One of our U.S. Congressmen from North Carolina, Bob Etheridge, is pitching a jobs stimulus bill.  He wants to give a tax credit to employers to hire workers – but would they need to be legally here?

You can tell Congressman Etheridge whether you like tax dollars going for such purposes or not, but I encourage you to also tell him that whether job stimulus or not, our government should be requiring all businesses to use the federal government’s on-line E-Verify System to make sure only citizens / legal residents can hold a job.  The E-Verify System is simple to use, takes less than two minutes to enter the new employees name and data required, and costs less than a small bottled water to use per verification.

We have over seven million illegal immigrant adults working in America.  In North Carolina we have approximately 300,000 illegal immigrants working and our state borrowed over $2 billion [yes, billion] in 2009 alone from the federal government to pay unemployment claims because so many folks are out of work the unemployment insurance fund in North Carolina was in deficit that much.  Note the $2 billion is the amount borrowed and spent after the money already in the unemployment fund was spent.   Our state expects to borrow another $2 billion this year again due to not enough funds available to pay unemployment claims.  Guess who will be paying this back?

Is it really a lot to ask for businesses to make sure they only hire citizens / legal residents?

Recently, the NC College Board decided to allow illegal aliens to enroll in North Carolina Community Colleges. Only a few months of internal procedures remain before this rule goes into effect.

Our state unemployment rate is over 10%. Why should the State of North Carolina be assisting illegal aliens to become better educated in order to steal jobs which belong to unemployed citizens?

According to the N.C. Employment Security Commission our state has had to borrow nearly $2 billion [yes, billion] dollars this year from the federal government to pay unemployment benefits, because the state unemployment insurance trust fund is in the red.  They estimate our state may need to borrow another $2 billion through the course of 2010.

NC LISTEN is asking that the citizens of North Carolina sign a petition asking the North Carolina General Assembly to pass legislation to prevent illegal aliens from enrolling in our North Carolina Community Colleges and the University of North Carolina System.

Civitas’s Bob Leubke discusses last week’s community college hearing regarding whether illegal aliens should be allowed to enroll:

I attended part of last week’s public hearing on a proposed rule change to allow the admission of illegal immigrants to North Carolina Community Colleges. For the better part of an hour I heard teachers, students and former community college officials say education is a right (it’s not) and how North Carolina can’t turn it’s back on these children ( Last I checked, according to the NC Comm. College System, the average age of a community college student in North Carolina was 32). From what I understand, there were only a handful of individuals who spoke out against the proposed rule. Most notably, Ron Woodward of NC Listen and Bill Gheen of Americans for Legal Immigration.

Read the rest of the post here and stay tuned for more information from NC Listen.

Concerned Citizens and Immigration Reformers,

IT’S NOT OVER.   WE can still stop illegals from attending our North Carolina Community Colleges.  There are a few steps yet for the NC Community College Board to take before it is “official”.    We have a plan to stop the Board in their tracks.

IF YOU HAVE NOT AS YET EMAILED THE NC COMMUNITY BOARD, PLEASE DO SO BEFORE DECEMBER 15th.

As you have heard, the North Carolina Community College Board has announced they intend to allow illegal aliens to attend our state Community Colleges.   Our state just recently announced there are 20,000 more citizens who now want to attend our state Community Colleges [58 campuses across the state] than there is space, due to the economy and high unemployment.

The text below was provided by the Immigration Reform Law Institute in their October 2009 State and Local Legislation Bulletin.

Illegal Aliens and What State and Municipal Government Can Do

Submitted by: Patrick J. Charles, IRLI Legal Analyst

In October the Census Bureau’s counting of non-citizens for the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives received nationwide attention. What brought this issue to the forefront was an amendment by Senator David Vitter which would require the census to add a question about citizenship status to the 2010 short form, the most widely used census questionnaire. Whether the Vitter Amendment will pass is uncertain, but State and municipal governments need not wait for this issue to be settled before taking independent action.