Posted on 02/23/2006 5:24:19 AM PST by Calpernia
New Jersey Assemblyman Joseph Vas today is expected to introduce a proposal to create a ``New Jersey Driving Privilege'' card.
The document is essentially a driver's license for undocumented immigrants.
The bill from the Perth Amboy Democrat is similar to laws in about a dozen other states.
It has won praise from advocates who say many of New Jersey's approximately 300-thousand illegal immigrants are driving anyway -- making sure they pass a test is good for public safety.
The initiative also aims to get around the pending federal ``Real ID'' program.
That program -- starting in 2008 -- will require state motor vehicle departments to verify the legal residency of driver's license applicants.
New Jersey Immigration Policy Network ^ | 01/24/06
10-page document issued by New Jersey Immigration Policy Network to the Governor New Jersey Immigration Policy Network, a coalition of more than 70 civil rights, community and social services organizations, recently presented Corzine with a 10-page issue paper asking him to take action within his first 100 days in office. (snip)....network executive director Partha Banerjee was optimistic. "Based on what he has done in the past, I'm very hopeful he'll put words into action," Banerjee said. The network wants Corzine to appoint an advisory committee to explore establishing a statewide office to coordinate services to New Jersey's immigrant communities.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1472612/posts?page=38#38
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.
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Another brilliant strategery by this gov't.
So it is legal now to hire 'off the books' should this be enacted?
There will be actual jobs where you don't ever have to pay income tax???
We the people of the United States should start showing these guys at the home depot hiring locations that we can do this work too, and negotiate a better wage.
The Feds should protect those states who correctly deny licenses to illegals.
The states who allow illegals to have government ID's should have their licenses DE-recognized.
Those IDs should not be allowed for Mortgages, or driving in other states. The feds need to create an exemption.
This is really about keeping illegal aliens voting for democrats.
Not really going to change, no matter the illegal immigrant issue.
Just thought I'd add that to the pot.
Illegals ought to be rounded up and sent home.
No doubt this idea of the license is something Menendez will be cheering.
This seems to be a popular tack these days. "They're doing it anyway." (so why bother doing anything like enforcing laws...there are too many of them and we're too lazy to rectify the situation...it's a lost cause)
May I ask what these people do for Insurance?? No one should be on the road without Insurance.
Is there No-Fault insurance available for when one of these Amigo's runs over my family and myself with a truckload of 16 illegals in back?
new jersey, "come see for yourself", hah....
Is NJ pitching a fit about UAE parking ships?
DING DING DING DING DING!!
No more calls, please. WE HAVE A WINNER! (We're the losers...)
It's a strange country we live in.
Just like North Carolina.
From GWB down, this gov't is selling our country down the rat hole.
>>>We the people of the United States should start showing these guys at the home depot hiring locations that we can do this work too, and negotiate a better wage.
Actually, I seriously think the 'no American to do the job' is a load of poop.
My nieces, nephew, neighbor's children, try getting jobs and they can't find any to hire them. Then I go down to the board walk and stuff and I see non English speaking people running the boths, diners, stands...and the American teens I know personally seriously try to get jobs.
Don't forget, it is cheaper to hire an illegal than it is a tax paying citizen.
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