Lawmakers Seek Immigration Crackdown After Fatal Accident

By Bianca Vázquez Toness (@biancavtoness)
Sep 27, 2011, 6:49 AM
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BOSTON — A recent fatal accident allegedly involving an illegal immigrant driver has put immigration back on the State House agenda. A bipartisan group of lawmakers has filed a bill to stiffen penalties and curb benefits for immigrants living here illegally.

The bill would increase fines for anyone driving without a license and make it harder for people without licenses to register their cars.

“Clearly the penalties that are outlined under current statutes don’t go far enough to deter people from driving without a license,” said Rep. George Peterson Jr., R-Grafton. “So this will increase the penalties, hopefully to change [the] kind of thought process.”

Lawmakers sponsoring the new measure say recent high-profile driving incidents involving illegal immigrants mobilized them and their constituents, especially the case in Milford last month. An illegal immigrant there was charged with vehicular homicide and driving while drunk after allegedly running over a motorcyclist with his truck.

The bill also sets up a complaint line for residents to report people they believe are working illegally and makes it illegal to grant immigrant students in-state tuition if they’re in the country without papers.

Sen. Bruce Tarr, R-Gloucester, says those incidents compelled legislators to rework an immigration bill that passed in the Senate in 2010.

“What’s changed is that we have a more unified effort in the House and Senate and that’s why we’re going to move forward,” Tarr said.

The bill doesn’t just focus on driving. It also sets up a complaint line for residents to report people they believe are working illegally. It also makes it illegal to grant immigrant students in-state tuition if they’re in the country without papers.

As it is, these students don’t get a break on tuition, but this measure would codify that policy into law.

Lawmakers said they were careful, however, to write a bill that was clearly within state jurisdiction. They said they didn’t want to confront the federal legal challenges that laws passed in Arizona, Georgia and Alabama have run into.

But immigrant advocates still have trouble with the measure.

“The bill is so far-reaching into areas that have nothing to do with the problems that were identified,” said Frank Soults, spokesman for the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition. He says the bill goes too far by setting up the hotline and banning in-state tuition.

“To try and ban that in this bill seems to be taking a real problem and blowing it out of proportion,” Soults said.

Soults says lawmakers should work on reforming federal immigration laws rather than scapegoating immigrants.

Gov. Deval Patrick wouldn’t comment on the bill, since he says he hasn’t read it.

“I’m not really interested in legislation that just legislates things we’re already doing,” Patrick said. “If this actually breaks new ground and makes a real contribution and does something that state government should be doing, as opposed to what the federal government should be doing, then I expect to be able to support it, but we’ll have to see.”

It’s not clear when, or if, this immigration bill will come up for debate. But it is clear that lawmakers and officials are feeling around for solutions to what they consider local immigration problems.

Earlier: Fatal Car Accident Sparks Debate Over Illegal Immigration

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Lee

There was another recent fatality in the Milford area involving a young man from Holden who was hit and killed by a drunk driver three years ago. The intoxicated man was driving a red corvette and smoking marijuana, attempting to pass in a no passing lane, when he struck an oncoming car. The victim in the crash was very much like Matthew Denice- close to his brother, an Assumption College student, an all around nice kid whose mother, if I am not mistaken had immigrated to Texas from Mexico. One might argue there is a culture of drinking and driving (and that would be a fair assessment in my opinion) but it is not confined to the immigrant population. The drunk driver in the 2008 case received a 4-6 year sentence. Pretty light sentence if you ask me.

Anonymous

Is this the one who had been deported at least six times…or was it the other one? …or both?

