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Jeff Frederick: End Sanctuary Policies
By Greg L | 24 August 2007 | Illegal Aliens, Virginia Politics | 33 Comments
Delegate Jeff Frederick is seeking to eliminate “sanctuary jurisdictions” in Virginia, which should really make the leadership in Fairfax and Arlington Counties howl. It’s long overdue. There’s an article in the Washington Times about this, and below is Delegate Frederick’s press release:
Woodbridge, Virginia (August 23, 2007) — The first and only Latino elected to state government wants to crack down on Virginia localities that provide sanctuary to illegal aliens in Virginia.
Delegate Jeff Frederick announced today that he is drafting legislation that will prohibit any form of state funding to Virginia counties, cities, or towns that have policies in place that disregard a person’s illegal status for the purposes of providing services or engaging in law enforcement activities.
“Providing sanctuary to illegal immigrants in essence encourages illegal immigration, and it makes Virginia a destination for illegals. We want to stop these policies that invite people who are not legally present in the United States from coming to Virginia, and this legislation will put some teeth behind existing state law”, Frederick said.
Frederick’s legislation would be aimed at local governments who ignore the provisions of current state law that makes illegal aliens ineligible for state and local public benefits, as well as at those local law enforcement agencies that prohibit police from inquiring about a person’s immigration status. Frederick points out, for example, that Arlington County actually provides housing subsidies to people they know are illegal, and they forbid local police from working with federal immigration authorities.
Earlier this summer, the Prince William County Board of Supervisors approved a resolution that targets illegal immigrants by attempting to curb their access to public services and increasing immigration enforcement by local police. Frederick’s legislative district is located in Prince William County, and his legislation would have the practical effect of requiring every local government to act similarly to Prince William, or face losing state dollars.
“Illegal immigration is costing the taxpayers of Virginia a fortune, and it is harming the quality of life of our citizens. It’s time that we require our local governments to obey state law”, Frederick added.
Frederick said his idea is modeled after the federal government’s tactic in threatening to withhold highway funds to states that did not up the drinking age to 21. His legislation will be filed for consideration during the 2008 session of the General Assembly, which will convene in January.
While Frederick was born in Virginia, his mother — now a U.S. citizen — was born and raised in Bogota, Colombia where most of that side of his family still resides, including his grandmother.
If we can take this battle to the state level and win, we can fix problems in a whole lot of places in Virginia. The only question about whether legislative efforts will be successful depends on whether Senator Ken Stolle and his cohorts will continue to roadblock any attempts to address this problem at the state level, if they are re-elected to the Senate in November. Of course if they happen to be successfully challenged, getting things done in the General Assembly will be a lot easier.
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Bravo, Mr. Frederick.
This is progress but still not good enough.
US Constitution, Article 1, Section 8 describes powers that Congress shall have. It describes a number of powers but here is the text of Section 8 that I think pertains to immigration:
“Section 8. The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
…
To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;
…”
Why isn’t the Federal government doing what it did with highway funds and under-21 drinking (a far less clear role of Congress under the Constitution than immigration)?
Nothing good ever happens when states start taking responsibilities that should be federal. That’s because the states end up having their laws overturned by the wost enemy of The People - The Supreme Court.
Gerry Connolly?
Ken Stolle?
You’ve got to be kidding me!
Where is your outrage at Frank Wolf?
Where is your outrage at Jim Webb?
Where is your outrage at John Warner?
It’s our federal representatives who are failing us here - not the county BoS (more like county BS) or the rats down in Richmond.
There’s plenty to lay on the heads of the Fairfax County BoS (like their Developerophelia) and the state stooges (like the transportation funding fiasco).
However, the immigration issue should be hung squarely on the federal representatives.
No?
Nearly Ten thousand American citizens are killed each year by Illegal Aliens! This number is greater than 9/11 & our troops killed combined since 9/11!
Tens of thousands more are assaulted, robbed, & raped!
By the government own figures there are over 250,000 Illegal Aliens sexual Criminals in the USA! Illegal aliens account for sixty-five percent of communicable diseases in the United States (2004 numbers). The FBI estimates that 50,000 of the 100,000 gang members in LA county in Calif. Are Illegal Aliens from South of the Border!
Million of Lives are Destroyed by the Estimated 128 Billion of Drugs pouring across our Borders from Mexico each year & thousands of Public Officials are Corrupted by the Vast sums of money Available from the Mexican Drug Cartel!
Each day up to another 10,000 Illegal Aliens are pouring across our Borders. Our Politicians and President have sold This Nation out to Big Business, the Mexican Drug Cartel & to the racist hate group La Raza!
