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“It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.”
– Barbara Jordan

Construction Unions Urging Baltimore County to Mandate E-Verify
Tuesday, February 2, 2010,
NumbersUSA

After receiving numerous complaints from trade unions, Baltimore County Council Members have unanimously passed a resolution urging County Executive James Smith to enact an E-Verify mandate for companies that receive county contracts. Unions claim that contractors who hire illegal aliens are winning contracts with lower bids.

“We know illegals are working around the area,” he told the Baltimore Sun. “No one is opposed to people who are legally in the country having opportunities to go to work. But, when you are illegally here and a contractor knowingly hires you, you are taking a job away from a law-abiding citizen, who lives here. Both the employer and illegal employee are committing a crime and should be punished.”

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Obama Proposes to Cut 180 Border Patrol Agents
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
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Pres. Barack Obama’s newly proposed 2011 budget would reduce the number of Border Patrol agents along the Southwest border and cut the funding for the “virtual fence.” Homeland Security plans to cut the jobs through attrition, and it would result in increased pay for the remaining agents.

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10th Circuit Upholds Oklahoma’s E-Verify Mandate for State Contractors
Tuesday, February 2, 2010,

NumbersUSA

The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld Oklahoma’s authority to enforce a law that requires public contractors to participate in the federal E-Verify program. The majority on the Court’s three-judge panel decided a lower court had erred in its determination that the law’s E-Verify provision was preempted…

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Zogby has uncovered some really incredible news about the nation’s business owners and executives . . . .

They oppose amnesty and more foreign labor importation by just about as big a margin as the rest of us!

We need to make sure that our Members of Congress and state legislatures know about this.

I need you to please send a bunch of faxes to your elected officials immediately to make sure they understand that all the business lobbyists in their offices don’t speak for most business people.

Believe me, every one of these federal and state office-holders has felt the pressure of business lobbyists telling them that more and more foreign workers are necessary to keep business humming — and that they should take it easy on illegal aliens because they are also needed by business.

But this new poll finds that only a small percentage of business owners and executives agree with the lobbyists.

TOP BUSINESS OFFICIALS AGREE WITH US

Given the choice between neutrally worded options, this is how top executives of businesses answered about the best way to deal with the 12 million illegal aliens in the country:

59% said to increase enforcement at the workplace and elsewhere to cause the illegal aliens to go home over time.
30% agreed with business lobbyists that the best solution is to legalize the illegal workers and put them on a path to citizenship.
These are the people who are the president, the vice president, CEO, COO, CPO, CFO and Treasurer of corporations!

They agree with us that the illegal aliens should be pushed from their jobs so that millions of unemployed Americans can have them.

Who knew?

For 30 years, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other national lobbying organizations have made a lot of Americans hate business because they have been the primary reason annual immigration numbers have quadrupled and illegal immigration has grown out of control.

How nice to find out that most business executives are far more patriotic, commuity minded and concerned about the effect of immigration on regular working Americans.

SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS AGREE WITH US EVEN MORE

Their answer to the choice was:

67% said to increase enforcement at the workplace and elsewhere to cause the illegal aliens to go home over time.
22% agreed with business lobbyists that the best solution is to legalize the illegal workers and put them on a path to citizenship.
The one national business group that has stood with Americans and represented its own constituents has been the NFIB (National Association of Independent Business).

Unlike most other business lobbying groups, the NFIB will only lobby if an overwhelming majority of its members agree. For years, it has polled its members on immigration and found pretty much what Zogy just found.

Because of that, NFIB has never lobbied for amnesty or more foreign workers. And it has been an endorser of Rep. Heath Shuler’s (D-N.C.) SAVE Act to force all businesses to use E-Verify to keep illegal aliens from getting jobs.

The Zogby poll, though, shows that all Chambers of Commerce (local, state and national) should be working with us to pass SAVE and to reduce overall immigration — if they are representing the majority of their members.

UNION HOUSEHOLDS THINK LIKE BUSINESS EXECUTIVES ON IMMIGRATION — THEY WANT LESS OF IT

Starting a decade ago, national union leaders stopped protecting American workers from the wage depression and job loss of high immigration and began lobbying for amnesties alongside the Chamber of Commerce.

But we have always known that American union households have not agreed with the switch.

Zogby found that likely voters in union households gave this response to the choice about what to do with 12 million illegal aliens:

58% said to increase enforcement at the workplace and elsewhere to cause the illegal aliens to go home over time (compared to 59% for business executives).
28% agreed with business lobbyists that the best solution is to legalize the illegal workers and put them on a path to citizenship (compared to 30% for business executives).
By the way, the poll of ALL likely voters in America found them favoring enforcement over amnesty by 61% to 26%.

Friends, the business and union lobbyists have incredible influence as they walk the halls of your state Capitol and of the U.S. Capitol here in Washington.

It is up to you to help your elected officials understand that those lobbyists don’t have troops behind them . . . but you do.