Lee

The drunk driver in the 2008 case was not an immigrant. I brought it up because the public reaction in the Milford area is so different in the case Matthew Denice. In the 2008 case, the public reaction was different toward the drunk driver. People were angry, but there were also expressions of compassion for the family of the drunk driver.

milford resident

Another senseless death, indeed , and I agree that the drunk driver in that case should have gotten a harsher sentence but perhaps the reason the public reaction was different is because Matt Denice is from Milford and was known and liked by so many people around town. We are still in shock and mourning his loss.�
To all of the comments portraying this as an excuse to jump all over the illegal immigrants rather than handle it like any other DUI, I would like to remind people that the driver who hit Matt also had no license and prior arrests including assault on a police officer as well as being in the country illegally. His death could have been prevented by having Secure Communities in place as well as tighter regulations on driving without a license for a start. This should not turn into a stupid bickering debate about who is a racist and who is not. Matt deserves better.

Anonymous

Drunk or sober, illegal aliens do not belong here. Yes, we certainly do have drivers who drive illegally while drunk, but that is no excuse to allow illegal aliens the run of the country.

LegalHispanicAmerican

[First, ANY person with a DUI needs to be punished severely.] That said, by “run of the country” do you mean a marginalized position where people have to avoid detection in order to have opportunities for themselves and their families? If you were born into a country with little opportunity you would just stay there and starve rather than illegally move? And please, don’t ask that they merely get in line and enter legally; the immigration process is one of the worst aspects of our government, and is highly prejudiced toward certain groups. By the way, how did your RACIST name get past the WBUR editorial staff? If I had my choice, we would throw prejudiced people like you out of America. And you do realize that many hispanics are here legally, right? Are you “sick of them too” or do you have a reason to hate them as well? Now that you have read my post you can go back to searching for hate websites you ignorant racist.

Anonymous

You must be an anchor baby! When you stated that, “marginalized”…where people have to avoid detectionin order to have opportunites for themselves and their families…” You guys think that this is justification of all of your actions, from fraud, identity theft, etc. Yeah, this is your justification from stealing from the US! Over 70% of illegal alien hispanic families are on welfare! cis.org We have just discovered that of the illegal aliens who pay taxes using the ITN#, billions of dollars have been paid out in fraud due to illegal aliens claiming child tax credits they didn’t deserve! You marginalized people really know how to get in and work the system to your advantage…illegally!

As to your sob story about being born in a country with little opportunity…would you stay there and starve rather than move illegally?’ Silly question. Not justification for illegal immigration, but probably is to you. Blacks, who were slaves and later subjected to years of segregation and hangings, etc., chose to stay in America, and change it! Mexicans in particular leave, and send monies back.

From you posts, you are definitely an anchor baby…and, why we need from you to leave with you families as well. You may say you are a “legal” America who was born here, but deep in your heart, you are unAmerican! You are still tied to your parents’ native country and are still part of the culture.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RIAGWZ65VMNBCXHHKIUKR33HKU Jasper

LegalHispanicAmerican, Mexicans don’t come here illegally because they are starving in Mexico.

Tyrone M Jackson

Wow! A WBUR article that actually uses the label “illegal” to describe illegal aliens. Of course, it left off the “alien” part and quickly slides into dropping the “illegal” label and starts referring to illegal aliens as “just “Immigrants”. It of course, calls those who make money off keeping this problem going “immigrant advocates”, instead of “illegal alien advocates”. Every person inside the US who was not born here or does not have proper visas/green cards/US citizenship is here illegally and a law breaker by definition. And again, organizations like the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition won’t have anything to do with you if you are a legal immigrant or have a legal refugee visa. The Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition makes it money off of keeping the illegal alien problem from being solved. If anyone at WBUR wanted to actually do some investigative journalist, they’d look into the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, it’s finances and personnel.

LegalHispanicAmerican

I am sorry that you are unaccustomed to Media that is not as Fairly Unbalanced as Fox. I have never seen an alien in my life, have you? I can only see people, whether or not they legally reside in the U.S. Perhaps that is merely because I know immigrants and don’t just assume they are all like they are portrayed on Fox. Yes, people do reside illegally in the U.S. (they are called illegal residents or undocumented immigrants). Also, it is nice of you to anonymously commit libel against organizations via online posts, but I don’t think I will take my journalistic cues from someone who doesn’t know the difference between doing “some investigative jornalist” [sic] and doing “investigative journalism”. Quick immigration quiz: how many people are in the congress? Can’t answer that question? Well, legal immigrants have to. Perhaps you should be deported to IgnorantLandia. By the way, I love your fake pseudonym – it prevents you from seeming racist while at the same time permitting you to espouse racist beliefs.

