Check Out This Site: Immigration Stance

Our good blog pal Digger of Digger's Realm has a new site. It just went live and is absolutely worth a look.  He's christened it "Immigration Stance" and it is a one stop reference point if you want to know how any elected representative has voted on immigration issues.  And you wanna talk about "comprehensive?"  This babies got it in spades!

A taste...

Representative Luis Gutierrez is a Democrat currently serving District 4 in Illinois, which includes Chicago and Stone Park and has served in the House from 1993-Present.

Representative Luis Gutierrez has had the worst record when it comes to border security. There are currently at least 12 million (with estimates reaching as high as 30 million) illegal aliens in this country. The first line of defense is controlling our porous borders. Representative Luis Gutierrez clearly opposes securing our borders.

After an illegal alien has entered our country the next line of defense is interior enforcement. Currently employers are not required to verify that an applicant or employee is legally allowed to work in this country. In addition, local law enforcement at the state and local level have had their hands tied when dealing with illegal aliens by not even allowing them to inquire about arrestees' citizenship status. Representative Luis Gutierrez has worked against allowing state and local law enforcement helping to reduce illegal immigration and putting in place workplace verification systems allowing employers to quickly verify the legal working status of their employees. This Representative's motto is "if you've made it in illegally you're safe".

If an illegal alien avoids being picked up, or remains here after receiving deportation orders, the next thing they look for are incentives, rewards and benefits. Amnesty is the largest of these rewards and gives illegal aliens a path to citizenship or makes them instantly legal. Representative Luis Gutierrez has voted in favor of amnesty for illegal aliens.

Representative Luis Gutierrez has voted in favor of giving illegal aliens further rewards and other incentives to come such as in-state tuition, educational benefits, welfare and health care services.

Once here, many illegal aliens have what is known as an "anchor baby". This is caused by a misinterpretation of our 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which calls for all born on American soil to be given US Citizenship. Unfortunately this Amendment has been misinterpreted and was initially put in place to ensure that freed slaves were citizens and has been twisted and misused to include even the children of foreigners who cross illegally into this country and have a child. Once born this new "citizen" allows the parent to gain benefits at the expense of the taxpayers. Representative Luis Gutierrez has not yet had a chance to vote on anchor babies and the increased illegal population that they support through taxpayer dollars.

On the issue of legal immigration Representative Luis Gutierrez is in favor of the visa lottery. Each year 50,000 names are chosen to come to the US legally without regards to their needs, intentions, education level or whether they would benefit the United States. "Winning the lottery" takes on a whole new meaning when it comes to immigration. Once in the country these new immigrants can apply for taxpayer funded services.

Once an immigrant is legally here they can send home to bring in more adults from their family such as parents, siblings and adult children. That legal immigrant can then bring in more family members directly related to them. This is called chain migration and Representative Luis Gutierrez wants it to continue. Chain migration has exponential growth and is the primary cause of the 4-fold increase in immigration to this country since 1960.

A high majority of refugee and asylum seekers to this country are not by international definition in need of relocation. This program is ripe with fraud and Representative Luis Gutierrez doesn't want to stop the fraud and may even want it to increase.

Representative Luis Gutierrez has voted for increases in permanent and temporary foreign work visas such as the H1-B. Sometimes foreign workers are desirable in fields where there is a lack of American workers to fill the positions. All too often these work visa programs are abused by employers and used to get lower cost workers into this country rather than hiring American workers. For the foreign worker it is common to see them not return to their home country and remain here on an expired visa.

Overall, Representative Luis Gutierrez has the worst record when it comes to immigration reform.

Representative Luis Gutierrez has one of the worst record on immigration in all of Congress. Representative Luis Gutierrez actively encourages, and may even be helping, illegal aliens to enter our country and flout our laws and is in our opinion a threat to this nation. We cannot give Luis Gutierrez our seal of approval.
You can contact Luis Gutierrez through the locations below:

Website: http://www.house.gov/gutierrez/
Phone: (202) 225-8203
Fax: (202) 225-7810

Washington DC Office:

2452 Rayburn House Office Building
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515

District Offices:

1310 West 18th Street
Chicago, IL 60608
(312) 666-3882 tel
(312) 666-3894 fax

3455 W. North Avenue
Chicago, IL 60647
(773) 384-1655 tel
(773) 384-1685 fax

As you see he provides an exellent and readable digest form walking you through the issues that make up the "immigration debate" and includes a lifetime assessment and contact info.

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