Sadly, today Krazy Kris Kobach could earn a victory in Nebraska despite his track record for getting shut down on appeal.
A mostly anti-Latino vote to aimed at illegal immigrants is going down today in Fremont, Nebraska.
What's unfortunate is that so many supporters of this nonsense don't realize the negative impact these kinds of hateful measures will have on their own economies. Fremont, Nebraska officials have estimated that the legal action that would result against today's vote would cost $1 million per year to fight – costs that would have to be covered by property tax raises and city job cuts.
This kind of unnecessary expense is exactly what the Kansas City Council and Mayor voted against with their rebuke of Arizona Hate Law.
Still, Un-Christian, hateful and myopic anti-Latino activists stay on their self-destructive course. There is no doubt that a great many of these folks are motivated by racism given that their actions were only inspired when Latino populations started to rise.
But it's too late. Your daughter is going to date a Latino dude . . . One that's probably not even as educated as TKC given the current dropout rate for my people.
And because of so much discrimination, hatred and stripping away U.S. Rights in the name of Nativism . . . Your grandkids are going to be Latinos with thick accents that would make Cheech Marin sound like an English Professor.
With anti-immigration haters claiming that there are 20 million "illegals" in the United States -- What they don't realize is simple: That's not a problem, THAT'S A NATION. At this point nearly all of these people are friendly and enthusiastic about becoming Americans . . . But if this hatred persists and keeps driving AMERICAN FAMILIES closer to the fringe . . . That attitude could change and already Latinos are giving up their Conservative affiliations despite the similarities of their cultural upbringing.
The fact remains . . . They really can't deport us all . . . And I can only be comforted by the fact that folks frustrated with immigration or Latinos and Mexicans are COMPLETELY UNPREPARED FOR THE INCOMING INFLUX OF IMMIGRATION FROM MUSLIM NATIONS!!!
Just wait . . . You anti-immigrant meanies will be begging for the good, Catholic Mexicans back. And for better or worse, there will always be Mexicans on which to beat up.
hawt.
ReplyDeleteLatinos are going to be the ones losing if they don't give up the racial anti-latino aspects of this backlash to illegal immigrants.
ReplyDeleteThey need to be either Mexicans or Americans. Americans of all colors need to insist the illegals immigrate the right way.
This racial crap is starting to wear thin. There is nothing to make an illegal seem more of an invader than not being able to speak English.
The Catholics worked very very hard to teach the Vietnamese boat people how to speak English. So should the mother church of the many Hispanics who sneak in here.
Learning English as fast as one can is the surest sign to Americans that foreigners want to become part of this society. And I think it will make naturalization much faster!
This is a total mischaracterization of the efforts to stop illegal immigration, and you know it.
ReplyDeletenope. reads right on to me. And it sounds expensive.
ReplyDeleteRadioman is on target. Come to America legally, learn English (while retaining your heritage, that's fine) and call yourself an American.
ReplyDeleteI do wonder about the Catholic Church. I would hope the priests are encouraging their parishioners to obey the laws of the United States. Surely they wouldn't be doing the opposite, would they?
ReplyDeleteHot! I'm voting for him even if I would have to move.
ReplyDeleteRadio is smoking crack. There is nothing wrong with having pride in where you come from.
ReplyDeleteEver been to New York, Chicago, Boston, Philly? Ever been to Germania towns around the country? How about Little Balkans Days in Kansas? Count the different flags and languages you hear buddy. Ever been to the Congressional Library? Count the languag recordings of The Star-Spangled Banner.
Having pride in your heritage is what makes this country great. Taking where you come from and celebrating where you are going in America--The American Dream.
Everyone agrees that illegal immigration needs to be minimized as much as possible--I say minimized because it will never end as no country has zero illegal immigrants entering. But head hunting Latinos or Latino looking people or people that present a "reasonable suspicion" of being illegal is not America jack.
Face it these laws written by racist Kris Kobach do nothing to solve the problem; they just make it worst. They just polarize America. They make small rural American towns xenophobic for the purpose of political elections; in particular his own future political elections.
You want Apartheid? You want concentration camps for arrested individuals, documented or undocumented, as proposed by Joe Arpaio and other Arizona candidates? You want landmines on the border? You want alligators in rivers? You want people walking around randomly pointing at dark skinned people so that police check their papers? You want dark-skinned people arrested for being "terrorists"? You want ethnic and cultural studies, art and literature courses and books banned in your schools? You want the kids of your friends who marry non-citizen legal immigrants or foreign residents denied U.S. Citizenship?