Anonymous

The term “illegal alien” is a legal term… I am sure the poor uneducated hispanics know about their government as well.

Get off your high horse. Deal with it! Americans are against illegal aliens! Most citizens of any country DO NOT want people from other countries comming and living without having respected laws of entry. Simple…whether you have knowledge of all branches of government or not! Right, Legal Hispanic American?!!!

Oops! My bad! You said you were here legally, not a citizen…maybe you don’t understand!

LegalHispanicAmerican

I am a citizen of the United States of America. In fact, I was born here and English is my first language. I am glad that that revealed your prejudice though – you managed to suggest that I am uneducated and that I am not legal merely because I am hispanic. So, your logic is flawed. I didn’t argue that “illegal alien” isn’t a legal term. I merely suggested two terms that don’t dehumanize people. Calling people “aliens” makes it easier to see them as less than human, just as anonymous posts permit people to be more hateful.

Anonymous

First of all, hispanic IS NOT a race, it’s a culture. Second, if the term alien brings visions of someone less than human to YOU, that’s your problem. Maybe you need to expand your knowledge to include words that have more than one meaning.

What I have notced is that people who are pro illegal alien do everything to soft pedal what it is…they are not undocumented, they are here illegally! Lastly, I really don’t hate illegal aliens, nor do I hate hispanics, I really don’t. That said, it doesn’t mean that it is okay to break our laws, disrespect our country, and expect us to support your children and send them to college. Also, it’s not okay with me when children are going around talking about, “…through no fault of their own…and the parents who did this and still benefitting the results from their criminal actions sit back and say nothing…not even thank you America!

Because of this, I am labeled a racist and a bigot! I am neither, I am a dark-skinned VERY visible minority who considers herself an American. I was part of the civil rights movement of the sixties. What I am seeing now is a group who knows what they are doing is completely wrong, but attaches themselves to everyone’s civil rights cause in order to justify their actions!

They say they want to contribute to America. Yet, they know that Americans are facing what could be the greatest depression ever, and they call us racist because we don’t want to pay for their college, when in fact no one said they couldn’t pay for it on their own.

You are picking hairs with me over semantics, and call me racist because I say illegal alien. What you don’t address is the unchecked terrorist hoards that across our southern border, close our emergency rooms because of overuse and no payment, slow down our schools because of ESL/ELL which also impacts our education budgets…you see where I am going?

p.s., I didn’t imply you were illegal. You said you were legal. You can be legal and NOT a citizen. Why don’t you refer to yourself as just an American hispanic…and leave the legal part off, you are saying the same thing twice! I know, I know, I am a racist bigot for what I have said.
Anonymous

“Most citizens of any country DO NOT want people from other countries comming and living without having respected laws of entry.”

Hey, Legal Hispanic American, you didn’t address the main body of my comment. See above.
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Anonymous

