Gang's Immigration Bill to Cost $6.3 Trillion May 6, 2013  The comprehensive immigration overhaul being taken up in the Senate this week  could cost citizen taxpayers $6.3 trillion if 11 million illegal immigrants are granted  legal status, according to a long-awaited estimate by the conservative Heritage  Foundation.  Read more:  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/06/study-pegs-cost-immigration-bills-mass-legalization-at-63t/#ixzz2SXoFiAPQ   ________________________________________________________________                                                                  Tell Senators Cochran & Wicker to Read   the Gang of Eight Bill!    Two days after the massive 844-page Gang of Eight bill was   released, the Senate Judiciary Committee started to hold hearings on the   legislation and wrapped up this critical process less than one week later. The only promise the Gang of Eight has kept regarding   this bill is the pledge to rush it through the Senate!     This week, the U.S. Senate is in recess, so we need your help in   contacting your members while they are at home. Make a call today and ask Senators Cochran and   Wicker to slow down   and read the bill (S. 744).   Sen. Thad Cochran                               202-224-5054 Sen. Roger Wicker                               202-224-6253   Next Thursday, the Judiciary Committee plans to start amending   the bill while most members have yet to read it!  Once the bill   is amended through the committee process, Harry Reid and the Senate leadership plans on rushing the bill through the   chamber as quickly as possible.    Members of the Gang of Eight are deceiving the American people   by calling their bill the "toughest border security and enforcement   measures in U.S. history," and by   claiming it is "not a special path" to citizenship. Consider   what the Gang of Eight is attempting to hide by moving so quickly. The bill:     1. Grants amnesty to illegal aliens simply after the Secretary   of Homeland Security submits plans to secure the border;   2. Grants amnesty to criminals and gang members;   3. Does not require amnestied illegal aliens to pay back-taxes;    4. Does not require amnestied illegal aliens to learn English;    5. Allows illegal aliens to sue the government for   amnesty;    6. Allows the open borders and pro-amnesty lobbies to sue to prevent   enforcement measures from taking place before illegal aliens can receive   green cards;    7. Requires taxpayers foot the bill for illegal aliens to   fight deportations at the Attorney General’s sole and unreviewable   discretion;   8. Requires only 3 of 9 southern border sectors to have a 90%   apprehension rate, leaving the rest in the porous status quo;    9. Grants green cards and citizenship after 5 years to   illegal aliens claiming to have come to the U.S. before the age of 16 who   meet certain criteria; and   10. Effectively halts all deportations for years by   requiring Homeland Security to allow every illegal alien its agents intercept   to apply for amnesty and prohibiting agents from deporting them until the   illegal alien’s application is adjudicated.    Have Cochran and Wicker read the bill yet? Let them know that you   vote and that won't be fooled by fast-talking inside the beltway rhetoric of   "earned paths to citizenship" and "tough enforcement."   Make the call today:   Sen. Thad Cochran                               202-224-5054 Sen. Roger Wicker                               202-224-6253             Former ICE Agent:  Secure the Border & Verify Enforcement First. April 30, 2013   I am a MFIRE member and retired Immigration & Customs Enforcement Agent and served in Mississippi. Throughout my career I and my fellow officers coped with restrictive enforcement guidelines and policies. The so called "comprehensive immigration reform" now being pushed by the Gang of Eight was crafted behind closed doors with big business, big labor unions, and special interest groups representing illegal aliens. Anyone with a significantly different opinion on immigration reform was shut out the by the Gang. This type of secret maneuvering in Washington does not surprise me one bit. Just like the amnesty of 1986 that promised stricter enforcement, we are hearing the same old promises this time around. Unfortunately, I predict that in the end enforcement will again be forced to take a back seat. It is because of a lack of enforcement that we are dealing with the untold millions of illegal aliens in this country. Any new legislation can include whatever language and promises congress and President Obama want, but without securing our borders first and a verifiable enforcement component to back it up, it all means nothing. Harry Moran ICE Supervisory Special Agent (Ret.) Madison, MS           THE PEOPLE WHO BROKE IMMIGRATION WILL NOT FIX IT April 26, 2013, Red State One aspect of my growing skepticism about the immigration reform proposals advanced by Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and his Gang of Eight partners is that our immigration system did not break by accident.  It was mangled, deformed, defanged, and abused on purpose, by both government and private interests.  Rubio’s earnest enthusiasm would be appropriate for someone cleaning up after a natural disaster, but he’s dealing with something closer to sabotage. That’s why all those promises about border security “triggers” ring hollow.   Read more:  http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/04/26/people_who_broke_immigration_will_not_fix

