by John Hill
Stand With Arizona
Alabama GOP leaders slammed Eric Holder and the Department of Justice for suing the state over H.B. 56, saying the Federal failure to secure the border and enforce immigration laws has compelled the states to act. And they showed strong defiance that they would prevail against Holder and his ACLU legal team.
Mike Hubbard, the Alabama House Speaker said:
“Make no mistake, this lawsuit will not undo Alabama’s immigration law. If the court finds problems with parts of the law, tweaks can be made,” Mr. Hubbard said. “But Alabama is not going to be a sanctuary state for illegal immigrants. Alabama will have a strict immigration law and we will enforce it.”
Holder’s DOJ filed suit against Alabama’s outstanding immigration law on August 1st, despite such laws having strong support from the American People. A July 15 Rasmussen Poll showed that a whopping 67% of Americans (with just 22% opposed) support states like Alabama and Arizona passing state laws to enforce immigration law when the Federal government fails to act. And this issue promises to be a big battleground in next year’s elections.
But all Alabama is trying to do is to rein in the massive costs of illegal aliens to state taxpayers, and curtail employment of illegals which has so devastated Alabama’s economy and unemployment. Illegal aliens cost Alabama $298 million annually, and Federal malfeasance has permitted Alabama’s illegal immigrant population to increase by nearly 400 percent over the past decade.
As Alabama’s Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh said:
“With almost one out of every 10 Alabamians looking for a job, we need to make sure that legal Alabama residents are not being passed over for employment in lieu of those who are here illegally.”
In other words, while Eric Holder is focused on politics and pandering to groups such as the National Council of La Raza (“The Race”), Alabama’s GOP leaders are concerned with JOBS, and the destructive impact illegal aliens have against Alabama workers.
And H.B. 56 does exactly that, by having the most direct impact upon illegal aliens of any state law yet. Alabama leaders followed the lead of Arizona’s S.B. 1070. H.B. 56 orders police to detain those they suspect of being in the country illegally when stopped for any reason; makes it a crime to knowingly transport or harbor someone illegally in the country and requires public schools to determine the immigration status of students. The law was strengthened further after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Arizona’s strict employer sanctions law. Stand With Arizona‘s legal team (led by Gil Schwab) helped lawmakers adapt H.B. 56 to include this new Arizona-style language, and the law added a mandate for use of E-Verify and removal of business licenses from those who knowingly and repeatedly hire illegals aliens.
As a result, H.B. 56 would have a dramatic impact against illegal aliens, causing them to leave the state en masse, as they did in Arizona. And of course the cynical race-politics of the Obama Administration cannot permit that. So they had the ACLU construct a lawsuit to try and stop it.
House GOP Majority Leader Micky Hammon, who penned H.B. 56, said:
“(Federal officials) have turned a blind eye toward the immigration issue and refuse to fulfill their constitutional duty to enforce laws already on the books. Now, they want to block our efforts to secure Alabama’s borders and prevent our jobs and taxpayer dollars from disappearing into the abyss that illegal immigration causes.”
A hearing is set for August 24th in the courtroom of Chief U.S. District Judge Sharon Blackburn in Birmingham, AL to hear arguments in the request for an injunction to stop H.B. 56. Stand With Arizona will marshall all the resources we have – legal, organizational, and media – to help Alabama in this fight, as we have with Arizona and other states.
The die is cast and the battle lines drawn. But whatever the outcome, the GOP leaders of Alabama, Hammon, Marsh and Hubbards, as well as Gov. Bob Bentley, have distinguished themselves as patriots and public servants of the highest order. Gentlemen, we salute you!
PLEASE CONSIDER A DONATION of $10.70 (or an amount you prefer) to Stand With Arizona in honor of SB1070, to help us continue to fight against illegal alien amnesty and push for Arizona-style enforcement laws nationwide: DONATE link. Thank you. |
Its now time to get rid of Obama and his Liberal Progressive circle of Marxists that are in power in Washington. Holder, Pelosi, Reid, Kerry, Reid, Barney Frank and Biden to just name a few. You can’t trust Liberals today in any form of elected office and they are the power that is eroding our US Constitution and our Bill Of Rights. America has to be led by fiscal conservatives period. Enough is enough. Liberals have failed America.
I’m sick of ppl saying white ppl never get profiled or pulled over. Funny thing is, those that say it are profiling me! I’m proud to be white! If you are brown and the problem is brown people are crossing illegally then tough for you. If millions of Russians or canadiens were pouring across our borders then guess what, I’d get profiled. Profiling just works. Ppl don’t like it since it’s bothersome to them but if there was any real concern for the immigration situation then you wouldn’t mind being profiled in order to help the situation especially if you are a citizen. Just my viewpoint.
“A July 15 Rasmussen Poll showed that a whopping 67% of Americans (with just 22% opposed) support states like Alabama and Arizona passing state laws to enforce immigration law when the Federal government fails to act.”
What this poll fails to show is the 22% opposed to these types of laws are the people in this country ILLEGALLY.
I think I will move to Alabama!
ITIS A SAD SITUATION WE ARE IN WHEN OUR GOVERNMENT TURNS ITS BACK ON THE LAWFUL CITIZENS OF THE COUNTRY THAT ELECTED THEM!!