62% of all “undocumented immigrants” in the United States are working for cash and not paying taxes, predominantly illegal aliens, working without a green card;
95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens;
83% of warrants for murder in Phoenix are for illegal aliens;
86% of warrants for murder in Albuquerque are for illegal aliens;
75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Albuquerque are illegal aliens;
No ethnic group in the U.S. is producing out-of-wedlock children at a higher rate than Hispanics.
More than 380,000 “anchor babies” were born in the United States in 2005 were to parents who are illegal aliens; making those 380,000 babies automatically U.S. citizens. 97.2% of all costs incurred from those births were paid by the American taxpayer;
More than 66% of all births in California are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal whose births were paid for by taxpayers;
24.9% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally;
40.1% of all inmates in Arizona detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally;
48.2% of all inmates in New Mexico detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally;
29% (6 30,000) convicted illegal alien felons fill our state and federal prisons at a cost of $1.6 billion annually;
More than 53% of all investigated burglaries reported in California, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona and Texas are perpetrated by illegal aliens;
More than half of all gang members in Los Angeles are illegal aliens from south of the border;
More than 43% of all Food Stamps issued are to illegal aliens;
More than 41% of all unemployment checks issued in the United States are to illegal aliens;
58% of all Welfare payments in the United States are issued to illegal aliens; If you consider free medical care & the 7 to 10 thousand dollars required to Educate their Many Children each year then the Welfare number is near 100%.
Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties in the United States are illegal aliens;
More than 34% of Arizona students in grades 1-12 are illegal aliens;
More than 24% of Arizona students in grades 1-12 are non-English-speaking;
More than 39% of California students in grades 1-12 are illegal aliens;
More than 42% of California students in grades 1-12 are non-English-speaking;
In Los Angeles County, 5.1 million people speak English; 3.9 million speak Spanish;
More than 71% of all apprehended cars stolen in 2005 in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and California were stolen by illegal aliens or transport “coyotes”;
47% of cited/stopped drivers in California have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 47%, 92% are illegal aliens;
63% of cited/stopped drivers in Arizona have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 63%, 97% are illegal aliens;
66% of cited/stopped drivers in New Mexico have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 66%, 98% are illegal aliens;
Less than 2% of illegal aliens in the United States are picking crops, but 41% are on welfare;
Over 70% of the United States annual population growth (and over 90% of California, Florida, and New York) results from immigration;
The estimated profit to U.S. corporations and businesses employing illegal aliens in 2005 was more than $2.36 TRILLION dollars;
The cost of immigration to the American taxpayer in 1997 was a NET (after subtracting taxes immigrants pay) $70 BILLION a year, [Professor Donald Huddle, Rice University]; the cost is MANY TIMES GREATER now in 2006! In 2006 the average cost of each Illegal Alien here is 11,000.00 per year for American Taxpayers!
When Illegal Aliens are deported to their own countries:
1. Our Federal & State Welfare cost will decrease by Billions & State our tax Receipts will increase by billions
2. Our crime & cost, both in money and human suffering will take a Hugh drop down
3. Our schools will make a great improvement in the education of our children & cost decrease
4. Innovation will increase
5. Medical care will improve and cost will go down
6. Insurance cost will decrease
7. The increase in wages & the 60 billion currently going out of country now will create a large increase in demand for goods and services & new businesses and expanding business & our economy will soar
8. Even business that think they must have Slave labor to survive will find they are more profitable & new revenues & sources for profits will increase. (As Henry Ford discovered if he wanted to sell cars he must pay a livable wage so people could afford his cars)
9.. Our standard of living will go up
10.. But maybe the most important benefit will be stopping the influx of Illegal Aliens with their Loyally to other Nations & hate for all things American, that if left unchecked will tear our society apart!
It is hard to add anything to BL’s post!
You list a lot of percentages and dollar amounts. Where are these numbers coming from? Can you please point me to the citations?
BL said on 24 Aug 2007 at 10:52 am:
BL- I have tried to find documentation/government report on the stats you used. So far I can’t. These figure’s are floating all over ther internet but no links are given to support those figures. It is my belief that until these statistic’s can be verified they should not be used.
Fairfax resident: the feds lack of interest in enforcing immigration does not absolve local gov’ts of their responsibility. The locals’ mantra is that the problem is a national problem, not a local problem. No, let’s start at home PLUS vote out the worthless Webb and Warner. We should be attacking this illegal alien problem at all levels.
Fairfax Resident: You should add George Allen and Tom Davis to your list of Federal Reprehensibles. The situation evolved on their watch, and I have not seen anything they (or the ones you listed) did to attempt to avoid it.
Having said that, if the federal government is not going to provide for the safety and security of its citizens, the states and localities must. In a document penned some 231 years ago, it was asserted that it becomes the right of a people to provide for their own security when the sovereign fails its responsibility. The longest war ever fought by the American people was waged over that document. I hope it doesn’t come to that again.
