Since 08-09-06
FIELD REPORT ON IMMIGRATION
FIELD HEARING -- SAN DIEGO CA
Since 08-09-06
August 8, 2006
Report on California immigration hearing
James R,,
Last Week's San Diego area immigration Field Hearing focused on how illegals
impact the costs of healthcare, local education, and other social services.
We have a Field Report for you filed by a Grassfire.org
team member. Go here
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Here are Field Reports on the San Diego hearing from Grassfire team members. Go
to ImmigrationHearings.com
http://www.immigrationhearings.com/ for complete information on the
immigration hearings.
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Grassfire Team Member, Jeff Schwilk, San Diego, CA
Overall, excellent hearing with staggering numbers and predictions presented as
testimony. We absolutely must secure our borders now and end the flood of social
refugees streaming into America and bankrupting our economy.
The Congressional panel was made up of Chairman Sensenbrenner and 6 other
Republican Representatives along with two Democrats. The most prominent and
strong comments came from Reps. Bilbray and Issa. Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee went
on a 5 minute negative lecture when it came to her time to speak to the
witnesses. She ended her tirade by holding up a ribbon bar she said she got from
a U.S. Navy sailor who was also an "immigrant". She said the Republicans and
these hearings were "maligning" the service of immigrants in our military. She
had a few other ridiculous comments about the military and the hearings and was
met by loud boos from the audience.
I approached her after the hearings ended and said, "Excuse me maam, with all
due respect, I just retired after 21 years in the Marine Corps and there is
never any discrimination in the military against foreign citizens serving in the
U.S. military." Her response to me as she walked by was, "I'm sorry you don't
speak English". I said "excuse me, what does that mean?" She then said, "You are
the reason I said these hearings should not be held on a military base".
Needless to say I was outraged at her rude and ignorant comments to me. This
arrogant and hateful woman showed clearly that she has no business sitting in
the U.S. House of Representatives. The Mexican House maybe, but not ours....
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San Diego MinuteMan
I went to the House of Representatives, committee on the Judiciary meeting here
in San Diego.
Oversight Hearing August 2, 2006. The main push of the meeting was to present
facts.
"How Does Illegal Immigration Impact American Taxpayers and Will the
Reid-Kennedy Amnesty Worsen the Blow?"
Each of the people who offered testimonies were given five minutes to summarize
their written testimonies, which were printed for attendees to pick up before
the meeting. I tried to boil each testimony down to a few summarizing
statements. The committee members then questioned those who testified. The
hearing lasted 1 hour and 45 minutes.
Michael D. Antonovich Mayor/ Los Angles County Board of
Supervisors
Population 10.2 million, 12% illegal.
Over $1,000,000,000/yr taxpayer cost in public safety, healthcare, social
services and education.
160,000 illegal immigrants, via their U.S. born children receiving government
aid until they are 18.
Nearly half of all students do not speak English.
Only 44% of the 727,000 students received a high school diploma
The county has to pick up the majority of funding for Federal Government
mandates.
Leroy D Baca, Sheriff of Los Angeles County
40% of inmates in custody are illegal and 26% get state Criminal Alien
Assistance funding'
A large % of criminal are arrested again after being deported.
A new 6 month program has processed to Fed immigration 1,431 of 3,317
adjudicated cases
Terrorists have blended in with the millions of illegals living undetected
within the country.
Robert Rector, Senior Research Fellow, The Heritage Foundation.
Testimony focus on fiscal effects of low
skill immigration.
Immigrant, who has not completed high school, will cost taxpayers $100,000 over
his lifetime.
$30,000,000,000 additional Medicaid cost/yr if the current illegal immigrants
are granted amnesty
$50,000,000,000 additional welfare cost/yr due to the Senates bill (S.2611)
Citizens, through amnesty, will have the right to bring his parents to live in
the US
About 1/3 foreign born persons in the U.S. are Mexican and half are illegal.
Mexican women emigrating to the US have a considerably higher fertility rate
than those in Mexico
44% of adult illegals are women.
60% Latin American and Mexican immigrants lack a high school education vs. 6%
for native born.
1st Generation Mexican immigrant median income was $323/wk in 2000 (54% of
general population)
1980 immigrants saw their relative wages shrink in the 1990s
Immigrant households were 50% more likely to receive means tested aid than
native born.
81% of illegal immigrants are from Latin America or Mexico (57%)
30.7 blacks, 23% Hispanics and 7.9% non-Hispanic whites received some form of
government aid.
11.8 % of all poor children have illegal immigrant parents, but they are only 6%
of the population.
67% of blacks and 45% of Hispanics have children born out of wedlock, with high
% on welfare.
Progressive Fed taxes issuer tax credits to offset low income Social Security
tax payments.
Average cost to educate a child is $8,000 per year in U.S. primarily locally
funded.
The cost of low cost housing support was not investigated.
Kevin J. Burns CFO University Medical Center Corporation, Tucson,
Az.
"How does illegal Immigration Impact
American Taxpayers and Will the Reid-Kennedy Amnesty Worsen the Blow?
"Introduction. We believe that the currently proposed legislation may worsen the
financial burden on our Nation's healthcare system and tax payers as the
proposed legislation may result in a greater number of immigrants entering the
United States with no provision for covering their healthcare cost"
54% increase in Trauma volumes since 2003
Majority of non-paying foreign nationals arrive as trauma patients/emergency
department
UMC receives no reimbursement to help defray the cost of non-paying patient's
care.
1 infant admitted to UMC's Neonatal Intensive care cost more than $75,000 (had
15 last year)
1/2 funds come from Government programs that do not cover cost.
ICE avoids financial responsibility for illegal aliens they request care for by
not taking custody.
Wayne A Cornelius, Director, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies,
University of California-San Diego
Even if apprehended and sent home, the vast majority (~95%) will keep trying to
enter until they succeed.
60% of Mexican population have relatives in the U.S.
Border enforcement resulted in ~ 90% illegals hiring people-smugglers (Coyotes @
$3,000/head)
Coyotes have detoured around heavily fortified segments of the border.
Mexicans can fly, visa-free, to any Canadian city and be smuggled across our
northern border.
Pushed for legal temporary worker program. Last year only 3,200 visas were
issued to Mexicans.
25% farm, 17% cleaning, 14% constructions workers are illegal immigrants & have
taxes deducted.
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REPORT FROM THE HOUSE COMMITTEE:
SAN DIEGO, CA – For Sensenbrenners Opening Statement at the San Diego Field
Hearing. More
http://judiciary.house.gov/media/pdfs/SanDiegoFJSstate8206.pdf
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Grassfire.org
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Also, Grassfire.org just launched a new website to track these field hearings
and rally citizens to take action. Go here for more:
http://www.immigrationhearings.com
If you attended the field hearing, please use this site to submit your Field
Report (click on "File A Field Report"). Please note that there are more
California hearings
scheduled for later this month. If at all possible, please attend.
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Thanks for the stand you are taking!
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