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Heh, who wants to bet this has to do with the democrats proposing to crack down on employers?

And you know where Hugoton is, right? Southwest KS, where the feedyards and packing plants employ lots of folks with questionable legal status.

I bet stevie would support a crackdown on workers, but on those who employ illegals? Eh, not so much.

What a surprise…

Yep Dennis. As usual, you are correct!

We are in a global war against terrorism, terrorists who train boys and mentally disabled women and anyone else they can control to kill us in large numbers. National security is everyone’s business, and the vital interest of our local and state governments, as well as the FBI and Homeland Security. Immigration laws and border security must be enforced everywhere in America, or terrorists will make us all pay a real penalty for carelessness, as they have for years already.

Contact your State Representatives and State Senators to urge them to support and vote for SB 458 as well as upcoming House bills by Rep. Lance Kinzer and Rep. Brenda Landwehr. You will find contact info for all Kansas legislators at the following websites:

Kansas House of Representativeswww.kslegislature.org/legsrv-senate/searchSenate.do
Kansas Senate: http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-senate/searchSenate.do

If you need help finding your State Representative or State Senator, then visit this link for help:

//www.ipsr.ku.edu/ksdata/vote/

“The Kansas Illegal Immigration Relief Act” (SB 458) will provide effective solutions for the problems that result from the:

· Employment of illegal aliens

Requires public and private employers to use the E-verify program to verify legal status of
potential new employees and imposes penalties for businesses that knowingly hire illegal aliens.

· Consumption of public benefits by illegal aliens

Prohibits illegal aliens from receiving state services and benefits. In Executive Order
No. 06-371 issued August 24, 2006, Governor Sebelius clearly set forth this important
public policy objective.

This will establish a unified and easily understandable process for verification of lawful
presence by those seeking public benefits.

· Lack of cooperation between local law enforcement agencies and the US Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Encourages and allows all state and local authorities to enforce federal immigration laws.
Further, law enforcement agencies shall inquire into citizenship and immigration status of
an arrested person.

· Lack of employment identity fraud laws.

Creates a new crime of employment identity fraud. The penalty is severity level 8,
non-person felony.

· Lack of laws regarding identity theft in Kansas Driver’s License Laws

Requires the Division of Motor Vehicles to require any person applying for a Kansas
driver’s license who provides documents of citizenship to sign an affidavit swearing to
legal citizenship. Falsely swearing is a federal crime.

Requires that no driver’s license or state-issued identification be issued to any alien until the
he/she has been verified to be lawfully present in the United States by the United States
Department of Homeland Security.

Why the “Kansas Illegal Immigration Relief Act” Is Needed NOW!

The problems and burden of 90,000 Illegal Aliens in Kansas are tangible and severe.
Consider these facts:

Costs of Illegal Aliens in Kansas: $250 Million annually

Health Crisis:

Hidden costs of health care and Medicaid related to treatment of uninsured masses,
Emergency rooms overburdened, increase in disease due to non-immunized individuals (e.g., tuberculosis), lack of childhood immunizations, treatment of non-insured work-related injuries

Financial Crisis:

Legal taxpayers bear entire burden for social services rendered to illegal aliens,
Loss of tax revenues due to underground economy,
Undercutting/suppression of wages due to employment of cheaper labor reducing number of jobs available to legal residents,
Costs related to increased crime including identity theft (a $50 Million industry in the U.S),
abuses related to underground culture, drug trafficking, increase in financial losses/insurance claims due to gang-related crimes,
Increased burden on jails and prisons due to incarceration,
Increased costs related to public education

Public Safety Crisis:

Increase in communicable diseases, public health and environmental issues related to sub-standard and overcrowded living conditions,
Increase in traffic accidents and injuries involving uninsured, undocumented drivers,
Unprotected border invites increased gang activity and potential terrorist attacks. Illegal Aliens come into our country. Kansas is currently providing a cover and a culture in which terrorists can hide with a reliable means of entry.

Humanitarian Crisis:

Human smugglers extort, exploit, and abuse families and individuals who have paid to be illegally smuggled into U.S. Even if they survive the trip across the border, they are forced to lead fearful, underground lives without legitimate recourse or the appeal processes available to legal residents. They are often at the mercy of their extortioners and trapped in an underground slave labor market.

WE are rewarding those who have committed the crime of illegally entering our state, using forged documents and committing identity fraud.

WE are ignoring the exploitation and inhumane treatment of illegal aliens
and ignoring the underground slave labor market by pretending that they are here legally or that it doesn’t matter.

We must resist the instinct to let sentiment overpower common sense and the Rule of Law.
The compassionate response is to make sure that everyone here in Kansas is here legally!

We must not be deterred by the rhetoric of those who benefit from and exploit illegal aliens; their comments are without merit and used to advance their own agendas and their own financial gain to the detriment of Kansas taxpayers and exploited illegal aliens.

