State Sen. Mike Delph is back this year with another bill targeting the hiring of illegal immigrants.
This time,
legislation introduced by the Carmel Republican aims to confirm citizenship of government workers and people who seek state
unemployment benefits. State and local governments would be required to verify eligibility of new workers.
A controversial
bill Delph wrote last year would have hammered businesses that hire illegal immigrants, but it eventually died.
Are
Delph and like-minded Republicans on the right track with this issue? Latinos tend to vote Democratic, but some Republican
strategists believe they’re a natural constituency because of their bootstrap work ethic and their conservative leanings
on social issues. Some observers have even warned the party that it won’t win many more national elections without
finding a way to embrace the growing demographic.
What do you think about Delph’s efforts? Republicans and
Latinos?
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these guys only skill was to steal from other's hard earned savings.
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I voted for him last time and it WAS the LAST time. He needed to to quit running around the world on useless trips, and giving our $$ away to sports teams. I'll vote for anyone but Ballard next time. BTW...we gave $40M to the Pacers and cannot even watch the games on TV.
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For the people concerned about traffic, you should know that mixed-use projects (like the one being proposed), actually allows for and encourages more people to walk and bike, thereby mitigating additional automobile traffic. If we continue to design and build suburban-type projects in the City (i.e. automobile-oriented projects), we are not offering anything different from what the suburbs offer, which means we will continue to lose jobs/people to the suburbs. The reason Broad Ripple is somewhat successful today is that people want to live in a place that offers the convenience of being able to walk/bike to restaurants, retail, nightlife, the Monon, etc. Why would you not want to support a project that is complimentary to what already makes the area desirable? The real argument with this project should be its lack-luster design and layout, not the density.
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It is unfortunate that there is a perception that celebrities validate an event. The Indy 500 stands on its own, especially for those coming in from out of town. It was always so disturbing to read the gushing descriptions of Ashley Judd threaded throughout the local coverage. Very happy that era is at an end.
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Good ole' Obamacare. Thanks liberals and those who didn't bother to vote.
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According to the Pew Hispanic Research Center, while illegal aliens in the US are socially conservative, they are otherwise overwhelmingly politically liberal with 89% believing government should provide for people rather than people providing for themselves. That mindset is wholly opposite of that which is touted by the Republican party.
How many people actually want City, County or State taxes to employ Illegal Immigrants, while Hoosierrs are unemployed?
The majority of citizens of both parties want an end to the illegal alien issue by enforcement not amnesty.
Every state including California that put this issue on the ballot citizens have easily won voting for enforcement.
The Latino communities have claimed this issue purely for ethnic reasons and are disingenuous and bullying in their actions. The threats of losing the Latino vote is pure racism and has not worked, and we have several states as proof voting for tougher enforcement, it is a hollow threat.
Thank you Sen. Delph for having the courage to do what is right for our state and country, for those that use accusation to silence those opposing the illegal alien problem; you need to look in the mirror to see the real racist or bully. Enough the sleeping giant of America is waking up.
Illegals are people who enter our country from all over the world through the 'back door'. Most of them do not speak English. They thumb their noses at our heritage, our laws, etc. I am tired of paying for their education, their medical, their homes, etc.
Hoosiers need to stand up and fight for America. We need to get behind Senator Delph and others who tirelessly fight for our rights.
Over 15 million Americans are currently unemployed while more than 8 million illegal aliens are working in non-agricultural jobs. American blacks and Hispanics are hardest hit by illegal foreign workers taking their jobs. Why does the IBJ attempt to make this a racial issue with their tiresome remarks about Latinos? This is an issue about the law. It involves ALL illegal aliens, not just one favored group. Doesn't the IBJ care about legal American-born Latinos and blacks?
None of the politicians will mention this, because they have probably got some lucrative kick-backs from the contractors? While we are saving the world with taxpayers money, we still cannot keep illegal immigrants off US soil. We are still overrun by illegal workers, drug dealers and a whole compendium of criminals. If that is not enough, it is contempt for the people who pay the salaries of our public servants, but they still refuse to enforce immigration laws. Many are so corrupt that they have stalled or even killed laws, that would alleviate much of the pain of the 15 million Americans out-of-work. An example is E-Verify, that should have been permanent, not just for 3 years? another is 287 (g). The list of culprits are long, but Sen.Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and even Janet Napolitano leads the pack, who are out to appease La Raza and other ethnic caucuses, not to forget the massive financial lobbying of every business that wants to low wages with no benefits.
