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08-05-2009

PG 50 Section 152 in HC bill - HC will be provided to ALL non US citizens, illegal or otherwise.

SEC. 152. PROHIBITING DISCRIMINATION IN HEALTH CARE.

(a) IN GENERAL.—Except as otherwise explicitly permitted by this Act and by subsequent regulations consistent with this Act, all health care and related services  (including insurance coverage and public health activities) covered by this Act shall be provided without regard to personal characteristics extraneous to the provision of high quality health care or related services

(notice the word-tweaking - personal characteristics)


Pg 170 Lines 1-3 HC Bill Any NONRESIDENT Alien is exempt from individual taxes. (Americans will pay)

pg. 168 Subsection (a) TAX IMPOSED.—In the case of any individual who does not meet the requirements of subsection (d) at any time during the taxable year, there is hereby imposed a tax equal to 2.5 percent of the excess of—‘‘(1) the taxpayer’s modified adjusted gross income for the taxable year, over ‘‘(2) the amount of gross income specified in section 6012(a)(1) with respect to the taxpayer.

Pg.170: NONRESIDENT ALIENS. Subsection (a) shall not apply to any individual who is a nonresident alien.

http://www.cnsnews.com:80/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=51751

Illegal Immigrants Account for $10.7 Billion of Nation’s Health Care Costs, Data Show  Thursday, July 30, 2009  By Matt Cover
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)

(CNSNews.com) – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said that “illegal immigrants are not covered” in the health care reform legislation that is now working its way through House committees. But when asked about illegal immigrants who go to public hospitals for care, Pelosi told CNN’s State of the Nation on Sunday the law requires that they be treatedwww.quorumreport.com/pda/redirectbuzz.cfm  August 3, 2009      3:24 PM

LAWSUIT CHALLENGES NEW DPS RULES ON NON-CITIZEN DRIVERS LICENSES

AG says no constitutional right to a license; plaintiffs argue could lead to more unlicensed, uninsured drivers

The challenge to the Department of Public Safety’s rule on non-citizens goes to court this afternoon for the first of what may be a number of rounds.

The two sides square off in US District Judge Lee Yeakel’s courtroom this afternoon to address an initial round of motions and briefs.

At issue was the Department of Public Safety’s decision to implement documentation requirements for non-citizens in order to secure a driver’s license. The new procedure was implemented last October. In January, civil rights groups protested, saying the process was too cumbersome and the documentation too narrow. Legal non-citizens, as well as illegal non-citizens, would be targeted by the new rule.

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FORMER BORDER PATROL OFFICERS
Visit our website: http://www.nafbpo.org Saturday 8/1/09   El Financiero (Mexico City) 7/31/09

 A chilling story  [The Mexico City newspaper  picked up the noteworthy story of 97 illegal aliens rescued from a refrigerator truck near Nogales, Arizona.]

US authorities reported that of the 97 immigrants rescued from a refrigerated trailer near Nogales, Arizona, (sic) 96 are Mexican and the other is Guatemalan.  The driver of  the truck is a US citizen.  Arizona Department of Public Safety (ADPS) agents [responding to a Border Patrol lookout] stopped the truck Thursday in which the undocumented immigrants were hidden.  All are in good condition despite their confinement in the refrigerated container.  Of the group, three were pregnant women and there were also several children between 8 and 12 years old who were returned to Mexico.

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Frontera (Tijuana, Baja California) 7/31/09

 [Readers may have noticed that nearly all criminals mentioned in Mexican news stories have nicknames, some of them rather odd.  The following translated column relates to this custom.]

 Curious nicknames of the “narcos”

Edgar Valdez Villareal is probably the principal hired killer of one of the most bloody drug cartels in Mexico.  His nickname?  ”La Barbie”.  Yes, like the little Mattel doll.  It happens that Valdez was born in the United States and is blonde-haired with blue eyes.  In the bloody underworld of organized crime, “La Barbie” is one of so many sinister characters with nicknames as peculiar as “Mando Conejo” [Head Rabbit], “Taliban” or “Mono”, ["Cutie" or "Monkey", take your pick].  A case that shook Mexico was that of the “Pozolero del Teo” [Teo's soup maker], a subject who, according to his confession, dissolved 300 cadavers in caustic soda; he made soup of them in narco slang.

The nicknames of narcotraffickers can be flashy and threatening or surreal and innocent.  Some reflect the rank of the thug, while others come from their school days.  Also they can allude to the reputation of the individual, like as in the case of a mafioso known as “El mas loco” [the craziest].

08-10-2009

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204908604574332950796281832.html

 Our Unconstitutional Census

California could get nine House seats it doesn’t deserve because illegal aliens will be counted in 2010.

By JOHN S. BAKER AND ELLIOTT STONECIPHER

Next year’s census will determine the apportionment of House members and Electoral College votes for each state. To accomplish these vital constitutional purposes, the enumeration should count only citizens and persons who are legal, permanent residents. But it won’t.

Instead, the U.S. Census Bureau is set to count all persons physically present in the country—including large numbers who are here illegally. The result will unconstitutionally increase the number of representatives in some states and deprive some other states of their rightful political representation. Citizens of “loser” states should be outraged. Yet few are even aware of what’s going on.

In 1790, the first Census Act provided that the enumeration of that year would count “inhabitants” and “distinguish” various subgroups by age, sex, status as free persons, etc. Inhabitant was a term with a well-defined meaning that encompassed, as the Oxford English Dictionary expressed it, one who “is a bona fide member of a State, subject to all the requisitions of its laws, and entitled to all the privileges which they confer.”

