Posted on 05/15/2003 5:54:04 PM PDT by CIBvet
A new Roper poll shows that 3 out of 4 Americans oppose allowing financial corporations to open bank accounts in the United States for foreign nationals illegally in the country. Nevertheless, Bush Administration officials, like U.S. Treasurer Rosario Marin, are coordinating efforts between the Mexican government and the U.S. banking industry to step up the practice.
Ms. Marin, who "entered" the United States from Mexico when she was a teenager, recently returned from a trip to Mexico City where she met with Mexican officials to negotiate policies favorable to Mexicans. As reported in the San Francisco Chronicle, Marin was attempting to "drum up support for a Partnership for Prosperity program meant to tear down logistical and financial barriers that make it difficult for Mexicans working in the United States to send money home."
Critics say this is just another example of the Bush Administration's support for illegal immigration, but note that the Treasury Department, under Ms. Marin, has been particularly aggressive in encouraging illegal aliens to remain in the United States.
Recently, for example, the Treasury granted $1.3 million to an ethnically focused financial institution in North Carolina to help it open more branches. According to the Wall Street Journal, the business openly caters to illegal aliens and provides them banking services.
Treasury officials have begun trying to sell the effort to help illegal aliens send money out of the country as "pro-security," arguing that the law enforcement community can better track illegal alien money if it's in a bank.
However, the effort is not backed by Homeland Security; it is backed by banks, which have a clear profit motive, and by the Mexican government, which seeks an incremental amnesty for illegal aliens in the United States.
The Bush Administration should rebuff the big corporations and Mexico. The American government has a duty to enforce American laws, rather than encourage foreign nationals to break them.
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Americans Favor Tough Approach to Illegal Immigration (Roper Poll)
http://projectusa.org/Ezine/03-01-03-06.html#030515
North Carolina credit union banks on immigrants (Wall Street Journal)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/05/09/financial1021EDT0047.DTL
U.S. treasurer says free flow of remittances can stimulate economies in Mexico's poor areas
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/05/09/international1801EDT6288.DTL
+== TAKE POSITIVE ACTION ==+
The first border death of the approaching summer season has now been reported, and, if this year is like previous ones, we can expect hundreds more of these tragedies before autumn.
Those who provide the magnets in the United States that lure illegal aliens across our dangerous borders carry some responsibility for the deaths. The Bush Administration, for example, rather than implement a firm and humane interior enforcement policy, which would largely end the border deaths, continues to put ethnic politics and corporate profiteering above the law and the will of the American people.
While the White House might get some political mileage out of allowing Rosario Marin, who, the White House often notes, is the "highest serving Latina" in the administration, to serve as U.S. Treasurer, selfish political advantages cannot take precedent over the public good. With three-quarters of all Americans opposing bank accounts for illegal aliens, the White House must reign in the Treasury Department no matter how ethnically dedicated Ms. Marin is to "her people," and no matter how much money banking corporations are making off illegal alien bank accounts.
Please call the White House comment line and say, "I am very disappointed by the Bush Administration's continued support for illegal immigration. Please tell George Bush I want the Treasury Department to stop pushing for bank accounts for illegal aliens."
White House comment line (9-5 EST, M-F) 202-456-1111
(This is important. If you can, please call several times this week.)
+== QUOTE OF THE WEEK ==+
"Form follows profit" is the aesthetic principle of our times.
Richard Rogers
+== EMAIL OF THE WEEK ==+
I wanted to let you know that I have taken your suggestion to call the White House comment line twice this week. Both operators told me that they are familiar with the issue (and agreed with our stance!) and seemed encouraged about my call.
Thank you,
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I'd like to know if there is ANY state that has not been invaded.
Americans get biometrics, face scanning, and national ID cards.
What the hell is wrong with this picture?
Succinctly Put. That's the Picture.
I keep waiting for the citizenry of America to rise up and say, "enough is enough". To my surprise they haven't--at least in numbers that politicians can't ignore. What will it take? The Frog in a Pot of Water with slowly rising temperatures remains the best analogy to describe what is happening. When the Sheeple wake up it will be too late.
