When immigration is
viewed only racially and culturally, limits and legality will never be
imposed. The debate must focus on limitations and lawfulness,
otherwise open borders will
make the United States a
marketplace and not a country.
FLoridians for IMmigration
ENforcement (FLIMEN) is a group of concerned Florida citizens
dedicated to advocating immigration enforcement. The group will
also strive to eliminate illegal immigration incentives and will
challenge the myths and pandering by elected officials and newspapers.
Please consider signing up for free FLIMEN Alerts.
1. America's rule of law must
be followed or ultimately anarchy will prevail.
2. AMNESTY will provide incentive for up to 103
million more foreign nationals over 20 years to
reside in the US.
3. Illegal aliens hold 7 million jobs while 15
million citizens are unemployed and millions more
underemployed.
4. Illegal immigration has high costs including an
estimated $4b annually just for Florida.
5. Illegal immigration degrades citizen's services
such as K-12 public school overcrowding.
,
www.NumbersUSA.com,
www.fairus.org and
www.alipac.us where you will be guided on
how to demand our elected officials SMASH AMNESTY by
representing citizens, not illegal aliens and their
supporters.
1. E-Verify is a highly
successful federal program where employers are
required to confirm the legal status of new hires.
2. E-Verify effectively addresses the main enabler of
illegal immigration -- the job magnet.
3. E-Verify has been highly successful in about 15
states and a number of municipalities as well has
voluntary employers.
4. E-Verify is highly accurate.
So far Florida's State
Senators and Representatives have not stepped
forward to sponsor
the proposed Florida
Citizen's Employment Protection Act of 2010 bill,
therefore the effort to garner sponsors and
enactment has to be a full-force, grassroots
effort where every possible individual and group
needs to call, visit and persuade their FL state
Senator and Representative to enact the common
sense E-Verify bill.
FLIMEN
Commentary: Racism and discrimination, to some
extent, do exist and should be reduced. However, US
immigration policy has been held hostage to the race
card for 2-3 decades and that must end. US
immigration policy should be based on the rule of law
but pro-AMNESTY, pro-open borders, anti-enforcement
immigration advocates have insisted that US immigration
policy instead be based on race, ethnicity and
culture. The bottom line conflict between the rule of
law and false racial allegations has resulted
in non-enforcement of immigration laws, porous borders,
widespread document fraud, among other substantial
negative impacts.
Anti-enforcement immigration advocates knowing that
they can not win any rule of law debate have honed
false racial allegations for 2-3 decades in order to
get their way on immigration policy. Because the
liberal media is so obsessed with race, ethnicity and
culture, the threat of any racial, ethnic or cultural
allegation often is enough for the anti-enforcement
immigration advocates to get what they want. Likewise,
it is difficult to win an argument against racial,
ethnic or cultural allegations because it is so
subjective. To the detriment of US citizens their
strategy has worked very well.
Overall the
immigration issue has not been a debate. For 2-3
decades the issue has been more of a tirade based on
name-calling, lies, clichés, oxymorons, distortions and
redefinitions by anti-enforcement immigration
advocates. In order to gain sympathy anti-enforcement
immigration advocates have resorted to redefinition of
the word "racism" in order to piggyback on black
American's civil rights movement. The major flaw in
the comparison to black Americans is Hispanic/Latino is
an ethnicity, not a race. Another flaw with the
comparison as applied to Hispanic illegal aliens is
that aliens are not citizens, whereas black Americans
are citizens. If there is a problem it should be
termed anti-Hispanic discrimination, not racism.
Because of the
dynamic and erroneous definitions of "racism," it has
become necessary for FLIMEN and others to often
reference race, ethnicity and culture
interchangeably. Linguistically it is impossible for a
person who allegedly makes an anti-Hispanic statement
to be a racist but that's the path we've been on.
The rule of
law is the doctrine that all government officials and
all private citizens must follow the laws of the nation
and must be treated equally under the law. To argue
against the rule of law is to argue against democracy.