If so, I recommend you find another country because that shit doesn't and shouldn't happen in America. Other racist legislators proposed it and made it happen and guess what...it was reversed and found to be racist.
Ohh yeah and unconstitutional. God Bless America!
ReplyDeleteYou've swallowed all the PC bullshit. Only when people realize that America is also a good place to be from will they become Americans. Until then, they're just foreigners with naturalization papers.
ReplyDeleteHalf of my family came here in 1665, and the other half in about 1915. I'm 2 generations down from the 1915 half. My mother was one. She knew some Lituanian dishes, but couldn't speak it like her mother could. And wasn't born in Vilnius like HER mother was.
I read a piece the other day that says once Hispanics become light enough, they quit being hispanics and just become white. Not sure about the Indian Hispanics though.
Racism is about attitudes and assigning values. It would be better if people recognized colors for what they are. That would be Colorism, which shouldn't be a bad word.
Americanism is about perspective. If you want to worship your ancestors ways of life, like American Indians worship being hunters and gatherers, fine. In my view, that's only about dressing up in period costumes, or eating ethnic food.
People who put their Ethnic heritage before the hyphen don't know what it's like to be an American because they put the emphasis on the first part. They still have their weight on the foot still in their ancestral country.
You're full of shit.
Tony said: "The fact remains . . . They really can't deport us all . "
ReplyDeleteThey can't deport US ALL? Tony, are you an illegal alien? No one is talking about deporting LEGAL aliens and citizens who weren't born here in the U.S. What in the world are you talking about?
Kobach is "polarizing" America -- On one side are the people who want to secure our borders and see our laws enforced. On the other side are people who don't want to secure our borders, don't want U.S. laws enforced and who apparently think everyone in the world can come to this country without restrictions.
ReplyDeleteSometimes a little "polarization" is good.
Bullshit 10:55 am. Tell me how Kris Kobach written laws secure our borders and see "our laws" constitutionally enforced?
ReplyDeleteAlso, I have not once heard the comprehensive immigration reform crowd call for an open border. Face it we won't, can't and shouldn't deport 12 million people. How about legislation with education? Because right now banning books and classes, randomly asking Latinos for their papers, lightening the skin color of kids on murals and denying citizenship papers to kids born on U.S. soil from at least 1 immigrant parent, legal or not, doesn't solve any of the problems you mention.
And 10:53 pm, I think Tony was correct in his statement as over 7,000 legal citizens, mostly Latino have been wrongfully deported since 2003.
Also, as we speak in all of the raids taking place in Arizona over 30% of the people arrested and turned over to INS for possible deportation are legal U.S. Citizens.
"Sometimes a little polarization is good"?
ReplyDeleteHey 10:55 isn't that what they said when passing the Chinese Exclusion Act? Isn't that what they said when denying citizenship papers to Native Americans? Isn't that what they said when putting Jim Crow into Law? Isn't that what they said during the Philadelphia Fires? Isn't that what they said when looking for Japanese? How about the Red Scare nder McCarthyism? Nazi Germany? Under the Franco regime in Spain? In Rwanda? How about South African Apartheid? Present day Venezuela?
Yeah, that is what they said and look how all of those incidents have turned out.
I want to see proof that legal citizens are being deported. How is that possible? I don't believe it.
ReplyDeleteFremont, not Freemont.
ReplyDeleteI know FDR and the Democrats put American citizens in internment camps during WW2, but I also don't believe American citizens are being deported today.
ReplyDeleteIf American citizens are being deported today, why hasn't President Obama and the Democrats done something about it? If it is happening, it is their fault and some heads should roll.
ReplyDeleteI'm saying this as a conservative Republican, and I'm not joking.
I have never heard Obama or any politicians say American citizens are being deported. If it had happened during the Bush years, the Dems would have been shouting it from the hilltops.
ReplyDeleteMy guess: Didn't happened. Ain't happening now.
11:13: Did you read about them deportations in the National Enquirer? I read where Prince William had eloped, but guess I missed the deportation story.
ReplyDeleteYeah. It's FREMONT, NEWBRASKA.
ReplyDeleteYeah. It's FREMONT, NEWBRASKA.
ReplyDeleteYour daughter is going to date a Latino dude . . . One that's probably not even as educated as TKC given the current dropout rate for my people.
