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1) Latest News Section
The following current articles/links will open in a new window: The Story Behind E-Verify for Florida 2010 Proposed Florida Citizens Employment Protection Act. Apparent Harassment Lawsuit Filed to Intimidate Florida Sheriffs Senatorial Appointee LeMieux Supports Immigration Enforcement Martin Memorial Hospital Viral Video Frustrated by years of inaction, Floridians for Immigration Enforcement (FLIMEN) announces formation of FLIMEN-PAC, a Political Action Committee for State of Florida candidates for elected office. FLIMEN-PAC endorses the following candidates:
For a lot more information, visit FLIMEN-PAC.
The Story Behind E-Verify for Florida 2010 FLIMEN Note: FLIMEN apologizes for the excessive tardiness with this important alert. Please take the time to read the complete story of the effort to pass E-Verify in the 2010 Florida Legislative Session. SUMMARY:
Disappointingly from August, 2009 to March, 2010 FLIMEN sought Senate and house sponsors for the proposed Florida Employment Protection Act but no Senator or Representative would do so, wasting eight precious months that could have been spent promoting E-Verify. Importantly this proposed bill was well written by IRLI so as to withstand judicial challenge. The bill was simple and focused in that it contained only E-Verify, an employment verification program to address the illegal alien job magnet problem. The bill contained both public and private E-Verify. Public E-Verify requires contractors and subcontractors to state agencies to verify the legal status of new hires. Private E-Verify requires all licensees of the state (e.g. contractors) to verify the legal status of all new hires. Although 15 or more states have public and/or private E-Verify NOT ONE FLORIDA SENATOR OR REPRESENTATIVE would sponsor this excellent bill.
Several weeks into the 2010 Session and unable to find a sponsor, FLIMEN with the legal expertise of IRLI analyzed two bills already sponsored and filed. One bill, HB421/SB856 was poorly written with constitutional problems and was quickly dismissed for FLIMEN support. Another bill HB219/SB1880 included some distracting features and only public E-Verify but FLIMEN decided to support the bill about three weeks into the 12 week Session. Thanks to
lobbying efforts by FLIMEN Board Members Jack Oliver
and John Parsons,
Florida House Majority Leader Adam Hasner became an ardent supporter
of HB219 and with skillful pursuit by bill sponsor Sandy
Adams HB219 unanimously passed in the House 112-0.
Significantly ALL Republicans and ALL Democrats in the
Florida House voted for HB219. FLIMEN COMMENDATIONS These dedicated elected officials deserve a great deal of praise from all Floridians. If possible please personally thank them for their efforts.
FLIMEN CONDEMNATIONS Now for the bad news. Senate President Jeff Atwater from the very start to the very end clearly, without any doubt, blocked any and all immigration enforcement bills during the 2010 Florida Legislative Session. Here is the evidence:
What makes the blockage of the bills by Jeff Atwater especially offensive is that he has campaigned as a pro-enforcement candidate. Please view Jeff Atwater's Campaign Questionnaire:
Now back to Senator Jeremy Ring. At the Broward County Legislative Delegation Meeting on November 18, 2009, Tea Party activist Danita Kilcullen spoke on behalf of FLIMEN in favor of E-Verify. After Danita's three minute speech, Senator Ring exclaimed "I am genuinely offended." and then left the hearing. You are welcome to view the text of Danita's speech: Do you find it offensive? FLIMEN VP David Caulkett who resides in Senator Ring's district requested a meeting on January 3, 2010 to clarify what parts the Senator found offensive. At this meeting Senator Ring was unable to elaborate that any part was offensive. He also promoted the need to import more foreign high-tech workers. In a totally unacceptable and slovenly manner Senator Ring said "I am not one of those persons who want to line up illegal immigrants and shoot them." meaning that FLIMEN wanted to do just that. FLIMEN VP Caulkett grabbed the text of Danita's speech, said "I am genuinely offended." and stormed out of his district office. Aide Paul Moore and another staff person were witnesses. Within one hour Senator Ring personally called to apologize but an apology can never compensate for such a hateful, unfounded statement. The main reason for exposing the crude, slovenly, anti-enforcement zealot Ring is that it cannot be a co-incidence that Senate President Jeff Atwater choose Senator Ring as the lead chairperson to kill any and all immigration enforcement bills. About six weeks into the Session Senator Ring had not scheduled a hearing for SB1880. When aide Joel Ramos was queried he give the excuse that "an intern had misplaced the bill" but promised to schedule a hearing for the next week, Week 7. When the bill was not scheduled for Week 7 as promised, aide Joel Ramos gave the excuse that there was an unknown "technical problem." It is abundantly clear to FLIMEN and it should be abundantly clear to Floridians that despite campaigning on a platform against illegal immigration, Senate President Jeff Atwater aggressively blocked a much needed bill to verify the legal status of workers. With Florida's unemployment at