No, every state has been affected to some degree, and the lawlessness will only escalate,
Any idea who it was and what was said that was judged as being so out of line or offensive?
I was surprised how long our convs lasted (at least 3mins) but I hung up feeling that she really did listen and was even concerned herself. So PLEASE ... PLEASE, EVERYONE ... call the number listed above and if nothing else, use some of the verbage offered in the article to register your complaint which I believe does get forwarded to the Bush Administration's Treasury Dept.
We must understand ... Presidente Jorge will be just as resolute in pushing his Illegal Amnesty agenda as he proved he can be while taking on the the Terrorists (post 9-11), the U.N. and Saddam.
But we MUST let him know clearly, he is now fighting the will of the vast majority of Americans on all sides of the political spectrum, who want the INVASION of ILLEGALS to CEASE ... NOW ... and our Borders RESPONSIBLY protected.
IT'S HIS DAMN JOB under the United States Constitution.
SERVE the will of the People (his legal constituency) or take a hike in '04.
I promise you I'll find someone to vote for who cares enough about America to save it, and the RINO's will be back out on the street again.
Please forward this action alert to likeminded friend, co-workers, and neigbors. The more calls and faxes we can generate the better are chances are of defeating this pro-illegal immigration bill!
Call and Fax Your Elected Officials
Today Through Monday, May 19th.
FAIR - Legislative Alerts and Updates
We have learned from inside sources that the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) will hold a "Lobby Day" next Monday, May 19, to urge Congress to grant illegal alien students amnesty and access to in-state tuition benefits at state universities. Specifically, they will lobby in support of H.R. 1684, the Student Adjustment Act, introduced by Representative Chris Cannon (R-UT).
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The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is a national, non-profit, public- interest, membership organization of concerned citizens who share a common belief that the unforeseen mass immigration that has occurred over the last 30 years should be curtailed.
Then you can stop by numbersusa.com
to see all the new faxes for this week! Let's Roll!
Still wondering why the FR Thread Moderator removed what appeared to me to be a perfectly civil post ( #26) yesterday. It seemed to simply provide a list of phone/fax numbers and various related regulations from the Federal/State Agencies that are responsible for handling problems with Illegal Aliens here in our country.
Maybe I missed something, but that's all I caught with a quick glance on my way out the door. When I got back a couple hrs later it was yanked ????
Does anyone know who made the post ??? and if they are still around??? I'd sure like a copy of that info.
IMO we need to now move quickly from just venting our spleens here on FR, to pursueing LEGAL stratigies and techniques and activities within our local communities to expose the INVASION of Illegals issue before our local communities and apply max pressure on our Public Servants and Policy Makers.
As for those employers & laaw-yaz & poverty-pimps who are promoting/making $$$ off of this national cancer, we need to have their sorry a$$'s and deeds dragged out into the bright sunshine for ALL voters in '04 to see.
Chris Cannon is a disgrace to the republican party.
I told my next-door neighbor (UAA grad [Flight Instr] from Chile) that before he'll be satisfied with his life back in the homeland he truly loves, he may have to do what my forefathers had to do ... fight a damn revolution -- spend some blood.
But, I explained to him, he would undoubtedly feel better about himself personally if he "... bought guns and ammo up here where it's legal, then take them back down to his homeland and apply himself to whatever struggle is necessary in order to pry the heel of tyranny off the neck of the people he loves. But don't simply hang around up here in the USA and parasitically SUCK OFF OF US -- that will only complicate our own continuing struggle for freedom."
He heard me, but I doubt I changed his 25yr old Socialist-lovin' mind.
As American citizens we MUST become pro-active ... join together and work to identify the Illegals, then demand they be given a permanant one-way ticket back to the homeland where they belong.
And we especially need to identify the local employer/wage-busting profiteers, and their public sector counterparts, the 'Welfare/Poverty-Pimps' (at Catholic Social Services etc) who rake in the big $$$ administering govmnt programs, enjoying comfortable salaries & pensions while promoting programs supporting the Illegal Criminal Invaders.
We must expose every last one of them for what they are ... then see how well they enjoy living around town.
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