We must stay focused on the security and protection of our Kansas Citizens.

When you look at the cost to our education system, our social services system, our health care system, our prison and jail system, our law enforcement system, you are looking at hundreds of millions of dollars draining the public purse because we have not addressed this problem.

These public services were created with the tax dollars of legal Kansas citizens to improve the lives of legal Kansas citizens.

While Kansans are expending increased tax dollars dealing with these problems,
they are also competing with illegal aliens for Kansas jobs.
If the Economy declines, more legal Kansas citizens will be out of work,
and they will need the jobs currently held by illegal aliens. They need them even now.

Illegal immigration shifts the cost of labor from the employer to government (taxpayers)
State and local taxpayers are forced to foot the bill.

The existing gaps in the Kansas laws create an attraction and incentives for illegal
aliens to come to Kansas.

Illegals are counted in the census which allocates representation and gives additional seats in the state assemblies and in the Congress, which in turn gives California and other sanctuary states disproportionate representation.

All of these points serve to illustrate that illegal immigration is unfair to both legal Kansas
citizens and to the illegal aliens.
We must stop the public benefits and jobs incentives that serve to entice illegals to our state. Senate Bill 458 will address these issues.

The only people who should be nervous about this bill are employers who hire illegals at a
cheap rate to gain an unfair advantage over their competitors. These employers exploit their illegal employees by paying low wages and providing no benefits. Employers pass these costs
to taxpayers.

Illegal aliens avoid paying taxes, avoid paying for health insurance by using emergency rooms, and are counted in the uninsured Kansas citizens.

Kansas is becoming a Sanctuary for illegal aliens. Surrounding states are enacting tough laws to protect their citizens; these laws will encourage even more illegals to flock to Kansas.

California has sanctuary cities that are impacting:
CA State Budget deficit: $14 Billion and counting after spending increased by 44% to fund the CA welfare system,
Health Care Funding: $14 Billion plan to cover the uninsured, mostly illegal immigrants and their children.
Hospital Closings: Due to mandated and unfunded health care for illegal aliens has forced closure of 86 emergency rooms and trauma care facilities in California.
Housing inflation: Illegals have been encouraged to buy homes that they cannot afford, thus artificially inflating the prices. The housing crunch brings to light how illegals are really impacting our economy and housing.
Prison overcrowding
Highway congestion

We need to take control of this problem now and adopt SB 458 to address these issues in Kansas!

We need to dispel the belief that cheap labor is good and helps everybody.

We need to inform people that we are all paying the price for their subsidized labor and contributing to the exploitation of illegal aliens.

We must welcome, respect, and encourage those immigrants who have come into this country and state legally, but those who break the law must not be rewarded with the benefits and privileges reserved for legal citizens!

Act now to show your support!

sb 458 enhances the current federal immigration. I provides addtional requirements for driver’s lisensees, Allows state and local law enforcement to enforce federl immigration law. Requires using the e-verify system to screen new employees to determine elgibiliy, Makes Idenity theft a felony.

Basically it give us the right to enforce the laws our federal government has chosen not to enforce.

A nation who chooses to not enforce it’s laws will soon find it CAN’T enforce it’s laws.

RS, thanks for all your work on this.
I think I found a post by you, at least it looked like the one above with the Senate Committee members and emails on it and I wrote each individually urging support of SB 458 and the others.
Thanks,

Az. Illegal-Immigrant Hiring Law UpheldBy PAUL DAVENPORT and JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press WritersPHOENIX (AP) – A federal judge on Thursday upheld an Arizona law that prohibits businesses from knowingly hiring illegal immigrants and yanks the businesses licenses of those that do. U.S. District Judge Neil Wake’s ruling was a defeat to employers who argued the law was an unconstitutional attempt by a state to regulate immigration, traditionally the federal government’s responsibility.Wake rejected arguments by business groups that federal immigration law severely restricts Arizona’s ability to punish people who knowingly employ illegal immigrants.So much for the comments about federal law being the last word.

Morris is full of it. We are coming for them and coming big time. I just went over the new law and added some new items to make it as harsh and punitive as possible.

The new Kansas version is based on the new Oklahoma one that just went into affect. It is being modeled around the country as a starting place and it has been upheld in all the court cases so far.

Tulsa has seen a drop in population of over 25, 000 so far. But guess where they likely went….yep, likely here and Texas. The best thing is that the local law enforcement can obtain Section 287g training to get the Gang issue under control by deporting gang members immediately.

The employers are getting their little houses in order to address who is working there. All they need do is confirm all SS numbers through the E-VERIFY system put in place by the government.

Just saw some other states are now seizing homes of the Employer if they have illegals employed. Why, because the homes are seen as being “Ill Gotten Gains” the same as Drug sales and property. The gov. takes it as it was obtained thru illegal activities.

So you business owners out there better tidy up and quickly. Your wife will NOT like to be out of a home if she lives on the East side…not many shelters over there Im guessing.