Sign the petition:
http://www.petitiononline.com/VA287g/petition.html
Here is a link to MS-13 gangmembers and the numbers in the USA.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-01-05-gang-grows_x.htm
Here is a link to Congressional Testimony about gangs
http://www.fbi.gov/congress/congress05/swecker042005.htm
Here is an article that say’s 12 Americans are murdered everyday by an illegal alien.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53103
So part of what BL said can be substantiated.
I just love this “it’s a federal problem, leave local elected officials alone!” argument foisted by many illegal alien apologists.
When your house is on fire, and you’re waiting for the Fire Department to show up, aren’t you getting out your garden hose to try to do something — anything — you can do to help reduce the damage to your property? The Feds are the Fire Department, and no one knows when (or even if) they’ll ever arrive. In the meantime, we’re using the garden hose.
And while we do so, it’s sending a powerful message not only to state, but federal lawmakers. Has anyone else noticed that the number of new amnesty proposals for illegal aliens being presented in Congress have significantly declined ever since localities started rising up in outrage and pulling out their garden hoses?
No matter where you get the statistics from there will be questions. However, those numbers based on what we see visually in our own community and other communities via news/reports, etc. seem reasonable.
I wonder why we never hear “it’s a federal problem, leave local elected officials alone!” when local enforcement of Federal drug laws is discussed?
Oh, right, civil asset forfeiture.
How about the fact that Reagan essentially made it illegal for states and local governments to do anything about illegal immigration. Everything that Corey, John and Jeff are doing now is posturing for the election. Nothing will get done until we go after the federal officials, if we want to solve these issues.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2005/back1105.html
Here is one such report.
http://www.numbersusa.com/PDFs/AmPhys&SurgeonsJournalSpring2005.pdf
Another report.
Ronald Reagan did not repeal the Ninth and Tenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. Anon, you’re being goofy.
So how do you explain the 1996 Immigration Responsibility Act, if localities are forever prohibited from exercising their constitutionally-protected authority?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4094926727128068265&q=numbersusa&hl=en
The ever popular (immigration by the numbers video).
Fairfax Resident - You keep waiting for federal enforcement. Let me know how that turns out for you.
I have signed the petition but I have very limited hopes of swaying Mr Kaine.
BL: I don’t care where you got the information for your post, it all sounds right and certainly makes for a good read! Keep up the good work.
Frederick did not mind the illegals who helped build his home as he and other claim all builders use. Frederick does not mind all the money he will make tax free from the sale of his home one day built by these illegal workers. Citizens do not want to use legal contractors to do their work because it ” costs too much” When will Frederick want to bring criminal charges agains the citizens of PWC and of N VA for paying cash for illegal work ? It is the citizens of PWC including Frederick who like the cheap cost of an illegal but then complain that they are here. Just like the drugs that are brought into the country because the citizens think it is OK to use them.
Frederick is just one of our immigrant politicians who moved to PWC and now thinks they own and can tell the life long residents what they can do or not do.
Frederick wants no more growth so where is he going to tell his daughter to go and live when she grows up? It certainly is not going to be in PWC.
Frederick want you to belive that developers pay Proffers and if you believe that then go buy from the Con man on the street corner. Proffers are a 30 year failure and Frederick does not even know why they came into existance. Believe Fredericka and Stewart and Stirrup and May and you will keep on sitting in traffic and never get anything accomplished to improve the capital needs of the county
Of course things cost more because of “legal” citizens working instead of the illegals. The problem isn’t that we don’t want to pay for higher salaries and healthcare costs, it’s that we would be paying more for their work and on top of that be paying for the illegals and everything that they suck from us for little to nothing.
Illegal immigration isn’t wrong because people want a “better life for themselves” (oh a little tear and wimper of pity), it’s wrong because we are a country of laws and illegals don’t follow them, thus the using of the word “illegals”.
We have people who feel bad for the aliens because they want to believe that there is no evil in the world and that people don’t lie about their true intentions, but the fact is there are evil people and there are bad intentions, and there is no way to truly protect ourselves if we look through rose colored glasses at all times.
Take off the glasses and see the world for what it really is. And stop pretending to feel bad for them. They are lawbreakers and if this was someone who broke into your home to steal your food and furniture and tv’s, all with the “intention” to make a life better for themselves then you would want them brought to justice. But since this isn’t something that you are able to directly see or them breaking the law in regards to something tangible, you don’t think that they’re doing anything wrong.
Bob Wills:
Do you hire illegal aliens?
Bravo Jeff Frederick!! Another bold move by a great state legislator. Some day he will move up and work on the Federal issues, for now, we need him in Virginia.
Bob -
How do you know Frederick’s home was built by illegals?? Do you happen to work for the community he lives in and then knowingly hired them? Perhaps we should go after you and throw you in jail as well. Furthermore, what other information do you have that Frederick uses illegals?
