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 Post subject: Another pro/illegal open borders column.
PostPosted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 4:37 pm 
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GUEST COLUMN
City’s stand highlights concern about racial profiling

July 5, 2010

This guest column is by Raquel Anderson and Gracia Valliant, members of the Bloomington Commission on Hispanic and Latino Affairs.

Nearly a month ago, Mayor Kruzan and the Bloomington City Council sent a letter to the governor and legislators of Arizona regarding that state’s anti immigration law. The letter expressed concern about racial profiling and notified Arizona officials that our mayor and city council had suggested a boycott of Arizona businesses. The members of the Bloomington Commission on Hispanic and Latino Affairs would like to clarify some issues surrounding responses to the letter.

We are grateful to The Herald-Times for this opportunity to express our views on this law and how it affects Bloomington as well as our country. First and foremost, we believe that this matter is about racial profiling because it targets a specific ethnic group — Latinos.

Undocumented immigrants come from all over the world. Some enter through Mexico and Canada, while others come on tourist or work visas and stay when they expire. It is time for legislators in Washington to hear their constituents and work to reform immigration. States and their citizens are frustrated. Immigrants, both documented and undocumented, want a resolution. However, when Arizona passed SB 1070, it assumed a role that is a federal one as outlined in Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, which gives the federal government the power to establish a uniform rule of naturalization.

Many who have written letters to the editor comment that we have to show identification in all kinds of venues. The point here is that while we are asked to show identification, we are not asked to prove we are citizens by showing birth certificates, naturalization papers or passports. How many of us carry these documents with us everywhere we go?

Not all undocumented immigrants in this country are Mexican or Central American. The police in Arizona are charged with determining the immigration status of a person who has been stopped, detained or arrested and where “reasonable suspicion exists that the person is an alien.”

Will the police question a person with blond hair and blue eyes to determine immigration status? What if that person is here legally and does not have documentation on him or her? What if that person is a birthright citizen? How are the police to know whom to stop if they are not using skin color and language as a guide?

These are serious concerns that go beyond the scope of Arizona and spill over into every state, city and county in the country. Once civil rights are violated in one state or community, it isn’t long before they are violated everywhere.

There are many misconceptions about undocumented immigrants. One misconception is that they are a drain on the economy and, therefore, a burden to society.

The IRS estimates that about 6 million unauthorized immigrants file individual income tax returns each year. The Cato Institute and the President’s Council on Economic Advisors reveals that the average immigrant pays a net of $80,000 more in taxes (federal withholding, state and local taxes, Medicare and Social Security) than they collect in government services.

Undocumented immigrants pay an estimated $7 billion into Social Security per year. These contributions go directly into the Social Security fund, never to be drawn out by the immigrant worker who paid into the program.

It is the commission’s hope that this has served to clarify some concerns and issues. It is our hope as well, that all of us can find ways to come together in civil and meaningful discussion regarding this issue.

Copyright: HeraldTimesOnline.com 2010


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 Post subject: Re: Another pro/illegal open borders column.
PostPosted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 7:05 am 
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So many falsehoods...so little time! I hope you wrote a letter to the editor to refute this!

I have posted the federal law here on the IFIRE Forum in the General Discussion section:
LINK: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1910&hilit=Kobach+1070
TITLE of POST: NYTimes Op-Ed by Kris Kobach: Why Arizona Drew a Line

TITLE 8 > CHAPTER 12 > SUBCHAPTER II > Part VII > § 1304

§ 1304. Forms for registration and fingerprinting

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e) Personal possession of registration or receipt card; penalties
Every alien, eighteen years of age and over, shall at all times carry with him and have in his personal possession any certificate of alien registration or alien registration receipt card issued to him pursuant to subsection (d) of this section. Any alien who fails to comply with the provisions of this subsection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction for each offense be fined not to exceed $100 or be imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.

AND...if anyone has any questions about how much illegals COST us vs. how much they "CONTRIBUTE" see FAIR's recent report:
LINK: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2074
TITLE OF POST: FAIR Report: Illegals Cost Indiana $608 Million per Year


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 Post subject: Re: Another pro/illegal open borders column.
PostPosted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 10:13 am 
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Sent in a guest Column and a letter to the editor refuting this open borders column.
Nothing published yet.The paper has a 600 column word limit and a 200 word limit on letters.It is hard to make all points with 200 words or even 600.


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 Post subject: Re: Another pro/illegal open borders column.
PostPosted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 12:51 pm 
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I hear ya! But, you're a good writer. The more often you write, the better you get at saying things succinctly. If you ever need me to play editor for you, I will.


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 Post subject: Re: Another pro/illegal open borders column.
PostPosted: Sun Jul 18, 2010 10:12 pm 
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This letter (quoted laws) appeared in the Bloomington Herald Times on 07/18/2010 in reply to the referenced Guest Column.

To the editor:
Reply to Guest Column, City’s stand highlights concern about racial profiling.

SB1070 is anti "illegal" immigration. Not anti immigration.

Racial profiling is not used in the federal law suit, the supremacy clause is.

TITLE 8 > CHAPTER 12 > SUBCHAPTER II > Part VII > § 1304
§ 1304. Forms for registration and fingerprinting
e) Personal possession of registration or receipt card; penalties
Every alien, eighteen years of age and over, shall at all times carry with him
and have in his personal possession any certificate of alien registration or
alien registration receipt card issued to him pursuant to subsection (d) of this
section.

INA: ACT 288 - LOCAL JURISDICTION
OVER IMMIGRANT STATIONS ,Sec. 288. [8 U.S.C. 1358] gives states the right to
enforce existing immigration laws.

A new study released by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)
estimates that illegal immigration now costs federal and local taxpayers $113
billion a year. This new report from FAIR estimates that Indiana spends $608
million per year on illegal aliens.

Between 2003 and 2006 there were 357,985 aliens detained in the U.S. from
countries other than Mexico.Our government has stopped making these statistics
public.They want to keep the citizens in the dark.

Don England
Mitchell


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