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Eddie C. Quinn - Jacksonville

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Gravy Train term used to refer to a situation in which someone can make a lot of money for very little effort.

E-Verify is an internet-based system that allows employers to determine whether a job applicant is entitled to work in the United States.

The blame for illegal aliens coming into, and remaining within, this country rests more with our own government than it does with the illegal aliens. Can you really blame illegal aliens for wanting to get on the government gravy train? The liberal government has been handing out so-called free benefits for decades. Hopefully, that will soon change. There is more incentive for the illegal alien to come to and remain within this country, than for illegal aliens to go back to, or remain within, their own country.

For decades, Congress has had, and continues to have, a problem figuring out how to end the mass illegal alien situation. To me, and many others, it is not only simple, but logical: Remove all the incentives for individuals to enter or remain within this country illegally! Reward those who abide by our laws, punish those that dont!

Why do the vast majority of illegal aliens come to this country? Jobs and government handouts. Remove these two incentives and illegal aliens will have less incentive to come to or remain within this country. Fewer illegal aliens would mean fewer government employees to distribute handouts, lower taxes and Border Patrol and ICE agents could focus on those intent upon doing this country and its citizens harm: terrorists, drug dealers and other criminal elements.

How to reduce illegal aliens? First, hold all employers (individuals and companies) legally and fiscally responsible for ensuring that prospective employees are legally eligible to work in this country before they hire the individual. The government developed E-Verify to assist employers in this process. If a prospective employer fails to make adequate job eligibility verification efforts, punish the employer and deport the illegal alien as both are breaking the law.

Second, the various levels of government provide numerous benefits to illegal aliens: shelter, food, clothing, medical care, education, disposable income and a host of other benefits. Where is it written that we should take better care of illegal aliens than our own citizens? Nowhere! Why are illegal aliens entitled to benefits often not even available to our own citizens particularly veterans? Answer: Leftists see illegal aliens as potential Democrat Party voters.

Conservatives see illegal aliens for what many of them are: an increased tax burden and job destroyer. Our various government entities should immediately terminate all benefits for illegal aliens. Without these benefits provided by our welfare state, illegal aliens would be far less inclined to illegally enter or remain within this country.

The upside for those legally in this country: lower taxes and the billions of dollars that are dispensed to support illegal aliens could then be shifted to help our own needy citizens.

Charity should begin at home. If there is a surplus, then spread outwards!

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What is so difficult about handling illegal immigration? - Jacksonville Daily News

On the campaign trail and during his first month in office, President Donald Trump has made it clear he will crack down on illegal immigration.

Last Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security released documents explaining that it will no longer exempt classes or categories of removable aliens from potential enforcement.

The crackdown is causing an increase in concerns for local immigrants, according to a St. Joseph attorney, Lance Davis.

Davis said since Trump took office, the amount of calls he gets about immigration has nearly doubled. But many of those callers believe in common misconceptions.

Theres a lot of fear, with the Trump administration coming in, that we are gonna do these sort of Gestapo round-ups like in World War II and that is not the case, Davis said.

Instead, he said contact between illegal immigrants and police is usually initiated through a person being arrested for violating another crime.

As part of their booking process, they (police) try to ascertain where the person is from, their birthplace. And if they have documentation that can verify that then theres no problem, Davis said.

He explained that if police cannot verify a persons legal status; thats when their consulate or ICE would get involved.

He said the number of immigration-related calls are increasing all over the state.

There are not many attorneys that do this kind of work and of course the obvious problem is a language barrier that you run into, he said.

Those who are worried about getting deported, may be hesitant to seek help, fearing that could lead to their exposure, but Davis said he recommends reaching out to an attorney.

Were a confidential relationship so going to see an attorney is a great thing to do to start with, said Davis.

Davis said the best thing undocumented immigrants can do is abide by the laws while working towards becoming legal citizens.

If you can show you are a law abiding citizen and you are attempting to live the American life, by the rules, that cant hurt. And those are the things the immigration authorities are always asking us, said Davis.

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Immigration attorneys may be a good starting point for illegal immigrants - News-Press Now

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What the federal clampdown on illegal immigration means for Idaho ... - Idaho Statesman

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant is ready to assist in President Donald Trumps crackdown on illegal immigration, but some of his fellow Republicans are less than eager to cooperate.

Bryant contends that beefed up enforcement at the federal level can only help states.

The federal law is the federal law, Bryant told Newsmax while visiting Washington for the National Governors Association winter meeting this weekend. You see now that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is simply enforcing the federal laws. I like to remind people, if we are going to ignore these laws, they need to tell us what other laws we need to ignore.

