Illegal Protest

Good news for all Pennsylvania residents…. I wonder if Reading, Norristown and Philadelphia will get the memo that their days as “sanctuary cities” are numbered? I urge you to call your PA rep and tell them you support the entire legislation package sponsored by Daryl Metcalfe… It’s ALL good as they say and is a BIG step in the right direction for Pennsylvania.

I live near Norristown and it makes me SICK to see an entire section of the “West End” turned into a Little Mexico. The sign at the bottom of the strip says “Historic Shopping District” but it should say “Historic Puebla Mexico” instead. Several blocks of West Marshall Street are now exclusively Mexican restaurants, Mexican bodegas and even their own little indoor Mall called La Plazita.. A big real estate guy in the area even advertises his rentals IN SPANISH in that area. What is wrong with this picture???? Norristown USED to be Germans and Italians for the most part. Now it is almost 35% Mexican!!! And we are more than 2000 miles from the southern border. If I wanted to live near a border town I’d move to Texas or Arizona for crying out loud.

I have approached the Norristown Town Council and the Montgomery County Commissioners. All of them have felt it is “not their yob” to solve the invasion of illegal aliens into Norristown. One particular councilman, Bill Procyson, makes the point that the Mexicans are “nice” and why should it be his problem to pick out who is here illegally? My point - we shouldn’t have to wonder at all - that is if our GOVERNMENT was DOING ITS JOB.

Now with this legislation package - people like Bill Procyson won’t get to say - “not my yob” and they will be forced to deal with the growing problem of an increasing TAX BURDEN without an increasing TAX BASE from the invasion of illegal aliens into our state and our towns.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!!

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News Advisory
Office of State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe
June 10, 2008 FOR INFORMATION: Ty McCauslin (717) 772-9979

State Lawmakers to Unveil “No Sanctuary” Legislation to Offset Increasing Taxpayer Costs Fueling PA’s Illegal Alien Invasion

WHAT: State Representatives Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler), Tom Creighton (R-Lancaster), Mark Mustio (R-Allegheny), Scott Perry (R-Cumberland/York) and Harry Readshaw (D-Allegheny) will introduce the newest additions to the National Security Begins at Home package.

Sponsored by Metcalfe, both pieces of legislation would provide legal and economic sanctions against any city, municipality or other local government entity that adopts ordinances, policies or informal procedures to encourage illegal aliens to reside within its borders or otherwise hinders law enforcement activities.

WHO: Offering support for this bipartisan legislation and providing insight on the ever-increasing social and taxpayer costs resulting from Pennsylvania’s ongoing Illegal Alien Invasion will be Kathleen Appell, research and media coordinator, Citizens for Immigration Control and Enforcement; Marianne Davies, Esq. vice-chair, You Don’t Speak for Me; and Yeh Ling-Ling, executive director Diversity Alliance for a Sustainable America.

Other state lawmakers scheduled to attend include: Reps. Jim Cox, (R-Berks), Rob Kauffman, (R-Cumberland/Franklin), Sam Rohrer (R-Berks) and RoseMarie Swanger (R-Lebanon).

DATE: Wednesday, June 11
TIME: 10 a.m.
WHERE: State Capitol Rotunda
LIVE WEBCAST: Log on to www.RepMetcalfe.com, www.RepCreighton.com, www.RepMustio.com or www.RepPerry.com beginning at 9:55 a.m. on Wednesday morning.

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Last summer, Digger and I attended a press conference in Philadelphia with many of the people leading this charge. Read about it here on Digger’s Realm

Here is an excerpt from a 2003 article in The Times Herald which tried to answer the question - Why Norristown?

Puebla and Acapulco are the two largest sending cities, officials said. But nobody is sure who was first or why Norristown was chosen. Officials only have assumptions. The most widely accepted beliefs are:
1. Immigrants arrive in larger cities and towns such as Philadelphia and West Chester, naturally sprawling to Norristown.
2. Inexpensive housing in Norristown encourages immigrants to establish lives here, rather than more expensive surrounding townships.
3. The abundance of service jobs in landscaping, retail, restaurants and hotels creates a demand that immigrants supply. Mexican immigrants are most often single men working in these jobs six to nine months of the year, who return to Mexico for the rest of the year.
4. Once immigrants establish homes here, they send for their families and friends, and in turn, these families and friends tell more people, creating a domino effect.
5. Less than 500,000 immigrants each year stay in the country. Though it looks like many immigrants are here, what people mostly see are immigrants in the country using temporary visas.

The journey is not easy.

Some people have visas and other proper documentation to live in the United States, but about half of the Mexican population does not.

“It’s not easy to make that decision - to leave behind everything you know,” said Miguel Dones, president of Conecciones, a social services and economic organization serving the Norristown community.   Officials from the United States and Mexico agree that the reason for the great wave of immigration is money. “The opportunities are on this side of the border,” said Deputy Consul Jacob Prado of the Mexican Consulate of Philadelphia. “Nobody wants to leave their hometown or families. If they come here, it’s because economic opportunities are available in this country.”

There you have it. Remove the ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES for illegal aliens and they will not come here!

