Immigration Hearings Hit the Road
Coming soon… immigration hearings across America. The House leadership today announced the upcoming immigration field hearings and topics:
HOUSE ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE
Las Cruces, NM on August 3rd — How can Congress best protect the integrity of the federal voting process by combating election fraud and eliminating non-citizen voting?
Phoenix, AZ on August 3rd — How effective are state policies like Arizona’s Proposition 200, which requires voters to provide evidence of citizenship, at combating election fraud?
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
San Diego, CA on August 2nd — How do illegal immigrants impact the costs of healthcare, local education, and other social services, and would these costs increase under Reid-Kennedy immigration bill?
El Paso, TX on August 17th — What is the financial impact of illegal immigration on communities along the U. S. border, and could these costs rise under the Reid-Kennedy bill? What is the impact on efforts to extend a border security fence under the Reid-Kennedy bill’s requirements regarding consultation with the Mexican Government? Will efforts to limit illegal immigration be inhibited by the Reid-Kennedy bill’s provisions relating to local law enforcement?
Concord, NH on August 24th — How do illegal immigrants impact the costs of healthcare, local education, and other social services, and would these costs increase under Reid-Kennedy immigration bill? What is the societal impact of the Reid-Kennedy bill’s grant of amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants?
Upstate New York on August 25th — What are the current risks of terrorists, narcotics smugglers, and human traffickers infiltrating the United States, and what role do secure identification documents play in limiting those risks? Does the Reid-Kennedy bill undermine efforts to limit those risks?
Evansville, IN on August 29th — How are U. S. workers impacted, and potentially displaced, by the Reid-Kennedy bill?
Dubuque, IA on September 1st — Do the Reid-Kennedy bill’s amnesty provisions repeat the mistakes of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986?
ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE
Selfridge Air National Guard Base, MI on August 1st — What are the unique challenges for the Department of Defense in supporting border enforcement along the Northern Border?
Yuma Marine Corps Air Station, AZ on August 2nd — What are the operational and training impacts of a porous border on military bases along the border?
HOMELAND SECURITY COMMITTEE
Bellingham, WA on August 8th — What are the border infrastructure successes since passage of the REAL ID Act and the 9/11 Commission Implementation Act, and what challenges still exist?
Austin, TX on August 17th — What are the criminal consequences of illegal immigration along the Southern Border?
SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE
Sierra Vista, AZ on August 17th — What is the state of technical surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities for monitoring the efforts of terrorists and drug cartels to infiltrate American soil through the Southern Border?
Grand Rapids, MI on August 23rd — What is the threat to the United States from Islamic extremists who abuse the legal immigration system?
EDUCATION & THE WORKFORCE COMMITTEE
Plano, TX on July 31st — Does the Reid-Kennedy bill weaken employment verification systems, making it easier for illegal immigrants to find work inside American borders?
Gainesville, GA on August 14th — What is the impact on American workers and businesses of the Reid-Kennedy bill’s provisions mandating Davis-Bacon wage rates for guest-workers?
ENERGY AND COMMERCE COMMITTEE
Nashville, TN on August 10th — What is the impact of the Reid-Kennedy bill’s amnesty provisions on the healthcare delivery system and for individual American taxpayers?
Dalton, GA on August 15th — What is the impact of the Reid-Kennedy bill’s amnesty provisions on the healthcare delivery system and for individual American taxpayers?
GOVERNMENT REFORM COMMITTEE
San Diego, CA on August 14th — What is the impact on state and local governments, in terms of both societal costs such as policing and direct government costs such as health care and welfare benefits, of illegal immigration? Would the Reid-Kennedy bill impose huge unfunded mandates on state and local governments?
RESOURCES COMMITTEE
Santee, CA on August 5th — What efforts need to be undertaken to prevent federal public lands from being harmed as they are used as a pathway for illegal immigration? Does the Reid-Kennedy bill compromise our federal lands?
Hamilton, MT on August 28th — What efforts need to be undertaken to secure the federal lands along the Northern Border to prevent drug trafficking and other illegal activities? Could the Reid-Kennedy bill make these efforts more difficult?
