Contact: William Gheen, Americans for Legal Immigration (ALIPAC) \nWilliamG@alipac.us (866) 329-3999 \n\nThe controversial proposal to give illegal aliens taxpayer subsidized in-state tuition at American universities is included in the immigration "reform" bill that also contains the Guest Worker Amnesty proposals according to the Washington Times! \n\nNine states allow illegal aliens to receive the in-state tuition rates, but the law is under challenge in those states and most slipped the provision in with little or no public input. In states where public debate occurred, the measure failed in NC, FL, GA, and VA. In liberal Massachusetts the measure failed by a graphic 96-57 in the House.
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That bill also included the doubling of the H2-B foreign worker program. This program does the same as the illegal immigrants do,only at the TOP of the job level. It gives leadership,technical, blue-collar, office jobs, to foreign workers. Then they conveniently forget their Visa expired and just stay. There was a lot of "pork" in that bill that we were not aware of. American citizens should write, call and e-mail their congressmen and senators to let them know how we oppose amnesty in any form for the ILLEGALS in our country. They should be deported for the felony they have committed. Our border should be CLOSED! When congress resumes in two weeks they will see how much we want this issue taken care of in the right way "for American citizens". I for one will contact my congressman and I urge every American who is fed up with illegal immigrants sucking this country dry of the programs and assistance meant for the legal citizens to do the same. If the LEGAL immigrants who came here the proper way can't stand up for the country that welcomed them in then I think they should  pack up and go to their respective countries as well. I'm sick of Mexicans, Latinos, Hispanics, and any other people from south of the USA border who think they own a piece of our country.I once was welcoming to the LEGALS but now, I'm getting fed up with them, too!!!\n\nType into "search" the words "Senate"  or  "Congressman" to find your senator or congressman to e-mail or mail a letter.
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the only thing you herd them talk about is a guest worker visa. nothing more. i live in al. and i will not vote on it. and the other Americans here will not either. why do you think they (we) voted republican.
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You have two different sides, touting two very biased sources... the facts are that some do pay taxes... some do not... it's silly to compare it to the European immigration because America was accepting so many immigrants then, compared to the small number now... \nAnd just because something is a law, doesn't nescisarily make it a good law... that the law in that one city that ducks have to wear pants...\nWho is benifiting most, American employers who abuse the labor from immigrants... \nwho is being hurt, probably the taxpayers to some degree... but it's probably the least of America's problems when it comes to overspending... \nI would rather give it to the illegal immigrants than in tax cuts and grants to the oil companies... those guys are much bigger crooks than any immigrants, and they are doing it "legally"... hahaha
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I believe that Bush wants to offer blanket amnesty to all illegal aliens in the United States, as long as they submit to background checks and make their presence known in the country.  He calls this his "guest worker" policy, much like they have in Europe.  Foreign immigrants, he says, will fill the jobs that no one else will take.  Although this sounds racist and perhaps elitist, it is common practice in every part of the world, including Europe and Asia.  He doesn't want to kick anyone out, as I understand it.  It is one of the few Bush policies that I agree with.
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I wish I had an answer for you.  This is a sore subject with me.  You forgot to mention that not only are out schools overcrowded but they are also doing bi-lingual teaching which, if memory serves me correctly, is illegal in CA, and it hinders the learning process for the children who are english speaking only.  How do I know this?  Because my child went to a school where literally most of the teachers only taught in spanish and neglected the english only speaking students and my childs grades and learning abilities went into the toilet along with friends.  I quickly yanked my kid out of that particular school, went into another school district where  the non-english speaking children were taught in a different class for a certain amount of time during the school day so the other children were not distracted by the different language and they did not suffer in their studies.   Oh and let's not forget that it seems like all the stores now have all their signs posted in spanish first and english second, if we are lucky.\n\nOur country seems to do so much for the illegal aliens yet don't do jack crap for the citizens who were either born and raised here or who came to the country legally.\n\nLike I said, it is a sore subject with me so I guess it's time to get off my soapbox.\n\nps:  I highly doubt that California would be crippled economically if there were not illegal immigrant workers (illegal aliens).  The illegals don't pay taxes so the State already suffers.
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did you even read the article\n\nit said "Proposed in 2001, The Student Adjustment Act, (HR-1918) would permit any high-school student illegally in the U.S. but with five years of good moral conduct to qualify for college financial aid including Pell Grants." \n\nIt never said it was passed. Besides you still cant go to college without a social security# plus you have to be accepted to college and even if it did pass financial aid only covers at most 1/2 of your tuition. if they cant pay the other 1/2 then they dont go anywhere
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You don't need to feel about it either way because it is not true. There is a program that allows LEGAL residents to enter the military which can help speed up the path to citizenship. Fair enough deal, enter the country legally and perform such a service to the country and they should be citizens. What you are talking about is the newest rumor out there because of the immigration debate. Recently they found a girl who had bought fake identity papers in LA and joined the military. Apparently she did quite well in her job. She was found out because the person who's identity was stolen figured this out after 2 1/2 years through the social security office. They would always be found out that way with taxes and such especially in the military. But the do gooders and those with an agenda are saying that she shouldn't be prosecuted as she served in the military. Well it's the same with all of the rest of the issue. The key words are NOT LEGAL. No if's ands or buts.