More on how the population of Norristown has changed from the same article:

Between 1990 and 2000, Norristown’s Hispanic population jumped nearly 400 percent, with most of the expansion within the last five years.

Nobody is exactly sure why thousands have chosen to live here, but Norristown has the largest population of Hispanics in Montgomery County.

While the Hispanic population increased by nearly 2,500 individuals, the total population of the borough only increased by 500 people.

This means at least 2,000 non-Hispanics moved out of Norristown, while 2,000 Hispanics moved in.

In the early and mid 90’s, Puerto Ricans were the largest Hispanic minority in Norristown, but now Mexicans have taken over that distinction.

The entire reason for controlling immigration and enforcing immigration laws in ANY country is to prevent the cultural hijacking of any part of a country through large numbers of “immigrants” - legal or illegal - to a community. The reasoning behind immigration control is to PRESERVE the cultural identity of our towns and cities. But instead we have allowed the population of Norristown to be INVADED through a 400 PER CENT INCREASE in Hispanics - most of whom are here illegally. I hold the leaders of Norristown fully responsible for allowing this to happen and I whole heartedly support the efforts by Daryl Metcalfe and others at our state government level for leading the charge to turn this tide and reclaim Norristown and other places in Pennsylvania for the native population.

Dan from Digger’s Realm and I traveled to Wilkes Barre Monday night to protest ex-Presidente Vicente Fox, who was scheduled to be a guest of Wilkes University as a speaker as part of their Outstanding Leaders Forum - sponsored by the Jay S. Sidhu School of Business at Wilkes. It’s ironic that Wilkes chose Vicente Fox as an example of exemplary leadership, when just recently stories have recently surfaced about corruption probes into his administration and a statue erected to Vicente Fox was torn down and destroyed by “his people” just recently as well.

So is Wilkes going to invite President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad next in their forum on excellent leaders? Or maybe Fidel Castro?

Back to the protest Monday night. The group estimates range from 40-100. Without a real head count it’s hard to know for sure. It was viewed as a very good turnout for a Monday evening.
Many of the attendees drove for close to 2 hours to be there. Our thanks to Voice of the People USA for organizing the rally and to 9/11 Families for a Secure America for paying for the ballroom where we met at the Ramada Inn prior to the Fox protest.

There were just two speakers at the Ramada Inn before the protest, Frank Scavo and Dan Smeriglio of Voice of the People USA. The intent was to have speakers after the protest, but after we got rained on and it was so late, there were a lot fewer people on hand after the protest, which is not a surprise… So, many of the speakers did not get to speak, even though they traveled for hours to do so. I attribute that to the learning curve of a new group made up of young inexperienced people. They have 100% of their heart in this and they are learning the ins and outs of holding rallies and protests as they go. So I don’t fault them for their inexperience. We are very happy to have their generation stand with us in this fight - because we mostly fight for THEIR future, not our own.

From left John Hagerty, Ruth and Maggie manning the bullhorn

At 7pm we all filed over to the park in front of the FM Kirby Center, where Vicente Fox would be speaking from 8 to 10pm. We had two bullhorns at our disposal and we used them a lot. There were lots of signs and large American flags, as we stood behind an orange “border fence” at the edge of the little park. Across the street the Fox worshipers filed into the theater in the hour prior to his appearance.

A small group of white suburbanite thugs approached our group in a threatening way from across the street and they ended up mingling inside our “area” to cause trouble. The police presence was good but response was slow when trouble started. Several times we had to use the bullhorns to alert police that the thugs were mingling in our group. Several shouting matches ensued from their breach into our area. I estimate that the average age of these “thugs” dressed like skinheads were late teens. Ironic that is is for THEIR future that we fight. They shouted things like “I hate America” at us and of course, the usual “racists” accusations. They even called a dark skinned protestor with a mixed heritage from the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, a racist.. laughable! Racist against who? Others like himself? Against white illegal aliens? The race thing is so.. passe…

At one point a limo pulled up to the theater which garnered lots of loud shouts against Fox. Later an SUV drove by waving a Mexican flag and they deposited a teenager who stood in front of our group waving his Mexican flag at us in defiance. Then the rest of his family, mostly Mexican moms with anchor babies on their hips, pulled up to the theater and stood our front waving Mexican flags at us. The police kept them on the theater side of things even though several times they wanted to cross the street.Around 8:30 and before the Mexican flag wavers showed up, it began to rain. At times it was downright nasty with wind blowing the rain in sheets.

Here is the first video from the protest - a collaboration between my shooting the video and Dan editing it for your YouTube viewing pleasure:

I was happy to stand shoulder to shoulder with many patriotic Americans who took several hours out of their Monday to show Vicente Fox he is NOT welcome in this country by everyone.

His propaganda is anti-American and we aren’t going to stand for his rhetoric that ultimately will lead to the dissolving of our borders, elimination of the “middle class” that this country was created by and the end of our sovereignty as a nation. He says we shouldn’t be building walls but instead we should be building “bridges of love”.