ReplyDeleteWhy do Latinos drop out at such a high rate? And how's that working out for them?
Radioman is manic-depressive, take your lithium. Next, thing you know he will be boycotting the IRISH on St. Patrick's day with all those Irish flags and buttons that say "kiss me I'm Irish." It seems the Irish have not given up much...why should Latinos.
ReplyDeleteAs for KrzyKrisKobach..UMKC School of Law should just give him a legal clinic... Kris Kobach Center for Hate and Injustice; Fred Phelps could be a visiting professor. And UMKC could start a new Law Journal...Segregation its Constitutional. With Topics like Brown v. Board of Education is wrong, Why Aparthied could be LEGAL, Reconquista of the SW America by Mexico..what would be the Law?
By Kris Kobach as a UMKC School of Law Professor, UMKC has yet to meet its potential revenue stream available by the HATE groups that support KrxyKK.
UMKC School of Law Supports hate with MO. Citizens Tax Dollars.
"Hey 10:55 isn't that what they said when passing the Chinese Exclusion Act? Isn't that what they said when denying citizenship papers to Native Americans? Isn't that what they said when putting Jim Crow into Law? Isn't that what they said during the Philadelphia Fires? Isn't that what they said when looking for Japanese? How about the Red Scare nder McCarthyism? Nazi Germany? Under the Franco regime in Spain? In Rwanda? How about South African Apartheid? Present day Venezuela?"
ReplyDeleteNone of that really has anything to do with what we are talking about. Sean Penn and a lot of Americans leftists like that dictator in Venezuela, however.
Kobach for Prez!!
ReplyDeleteTony's Theme:
ReplyDeleteAnything I don't like or understand or is different is RACIST or LOSING. Proof? Every negative 'story'(that covers most of them) on this blog.
Jim Crow laws...put into effect by Democrats.
ReplyDeleteInternment of Japanese-Americans...put into effect by Democrats.
What many you do not understand is that Kris Kobach is for the oppression of one race, Mexicans or brown skinned people.
ReplyDeleteAnd that is called Racism, not enforcement of the Law. If you cannot see that, than you too may be a racist.
WHY DOES UMKC School of Law support such a person. It is clear he KKK is not conservative but a hate monger, in the likes of Fred Phelps. Indeed, Kris Kobach is the equivalent of Fred Phelps in the Latino community.
12:50: You're a real joker!
ReplyDeleteI know a you man that is a U.S citizen who was deported to Mexico. It so happens that this young man was raised by his grandparents who spoke only Spanish and they lived on the Westside, so the kid mostly spoke Spanish. The kid was a little slow and had dropped out of school at an early age and lived at home. Well, he got caughtup in a raid by ICE in the neighbor. Long story short- he was deported to Mexico, just across the border. One of his older brothers has to go bring him back. These things happen.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if Kris Kobach is at the Skils Convention...making sure all the participating student have green cards or USA citizens.
ReplyDeleteIf your education in the U.S. has got you confused as to whether or not you're an illegal, than maybe you should get deported.
ReplyDeleteThe biggest reason our own U.S. born latino-americans have for defending illegals is their shared race and their complete and utter ignorance of how much hard work goes into getting a green card and then getting your citizenship.
They don't know because they had it handed to them and they expect us to hand it to every taco-bender that steps across the border.
That being said...we already have plenty of Latino gangbangers, prison inmates, taco makers, busboys, cooks, tree trimmers, roofers, ditch diggers, low rider builders, thieves, drug dealers and guys hanging out under the bridge on Southwest Blvd, so why don't you make it easy on all of us and go back to that Latino paradise down south.
Or...
You could just move to NYC and try to blend in with all the Puerto-Rican's and Dominican's. I'm sure they'd love to have you.
"I wonder if Kris Kobach is at the Skils Convention...making sure all the participating student have green cards or USA citizens."
ReplyDeleteIn a world that wasn't turned upside down, the schools should be doing that.
"Or...
ReplyDeleteYou could just move to NYC and try to blend in with all the Puerto-Rican's and Dominican's. I'm sure they'd love to have you."
As a conservative Republican, let me make one point of criticism about this comment: Puerto Ricans are American citizens.
"The fact remains . . . They really can't deport us all . . . And I can only be comforted by the fact that folks frustrated with immigration or Latinos and Mexicans are COMPLETELY UNPREPARED FOR THE INCOMING INFLUX OF IMMIGRATION FROM MUSLIM NATIONS!!!"
