Posted on 06/30/2006 6:53:37 AM PDT by Liz
THE ISSUE: A comprehensive immigration plan that includes a guest-worker program. ("Base Desires," Dick Morris, PostOpinion, June 26).
**** No one with any common sense believes the Senate immigration bill would really be enforced. Rather, it would only begin another round of illegal entries into the country. Bloomfield, Conn.
**** Grass-roots conservatives, who worked hard to get President Bush re-elected........will not support a plan that includes amnesty. Lyles, Tenn.
**** The resultant population drain and strain on our social programs will surely reduce the United States to just another Euro-type weakling.........enforce existing laws that heavily fine employers of illegal immigrants. Then, restrict social welfare programs to citizens. This is not rocket science. Scarsdale
**** Americans feel they (not illegals) are the disenfranchised. No matter what the majority wants, politicians do what they please. Wilmington, N.C.
****....too much Clinton-ese has rubbed off on (Dick Morris). Lawrence Township, N.J.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Amen.
EPA enforcement got a big boost in the 80's when a few CEO's were jailed for polluting. Worth a try.
The Administration is also not meeting targets for the Border Patrol although this piece is concerned with the promised 6,000 National Guardsmen. From Polipundit:
It Depends On The Definition of 6,000
The Administration plan on May 15:
Bushfs plan for stemming illegal immigration by using National Guardsmen in a support role called for 2,500 troops to be on the border by June 30, and 6,000 by the end of July.
LTG Steven Blum, Chief National Guard Bureau on June 1, 2006:
We kick off tomorrow morning. Wefll have 2,500 troops on the ground by the end of June and wefll have 6,000 there by 60 days later.
Yesterday, the best laid plans of mice and men:
The Bush administration has been unable to muster even half of the 2,500 National Guardsmen it planned to have on the Mexican border by the end of June.
As of Thursday, the next-to-last day of the month, fewer than 1,000 troops were in place, according to military officials in the four border states of Texas, California, New Mexico and Arizona.
President Bushfs plan called for all 50 states to send troops. But only 10 states _ including the four border states _ have signed commitments.
Some state officials have argued that they cannot free up Guardsmen because of flooding in the East, wildfires in the West or the prospect of hurricanes in the South.
gItfs not a combat priority. It is a volunteer mission,h said Kristine Munn, spokeswoman for the National Guard Bureau, an arm of the Pentagon, gso itfs a question of balancing the needs of the Border Patrol with the needs of 54 states and territories, and all those balls roll in different directions.h
What are they calling it now?
gWe now anticipate major waves in our deployment. There wonft always be 6,000. That will be the maximum,h Munn said.
There has been a lot of polling on sending g6,000 National Guard Troopsh to the border. I wonder how the polling would fair if you substitute g6,000 with gthere wonft always be 6,000, that will be the maximum?h
If there will not galways be 6,000 and that is ga maximum,h will there ever be 6,000?
Unless something changes fast, there is very little interest amongst the Governors and State Adjutant Generals to participate in this scheme. Yes, it is being referred to as gthe schemeh among those in the planning community. Well, there are some other phrases but cc
I wonder if Congressional Republicans are paying attention? If not, they do so at their own peril. The democrat attack ads will be blistering.
Bush did what he felt he had to do to get the ball rolling. Even at tht he had the senate leaders to the White House cracking heads to keep it moving. Now the whole issue is moving to the right. Frankly, I think the sauage facory is open for business, but I don't think it will give us Mexican sausage, in the end.
NY Times | 6/7/2005 | EDUARDO PORTER
Gerardo Luviano is looking for somebody to rent his Social Security number. Mr. Luviano, 39, obtained legal residence in the United States almost 20 years ago. But these days, back in Mexico....he is looking for an illegal immigrant in the United States to use it for him - providing a little cash along the way. "My brother in California has a friend who has crops and has people that need one."
Mr. Luviano's pending transaction is merely a blip in a shadowy yet vibrant underground market....undetected by American authorities, operating below the radar in immigrant communities from coast to coast, a secondary trade in identities has emerged straddling both sides of the Mexico-United States border.
Illegal immigrant workers usually earn so little they are owed an income tax refund...........The illegal immigrant "working the number" will usually pay the real owner by sharing the tax refund. Since legal American residents can lose their green cards if they stay outside the country too long, it is useful to have somebody working under their identity north of the border.
"Sometimes the one who is working doesn't mind giving all the refund, he just wants to work," said Fernando Rosales, who runs a shop preparing income taxes in the immigrant-rich enclave of Huntington Park, Calif.
The income tax "refund" is almost certainly generated by Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) fraud, which as a "legal resident" the number renter would qualify to receive, especially if they have have or claim children. The EITC is a "refundable tax credit, which means the IRS will pay it out even if no taxes have been withheld or paid in. So the IRS gives filers who claim the EITC "refunds," even if they have had no taxes withheld.
These number renters can claim up to $4,400 for the 2005 tax year in EITC "refunds," most of the number renters probably claim this maximum refund. The Additional Child Tax Credit is another "refundable" credit which is no doubt routinely claimed by these renters.
For 2005, if the number renter claimed $14,400 in wage income, and three children, between the EITC and the Additional Child Tax Credit the renter would, without having any taxes withheld from wages, receive a tax "refund" of $4,898, plus have $892 credited to Social Security; in addition to the potential of thousands of dollars in California unemployment compensation.
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In some cases, companies are required to secure bonding to obtain work contracts. Now if a company is required to be bonded and has hired illegals using phony documentation, the employer probably violated bonding requirements. That would subject them to fines and crmninal penalties.
We might also notify the SEC in cases where we suspect employers at publicly-held companies colluded in schemes that may have included misusing corporate reserve accounts, concealing losses, inflating asset values and improperly accounting for transactions, as well as deferring profits into reserve accounts, improperly shifting capital funding to other projects, in order to hide payments to illegal aliens.
EMAIL enforcement@SEC.gov
The IRS, of course, should also be notified.
REPORT TAX FRAUD TOLL FREE: 1-800-829-0433
Just think how much money and TIME we would save just by having English the only language on a ballot..or a government form..or a voice mail..etc....we would save billions in signage alone
Schumer doesn't care. He has a fat salary, and an even fatter pension. Illegals can't hurt him.
FREEPER ACTIVISM
NOTIFY ICE ANONYMOUSLY----PHONE 1-866-347-2423
WEB SITE http://www.ice.gov/graphics/about/index.htm
1 Turn in employers hiring illegals;
2 Turn in any unlicensed illegals to state licensing boards;
3 Take pictures of loitering illegals and turn in the pics with address to ICE;
4 Turn in to the DMV license plates of any suspect driving illegally;
5 Complain loudly that illegals are given a pass when violating traffic laws and getting licensed with fraudulent documents;
6 Notify the IRS that illegals are not paying taxes. REPORT TAX FRAUD: 1-800-829-0433
7 Notify your Reps that that you don't want tax dollars supporting illegals.
8 HERE'S WHERE TO ANONYMOUSLY TURN IN AN EMPLOYER YOU SUSPECT IS HIRING ILLEGALS.
PHONE 1-866-347-2423
WEB SITE http://www.ice.gov/graphics/about/index.htm
THAT makes me sick.
ALL my relatives immigrated here the LEGAL way. Learned the language etc.. There is no SANE reason for what is going on today.
Schumer represents NY's ding-a-ling voters----these know-nothings kneel in obeisance to anything with hyphen attached to its name.
Hyphenates look to the US government to subsidize their assorted self-esteem problems.
Government money is the only therapy that helps mitigate their feelings of inadequacy.
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