Comments on: Speaking of Illegals… http://www.mainstreetj.com/2006/03/25/300 Politics and Culture Done Just Right Wed, 01 Nov 2006 20:03:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Mary Chamberlain http://www.mainstreetj.com/2006/03/25/300#comment-850 Mon, 01 May 2006 12:54:37 +0000 http://www.mainstreetj.com/2006/03/25/300#comment-850 A STORY YOU WON'T FORGET To see what is really going on in the State of Tennessee regarding illegal employment of illegal aliens and how it is driving down the wages of poor people trying to earn a living within this State, please go to this site. http://www.vdare.com/misc/tyson_complaint.htm A STORY YOU WON’T FORGET
To see what is really going on in the State of Tennessee regarding illegal employment of illegal aliens and how it is driving down the wages of poor people trying to earn a living within this State, please go to this site.

http://www.vdare.com/misc/tyson_complaint.htm

]]> by: Mary Chamberlain http://www.mainstreetj.com/2006/03/25/300#comment-830 Fri, 28 Apr 2006 10:51:24 +0000 http://www.mainstreetj.com/2006/03/25/300#comment-830 Tennessee has several good bills in the works covering illegal immigrants living in Tennessee. HB2873 and HB3482 - Dept. of Human Services would provide no services without verification of the status of the immigrant applying. SB2877 - deals with employers who knowingly employ illegal aliens and who encourage them to enter Tennessee illegally. It would be a criminal offense to do so. HB242 - all Tennessee driver's license examinations must be given in English. Please contact your Tennessee Representative to support this legislation. At this time we are a silent majority and the illegal activities in this State by employers and illegal workers must not continue. If our State representatives as well as those we sent to Washington to represent us vote down tough immigration laws, do they seriously think that 10 years from now most they will still have a voice in politics? Lawmakers will be Mexican and the current batch of do-nothings in Congress will not only not be inpower, they won't even have a voice in the governing of the United States of Mexico. Tennessee has several good bills in the works covering illegal immigrants living in Tennessee.
HB2873 and HB3482 - Dept. of Human Services would provide no services without verification of the status of the immigrant applying.

SB2877 - deals with employers who knowingly employ illegal aliens and who encourage them to enter Tennessee illegally. It would be a criminal offense to do so.

HB242 - all Tennessee driver’s license examinations must be given in English.

Please contact your Tennessee Representative to support this legislation. At this time we are a silent majority and the illegal activities in this State by employers and illegal workers must not continue.

If our State representatives as well as those we sent to Washington to represent us vote down tough immigration laws, do they seriously think that 10 years from now most they will still have a voice in politics? Lawmakers will be Mexican and the current batch of do-nothings in Congress will not only not be inpower, they won’t even have a voice in the governing of the United States of Mexico.

]]> by: Mickey White http://www.mainstreetj.com/2006/03/25/300#comment-764 Wed, 12 Apr 2006 12:02:35 +0000 http://www.mainstreetj.com/2006/03/25/300#comment-764 The Mexican Solution By Frank Gaffney, Jr. Published April 4, 2006 The Washington Times last week. The Mexican constitution includes the following restrictions: •Pursuant to Article 33, "Foreigners may not in any way participate in the political affairs of the country." This ban applies, among other things, to participation in demonstrations and the expression of opinions in public about domestic politics like those much in evidence in Los Angeles, New York and elsewhere in recent days. •Equal employment rights are denied to immigrants, even legal ones. Article 32: "Mexicans shall have priority over foreigners under equality of circumstances for all classes of concessions and for all employment, positions or commissions of the Government in which the status of citizenship is not indispensable." •Jobs for which Mexican citizenship is considered "indispensable" include, pursuant to Article 32, bans on foreigners, immigrants and even naturalized citizens of Mexico serving as military officers, Mexican-flagged ship and airline crew, and chiefs of seaports and airports. Article 55 denies immigrants the right to become federal lawmakers. A Mexican congressman or senator must be "a Mexican citizen by birth." Article 91 further stipulates that immigrants may never aspire to become cabinet officers, as they are required to be Mexican by birth. Article 95 says the same about Supreme Court justices. In accordance with Article 130, immigrants -- even legal ones -- may not become members of the clergy, either. •Foreigners, to say nothing of illegal immigrants, are denied fundamental property rights. For example, Article 27 states, "Only Mexicans by birth or naturalization and Mexican companies have the right to acquire ownership of lands, waters and their appurtenances, or to obtain concessions for the exploitation of mines or of waters." •Article 11 guarantees federal protection against "undesirable aliens resident in the country." What is more, private individuals are authorized to make citizen's arrests. Article 16 states, "In cases of flagrante delicto, any person may arrest the offender and his accomplices, turning them over without delay to the nearest authorities." In other words, Mexico grants its citizens the right to arrest illegal aliens and hand them over to police for prosecution. Imagine the Minutemen exercising such a right. •The Mexican constitution states that foreigners -- not just illegal immigrants -- may be expelled for any reason and without due process. According to Article 33, "the Federal Executive shall have the exclusive power to compel any foreigner whose remaining he may deem inexpedient to abandon the national territory immediately and without the necessity of previous legal action." The Mexican Solution
By Frank Gaffney, Jr.
Published April 4, 2006
The Washington Times last week.