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It is cheap to the employer because the taxpayers pay the benefits for the employer's employees.  That is why the employers are pushing the guest worker program.  The smallest part of the guest worker program allows limited potential legalization for some current illegals.  Most of the guest worker program is to provide a going forward cheap (to employers) work force to the tune of 185 million to 217 million poor immigrants over the next 20 years.  \n\nThis is intended to permanently drive down wages for the less skilled.  Meanwhile, the employers want to welcome the new immigrant's families so the schools and social services throughout the country will be overburdened.   (Did you know that it costs $18,000 per year to educate a single child in California?) As a result, education through the public schools will degrade even further, and upward mobility will be reduced.\n\nWe will become an upper crust of rich and a vast lower class of poor with perpetually reduced wages and educational options.\n\nWait a second, isn't that what the illegals broke into our country to avoid?\n\nTell your Congressmen that having no bill is better than the Senate Bill. Make them go back and come up with something sensible.
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An interesting assignment. I would be interested in seeing how that goes...\n\nI'm a Republican, and there's really not allot that stumps me. However, I WOULD ask for proof that a guest-worker bill is NOT amnesty by another name.
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This is what I'm saying. I cannot believe that our legislators are allowing these people to bully them! And the immigrants themselves,(not all, of course, but many i encounter) are angry at U.S. citizens for wanting stricter laws enforced on immigration. Do these people not realize how much we pay for when they immigrate illegally? And i don't just mean monetarily either. sheesh!
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http://www.alipac.us/article-1242-thread-1-0.html\n\nThe US Senate could go to a vote any day or hour now on S. 2611 which \ncontains amnesty for both illegal aliens currently in the US and for \nemployers that have broken the law hiring them.\n\n\n\nSenator Sessions says S. 2611 to bring 217.1 million new immigrants in 20 years    http://www.alipac.us/article1223.html\n\n\n\n\n\nGOOD NEWS\n\n1.  This bill is so full of amendments now that neither side really \nlikes it increasing the chances it will fail.  If it does pass, the \npoliticians that voted for it will face even more opposition from the voters \nfrom both sides of the issue!\n\n2.  If they pass S. 2611 the fight is not over yet so do not get \ndiscouraged.  It still has to pass our House lawmakers.  Also, there are \nbenefits from a Senate vote that passes this amnesty bill.  On one hand, it \nwill allow us to determine exactly who we need to target for removal in \nthe elections.  On the other hand, passage of S. 2611 will INCREASE THE \nELECTORAL BACKLASH on this issue.\n\n3.  Even if the Guest Worker amnesty program is passed into law, it \ncontains a fatal flaw.  It does not grant instant amnesty.  This will \nallow time for the majority of American citizens to assert their influence \nover the lawmaking process through the elections.  If signed into law \nby George Bush, we will immediately announce our intent to seize \npolitical control of the program, remove any citizenship plans, and use it as \nan effective targeted deportation tool for illegal aliens that do not \nreturn to their home nations on their own volition.
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If I'm not mistaken, at least one state (I think it is Arizona) has already taken action to "compensate" its citizens by legally refusing to forward income tax deduction monies to the Federal government, instead, putting those monies back into the state coffers to compensate for all the additional expenses incurred by illegal aliens. While this is not literally a monetary compensation to any given individual, it IS at least a small step in the right direction, towards letting the Federal government get the message that states under seige are no longer willing to tolerate unstopped abuses of social systems by illegals. \n\nWhile I think your idea of Americans receiving actual monetary compensation from the Federal government in the form of a check may get a few folks to whoop and holler, in reality, it will never happen, and you know that. What really needs to happen is, we as a country have to put pressure on our LOCAL governments (county commisioners, etc.) to adopt and implement laws such as those in Hazelton, PA., whereby it becomes illegal for employers and landlords to do business with anyone, from anywhere, who is here illegally. Once these two entities realize that it is not worth the fines and possible jail time, and stop making it so easy for illegals to be here without impunity (because we all know that the Feds aren't doing anything to stop them), then, and only then, will we see a nationwide reduction in these problems. In towns where these laws have been inacted, even in a short period of time they are reporting dramatic decreases in things like violent crimes and abuses of their social programs. Illegals are forced to move around as more towns stand up and say, "NOT IN MY BACKYARD!". Eventually, if enough towns show some backbone, and enact similar restrictions, there won't be very many places left to hide.\n\nWe as a people also need to lean on our recently elected officials in Congress, via phone, emails, and letters, to push for more funding for agencies like Border Patrol and ICE. I have personally reported several businesses in my area that blatantly hire illegals, and have been told by ICE, in effect, not to hold my breath for action on my complaint report, because they do not have enough field agents to handle their already overwhelming case loads. Even when large groups of illegals are evident - as in my county's main courthouse, for example, on any given day - ICE does not have the resources needed to show up with a van and agents to do the job....and the local law enforcement (cops, court bailiffs) have to basically look the other way (which they HATE), as there are no laws in place that would give them the authority to ask a single one of these non-English speaking, undocumented defendents for any proof of legal status. I recently saw an ad in my county's newspaper, advertising for Court Translators (English-Spanish), for $65 an hour. $65 AN HOUR!!!! And who is paying those salaries? Take a wild guess. Yup - it's you and me, me maties (pirate talk seems appropriate, as we are being raped and pillaged).\n\nThere are sound, sane, do-able things we as concerned citizens can do. Expecting the Federal government to send us all checks is not one of them.