ROY BECK is Founder & CEO of NumbersUSA

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The Hill — Washington

Obama budget includes funds to help states jail illegal immigrants

After proposing last year to cut it entirely, President Barack Obama in his budget on Monday said he would provide $330 million for a federal subsidy that helps states jail illegal [aliens]. — The State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) provides a partial subsidy to help states and local communities incarcerate illegal aliens who have committed crimes…

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NumbersUSA

Postville Plant to Hire 150 More Workers
Monday, February 1, 2010
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Postville Plant

The poultry plant in Postville, Iowa which was home to one of the nation’s largest immigration worksite enforcement actions in history is preparing to hire 150 new workers. In May of 2008, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials arrested close to 400 illegal workers. Read Full Story

The below reposted here with permission. We thank the Southern Political Report for the space and the permission.

Southern Political Report

Commentary: Granting amnesty isn’t ‘pro-immigration policy’
D.A. King

February 1, 2010 —

(This opinion piece is in response to the two-part analysis by Southern Political Report feature columnist John A. Tures, who examined the phenomenon of Hispanic voter behavior in the recent US Senate race in Massachusetts. (“Did Hispanics catapult Brown to Massachusetts Senate win?, Jan. 28 (HERE); and “Are Hispanics more conservative than we thought?, Feb. 1 (HERE).)

Professor Tures certainly has a point when he warns Democrats and Republicans alike to not make assumptions and generalizations regarding the Hispanic vote. It is good advice.

But in the process of “myth-busting” he has advanced several myths that may mislead some Americans – including Hispanics.

Contrary to endless news and commentary references, including an implication in Tures’ two-part analysis, the terms “Hispanic” and “Latino” do not denote a race, but an ethnicity. Hispanic is not a separate category from white or black.

In fairness, it is difficult to remember this fact when militant Latino “civil rights” groups that push for a repeat of the “one time” amnesty for illegal aliens of 1986 constantly strive to associate their endeavor with the genuine civil rights struggle of black Americans to gain their full constitutional rights as citizens. It becomes perhaps even more difficult to recall this when many of those groups use the Spanish term “La Raza” in their name. As in “La Raza Unida Party” (“The United Race Party”), or “The National Council of La Raza” (“The National Council of The Race”) or …well, you see what I mean.

Most Americans, this one included, long for the promised day when we are merely “Americans” – no hyphen.

The myth regarding an imagined “anti-immigrant policy” endlessly promoted when immigration is discussed deserves some attention. Tures’ columns, focused as they were on the Hispanic vote in the recent Massachusetts Senate race between Scott Brown and Martha Coakley, provide an excellent example.

As the world knows, the more conservative candidate, Brown, defeated the liberal Democrat. Tures tells us a huge majority of the Hispanic vote went to Brown. Each candidate had vastly different platforms on how the United States should handle its immigration laws.

On this, Tures writes: “I know what you’re thinking…Coakley must have run some anti-immigrant policy, while Brown was soft on immigration. But Coakley was the one with the pro-immigration policy. ‘“Immigration policy needs to be resolved on a federal level, and the nation’s estimated 12 million illegal immigrants need ‘a path to citizenship,’ Attorney General Martha Coakley said.”

Tures goes on to tell the reader that Brown, on his website, said, “I welcome legal immigration to this country. However, we are also a nation of laws and government should not adopt policies that encourage illegal immigration. I oppose amnesty, and I believe we ought to strengthen our border enforcement and institute an employment verification system with penalties for companies that hire illegal immigrants.”

The clear implication here is that because Coakley favors a repeat of the 1986 legalization scheme and another citizenship path for people who were able to escape capture while sneaking into our republic, she is “pro-immigration.” Anyone, like now Sen. Scott Brown, who advocates for actual application of the immigration laws, is somehow “anti-immigrant” or “anti-immigration.”

Not only is this absurd newspeak, it is the ultimate immigrant bashing. The rich tradition of immigration into our nation has been regulated for years. And with good reason: Without regulation and border security, many of the billions of people on planet Earth would migrate here faster than you can say, “I am a victim of geography looking for a better life, where is my entitlement program?”

The term “immigrant” should always describe someone who plays by the rules and joins the American family lawfully. The millions of immigrants who have waited in the line and obeyed the rules deserve better than to be used as pawns, and intentionally compared to the illegal aliens who scoff at the American borders and laws from which they do not directly benefit.

Myth busting 101: Granting amnesty again – rewarding the crime of illegal immigration – is not “pro-immigration.” It is clearly anti-enforcement. Refusing to consider rewarding illegal border crossers with citizenship is not a program of “demonizing Hispanics.” Just ask the millions of Americans who happen to be Hispanic who also support enforcement of American immigration laws.

The United States of America takes in more legal immigrants than any nation on the planet. We have nothing to apologize for when it comes to immigration. To preserve the integrity of the term “immigrant” and “citizen” we must end illegal immigration and discard forever the agenda of amnesty for illegal immigrants.

For both parties, one myth that should be dispelled with the lesson from Massachusetts is that mainstream American voters, Hispanics included, don’t support open borders, another amnesty or a liberal big-government agenda.

In any language.

King is a nationally recognized authority on illegal immigration and president of the Georgia-based Dustin Inman Society, which advocates for enforcement of immigration laws. On the Web: http://www.TheDustinInmanSociety.org. .

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Stewart J. Lawrence — Hürriyet

Will comprehensive immigration reform pass in 2010?

One of the big questions emerging in the aftermath of last Tuesday’s Democratic election disaster in Massachusetts is whether the Obama administration will push forward with the rest of its legislative policy agenda. While “cap-and-trade” climate legislation appears to have gone by the boards, at least one other important Obama initiative…

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