GANG OF EIGHT PRESENT AMNESTY BILL TODAY. LONG-TERM IMPACT TO COST TRILLIONS.   April 18, 2013   Today - Tues., April 18 - the Senate Gang of Eight is set to roll out their version of so called "comprehensive" immigration reform.  "I’ve never seen anything good come from a ‘gang,’” nationally syndicated talk show host Phil Valentine said. “Rubio says it’s not amnesty because it doesn’t forgive anything, but that’s like saying if you rob a bank and you bring back a third of it, they’re gonna forgive you”.  “To me, anything short of E-Verify and cutting off the magnets doesn’t work. And that’s what we’ve been preaching, demagnetize America. There are two magnets that bring any illegal alien here: jobs and benefits from the government. So you cut those off. … They’ll deport themselves. They’ll go where the jobs are. And if the jobs aren’t here, they’ll go back home.” According to Senate Budget Committee Republican Staff, the Gang of Eight's "comprehensive" immigration reform bill will cost taxpayers Trillions of Dollars by giving millions of amnestied former illegal aliens access to federal welfare benefits and poverty programs once they become legal permanent citizens.    To learn what you can do to protect American jobs for legal citizens while securing the border, please go to:  http://www.fairus.org/

 

Betrayal - Republican National Committee Supports Amnesty

Embracing the false notion perpetuated by the open-borders  lobby that the Party will continue to lose elections until it pushes amnesty,  the Republican National Committee (RNC) today told its members they must  support "comprehensive immigration reform." (See Growth  and Opportunity Project at p. 8, Mar. 18, 2013)

The call to support an  amnesty agenda appeared in a report released this morning entitled the "Growth  and Opportunity Project".  Commissioned  by RNC Chairman Reince Priebus in response to the Party's failure to win the  White House or Senate in 2012, the report's authors include Henry Barbour,  Sally Bradshaw, Ari Fleischer, Zori Fonalledas, and Glenn McCall. (Id. at p. 1)

If Republicans fail to  "embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform," the report warns, "our  Party's appeal will continue to shrink to its core constituencies only." However,  in making such a sweeping statement, the report's authors neglect to consider  the number of Americans opposed to amnesty who may either leave the Party or  simply refuse to vote for Republican candidates as a result of such an  about-face by the Party establishment. (Id. at p. 8)

Despite the fact that  granting a reprieve to the nation's 11-12 million illegal aliens will increase  job competition for the 22 million un/underemployed Americans, as well as the  number of individuals who are eligible for public assistance and ObamaCare, the  RNC also claims amnesty will help grow the economy.  "We also believe that comprehensive  immigration reform is consistent with Republican economic policies that promote  job growth and opportunity for all."   (Id.)

In issuing the report,  the RNC appears to be taking its marching orders on immigration policy from  President Obama.  In a closed-door  meeting with Republican lawmakers at the White House last Wednesday, President  Obama told them they would benefit more from passing amnesty legislation than  the Democrats.  (Associated Press, Mar. 13,  2013)  Only five days later, the RNC  appears to agree, calling on its members to support "comprehensive" immigration  reform. 

To express your views to  the RNC, call 202-863-8500. You can also email them at  http://www.gop.com/contact-us/

Update:  MS Illegal Immigration Enforcement Legislation - 2013

 

After years of illegal immigration enforcement legislation dying in the Democrat controlled MS House of Representatives, hopes were high for a breakthrough on enforcement legislation when Republicans gained majorities in both the house and senate two years ago.

 

Expectations were dashed last year when the Republican controlled house passed a strong illegal immigration bill, only to see it killed in a Republican dominated senate without a vote.

This year several effective immigration enforcement bills were filed in the house and senate. As expected none of the senate bills survived the committee process. However, unexpectedly, several strong bills died in house committee.

 

HB 1221, designed to strengthen our current E-Verify law by requiring the Attorney General to enforce lawful hiring by employers, did receive committee support.  House leadership decided not to bring the bill to the floor and allow a vote.

Regardless of what happens at the federal level, state enforcement is necessary to protect our citizens.

There is no indication that President Obama will vigorously apply enforcement mechanisms that are already in place under current law. Without effective enforcement on the federal - or state - levels, illegal immigration PROBLEMS will persist.

