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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

Harry Reid’s Jobs Bill Goes to Floor;  Aids Employers Who Hire Illegal Aliens

Senators voted Monday evening on the first test of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s jobs bill—a cloture vote.  With a vote of 62-30, the Senate will now proceed with debate on the jobs bill, also called the “Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act” or HIRE Act.

Senator Reid introduced the HIRE Act last week hoping to focus on the issue of jobs and the economy, but disappointed immigration reformers by leaving out any mandate that jobs created by the bill go to U.S. workers. The bill has two major tax provisions, an employer exemption from payroll taxes for each new employee hired in 2010 and a $1,000 tax credit for employers who keep those employees for at least 52 weeks. Unfortunately, the bill does not require that these new workers be legal or that employers use E-Verify to confirm their work authorization.  Moreover, Congressional staffers have confirmed that Senator Reid has already invoked a procedural maneuver that blocks any and all amendments to the bill.

Zogby asks about Immigration

A new Zogby poll of senior executives, business owners, and members of union households shows surprising results. It finds that each of these groups thinks the best way to deal with illegal immigrants in the country is to enforce the law.

Among the findings:

There are enough American workers available to fill unskilled jobs:

• Executives: 61% agree
• Small Business Owners: 65% agree
• Union Member Households: 72% agree
• All Likely Voters: 71% agree

Illegal Immigration is due to a lack of enforcement, not because of unfair limits on legal immigration:

• Executives: 75% lack of enforcement
• Small Business Owners: 79% lack of enforcement
• Union Member Households: 71% lack of enforcement
• All Likely Voters: 74% lack of enforcement

Support greater enforcement efforts to cause illegal aliens to return to their home countries:

• Executives: 59%
• Small Business Owners: 67%
• Union Member Households: 58%
• All Likely Voters: 61%

The most striking result is that a large percentage of small business owners report that there are enough Americans to fill unskilled jobs! These results stand in stark contrast to the claims by large business lobbying organizations such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Restaurant Association, and the National Association of Home Builders who claim they need a constant flow of new foreign labor to fill positions. While these powerful organizations claim to speak for the business world, when asked, most in the industry favor enforcement and a reduction in immigration levels.

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.

“We’re trying to motivate understanding,” said Randy Jones, who is president of Uniting NC’s board of directors. “We’re not advocating any particular position. We’re not trying to solve anything.”

Uniting NC is still rather small. It’s trying to hire a part-time director.

Yet it has already undertaken a billboard advertising campaign, with signs going up in the Asheville, Charlotte, Rocky Mount, Smithfield and Washington, N.C., areas. It has also sponsored some public service announcements on radio stations in the Research Triangle area and has some video messages from immigrants posted on its Web site (unitingnc.org).

Last year, it conducted a community meeting at an Elon church attended by 50 to 60 people, Jones said. The meeting took place on the same Saturday as a forum on immigration and the “287(g)” law-enforcement program at nearby Elon University, Jones said.

“We’re talking about people, human beings and the kinds of stories they have,” Jones said. “You can talk about people as being documented and undocumented and not think about who they are and why they’re here.”

Tony Asion, executive director of El Pueblo, a Raleigh-based advocacy organization for Latinos, said his organization and Uniting NC have different missions.

“The biggest difference between them and us is we are a Latino organization, trying to promote the importance of immigration reform, whereas Uniting NC is more of trying to get people to appreciate and accept immigration period, whether they be Hispanic or not,” Asion said. “They don’t get involved in the politics of it whereas I guess we do.”

Ron Woodard, director of NC Listen, which promotes stricter immigration policies and enforcement, said that he believed Uniting NC was using emotion as a means of diverting attention from the number of immigrants entering the country.

“They talk about the warm and fuzziness of immigration,” Woodard said. “I think they’re trying to put a flavor on it that the numbers don’t matter.”

Woodard said everything about immigration has to do with numbers.

“Illegal immigration wouldn’t be that bad if you only had a thousand people coming into the country this year,” Woodard said.

Jones said that Uniting NC is hoping to reach out to more groups that have a more restrictive point of view on the immigration issue.

“We’re open to and certainly wouldn’t want to exclude people from across the spectrum on the immigration issue,” Jones said.

In addition, he said Uniting NC will be reaching out to people in the law enforcement community since immigration law enforcement is becoming an issue. He said the goal is to promote understanding.

“People are people,” Jones said. “They have stories. If you take a moment to listen to the stories, hopefully it leads to more understanding.”

Barry Smith can be reached at barrysmith@freedom.com.

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.

With current economic projections, our national unemployment rate is not expected to be under 5% for the next four plus years.   The state of North Carolina has had to borrow over $2 billion in 2009 and the same is projected for 2010, above and beyond our existing state budget just to pay unemployment claims money — money borrowed from the USA Treasury [aka actually borrowed from China for our children to repay].

President Obama said in his State of the Union speech that he will “enforce our immigration laws and control our borders”.   I think he said the month this would happen but not which year.   The President said he “would do what is necessary to bring down the rate of unemployment”.   Oh really?

I have heard enough polished BS coming from President Obama and quite frankly from both major political parties.  They both do a lot of talking but little action.  There are certainly many legislators who support our efforts, however too many are more interested in getting re-elected than doing what’s best for Americans and our national interest.   More to follow on our plan to rattle their cages.