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06-01-2009
http://www.marshallnewsmessenger.com/news/
content/region/legislature/stories/05/30/0530immigration.html
Sabotaged from the very beginning!
Lawmakers again balk on illegal immigration bills
By Danny Yadron
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Saturday, May 30, 2009
The Legislature balked again this session at measures that target
illegal immigration — owing partly to the divided House and to questions
of constitutionality.
. . .The 44-member Mexican American Legislative Caucus discussed the
issue with Texas House Speaker Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, in meetings
before and after his rise to the speaker's post, members said. Although
no formal agreement was made on what immigration bills, if any, would
get a vote, there was an agreement to "govern from the center," said
Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, caucus chairman.
"We've demonstrated pretty clearly we can keep those bills from ever
coming to the floor," said Martinez Fischer, a San Antonio Democrat.
"Joe understands the idea of what comes around goes around — we just
have a philosophical respect for each other."
Reminder:
Federal legislation that you need to be letting your elected officials
know where you stand.
Capitol
Switchboard 202.224.3121 - Toll free is 866.220.0044
Senator Cornyn: Local Office is 972.239.1310 - Senator Hutchison's Local
Office is 214.361.3500
Look up legislation on
http://www.thomas.loc.gov
Against:
S. 729 and H.R.
1751
the DREAM Act of 2009 to give amnesty to illegal
aliens.
S. 1038 and
H.R. 2414 the
AgJOBS bill would offer Amnesty to illegal aliens and their
families
For:
HR 1868,
The Birthright Citizenship Act.
http://www.numbersusa.com:80/content/news/may-28-2009/reps-john-campbell-and-jack-kingston-sponsor-birthright-citizenship-act.html
EXCLUSIVE: Cartels use kids to breach U.S. border
Mexicans use children, fake tamale stands as fronts
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/28/crafty-cartels-test-vulnerable-us-border/?feat=home_cube_position1
Drug cartel members are using a variety of fronts and subterfuges -
from fake tamale stands to child decoys - to gather intelligence about
enhanced U.S. border security and exploit weaknesses to send in people
and drugs, according to a new report obtained by The Washington Times.
Senator begins
groundwork for sweeping immigration bill
By Chris Strohm, CongressDaily
Full story:
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=42778&dcn=e_hsw
Chairman of Judiciary subcommittee announces a series of hearings and
says he is "cautiously optimistic" about getting legislation passed this
year.
Senator says health insurance plan won't cover illegal immigrants
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/DN-healthcare_22bus.ART0.State.Edition1.40daba3.html
WASHINGTON
– Health care reforms aiming for universal coverage won't provide
insurance for illegal immigrants and may not address the cost to state
and local governments for providing medical care to this large group of
the uninsured, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee said
Thursday.
"We're not going to cover undocumented aliens, undocumented workers,"
Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., said at a meeting with reporters. "That's too
politically explosive."
US
| May
15, 2009
Mexican Data Say Migration to U.S. Has
Plummeted
The trend
suggests that illegal immigrants from Mexico are drawn by jobs and stay
away in a bad labor market.
Police advocacy group
cites concerns with immigration program duties
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/crime/stories/DN-immigpolice_26met.ART.State.Edition2.98aca0.html
06-08-2009
http://www.farmersbranchnow.com/FBNow/Tim_Scotts
_Farmers_Branch_Blog/Entries/2009/6/4_
FB_Police_Assist_FBI.html
Farmers Branch police assists FBI on Drug Bust
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/05/AR2009060503453.html
Reid Declares
Immigration
a
Priority
for
Senate
Saturday, June 6, 2009
http://www.chicagotribune.com:80/news/columnists/chi-kass-05-jun05,0,1963876.column
E-Verify works, so, of course, let's not use it
With billions of
your federal tax dollars gushing forth from Washington -- as part of
President Barack Obama's
stimulus bill to put Americans back to work -- wouldn't it be nice if
someone invented a special magic faucet?
A magic faucet to compel those federal contractors doing all the hiring
with all that federal money to make certain the jobs go to people who
are legally entitled to work in
the
United States.
http://www.bibdaily.com
E-Verify in Texas
"What do Continental Airlines, the Houston Ballet, the city of
Dallas and Sen. John Cornyn all have in common? They all use the federal
government’s E-Verify program to check if their employees are authorized
to work in the U.S. legally." Houston Chronicle, June 1, 2009
Obama reverses
Bush immigration lawyer rule
June 3, 2009
-WASHINGTON (AP) -
The Obama
administration on Wednesday reversed a Bush administration rule that
immigrants rights groups had criticized as unfair.
From FIRE
Coalition
Each year,
National Council of La Raza (or The Race) holds a convention in Chicago
to promote their subversive activities and aid illegal aliens in
flaunting U.S. immigration laws across the country.