 

MFIRE needs your continued support and activism in helping our elected leaders to understand that jobs and public benefits should only go to Mississippi citizens and qualified legal immigrants.

Rodney Hunt

President - MFIRE

 

Illegal Labor Pool Impacts U.S. Unemployment

Americans with Minimal Education Compete for Jobs with Illegals

WASHINGTON (December 18, 2012) – A new study released by the Center for Immigration Studies shows the impact of amnesty on American workers. Illegal immigrants, of whom 79% have no more than a high school education, compete with less-educated U.S.-born citizens for employment opportunities. Of the 54.7 million working-age Americans not holding a job, more than half (27.7million) have no education beyond high school.
The complete study can be found at: http://cis.org/amnesty-and-the-employment-picture-for-less-educated-workers
"The president seems to believe that jobs are plentiful for less-educated Americans who compete with illegal immigrants for jobs. In fact, the employment picture for such workers remains bleak," notes the study’s author, Dr. Steven Camarota, the Center’s Director of Research.
Of the 11-12 million illegal immigrants in the United States, seven to eight million are thought to be holding jobs. It is less-educated U.S.-born minorities and the young who are impacted the most by the size of the pool of potential workers in the U.S., as their unemployment rates are much higher than those for the population as a whole.

• For the native-born who are young (18-29) with a high school education, the unemployment rate is similar to those who have not completed high school (all ages) — 18.5 percent vs. 17.2 percent.

• For U.S.-born Hispanics without a high school education, the U-6 unemployment rate is 32.5 percent.• For young U.S.-born Hispanic high school graduates, the U-6 unemployment rate is 28.8 percent.

• For U.S.-born blacks without a high school education, the U-6 unemployment rate is 44.4%.

• For young U.S.-born blacks without a high school education, the U-6 unemployment is 41.8%.

 

 

 

 

AMNESTY WON'T GET REPUBLICANS ELECTED

Phyllis Schlafly

November 28, 2012

 

The Republican strategists who confidently predicted that their candidate, Mitt Romney, would win the 2012 election are already pontificating about what Republicans must do to win in 2016. After their disastrous defeat, strategy and policy mistakes, and expensive super PAC advertising that failed to win votes, why should anybody take their advice again?

The elitists now tell us that amnesty for illegal aliens, a.k.a. “immigration reform,” is the key to future Republican nirvana. That’s wrong-headed advice.

Read more:  http://www.eagleforum.org/publications/column/amnesty-wont-elect-republicans.html#.ULbfhaCm6Lg.email

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Gov. Phil Bryant Joins Suit to Stop Illegal Immigration

Joins Border Patrol Agents to Challenge "Big Sis" Napolitano - Sec. of Homeland Security

October 10, 2012

Governor Phil Bryant, on behalf of the state of Mississippi, today joined a federal lawsuit challenging Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano’s directive ordering federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers not to enforce federal immigration laws or initiate removal proceedings against a broad class of approximately 1.7 million illegal immigrants.

Read more on MississippiPep.com:  http://mississippipep.wordpress.com/

ACTION TO TAKE NOW:  Call Governor Bryant and thank him for looking out for the tax paying legal citizens of Mississippi.  His phone is 601-359-3150

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Amnesty by Executive Fiat Plan Implemented Today

This is an administrative version of the DREAM Act, which Congress has repeatedly rejected. The White House claims it’s just setting enforcement priorities, exercising “prosecutorial discretion” over whom to arrest and deport, and that those who benefit are just getting a temporary reprieve from deportation. That is a brazen lie.

Read more:  http://cis.org/

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Study:  Obama "Dismantles" Immigration Enforcement

July 24, 2012, Fox News

A detailed timeline being released this week by a leading anti-illegal  immigration group documents what the organization describes as a pattern by the  Obama administration of looking the other way on immigration  enforcement.

While the charges are not necessarily new, the detailed list of grievances  regarding the administration's immigration policy could provide fodder for those  trying to paint President Obama as weak on enforcement in advance of the  November election.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07/24/study-accuses-obama-administration-gutting-immigration-enforcement/#ixzz21ZsELGoC

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THE SUPREME COURT, IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT & MISSISSIPPI

July 27, 2012 - Yall Politics / Frank Corder - Opinion

The U.S. Supreme Court handed down it ruling on Arizona's hotly debated illegal immigration law on Monday.  Many in Mississippi have sought to build on the legislation as the federal government continues to refuse to handle the issue.  Rep. Becky Currie and others in the legislature stepped out last session to promote the effort. Gov. Phil Bryant was even on board.

