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— FOX 5 DC (@fox5dc) January 11, 2018

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Immigration quote:

“We will immediately terminate President Obama’s two illegal executive amnesties, in which he defied federal law and the constitution to give amnesty to approximately 5 million illegal immigrants” a campaign event in August 2016, promising to end DACA as well as Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents.

That speech echoed the promise Trump made when he launched his presidential campaign on June 16, 2015. “I will immediately terminate President Obama’s illegal executive order on immigration, immediately,” he said at that time.

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page 2 of the GSA October, 2017 newsletter

photo – FAIR

The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on United States Taxpayers 

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Cobb County courthouse under construction, 2010 photo oxblue.com

Below are letters published in the Marietta Daily Journal recently from voters who want the Cobb BOC and the city of Marietta to require county contractors to apply to become IMAGE certified.

I have not subscribed to the MDJ in more than a year. They have a paywall, so no links to original letters.

You can read about IMAGE certification here.

Cobb government needs to push for IMAGE certification

Dec 27, 2017
DEAR EDITOR:

The Republican-controlled Cobb County Commission split 3-2 in July to keep the current property tax rate but warned us that services may be cut as a result.

Now we see looming added fees for senior services, parks, libraries and zoning.

Taxpayers have helped the Braves build a stadium, but now we are short of money to provide services to our own citizens. Chairman Mike Boyce informs us that services cost money and “in order for us to keep them, we have to fund them.”

I hear that the county is facing a $30 million shortfall in the budget for 2019.

A simple question should be asked: How much of our tax money is going to fund vendors and contractors who are using illegal alien labor?

The state law requires E-Verify for contractors, but there is another federal program that the county itself is using that goes beyond the E-Verify program to seek out use of fake or stolen ID at the hiring process that can and does fool the E-Verify system. The federal IMAGE certification system is a surefire way to eventually insure that no contractor or vendor is using black market labor and takes a huge leap in reducing one of the most widespread criminal enterprises of our time: ID theft.

When Cobb County signed the agreement with federal authorities several years ago and became IMAGE certified, then Chairman Tim Lee boasted of the wisdom and benefits of the hiring records audit that allows the certification “the IMAGE agreement will help prevent possible terror attacks and protect employees against discrimination based on citizenship or national origin … Cobb County takes its responsibility very seriously to make sure that everything possibly that could be done is being done to make sure that our laws are being followed in our county and to make sure that there is an opportunity to equal employment for those who deserve it,” Opposing view? Commissioner Lisa Cupid regarded the idea as “racist.”

Apparently on orders from the Chamber of Commerce bosses, Lee changed his tune after that year’s primary election. He killed the push to require all of Cobb’s contractors to at least apply for the same IMAGE certification Cobb County has. Suddenly, a federal audit of Cobb’s contractor’s hiring records was out of the question.

IMAGE certification should be back on the list of logical steps for responsible government next year.

John Litland
Marietta

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January 11, 2018
Dear editor,

IMAGE is a no-cost tool | Letters to the Editor

IMAGE is a no-cost tool

DEAR EDITOR:
I was happy to read John Litland’s recent letter here concerning the Cobb Commissioners budget woes (“Cobb government needs to push for IMAGE certification,” MDJ, 12/28). Thanks for reminding us about the rejected attempt to require a no-cost tool to insure that our tax dollars are not going to illegal alien workers.

The federal IMAGE program is not widely known, but is easy to understand by going the federal IMAGE website. In 2012, immigration expert D.A. King worked to educate us on the system and to get an ordinance passed that said county contractors must apply to become “certified” as having followed all hiring laws and that none of their employees used fake or stolen ID to get a job. In short, the IMAGE system is very bad if you are an illegal alien worker or an employer who has hired illegals. It is very good for those of us who pay taxes.

The 2012 IMAGE effort was met with an avalanche of misrepresentations from the leaders who are more afraid of the business bosses than we the people. Cobb Commissioners Bob Ott and JoAnn Birrell were brave enough to sponsor the failed ordinance. They should be thanked. They should also have a do-over.

The hypocrisy involved in the fact that Cobb County and the city of Marietta have been IMAGE certified as employers but the board members, mayor and city council members have not had the collective courage to apply the same logic to taxpayer funded contractors speaks volumes. So does the ridiculous attempt label commonsense as “racism.”

A good way to think about all of this is to imagine a campaign speech from a Republican in which they boast of NOT using all available tools to stop illegal aliens from being paid with tax dollars. We appreciate the 2012 MDJ editorial in support of IMAGE and we hope to see the paper pick the side of the people again soon.

Bill Buckler
Kennesaw

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Cobb needs to get tougher on illegal immigration

10 hrs ago
DEAR EDITOR:

Thanks to John Litland for his recent letter on the need for Cobb government to push for IMAGE certification. I agree that all vendors doing business with Cobb County must be IMAGE certified and have been asking several members of the Cobb BoC to bring the program back up for a vote by the full board of commissioners. I understand that Commissioners Birrell and Ott support the program, but let’s get their position officially on the record, especially with the election coming up next year for two district commissioners.

The pushback to my request for IMAGE certification is that it maybe a burden on (small) businesses. Maybe so, but let’s look at the burden of illegal immigration on American citizens. Per the report, titled “The Fiscal Burden Of Illegal Immigration on U.S. Taxpayers,” the staggering total costs of illegal immigrants and their children outweighs the taxes paid to federal and state governments by a ratio of roughly 7 to 1, with costs at nearly $135 billion compared to tax revenues at nearly $19 billion. The nearly $135 billion paid out by federal and state and local taxpayers to cover the cost of 12.5 million illegal aliens and their 4.2 million citizen children amounts to approximately $8,075 per illegal alien and citizen child prior to taxes paid, or $6,940 per person after taxes are paid. On the federal level, medical ($17.14 billion) is by far the highest cost, with law enforcement coming second ($13.15 billion) and general government services ($8 billion) third. At the state and local level, education ($44.4 billion) was by far the largest expense, followed by general public services ($18.5 billion) and medical ($12.1 billion).