Alien is a perfectly acceptable word. It refers to anyone who is not a citizen of the country in which they are present. There are aliens who are legally present and aliens who are illegally present. When I go to another country, I am a legal alien, because I never would even entertain the notion of illegally entering any country. My theory is that illegal aliens object to being called what they are because they would like to soften the reality. “Undocumented” implies missing or unfiled papers. It tends to dismiss the unlawful presence and psychologically reduce it to some inconsequential paperwork. American citizens who oppose ALL illegality, ALL unlawful acts, who cherish and value our sovereignty, our rule of law, our national security and our nation oppose any softening of the reality, as much as we would oppose calling other law-breakers by euphemisms. It’s a knee-jerk reaction to label everyone who opposes illegal aliens being present in this country as “racist,” “xenophobic,” “nativist,” (though I don’t see what’s wrong with being a nativist,) “bigot,” etc. In fact such reflex action labeling is a very poor substitute for analyzing the substance of the position one’s opponent takes. I keep trying to understand why people want to shield illegal aliens from the natural consequences of their behavior. There is no similar will to shield other law-breakers, except those who employ illegal labor. But the vast majority of Americans would like to see those people severely and meaningfully punished, along with illegal aliens re-patriated. Sure, there are some racists and bigots on BOTH sides of the debate. But I, like most Americans, have no desire to make illegal aliens suffer. They do need to go back to their countries of origin, though. They have no right to be in this country and we simply cannot support them. It is unsustainable and unrealistic; and frankly, just too expensive and disadvantageous for our own citizens. This is true regardless of what race they are. It is not the fault of Americans that the majority of those who have violated our immigration laws, our borders and our national security are Hispanic. We don’t have any control over that. I believe it is a matter of geography, corrupt and failed foreign governments and disrespect for laws or at least a belief that laws are unimportant. Combine illegal entry/presence with additional illegal acts, and sure you get feelings of hostility toward illegal aliens. It is not because of their race – it is because of their actions.

The fact of the matter is that the US simply cannot admit everyone who wants to be here. Like every other nation we have the right to establish and enforce immigration laws to regulate immigration into this country, that is a vastly different country than what it was in the 18th, 19th and early 20th Century. We have the right to limit entry to those who will benefit this country, and the number of people admitted. This is the most generous nation on the planet, but like every other nation, our obligation is first to this nation and its people. I wish the all those who suffer under oppressive, corrupt and/or broken governments would organize and take positive action to fix their broken countries. We cannot do it for them, nor can we take care of them in our own land.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RIAGWZ65VMNBCXHHKIUKR33HKU Jasper

LegalHispanicAmerican, the word “alien” simply means a foreigner who is not a naturalized citizen of the country in which they are living. The word “alien” is not the least bit dehumanizing.

deb

Wow, condescending and using the racism label. You are a coward.

LegalHispanicAmerican

Yes, the response was condescending. I fail to understand why that makes me a coward though. Your post is also anonymous and condescending as well. I didn’t call that poster a racist – I pointed out that language is inherently tied to ideology and that trying to dehumanize people is undesirable and can permit people to codify racist ideology. Perhaps I misinterpreted that poster’s comment given that another person had already offered similar beliefs under an offensive pseudonym which included a slur and I was annoyed- to that extent I may be wrong. But, given the cowardice they showed in anonymously accusing organizations of collusion and conspiracies, it seems evident that he is in the same vein. He also verbally attacked WBUR for its failure to use the language of social conservatives, I merely turned his criticism on its ear. If the station is on the left because of its language then he pertains to the right and its xenophobia and prejudices – including language that betrays his secret prejudices. I wonder if he now feels as the WBUR employee who reads his post feels.

Harborchief07

The politicians arnt to blame, Its the morons we vote into office.Voting in Patrick is like voting in a little Obama.The only way to make change is to use your vote wisely,and people if your a democrat and the dem. running for office doesnt share your views vote Republician.I was raised a dem. but changed to Independent because dems. seem to think its alright to let Illegals come and go as they wish.A drunk driver with 6 convictions should have been in jail.Patrick says let feds handle it is like saying we will do nothing.Wake up WE must make change.Im proud of the states that buck the system looking not to use ILLEGALS as a scape goat, but looking out for their people, AMERICAN PEOPLE.

LegalHispanicAmerican

A multiple DUI offender should be in jail. Regardless of her/his citizenship. What precisely is a “little Obama”? I see little parallel beyond their race and the fact that they both hold political office. President Obama is a centrist; Deval Patrick is (fortunately) more to the left. And it is true that states do not have the resources for deportations. More importantly, as per our founding documents, that responsibility falls to the Federal Government. You are most certainly making this about “illegals” when the real issue here is DUIs, not immigration. Furthermore, do republicans have some sort of magical ability to prevent car accidents and DUIs, I am not aware of any such talents. Voting should be based on sound policy, not anti-imigrant xenophobia and alarmism. Legally licensed “AMERICANS” unfortunately commit DUIs every day. It’s a sad reality that will not be resolved by mass deportations.

