Posted on 05/11/2011 6:45:33 PM PDT by WilliamHouston
In my previous article, I discussed the death of patriotic immigration reform in Florida at the hands of Sen. JD Alexander, Senate Budget Chief and Blueberry Emperor of the Polk County Farm Bureau.
I noted the strong opposition of the Florida Chamber of Commerce and Florida agribusiness to the E-Verify system. It hasn't escaped my attention that this is also what we saw happen in Georgia where E-Verify held up immigration reform down to the last few hours of the legislative session.
In Alabama, E-Verify is the major difference between the two competing visions of immigration reform that have cleared the Alabama House and Senate: the House bill requires E-Verify for all employers whereas the Senate bill requires E-Verify only for state contracts.
In Tennessee, E-Verify has also been a stumbling block to immigration reform. Earlier this year, Gov. Haslam promised the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce that any immigration bill that passed the state legislature would be friendly to business.
With less than a week to go in the 2011 legislative session, the Republican-controlled Tennessee Senate and House have squatted on immigration reform, with business Republicans blocking the advancement of three restrictionist bills with absurd arguments about their fiscal impact on the state budget.
Now that immigration reform has survived in Georgia and died in Florida, I will be turning my full attention to Alabama, Texas, South Carolina, Oklahoma, and Tennessee in weeks ahead.
Before moving on to the next battle in the immigration wars, I want to take another look back at what we just saw happen in Florida. . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at westernyouth.org ...
I just don’t understand the chamber of commerce logic of supporting illegal immigration. Business owners can just offer green cards to workers if they need foreigners so badly, but instead they prefer those who come here illegally?
I have made this exact point as well. Most of the jobs the illegals do, don't really need to get done, or can be done by citizens.
The ones here illegally work a lot more cheaply. If they were here legally, they could demand “full retail” wages.
We can’t get E-Verify passed (or even get a bill out of committee) here in Ohio through the GOP dominated state legislature because of the Chamber of Commerce and agri-business. It’s very frustrating.
My understanding is that they pulled the E-verify out of the GA legislation so it would pass. I don’t see how we can enforce it without e-verify. The illegals are all employed in agriculture, building trades and the chicken factories around here. Without e-verify its not enforceable.
Yep, E-Verify is the most important part of any state legislation aimed at illegal aliens.
Kid Welcome to FRee Republic
(and as PING to the locals)
Now as a REAL immigrant, I’ll clue you into some points you missed...
1. this fiasco has nothing to do with immigration
2. This is about law breakers who are not eligible to immigrate or think they dont need to..
3. this is about illegal aliens...
4. this is about foreigners with no ties, jurisdiction or loyalty or love of our sovereign country who burn our flag and insult us demanding that we support them without them ever earning it..
5. If an American citizen ever got the bennies that illegal aliens are given gratis, Ive never met him...
6. If another country ever looked the other way while tresspassing foreigners rioted in the streets, and were then rewarded instead of deported or jailed, Ive never been in that country...and Ive visited masny...
7. If an American citizen drove drunk, unlicensed and uninsured like the illegal aliens do he would be jailed while those illegal aliens go scot free
8. If an American citizen killed people on the roads and raped and murdered them in this country or abroad he would be jailed for a long time and probably exucuted but the illegasl aliens mostly dont get punished
9 American kids cant afford to got to college but illegal aliens get free tuition via our taxes etc (the taxes of those same poor American kids
10 the Constitution clearly sets out who is an American citizen but wehen illegal alien frmales just rolled over the bordser into our country their new vbaby is mysteriously an American citizen...no jurisdiction, interest, loyalty etc
Feel free to answer this post, kid...
I’ll help ya some more
Tennessee Nana
Naturalized American citizen since 1975
Entered the US correctly with all the right documents 1971
Ping!
Sure thing.
(1) There are 404,250 illegal aliens in Florida on EBT Cards.
(2) There are 904,107 legal immigrants in Florida on EBT Cards.
In other words, there are twice as many legal immigrants as illegals on EBT cards, even though legal immigrants use them at a lower rate.
The problem is immigration, period. Why on earth does Florida need over a million foreigners on EBT cards? Can you answer that question?
True,
If mammie is deported, who is going to raise our kids? Who is going to pick the cotton? YOU, LOL.
(1) There are 404,250 illegal aliens in Florida on EBT Cards.
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You dont see a problem with at least 404,250 illegal aliens in Florida ???
HELLO....
Anybody home ???
It makes you scratch your head, how can illegals get food stamps. I know they do, but how are they getting it? Somebody isn’t minding the store.
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