This year,
McDonalds Corporation has agreed to be the title sponsor of the event.
It is unacceptable for a U.S. corporation to conspire to aid and abet
illegal aliens in continuing to break our laws.
As a result, we have launched
http://www.WereHatingIt.com,
as a part of FIRE Coalition's
America First Boycott
to promote a boycott of McDonalds. We are encouraging our members,
partners, and citizens across the United States to avoid spending any
money at McDonalds and to divest themselves of any stock holdings (NYSE:
MCD).
06-15-2009
Valley Park, Missouri Vindicated in Federal Court, Says Immigration
Reform Law Institute
8th Circuit Affirms the Right of Communities to Enforce our Nation's
Immigration Laws
http://www.bibdaily.com
Police join call for CIR
"Austin (Texas) Police Chief Art Acevedo and Topeka (Kan.) Police
Chief Ron Miller joined Zumalt to say that immigration reform is needed
to fight crime now. They also said any reform should not rely overly on
local police to enforce federal immigration laws. Such a step would only
break down trust between police and those they serve, they said." Post
and Courier, June 13, 2009.
http://hutchison.senate.gov/releases.html
May 20, 09 - Press
Release
Sen. Hutchison
Fights to Ensure Texas Hospitals And Communities Don’t Pay for
Government’s Inability to Secure the Border
Hutchison Amendment Reimburses Local Hospitals for Mandated Emergency
Care
WASHINGTON, DC - In 2006, public hospitals in Texas alone incurred
nearly $600 million in uncompensated care for illegal immigrants. U.S.
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, Texas’ senior senator, today introduced
legislation to continue Section 1011 funding for hospitals, communities
and doctors, allowing them to recoup expenses for emergency services
provided to illegal immigrants that they are required to provide under
federal law.
Tyler lawmaker says he'll drop gubernatorial bid if Perry signs on to
issues:
NORTH RICHLAND HILLS — Leo Berman has four conditions for dropping out
of the GOP gubernatorial race — two of them involving states’ rights and
two anti-immigration.
The former Arlington City Council member, now a Republican state
representative from Tyler, spoke Thursday to an "America’s Awakening"
rally that was punctuated by fighting words from the American right
wing.
Berman, 73, said he had talked over lunch to Gov. Rick Perry about
dropping his plans to challenge Perry for governor.
"He’s going to let me know, and if he can agree with the four issues and
if he can actually accept them as his own, then I’ll step out of the
race and endorse him for re-election as governor," he said.
Berman said he asked Perry to:
Agree to have Texas join a consortium of states that challenge any
federal legislation that violates states’ 10th Amendment rights.
Sign on, as governor, to a federal lawsuit that Berman said he expects
Montana to file challenging the federal government’s regulation of
intrastate commerce, such as guns manufactured in a state and sold only
to residents of that state.
Order all state agencies to remove undocumented residents from benefit
programs.
Arrange for the Homeland Security Department to train some state law
enforcement workers so they can legally enforce immigration law.
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Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124451552193396877.html
#mod=djemEditorialPage
Holder Winks at Voter Intimidation -
On ballot integrity, the Justice Department is taking us backward.
http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty472.htm
QUESTIONING THE MORALITY OF DISPLACING AMERICAN WORKERS
06-23-2009
Tyler Rep. Leo Berman expects to bow out of Texas governor's race
02:30 PM CDT on
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
By ROBERT T. GARRETT / The Dallas Morning News
rtgarrett@dallasnews.com
AUSTIN — Tyler Republican Rep. Leo Berman said today he expects to
abandon a plan to run for governor, a possible boon to Gov. Rick Perry
as he prepares for a stiff primary challenge from U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey
Hutchison.
Berman said he’s had three phone conversations with Perry campaign
strategists since the two dined in the governor’s office on June 11.
In the huddle, Berman proposed to drop his gubernatorial bid if Perry
would embrace four items, including two possible ways to deter illegal
immigration and two legal strategies for protecting states’ rights.
“The follow up tells me that he’s very interested,” Berman said.
He said senior Perry campaign advisers Kevin Lindley and Dave Carney
“didn’t give me a definite,” but he expects to bow out of the governor’s
race at a joint press conference with Perry “in the very near future.”
Perry spokesman Mark Miner confirmed that Perry is reviewing several
issues Berman raised at their lunch and in a follow-up email.
“The governor has received the document and we’ll have a response soon,”
Miner said. “We’ll have something to say on the issues soon. At this
time, we don’t have any joint appearance to announce.”
Berman, 73, a six-term House member from East Texas, has made illegal
immigration his signature issue. In recent sessions, he unsuccessfully
pushed bills to outlaw birthright citizenship, discourage “sanctuary
cities” and slap an 8-percent tax on all money being sent from Texas to
Mexico, Central America and South America.