Anonymous

Obama a centrist? From what planet did you arrive? Before he became president, on the promise of some unexplained and undescribed, wholly nebulous hope and change you can believe in, he was a community organizer who never actually practiced law, and then became the MOST LIBERAL member of Congress. Check out his voting record, fella! NO ONE in the Congress voted more to the left than did Obama. We have to depend on his voting record, because he didn’t have a track record of any tangible accomplishments. And the small one he has built since arriving in the White House can only be called “centrist” if you think you can balance all of his economic and foreign policy deeds – left over from W – against all of his domestic policy deeds, by using some diabolic, invented-by-the-seat-of-your-pants formula. Sheesh! Or maybe your definition of a centrist is one who has managed to offend everyone.
Anonymous

Yeah, legally licensed Americans do commit DUI’s every day…and we certainly don’t need more. I hate the argument that illegal aliens use to justify their actions by citiing the fact that there are Americans who do the same. This is not justification! Americans doing this are OUR problem, mexicans who do this are MEXICO’S problema!

Why do you equate anti-immigrant with xenophobia…I can understand the alarmism,, because it is alarming!

Here with go with the twisted terms again. It is not “anti-immigrant, it ANTI-ILLEGAL ALIEN…see the difference? As far as being a xenophobe, I seriously doubt it. I don’t hate foreigners, I like them, I learn from them. Yet, I firmly believe that everyone who wants to be here should not be allowed. We have standards…does it make me a racist, probably in your book.

You say that you are a US citizen and that you were born here. You call yourself a Legal Hispanic American. Interesting. Most 3rd and 4th generation hispanics speak English only and are anti illegal alien. Are you an anchor baby? I ask this because you seem to have very strong ties with illegal aliens…most assimilated hispanics don’t!

Anonymous

It’s really sad that our legislators don’t have foresight. They were so interested in pimping and pandering to what they thought could potentially be a new voting block that they forgot to make sure that America wasn’t deteriating(sp?) while they were distracted. Now, they rush to pass laws to bring the horse back into the barn. As I said, no foresight! American citizens saw this one coming as far back as 2000!

LegalHispanicAmerican

What did you see coming? A tragic crash? Who was “pimped”? You make no sense. What American citizens saw “this” coming? Voters vote the politicians into office, (hopefully) on the basis of their political platform – as our blended system of a constitutional/democratic/republic indicates. What you are suggesting is that both American citizens saw and didn’t see “this coming”.

Anonymous

What I saw coming was a greater and greater tendency to turn a blind eye to illegal acts perpetrated by illegal aliens. The first mistake was turning a blind eye to illegal immigration, itself. The establishment knew this was going on in great numbers, but the grassroots American people – particularly those outside of the southwest – did not know about it until some of the mainstream newspapers started reporting it. And that happened only because of people reporting it on the net. Then, because of all the politicking and lobbying that had been going on behind the public’s back, the establishment ignored wholesale driving without licenses and/or insurance by illegal aliens. I’d like someone to do a study, because anecdotal data points to a greater propensity for drunk driving among illegal aliens; but the results might be politically incorrect. And the powers that be tried to sweep that under the rug, too. The have been listening to the “immigrant advocates” – who in truth are or advocate for ILLEGAL aliens to be immune from the consequences of their illegal acts – who wail and scream and march in the streets and proclaim that ONLY the worst violent convicted criminals illegal aliens should be deported. Yeah, I saw that coming, too. I even saw that the funding for the marching, protests and lobbying came from foreign powers.