How can we love our southern neighbor when they send millions of their poor people here to take American jobs and send the tax-free money they make back to the Mexican economy?Meanwhile, the American taxpayer foots the bill for expanding their schools to accomodate the flood of illegal alien children, while the media parades the illegal alien children in front of news cameras to try to evoke some kind of sympathy from us.

We are TIRED of footing the bill for the poor Mexican slaves that YOU Vicente Fox and YOU Felipe Calderon and YOU President Bush - want to import here for your own personal monetary gain. It does not benefit American citizens AT ALL to have Mexicans doing the menial jobs - the jobs that American teenagers used to do - that our lower class needy people used to do. Now they must compete with Mexicans for those same jobs and that is WRONG.

We do not buy your line of HORSE SHIT Vicente Fox. We will build that wall and you know why? Because YOU and the government of Mexico encourage your own people to risk their lives to come here illegally. You are complicit in the illegal behavior and even give them comic books to tell them how to evade the Border Patrol. You stick your Mexican noses into our politics by pushing for our own Border Patrol agents to be prosecuted using the testimony of a Mexican drug smuggler. How many of you scumbags are on the Mexican drug cartel payrolls eh Senor? You all make me SICK.

Be sure to go and visit Dan’s coverage of the event at Digger’s Realm here

I’m 100% behind all the Pennsylvania legislation that is attempting to shut off the social services and jobs magnet drawing illegal aliens to Pennsylvania and our country. Thank God some of our local and state officials have more backbone than our Congress OR President.

Scarnati testifies before state committee on illegal alien legislation

By MIKE SCHREIBER
Era Associate Editor

The federal government’s failure to properly handle illegal immigration has placed an undue burden on the states, and is costing Pennsylvania millions of dollars to deal with the problem, according to one local lawmaker.

In testimony delivered Wednesday before the Senate’s State Government Committee, President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati, R-Brockway, defended legislation he crafted earlier this year, which would make it harder for illegal aliens living in the state to receive public benefits.

The legislation — Senate Bill 9 — has been met with skepticism by social service advocacy groups, who believe it creates more bureaucratic red tape for those who need assistance, but lack proper identification.

“Taxpayers are sick and tired of footing the bill for this problem,” Scarnati said Wednesday afternoon. “The federal government’s major goal is the protection of our borders and its citizens and they have failed on that. These illegal aliens are costing Pennsylvania taxpayers millions of dollars.”

Now, Pennsylvania could be the next in line if Scarnati gets his way. According to the lawmaker, many estimates have the total of illegal immigrants now living in the U.S. at more than 12 million, with up to 150,000 of those calling the state home.

“I don’t believe we can just turn away and not look at this problem,” Scarnati said, adding the issue affects not only his district, but the entire state. “The issue of illegal immigration in our Commonwealth shouldn’t have to be at the top of our agenda, but you are talking about potentially taking $300 million out of our state treasury — and that’s not even considering the jobs being taken from our citizens and the crimes that are being committed.

“This fraud does go on. It’s a bothersome issue and really a no brainer to do something about it.”

According to Scarnati, the Federation for Immigration Reform (FAIR) estimates the current local annual costs of illegal immigration from three program areas — education, medical services and incarceration — amounts to roughly $36 billion. In Pennsylvania, the current estimated cost is $285 million; that cost is slated to grow to $812 million by the year 2020.

“As I can tell you from my experience with negotiating a state budget this year, that kind of money is significant,” Scarnati told the committee.

The legislation, which has a growing list of co-sponsors, would prevent illegal aliens from receiving such benefits as Medicaid, welfare and in-state college tuition without identification proving they are legal residents.

Scarnati said in addition to providing a valid ID to receive the benefits, individuals will also be required to sign an affidavit stating they are a U.S. citizen, or an alien lawfully residing in the country. The legislation would apply to anyone at least 18 years old.

The lawmaker said any applicant signing the affidavit stating they are a legal alien would have their status verified by the Federal Systematic Alien Verification of Entitlement Program operated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

The lawmaker said any applicant signing the affidavit stating they are a legal alien would have their status verified by the Federal Systematic Alien Verification of Entitlement Program operated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

However, no child would be denied life’s necessities due to the actions of their parents and would allow everyone access to emergency medical care, necessary immunizations and disaster relief.

But that hasn’t seemed to deter opponents of the bill, who believe it’s unnecessary and fosters an atmosphere fear and confusion among immigrants, and would hinder the poor and elderly from receiving needed benefits.

Amazingly, Estelle Richman is completely unaware of programs like the Prenatal Services Program in Montgomery County - $800 towards prenatal care for those anchor babies - no citizenship proof required.. or the Bucks County Opportunity Council who uses State grant money to hand out 3 meals a day for 3 days to anyone living in Bucks County - citizen - or NOT! Just bring that electric bill on down and get some free food! And I’d like to ask Estelle Richman exactly which benefits ARE illegal aliens eligible for in Pennsylvania? Hmmm?

“There is simply no proof that undocumented immigrants in Pennsylvania are receiving benefits for which they are not eligible,” Department of Public Welfare Secretary Estelle Richman told The Associated Press.

Scarnati said the legislation will now be open for more debate and will likely be tweaked further before going to a vote before the full Senate and House.