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CALL OUR US SENATOR FROM NORTH CAROLINA, SENATOR KAY HAGAN AT 877-852-9462 TOLL FREE.  Tell her NO amnesty for illegal immigrants and NO Dream Act to allow illegal immigrants to get in-state tuition at state universities. The “Dream Act” is a bad dream for American students.   College is a selection process and every illegal immigrant allowed into our colleges is one less American (citizen) student allowed to enroll.  The Dream Act would then grant an amnesty to the illegal immigrant student.

Also you can visit Sen Hagan’s NC main HQ office in Greensboro:

701 Green Valley Rd; Suite 201
Greensboro, NC 27408

Why is the Democrat Majority Whip, Dick Durban, of the US Senate pushing the Dream Act in the first place with so many American citizens out of work and such a high unemployment rate?  [Sen Hagan has earlier said she is against an amnesty but then turned around and said she was for a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants.  Any "pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants" is an amnesty.]

Our other US Senator from North Carolina, Sen Richard Burr, has said he is against an amnesty for illegal immigrants.   We will follow and track his comments as well.

STATUS OF LEGISLATION AT OUR STATE LEVEL:

The North Carolina General Assembly is still working on the budget bills and the state Senate and state House are in conference (committees) to work out the details.  Our chance will come once this has been finished.  Note I said our “chance”, and we will start the pressure next week.  The NC General Assembly, our state legislature, is controlled by the majority party - the Democrats.  Their leadership has delayed most of our preferred legislation to take action in ways our state can action against illegal immigration for several years.  I believe this has been done on purpose to pander to future (now illegal immigrant) voters.

Our best chance at first will be to pass S.1258 [NC Senate bill] to prevent illegal immigrants from attending our state Community Colleges.  The NC Community College Board passed an earlier ruling which allows illegal immigrants to enroll in our state-funded Community Colleges. Only by passing a state law can we now stop this outrageously ridiculous ruling of the Community College Board. Why would the state Community College Board, with our state in reality still in a recession with nearly 11% state unemployment, concern themselves with helping illegal immigrants get trained to take American jobs?  And of course it is against the law for any business to hire an illegal immigrant, and they would have to steal someone’s identity for an ID to even try to get a job.  Again, we will start pressure on this state measure next week.

Also, there are two resolutions by the state Republicans to ask permission to introduce an Arizona-like Immigration Enforcement bill in the NC General Assembly.  The majority party in charge of our legislature, as noted are the Democrats, and their leadership has stated they will not allow such a bill to even be considered this session.

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Concerned Citizens and Immigration Reformers,

There are several actions to take this short session of the NC General Assembly (state legislature) which affects us, our children, and our fellow citizens.

State Legislation is pending to stop the NC Community College Board from giving our children’s seats to illegal immigrants in our state Community Colleges. Moreover our state needs to be focused on training unemployed citizens in our state Community Colleges, NOT training illegal immigrants for better jobs. Gov Bev Perdue’s response has to been to reactivate the Governor’s Advisory Council on Hispanic/Latino Affairs for 3% of the population which is legally in North Carolina.

There is also a State Senate Resolution to allow relaxing the rules during this short session of the NC State Legislature [normally to work on budget matters] to allow an Arizona-like Bill to be introduced in the NC General Assembly. This is a long shot because this resolution has been sent to the Rules Committee, the normal place legislation is sent when the Democrat leadership [the majority in power in the NC Legislature and who controls what moves forward] wants legislation to die.

We are also pursuing any angle to get E-Verify back in the light and require any business in North Carolina with over 5 employees to be required to use E-Verify to prevent illegal immigrants from working in North Carolina. We will start with businesses with over 5 employees for now. E-Verify is an on-line federal database available to determine if one’s employee is legally present in the USA. It takes about two minutes to check new hires and costs less than $1.00 per employee to check. A small price, I would suggest, to help put citizens back to work and make sure new jobs only go to legal residents. Our state has already borrowed over $1.3 billion [yes billion] from the federal government to pay unemployment insurance claims to out-of-work citizens.

More to follow on specific actions to take.

Regards,

Ron Woodard

Executive Director, NC LISTEN

Concerned Citizens and Immigration Reformers,

President Calderon of Mexico spoke before the US Congress last week and attempted to lecture the State of Arizona for its recent immigration law.  He suggested it was racial profiling and continues the insinuation that America needs illegal immigrant workers.  We obviously don’t need illegal workers, and the Arizona bill does not use racial profiling.   Our federal government leadership wouldn’t know, since I don’t believe we have found anyone in leadership to include our Attorney General and head of DHS who has read the 10 page bill yet.

Interestingly enough, it is a felony to be an illegal immigrant in Mexico, and one is jailed if found to be illegal and even if one has committed no other crime.  If we had the immigration laws of Mexico and their method of dealing with it, we would have many less illegal immigrants in the USA.   The Mexican government has given out pamphlets on how to effectively cross our borders, and President Calderon says we need to partner on efforts at the border.

What we need are 20,000 U.S. soldiers on our border.  Next we need to require businesses to use the simple on-line E-Verify System to make sure illegal immigrants cannot be hired in the USA, and then fine those who knowingly hire illegal immigrants.  We need border AND interior enforcement such as E-Verify and the 297g program expanded to use local police to assist [as in Arizona] to enforce immigration laws.   In North Carolina there are about 25 counties now either using 287g or the sister program, Secure Communities.

WE are pressing for more action in North Carolina as well as at the federal level.

Regards,

Concerned Citizens and Immigration Reformers,

Late Friday afternoon Arizona passed one of the toughest immigration enforcement bills in the USA.  Governor Jan Brewer signed the legislation making it official late Friday afternoon.  Wonderful!  Terrific!  While on Bill Lumaye’s WPTF talk radio show Friday in Raleigh, we discussed the details of the new legislation and how it will affect citizens in Arizona.

I would hope we can move forward in North Carolina with similar legislation, although this year is the short session of the NC General Assembly, and at this point I have been told not to expect much action except as it relates to the state budget.

Well, our state is spending over $1 billion each year on illegal immigrants and their dependents in North Carolina.  Wouldn’t this seem to be a “budget item” for our North Carolina General Assembly to explore and respond to — that assumes Gov Perdue and the Democratic leadership, who is in fact in power at the General Assembly, really want to control spending and take action in ways the state can take action to deal with illegal immigration.

Given our past, they certainly seem to have no problem spending our tax dollars on illegal immigrants and their dependents.   Of course their general comment is that there is nothing they can do.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  Read about the costs to North Carolinians for illegal immigration.

We will press the NC General Assembly to take action.  More to follow.

Regards,

Ron Woodard
Director, NC Listen

Tom Tancredo will be speaking at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill on Monday, April 26.  The speech will begin at 7:00 PM and will end at approx 9:00PM.  It will take place at the F. P. Graham Student Union Auditorium.

Tickets are free but required (limit 2 ea per caller) for the event. They are now available to the general public.  You will need to RSVP by calling (919) 962-1449 and mention the Tom Tancredo speech.   You must arrive by 6:30pm or your tickets at the door will be given to the next available person.

Former Congressman Tancredo will talk about the importance of Western Civilization, and I am sure sprinkle the speech with immigration reform commentary.  The Socialists for a Democratic Society who protested his earlier speech last year will no doubt be hovering nearby and protest.  It will be interesting indeed.  NC Listen Director Ron Woodard will be attending.

See the map below but the Graham Student Union Auditorium is NE of the intersection of South Road and Stadium Drive.  Parking is available nearby as noted down below.

UNC-CH Campus Map

UNC-CH Parking