The fact is that ALL illegal aliens are subject, under federal law, to deportation, by reason of their illegal presence in this country.( And that’s exactly how the majority of American citizens want it to be!) And that is regardless of whether they have committed any other illegal acts, be they non-violent (drive without license, identity theft, using fraudulent documents, shoplifting, writing bad checks, unarmed robbery, etc.,) or violent and/or drug-related. And I saw it coming that now we have not only an unsustainable number of illegal aliens unlawfully present in this nation who depress the wages of our most vulnerable American workers and overburden our resources, institutions, infrastructure, economy, environment, etc., claiming not only that they have a *right* to be in this country – thanks to the brainwashing of LaRaza and the Spanish language media – but also to a “pass” on any other illegal act that is not shocking and egregious. That’s what I saw coming and, sure enough, that’s where we are now.

What I still don’t understand is why people who do not benefit from cheap, illegal labor (I get their motivation) want to allow illegal aliens – who knowingly and voluntarily violated our laws and our national sovereignty as a first act – think they should be allowed to remain here legally and be given a path to citizenship unless they have committed violent or drug-related crimes. Why should ANY be given immunity for their illegal entry/presence in this country, and why should we welcome even “petty” criminals? We have more than enough of our own. Unless its to “buy” votes. Yeah, I didn’t even need to see that coming. Eliseo Medina lays it all out on YouTube.
Anonymous

Thank you soooo much for asking! I saw the illegal aliens coming when our schools became over run with children who only spoke Spanish and we had to start using an inordinate amount of our school budgets to accommodate them (never said thanks).

However, if you really want to know, I saw it long ago. I use to work for the federal Department of Education in the 70′s, for the Title I program. I was riding in a elevator alone with two mexican men. They were talking to each other. One said to the other, “We got to figure out ways to get these Title I funds for little brown boys and girls.” I later noticed that mexicans were pushing classifying people by “hispanic surname.” Well, that didn’t go over too big because Filipinos, Guamanians and others with same last names did not want to be considered hispanic (rightly so!). Since that didn’t work, you became hispanic. So, to answer your question, I saw this coming long ago.

Now, as to who is being pimped, you didn’t know? Hispanics, particularly mexicans are being pimped by our current administration. You are being pimped for votes and you are also being pimped by corporations…and the mexican government that illegal aliens compound their lowly status in their country by sending remittances, which equal #2 in imports for mexico…and they still get no respect! Now that’s what I call being pimped.

When you respond, cite instances rather than just rants about my being uneducated and a hateful racist!

Chuck S.

The fact that the criminal in this incident happened to be illegally in the united states is pretty secondary to the crime. As near as I can tell we have drunk driving accidents all over the USA all the time–it’s a constant phenomenon, and I’m pretty sure they aren’t all caused by illegal immigrants. While immigration control is a good thing, I’m not sure why this particular event is a motivator. If an illegal immigrant rescues a baby from a burning building tomorrow, does that mean we should relax immigration laws? Of course not… all people are capable of good and bad regardless of their immigration status. I think it would be better to focus on the actual crime of entering the country illegally. Not sure how best to do that, though.
BostonBakedBean

Agree DUI and illegal immigration are completely separate issues. Would it be better the person was killed by someone born here? We need to address our immigration policy now. There is obvoiusly a need for someone to do the jobs others don’t want to do. If we created a better system, more people could immigrate legally. Part of the better system would be to make it more difficult for people to enter the country illegally. What ever happended to protecting our borders for homeland security? What is to stop someone entering the country to do harm to our citizens? I understand people leave their countries for a better life and/or lack of opportuinities in their country. But does that mean we should just open our borders to citizens of other countries because their countries have problems? Our country was founded on the backs of immigration so I don’t think we should trun our back on immigrants today. We just need a better system.
Anonymous

@LegalHispanicAmerican: The WBUR employee gets paid to write, and paid to promote the political perspective of the owner(s). There is a significant difference.

