Illegal Protest

Gee what do you know? Illegal immigration is costing the state money? According to Geraldo Rivera and many others who support ILLEGAL immigration - illegals contribute more to the economy than they take away.. Guess that is only true if you try to cover up exactly how much they are costing by burying their statistics and NOT counting ILLEGAL immigrants and instead mixing them in with legal immigrants by calling them all “foreign born”. This has been the trick of our pro-illegal government to hide the actual costs of illegal aliens - by using code words to bury all of that information. Once you start extracting THE TRUTH, the numbers are STARTLING and this is what the Governor of Rhode Island found when he issued his executive order to get to the bottom of it.

Illegal Immigrants, Partly Blamed for State Budget Crisis, Face Crackdown in Rhode Island

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rhode Island’s closest international border is the Canadian one, about 200 miles to the north. About 11 percent of the 1 million people who live here were born in another country, and estimates say that a third or fewer of those people are in the country illegally.

But Gov. Don Carcieri says illegal immigration has become such a problem — and cost the state so much money at a time that it is grappling with a $568 million budget deficit — that last month he signed an executive order directing state police to crack down on illegal immigrants.

Now here is something that really flips my lid. Apparently “religious leaders” are jumping into this political debate over illegal immigration. Last I heard, religious organizations are tax exempt BECAUSE they are not permitted to participate in influencing our government. If these religious “leaders” want to jump into this political debate and try to influence it, then they need to give up their tax exempt status and pay like everyone else!

After meeting with concerned clergy Friday, Carcieri refused to rescind his order. But he agreed to create an advisory committee that will monitor how it is enforced.

I applaud this Governor and those in the State Government who support him. He now joins the short list of politicians with a SPINE such as Tom Tancredo, Mayor Barletta, Dana Rohrabacher, Ted Poe and Duncan Hunter.

Carcieri has denied the timing of his order was politically motivated. He faults Congress for failing to reform national immigration policy and said the state government must enforce the law.

Democratic Rep. Jon Brien backs Carcieri’s order and has submitted legislation to take it a step further by requiring every private employer in the state to use the same federal database to check the immigration status of their new hires.

“The workforce in the state of Rhode Island should be a legal one,” Brien said. “It puts everyone in the state on a level playing field.”

The state’s agreement to enforce immigration law is still being worked out, but State Police Maj. Steven O’Donnell said once in place, it will allow officers to inquire more deeply about the immigration status of anyone they contact if there’s a reason to think they are here illegally. That could be people who are arrested, motorists stopped by police or witnesses who report crimes.

Oh and here it comes.. the same old argument about “profiling” and shows the pro-illegal lobby is clinging to anything they can use to make it more difficult to enforce the law. Here it is in plain language - if you are not breaking the law, if you have come here legally and you have proof, you have nothing to worry about from the crackdown on illegal immigration. If you are here illegally, then you SHOULD be afraid and that means the crackdown is WORKING AS INTENDED! I don’t give a DAMN if illegal aliens are afraid - they have come here illegally and dammit they SHOULD be afraid and they SHOULD be living in the shadows. We don’t want people “living in the shadows” - we want them to GO HOME or come here legally!

Critics warn of racial profiling, and fear the measure will make illegal immigrants scared to contact police if they are a victim of crime or witness one happening.

Juan Garcia, who works with immigrants at St. Teresa of Avila Church in Providence, held a meeting about Carcieri’s order shortly after it was signed. Anxious people wanted to know if they could still renew their driver’s licenses or pay state payroll taxes without being identified as illegal immigrants, he said.

Like I said before WORKING AS INTENDED!!!! Where can I sign up to help IDENTIFY ILLEGAL ALIENS? And here’s a point I don’t know that I have heard and it’s an opinion I have had all along. Why exactly do you think there is such a backlash against Mexican/Hispanic illegals and not as much against Asian illegals? BECAUSE THEY ARE SMARTER AND THEY ASSIMILATE EVEN WHEN THEY ARE HERE ILLEGALLY. They don’t go around speaking their native language and flaunting it. They don’t stand out by waving flags from their native country and shooting American patriots the finger. They don’t go around demanding rights. They keep quiet. They learn English. They blend in. Had Mexican and South American illegals done this, do you think we would have noticed really? We would have wondered why our economy was being drained and would not have realized perhaps it was the flood of illegals. But instead, Latino illegals are arrogant and they are proud to live in a country illegally and get over on us. They are proud to wave the flag of the country they fled from which I really don’t understand AT ALL. If your country is so great, then WHY ARE YOU HERE????