Thus early census questionnaires generally asked a question that got at the issue of citizenship or permanent resident status, e.g., “what state or foreign country were you born in?” or whether an individual who said he was foreign-born was naturalized. Over the years, however, Congress and the Census Bureau have added inquiries that have little or nothing to do with census’s constitutional purpose.

By 1980 there were two census forms. The shorter form went to every person physically present in the country and was used to establish congressional apportionment. It had no question pertaining to an individual’s citizenship or legal status as a resident. The longer form gathered various kinds of socioeconomic information including citizenship status, but it went only to a sample of U.S. households. That pattern was repeated for the 1990 and 2000 censuses.

The 2010 census will use only the short form. The long form has been replaced by the Census Bureau’s ongoing American Community Survey. Dr. Elizabeth Grieco, chief of the Census Bureau’s Immigration Statistics Staff, told us in a recent interview that the 2010 census short form does not ask about citizenship because “Congress has not asked us to do that.”

Because the census (since at least 1980) has not distinguished citizens and permanent, legal residents from individuals here illegally, the basis for apportionment of House seats has been skewed. According to the Census Bureau’s latest American Community Survey data (2007), states with a significant net gain in population by inclusion of noncitizens include Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, New York and Texas. (There are tiny net gains for Hawaii and Massachusetts.)

This makes a real difference. Here’s why:

According to the latest American Community Survey, California has 5,622,422 noncitizens in its population of 36,264,467. Based on our round-number projection of a decade-end population in that state of 37,000,000 (including 5,750,000 noncitizens), California would have 57 members in the newly reapportioned U.S. House of Representatives.

However, with noncitizens not included for purposes of reapportionment, California would have 48 House seats (based on an estimated 308 million total population in 2010 with 283 million citizens, or 650,000 citizens per House seat). Using a similar projection, Texas would have 38 House members with noncitizens included. With only citizens counted, it would be entitled to 34 members.

Of course, other states lose out when noncitizens are counted for reapportionment. According to projections of the 2010 Census by Election Data Services, states certain to lose one seat in the 2010 reapportionment are Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania; states likely (though not certain) to lose a seat are Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, and Ohio could lose a second seat. But under a proper census enumeration that excluded illegal residents, some of the states projected to lose a representative—including our own state of Louisiana—would not do so.

The census has drifted far from its constitutional roots, and the 2010 enumeration will result in a malapportionment of Congress.

In the 1964 case of Wesberry v. Sanders, the Supreme Court said, “The House of Representatives, the [Constitutional] Convention agreed, was to represent the people as individuals and on a basis of complete equality for each voter.” It ruled that Georgia had violated the equal-vote principle because House districts within the state did not contain roughly the same number of voting citizens. Justice Hugo Black wrote in his majority opinion that “one man’s vote in a congressional election is to be worth as much as another’s.” The same principle is being violated now on a national basis because of our faulty census.

The Census Bureau can of course collect whatever data Congress authorizes. But Congress must not permit the bureau to unconstitutionally redefine who are “We the People of the United States.”

Mr. Baker teaches constitutional law at Louisiana State University. Mr. Stonecipher is a Louisiana pollster and demographic analyst.

08-14-2009

http://www.cnsnews.com:80/news/article/52527

CNSNews.com

Speaking in Mexico, Obama Calls American Opponents of Immigration Amnesty ‘Demagogues’
Friday, August 14, 2009 By Terence P. Jeffrey, Editor-in-Chief

(CNSNews.com) - At a joint press conference with Mexican President Felipe Calderon and the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Guadalajara, Mexico on Monday, President Barack Obama referred to American opponents of amnesty for illegal aliens as “demagogues.”

Obama was in Guadalajara for a trilateral summit with Calderon and Harper.

Obama was asked by a reporter whether “given the fight that you're having to wage for health care, I wonder if you can tell us what you think the prospects are for immigration reform, for comprehensive immigration reform, which you've said is your goal; and whether you think that the blows you're taking now on health care and that the Democrats are likely to take around the midterm elections will make it hard, if not impossible, to achieve comprehensive immigration reform in this term and what you've told President Calderón about that?”

Obama gave a long answer indicating that he believed he could secure an immigration reform package that included a “pathway to citizenship” for illegal immigrants. In his answer, he characterized opponents of this “pathway” as “demagogues.”

“Now, am I going to be able to snap my fingers and get this done? No,” said Obama. “This is going to be difficult; it's going to require bipartisan cooperation. There are going to be demagogues out there who try to suggest that any form of pathway for legalization for those who are already in the United States is unacceptable. And those are fights that I'd have to have if my poll numbers are at 70 or if my poll numbers are at 40. That's just the nature of the U.S. immigration debate.

“But ultimately, I think the American people want fairness,” Obama continued. “And we can create a system in which you have strong border security, we have an orderly process for people to come in, but we're also giving an opportunity for those who are already in the United States to be able to achieve a pathway to citizenship so that they don't have to live in the shadows, and their children and their grandchildren can have a full participation in the United States. So I'm confident we can get it done.”

08-18-2009

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125055700606938851.html

U.S. Intensifies Audits of Employers

LOS ANGELES -- A senior U.S. immigration official said Monday that his agency will intensify a crackdown on employers of workers in the country illegally as part of the Obama administration's new immigration strategy.

The Dallas Morning News

MEXICO CITY – The Mexican government will remove Enrique Hubbard, the Mexican consul general in North Texas, from his post amid an internal investigation into financial irregularities at the Dallas consulate, Mexican officials say.

Hubbard is facing allegations that he tolerated staff members personally profiting from selling passport-size photos and photocopying documents and from skimming money from passport fees, according to a senior Mexican official with knowledge of the Dallas investigation, speaking on condition of anonymity.

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