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You are right and anyone can go to this website to sign a petition to encourage our senators and congressmen to vote against the amnesty, guest worker bill.\n\nwww.stoptheftaa.org/petition\n\nAnd to find out more about D.A. the man on the phone in the above answer by just*a*girl  you can go to this website: \n\nwww.THEAMERICANRESISTANCE.com\n\nbabyxfire -(BELOW) When people enter the USA without going through the proper procedures they are committing a FELONY. It is a FEDERAL LAW. People from other countries are not coming into the USA in such record numbers and DEMANDING rights. They don't HAVE rights, they are not CITIZENS. To give those illegal immigrants amnesty would be WRONG! WE as CITIZENS don't get away with breaking FEDERAL LAWS why should a NON citizen? They should be DEPORTED. Plain and simple.
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Impact of amnesty proposals on Illegal Alien numbers \nhttp://www.theamericanresistance.com/ref/illegal_alien_numbers.html#howManyIl...\n\nOn January 9, 2004, President Bush proposed a guest worker program - a thinly veiled amnesty for illegal aliens. \nA February 29, 2004, Fox News article subsequently stated that from 50 percent to 90 percent of illegal aliens apprehended claimed they were coming here for the "amnesty" (their words). One Border Patrol officer stated that "They believe that they are only responding to an invitation." \nShortly thereafter, the Border Patrol was ordered not to collect this information. \n\nWord of the amnesty had spread far beyond Mexico. \nApprehensions included Nicaraguans, Brazilians, Venezuelans, Ecuadorians, Chileans, Chinese, Pakistanis, and East Indians. \n\nBy June, 2004, U.S. Border Patrol official statistics revealed that there had been 135,468 apprehensions along the southwest border during April 2004,  an 80 percent increase when compared to April 2003. A May 23, 2004, New York Times article stated that after a 4-year drop,  apprehensions were are up 30 percent over 2003 apprehensions along the entire southern border,  with 660,000 people detained from October 1, 2003 through the end of April, 2004. \n Representative Kolbe testified that 155,000 people had been apprehended along the Arizona border in the first three months of 2004. \n\nAlthough correlation does not necessarily imply causation, it seems reasonable to presume a relatively modest 25 percent increase in illegal aliens starting January 15, 2004,  through the rest of the year as a result of the "guest worker" proposal.  This 25 percent is a conservative estimate of the increased flow of illegal aliens into the U.S. as a result of President Bush's amnesty proposal. In fact, official Border Patrol apprehension statistics show that total 2004 apprehensions as of June 30, 2004  represent  A 190 PERCENT INCREASE  over total 2003 apprehensions.\n\n\nShort Answer: Granting Amnesty Will Only Result In An EXPONENTIAL INCREASE To The Problem We Have\nWe Should Drop This Addiction COLD TURKEY
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Didn't they have HISTORY class where you went to school??!  I might remind you then, that our country technically is FOUNDED on immigration....if anyone deserves a free ride - it's the Native Americans from whom we stole their land!  I think the point is that they want the immigrants to actually get educated so we don't have just illegal immigrant bums wreaking havoc on the nation....seems logical anyway.
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Too sad.... and the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) is quite proud of the fact that they have netted both legal and illegal aliens more than $800 million in food stamps, plus 12 billion in Supplemental Security Income.  How about stopping all this nonsense....what the heck is a wall going to do if it's clearly so rewarding to be here?\n\nFurther to whom it may concern- I realize some of you pro-illegals are quite unfamiliar with actual research and watching the news, but Americans for Legal Immigration is a PAC-or Political Action Committee. Meaning they are heavily involved in politics and quite well-known. Perhaps if you'd picked up a government textbook once in awhile, you'd know that.
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I've seen those facts before, attributed to the Los Angeles Times.\n\nThe fact is that illegal immigrants concentrate, not only in states, but in specific localities.  That is enough to significantly impact statistics for that locality, be it a state or a county.\n\nThe impact is huge, but it is mostly for state and local costs, which the federal government refuses to reimburse while refusing to allocate (federal) funding enforce laws that might prevent this from occurring.\n\nContact your Congressmen. Don't forget to say that the 10 year 'rolling amnesty' through the 'statute of limitations' provision in the Senate bill has got to go.  They are ignoring the elephant in the bedroom.