Extraordinary! As they have almost achieved this, with the collaboration of the Council of Foreign Relations, whose secret agenda is the free flow of immigrant workerlegal or illegal. Much the same as Europe who are having to deal with the same issues. E-Verify is the pariah businesses nightmare, because they can be audited by fed agents. But just like our flimsy immigration enforcement as entering this nation illegally, that is--ONLY--a porous civil infraction of our law. Unless we insist that the Senate-House make E-Verify in-perpetuity, we will still be no better off, although more companies are signing up for the federal program. Napolitano has weakened the 287 (g) police detainment program and lessened stealthily under the table the power of ICE raids around the country. Worst of all--nobody in Washington seems to have recognized, that just before the president signs the AMNESTY bill, millions more will try to get through the borders or fly in by jet.
I don't have to state to Americans the--BILLIONS--of dollars this will cost--as its costing now in free unrevealed monies that supports illegal immigrant families, stolen by the tax system. Never have I seen people so angry with this administration that is spending the lives of our grandchildren future. The blame cannot even be attributed to those in power now, but through many presidents have we been subsidizing the welfare of illegal families. IF YOU WANT TO APPROVE A TRILLION DOLLAR COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION POLICY THAT'S YOUR CHOICE. BUT IF YOU ARE TIRED OF SUPPORTING THE REST OF THE WORLD, YOU BETTER SPEAK UP BEFORE ITS TOO LATE. Call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 to be connected to your Senator and Congressman and use the voting power of THE PEOPLE. NUMBERSUSA AND JUDICIAL WATCH for more frightening information and which lawmaker are signers to the potential AMNESTY and their immigration grades of the proponents.
Local Immigration news.
LAWRENCEVILLE â?? Gwinnett County Sheriff Butch Conway, the shepherd of 287 (g), says the fast-track deportation program is showing clear signs of success less than two months since its activation. Conway shrugs off claims from immigrant rights activists who complain the program is racially motivated. He points instead to data that show 287 (g) is easing jail crowding and could save the county millions, while pulling law-breakers by the hundreds from streets and neighborhoods. Conway credits 287 (g) with a dramatic decrease in bookings of illegal immigrants since its Nov. 16 debut.
No copyright on any of my comments. COPY & PASTE! We need to get the message out to the people.
So if Delph's bill passes, the undocumented persons will not be the only people injured. When are folks like Delph going to stop trying to shoot us in the foot?
I agree with the proposed new law 100%. We should not be increasing taxes to pay for people who move to Indiana just to get a free ride. (and take advantage of employers who don't verify green cards)
ILLEGAL aliens are NOT immigrants.
60% committed a felony by entering the U.S. at other than an authorized Port of Entry and 40% simply overstayed their visas.
Karen would have us believe that 'revenue' somehow justifies their criminal behavior while hundreds of thousands follow our laws, get in line and wait their turn.
There is NO JUSTIFICATION for ignoring their criminal acts. None, nada, zip, zero!
Delph seeks to save American jobs for those legally entitled to them and holds business responsible for comply with existing law.
Last Ditch Pitch Reveals Desperation of Amnesty Proponents
By Bob Dane, FAIR Communications Director
This week, the Center for American Progress released a "study" done by Dr. Paul Hinojosa-Ojeda, a radical open-borders activist-professor at UCLA. In it, amnesty is heralded as an economic nirvana because the legalization of 13 million illegal aliens will cause the gross domestic product (GDP) to rise $1.5 trillion dollars over the next ten years.