ReplyDeleteHmmm. I wonder how Muslim countries would be prepared for an influx of Christian immigrants? I was reading an article about Morocco over the weekend. That's a fairly modern Muslim country, but no Christian church of former Muslims is allowed.
Same sort of situation is true for almost all but a handful of Muslim countries.
Tony, I think America, for all its flaws, has done a pretty good job on the tolerance and acceptance front. I don't think our Constitution was ever designed to be a suicide pact, however.
Jim Crow laws...put into effect by Democrats.
ReplyDeleteInternment of Japanese-Americans...put into effect by Democrats.
How true, how true.
So, the Republicans want to be Responsible for "JUAN CROW" laws. I called u Stupid, but that would be kind 1:43.
ReplyDeleteEven if I believe 1:43, u and I agree that Krzy Kris is targeting Latinos.
As you make reference to a particular race being interned.
I wonder if UMKC School of Law gets a cut of KKK's legal fees.
I can't believe I'm going to come to Radioman's defense, but methinks not a thing he posted can be construed as leading to opposition to the Irish on St. Pat's day (as anon 12:20 would have it)or to any group celebrating its ethnic heritage. I'm two generations away from "off-the-boat" Irish- most of us have roots somewhere else. But the success stories, especially the 'model minorities' that TKC likes to excoriate from time to time, all have certain things in common: hard work (often the shit jobs,literally), learning the language, and getting their kids a good education so those kids can a) help take care of the rest of the family and b) hire the next wave of immigrants to do the shit jobs. Offering government services and benefits to illegal immigrants warps that completely.
ReplyDeleteAs for anons 11:17 and 10:38, who is likely the same poster, you have certainly breached Godwin's Law in record time and provided us all with a most excellent example of a reductio ad absurdum argument.
Americans went to war in 1941 against white people in Germany. Was that a racist thing?
ReplyDeleteAs to internment of JapAmers into effect by Democrats, Republicans would have sent them to Gitmo... so quit trying to put a racist face on political parties.
The only thing that can be said about today's racism is that most ALL racists are Republicans even tho not all Republicans are racists.
I've noticed most of the namecallers in this thread are open border, racist accusing people. What should that tell us about your values?
You are tolerant of races but intolerant of ideas?
The legal citizens of Fremont NE wanted action by their elected leaders. They went to Kobach to help write the law and have put it up to vote. That's a representative form of government as it should be done.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that the illegals in and around this town are mostly Hispanc has nothing to do with it. If they had a flood of Uzbeks flowing over the border and taking cheaper jobs and sending their money back to Uzbekistan instead of spending it in the local economy the results would be the same. The illegals drive down wages, do little for the local economy, and burden the schools with their children. They may have to raise property taxes just because of the children. So why not fight for sovereignty if your property taxes are going up anyway?
The really biggest problem that makes this intolerant is that most of these people who sneak over the border do so because they can't even be successful in Mexico.
ReplyDeleteSo the last thing we need are millions of unskilled, uneducated people who can't speak the language and have no future but to be leaches on our society.
doesn't matter how many hours they'll work for slave labor, they can't make enough to pull their own weight here. They are a liability, and they should go home.
and thsoe American businessmen who are so greedy as to hire them for slave labor need to go to prison because slavery is against the law and the spirit of our humanity.
Just saw this news report on Yahoo. I wonder if the NAACP will denounce it as racist...
ReplyDelete(How dare they call black women enormous black hoes!)
"Enormous black holes, some of the most powerful sources of radiation in the universe, apparently switch on after galaxies collide, researchers have found.
The centers of as many as a tenth of all galaxies generate more energy than can be explained by stars, with some of these "active galactic nuclei" releasing more radiation than the entire Milky Way galaxy combined, but from a space no larger than our solar system. Astronomers suspect this energy is released when matter falls into giant, supermassive black holes that are up to billions of times the mass of our sun at these galaxies' cores."
As for KrzyKrisKobach..UMKC School of Law should just give him a legal clinic... Kris Kobach Center for Hate and Injustice; Fred Phelps could be a visiting professor. And UMKC could start a new Law Journal...Segregation its Constitutional. With Topics like Brown v. Board of Education is wrong, Why Aparthied could be LEGAL, Reconquista of the SW America by Mexico..what would be the Law?
ReplyDeleteBy Kris Kobach as a UMKC School of Law Professor, UMKC has yet to meet its potential revenue stream available by the HATE groups that support KrxyKK.
