http://www.nwitimes.com/news/opinion/ma ... 99927.htmlAsk candidates their views on illegal aliens in work forcePosted: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 12:00 am | (37) Comments
The current president and his administration continue to throw money at the American economy in hopes it will jump start employment. Our unemployment rate is around 9.5 percent and much higher for teens and minorities. As of the end of 2009, when the unemployment was soaring, America allowed 1.7 million legal immigrants and their family members into our country on work visas.
With 15 million or more unemployed Americans, why are we importing foreign labor at such a high rate ? Why should our unemployed citizens have to compete with new immigrants and illegal aliens for a job that our government is subsidizing with our tax dollars ?
If our state and federal legislatures had some common sense they would stop all employment based immigration at the federal level. At the state level, Democratic Speaker of the House Patrick Bauer should allow the E-Verify bill to at least get to the floor of the House instead of killing the bill like he has done for the past three years.
E-verify is a federal government-based hiring program that will weed out illegals from our work force. It would help the 300,000 unemployed Hoosiers find employment without having to compete with illegal aliens for a job.
The E-verify program cost nothing to the state and far less then the billions the federal government wants to spend on jobs, therefore the taxpayers and our children are not saddled with debt our present administration seem all to willing to force us to accept.
This upcoming election we need to ask all state and federal candidates running for office how they plan on keeping illegal aliens out of our work force, and if they currently hold at elected office ask them why they have not enforced our current immigration laws.
It's time our politicians start to care about the citizens and not the special interest so intent on securing favors for their group of donors. With legal immigration as high as it is and deportations of illegals decreasing I wonder just who the Obama administration cares more about?
Greg Serbon, State Director, Indiana Federation for Immigration Reform and Enforcement, GriffithCopyright 2010 nwi.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.