Alabama recently followed in the footsteps of Arizona and Georgia in passing a strict immigration bill aimed at deterring illegal immigrants from settling in the state. This bill was passed shortly after the Supreme Court's recent decision to uphold an Arizona law allowing the state to close the doors of businesses found guilty of hiring undocumented workers, and Georgia's new immigration law that allows officers to question the immigration status of individuals suspected of committing crimes and fine or imprison those using false identification to obtain jobs. Alabama's bill requires all immigrants to be documented, and obligates schools to collect citizenship information on students. Businesses must also enroll in the federal E-Verify program in order to ensure illegal immigrants are not being hired.
Among the concerns of civil rights groups is the new bill's propensity to promote racial profiling. This concern stems from the potential ability for law enforcement to initiate citizenship investigations based on suspicion alone. Many wonder what parameters will be used to initiate such investigations - skin color? A notable accent? If police officers are found to be using these traits to request documentation from foreigners, questions regarding constitutionality and even lawsuits could arise.
What's more, many immigrant families are now leaving all three of these states for those with more lenient laws, therefore, creating a gap in the workforce that Alabama, Georgia and Arizona employers (namely farmers) are anxious to fill. Those families new to the nation are also fearful of migrating to these areas, and so, a short-term solution aimed at filling the gaps is nearly impossible.
In short, legislators are not only passing bills that border on unconstitutional, but are closing their state's borders to a capable workforce. This will inevitably hurt the whole U.S. economy in the long-run.





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It is a Great idea of Georgia's lawmakers to place parolee's and to consider low flight risk prison inmates, in assisting farmers picking crops and vegetables. Pay them for a job well done, as it will conserve considerable amounts of money, seeing that the penal system already has a responsibility to furnish Health care and educational programs. Those inmates who work diligently in the fields, should be given a special incentive, such as for everyday employed on a farm, they should get an extra day knocked of their original punishment? Eventually billions of dollars would be saved, as the taxpayer is already paying for illegal alien workers and supporting their Public welfare. We could introduce a program parallel to this in every state, especially in California and Nevada crippled by prison and jail costs?
THE PASSAGE OF ANTI-SANCTUARY CITY LAWS IN TEXAS, IS ANOTHER HIT AGAINST THE LIBS & DEMOCRATS, DISPLAYING THE WAY OF OTHER STATES TO COMBAT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. ARIZONA WAS THE WELLSPRING OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLES MOVEMENT FOR LESS INTERFERENCE FROM OUR GOVERNMENT AND RETURNING POWER TO THE STATES. STATE LEADERS, WHO FAIL TO SEE THE WRITING ON THE WALL, WILL FIND HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS ECONOMIC ILLEGAL ALIENS HEADING FOR THEIR BORDER. IN THE COMING MONTHS THESE LAWMAKERS WILL BE JUDGED ON THEIR PERFORMANCE ON FINDING JOBS FOR THEIR CONSTITUENTS AND FOR REFUSING TO ENACT HARSH POLICING LAWS TO START THE PROCESS OF SELF-DEPORTATION OF FOREIGN NATIONALS. WE MUST SECURE THE BORDER NOW WITH TROOPS AND BRING TO THE ATTENTION OF THE HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, TO PACIFY ILLEGAL ALIENS EACH YEAR IN COSTS THAT ARE FOREVER INCREASING.
The next pointer towards on halting the illegal alien invaders is to call your Federal and State Senator at the Senate—202-224–3121/ House—202-225–3121 as large numbers of TEA PARTY members are now doing. They are insisting that Congress enact permanent E-Verify, Secure Communities and 287G policing laws for businesses and law enforcement precincts. If you are really interested in your children's future, read the facts about illegal immigration that the left hide from sight at NumbersUSA, Federation of American Immigration Reform and Judicial Watch, just to name a few organizations. Only the American people can stop us sinking further into this financial sinkhole, by ignoring the Liberal Progressives idea of Open borders; without any enforcement restraints that would destroy America's individual sovereignty.
If these all-encompassing laws are mandated, illegal immigrants will not be able to work or risk being caught under the above mentioned countrywide laws. Undocumented people will begin to accept there is no place for them in America anymore. Further, the Republicans are correct that illegal entrance through borders, by plane or ship is a criminal offense. The laws should be changed for trespassing in any US State as a--FELONY. Any prudent American or legal resident can distinguish that we can no longer afford, to support Sanctuary Cities and states, that we must change the instant citizenship baby law, as monetarily subsidizing the lives of 300.000 annually of foreign children with parents who illegally entered this country. School classrooms through K-12 are overcrowded with the children of illegal immigrants and the hospital and clinics are overrun with foreigners; not for emergency treatment, but for minor medical care.
Over the past twenty years our own population is in anguish, under this occupational bombardment which is truly unfair to our own low income people. And even considering the thought of giving some form of legitimizing 20 plus illegal aliens, when the analytical think tank of the Heritage Foundation has projected it would cost taxpayers 2.6 Trillion dollars. To reiterate that the 1986 Amnesty package cost $76 Billion dollars, that was abused by business and most politicians after its enactment. Coming to America is reducing the opportunity of our own impoverished people that this recession has seen, with illegal workers skirting the laws and the federal government. Politicians are giving blind eye to the estimated 46 billion dollars wired out this nation annually to foreign banks. The TEA PARTY will embody the American people, not cooperating with big business influence, nor the open border fanatics, nor special interest lobbyists, just persons who came to the US legally.
Find a TEA PARTY near you, that will stop the evaporation of Medicare for Seniors, the massive tax burden; bringing to a close illegal aliens feeding of welfare programs, through their offspring. I was originally adverse to a National ID card as in the European United Communities, but I am on a different wavelength today. A national ID card would protect all birthright Americans, naturalized citizens and permanent residents from the corruption and abuse, which is transforming America into a third world country. We must control the influx of economic illegal aliens as its becoming unbearable on average Americans taxes, costing more than the two war fronts; may be a third adding Libya?