Delegates seek cost of illegals

The Washington Times ^ | 2-22-05 | Robert Redding Jr.

[JZelle]

ANNAPOLIS -- Maryland taxpayers deserve to know how much the state is paying to subsidize education, housing and health care for illegal aliens before it breaks the budget, two Republican delegates from Baltimore County say. "We are losing money in taxes; we are losing money on education; and we are losing money on health care," said Delegate Patrick L. McDonough. "And at the same time, [illegal immigrants] are sending money back to their homelands to the tune of $22 million and they are freeloading on the system and exploiting us."

[edcoil]

How does "Too Damn Much" get you.

[Wneighbor]

The study " one of six immigration-related bills the two delegates have written " is being considered in the House Economic Matters Committee this month, Mr. Impallaria said. The other bills call for: •Â Requiring Baltimore County police, without warrants, to arrest illegal aliens and turn them over to federal authorities. •Â Prohibiting illegal aliens from receiving state services. •Â Seizing cars driven by illegal immigrants and suspending the licenses of anyone who allows illegal aliens to drive their vehicles. •Â Creating a task force to study whether health care workers should be required to report treating illegal aliens. •Â Making English the official state language.

Wow, good ones. Go Maryland!

[edcoil]

Here in California the cities have issued special order 40 that does not allow police to even ask the nationally and legality of someone they stop.

[26lemoncharlie]

This must be done in each and every state. We must force the Federal Government to enforce the immigration laws and to control our borders. The Minuteman effort is a noble one, but the main effort must be in the COngress and the White House to do the peoples work and to make them honor the oath they took to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States ( Not the European Constitution) and the Country itself. If they will not, then in the crapper and put in someone who will!!

[NEBUCHADNEZZAR1961]

"We are losing money in taxes; we are losing money on education; and we are losing money on health care," said Delegate Patrick L. McDonough. "And at the same time, [illegal immigrants] are sending money back to their homelands to the tune of $22 million and they are freeloading on the system and exploiting us."

I remember telling my family members around the nation back at a family reunion in 1993 about how the illegals are destroying California (where I lived) and all they could say is, "Its a California problem". Ha! Now the rest of you get a taste of what we've been going through! Next time we warn you about something you'd be wise to listen to us! California Conservatives are always leading the fight.

[kellynla]

BTTT

[JJR RNCH]

Here in Arizona, we passed Prop 200 to keep certain benefits from the illegals. It is finally law, but I've been hearing that V. Fox wants to sue the State of Arizona in the World Court. V. Fox can bite me!!! I'm sick of my taxes going to illegals. It's about time the rest of the country is taking into consideration the cost of the invasion from the south.

[JustAnotherSavage]

"And at the same time, [illegal immigrants] are sending money back to their homelands to the tune of $22 million and they are freeloading on the system and exploiting us."

[bayourod]

" The other bills call for: •Â Requiring Baltimore County police, without warrants, to arrest illegal aliens and turn them over to federal authorities. •Â Prohibiting illegal aliens from receiving state services. •Â Seizing cars driven by illegal immigrants and suspending the licenses of anyone who allows illegal aliens to drive their vehicles. •Â Creating a task force to study whether health care workers should be required to report treating illegal aliens. •Â Making English the official state language. "

But nothing about busting the employers of illegals. Why? Because no one wants to close down the major tax payers in their community. It's alway somewhere else that they want businesses closed down.

[F16Fighter]

Maryland American taxpayers deserve to know how much the state is paying to subsidize education, housing and health care for illegal aliens before it breaks the budget...

What will Americans do IF/WHEN they ever find out what kind of tangiable tab they're picking up for illegal invaders?

[F16Fighter]

"But nothing about busting the employers of illegals."

Unlike you, I'd rather concentrate first on those who've been stomping into MY house uninvited -- ILLEGAL INVADERS.

[JZelle]

Don't hold you breath, it's Maryland!

[whd23]

But nothing about busting the employers of illegals. Why? Because no one wants to close down the major tax payers in their community. It's alway somewhere else that they want businesses closed down.

That may be, but also consider that not every employee of the business is necessarily an illegal alien. I know I'd be steamed if I lost my engineering job because some HR manager in another facility didn't check the documentation of a new hire close enough.

It's a tough call. Perhaps sock it to the CEO and board members?

[azhenfud]

Many estimates place the national figure at $41 billion a year and rising. Considering the federal and state taxes collected as a national average, one may extrapolate from that figure the state-by-state expense of not enforcing immigration code. However, when one dies at the hand of someone who shouldn't be here to begin with, the money is negligible.

[azhenfud]

"But nothing about busting the employers of illegals. Why? Because no one wants to close down the major tax payers in their community. It's alway somewhere else that they want businesses closed down."

For once I agree with ya 'rod. Until we're serious enough to close the doors of felon employers, there isn't much "tooth" found among anything else we do...

[rdcorso]

This is one of my biggest complaints about illegal immigration aside from the danger from open borders.They should create a system where the employers who benefit from the cheap labor are held responsible for the costs associated with the immigrants.They should also be accountable for making sure that the illegals leave the country when the season is over.We need to have some kind of control of who comes over to work, how many are allowed to come and how long they stay here.Those without work permits should be deported immediately.If they can't change the system to make it safer and less of a burden on the taxpayers then they should scrap the whole idea of illegal alien workers.

[curiosity]

But nothing about busting the employers of illegals. Why?

Because it would be difficult for a state to do it. The state does not have the jurisdiction to enforce Federal labor law. The most it could do is require state officials to turn over the names of employers who hire illegals over to the Feds. Given that state officials are unlikely to come upon information that would expose such employers, such a requirement would be largely symbolic. Not a bad idea, though. Symbollism is important in politics.

The other measures Maryland is proposing, however, are tangible steps against illegal immigration that are clearly within the state's jurisidiction.

[26lemoncharlie]

Sounds great to me. Now to get the Politicians to serve the people, the American People. I believe that we are being sold out and have been for quite a long time. I did not elect any politician to negotiate my liberty away to any foreign government e.g. the UN, which is a foreign government from my point of view.

If they have entered into any agreements that make me, my countrymen and my country subject to any laws other than the laws of the US, they are traitors, plain and simple.

You idea to make the employers pay for the illegal aliens places the idea of illegal aliens working in this country nonprofitable and therefore "Not a Good Idea" to the Patrician Politicians.