I am sure many of you watched yesterday morning as the Kennedy family gathered outside of their compound in Hyannis Port to watch as former Senator Ted Kennedy's casket was carried outside of the grounds for the last time.
The Kennedy motorcade traveled through Boston, tracing a 70 mile route designed to pass through key points in the Senator's life.
The motorcade did not pass through Texas but we feel the pain of Senator Kennedy's death in our state just as we reap the benefits of the policies he fought for during his life. He was an advocate for the everyday American and one of his most personal crusades was for the American immigrant.
One of Senator Kennedy's first legislative achievements was in 1965 when he passed a bill to eliminate the immigration quota system which made it virtually impossible for anyone from any country other than those in western Europe to come to America. This bill opened the doors for immigrants who dramatically altered the nation's demography and contributed to a more highly skilled work force.
Most recently, he fought for a bill that would have put around 12 million illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship and would also address short comings with the employer sanctions system. The legislation died in 2007 and in a speech on the Senate floor he told his colleagues, "From the windows of my office in Boston … I can see the Golden Stairs from Boston Harbor where all eight of my great grandparents set foot on this great land for the first time. That immigrant spirit of limitless possibility animates America even today."
Our country will miss such a stalwart advocate for immigrants and let us hope the work he has done for the modern-day legal system of immigration will be built upon throughout the Obama Administration.
Friday, August 28, 2009
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Instead of pandering to the business community, our elected politicians must execute E-Verify as permanent tool to draw illegal workers away from the workplace? It must not be voluntary to be enforced, with serious penalties for employers who disregard the law. Heavy fines should be imposed, along with asset confiscation and for hiring a large force of illegal foreign workers a lengthy prison sentence. Nobody in the workplace should be exempt from being positively identified as a Citizen or a US permanent resident. Even the longest employed worker should be checked through the system. E-Verification should be built upon, with any new innovations desired to stop jobs being stolen from those legally allowed to work.
Many ICE raids across the nation have proved beyond doubt the extent of illegal nationals taking jobs of citizens and how expeditiously these unfilled jobs were taken back by bona-fide workers in the poultry industry. Americans in the working environment should report any illegal activity to ICE, so they can investigate. E-Verify is the only substantial program in immigration armory that must not be weakened. It is evident that it’s operational owing to the tireless assault of the ACLU, US Chamber of Commerce to silence its function in the courts. Now is the time to pressure your reluctant elected official, specifically in California. This Sanctuary Refuge for illegal aliens and their families have been overloading schools, hospitals and government welfare benefits to pacify special interest lobbyists. Voters should also immediately mandate installation of E-Verify nationwide in vetting the janitor to an engineer, from a sheet metal worker to an advertising executive.
When the welfare state of California nearly financially collapsed, it can be partially attributed to the massive population of illegal immigrants. The time is ripe to shout aloud of the decades of inflated taxes supporting education to K-12, free medical care and considerably more which stays intentionally undisclosed to the public. MAKE A NOTE OF THIS WASHINGTON SWITCHBOARD NUMBER 202-224-3121. Like never before we need the Nation Guard to patrol the border on a permanent basis, to support the undermanned region. Democrats declare in the town hall meetings, that foreign nationals have--NO--access to benefits in Obama's health care reform.
But if a path to citizenship or AMNESTY is not--TABLED--in the coming Immigration Reform session, then one-and-all, will automatically be provided for as new citizens into the health care program. In addition we must consider the gigantic onslaught of millions more who will try to join those already here? WE CANNOT EVEN PROVIDE MEDICAL FOR OUR OWN POPULATION? I CONCUR WITH A PUBLIC OPTION-BUT NOT FOR FOREIGN NATIONALS.
STOP IT ONCE AND FOR ALL NOW AND START A POINTS SYSTEM FOR HIGH ECHELON WORKERS. The poor, uneducated will never stop breaking our laws, for an opportunity reserved for AMERICANS AND LEGAL RESIDENTS. LEARN THE CONSEQUENCES OF IRREVERSIBLE OVERPOPULATION, THE COSTS TO TAXPAYERS AT NUMBERSUSA, HERITAGE FOUNDATION & JUDICIAL WATCH.
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