Thread: A Few Lawmakers Attract More Illegal Aliens Into NC!

Members of the NC General Assembly:

While I am glad that the intense public pressure from NC citizens has resulted in a few minor immigration enforcement laws in North Carolina, our state remains a top destination for illegal aliens in America for two reasons.

One, NC's efforts to curtail illegal immigration on the state level are meager compared to most other states. We have tightened up our license security and are supposed to be screening all new state employees for legal presence, thanks to laws passed in 2006 and 2007. But more comprehensive immigration enforcement measures have been discarded and died in committee year after year since 2004.

While I believe that a majority of NC state legislators would vote in favor of more state level immigration enforcement bills, the public never gets to find out because of handful of Democrats control the committees and never allow such bills to even be discussed, voted on, or make it to the floor for a formal vote.

Such procedural usurpation of the political process have kept NC citizens without adequate representation by the same political body that taxes and spends over 20 Billion dollars of their hard earned money each year! Open government in NC has long since been replaced by those in the 'smokey back rooms' that are now smoke free yet still controlled by the few that hold dominion over the many.

North Carolinians are paying the price for corruption and elite rule in Raleigh. We are losing our jobs, wage levels, homes, property, and some are losing their very lives because a handful of lawmakers in power refuse to allow due process and consideration for immigration enforcement bills that are favored by the vast majority of NC taxpayers and would likely be favored by most of our state representatives that want to actually serve their constituents.

In 2008, the NC General Assembly took no actions to curtail illegal immigration despite our warnings that the recent crack down legislation in SC and GA was sending more illegal aliens our way.

Two, we still have state lawmakers who push each year to establish more taxpayer benefits for illegal aliens, such as in-state tuition or college access for illegals.

We want each NC lawmaker to know that NC remains a top destination for illegal aliens in America despite some national reductions in illegal immigration resulting from the bad economy and increased enforcement.

Today, yet another article appears with a specific mention of North Carolina as a destination for illegal aliens.

When Georgia passed historic immigration enforcement legislation two years ago, Georgia news reports indicated the illegal aliens were leaving Georgia and mentioning North Carolina as a specific destination.

In 2006, we learned from state authorities in New Jersey and Florida that drug and illegal alien smuggling cartels were arranging charter bus transport for illegal aliens from those states into North Carolina.

The revelations in 2007 that there were ads in Brazilian newspapers advertising North Carolina as a great destination for illegal aliens was a real political bombshell. The word is out from Argentina to Mexico that NC state lawmakers have made our state easy pickings for illegal aliens and the hardened criminals and undocumented gang members bringing in the illegals and 90% of the drugs.

Here is a copy of the latest article to mention North Carolina as an illegal alien sanctuary state. The Associated Press article 'Uneasiness persists over RI immigration order' By HILARY RUSS released on March 26, 2009 states specifically in the second sentence in the article "Gov. Don Carcieri cracking down on illegal immigration drove away his largely immigrant base of customers, who told him they were moving to North Carolina and other states where they could live without fear of getting deported."

While many Democrats are starting to understand the polling numbers which show over 80% of North Carolinians want their state lawmakers to take strong immigration enforcement action on the state level, the Democratic leadership in Raleigh has consistently thwarted over 95% of the Republican offered enforcement bills.

The recent actions of Democratic Governor Beverly Purdue are certainly encouraging and we all hope she will maintain her stance on keeping illegal aliens out of NC Community Colleges.

In fact, it would be truly beneficial to the state of North Carolina if she would follow the excellent example of Rhode Island's Governor Donald Carcieri!

Carcieri cracked down on illegal immigration by executive order and asked the Rhode Island assembly to back up his move with legislation which they did.

North Carolina is a state in crisis with high unemployment and a state budget that is deep trouble. Every job in North Carolina, especially those funded by tax dollars through contractors that bid on state projects, should go to Americans and legal immigrants, not illegal aliens. Taxpayer resources for schools and jails must be conserved and the resulting mass exodus of illegal aliens seen in many other states after local immigration enforcement legislation went into effect would be beneficial here.

We hope and pray that 2009 will be the year when Democrats and Republicans in Raleigh finally work together to reverse illegal immigration during this time of crisis.

We are far behind almost 30 other states that have proven they are more responsive to emerging issues and the desires of their constituents than North Carolina.

It is not too late to do the right thing and establish more immigration enforcement in North Carolina this year!


William Gheen
President, Americans for Legal Immigration PAC
www.alipac.us



William Gheen is a prior member of the Senate Sgt-At-Arms staff, legislative assistant staff, lobbyist, and political consultant to Democrat and Republican lawmakers in North Carolina. Gheen also served as a statewide officer for the NC Democratic Party in the 90's and was mentored by Senators Bob Martin, Ed Warren, and Representative Linwood Mercer. Currently, William serves as President of the national organization Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC), and as the Director of the National Illegal Immigration Boycott Coalition (NIIBC), and as host of the Last Americans Standing Show.

W. sounds great, will re-read.

Driver's license - We have tightened up our license security

Today, yet another article appears with a specific mention of North Carolina as a destination for illegal aliens. ( Should article be named.)

It is not to late to do the right thing and establish more immigration enforcement in North Carolina this year! (Maybe)
a. E-Verify should be required in every North Carolina agency since they
are established by and use taxpayer funding.
b. Continued strong support against school tuition for undocumented
immigrants.
c. Required 287g Program use by all counties and local police.
d. Public record and media reporting of ICE and detention of illegals
in North Carolina jails and prisons. (??Don't we want to
know about the numbers, names, and locations?? Another state,
GA is reporting the fact of their detention centers, I believe. It is on
the internet.)

THANKS, William.

I ride Bev Perdue's butt every day with anything I find from our State, ditto for Kay Hagan. Now I found out Bob Etheridge is supporting Shamnesty!

I have told them to be prepared for the Tea Party, I think (hope and pray) there will be big turn outs everywhere in the State. People here are sick of being denied... at least out here in Johnston Co. they are!

That sounds great.

The last sentence should read "It is not too late" instead of to

Great letter!
And it is beginning to sound like some of these folks are Pelosi/Reid emulators in Raleigh.

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