about 12% and with illegal immigration costs estimated by FAIR at $3.8 million annually, Senators Atwater and Ring have allowed illegal immigration to continue virtually unabated. Their political future lies ahead with voters who will accept or reject their callous behavior. While E-Verify did not get enacted during the 2010 Session this attempt was the best progress over the past 3-4 years. The 112-0 vote in the Florida House was a milestone. With public support of AZ SB1070 between 50-90% and with many candidates expressing support for an AZ SB1070 style bill for Florida, the 2011 Session looks promising for some legislation. At a minimum FLIMEN will continue to pursue public and private E-Verify for Florida during the 2011 Session. After House Speaker Marco Rubio blocked six bills in 2008, FLIMEN Political Chair and chief strategist Jack Oliver astutely pointed out that it is the Legislature leadership who determine which bills will pass and which ones won't. For the 2010 Session pressure will be put on 2011 House Speaker Cannon and 2011 Senate President Mike Haridopolos to make sure they too don't block immigration enforcement legislation. A big thanks to the many activists throughout Florida who made calls, wrote letters, attended hearings and otherwise promoted immigration enforcement legislation. Thanks to FAIR, IRLI and NumbersUSA for their support. Thanks also to FLIMEN Political Chair Jack Oliver who worked tirelessly and who as usual provided astute political strategy. Special recognition also goes to new FLIMEN Board Member John Parsons who worked with Jack Oliver in our lobby efforts. Special recognition goes to new FLIMEN Board member Janet Renner who with three hours notice drove to Tallahassee to speak at a hearing. With such dedication we will surely eventually achieve immigration enforcement legislation. Respectfully submitted to all Florida
citizens concerned about illegal immigration, June 4, 2010
A SPECIAL MESSAGE FOR GOVERNOR CRIST
GOVERNOR DONALD CARCIERI OF RHODE ISLAND MADE AN EXECUTIVE ORDER IN HIS STATE ON MARCH 27, 2008 MANDATING E-VERIFY FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYERS AND IT IS LAW TODAY!
GOVERNOR CRIST, WHY HAVEN'T YOU USED YOUR EXECUTIVE POWERS TO PUT FLORIDIANS BACK TO WORK BY MANDATING E-VERIFY FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYERS IN FLORIDA?
By a simple stroke of the pen Governor Crist could ensure that every new job on roads, bridges, and public works projects such as SunRail would go to workers who have legal status to work. The employees of all vendors and contractors doing business with governmental agencies within the state of Florida would also be required to have legal status to work. This would stop illegal workers from taking those much needed jobs.
C ontact Governor Crist with the E-Verify for Florida (Governor) points above:
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Worth reading: Recovering stolen jobs is key to American recovery February 10, 2010
E-VERIFY FOR FLORIDA MUST BE ENACTED
Links that provide information on E-Verify are:
To help enact E-Verify for Florida join the FLIMEN
Alert list at
www.flimen.org/alerts.htm. January 7, 2010
SMASH AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS
http://cis.org/Amnesty2010/CIRASAP-HR4321
Reasons that AMNESTY is wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, and wrong:
Quick Summary of Illegal Immigration: Approximately 40% of the illegal alien population have expired visas (visa overstayers) and approximately 60% have crossed the border illegally (undocumented aliens). Illegal aliens buy false documents for $150. Illegal aliens with fraudulent IDs are almost never prosecuted. Most federal, state, and local governmental agencies claim enforcement of immigration laws is not their responsibility. Enforcement of immigration laws is lacking because the will of the government to enforce the laws is lacking. The biggest problem facing immigration reform is the effective but bogus 'racializing' (linking something to race) of immigration enforcement. This is demonstrated when open borders advocates wrongly accuse enforcement advocates of being racist, Klu Klux Klan, etc. The media is significantly to blame for the illegal immigration crisis because of their prolific use of euphemisms, lies and omissions. Democrat's liberal guilt and Republican's pandering for cheap labor are to blame as well. Borders are porous and must be secured. Interior enforcement could be easy - just penalize employers with SSN mismatches. The law and procedures are already in place --- all that is missing is our government's will to enforce and that must and will change. There has been much debate on border security but little on document security. If and when the borders are finally secure, little will be achieved unless document security is addressed and solved as law breakers will merely present counterfeit documents to gain entry. http://cis.org/Transcripts/IDTheftPanel
The Three Supremacist Groups: Illegal Immigration and AMNESTY is an extraordinarily difficult issue to address because the pro-AMNESTY anti-enforcement arguments come from three different groups, each with unique arguments. Each group has a perceived benefit which they believe trump the rule of law. Nonetheless, the overwhelming majority of citizens oppose illegal immigration and AMNESTY.
