Thread: An immigration court case to watch

For those of who who do not know, Darrell Issa is a congressman.
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An immigration court case to watch

By Darrell Issa
October 31, 2007

To surprisingly little fanfare, this fall the Justice Department filed suit against the state of Illinois for enacting a law that would prevent businesses from acting to comply with United States immigration laws. Illinois Gov. Rod Blagovich, earlier this year, signed legislation prohibiting employers in his state from voluntarily participating in a federal program that allows them to check whether or not a prospective employee is legally in the United States and eligible for employment.

At stake in this court case is a potentially landmark decision about the federal government's ability to enforce our immigration laws. This decision will become even more important now that a federal district court here in California has decided to block the administration's efforts to implement a similar enforcement strategy of sending no-match letters when an employee's Social Security number does not match the name on record. According to the judge who made this highly dubious ruling, businesses “will be irreparably harmed if (the Department of Homeland Security) is permitted to enforce the new rule.â€

The illegal alien problem is rampid all over Illinois. Chicago is an illegal alien jackpot. Illinois has far too many hispanic representative with ethnocentric loyalties and deals are always being cut between the races. I recently read an article where threats were using the illegal alien population as leverage to get certain budget proposals granted.

It's pathetic that we the taxpayers of Illinois are nothing more than financial bargaining chips while illegal aliens are allowed to absorb the lions share of services courtesy of our tax dollars.



http://illinoisissues.uis.edu/politics/disbelief.html
The governor¹s budget blueprint begs
for willing suspension of disbelief


by Charles N. Wheeler III

The story line is classic Looney Tunes: The character painting the floor works himself into a corner and appears trapped. He scratches his head, a light bulb comes on, and he quickly outlines a door on the wall. Turning the knob, the clever hero opens the door and escapes.

In the state budget he proposed for the fiscal year starting July 1, Gov. Rod Blagojevich appears to have borrowed a page from the Warner Brothers playbook. After painting himself into a fiscal corner by promising not to increase income or sales taxes nor cut spending on core state services, the new governor unveiled a $52.4 billion blueprint that begs for the same willing suspension of disbelief Cartoon Network viewers routinely grant their favorites.

The plan relies on a combination of selected tax increases and fee hikes, deep cuts in higher education budgets and state operations spending, unprecedented borrowing, an impressive array of one-time cash grabs and an accounting sleight-of-hand to narrow dramatically what he says is a $5 billion budget gap.

While the door always opened for Bugs Bunny, the wall might not be as yielding for Blagojevich. Among the potential sticking points in his plan:

• The governor wants to borrow $10 billion to pay some $1.9 billion in current pension obligations, then invest the remainder, earning enough to repay the loan plus interest. The proposal would fill a big chunk of the current budget hole, but could leave future taxpayers holding the bag if underlying financial assumptions don’t pan out. Moreover, credit- rating agencies and Wall Street analysts might wonder whether Illinois, which after 185 years as a state has $8.8 billion in outstanding debt, should double that figure in a matter of months.

• The governor plans on raising $1.2 billion in ongoing revenue through a number of tax and fee increases, most on corporate taxpayers and all requiring legislative approval.

While leaving the rates unchanged, Blagojevich proposed boosting income and sales tax receipts some $531 million by closing what he called loopholes, credits and exemptions that business advocates and their legislative allies argue help spur job creation.

He also called for hiking fees, again chiefly paid by business, by some $342 million.

In addition, he proposed $208 million in “sin taxâ€