party, whose ambitions will be held responsible by
    the American–TEA PARTY–people?

     The American people who
    unemployed need to contact their federal and State Representatives to insist
    they enact mandatory E-Verify for every State at Senate—202-224–3121/
    House—202-225–3121.
     

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