That is Hilarious...to Anon poster.
Raidoman is a Wacko do you think America is under attack from Mexico. Radioman is such a whey...
I'm so wacko, when I saw Tony's headline that more remote control pilots and positions are being installed at Whitman, I wondered if the drones will be used in Afghanistan, or Mexico, or Columbia --- three countries importing the most drugs into the US.
ReplyDeleteSeems if we are going to have a successful "WAR ON DRUGS" we should be punishing the growers, not the users. But that's just ME.
Then color me RAIDioman
we CAN deport all illegal mexicans. just wait...
ReplyDeleteThe Tea Bag Party are just “haters not debaters” or as others have dubbed them “screamers not dreamers”, with their failed attempts at stopping Healthcare reform, they say they respect the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence but they do not mind passing laws, through weak Governors (no one voted for this crazy) who only cares about getting elected Governor, on the backs of undocumented workers, that will not pass Constitution muster.
ReplyDeleteBrewer signed into law;
1. S.B. 1070,
2. No permit conceal weapons law,
3. The famous Birthers law,
4. Banning Ethnic studies law,
5. Could she be behind the Mural in Prescott, Arizona, ordered to be whiten,
6. On deck to pass, no citizenship to babies born to undocumented workers,
7. If she can read she should look up Arizona’s House Bill 2779 from two years ago (which was un-constitution and failed when legally challenged),
8. The boycotted Martin Luther King Day, what idiots don’t want another holiday? Yes, you guessed it Arizona.
Well Arizona, you can boycott new holidays and keep passing crazy laws and the rest of us will continue to challenged them in a court of law and continue to add cities to our Boycott of your state.
I real cannot believe anything that comes out of Brewer’s mouth, in an interview she first said her father had died in Germany fighting the Nazi in World War II (war ended 1945) but of course we find out the truth that father was never in Germany and died in California in 1955. But we are suppose to believe everything else she says, right! No one voted for you for Governor, yet you keep listening to the tiny brains of the crazies and signing into law everything that comes into their feeble minds, it only make you look dumb, stupid or racist, or maybe all three.
As for the Tea Bag Party, their phony patriotism is sickening; they are just racists going by another name. We all know you are just itching to put a sheet on their head? Let’s face it the Republicans had eight years to deal with health care, immigration, energy (remember Cheney’s secret meetings with oil companies where loosening regulation and oversight were sealed), climate change and financial oversight and governance and they failed. It appears that the Republican Party is only good at starting wars (two in eight years, with fat contracts to friends of Cheney/Bush) but not at winning wars as seen by the continuing line of body bags that keep coming home. The Republicans party will continue turned inward to their old fashion obstructionist party (and their Confederacy appreciation roots) because they continue to allow a small portions (but very loud portion) of their party of “birthers, baggers and blowhards” to rule their party. I will admit that this fringe is very good at playing “Follow the Leader” by listening to their dullard leaders, Beck, Hedgecock, Hannity, O’Reilly, Rush, Savage, Sarah Bailin, Orly Taitz, Victoria Jackson, Michele Bachmann and the rest of the Blowhards and acting as ill programmed robots (they have already acted against doctors that perform abortions).
I think you make a mistake lumping Arizona and it's serious problem and it's governor with the Tea Partiers who don't really have a cause other than fear that White America is changing and they don't like it.
ReplyDeleteThis long rant you wrote, IMHO, was flawed because of a serious case of over-simplification.
This law is hate. Hate will not stand. That is the American way.
ReplyDeleteWow. I worked in the lawn & garden until dark, so I missed all of the fun!
ReplyDeleteIf you have to say 'freedom' in English (even if you would rather speak some other language), then you aren't free.
They really can't deport us all.
ReplyDeletePolice also can't catch all the speeders on I-29, but they get a few.
Let's use the same approach on illegals.
If I ran ICE, I would aim for high profile arrests of CEOs who hire illegals. Have them doing the perp walk on TV in the biggest cities.
When people are arrested by the feds, do they have a choice where they are incarcerated? If not, I'd be sure the illegals are imprisoned in Alaska or, if it is legal, in Guam.
They really can't deport us all.
ReplyDeletePolice also can't catch all the speeders on I-29, but they get a few.
Let's use the same approach on illegals.
If I ran ICE, I would aim for high profile arrests of CEOs who hire illegals. Have them doing the perp walk on TV in the biggest cities.