To argue against democracy is to argue against the
United States of America. The body of immigration laws
that have been enacted since the late 1800's are part
of the rule of law. To argue against immigration
enforcement is, at its core, anti-American. Yet
widespread lawlessness exists with respect to
immigration enforcement as demonstrated by the fact
that 10-20 million illegal aliens reside, with many
benefits, in the US.
Supplementing race, ethnicity and culture as the basis
for US immigration policy are the bogus goals
of 'diversity' and 'multiculturalism' instead of the
American principle of equality. Diversity and
multiculturalism which seem to have unfortunately
superceded equality as a goal are well entrenched in
liberal academia as well as in the 'progressive'
business world. Perhaps a more accurate word for
diversity might be 'divisity' because diversity tends
to break American unity into bickering factions. Have
you noticed this trend?
The concept
of multiculturalism is leading to the erosion
of assimilation which also furthers the breakup of
American unity into bickering factions. Please view
the PBS WPBT Connections video clip below where Florida
International University (FIU) Professor Louie
Rodriquez questions whether assimilation should be
replaced by acculturation. Acculturation is the
process whereby the attitudes and/or behaviors of
people from one culture are modified as a result of
contact with a different culture. Acculturation implies
a mutual influence in which elements of two cultures
mingle and merge. In other words, you must adapt for
immigrants and illegal aliens which is not the case
with assimilation. Have you noticed this trend?
Americans agree
fairly equally across party and age categories that
the U.S. is divided along ethnic and cultural lines.
80% of Whites, 86% of African-Americans, and 74% of
Latinos are concerned about this division.
To further
demonstrate the extent to which factions are being
created take a look at federally mandated
"Re-Identification" procedures:
Illinois State
Board of Education
New U.S. Department of Education Race and Ethnicity
Data Standards
AN INTRODUCTION TO UPCOMING CHANGES
Re-Identification
School districts will need to re-identify race
and ethnicity for all students and staff.
Identification for students should be done by
their parents/guardians. Observer identification
by school/district staff is required if a
student's parents/guardians decline to indicate
race and/or ethnicity.
The article below properly states the
racism definition as: "What the word once meant - and
still does in Webster's dictionary - is someone who
believes in the inherent superiority of a particular
race or is prejudiced against others." Yet perhaps the
most accurate common use definition of racism is: You
are a racist when you disagree with a liberal.
Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor can not
escape commentary. Before confirmation she said
multiple times; "I would
hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her
experiences would more often than not reach a better
conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that
life." Doesn't her inclusion of "Latina" and
"white male" make her statement inherently racist
and within the racism definition above? Given the
dynamic definition and dynamic application of
racism/discrimination allegations it is not a
surprise that such repeated statements did not preclude
her from confirmation.
Is the tide
turning on the power of false racial allegations? Let's hope so but don't hold
your breath. The last paragraph of the article
link below
may be a good summary with respect to blacks and racism
but carefully omits any reference to Hispanics and
alleged racism:
"In 100 years, when people chronicle
how America got past race," said McWhorter, "the
uptick in white people calling blacks racist is going
to be seen as a symptom of the end."
Without the
rule of law eventually anarchy will prevail.
Apparent
Harassment Lawsuit Filed to Intimidate Florida Sheriffs
A lawsuit
has been filed against Palm Beach County Sheriff
Bradshaw as a result of an immigration hold (detainer)
placed on Guatemalan Marcotulio Mendez by Immigration
and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The lawsuit alleges
Sheriff is "violating immigrants' constitutional rights
by keeping them in jail."
While full
details and proper legal analysis of the lawsuit are
not now available, it is the initial analysis of FLIMEN
that the lawsuit is a frivolous, well-orchestrated
attempt to intimidate law enforcement officers against
enforcement of immigration law. The tight-knit
left-wing groups involved are El Sol, the Florida
Immigrant Coalition and the Florida ACLU.
Consider the
following points:
Immigration Holds
(detainer) are federally authorized orders under
the Executive branch, not under the Judicial
branch. So called 'immigrant rights' activists
have long sought all immigration rulings be moved
to the Judicial branch instead of the Executive
Branch. A move to the Judicial branch has long
been opposed by leading groups such as FAIR.