Also, per a recent Homeland Security Report, 94 percent of the confirmed aliens in the federal prison system were in the United States illegally.

Illegal immigration is not only a financial burden on Cobb taxpayers it’s also a public safety issue as the statistics above demonstrate, so I urge the BoC to immediately vote to require all vendors doing business with Cobb government be IMAGE certified.

Jim Astuto
east Cobb

Boris Antonio Calderon-Guardado photo: Fox Five

TAKOMA PARK, Md. – An undocumented immigrant arrested for allegedly breaking in, burglarizing and living in a Prince George’s County house while the tenants were away is accused of doing the same thing in Montgomery County.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) says the suspect, Boris Antonio Calderon-Guardado, is from El Salvador, and was arrested by border patrol in Texas in 2015. He bailed out from ICE custody and made his way to Maryland. Since then, he has been arrested again and again, but has posted bond even after an ICE detainer was issued.

“ICE says it issued a detainer, but in Prince George’s County, a detainer isn’t enough. The county requires a criminal warrant from ICE to hold a suspect past a release date. Guardado posted bond and was released.”

“ICE spokesman explained there is no mechanism for a fed judge or magistrate to issue a criminal arrest warrant for a civil violation of immigration laws. Maryland’s AG has advised jails they should not hold undoc immigrants past their release date unless ICE provides a warrant.” 

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Breitbart

Center for Immigration Studies

Dr. Steve Camarota

Non-Citizens Committed a Disproportionate Share of Federal Crimes, 2011-16
21% of those convicted of non-immigration crimes were non-citizens — 2.5 times their share of the population

By Steven A. Camarota on January 10, 2018
Many immigration advocates argue that immigrants have much lower crime rates than natives (see this op-ed and this paper). As my colleague Jessica Vaughan and I pointed in a paper some years ago, however, the picture is far from clear. While there are other issues, the biggest problem with studying immigrant crime is that states and localities do not systematically track the country of birth, citizenship, or legal status of those they arrest, convict, or incarcerate. But the federal government does track the citizenship of those it convicts. New data from the U.S. Sentencing Commission shows that of those convicted of federal crimes between 2011 and 2016, 44.2 percent were not U.S. citizens — 21.4 percent if immigration crimes are excluded. In comparison, non-citizens are 8.4 percent of the adult population. Of this 8.4 percent, about 4 percent are illegal immigrants and about 4 percent are legal immigrants.

The commission’s data does not distinguish legal status among non-citizens. It is almost certain that a majority of the non-citizens convicted of federal crimes are illegal immigrants. But we cannot say for sure because that information is not provided. What we can say, at least at the federal level, is that non-citizens are more likely to commit crimes than non-citizens.

A Very Important Caveat about These Numbers. Those convicted at the federal level are not necessarily representative of all criminal convictions in the United States. Most law enforcement occurs at the state and local level and it is not reasonable to simply extrapolate about immigrant criminality generally from the federal data. Nonetheless, federal law enforcement is still enormous, with 312,000 people (67,000 non-citizens) sentenced in the federal courts between 2011 and 2016, excluding immigration violations. And in the federal system, where we do have good data, non-citizens account for a disproportionate share of those who are sentenced for many different types of non-immigration crimes.

One Additional Caveat. Because it is easier to make an immigration case, federal prosecutors sometimes charge illegal immigrants only with immigration violations, even when they have committed serious non-immigration crimes. Once convicted, an immigrant will still normally serve some time and then be deported, which is often seen by prosecutors as good enough. This, of course, does not happen with citizens. But because of this, conviction data for non-immigration crimes will tend to understate the level of criminal activity among non-citizens.

Among the findings of the new data:

Areas where non-citizens account for a much larger share of convictions than their 8.4 percent share of the adult population include:

42.4 percent of kidnapping convictions;
31.5 percent of drug convictions;
22.9 percent of money laundering convictions;
13.4 percent of administration of justice offenses (e.g. witness tampering, obstruction, and contempt);
17.8 percent of economic crimes (e.g. larceny, embezzlement, and fraud);
13 percent of other convictions (e.g. bribery, civil rights, environmental, and prison offenses); and
12.8 percent of auto thefts.
Areas where non-citizens account for a share of convictions roughly equal to their share of the adult population include:

9.6 percent of assaults;
8.9 percent of homicides; and
7.5 percent of firearm crimes.
Areas where non-citizens account for a share of convictions lower than their share of the adult population include:

4.1 percent of sex crimes;
3.3 percent of robberies;
4.5 percent of arsons; and
0 percent of burglaries.
Data. These tables showing convictions were compiled by the Government Accountability Office at the request of the Senate Judicatory Committee based on data from the U.S. Sentencing Commission “Interactive Sourcebook of Federal Sentencing Statistics”. Convictions are in the federal courts for felonies and class A misdemeanors. Death penalty cases and petty offenses are not included. The non-citizen share of the overall adult population comes from the public-use data file of the 2011-2016 American Community Survey collected by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Topics: Criminal Aliens

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Photo: Slate.com

Four million Americans turn 18 each year and begin looking for good jobs in the free market.

But the federal government inflates the supply of new labor by annually accepting 1 million new legal immigrants, by providing work-permits to roughly 3 million resident foreigners, and by doing little to block the employment of roughly 8 million illegal immigrants.

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