When people are arrested by the feds, do they have a choice where they are incarcerated? If not, I'd be sure the illegals are imprisoned in Alaska or, if it is legal, in Guam.
Who says we can't deport them all?
ReplyDeleteAlthough it didn't work out as expected, most remaining Jews moved out of Germany and they eventually got to "end of job".
It is odd that there has been this big spike in right wing idiocy coming out of Arizona though. Texas has a higher background level of crazy and right now Arizona is like a supernova taking the attention. I wonder how long it will last.
ReplyDeleteActually it isn’t that strange. Arizona has been moving gradually towards the middle over the last twenty years. The population has doubled in that time and a big part of that spike wasn’t old retirees who tended to be conservative, but a lot of younger families moving from blue states, etc. In 2008 McCain only received 53.4% of the vote here in Arizona, his sixth lowest vote total among the states he won. Now think about that, his home state was one of his least supportive states. Had McCain been from Texas, Florida, etc., he likely would have lost Arizona.
This state has a long history of very conservative, often racist politics and the supporters of those policies aren’t happy that they are consistently losing ground to moderates and liberals (simply termed as liberals in their tirades). Because of how the state legislature is set up conservatives still have a major majority in both houses but, when Napolitano was governor, she vetoed a lot of their stupidity. In fact she set the record for vetoes in the history of the state. You take her away, bring in Brewer who is a wing-nut’s wing-nut, and you see incredibly stupid legislation that was shut down by a reasonable governor make it out of the state house. At the same time you see an increase in non-conservative population as well as an increase in non-white population and the far white err, right is freaking out.
God Bless this Chris Kobach guy. Finally, someone with ball$ to stand up for this country. He is a true patriot who deserves a metal. By the way, he is only pursuing a direction that the majority of this country wants to go. Even legal latinos are against illegal immigrants. Even latinos legalized are against illegal immigration. They believe if they could do it, so can these law breakers. So who is hateful here.... I think Tony is.
ReplyDeleteYou don't believe that U.S. Citizens are being deported? Why does that seem unimaginable when you are talking about an unorganized federal department. All I did was google "us citizen deported" and got a lot of cases. Here are some.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/jacqueline-stevens-phd/deporting-american-citize_b_265187.html
http://www.startribune.com/nation/14456137.html
http://civilliberty.about.com/b/2008/06/10/us-government-detaining-deporting-us-citizens.htm
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2009/08/30/917007/nc-native-wrongly-deported-to.html
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/eduardo-caraballo-puerto-rico-deportion-94795779.html
http://stateswithoutnations.blogspot.com/2009/04/us-citizen-deported-to-mexico-shipped.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms0RfNexke4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2bPss6AHxc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6AradppFx4&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTrA4Dxxxi8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WyPbkLyJRU
You can't believe U.S. Citizens are being deported eventhough an Arizona Sheriff raids businesses everyday arresting all people that look latino, have an accent or speak Spanish? Which explains why during all of his raids an average of 30-40% of the people arrested and booked for deportation are found to be legally in the country or u.s. citizens.
ReplyDeleteThat's like me saying I can't believe each year the IRS charges people a wrong amount of tax dollars owed.
Whatever a sheriff in AZ does, no one can be deported without the involvement of the federal authorities. They are under the Obama Administration. If citizens are being deported, the Obama Administration is at fault.
ReplyDeleteHow do any of these Kobach laws secure our border? How do they help our economy?
ReplyDeleteSocial Security, The IRS and a number of educational institutions have proven and testified before Congress that undocumented workers do pay taxes and contribute to the economy.
In 2006, the IRS told Congress that undocumented residents, utilizing the ITIN system, have been reporting tax liability to the tune of almost $50 billion from 1996 to 2003. During the same period $41.4 billion was paid to Social Security and Medicare.
The IRS also confirmed to the USA today that $90 billion from 2000-2008 were paid. If you take the same increase on Social Security and Medicare you get almost $80 billion more. That's just federal taxes.
Middle Tennessee State University calculated in 2006 that illegal immigrants contributed $428 billion dollars to the nation's $13.6 trillion gross domestic product and that today the number is well over $600 billion.
Beyond federal taxes, all illegals automatically pay state sales taxes that contribute toward the upkeep of public facilities such as roads that they use, and property taxes through their rent that contribute toward the schooling of their children.
When looking the facts aka the numbers and the legislations written by Kobach these laws don't secure our borders and don't help our economy in anyway.