Barry Silver, a former
Florida State Representative, is well-known for
filing frivolous lawsuits on behalf of left-wing
causes. Mr. Silver has been heavily involved with
the Palm Beach County Environmental Coalition along
side Lake Worth Commissioner Cara Jennings. It was
Barry Silver who defended Peter
"Panagioti" Tsolkas,
the best friend of Cara Jennings. Ms. Jennings
was instrumental in opening of the Lake Worth
Illegal Alien Hiring Hall along with Lake Worth
Mayor Jeff Clemens.
The taxpayer-assisted El
Sol Neighborhood Resource Center with Attorney Jill
Hanson as Director has joined the lawsuit as
plaintiff.
The Florida Immigrant
Coalition includes groups such
as ACORN. Note that the Palm Beach (Com)Post
reported the group's name as Florida
Immigration Coalition but that is incorrect.
See
http://www.floridaimmigrant.org/.
The ACLU sent out a
warning to law enforcement agencies statewide prior
to the lawsuit, demonstrating co-ordination with
other groups. While not illegal or unethical, it
is useful for citizens to understand the
sophisticated manipulation of the law enforcement
by left-wing groups.
The Palm Beach (Com)Post
article headline states "minor charges." However,
how many victims of accidents caused by illegal
aliens consider unlawful presence, driving without
a license and fleeing from police as "minor?"
Based solely on the
article below it is curious that the Plaintiff
alleges "state judges have said they can be
released on bond." From a legal standpoint,
whatever a state judge says is probably irrelevant
because of the "supremacy clause" where federal law
supercedes state law.
Barry Silver states; "he
is hopeful the action sends a message to other
Florida sheriff's." It is interesting that the
quotation from the Plaintiff's Attorney is
an implied threat rather than a statement promoting
the merit of his case.
In
conclusion, FLIMEN suspects this lawsuit to be more
intimidation in nature than a lawsuit based on real
merit. It seems highly unlikely that a court would
overturn the federal authority of detainer.
FLIMEN will
track this lawsuit and will provide further more
authoritative details as they develop.
Note:
Senatorial Appointee LeMieux will become Senator
LeMieux when he is sworn into office Thursday
afternoon, Sept 10, 2009.
After
fruitless research over the attitude of newly appointed
Florida Senator LeMieux toward immigration enforcement,
the Senator has stated:
LeMieux indicated Tuesday that he
would not take up Martinez's cause, saying he wanted
to secure the borders before considering ways to deal
with 12 million illegal residents, including an
estimated 1 million in Florida.
Further, the
will of the people opposing AMNESTY is a force to
be reckoned with. Mel Martinez resigned early, giving
family reasons and disappointment with failure of
immigration "reform" as reasons:
Clashes over immigration prompted
Martinez to quit abruptly as general chairman of the
Republican National Party and may have contributed to
his decision to resign 16 months before his term
expires, although Martinez has said he is leaving the
Senate early to spend more time with his family in
Orlando.
Congratulations to Senator LeMieux for recognizing the
need for immigration enforcement. Further,
congratulations to all of you who helped Mel Martinez
realize that he could not succeed in shoving AMNESTY
down the throats of Floridians.
We have lots
of work and fights ahead as we make President Obama the
next person to fail at shoving AMNESTY down our
throats.
At the April
8, 2008 State Affairs Workshop in Tallahassee,
Martin Memorial Hospital testified to the
horrendous cost of illegal alien health care.
The video of the Martin Memorial Hospital
Administrator's testimony explains the costs of
health care for Mr. Jimenez. The video has had
2,648,431
views and 2,149 comments as of July 27, 2009
and is available at:
After a
series of judicial scuffles the hospital
returned Mr. Jimenez to his home country, only
to be sued by the patient's cousin who was
also legal guardian. In a victory for
taxpayers and for common sense, jurors on July
27, 2009 refused to award $1 million damages.
