Brewer receives many letters of praise
Gov. Jan Brewer’s illegal-immigrant order draws many letters
In the days after Gov. Jan Brewer ordered state agencies to deny certain undocumented immigrants driver’s licenses and state benefits, her office received nearly 2,350 letters, e-mails, faxes and phone calls from people across the nation.
The overwhelming majority lauded the governor, according to her office.
On Aug. 15, Brewer reiterated through an executive order that state agencies must deny licenses and other public benefits to all undocumented immigrants, even those who successfully apply for President Barack Obama’s new “deferred action” program. The program allows qualifying illegal immigrants to stay and work temporarily in the United States.
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Illegals to Receive over $7 Billion in Tax Credits
Posted on August 24, 2012 by Conservative Byte
A loophole in the US tax code, whose revision Harry Reid deliberately prevented, resulted in over $4 billion going to illegal immigrants in one year. That number is poised to top $7 billion this year, based on analysis from the office of Senator Jeff Sessions.
Sen. Jeff Sessions’ office calculated that, based on recent trends, illegal immigrants could receive roughly $7.4 billion through a provision known as the Additional Child Tax Credit. That’s more than quadruple what the payout was four years ago, but the payments have been steadily increasing over the past decade.
Although illegal immigrants cannot receive basic tax credits, they do qualify for the child tax credit, a refundable credit, under current law. Lacking a Social Security number, they are given an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number to file returns.
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Checkpoints deter illegal immigrants seeking abortions in Texas
Noncitizens accounted for 27 percent of the 220,899 Medicaid-financed births in Texas in 2010
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Border Cities Are Burdened With Calls for Help
CALEXICO, Calif. — The calls come in thick and fast from the border, just blocks from the fire station here.
A woman suffered heatstroke in line at the port of entry. A person detained by customs officers complained of chest pain. An illegal immigrant broke his leg trying to hop the 20-foot wall that divides Calexico from its Mexican twin city, Mexicali.
In each case, the Calexico Fire Department responded.
All along the Southwest border, from San Diego to Brownsville, Tex., local fire departments respond to medical calls as they would to any emergencies within their city limits. But such calls for medical assistance at the border have become a growing burden on the finances and resources of fire departments in cities like this one, in the California desert 100 miles east of San Diego.
Last year, with trips to the port of entry and the Border Patrol station and others to assist injured fence-jumpers, Calexico firefighters responded to 725 calls associated with the border — a fifth of all calls the department received.
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The Homeland Security Department maintains fingerprints of every foreigner who enters the country to help prevent fraud, but 825,000 of those records appear to be associated with multiple individuals, according to internal investigators. The sheer number of discrepancies raises questions about how many immigrants intentionally are faking their identities to evade authorities versus falling victim to poor typing.
Frank Deffer, a DHS assistant inspector general, noted some of the mismatches in the department’s fingerprint database were tied to individuals with rap sheets. The identification tool is the responsibility of the US-VISIT immigration program.
“Although most of the inconsistencies can be attributable to data input issues, US-VISIT is unable to quantify the extent to which the same individuals provided different biographical data to circumvent controls and enter the United States improperly,” he wrote in a report released this week. “Without this information, US-VISIT may be hindered in its ability to share information that could help border enforcement agencies prevent improper entries into the United States.”
Investigators discovered hundreds of thousands of situations where one set of prints corresponded to multiple names and birth dates. The database holds hundreds of millions of fingerprint records; the irregularities represent only 0.2 percent of individuals logged.
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“60 Minutes” Report Shows American Families Hiding in the Shadows
For many years the advocates for open borders and unfettered immigration (those whom I have come to refer to as “Immigration Anarchists”) have done everything they could to foster an image about how illegal aliens are suffering and hiding in the shadows in communities across our country.
Illegal aliens are indeed being exploited; their vulnerability to exploitation is what makes them such desirable employees to unscrupulous employers. However, they are hardly hiding in the shadows. You can find illegal aliens on street corners in many American cities soliciting illegal employment. In fact, many communities have provided areas where these illegal aliens cannot avoid detection but the hot sun in summer and rain and snow when the weather turns inclement. These illegal aliens are not hiding in the shadows but congregating in the shade!
Sunday, July 29, 2012 the CBS News Program 60 Minutes aired a truly disturbing and disheartening report that they entitled, “Hard Times Generation: Families living in cars.”
The people living in cars are not illegal aliens but United States citizens and their children who became homeless as a result of the economic crisis some economists still refer to as a recession but should probably more accurately be called a depression! It is certainly depressing, and worse, to consider that conscientious American workers, in losing their jobs, have lost their homes and even their ability to pay for a room in a motel and have taken to living in their cars and concealing this from authorities out of fear that those authorities might well take their children from them! These American families and their children are now living in the “shadows!”