Read more:    

http://yallpolitics.com/index.php/yp/post/32557/

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SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS IMMIGRATION CHECKS

Naked Lawlessness:  Obama’s Amnesty-by-Fiat

Charles Krauthammer (June 22, 2012)

“With respect to the notion that I can just suspend deportations [of immigrants brought here illegally as children] through executive order, that’s just not the case, because there are laws on the books that Congress has passed.”

— President Obama, March 28, 2011

Those laws remain on the books. They have not changed. Yet Obama last week suspended these very deportations — granting infinitely renewable “deferred action” with attendant work permits — thereby unilaterally rewriting the law. And doing precisely what he himself admits he is barred from doing.

Obama had tried to change the law. In late 2010, he asked Congress to pass the Dream Act, which offered a path to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of young illegal immigrants. Congress refused.

When subsequently pressed by Hispanic groups to simply implement the law by executive action, Obama explained that it would be illegal. “Now, I know some people want me to bypass Congress and change the laws on my own. . . . But that’s not how our system works. That’s not how our democracy functions. That’s not how our Constitution is written.”

That was then. Now he’s gone and done it anyway. It’s obvious why. The election approaches and his margin is slipping. He needs a big Hispanic vote and this is the perfect pander. After all, who will call him on it? A supine press? Congressional Democrats? Nothing like an upcoming election to temper their Bush 43-era zeal for defending Congress’s exclusive Article I power to legislate.

With a single Homeland Security Department memo, the immigration laws no longer apply to 800,000 people. By what justification? Prosecutorial discretion, says Janet Napolitano.

This is utter nonsense. Prosecutorial discretion is the application on a case-by-case basis of considerations of extreme and extenuating circumstances. No one is going to deport, say, a 29-year-old illegal immigrant whose parents had just died in some ghastly accident and who is the sole support for a disabled younger sister and ailing granny. That’s what prosecutorial discretion is for. The Napolitano memo is nothing of the sort. It’s the unilateral creation of a new category of persons — a class of 800,000 — who, regardless of individual circumstance, are hereby exempt from current law so long as they meet certain biographic criteria.

This is not discretion. This is a fundamental rewriting of the law.

Imagine: A Republican president submits to Congress a bill abolishing the capital gains tax. Congress rejects it. The president then orders the IRS to stop collecting capital gains taxes and declares that anyone refusing to pay them will suffer no fine, no penalty, no sanction whatsoever. (Analogy first suggested by law professor John Yoo.)

It would be a scandal, a constitutional crisis, a cause for impeachment. Why? Because unlike, for example, war powers, this is not an area of perpetual executive-legislative territorial contention. Nor is cap gains, like the judicial status of unlawful enemy combatants, an area where the law is silent or ambiguous. Capital gains is straightforward tax law. Just as Obama’s bombshell amnesty-by-fiat is a subversion of straightforward immigration law.

It is shameful that congressional Democrats are applauding such a brazen end run. Of course it’s smart politics. It divides Republicans, rallies the Hispanic vote and preempts Marco Rubio’s attempt to hammer out an acceptable legislative compromise. Very clever. But, by Obama’s own admission, it is naked lawlessness.

As for policy, I sympathize with the obvious humanitarian motives of the Dream Act. But two important considerations are overlooked in concentrating exclusively on the Dream Act poster child, the straight-A valedictorian who rescues kittens from trees.

First, offering potential illegal immigrants the prospect that, if they can hide just long enough, their children will one day freely enjoy the bounties of American life creates a huge incentive for yet more illegal immigration.

Second, the case for compassion and fairness is hardly as clear-cut as advertised. What about those who languish for years in godforsaken countries awaiting legal admission to America? Their scrupulousness about the law could easily cost their children the American future that illegal immigrants will have secured for theirs.

But whatever our honest and honorable disagreements about the policy, what holds us together is a shared allegiance to our constitutional order. That’s the fundamental issue here. As Obama himself argued in rejecting the executive action he has now undertaken, “America is a nation of laws, which means I, as the president, am obligated to enforce the law. I don’t have a choice about that.”

Except, apparently, when violating that solemn obligation serves his reelection needs.