Jury rules in favor of Stuart hospital that
deported immigrant
July 27th, 2009 by
Daphne Duret
STUART — A Martin County jury this morning
sided with a local hospital in a closely
watched lawsuit surrounding the private
deportation of a brain-damaged Guatemalan
patient.
STUART — A Martin County jury this
morning sided with a local hospital in a
closely watched lawsuit surrounding the
private deportation of a brain-damaged
Guatemalan patient.
Martin Memorial Hospital officials in 2003
sent Luis Alberto Jimenez, an illegal
immigrant, on a chartered flight back to
Guatemala after he had run up more than $1.5
million in medical bills in a case that
garnered national attention.
Attorneys for Jimenez’s guardian, Montejo
Gaspar, had asked the jury to find that
Martin Memorial acted unreasonable in
deporting Jimenez and asked for more than $1
million for his care in Guatemala and
punitive damages on top of that.
Jurists rejected their arguments in a verdict
returned early this morning, ending about
nine hours of deliberations that began
Thursday afternoon.
Jurists late Friday had requested to hear for
a second time the videotaped deposition from
former hospital CEO Dick Harmon. In it,
Harmon said he approved Jimenez’s transfer
because he thought Gaspar’s attorneys had
exhausted their appeals to a judge’s ruling
allowing the deportation.
Health care and immigration experts
nationwide have been closely watching the
court action. Lawyers say it may be the first
of its kind and underscores the dilemma
facing hospitals with patients who require
long-term care, are unable to pay and don’t
qualify for federal or state aid because of
their immigration status.
Jimenez, now 37, was a Mayan Indian sending
money home to his wife and young sons when in
2000, a drunken driver plowed into a van he
was riding in, leaving him a paraplegic with
the mental capability of a fourth grader.
Because of his brain injury, his cousin
Gaspar was made his legal guardian.
Under federal law, Martin Memorial was
required to care for Jimenez until someone
else would take him. Because of his
immigration status, no one else would. But
hospitals that receive Medicare
reimbursements are required to provide
emergency care to all patients and must
provide an acceptable discharge plan once the
patient is stabilized.
Jimenez spent nearly three years at Martin
Memorial before the hospital, backed by a
letter from the Guatemalan government, got a
Florida judge to OK the transfer to a
facility in that country. Gaspar appealed.
But without telling Jimenez’s family — and
the day after Gaspar filed an emergency
request to stop the hospital’s plan — Martin
Memorial put Jimenez on a $30,000 charter
flight home early on July 10, 2003.
Weeks later, Jimenez was released from the
Guatemalan hospital and soon wound up in his
aging mother’s one-room home in a remote
mountain village.
The case has raised the question of whether a
hospital and a state court should be deciding
whether to deport someone — a power long held
by the federal government.
The lawsuit sought nearly $1 million to cover
the estimated lifetime costs of his care in
Guatemala, as well as damages for the
hospital’s alleged “false imprisonment” and
punitive damages to discourage other medical
centers from taking similar action.
Staff writer Andrew Marra and The
Associated Press contributed to this story.
Democratic House Leaders Conceal the Fact That
Their Health Bill Covers Illegal Aliens
Last week, Democratic leaders in the U.S. House of
Representatives unveiled their health care reform
legislation entitled, "America's Affordable Health Care
Act of 2009." (Bill
Text). Despite the language in section 246 of the
bill that states: "nothing… shall allow Federal
payments [for] individuals who are not lawfully present
in the United States," the bill actually raises more
questions than it resolves with respect to whether the
bill will burden American taxpayers by giving health
care benefits to legal and illegal aliens.
The draft House bill — consisting of 1,018 pages —
was introduced by Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) and
cosponsored by the chairmen of the three House
committees of jurisdiction: Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY),
Chairman of the Ways & Means Committee; Rep. Henry
Waxman (D-CA), Chairmen of the Energy & Commerce
Committee; and Rep. George Miller (D-CA), Chairman of
the Education & Labor Committee.