July 27th, 2006 at 8:43 pm
Interesting that you chose Dalton and Gainesville, two illegal immigrant hotbeds in Georgia, for the hearings. You should take a van full of ICE agents with you. They can do a roundup while you have the hearings. You can be rest assured that plenty of illegal aliens will be out to DEMAND THEIR RIGHTS from our government. I hear that Dalton is majority Hispanic (and almost certainly majority illegal) now.
Or you can pull a Saxby and ignore (i.e., abet) them as they blatantly flout our laws and shout down taxpaying US citizens.
July 29th, 2006 at 10:10 am
you know hamilton Montana is a small town it’s to bad they ain’t holding this in a city in Montana. I guess it’s just to much to allow a large number of people to comment on this matter. I’d even go so far as to say, they really don’t want to know what folks really think. So lets just make this look good.
July 30th, 2006 at 12:57 pm
Hope US will give less rules for immigrants.
In my opinion, that will decrease the illegal immigrants and help people around the world. I myself would like to move to US, but the rules quite hard to follow for me.
August 1st, 2006 at 4:00 am
Americans are really pissed off with this issue. 21 more hearings!! This is ridiculous. Our government knows what the “legal” American citizens want. They want the existing laws enforced and no guest worker or amnesty program. Period! Anything otherwise will fuel a backlash never seen before in the history of this country.
August 1st, 2006 at 4:02 am
AND it is not the Reid-Kennedy bill. It is the McCain-Kennedy bill.
McCain decided to put all his eggs into one basket and sell all of us Republicans out. The Republican Party is too ashamed of their own Senator.
August 1st, 2006 at 9:24 pm
It’s inevitable that every undocumented person (barring the criminals) here will get into legal status eventually. We are wasting time on this far too much. Get “Smart Borders” and worry about alternative fuel. Iraq, Economy, Education, Medical Insurance yada yada….
We are worried about people losing their jobs to the undocumented. Wait another 4 years we wont have a single job in this country. We will be illegals in China, Brazil, India and other Asian countries.
Think about it….
cheers
Lets move on and make USA a more diverse and competitive
August 2nd, 2006 at 7:41 pm
This is good news. We need no amnesty. The Senate’s bill would make illegals eligible for Social Security benefits. Illegals are being supported by our taxes as indigents in hospitals. That is our tax dollars at work….. working against us.
August 3rd, 2006 at 12:48 pm
Clearly the Congress is making every effort to stack the deck in favor of amnesty. These hearings are a mute point in my opinion, notwithstanding clever efforts to locate them for the most favorable disposition towards amnesty.
The US Constitution clearly tasks the Federal Government to protect the States from Invasion. Every Federal Officer, every Elected Official, every member of the military takes an oath to “preserve, protect, and defend” the US Constitution. Each has clearly failed to do so as we are clearly being invaded! These efforts appear to be the attempt by Congress to mitigate their failure to meet their Constitutional duties.
Illegal immigrants were law breakers when they came, when they got fake documentation to stay, when they failed to pay taxes; and when they stay.
If Congress opts to give amnesty to these perpetual and habitual law breakers, what happens to all other law breakers in this land of “equal protection under law”? Are we to give amnesty to child abusers, wife beaters, and other professional criminals simply because they have been “doing it a long time”?
There also appears to be a misunderstanding regarding children born in this country. Children born to legal immigrants, in process of naturalization, have always been extended Citizenship by birth. There is absolutely no reason that such benefits should be extended to illegals, whom by their every action are outside the laws and protection of the US Constitution.
Unbelievably, there appears to be an Illegal Alien Tax ID number, indicating that the IRS can identify the home address and employer for 8.7 Million illegals who got tax refunds last year. That would be a convenient place to start the deportation process.
This is not an issue about bus-boys, yard-boys, and hotel maids. It is an issue regarding the Constitutional requirement for the Federal Government to protect legal citizens from invasion by any one. It is an issue of National Sovereignty.
How ironic that we send our military to fight and die all over the world in defense of other people’s rights to determine their own destiny, while our Country is stolen from us from right under our noses because our Federal Officers choose to do nothing. Our Forefathers gave everything that we might live free, and now our birthright is being sold-out by Congress, to the lowest bidder. Disgusting!
If Congress continues in their efforts to downplay this issue, they do so at their own peril.
August 3rd, 2006 at 5:59 pm
Couldn´t agree more Frank…
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