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April 30, 2012

NEW OPINION POLL SHOWS MS REPUBLICANS FAVOR ENFORCEMENT

Do you support or oppose immigration reform to assist law enforcement officers in enforcing our state and federal immigration laws?   See the survey's memorandum of  findings below:                   

MEMORANDUM FINDINGS

RE: Public Opinion Poll conducted March 29 — April 1, 2012

This telephone survey was conducted from March 29 - April 1, 2012, in DeSoto, Harrison, Madison and Rankin counties, among a sample of 302 identified Republican voters with a margin of error of + or — 5.6%, yielding the following breakdown of responses to the question:

"Do you support or oppose immigration reform designed to assist law enforcement officers in enforcing our state and federal immigration laws?"

83% Support 8% Oppose 9% Unsure

Clearly, Republican voters in the four largest Republican counties in Mississippi are strongly in favor of giving law enforcement officers the ability to enforce state and federal immigration laws.

• The extremely low number of respondents who were opposed or unsure about the question were greatly outweighed by the 83% of respondents who support the concept.

• • The results of this question indicate very strong support for legislation aimed at giving local law enforcement officers the ability to help fight illegal immigration in Mississippi.

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• April 10, 2012

Illegal Immigrants in Mississippi: The Cold Hard Truth

BY: B. Keith Plunkett

Effort to Increase Enforcement Fails

April 6, 2011

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – A house chairman on Thursday abandoned his effort to revive tougher immigration enforcement provisions that included requiring local police to report suspected illegal immigrants to federal authorities.

HB 488 (the MFIRE endorsed Immigration Enforcement) the bill, which was killed earlier this week by a Senate Dem. Chairman Hob Bryan who was appointed by Republican Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves, now appears to be dead this legislative session.

Through his spokesperson, Tate Reeves earlier indicated that increasing enforcement of the law against illegal immigration is not a priority. 

Read more:  http://www.memphisdailynews.com/news/2012/apr/6/effort-to-renew-miss-immigration-enforcement-ends/

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Gov. Bryant Stands Firm for Immigration Enforcement Bill

March 29, 2012 (Clarion Ledger)

Republican Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves refers bill to Judiciary B Committee chaired by Democrat Hob Bryan, who voted against enforcement  last year.   

Read more:  http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20120329/NEWS/203290346/Bryant-not-budging-immigration

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Mississippi House Passes Immigration Enforcement Legislation.  March 19, 2012

The Mississippi House of Representatives passed an omnibus immigration enforcement bill, H.B. 488, by a bi-partisan vote of 70-47. 

The bill, entitled “Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhood Act,” is similar to both Arizona’s SB 1070 and Alabama’s HB 56. The bill’s key provisions do the following:

• Require law enforcement officers to determine a person’s immigration status during a lawful arrest if they have reasonable suspicion the person is an illegal alien (§2);
• Prohibits state and local sanctuary policies (§2);
• Prohibit illegal aliens from entering into state business transactions (§3);
• Requires the revocation of the business license of any employer who knowingly hires an illegal alien (§5); and
• Grants the State Board of Contractors authority to review contractor compliance with the State’s mandatory E-Verify law (§8); and
• Authorizes the Governor to research and publish information regarding jobs that may become available by passing the Act (§ 11)

The bill provides that its provisions do not apply to nonprofit, religious, or charitable organizations who provide immediate basic and human needs to illegal aliens. (§9)

Supporters of the bill explained their motivation to pass H.B. 488.  “It's about the rule of law,” Mississippi House Judiciary B Committee Chairman Andy Gipson (R) said about the bill.  (Fox News Latino, Mar. 15, 2012) “We want to say you're welcome here, we just want you to follow the proper procedures, the proper protocols.” (Id.)

However, the Southern Poverty Law Center has told Mississippi officials it will sue the state if the bill passes. “I would suggest that just because the state can pass that doesn't mean it's a good idea,” said Mary Bower, legal director for the SPLC. (CNN, Mar. 16, 2012)

Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant’s spokesman said the Governor would not be deterred from supporting the bill by the threat of a lawsuit. (Id.)

The bill now heads to the Mississippi Senate. 

 Action to Take: Encourage individual senators, the leadership, and Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves to bring the bill out of Senate Judiciary A Committee for a floor vote. The taxpaying citizens of this state deserve nothing less.

Lt. Gov. Reeves' phone is (601) 359-3200.