Section 202 of this bill creates a Health Insurance
Exchange (exchange) and states that "all
individuals are eligible to obtain coverage"
through the exchange. The House Education & Labor
Committee has produced a summary of the bill and
explains that the exchange will allow individuals and
employers to "comparison shop for coverage" and that
the bill creates "new affordability credits… for people
purchasing [health coverage] through the exchange." (Education
& Labor Summary).
Under Section 242, all legal aliens will qualify for
the affordability credit. Subsection (d) states that
the affordability credits "shall not be treated [as] a
benefit provided under section 403" of the Welfare
Reform Act of 1996. Under Welfare Reform, legal aliens
are generally required to wait five years before
becoming eligible for welfare or other taxpayer funded
benefits. The House health reform bill eliminates that
5-year waiting period for legal aliens as applied to
taxpayer financed health insurance subsidies, such as
the affordability credit. Accordingly, legal aliens
will become immediately eligible for this government
handout — a handout that would be paid for by the
American taxpayers.
Given the bill's language, illegal aliens are also
likely to qualify for the affordability credit. This
is true because there are no provisions that would
prevent an illegal alien from participating in the
exchange or from receiving the credit. Likewise, there
are no requirements that a government agency verify
eligibility, whether through the SAVE system or
otherwise. (FAIR's explanation of the
SAVE System). Accordingly, without these
important safeguards, illegal aliens would probably
receive this subsidy. The bill does limit eligibility
to individuals who are "lawfully present in a State in
the United States," but that language would be
ineffective to prevent handouts to illegal aliens.
(Sec. 242(a)(1)). Under U.S. immigration law,
someone's status as an illegal alien is not determined
by lawful presence in a State. As a result, this
language will have no effect in preventing illegal
aliens from receiving the credit.
Critics suggest that if the intent of the bill is to
preclude illegal aliens from receiving this subsidy,
the current language is woefully inadequate and would
have to be dramatically revised. For example, the bill
could limit eligibility for the credit only to a
"qualified alien" as defined by the Welfare Reform Act,
which would preclude illegal aliens from receiving any
benefit. In addition, including a provision that
requires eligibility verification, with the SAVE
system, for every applicant for the credit would
likewise prevent illegal aliens from receiving the
credit.
At the same time as Congress is considering
burdening taxpayers with the cost of health care for
legal aliens, Massachusetts appears to be retreating
from that idea. Massachusetts is currently the only
state to offer so-called "universal health coverage."
The Bay State is currently facing a budget crisis
brought on by a decline in tax revenue and rising
demand for state-financed services. In response, state
legislators have recently submitted a budget to
eliminate taxpayer subsidized health coverage for
approximately 30,000 legal immigrants under the
"Commonwealth Care" program. (Boston
Globe, July 12, 2009;
New York Times, July 14, 2009;
Boston Globe, July 15, 2009; and
SouthCoastToday.com, July 16, 2009).
July 21, 2009
Senate Candidate Crist
Supports AMNESTY
Florida
Senate Candidate Charlie Crist has announced
his support for AMNESTY for 12-20 million illegal
aliens.
Action:
Pro-enforcement immigration advocates should be
critical of Crist's anti-American worker, anti-citizen
position at every possible campaign venue because
AMNESTY and immigration enforcement are contradictory
and mutually exclusive.
"It's
terribly important that we secure our border and stop
illegal immigration for the very reason that we can
continue to have legal immigration. Our country's
always stood for that," Crist said.
Talking
to reporters afterward, he said he would support an
immigration bill similar to the failed 2007 legislation
that many Republicans opposed because it provided a
path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. President
George W. Bush, eventual Republican presidential
nominee John McCain and Martinez supported the measure.
"I like
Sen. Martinez' and Sen. McCain's approach," Crist said.
"I thought they had the right idea and maybe just a
little more support up there would help it get it
done."
Gov. Charlie Crist told a luncheon crowd Tuesday
that he was proud to stand up for the $787 billion
federal stimulus package, addressing an issue
already seized upon by his main opponent in the
upcoming Republican U.S. Senate primary.
Crist has been hesitant to talk about the race
while carrying out his responsibilities as governor
but began to ease himself into the dual role while
talking to the Daytona Beach Chamber of Commerce
and the Volusia County Tiger Bay Club. He hadn't
answered many questions about the campaign or
federal issues since announcing his plans to run
last week.