This report is a mathematical fantasy that defies common sense and years of research. It's being used by the far left political elite as a last ditch pitch to sell their amnesty agenda, but we're not buying it. Amnesty proponents understand they have a limited window until midterm elections to accomplish their agenda and they can clearly see that public support for amnesty has no pulse given 10% unemployment and massive government spending. In a desperate final propaganda push they're peddling amnesty as the new Economic Stimulus Package. It's not. It's the next massive bailout - this time to benefit 13 million illegal aliens, and a wholesale sell out of American workers. The fact that this Administration is entertaining the notion of amnesty in this economy should be an affront to every American. Just because 13 million illegal aliens could be administratively converted from illegal to legal status doesn't change the fact that most are poorly skilled, undereducated and heavily government dependent. That dependency will continue if they're made legal - in fact it gets worse because they'd get more in tax credits than they put in. Moreover, since they would have legal status, they'd be eligible for even more government benefits than they already have at the federal, state and local levels. Taxpayers will suffer. Flooding the market with more cheap labor and adding millions of government-dependent people is no way to fix our economy.
The report focuses almost exclusively on the broad GDP - the total sum of all goods and services produced - not on the plight of real people with real needs. The study claims that there would be a $792 billion rise in GDP over ten years, yet the Heritage Foundation finds that Obama's planned amnesty will give illegal immigrants not merely health care benefits, but full access to the massive U.S. welfare system comprising over 70 separate aid programs at a cost of around $700 billion per year.
Yes, our GDP could rise if we add 13 million people to the economy but that doesn't mean the per-person share of the GDP will rise. The abstract economic metric really means nothing for John Q. Public. It doesn't get him a job (in fact it reduces his chances because amnesty would add 13 million more legal workers into the economy all competing legally for the scare jobs he needs), it doesn't increase his wages and it certainly won't reduce his taxes. The winners are companies who get to keep their cheap labor supply, immigrants themselves, and the political parties who will add millions of new citizens, most of whom will vote for the party that gives them the biggest handout.
The report claims that amnesty will cause wages to rise. For whom - the illegal workers who get rewarded with citizenship and get a few more dollars per hour? Despite their claim that wages rose after the 1986 amnesty, the fact is that when properly adjusted for inflation, real wages for low-wage American workers have not increased since 1986, and since 1965 have actually decreased. Amnesty will not magically grant illegal aliens an education, better job skills, or higher earning potential. It only grants them access to taxpayer funded programs. Their wages levels may rise marginally overall, but not enough to make illegal aliens net contributors as taxpayers.
What has increased since 1986 is the amount of people coming to US expecting yet another round - their personal round - of amnesty. Granting amnesty just creates the incentive to come here illegally and perpetuates the cheap illegal labor addiction of business and keeps wages low.
A century ago, poorly-educated immigrants were needed for low value-added, mass production work. Their care generally fell on family members or private charities. Today their care falls on the public by way of massive entitlement programs. Unless immigrants can generate the "value added" to cover their costs associated with being here, their recruitment generates reduced wage costs for employers but far higher taxes for the rest of us. What made sense at one time no longer makes sense. What once was can no longer be.
Finally, converting 13 million illegal aliens into instant citizens doesn't stop the cost of illegal immigration because it just encourages more. We'll have the staggering cost of adding millions of new low-income government dependent citizens, and we'll continue to incur the cost of the next round of illegal aliens.
He would be better guided if he were encouraging foreign investment in Indiana, boosting Indiana exports, teaching Foreign Languages to students, and supporting immigrants integration into our society with English language support and other services instead of trying to exclude people from essential services.
Immigration policy is a federal issue, not a state issue. He should take Burton's seat if he wants to write federal legislation.
Mary Giovagnoli another pro-illegal alien advocate worked with the traitor Kennedy, and specializes in asylum and refugee law along with general immigration.
Any study done by this phony group certainly does not add all costs incurred from illegal aliens forced on honest citizens.
The study might as well be done by polling illegals about their thoughts concerning their crimes or getting Mexican officials input.
The church desperate for membership after years of pedophile scandals and payouts is ready to throw every other citizen under the bus so they can regain funds and membership.
A better place to find accurate info about costs is Center for Immigration studies or numbers USA dot com.
I believe the majority of honest citizens are willing to take the so-called risk and deport the criminals. Next time donâ??t use groups that have such obvious self-serving agendas.
Additionally, all one has to do is look at California to see the impact of decades of high illegal immigration. As I have said many times before, the positive aspects of California are the result of legal immigration, while the negative aspects of California generally result from the presence of illegal aliens, who (even more so with the second generation) impact the schools, hospitals and social welfare policies and expenses of California government. If you want to be like California, continue to ignore the problem until it is too late.