TYRANNY EMINATES FROM OUR NATIONAL CAPITAL…WE ARE BESIEGED BY MEN WHO CALL GOOD, EVIL AND WHO CALL BAD, GOOD.. THEY FOLLOW A BIBLICAL SAYING AND THEY WILL ONE DAY READ WHAT THEY SOW….
MAY THAT DAY BE SHORT COMING!! THANK YOU!
Currently these are the 12 contenders for the presidential candidacy, regarding one of the highest issues that will hit the campaign trail for 2012; illegal immigration. Chris Christie present Governor of New Jersey has not decided on this path yet. The majority of competitors will debating about jobs, the economy, foreign policy and many other issues in Ames, Iowa straw poll. There is dilemma that we cannot escape from, as it causing a major displacement of working Americans. According to a report there are an estimated 8 million illegal workers in mostly low income jobs throughout the United States, yet 14 million Americans have little chance of finding work in this dark recession. Even so with these figures in mind, the left still wants to enact an amnesty that could cost according to the Heritage Foundation 2.6 Trillion dollars. We hear almost every day from the Liberal academia, which by passing an amnesty, including a covert amnesty called the Dream Act that the economy will grow.
How can this be, when analysts within (FAIR) Federation of American Immigration Reform that federal costs are designated at $113 Billion dollars a year and this is exempt from what states are also paying out. The Sanctuary State of California and its Liberal legislators have transformed the State in a haven for illegal alien families and carry’s a hefty price tag of $21 Billion. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has the best grade for her stand on the illegal immigration major problem and should cite illegal Immigration as a one of the causes of Unemployment. VDARE.com’s Ed Rubenstein has been monitoring immigrant displacement of American workers since 2001. Here I want to show more evidence that immigration is linked to high unemployment .http://www.vdare.com/rubenstein/041116_nd.htm
This is a appraisal of competing lawmakers on their stance about illegal immigration from NumbersUSA.
Michele Bachmann, U.S. Representative from Minnesota (B- ); Tim Pawlenty, former Governor of Minnesota (C+) ; Herman Cain, former Federal Reserve banker and businessman from Georgia (C-) ;Mitt Romney, former Governor of Massachusetts (D) ; Sarah Palin former Governor of Alaska ( D) ; Rick Perry Governor of Texas (D-) ; Jon Huntsman, Jr., former U.S. Ambassador to China and former Governor of Utah (D-) ;Newt Gingrich, former U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives from Georgia ( D-) Rick Santorum, former Senator from Pennsylvania ( F ) ; Gary Johnson, former Governor of New Mexico (F ) ;Ron Paul, U.S. Representative from Texas ( F) ; Chris Christie Governor of New Jersey. (F) ; Barack OBama, Present President from Illinois ( F-)
Here is an example of expenditures in the small state of Rhode Island that has a limited state budget but still burdened with illegal aliens. Because of the 14th Amendment, children born in the United States get instant citizenship. This is something that has become comparable to the free education and free uninsured health care that taxpayers are taxed.
This is truly stomach churning when citizens and legal citizens have no jobs, but have a family to feed. This is encouragement on a grand scale, which epitomizes the major problem inherited from previous administrations and leftist activists in the court system? Each year it’s so estimated that 300.000 pregnant women slip past the border patrol, with another 40 percent entering America with tourists and students.
The fact is that it’s perfectly legal for a destitute, pregnant illegal alien, who presents herself as such, to receive state aid in Rhode Island. As Rep. Peter G. Palumbo (D-RI) reported, if pregnant illegal aliens show up at a Human Services office in Rhode Island, they are given the option of Blue Cross, United Healthcare, or Neighborhood Health insurance. They also receive a $450 a month debit card, and $275 a month in food stamps. According to Palumbo, the extension of such entitlement programs to illegal aliens is costing the state approximately $150-$350 million a year.
Think of the cost nationwide, specifically in Liberal controlled capitols such as Sacramento, California where the cost monthly is beyond understanding. Return to a Democrat House and senate, with Liberal entices, would bring us even more entitlements forced from Americans in taxes, to pay for the invading aliens. Rep. Michele Bachmann will end these travesties to our laws, halt small clandestine amnesties, Dream Acts, sanctuary cities and States and return this nations sovereign government to the people. Learn more to make your vote count in the Ames Straw poll and forward to the 2012 election. Many voters think there one vote doesn’t count, but your State and federal Representative wants that vote. Call them and tell them you want an end to the illegal immigration occupation. Investigate for yourself the costs and statistics unresolved problem at NumbersUSA, American Patrol, Judicial Watch and VDare.
The TEA PARTY has become an immense grassroots movement of tens of millions of one- mind Americans from all racial and religious backgrounds, political parties, no matter what the adverse pundits say? The TEA PARTY members share the focused philosophy of limited government, individual freedoms, personal responsibility, “fair” free markets and above all else returning power to the States and the people. The TEA PARTY is about reforming all political parties and control, so the key principles of our Constitution, once again is the foundation of which this nation stands.
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I stand with Alabama. Marines Vietnam 1968. Sons of Confederate Veterans. Semper Fi Dixie
just stop an think for a minute before you talk and listen to how stupid you all sound
Yo aun necesito aprender mas sobre todo esto para poder seleccionar la opcion mas sensata para mi. En estos momentos busco informacion sobre lo que llaman de la “dieta dominguera”.
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