Here are the latest quotes from the incumbents, spoken at the League of Women Voters on March 30th. The topic was the illegal alien problem and enforcement:
John Walters: Elgin does every legal thing it can do right now. First of all, every person arrested is screened, we get a profile from the jail, contractors are scrutinized under E-Verify, we E-Verify all of our own people, we have helped out (garbled audio) in certain areas.
The next step folks, they’re going to tell you differently, but the next step is a lawsuit for racial profiling, something the city of Elgin cannot afford.
Comment: Didn't Walters say at our forum that contractors weren't scrutinized because we never had the manpower for it? As for his comments about racial profiling, I hope this doesn't turn out like the shot fired by the council in July of 2004 that began the U46 lawsuit.
Juan Figueroa: I think the city of Elgin has done what has to be done. We had listened to a community organization in town that was very concerned about illegal immigration. That organization submitted seven proposals. Out of those seven we passed at least two important ones. The first one is having better communication with the ICE, basically report I would say having better reporting, that we are holding at the jail, city jail. So those are better communication with ICE and also the booking at the city jail. I think that’s what we need to do. In order to do it better we need to continue enhancing that relationship with ICE.
Comment: It sounds like he's not particularly impatient with ICE.
Bob Gilliam: When it comes to illegal immigration I was approached, along with Dave Kaptain, by AFLA to talk about what we could do about immigration. And we met with AFLA and on behalf of the city council we agreed to do all the things that John Walters indicated. After our meeting with them and passing those new regulations we’ve done everything legal that you can do under the law. If you look at AFLA’s website you’ll see where Dave White said that he’s happy that the city took an interest, he’s happy with what the city is doing toward illegal immigration. This is on their website and I have some copies for you outside. They were happy with that, and with ICE. You cannot make ICE do anything. Have you ever tried to get the federal government to do something? You can’t do it. We’ve asked them to come. If they say no, what do we do? We have a relationship with ICE. We work with them. They take the people that we refer to them. They do a good job for us so far. You cannot make ICE do anything. You can’t make the federal government respond. It’s just impossible.
Comment: I think Mr. Gilliam is making reference to this statement on our website. We were pleased to see some action at the time. Our enthusiasm waned as we saw the actual implementation. At the time (January 2008) we wrote:
"This is a big step for the city. We are grateful for their announcement and look forward to seeing these initiatives enforced. AFLA plans to monitor their compliance in these matters.We are particularly interested in the outcome of the ICE ACCESS meeting. It could be significant (we hope so) or simply a rehash of programs we already have. As you know 287g is an ICE ACCESS program as well as the CAP officer. It would be great to see either of these programs implemented."
Here's another interesting warning from AFLA about ICE ACCESS:
http://elginlegalamericans.blogspot.com/search?q=chinese+menu
We must say here and now that Bob Gilliam and Dave Kaptain were the two council members who would talk to us. Gilliam deserves some credit for that.
Note: I apologize for any misquoting here. The sound system was terrible. I think I accurately represented the remarks.
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Whatever the issues are, such as health care, education or even a overloaded prison system. Nothing has more effect on the culture, language, and momentum of our economy than ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION Politicians see the American taxpayer as the "Beast of Burden" are malevolent Sen. Harry Reid, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Dianne Feinstein and a multitude of other officials, who only have big business dividends at heart. We must all keep phoning Washington at: 202-224-3121; The President: 202-456-1414: The truth: NUMBERSUSA.
ReplyDeleteHow many more illegal aliens with their families are taxpayers expected to support? The media, along with the government have chanted monotonously for years, that only 13 million have settled here. But the Heritage Foundation have analyzed it's more like 40 million? Then who are we inclined to believe? I think the latter of the two and with that, what costs are estimated taxpayers fork out annually. Remember we have an encumbrance of illegal aliens stealing jobs in "Sanctuary Cities" But then we have Sanctuary states like California. Then guess what state nearly collapsed with bankruptcy imminent? They had to raise the highest taxes in the nation, to cover the $47. billion dollars, so they could support all the illegal alien welfare payouts. Seeing nobody is telling the Public the straight facts, we should use Census tracking to locate and deport all illegal foreign nationals? E-Verify should be made--PERMANENT--Not just for new employees, but those already hired.
Then we have E-verify that was stripped from the Stimulus/Omnibus spending bills. Then we have some pro-illegal immigrant states charging taxpayers to underwrite the in-state, higher education of illegal alien students. Course by now--we know the left wingers, open border brain-dead zealots, are pushing President Obama, to enact another Amnesty, the Dream act and rescind E-Verify, Real ID Act---and then to purgatory with US workers. If they can overrule the US Constitution, they can sure ignore the en masse,discharging millions more impoverished people for the taxpayers w. allets--AND NOT THE PREDATORY BUSINESSES THAT HIRE THEM Remember who--THE PEOPLES--Arch-Enemies are? US Chamber of Commerce, ACLU and K Street lobbyists.
Whatever the issues are, such as health care, education or even a overloaded prison system. Nothing has more effect on the culture, language, and momentum of our economy than ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION Politicians see the American taxpayer as the "Beast of Burden" are malevolent Sen. Harry Reid, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Dianne Feinstein and a multitude of other officials, who only have big business dividends at heart. We must all keep phoning Washington at: 202-224-3121; The President: 202-456-1414: The truth: NUMBERSUSA.
ReplyDeleteHow many more illegal aliens with their families are taxpayers expected to support? The media, along with the government have chanted monotonously for years, that only 13 million have settled here. But the Heritage Foundation have analyzed it's more like 40 million? Then who are we inclined to believe? I think the latter of the two and with that, what costs are estimated taxpayers fork out annually. Remember we have an encumbrance of illegal aliens stealing jobs in "Sanctuary Cities" But then we have Sanctuary states like California. Then guess what state nearly collapsed with bankruptcy imminent? They had to raise the highest taxes in the nation, to cover the $47. billion dollars, so they could support all the illegal alien welfare payouts. Seeing nobody is telling the Public the straight facts, we should use Census tracking to locate and deport all illegal foreign nationals? E-Verify should be made--PERMANENT--Not just for new employees, but those already hired.
Then we have E-verify that was stripped from the Stimulus/Omnibus spending bills. Then we have some pro-illegal immigrant states charging taxpayers to underwrite the in-state, higher education of illegal alien students. Course by now--we know the left wingers, open border brain-dead zealots, are pushing President Obama, to enact another Amnesty, the Dream act and rescind E-Verify, Real ID Act---and then to purgatory with US workers. If they can overrule the US Constitution, they can sure ignore the en masse,discharging millions more impoverished people for the taxpayers w. allets--AND NOT THE PREDATORY BUSINESSES THAT HIRE THEM Remember who--THE PEOPLES--Arch-Enemies are? US Chamber of Commerce, ACLU and K Street lobbyists.