RSSRep. Brian Billbray: Rep. Gutierrez is Creating the Next Wave of Illegal Immigration
Warner Todd Huston | December 21, 2009
Representative Luis Gutierrez (D, IL) will introduce another stab at “comprehensive immigration reform” this month and it’s been given another one of those Orwellian names that you know means the opposite of what it says in the title. Gutierrez is calling this mess the Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America’s Security and Prosperity Act of 2009, or the CIR ASAP — in other words Comprehensive Immigration Reform ASAP.
The simple fact of the matter is that, regardless of the name, this legislation will do nothing whatever to help our security or our prosperity. In fact it will damage both.
In his press release touting this bill, Gutierrez said the following:
“We have waited patiently for a workable solution to our immigration crisis to be taken up by this Congress and our President,” said Rep. Gutierrez. “The time for waiting is over. This bill will be presented before Congress recesses for the holidays so that there is no excuse for inaction in the New Year. It is the product of months of collaboration with civil rights advocates, labor organizations, and members of Congress. It is an answer to too many years of pain —mothers separated from their children, workers exploited and undermined security at the border— all caused at the hands of a broken immigration system. This bill says ‘enough,’ and presents a solution to our broken system that we as a nation of immigrants can be proud of.”
This morning I spoke to Representative Brian Billbray in that nation’s capitol and found him chagrined by the whole thing. Billbray is the Chairman of the Immigration Reform Caucus and is from California’s 50th District which is situated in the San Diego County area.
Billbray told me that he was amazed that the Democrats are trying to push this thing through because we are “in the middle of a major financial downturn with unemployment over 10%.” He shook his head wondering “how crazy can we get in one move?,” referring to the many, many things this Administration and the Democrats are trying to throw at the American people all at one time. From bailouts and wild spending sprees, to Healthcare, to Afghanistan, and now to immigration “reform” how much can the country take before enough is enough?
As far as Rep. Billbray is concerned, with this bill Rep. Gutierrez is not representing the Constitution or the current voters of the U.S. but is only “vying for cheap votes and cheap labor.” He went on to say that this bill is “custom made for people breaking the law and to reward those employers who have created the problem.” He also strongly asserted that this bill will become a “magnet for more illegal immigration.”
I asked him if e-verify was addressed in this bill? E-verify is a system whereby employers can quickly and easily check if a job applicant is here legally and is legally available for work in this country. Billbray, though, told me that this new bill dismantles e-verify and goes to the absurd length to create a whole new system to replace it.
Well what it does is it starts to create a whole new other program that specifically says that instead of using e-verify they want to create an alternative program which would then give you a justification to go another 10 years trying to develop a new system rather than basically doing what *Heath Shuler’s bill does and that is adopt e-verify and move forward on what we have now rather than have to dismember e-verify starting over on a whole new program.
*Heath Shuler (D, NC)
Next I asked Rep. Billbray about the Dream Act section of Gutierrez’ bill, the part that allows illegals tuition and entrance into American colleges. Billbray was certainly incensed about this provision.
Well let me tell you something. If you want to sit there and tell people that first of all we are going to reward your children for being illegally in our country, we’re going to tell foreign nationals that play by the rules that they’ll get punished for playing by the rules, and if you’re going to tell U.S. citizens that they are going to have to stand in line behind illegal aliens when they go to college that’s just adding insult to injury.
Billbray mentioned that because they attended a Virginia High School his own children were forced to pay out-of-state tuition in California — even though they are from California and their own father is one of California’s Representatives. This status could have caused them to lose their spot in school and have to wait. Worse a student deemed a proper Californian could have taken their spot. Billbray notes that this would have included illegals in California who are eligible for in-state status thanks to the recent Martinez case in California’s Appellate Courts.
I then asked Billbray if any Republicans were signing onto Gutierrez’ bill and he said that to his knowledge none were. When asked if Republican Leader John Boehner (R, Ohio) could hold that line he said that he thought he could but said it was “sad” to see an across the board retreat on immigration law enforcement by the Democrats. Billbray said that the Democrats are accommodating the “next wave of illegal immigration” with this bill.
And he had a warning for us:
Now I want to say it bluntly; if we pass an amnesty bill like this we will not be able to build a fence tall enough to keep them from overwhelming this country. The word will get out around that world that America will reward you if you come into the United States illegally. And that is a message we can’t afford to send.
I also asked Billbray if this bill did anything to shore up construction of the border fence and he told me that it does not. What it does do, however, is try to create a “safety strategy to try to make sure the illegals don’t die coming across the border.”