In late January, Trump signed a series of executive orders that included building a wall on the southern border, increasing interior enforcement and scaling back federal funding for sanctuary cities. Trump signed another executive order restricting immigration from seven Middle Eastern countries, which several Democratic states have sued to stop.

We are now working on a bill that would deny any support from sanctuary cities and sanctuary universities, Bryant said. We simply believe this is a nation of laws and we should abide by them.

Border state Republican governors have weighed in. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott praised Trumps actions. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey met earlier this month with Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly and the two did an hourlong tour of the border fence near the city. Florida Gov. Rick Scott said the current immigration system is a mess.

However, Vermonts Republican Gov. Phil Scott is putting a council together to push back against Trumps executive orders on enforcement and funding.

We want to take a little bit of a pause in looking at the executive order, in looking at federal overreach in terms of the Constitution, I think the Fourth and Tenth Amendment in particularly, Scott told Newsmax. I want to make sure that we protect our Constitution because it may be the Fourth and the Tenth this time, but it sets precedent. In four years, it could be the Second Amendment and I treasure that one as well.

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat and NGA chairman, criticized ICE for making arrests in Fairfax, Virginia, and is meeting with Kelly on Sunday.

We cant have people driven underground. We do have basic civil liberties we need to protect, McAuliffe told Newsmax. We do not want to see people just randomly stopped without any due cause or due process.

NGA Republican vice chairman, Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval, is treading carefully in his state with a high immigrant population, even reviewing a Washington state policy barring state agencies from arresting illegal immigrants for no other reason than entering the country illegally.

I can speak for all of the governors, Sandoval told Newsmax. We are paying close attention to what the president is doing with regard to his immigration policies. Weve had a chance to meet with the secretary of homeland security and I know there is ongoing discussion, particularly with Mexico but across the world.

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MANKATO Business groups' push for immigration reform and welcoming immigrants (see related story) comes against a backdrop of immigration protests in the U.S. and fear and uncertainty in other countries.

James Dimock, a communications professor at Minnesota State University, has for years led student trips to Columbia, Nicaragua, Cuba and Mexico. The most recent 10-day trip was in Mexico last month at the time President Trump's travel ban was announced.

"Generally the feeling was they were very, very concerned about what was going to happen."

He doesn't believe the flow of illegal immigrants will be slowed by deportations or a border wall.

"There's a myth about why people migrate. They're leaving friends, family, food, their comfort zone to go to a placed they'll often be treated hostilely. But they're doing it because of the need they have for their family," he said.

"A wall will make it more difficult but it will just make corruption more potent, it won't slow that flow of people. If someone can be bribed to lift a crossing gate they will be bribed to find another way across. It's not a physical barrier we're fighting but financial and corruption. If they can't support their families they will keep coming."

Dimock said that with 40 percent or more of the Mexican population in poverty, the ability of family members to work in the U.S. and send money (remittances) home is their lifeline. Mexican families take in $25 billion annually in remittances.

"Remittances are in the top three sources of revenue for the states and country. If they were to lose or inhibit that remittance money they'd be devastated. The government has no mechanism to address poverty," he said. Cutting into those remittances, he said, will only make people more desperate to get into the U.S. illegally. "It's a rational decision they're making."

He said the Mexicans he meets, mostly farmers, miners, activists and rural village residents, are hostile to NAFTA. The agreement, he said, flooded Mexico with cheap U.S. corn, decimating some 2 million farmers there who left their land but often found no other living, sending many of them to the U.S.

He said those people would welcome a renegotiated NAFTA, but he thinks if NAFTA is radically altered with no good replacement, corn exports from the U.S. would dry up. "There would be starvation."

He said Mexicans also despise NAFTA because American farmers and agribusiness are heavily subsidized by the government, allowing for the cheaper grain and other farm products to be sold to Mexico, while Mexican farmers receive little or no support.

Finally, he said a portion of the NAFTA agreement, called the Mrida Initiative, aimed at combating drug production and smuggling from Mexico, has harmed many Mexicans with no drug connections. The initiative, launched during the Bush administration, was funded with a $2.5 billion appropriation from Congress. American companies, Dimock said, thought it would bring a level of law and order in Mexico, allowing them to do business there more easily.

"There's been no decline in drugs flowing across the border from Mexico since it went into effect. Heroin and coke has increased since then and the quality of it has increased."

He said the funding prompted the militarization of police forces all over Mexico, forces that he said often turn on Mexicans who protest or take on local governments or businesses.

"A lot of Mexicans have just disappeared. They're last seen with someone from the government and then they're never heard from again."

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MSU prof says wall won't slow illegal immigration - Mankato Free Press