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Moral Supremacists. Often religious groups such as the Catholic
Church claim morality as a reason to ignore the rule of
law. While human rights and morality advocates may
vociferously claim that it is not wrong to cross a
border illegally such a right is not provided in the
widely accepted
United Nations Universal
Declaration of Human Rights
which states in Article 13, line 2: 2. Economic Supremacists. Often economic interests claim that their interests supersede the rule of law in order to profit from lower wage foreign labor. For example, the Chamber of Commerce has a massive lobby to insure the flow of illegal foreign labor to a subset of Chamber members who want to hire foreign workers rather than American workers. The downside is that the social costs of supporting masses of foreign laborers accrue to tax payers and local governments in addition to making an uneven playing field for the businesses who abide by the law. 3. Racial/Ethnic Supremacists. Groups like National Council of La Raza (The Race) loudly and actively espouse that Hispanics should not be subject to the rule of law. While Hispanics are widely represented, there are many other ethno-centric groups as well with each group seeking special treatment for their racial, cultural, or ethnic preferences.
The Seven Amnesties Passed by Congress: The most important aspect of the history of amnesties is that the 1986 was promoted as the last amnesty. The enforcement provisions of the 1986 amnesty were never enforced and led to today’s current crisis. They were described as “amnesty” in the past but now is touted as “Comprehensive Immigration Reform.” http://www.numbersusa.com/content/learn/illegal-immigration/seven-amnesties-passed-congress.html http://www.cis.org/irca-amnesty http://www.fairus.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=16701&security=1601&news_iv_ctrl=1007
Inaccurate Language: The “debate” on immigration has been more of a name-calling contest than a real discussion of the cost/benefits of legal and illegal immigration. It has been difficult to rationally discuss the problem because of skewed definitions, euphemisms, oxymorons and other word games.
Amnesty and Joblessness: American workers real wages and benefits have been stagnant or decreased over the past few decades. Unemployment is currently over 10%. Underemployment is significant but generally not an issue because of overemphasis on the very narrow short-term unemployment statistic. Almost forgotten in the jobs debate is the old trusted law of supply and demand. With the mass inflow of foreign labor over several decades, supply is up and should be no surprise that wages and benefits are stagnant or down. Because of the oversupply of low skill workers, newly arrived immigrants (legal by definition) are disproportionally affected. http://www.fairus.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=20919&security=1601&news_iv_ctrl=1007 http://cis.org/UnemploymentAmongNativeWorkers
USCIS There has been very little discussion on how persons given amnesty would be processed. USCIS does not have the capability to process applicants in a secure manner. http://www.cis.org/uscis-backlog
Costs: With our dire financial crisis and mounting job losses facing US citizens and immigrants (legal by definition), we can no longer afford the huge costs of illegal invasion and AMNESTY. http://www.flimen.org/illegal_immigration-FL_Facts.htm http://www.flimen.org/impacts.htm http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html http://www.cis.org/immigrants_profile_2007 (pg. 32, tables 21-26) http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=research_focus3cd6_sup%20
Benefits of preventing illegal immigration & saying no to AMNESTY:
Additional AMNESTY Information: National sites:
www.cis.org State sites: January 7, 2010 |
2) Florida's Illegal Alien Hiring Halls Section
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:
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:
Actions you should take to help shut down El Sol are:
Fellow citizens, we have the fight of our lives if we are to save this country! February 26, 2008 |
FLIMEN Revised: August 19, 2010. |