The Mexican constitution includes the following restrictions:

•Pursuant to Article 33, “Foreigners may not in any way participate in the political affairs of the country.” This ban applies, among other things, to participation in demonstrations and the expression of opinions in public about domestic politics like those much in evidence in Los Angeles, New York and elsewhere in recent days.

•Equal employment rights are denied to immigrants, even legal ones. Article 32: “Mexicans shall have priority over foreigners under equality of circumstances for all classes of concessions and for all employment, positions or commissions of the Government in which the status of citizenship is not indispensable.”

•Jobs for which Mexican citizenship is considered “indispensable” include, pursuant to Article 32, bans on foreigners, immigrants and even naturalized citizens of Mexico serving as military officers, Mexican-flagged ship and airline crew, and chiefs of seaports and airports.

Article 55 denies immigrants the right to become federal lawmakers. A Mexican congressman or senator must be “a Mexican citizen by birth.” Article 91 further stipulates that immigrants may never aspire to become cabinet officers, as they are required to be Mexican by birth. Article 95 says the same about Supreme Court justices.

In accordance with Article 130, immigrants — even legal ones — may not become members of the clergy, either.

•Foreigners, to say nothing of illegal immigrants, are denied fundamental property rights. For example, Article 27 states, “Only Mexicans by birth or naturalization and Mexican companies have the right to acquire ownership of lands, waters and their appurtenances, or to obtain concessions for the exploitation of mines or of waters.”

•Article 11 guarantees federal protection against “undesirable aliens resident in the country.” What is more, private individuals are authorized to make citizen’s arrests. Article 16 states, “In cases of flagrante delicto, any person may arrest the offender and his accomplices, turning them over without delay to the nearest authorities.” In other words, Mexico grants its citizens the right to arrest illegal aliens and hand them over to police for prosecution. Imagine the Minutemen exercising such a right.

•The Mexican constitution states that foreigners — not just illegal immigrants — may be expelled for any reason and without due process. According to Article 33, “the Federal Executive shall have the exclusive power to compel any foreigner whose remaining he may deem inexpedient to abandon the national territory immediately and without the necessity of previous legal action.”

