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.

Although we are an immigration reform organization we support the below event THIS THURSDAY in Raleigh (March 11th).

Illegal immigrants will not be kept from using Obamacare.   Read this report if you have any questions about health care and uncontrolled immigration.  Obamacare will be bad enough, but the illegal immigration component will drastically increase the health care costs by allowing them access to even more services we cannot afford.

Click to see information about the “Seeing Red Rally” outside of Congressman Bob Etheridge’s office Thursday, March 11 at 11:30 AM.

From the Center for Immigration Studies:

“While it is sometimes assumed that minorities, particularly Hispanics, favor increased immigration and legalization for illegal immigrants, a new Zogby survey finds that minority voters’ views are more complex. The poll of Hispanic, Asian-American, and African-American likely voters finds some support for legalization. But overall each of these groups prefers enforcement and for illegal immigrants to return home. Moreover, significant majorities of all three groups think that the current level of immigration is too high. These views are in sharp contrast to the leaders of most ethnic advocacy organizations, who argue for increased immigration and legalization of illegal immigrants. The survey used neutral language, avoiding such terms as ‘amnesty,’ ‘illegal alien,’ or ‘undocumented.’”

To read the full article and view the poll results, read “An Examination of Minority Voters’ Views on Immigration.“

Concerned citizens and Immigration Reformers,

U.S. Sen Dirty Harry Reid is at it again – pretends to help America’s unemployed but yet again misses the point.  Note the below information from the Federation of American Immigration Reform [FAIR].  How can we be serious about helping America’s unemployed if we fail to even try to get rid of the 6-7 million illegal immigrants who work in non-agricultural jobs.   And our government will allow yet another one million legal immigrants to America this year in the middle of a devastating recession.

The information below is from the Federation for American Immigration Reform. NOTE THE IMMIGRATION POLL.

Regards,
Ron Woodard

NC Listen’s Director, Ron Woodard, was recently interviewed for an article by the New Bern Sun Journal. The complete text of the article is below.

Group aims to ‘motivate understanding’ of immigration

February 06, 2010
Barry Smith
Freedom Raleigh Bureau

RALEIGH — A new North Carolina immigration organization has formed. While it focuses on a hot issue of the day, it differs from most other immigration groups in that it isn’t an advocacy organization.

By: Ron Woodard, Director, NC Listen

I find it interesting that few of our state and federal politicians really seem to understand how immigration enforcement and real reform could significantly impact the job situation in America.   Or maybe they just don’t care.  On the illegal immigration side, we have over six million plus illegal immigrants who occupy non-agricultural jobs in the USA which rightly belong to citizens.

President Obama wishes to spend billions to lower unemployment by a fraction while ignoring the illegal worker problem.  After all, we have the federal government’s E-Verify System available NOW for employers to use to check the legal resident worker status of new hires, but it is not mandatory.  The on-line and simple to operate E-Verify System could easily be used to check the legal resident status of existing workers.  But of course this would take Congressional and Presidential action and require common sense.   So you can see why Congress and the President would have a problem with this concept!

On the legal immigration side, why are we continuing to allow approximately one million legal immigrants into America each year when over 15 million citizens are unemployed?  Of course if we include citizens who are working part-time but want a full-time job and can’t find one and the under-counted unemployed [referred to as the U-6 measure by our U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics] the U.S.A.’s actual unemployment rate is over 16%.  We should basically halt all legal immigration except for legitimate refugees and Americans who marry overseas or have children while overseas — this number would be less than 120,000 per year.