He spent a significant chunk of his 25
minutes of remarks talking about the stimulus
package, saying without it the state would have
needed to raise taxes. Crist's primary opponent,
former House Speaker Marco Rubio, has criticized
the package and is pointing out that Crist appeared
with Democratic President Barack Obama to promote
it.
"I'm pragmatic and I'm practical and as a chief
executive it's important to get things done to make
sure that your children get a good education, to
make sure that the most vulnerable in our society
get the health care that they need, to make sure
that we have public safety so that crime doesn't go
up. That's why I stood for it," said Crist, who
hopes to replace Republican Sen. Mel Martinez, who
is retiring after one term.
Republicans in
Washington widely opposed the package. All House
Republicans voted against it, and only three
Republican senators voted for it. Crist's
appearance with Obama made some Republicans
uncomfortable, while others defended him, saying
his view as governor is different from the
perspective of members of Congress.
Asked by an audience member if he would have
supported the stimulus package if he was already in
the Senate, Crist said, "Of course."
"Ask the members of the Legislature what our
alternative would have been if we didn't have that
stimulus. I'll tell you what it would have been -
we would have had to raise taxes dramatically to
make the budget balance because we can't run a
deficit in Florida. Our constitution will not
permit it," Crist said. "That's a great thing. I
wish they had that in Washington."
Before his talk turned to the stimulus, Crist
built up to remarks about his Senate run by listing
a resume of accomplishments as governor on a wide
range of issues. He said insurance and property tax
rates have dropped since he took office in 2007
while Florida's public school rankings have risen
substantially.
"Public service is what makes me happy. It
brings me joy. It's like a calling and that's what
I want to do," Crist said. "I'd be proud to
represent you in Washington. It's important, I
think, now more than ever that we have people who
can work with others to get things done. We have
done it in Tallahassee. I call it the Florida way
and it would be nice if they can do it in
Washington."
He mentioned his efforts to purchase sugar farm
land to protect the Everglades, and a program that
helps make health insurance more accessible for
residents who don't have it.
"This are the good things that are happening in
Florida," he said.
He was also asked about federal immigration
policy.
"It's terribly important that we secure our
border and stop illegal immigration for the very
reason that we can continue to have legal
immigration. Our country's always stood for that,"
Crist said.
Talking to reporters afterward, he said he would
support an immigration bill similar to the failed
2007 legislation that many Republicans opposed
because it provided a path to citizenship for
illegal immigrants. President George W. Bush,
eventual Republican presidential nominee John
McCain and Martinez supported the measure.
"I like Sen. Martinez' and Sen. McCain's
approach," Crist said. "I thought they had the
right idea and maybe just a little more support up
there would help it get it done."
May 19, 2009
Florida Studies Reveal
Huge Increase in Cost of Illegal Immigration and
Widespread Voter Dissatisfaction
Cost Study and Zogby
Poll Offer Comprehensive Statewide Assessment
(Washington, D.C.)
Simultaneous studies, released this week by the
Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), show
soaring costs of illegal immigration in Florida and
demonstrate strong voter objections to the burdens
placed on them by illegal immigration. A new Zogby
International poll of 801 likely voters across the
state found that, by an overwhelming margin, Floridians
believe that illegal immigration is harming their
state. Their perceptions are rooted in reality. A
separate FAIR study, the Costs of Illegal
Immigrationto Floridians found that
providing education and health care to illegal aliens
and their families, and incarcerating criminal illegal
aliens, costs state taxpayers more than $3.8 billion
annually, more than double the costs measured in
2005.
The Costs of Illegal
Immigration to Floridians found that taxpayers
spend:
Ø$3.4 billion
a year to educate illegal immigrant children and the
U.S. born children of illegal immigrants.
Ø$290 million
a year on unreimbursed health care for illegal aliens.
Ø$90 million
a year to incarcerate criminal illegal aliens.
ØThe total
represents an annual cost to each of Florida’s
native-born headed households of $678.