Problems with illegal immigration or even too much legal immigration can rip a country apart.
First they came they first came for the Communists,and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me ââ?¬â??
and by that time no one was left to speak up.
Native-born Latinos and immigrants (who have unemployment rates much higher than the national average) are among the first to lose work to illegal workers. Given that, it is hard to view any enforcement of immigration law in the workplace as anti-Latino or anti-immigrant.
I applaud Senator Delph for standing up for American workers instead of the companies that knowingly hire the illegals.These companies would not hire the illegals unless it was making them more money.For factual figures and information check out NumbersUSA.Com
In 2008 Immigrants legal and illegal sent $389 million in remittances back to their home country earned legally and illegal in Indiana. These stats are from the Inter-American Devolopment bank which 2009 info is not avalible.
Indiana had to borrow millions from the Feds to help pay the unemployed in Indiana.
The Indiana summer study committee determed a majority of illegal aliens work in manufacturing, construction, hotels and resturants not in the fields picking fruits and vegies like we have been lied to in the past by the lame stream media.
It's all good to allow legal immigrants to settle in our state it's the illegal aliens that need to be sent packing.
We have fire coverage districts.Do we want to give that to the Federal level in D.C. and call them when we have a fire? The federal government has messed this Country up enough already.It is time for States to act on the illegal immigration issue.The key word is illegal!Thank you Senator Delph for having the courage that is not shown at the Federal level by addressing this problem.
I can't see how having states write 50 additional immigration laws that conflict with one another will solve anything.
As a matter of public policy both President Bush and O'Bama have sided with the Anti-Defamation League and Southern Poverty Law Center against hate groups like IFIRE.
do you mean O'Bannon or did you mean the president Obama? Obama does not have the Irish spelling with the ' in it.
(IFIRE is Indiana Affiliate)
The Federation for American
Immigration Reform (FAIR)
http://www.adl.org/civil_rights/is_fair_unfair.pdf
Which is why founding organizers of LA RAZA, MALDEF, Brown Berets are racist by their own words.
Found at snopes. Com
http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/hispanic.asp
Also revealing language used by Mexican officials that they are practicing La Reconquista.
Or traitor and racist Professor Fernando Gurerra of Loyola Marymount University; â??We need to avoid a white backlash by using codes understood by Latinos.â??
All this and more racist language, on the snopes dot com link by co-founders of major Latino organizations and some elected Latino officials and professors.
Proof of racism.
SASSAFRAS...we gave amnesty in 1986 and we got www.mexica-movement.org and the joke called AZTLAN.
NICK...the SPLC and ADL are twins which DO NOT list hate groups like the ones I've listed to Sassafras.
KAREN...ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS is the topic..illegal immigranst CAN NOT work legally in the USA. They CAN NOT use an ITIN. Look up the laws.
OH and the bill didn't make it out of conference because of that jerk,Bauer.
You need to calm down and get your facts straight.
There is a military program that offers legal U.S. citizenship if you serve in our military. Many people from U.S. commonwealths like Puerto Rico, Guam, etc. take advantage of this.
ILLEGALS can NOT serve in the military.
LEGAL aliens can and do with great distinction and pride and at the same time earn a fast track to citizenship.
There is no excuse, no reason for ILLEGAL to remain in America.
Want the truth about ILLEGAL immigration? Visit oneoldvet.com
Want the truth about the SPLC? Check this out: http://oneoldvet.com/?p=6377
After some hesitation about donating to to the SPLC, One Old Vet's blog inspired me to write a new check to them again. Thanks.
So much for the "Rule of Law" in his/her world...
Why is it in many countries it is a skip and a hop for many immigrants to get residency but for the majority of Latin American Countries cannot due to their ethnicity? Many of the immigrants are not Latino but a good majority are and would not matter if they were here or gone many of the jobs they do would be left unfilled which would jack the price of getting your dry cleaning done, the roof on your house completed or your grass cut. If these individuals were given a better opportunity as many of our other immigrant brother and sisters we would not even be on this site even reading or replying. So instead of spending all the tax dollars on getting them out of the country and losing million of dollars of revenue lets spend 1/3 of the money to allow them to get residency.
The racism and ignorance never ceases to amaze me