]]> by: Joe Populist http://www.mainstreetj.com/2006/03/25/300#comment-575 Sun, 26 Mar 2006 17:54:10 +0000 http://www.mainstreetj.com/2006/03/25/300#comment-575 Latino immigration is a form of welfare for the rich. It's incorrect that Latinos "do work that Americans won't do"...more like Latinos work for wages that Americans know they can't live on. Instead the Latinos get by on subsidized housing, food stamps, free lunches at school for their kids, Medicare, and the biggest incentive of all---the earned income tax credit, the "negative income tax". Ironically, the illegal immigrant earning $10-15 getting welfare, lives as well as the native born working stiff making $18-20 an hour, after you count in all the benefits. Ultimately, this amounts to a subsidy to the employers who depend on the immigrants for their business viability. It's these sorts of businessmen that depend on socially subsidized immigrant labor that are ultimately the real culprits. But the Republican Party, a party that exists for the interests of the CEO classes, and Wall Street Bankers continues to push for 'guest worker programs'. If the Republican Party knows what's good for them, they'd consider the view of the working stiff on Main Street who prides himself on taking care of himself and his family WITHOUT resorting to government handouts, watching these immigrants live as good or as better as he and his family. The fact that thanks to the Supreme Court, immigrants qualify for affirmative action quotas, and special consideration for small business loans, the real injustice is not the immigrants, but the Republican base, the very ones who swung the vote in '04 to President Bush. The immigration problem would end by attrition if the border was closed, and the welfare ended. Throw a bunch of these Republican "free market" businessmen in jail would be icing on the cake. Latino immigration is a form of welfare for the rich. It’s incorrect that Latinos “do work that Americans won’t do”…more like Latinos work for wages that Americans know they can’t live on. Instead the Latinos get by on subsidized housing, food stamps, free lunches at school for their kids, Medicare, and the biggest incentive of all—the earned income tax credit, the “negative income tax”. Ironically, the illegal immigrant earning $10-15 getting welfare, lives as well as the native born working stiff making $18-20 an hour, after you count in all the benefits. Ultimately, this amounts to a subsidy to the employers who depend on the immigrants for their business viability. It’s these sorts of businessmen that depend on socially subsidized immigrant labor that are ultimately the real culprits. But the Republican Party, a party that exists for the interests of the CEO classes, and Wall Street Bankers continues to push for ‘guest worker programs’. If the Republican Party knows what’s good for them, they’d consider the view of the working stiff on Main Street who prides himself on taking care of himself and his family WITHOUT resorting to government handouts, watching these immigrants live as good or as better as he and his family. The fact that thanks to the Supreme Court, immigrants qualify for affirmative action quotas, and special consideration for small business loans, the real injustice is not the immigrants, but the Republican base, the very ones who swung the vote in ‘04 to President Bush. The immigration problem would end by attrition if the border was closed, and the welfare ended. Throw a bunch of these Republican “free market” businessmen in jail would be icing on the cake.

]]> by: Donna Locke http://www.mainstreetj.com/2006/03/25/300#comment-572 Sun, 26 Mar 2006 03:55:35 +0000 http://www.mainstreetj.com/2006/03/25/300#comment-572 The big Georgia demagnetization bill, SB 529, has passed the Georgia Senate and House. It has now gone back to the Senate to reconcile changes made in the House, including an amendment to tax remittances (wire transfers of money to foreign countries) by illegal aliens. The bill would curb taxpayer benefits to illegal aliens and stop/regulate the employers who hire them. A number of Tennessee bills in play last year and this year would do the same things and even more. Georgia has the advantage of a Republican majority now; it also has 1 million to 2 million illegal aliens in the state (ignore the "official" Census numbers of illegals; those numbers aren't accurate; extrapolations made by economists and labor analysts are more accurate). Tennessee will have both the Republican majority and those illegal numbers before long. Tennessee could pass the bills already introduced and start dealing with this situation right now. The bills are there. And Memphis-area legislators introduced some of them. The longer we wait, the deeper into the hole we are. The Democratic leadership in this state is the major obstacle. Donna Locke Tennesseans for Immigration Control and Reform (a politically diverse network) tncoalition at hotmail dot com The big Georgia demagnetization bill, SB 529, has passed the Georgia Senate and House. It has now gone back to the Senate to reconcile changes made in the House, including an amendment to tax remittances (wire transfers of money to foreign countries) by illegal aliens.

The bill would curb taxpayer benefits to illegal aliens and stop/regulate the employers who hire them.

A number of Tennessee bills in play last year and this year would do the same things and even more. Georgia has the advantage of a Republican majority now; it also has 1 million to 2 million illegal aliens in the state (ignore the “official” Census numbers of illegals; those numbers aren’t accurate; extrapolations made by economists and labor analysts are more accurate). Tennessee will have both the Republican majority and those illegal numbers before long.

Tennessee could pass the bills already introduced and start dealing with this situation right now. The bills are there. And Memphis-area legislators introduced some of them.

The longer we wait, the deeper into the hole we are. The Democratic leadership in this state is the major obstacle.

Donna Locke
Tennesseans for Immigration Control and Reform
(a politically diverse network)
tncoalition at hotmail dot com

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