The cost study also
determined that the illegal alien population in Florida
is now 950,000 persons. This represents 7.3 percent of
the national total illegal alien population, and it is
the nation’s fourth largest concentration of illegal
aliens after California, Texas and New York. It is also
about 5.2 percent of Florida’s overall population.
The Zogby poll
found that:
Ø71.3% of
Florida voters say illegal immigration has a negative
impact on the state. Only 14.4% believe it has a
positive impact on Florida.
Ø83.5% of
Florida voters believe illegal aliens have a negative
impact on the state budget, versus only 7.9% who
believe their impact is positive.
Ø57.5%
believe illegal immigration should be reduced through
better enforcement of immigration laws. Only 36% of
Florida voters favor amnesty or legalization for
current illegal aliens.
Ø68.6% of
Florida voters want worksite immigration enforcement to
continue. Only 21.1% support the Obama administration’s
decision to curtail worksite enforcement.
“Voters in Florida, like
voters everywhere, want their elected officials in
Washington and Tallahassee to protect their interests,
their jobs, and their tax dollars from the impact of
mass illegal immigration,” said Stein. “At a time when
the Obama administration is intent on systematically
dismantling immigration enforcement, and congressional
leaders are considering a new round of amnesty
legislation, voters in this key state are saying
unequivocally that it is time political leaders stopped
pandering to the illegal immigration lobby, and started
enforcing laws that serve the interests of ordinary
Americans.”
Caught on tape with Rep. Gutierrez
at her side during one stop of the Congressional
Hispanic Caucus Family Unity Campaign Speaker Nancy
Pelosi called ICE
immigration enforcement actions "un-American."
With more than 10 million
Americans out of work while 7 million illegal workers
still hold jobs in our country Speaker Pelosi's
pro-AMNESTY non-enforcement agenda begs the question
who really is un-American.
You can help by forwarding this
message to others, especially struggling,
under-employed or un-employed American workers. Ask
everyone to sign up for the free FLIMEN alerts and to
attend the Gutierrez protest in Orlando on March 28th
or Miami on March 29th. Details are posted at
www.flimen.org.
CLICK HERE to send a message to your
Representative and to Nancy Pelosi
condemning her comments.
(If above link does not work, copy and
paste the following link into your browser
address bar:
http://capwiz.com/caps/issues/alert/?alertid=12956321)
March 18, 2009
Senate Candidate Marco Rubio's Actions Against Illegal
Immigration Enforcement
A Florida Republican Club asked Floridians for
Immigration Enforcement (FLIMEN) about Marco Rubio's
history on illegal immigration during his tenure as
Florida Speaker of the House. Below is the
response of our experience.
Thanks for your inquiry. You are
welcomed and encouraged to disseminate this message
widely within your Republican Club or wider.
Below is a well-documented
trail by 2008 Florida Speaker Marco Rubio to
block consideration of all immigration enforcement
bills during his tenure.
Floridians for Immigration
Enforcement (FLIMEN) attempted to get the Florida
Legislature to consider and pass six state-level
immigration enforcement bills. Contrary to the
arguments of Speaker Rubio and others, immigration
enforcement is not the exclusive responsibility of
the federal government. About 12 states, excluding
Florida, have enacted E-Verify, 287(g) and other
enforcement measures. These state-level bills have
survived legal challenges and are now working very
successfully.
Prior to the Session the FLIMEN
Political Committee received an assurance from a
Rubio aide that all bills would be allowed to move.
That was a lie.
The trail is very clear that
Speaker Rubio bottled up the bills to never move
toward even a hearing. Speaker Rubio did placate
Floridians by allowing a workshop but he never
intended the bills to move out of committee. Speaker
Rubio used his lieutenants Rivera and Zapata to smear
pro-enforcement Floridians with false racial
allegations.
Marco Rubio in the opinion of all
pro-enforcement immigration activists would be
another pro-AMNESTY Senator in the footsteps of the
unpopular Rove-Bush-endorsed Senator Mel
Martinez. Marco Rubio favors his personal cultural
preferences over the rule of law. If he were
elected Senator Marco Rubio would no doubt continue
to promote open borders, AMNESTY and non-enforcement
which are clearly detrimental to Floridians.