Berman, who once served on the Arlington city council, said he has no
great yearning to run against Perry, whom he called a friend and
like-minded conservative.
“When I announced that I was going to run for governor, it was mainly to
deal with that illegal alien issue,” he said. “And if I can get it dealt
with by him accepting it as governor of Texas and doing it, I’m very
happy with that.”
“I didn’t ask him to do a heck of a lot,” Berman added.
He said he requested that Perry issue an order to agency heads that
would “ask them to purge their [benefit] rolls of illegal aliens and
save millions of dollars … and he said he’d do that.”
Berman also said he asked that Perry accelerate the training of state
and local law enforcement officers in how to enforce federal immigration
laws.
And he said he asked the governor to have Texas join other states in
preparing to challenge federal laws that usurp states’ rights and to
personally file a friend of the court brief in an expected Montana
challenge to federal firearms regulation of guns made and marketed
entirely within that Western state.
“All the votes that I would get running for governor would come from
Rick Perry’s side,” Berman said. “He’s far to the right of Kay Bailey
Hutchison and so am I.”
La Raza Demands Obama's Health Reform Plan Cover Illegal Aliens
On Monday, June 15, the National Council of La Raza (La Raza), an open
borders advocacy group, issued a statement calling upon Congress to
ensure that illegal aliens are given health benefits if and when
Congress considers health care reform.
House and Senate Health Reform Bills Prohibit Subsidies to Illegal
Aliens
(CNSNews.com) – Both the House and Senate versions of President Obama’s
health care reform plans contain passages explicitly excluding illegal
immigrants from receiving federal money to purchase health insurance
from either a private or government-run health plan.
Coming on the eve of a
White House summit on immigration, the provisions would mean that some
of the 46 million uninsured people living in the
U.S.
would be legally barred from benefiting from Obama’s government-led
restructuring of the American healthcare system.
http://www.pointofview.net/site/News2?%20page=NewsArticle&id=9708
Americans Support Universal Health Coverage, But Not If It Covers
Illegal Immigrants
Eighty percent (80%) of U.S. voters oppose providing government health
care coverage for illegal immigrants as part of the health care reform
package that is working its way through Congress.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just
11% disagree and think coverage for illegals is a good idea.
06-25-2009
We have received the following from a
source at NumbersUSA re: Sen. Cornyn.
The information is that he has been singled out by a group called TX-SIP
http://www.txsip.com/ to be their lead man in favor of Comprehensive
Immigration Reform. Please go to the website to read about the group.
Also, the word is that
Cornyn's office has been telling people that NumbersUSA is putting out
"erroneous information" about the Senator but no specifics about the
errors has been given.
Thanks to
Grassfire for the following
list of lawmakers who attended or was to attend the closed door meeting
with the President re: Comprehensive Immigration Reform. The email from
Grassfire was not received by IRCOT- N TX (formerly CFIR) until this afternoon.
Grassfire makes
the statement that the list is a
"Who's Who" of amnesty advocates!
This is not totally true:
Rep. Lamar Smith
of Texas is staunch against giving amnesty. NumbersUSA grades him an A+
for career and A for recent.
Sen. Jeff Sessions of
Alabama was THE one that held the line during the 2007 Senate amnesty
debate. Numbers grades him A+ for overall career and recent.
Rep. Heath Shuler
(last name misspelled in list) has a grade of A for career and A for
recent according to NumbersUSA.
If you would like to check
out the grade cards for the other elected officials you may go to
http://grades.betterimmigration.com/names.php3#s
- - -
There is a story about a
defensive end that had just been knocked down by the opposition and when
asked what he did when that happened, the football player answered. "I
just look up and get their number."
So note this list
- you've got their numbers.
Sen. John Cornyn - (202)
224-2934
Sen. Jon Kyl - (202)
224-4521
Sen. Mel Martinez - (202)
224 - 3041
Sen. John McCain - (202)
224-2235
Sen. Jeff Sessions - (202)
224-4124
Rep. Xavier Becerra -
(202) 225-6235
Rep. John Conyers - (202)
225-5126
Rep. Lamar Smith - (202)
225-4236
Rep. Heath Schuler - (202)
225-6401
Rep. Zoe Lofgren - (202)
225-3072
Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart -
(202) 225-4211
Rep. Adam Putnam - (202)
225-1252
Rep. Anthony Weiner -
(202) 225-6616
IT'S OFFICIAL: SPECIAL SESSION JULY 1
Call targets agencies under Sunset and TxDOT issues, but does not
include Voter ID.
UPDATE: Perry confirmed that he would not be adding any other items to
the call and that he anticipated lawmakers to be done before the 4th of
July when he anticipated attending some Taxpayer Tea Parties.
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