Interestingly, Billbray mentioned that more people die each year trying to cross our southern border than died in the Oklahoma City bombing back in 1995. Billbray said that if Democrats wanted to prevent people from dying by crossing our border a bill like this that increases the reason people will try to come here illegally won’t help at all.
Finally I asked what would happen next with this bill. Rep. Billbray said that Gutierrez claimed that he had commitments from the Chairman that they’d be able to get hearings started on this as early as January, so this mess could come up in short order at the start of the new year.
This introduction of immigration reform is a piece with the overwhelm-them-all approach of this Administration. Obama and his radical cohorts hope that they will so fatigue the American people, that they will be so overwhelmed, they will stop paying attention to all the radical changes that the Democrats are trying to make in this country. But it is also of a piece with the ultimate goal which is to destroy our national sovereignty, dampen our economic freedom, and put us in thrall to big government. Representative Gutierrez’ efforts are just one more cog in that anti-American leviathan with which Obama is trying to run roughshod over this whole country.
Unfortunately, it is yet another big mess that we are going to have to gear up to fight if we want to save this country.
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They are doing this so Americans will get tired of fighting. The true result is that they are making Americans angrier and angrier. This anger can only be contained before it blows up in their faces.
I wonder, is Guiterriz here legally? I know that the son-of-satan in our white house isn’t. Otherwise, he would not have spent over a million dollars in attorney fees to hide his passport, college transcripts and long form birth certificate.
I think I will write to Guiterriz and ask him that question and then demand proof.
Now they are going to urge another travesty of COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM OR “AMNESTY.” on the overtaxed American people. It almost defies any rational logic for these morons introducing immigration reform, when 15 million Americans are out scouting for a job. Due to neglect of decades of pandering politicians to non-enforcement of our undermanned, poorly constructed border fence or the 1986 immigration law. It is my decision to pas it along to all readers, otherwise it may not get the necessary publicity to show the disintegration of a society, culture and even our language. Its almost incomprehensible that University professors would abet and condone illegal immigration with designing GPS systems, making it easier for illegal immigrants to steal American jobs. But then the majority that are teaching the Students are Liberal-Marxist, left wingers.
These people must live in a bubble that think illegal immigrants do not have an impact on American citizens.
You have watched an economy tank, with outlandish reasoning, but no one is talking about the facts:
The main serious issue is irreversible Overpopulation:
It is imperative that we realize that if we keep on allowing the importation of foreign nationals on the scale that is happening today. The consequences as stated by the [United States Population Projections: 2000 to 2050 by Jennifer M. Ortman and Christine E. Guarneri of the Census Bureau]“… a greater number of migrants arriving in the United States will correspond to a larger increase in the size of the total population. Under the assumption of a high level of net international migration, the population is expected to grow to 458 million by 2050. … “ The the late U.S. Senator Teddy Kennedy, the United States added 100 million to its population via immigration. Before that time, we enjoyed 194 million in 1963. Today, we slog forward with 309 million on our way to 438 million in four decades, said Frosty Wooldridge, an acknowledged columnist. Poverty and hunger is rampant now in America, with shortages of drinking water and electricity outages are our dismal future, if we don’t halt illegal immigration. For the record thousands of Vietnam warriors are homeless, veterans of other wars , fatherless Mothers with children and Senior citizens on low income, worrying about sharing their pitiful pensions with Bush’s Social Security funds, that are on-hold for totalization with the corrupt government South of the border.
1. Emergency room closures
a) There was once a superb safety net for emergency healthcare to indigent Americans, that has dried up in many communities, because the hospitals could not afford to service them any longer, some would have us believe that illegal immigration had nothing to do with it, when hundreds and thousands of undocumented residents flooded the doors, and in many cases as a source of primary care.
b) American born women under the age of 50 are no longer offered mammograms because of the cost, even though it is factual that more women under the age of 50 are being detected with suspicious findings, but rather then taking illegal residents off the rolls of CDP and other grants to detection, they cut off Americans.