The Republican Party is at a
transition point. Will the GOP forsake principles to
expand into the big burning tent in a manner similar
to the McCain loss or will the party stand by
principles like equality and the rule of law? I
certainly hope your Republican Club will flatly and
honorably refrain from endorsing Marco Rubio for
Florida Senator.
''The last
thing we wanted was to come up here and
start drawing lines and making noise,''
said Rep. Juan Zapata, a Miami Republican
and chairman of the Miami-Dade delegation.
``That's
exactly what these people wanted -- the
attention. It's an election year, and
immigration is an easy issue to press on.''
Without the backing of
House Speaker Marco Rubio, the first Cuban-American
to hold the position, the bills failed to get any
major play in their committees. Six weeks into the
session, a three-hour workshop was held on the six
House bills, but even that failed to produce its
desired intent of combining the bills into one
larger committee bill.
''Speaker
Rubio outlined the priorities of the
session and this didn't fall under that
list,'' said Rivera, one of Rubio's
lieutenants.
"I spoke to more than a
dozen (legislators) and they all told me the same
thing; that the problem is coming from the fourth
floor and (Speaker of the House Marco) Rubio's
office," said Jack Oliver, FLIMEN's political
issues chairman.
Oliver said he had those
conversations with legislators only after meeting
with Rubio two weeks ago and being assured that the
Speaker's office "wouldn't try to impede the
bills."
It is one of six bills
that haven't moved in the House. Rubio relented
slightly Tuesday by permitting a workshop on the
legislation.
But it seemed for
appearances only, as Rubio's office has been
buffeted with phone calls from citizens in recent
weeks complaining about the lack of movement.
The county will bring in more
money than it spent in 2008 for the ICE
program, he said. Expenses, which include
salaries and benefits and transportation,
totaled $36,919.74 since Sept. 1, and billed
reimbursements for bed space and
transportation will total $80,115.87, for a
net of $43,196.13.
January
25, 2009
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND THE WALL STREET BAILOUT
For
the last 3-4 years the issue of home loans and credit
cards to illegal aliens has been ignored by our elected
officials. The extend of this problem is
essentially unknown and unreported mainly because our
bumbling, dysfunctional government does not want to
know about it.
At the April
8, 2008 State Affairs Workshop in Tallahassee, a
Martin Memorial Hospital administrator testified to
the horrendous costs of illegal alien health care.
The video was posted on YouTube and as of June 27,
2008 has had 858,291
views and
875 comments!!Further, a number
of articles were spawned.
Numerous Florida
municipalities are rapidly proliferating the El Sol
model in a misguided attempt to combat on-the-street
job solicitation by unlawfully present foreign
nationals. The El Sol model started in Jupiter.
Legitimizing
illegal hiring by officially sanctioning illegal alien
hiring halls is not a solution. Consider:
The effect of hiring illegal foreign workers lowers the
wages and benefits of American workers.
Significant costs
to taxpayers include public education, emergency health
care and law enforcement. See
Impacts.
Illegal
alien hiring halls are exacerbating the problem by
providing a job magnet to further the illegal invasion.
When
will the El Sol Plague reach your neighborhood?
The Lake Worth,
Loxahatchee Groves and Miami-Dade Bay halls are modeled
after the El Sol model.
El Sol proponents
seemingly are seeking to rival McDonald's expansion
plans. Per a September 16, 2006 Palm Beach
(Com)Post editorial:
"El Sol has the chance to be the model for Lake
Worth, West Palm Beach and cities throughout
South Florida that realize the corrosive effects
of ignoring a problem that isn't going away."
Because the El Sol model is a root cause of the
proliferations, citizen opponents and FLIMEN have made
it a priority to shut down El Sol.
For information on
Jupiter and the other sites:
If you live in or near
Jupiter,
print out flyers to hand out or distribute wherever
possible. (You may have to remove header and footer in
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