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 Post subject: Illinois chose illegals over veterans
PostPosted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 9:18 pm 
Received the following from Evert of Minuteman Midwest. If Illinois gets away with this, you can expect Indiana and other states to follow suit!

First Walter Reed, now this! Meanwhile our borders at home go unprotected and Border Patrol Agents are thrown in jail!!

No matter where you live in the United States, this is a disgrace! The elected Representatives in the State of Illinois just passed a bill to provide driver's licenses to illegals but they did not fund death benefits that were promised to the families of veterans who died while on active duty!!

Call the governor of Illinois and give him your opinion of creating a sanctuary state for illegal aliens but not honoring his commitment to the families of those who have died in the line of duty! This same governor has committed to funding health care to illegals and already subsidizes mortgages for illegal aliens!!

You can contact the governor here: http://www.illinois.gov/gov/contactthegovernor.cfm
or here: 207 Statehouse
Springfield, IL 62706
Phone: (217) 782-0244
Fax: (217) 524-4049

Main District Office:
100 W. Randolph St., Ste. 16-100
Chicago, IL 60601-3220
Phone: (312) 814-2121
Fax: (312) 814-6183

If you live in Illinois please contact your Senator and say NO to driver's licenses for illegals!!! Say, yes, to fullfilling their promise to the families of our veterans!
To find the name and contact info of your State Senator, go to: http://www.congress.org/congressorg/dir ... &submit=GO
key in your ZIP code, press enter and the names of all of your State and Federal elected officials will appear. Click on your State Senator's name and the contact info will appear!

The Illinois house will not be in session for two weeks. Call your local State Senator's office and make an appointment to go there and discuss the topic of driver's licenses for illegals plus any other item you may want to bring up.



http://www.nwherald.com/articles/2007/0 ... 301086.txt
Death benefits delayed for soldiers’ families



CHICAGO (AP) – Officials said Saturday that they had a stop-gap plan to compensate 22 families of fallen soldiers and Marines who had been waiting for death benefits from the state of Illinois.

A 2004 state law established a benefit of about $270,000 for families of troops from Illinois killed while on active duty. The Line of Duty Compensation Act gave families the same benefit granted to those of police officers and firefighters who die on the job.

But casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan have been higher than expected, overwhelming the fund, state officials have said.

So far, the state has paid more than $27 million in death benefits to 102 troops’ families.

A bill to inject $5 million into the fund did not pass the Legislature last year, and a sponsor for a similar bill this spring has not yet been found, said Justin DeJong, a budget spokesman for Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

The governor’s office and Lt. Gov Pat Quinn’s office have devised a temporary plan to help the families, Blagojevich deputy chief of staff Becky Carroll said Saturday.

Four of the families who have been waiting the longest will get the full benefit. Another 18 families will get about $50,000 each to help them until lawmakers approve money to restore the fund, Carroll said Saturday.

Sandra Smith, whose son, Army Cpl. Jeffrey Williams of Warrenville, was killed in Iraq on Sept. 5, 2005, is among those waiting for the death benefit.

“I was expecting it back in August 2006,” Smith said. “Finally, they told me they didn’t have enough money in the fund.

“I feel they should have told me that in the beginning,” said Smith, now a Texas resident. “I know they didn’t want to hurt feelings, and they didn’t know how parents were going to react, but I think an honest answer would have been the greatest thing because we have been through so much.”



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