2. Welfare
The vast majority of illegal parents to citizen children, flock to another safety net dedicated to protecting Americans from physical and financial detriment, where billions of dollars flow in, and do not circulate in the US because many of the dollars are shipped to their native countries to support the poor people there. Huge numbers of illegal immigrants file tax returns using phony Social Security numbers to cash in on the federal Earned Income Tax Credit, thanks to lax government management said Ed Rubenstein, a financial analyst and economist. “As a result, illegal aliens actually receive the EITC at even greater rates than legal immigrants,. The IRS makes little or no effort to verify the authenticity of Social Security numbers, or existence of Dependant children. This makes it possible for illegal immigrants to claim children still living in Mexico as dependents and for parents living illegally in the U.S. to file separate returns claiming the same children as dependents under the EITC. The EITC was created to boost work incentives for poor families with children. Childless households received a maximum $438 payment in 2008, while the maximum available to families with two or more children was $4,824. From a distance, the EITC looks like a winner,” he said. “The devil is in the details. For starters, the program is dominated by fraud. Illegal immigrant households are more than three times as likely to receive EITC than native-born American households.” Rubenstein said. E-Verify, the Immigration enforcement innovation, is vastly becoming publicly recognized as the most advanced tool to determine who has a right to work in these United States. This state of the art computer program E-Verify is no longer Sen.Harry Reid of Nevada, Speaker Pelosi’s punching bag as its succeeding with expeditious modification in all areas of business. Arrogant Democratic politicians are far to late in squeezing it from being used in opening jobs for American Workers and denying work to illegal individuals who broke our sovereign laws.
3. Education
American children that should be preparing for the global competitive market, are being held back educationally because primary education is now catering to bring children that are further behind up to speed. Class room overcrowding, results in the hiring of under staffed, under qualified teachers to manage a baby sitting sector rather than educating.
4. Housing
The media did not cover the facts that thousands of illegal immigrants owned homes that went into the red, and they were allowed to simply walk away, while Americans in the same situation had to undergo financial ruin, bankruptcy, and other unfortunate situation. Non profits and other organizations like NACA helped these people get in the door, and tax payers are footing the bill.
5. Infrastructure
With any degree of logic, any individual will understand, if you design a freeway, bridge, building, house, etc. designed to support a certain number of people, will accelerates structure corrosion, if you add more abundantly. Place your attention on the History International TV cable channel. Starting this week , they are showing “THE CRUMBLING OF AMERICA” .Our country is 12 trillion dollars in debt, because we support the rest of the world. Our nation is progressively turning into a third world ghetto and no longer a creditor nation.
6. Traffic
What used to take Americans a few minutes to get to and from work, has been doubled if not tripled which takes quality time from families, drives up cost of oil, and gasoline, because of the buy and demand nature of business, adds more pollution to the air, and reduces spending in local shops because of the time lost.
7. Crime
The cost of housing convicted non citizens would have paid for the border fence twice, added more border personnel on the northern and southern borders to boot. which would be an added protection considering America is a marked nation.
ID theft, is the number one violation, because it defrauds the federal government when non existent socials are in play, and drastically affects the quality of life for Americans that are victimized, because there is no legislation to protect American citizens from the consequences of the governments failure to protect them from collection agencies, dept collectors, credit card companies that did not have secure networks, and the social security administration that did not flag socials used twice or more times for employment, which pays more on the back end. Even I was–NOT –Immune to ID theft, as somebody in Dallas Texas was using my Social at a some kind of private investigative office. I contacted the SSA passing on these details, so they could clear up this mess.
8. Assimilation
Many illegal immigrants have no desire to assimilate with American culture, I mean look at Mr. Gutierrez, who fights harder for the rights non citizens then he does for his native constituents. Many fly non American flags, which is a basic slap in the face to Americans that would support reform otherwise.
9. English
Our elected officials have turned a deaf ear to Americans that are blatantly being discriminated against when companies policy hiring bilingual only employees, there are only too populations of citizens in America that are allowed this unfortunate bias, ex-cons, and non dual language speaking Americans.
10. Wages
How many reports do you need, before you realize many unscrupulous employers are using the illegal alien situation to drive down wages and benefits? How many small contractors have been undercut in bids for jobs, only to find that their competitor is using foreign labor?
To every elected officials that puts a greater onus on protecting the non legal rights of non citizens above the legal rights of Americans are in the wrong business, and should consider in the ethical reasoning of national security, populous representation, simply because it was the populous that sent you to office to represent their best interest, to step down, seek office in your hearts respective country, and allow individuals with the same passion you have for your people, to represent Americans with the same tenacity.
Thank you Mario for this fact sheet, along with my contributions. Tell everybody you know who condemns any possibility of forcing on the American people another AMNESTY, to call their ignorant lawmaker. The Capitol Switchboard’s telephone number is 202-224-3121. REMEMBER TO SEND IN YOUR 28Cent POSTCARDS NOW! WE MUST DEFEAT THIS IMMIGRATION REFORM PACKAGE. Those who believe in America’s survival, without OVERPOPULATION as stated by the US Census bureau better read facts at NUMBERSUSA not the lies spawned by open border entities. Those who want details of corruption in WASHINGTON and state government go to JUDICIAL WATCH. Overpopulation, traffic chaos, infrastructure erosion should go to CAPSWEB.