But I do note that language MAY be tied to ideology. Yours certainly is textbook. However, there are grass roots folks from all over the world who have not been schooled in ideology, or who eschew it, whose language merely reflects their own, genuine feelings and beliefs. Some have better writing and expressive skills than others.
TVMUSICRECORDS

The illegal alien problem is not a local issue, it is a national one. I live in NYC and among the many problems we’ve gain with the illegal aliens’ problem is an abundance of sexual predators, molesting women on the streets, parks and especially on the train. And even though the city catches some of them, and those criminals are illegal aliens, the city doesn’t report them to ICE. And as such, the problem keeps growing and growing. That’s why we turned District 9 (Rep. Weiner’s seat) to a Republican, and we’re mobilizing ourselves to do the same on Nov. 2012… Surprise, surprise!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Dave-Francis/100002158029860 Dave Francis

American is broke, busted, so how can we imprudently repeat the same old
performance of bringing in one million legal immigrants a year? How can we
substantiate this, when we have a rising unemployment rate for average
Americans of all races? This is not even counting the 20 million plus illegal
aliens who are already here. It occurs to me and a good portion of the lawful populace,
that illegal immigrants are receiving a better deal than lawful Americans. Its
beyond most people’s comprehension that entitlements being collected by illegal
aliens, were diverted to our Social Security fund, could make a difference to
senior’s life’s; the homeless, the sick, veterans and towards the U.S. Treasury
deficit. Just take a look of Rick Perry
providing illegal alien student taxpayer tuition, when US citizens Out-of-State
must pay full fees in Texas? Perry also disapproved of constructing the fence,
which most certainly all RINO’s object to; they need those discount illegal
laborers.

Dr. Steve Camarota at the Center for
Immigration Studies finds that 81% of the jobs created in Rick Perry’s Texas
between the years 2007 and 2011 went to newly-arrived immigrants. Something
is seriously wrong here, but it will never change in the deep seated GOP
members or the far left or Democratic leadership. The only chance of a
different path to America’s rebirth is to stifle the powerful influences of
both political parties and their campaign contributors. The TEA PARTY has a
massive growing membership with real new ideas, such as moving back education
to the states; dismantle the federal government to its original purpose as in
the living Constitution.

Scrap and draft a new fair Tax code as expressed by
businessman Herman Cain, who is a very elegant orator and has a real plan for
America. Cain also promises to enforce immigration laws, build the double layer
fence with no endorsement of another amnesty. I am sure TEA PARTY leading voice
of Cain would approve of is Rep.Lamar Smith’s mandated E-Verify bill H.R. 2885,
known as the “Legal Workforce Act.” would reduce the illegal aliens
stealing through our porous border. This would also cause a reduction of
numbers cutting-back significantly on family members coming here, as if
the illegal bread winner cannot get settled and find a job; why bother.

E-Verify will join the highly controversial “Secure
Communities”, The Halt Act (Hinder the Administration’s Legalization
Temptation Act), The Save Act (The Secure America with Verification and
Enforcement Act) and the 287 G police laws that are as necessary as authorized restraint
against the decades of abandonment. When
nationwide E-verify becomes law, then it will strengthen the state laws of
Arizona, Georgia, Alabama and those who want to save their states from—ECONOMIC—illegal
immigrants and migrants.

Then we have an
escalation of whistle’ Blowers who are connecting with the Department of
Homeland Security (DHS)’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division at
1-866-DHS-2ICE (866-347-2423). SEE SOMETHING? DO SOMETHING? With no
questions asked about personal information, you can contact ICE and inform
agents about your suspicions of foreign nationals working illegally in the USA.
This is a sure way to aid your fellow Americans, who cannot get a job. Yet
we have seen on many occasions unemployed Americans flocking to suddenly open
jobs, where illegal aliens have been apprehended and detained by ICE.

After these lightening sweeps in northern Nevada in
September, ICE agents raided 11 McDonald’s restaurants and arrested dozens of
workers. On August 30, (ICE) agents converged at a supermarket parking lot in
Maywood, California. Hundreds of sweeps have been conducted, under President
Obama’s presidency, but currently these sweeps are only being ordered
to–ONLY–arrest and deport criminal elements. An executive order adverse to
the US Constitution was signed allowing allegedly for people without records to
be released on the streets again.

