Thank you for the headline.
Every time I hear of social programs for illegal immigrants and non-citizens, I think of how poorly our veterans are treated and short-changed.
They should come first. Period.
Illegal immigrants vote for Democrats. Vets don't. What can I say? The Dems know who their supporters are and give them things.
"People who are working hard, paying their taxes, are of good moral character ... regardless of their immigration status, they, too, should be able to share in the American dream," U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) told reporters at a December 11 "
REALLY?? What about the hard working, tax paying, moral and LEGAL american who can't get seem to acquire the american dream because of too much regulation, too few jobs(because of illegals) no healthcare(because of illegals) shitty schools for their kids(because of illegals) and high crime rates(more illegals) and lowering pay scales(because of illegals) what about the american citizens right to dream of a brighter future for themselves and their children? Its o.k. for them to have to give their dream up so the illegals can steal it?
Bump!
This reminds me a horrible situation from the late 70's. A good friend of mine at the time was Vietnamese. She told me that she knew of former Viet Cong who were enrolled at Northern Virginia Community College. And, because of their minority status as Asians, they would be given slightly more preference for admissions than a white veteran.
In other words, if my father (who was injured by a VC land mine near Bac Lieu) had chosen to attend NVCC, he would have to get in line behind the bastard that planted the mine.
An American citizen in Illinois better get some backing to sue the state for this.
I saw a commercial for a Houston based car dealership the other day. It made the point that you could get financing without a Social Security number several times.
Impact from illegal alien labor:
- Costing health care, retirement funding, education and law enforcement, accruing at $30 billion per year.
- USA is foregoing $35 billion a year in income tax collections because of the number of jobs that are now off the books.
- Census Bureau estimates that 8.7 million people are illegally residing in the USA
- Urban Institute estimates a total of 9.3 million are illegally residing in the USA
- Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates a total of 9.2 million are illegally residing in the USA
- The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) stated that the Bureau of Labor could have missed as many as 10% of illegal aliens, since illegal aliens avoid census questionnaires. The CIS suggests the total illegal population is at 10 million or higher (March 2004).
- Employers have incentive to hire undocumented workers off the books.
- Overseas labor markets have forced US employers to find innovative ways to capitalize on sources of cheaper labor to stay competitive.
- Employers place pressure on the government to ignore the flood of cheap labor.
- Services, ie but not limited to: public school enrollment, language proficiency programs, and building permits, that cater to illegal aliens have increased in areas that are considered gateways for immigration.
- The top nine states that account for 50% of illegal aliens are: California, Texas, Florida, New York, Illinois, New Jersey, Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina.
- Sole authority to govern immigration flow is placed on the federal government.
- Responsibility for providing support to legal and illegal immigrants rests with the state and local governments.
- Immigrants send home on average $1,400 to $1,500 per year through money transfers (also called Remittances).
- As per the World Bank in 2002, people sent $133 billion worldwide. Developing countries accounted for $88 billion of that.
- Remittances from the United States to Mexico have tripled to $13 billion between 1995 and 2003.
- As per the Pew Hispanic Center, 39% of surveyed Latino immigrants listed themselves as having legal status to opening bank accounts. This enables cash transfers through private money centers such as Western Union and Money Gram.
- HOWEVER, banks including Citibank, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo Bank began accepting matriculas, which are photographed identity cards for Mexicans living in the US.
- Matriculas are obtainable by any legal or illegal Mexican. Matriculas are widely obtainable through Mexican consulates across the USA.
- To date, around 2.5 million matriculas have been issued, and the number is growing.
- In major illegal alien gateway cities, the influx of immigrants has led to a housing boom unexplained by official population growth.
- In New Jersey, the three gateway towns are New Brunswick, Elizabeth, and Newark.
- Housing permits in these three towns shot up over six-fold, while the rest of the three counties only saw a three-fold increase.
- 80% of these permits were designated for multiple tenent dwellings.
- Official statistics state that illegal aliens in New Jersey have jumped 110% – an estimate that is inconsistent with the housing statistics. Local realtors' stats for multiple tenent housing and school enrollments suggest the number is higher.
- The major illegal alien gateway cities have experienced school enrollments much higher than projections.
- The decrease in the number of births in the past decade had led education administrators to expect decreasing school enrollments as a post echo boom trend.
- A higher immigration rate, however, has offset the impact of declining births.
- Enrollment stats for major illegal alien gateway city school districts that included: Queens, New York; Elizabeth, Newark and New Brunswick, New Jersey; and Wake County in North Carolina revealed explosive growth in immigrant students, far beyond numbers consistent with *legal* migration limits.
- NYC public school system is the largest in the nation, enrollment of 1.1 million students.
- Immigrant student enrollment for 1998-2001 was 103,000, with Queens accounting for the largest share, 37,000.
- Between 1990 and 2001, more than half of New York City’s school districts increased their enrollments 10% or more, driven by a high number of immigrant students.
- New York City Public Schools, 1999 to 2001: 102,867 immigrant students: Dominican Republic, China, Jamaica, Mexico, Pakistan, Ecuador, Colombia and Haiti.
38 posted on 09/21/2005 10:56:28 AM EDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
Paid in cash only? I guess that means paid under the table, huh? But I thought all of these "migrant workers" paid lots of taxes and got nothing in return for it.
Whatever happened to coming into the U.S. LEGALLY? I had 2 sets of Grandparents who did it that way. They didn't get any special interest rates on loans, either. They learned to speak english, they worked hard, and they were American Patriots. My, how things change......
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My state (IL) is Zimbabwe light.