FAIR estimates that illegal immigration costs North Carolina taxpayers $1.3 billion annually. Read the full report to learn more about the impact of illegal immigration on NC.

NC Listen advocates these 4 basic immigration policies to combat illegal immigration and increasing legal immigration:

1. Enforce Immigration Laws and Control Our Borders
2. No More Amnesties
3. Return to Lower, More Sensible Legal Immigration
4. No More “Guest Worker” Programs – Americans Need Jobs

You can learn more about these policy recommendations on our Policy Page.

Concerned Citizens and Immigration Reformers,

The Obama administration has pressed the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to hire an advocate for illegal immigrants. Believe it or not! This new advocate, Andrew Lorenzen-Strait, is to serve as a point of contact for aliens in deportation proceedings and is to assist individuals [aka illegals] in resolving concerns and complaints with agency policies and operations. Not to mention our government often provides attorneys at no charge for illegals as they fight deportation through court actions.

Where is the advocate for unemployed Americans who have lost jobs to illegal immigrants? Or an advocate for American workers who have seen their wages reduced due to mass immigration and illegal immigration?

Remember, the USA is still allowing nearly 900,000 legal immigrants into the USA each year even though we have over 13 million citizens out of work (doesn’t count those working part-time but want and cannot find a full-time job). Is this the real change America wants? Does this make any sense at all? ………..stuck in stupid comes to mind.

Concerned Citizens and Immigration Reformers,

The NC House Select Committee on the State’s Role in Immigration Policy held a meeting/hearing last week. I attended and two Sheriffs presented information on the 287g and Secure Communities programs they now use to help enforce immigration laws and identify illegal immigrant criminals.

It is clear to me that further actions will take place in the way of state legislation to assist with immigration enforcement. NC LISTEN has and will offer information and suggestions to state officials as to how to better accomplish this task. More to follow on the upcoming committee meetings.

I was quoted in the News & Observer concerning the committee hearing and NC LISTEN’s concerns that the State of NC continue to take action. I was quoted again today in the N&O concerning a group that wishes to install billboards to “welcome strangers” into NC — code word for illegal immigrants.

Concerned Citizens and Immigration Reformers,

This is from our friends at NC FIRE.

We were contacted by NC Sheriff Sam Page today and he was inquiring as to whether we would be attending the NC House Immigration Committee hearing on Wednesday, December 7th @ 1:00 PM in the Legislative Bldg., Rm 1228 of the General Assembly in Raleigh.

He and several others will be there and he wanted to make sure that the citizens of NC were going to back them up, and show support, by attending this meeting. He stated that it was crucial that we get as many people as possible to attend this meeting.

Concerned Citizens and Immigration Reformers,

Illegal immigrants hold over six million non-agriculture jobs in the USA.  Yet President Obama continues to press to spend $447 billion [yes with a b] to allegedly create 1.3 million new jobs.  If it would actually work (no pun intended), that’s at a cost of over $343,000 per job.   For less than $5 billion we could finish building a dual layer fence on our southern border and fully implement the federal E-Verify System to make sure only legal residents in the USA are hired, and then begin to check the immigration status of existing workers to include real workplace audits and punish employers who then knowingly hire illegals.   Illegals would have a tough time remaining in the USA without a job and especially if they knew they could not continue to cross the border at will.

Unfortunately the US Senate and the US House will not require E-Verify and has yet to even allow it to be used (even voluntarily) by companies to check the status of existing workers.   The US Chamber of Commerce (aka United Nations Chamber of Commerce) is partially responsible for this.   The US House is controlled by the Republicans, but legislation that would require E-Verify without state preemption is not on the radar screen.

The Republican Presidential frontrunners are rated good at requiring E-Verify, but Cain won’t take a position on punishing businesses who knowingly hire illegals.   Being for E-Verify is really no good if one is not going to punish businesses who then knowingly hire illegals.   More to follow.

CORRECTION:

We may be having an event this THURSDAY, September 29th during the day 11:30am -1:00pm in the Charlotte area.   This is short notice but I need to get a rough idea of attendance.   If you can attend please email reply or call me [ph number below].   More details to follow.   Thanks.

Regards,

Ron Woodard