With so many illegal aliens squatting here, we must be very
attentive in Future election cycles. It has been proven with no room for doubt
that hundreds of thousands of foreigners voted in the midterm election.
Fraudulent registrations and criminals providing absentee ballots will do our
Democracy harm and as yet the federal government has not demanded a mandatory
ID identification for “Citizens” Voting. ACORN, that was supposedly disbanded
and yet alive and well, under assumed business names was a mastermind in
cheating the system, on behalf of the Democrats.

We must return our country to a zero-tolerance policy, that doesn’t deport just
criminals, but every person who cannot prove he has a right to live and work in
the United States. THIS IS WHY WE NEED A CONGRESS THAT WILL AMEND OUR
IMMIGRATION LAWS, MAKING UNLAWFUL ENTRY A STRICT FELONY. These simple commentaries cannot hope to
supplement the information contained at NumbersUSA, Judicial Watch and American
patrol websites. The web contains thousands of grass root organization that can
assistant you in your search for the truth, not the engineered information
publicized by the Liberal backed press.

Why do Farmers and large industrial agriculturist appose
E-Verify? For years since the “Bracero program” was eliminated in
1964, they have had unfettered recruitment of illegal workers; a convenient way
of hiring people to work the land. With E-Verify, every worker must be verified
and cannot be exploited for wages, health treatments or conditions as it’s
always been asserted. The agrarian community will no longer be able to drop off
an injured or sick worker at the emergency room, leaving the uninsured for
taxpayers to pick up the bill.
Kristina S.

Unfortunately we wll not hear about all the goods things done by illegal immigrants because of their need to stay anonymous. How can we make a rational decision using only a few facts? I think we should formalize our opinion on immigrants and the actions we wish to deal with illegal immigration, but not as a response to this unfortunate event.

Anonymous

Kristina S pull your head out of that dark place.
Illegal immigration is AGAINST THE LAW. Maybe we should pat good bank robbers on the back too.
Stop minimizing illegal immigration to play the nice white girl.

Lance Sjogren

Kristina is right, it is not sound policymaking to base policies toward illegal aliens based on anecdotal cases of crimes committed by individual illegal aliens. There will always be some individuals that commit crimes among any demographic group, whether it be any group of American citizens, legal immigrants, or illegal aliens.

Instead, there should be a crackdown on illegal immigration because of the adverse economic and environmental impact that it causes.

A crackdown is the right policy, but don’t do it for the wrong reasons.

Anonymous

There should be a crackdown on illegal immigration for one reason and one reason only: it is ILLEGAL.

Anonymous

When are you stupid Americans going to drag your Reps into a cactus field and demand they stop catering to these Corporations that want these Mexicans and other illegal criminals in our
Country? This nation used to belong only to the American people. Now the Corporations are demanding these illegals come here for their record profits. Hoards of illegal aliens are making
the businesses super rich!

I am Hispanic and an American citizen and I know what they are here for! To take over each state.
In California these people are celebrating Mexican holiday’s in our State Capital!
They have no shame at all with what they are up to!
Americans wise the hell up before you totally lose the United States. Once the U.S. becomes
just another Latin nation you lose!

Kristina S.

Exactly, as long as there is demand for cheap labor that only illegal immigrants are willing to do, and profit by the corporations for hiring these people, then nothing will change. If you want a cheap hotel to stay at, and you want cheaper taxes limiting the state and local budgets for services like garbage pick-up etc, then you want illegal immigrants in this country. Our society is designed to run using these people to get the work done. And most of the pay taxes but will not be able to collect social security or disability insurance etc.

So we either demand the politicians to change the laws, demand enforcement of those laws, pay the rightful wages for these jobs or we embrace these people with the respect they deserve for cleaning up our crap… literally.

http://profiles.google.com/wet501 chris wet

Si se puedo – deportiva ahora!

Yes we can – deport you now!
Anonymous

Every elected and appointed official who does not uphold their sworn oath of office and our federal immigration laws has the blood on their hands of every and any American harmed by an illegal alien.
Aiding and abetting illegal aliens renders them guilty of willful dereliction of duty and, as such, they should be removed from office.