Posted on 01/17/2008 4:09:47 PM PST by chicagolady
A pending City Council resolution has placed Evanston in the forefront of the national debate on illegal immigration.
The proposed law, which calls for "humane and just treatment for immigrants and their families," was introduced at the Human Services Committee's Jan. 7 meeting.
The resolution would prevent the Evanston Police Department from investigating individuals solely based on their immigration status, said Ald. Edmund Moran (6th), who was instrumental in the drafting of the resolution. It also calls for the state and federal governments to act on the issue.
"We're disappointed with Congress' failure to pass comprehensive immigration reform," Moran said.
After voting unanimously to hold the proposal in favor, the committee postponed official action on the issue until its Feb. 18 meeting.
Ald. Lionel Jean-Baptiste (2nd) suggested holding the issue in committee so a more diverse spectrum of immigrant communities could voice their concerns.
Moran began working on the issue last year. He met with a group of citizens that collected similar resolutions passed by other municipalities, and decided the Cook County resolution most closely represented Evanston's interests.
They rewrote parts of the document to effectively communicate their message before presenting it to the committee.
Although the council cannot act on the issue until the Human Services Committee recommends that the resolution be adopted, several critics spoke during the citizen comment portion of the council's Jan. 14 meeting.
Illegal immigrants cost Illinois taxpayers $3.5 billion per year in services, mostly in public education, according to a study cited by Rosanna Pulido, field representative for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, who attended the meeting.
FAIR is a nonprofit, special-interest group that aims "to improve border security, to stop illegal immigration, and to promote immigration levels consistent with the national interest," according to its Web site.
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Just send them back.
Immigration ping
They know exactly what they’re doing. The only reason Evanston is not known as a Bolshevik college town such as Ann Arbor or Madison is because its larger neighbor to the south sucks up its oxygen.
What the article Does not tell you is that the pro-illegal alien lobby sat behind closed doors with the councilmen for months designing this. It just became public in January.
What part of the existing law don't they understand. These nitwits should be rounded up and deported with all the illegals.
This has nothing to do with justice...it's about a bunch of weezely mouthed liberals and their abettors, supporters, and those depenedent on them (spelled "votes bought and paid for") balkanizing America.
Sounds good to me! When do we start?
While illegal immigrants should be equal before the law, they do not have to be *treated* equally.
Speaking in practical terms, illegals that are well-behaved, successful, integrating and are generally acting like good citizens, should be treated respectfully and with an eye to a *reasonable* process by which they can become legal citizens.
The process by which people become US citizens is ridiculous in several ways. Especially to people who have been living here for many years. It is not acceptable to break up families, ruin established businesses, cost people their homes and vehicles, and otherwise severely punish them *because we will accept them as citizens*. That is, though they are already integrated, they are forced to leave the US and go to a now foreign country (to them), and waste perhaps 20 years just to get back in. We as a nation *want them*, so why abuse the heck out of them?
*However*, that being said, illegals that are criminal, poor and with no inclination for self-improvement, not integrated and with no inclination to integrate, and generally acting like foreigners here to abuse and exploit our society and its people, should be *not* just be expelled from the United States, but “barred from reentry”.
(To clarify, being deported from the US is just being kicked out, but if an illegal enters the US after being “barred from reentry”, it is a serious felony crime worth many years in prison.)
It is appropriate and intelligent to accept as citizens people we want as citizens, without making the process onerous and abusive. But it is also appropriate and intelligent to keep out individuals who will be a drain and a burden to society and our people.
While a single solution, either “kick them all out” or “let them all stay”, appeals to those who crave easy answers to complex problems; it is not terribly challenging to change the equation by using two solutions, instead of just one.
The bottom line is that we as a society get what we want, and don’t get what we don’t want; but at the same time do not abuse good people who are already proving that they are good people, as good or better than the rest of us.
MAYOR LORRAINE H. MORTON
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Cheryl Wollin
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Lionel Jean-Baptiste
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3rd Ward Alderman
Melissa A. Wynne
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Phone: (847) 328-5651
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4th Ward Alderman
Steven J. Bernstein
Home: 943 Elmwood Ave., 60202
Phone: (847) 328-0800
Fax: (847) 475-0870
5th Ward Alderman
Delores A. Holmes
Home: 1715 McDaniel Ave., 60201
Phone: (847) 373-2965
Email: dholmes@cityofevanston.org
Alderman Delores Holmes invites community members to Fifth Ward meetings, held monthly on the third Thursdays at 7 p.m. at Fleetwood-Jourdain Community Center, 2010 Dewey.
6th Ward Alderman
Edmund B. Moran, Jr.
Home: 2522 Isabella St., 60201
Phone: (847) 475-7267
Work: (312) 408-1544
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Elizabeth B. Tisdahl
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8th Ward Alderman
Ann Rainey
Home: 1707 Dobson, 60202
Phone: (847) 475-2949
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Anjana Hansen
Home: 2017 Seward St., 60202
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The city has one man working, one man sitting on his as*, and one politician, an election is held and the vote is two to one and the one man working is supporting three people.
I love democracy!!
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