Immigration
Sonora Legislators Demand Repeal of Arizona Immigration Law
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A delegation of nine state legislators from Sonora traveled to Tucson to make the case against Arizona’s new employer sanctions law.
The lawmakers say it will have a devastating affect on the Mexican state.
At a news conference Tuesday, they said Sonora cannot handle the demand for housing, jobs and schools it will face as illegal Mexican workers in Arizona return to their hometowns without jobs or money.
The law, which took effect Jan.1, punishes employers who knowingly hire individuals who don’t have valid legal documents to work in the United States.
Businesses found violating the law face suspension or loss of a business license.
The lawmakers were to travel to Phoenix Wednesday for a breakfast meeting with Hispanic legislators.
They’re expected to tell them how the law will affect Mexican families on both sides of the border.
“How can they pass a law like this?” asked Mexican Rep. Leticia Amparano Gamez, who represents Nogales. “There is not one person living in Sonora who does not have a friend or relative working in Arizona,” Amparano said in Spanish.
Amparano said the Sonoran legislators are already asking the federal government of Mexico for help.
Rep. Florencio Diaz Armenta, coordinator of the delegation, represents the agricultural rich San Luis, Rio Colorado, area south of Yuma which employs some 28,000 legal Mexican workers.
“What do we do with the repatriated?” he asked. “As Mexicans, we are worried. They are Mexicans but they are also people’s fathers and mothers and young people with jobs who won’t have work in Sonora.”
Diaz said the Arizona law will lead to the disintegration of the family, as one legal Mexican parent remains in Arizona and the other returns to Mexico.
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In a recent speech delivered to the Constitution Party state convention in Salt Lake City, Utah, Ronald M. Mann, former advisor to President Ronald Reagan and co-chairman of the Constitution Bicentennial Commission, proposed four questions that every American should answer for himself in regards to illegal immigration:
- Are we a nation of law or a nation of man? Does this country operate based on the rule of law or the rule of personal preference of whoever is in office?
- Do we want national sovereignty? Do we want our borders intact, or do we want them erased? Do we want to preserve our standard of living and our way of life, or do we want Canada's socialism and Mexico's corruption and poverty?
- Can we afford the cost of supporting people who do not contribute to the system? Can we afford to subsidize housing, education, health care, and other services from our tax dollars when those who are receiving the support do not themselves pay taxes, who in fact send their tax-free wages outside our country to bolster the economies of their home countries?
- Are we willing to do something about this situation while there is still time? Is the state of Utah willing to cut off the subsidies and crack down on employers who perpetuate the problem?
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How the Government Spends Taxpayers' Money
From an article by Phyllis Schlafly
Posted 23 April 2008
EagleForum.org
Are you having a hard time paying your bills, making your mortgage payments, or putting your kids through college? You need to know how much of your hard-earned income the government is skimming off and diverting into handouts to immigrants and illegal aliens.
You can read the depressing details in the new 70-page document called "The Economic and Fiscal Impact of Immigration" written by Edwin S. Rubenstein. A Manhattan Institute adjunct fellow with a mile-long scholarly resume, he has been doing financial analysis ever since he directed the studies of government waste for the prestigious Grace Commission of 1984.
The bottom line, which you need to know for your own bottom line, is that U.S. taxpayers are giving more than $9,000 a year in cash or benefits to each immigrant, a third of whom are illegal aliens. That's $36,000 for each immigrant household of four.
Read Ms. Schlafly's entire article.
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