Uh huh, just what I thought. Like a typical illegal immgrant supporter, all talk, no facts…..
I’d also say that if this statement is determined to have been made with reckless disregard for the truth, the poster may be subject to civil penalties. I of course will cooperate with any requests made in furtherance of any civil action Delegate Frederick believes is worth pursuing.
To ADVIDATOR i DO NOT HIRE ILLEGALS AND NEVER HAVE.
To Jon Frederick, Stewart and all the like minded are the ones who constantly state that builders hire illegal’s. If they are telling the truth then his house had to have illegal’s to build it. Of course if their statments are not the truth then then they lie and what politician does not lie to get ahead. I did not say Frederick used illegals you brought that up Jon but then why would you deal in facts ?
I do not support the illegals one bit but I do not support thoes who think they are better then others either such as Frederick, Stewart, Stirrup and May.
Why is it that we can only have one fixed price dry cleaner in PWC? The PWCBOS passed specail zoning to linit dryclearns to less then 3,000 sq ft so as to exclude fixed price cleaners from operating in the county so that the Korean Dry Cleaners Assoc can have a free ride at your expense. Do you think they have only legals working in those stores. Maybe you do not like the concept of free enterprise but I do.
Power of one and The Patriot-
The figures given by BL have been all over the internet and is said to be the “INS/FBI 2006 quarterly report on undocumented immigrants” All I am saying is, that unsubstantiated information does not do those of us who are against illegal aliens being here, any good and may actually hurt our cause in the long run.
The illegal alien apologists always say that the illegal aliens here pay taxes, work hard, have family values superior to Americans, and don’t commit crime. The one thing about these statements are, they can’t back them up.
So unless we can point to an actual source I feel that we should not be putting figures out there. There are plenty of them, but these specific statistics can not be confirmed.
Maureen Wood is making the number 1 mistake in an argument. In public speaking class I was taught to avoid using the words “never” and “always” . Point in case: “The illegal alien apologists ALWAYS say that the illegal….” Is that really true? Do they ALWAYS say that? Just wondering!
Maureen,
good point about using the same facts again and again.
Patriot uses it all the time that is why we read “It is hard to add anything to BL’s post!”
Patriot, you have never backed up your facts with a reliable source. As you said it, it is much better if you sistematically document what your communities go through.
You want to be taken seriously, then bring that reality to the people who don’t live there.
By quoting these facts, you are just giving an excuse of treating you as ignorants.
I like when Greg brings facts, not when he starts with the “boy lover “comments on when he just leave the blog when confronted with wrong facts (the Salvadoran TPS for example).
Patriot, you have done the same thing. You insist on certain issues but when asked to prove it you don’t follow up. It is easy to continue pounding the other bloggers with the same song that illegal committed a crime and they will alway be guilty (discussion on the TPS for the Salvadorans).
People use the term vigilantes with yoiu because the message is focused on the “feelings” that this issue brings rather than showing more facts.
I appreciate Lafayyette, AWcheney, and Dolph for presenting that every day drama. They have showed me that there is a real person dealing with bthe bad side of the illegal immigration issue.
Illegal immigrants are not the cause of all diseases. Think about it for a second and then see how some people make assess of themselves by supporting their arguments with those facts.
BL 24 Aug. 10:52 AM - Where on earth did you get your numbers? 10,000 American citizens killed by illegal immigrants each year!!!!!!!! Give me the source of that one, please! The rest of the numbers - where can I verify them? You’re coming through as a rabblerousing scaremongerer. As for the drugs coming in - if Americans didn’t do drugs, there wouldn’t be a demand for them, right. Don’t tell me that you think that the illegal immigrants are the ones who buy the drugs. For pete’s sake - get real! And get real numbers before you spew out your “statistics”.
I believe the actual figure of persons killed in the United States by illegal aliens is a bit less. From http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/02/more_americans_killed_by_illeg.php
“Illegal aliens are killing more Americans than the Iraq war, says a new report from Family Security Matters that estimates some 2,158 murders are committed every year by illegal aliens in the U.S. The group says that number is more than 15 percent of all the murders reported by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the U.S. and about three times the representation of illegal aliens in the general population.”
I would caution readers from relying too heavily on statistics and studies, as everyone seems to come up with differing statistics and we can get bogged down in minutiae about data collection and analysis methods that aren’t very useful. Keep in mind that regarding these crimes, which are 100% preventable if the feds had done their job, the most important statistic is that there is more than one American who is murdered by an illegal alien. That is outrageous, and entirely sufficient as an argument.
We should not have a single American killed by an illegal alien. Period.
OK, Greg L - Let the LEGAL aliens do the killing. Period. Then it’s not so bad, is it? Wonder how many of the DC shootings are done by illegal aliens? - BTW, there’s quite a gap between BL’s 10,000 killed and the 2,158 you mention, like about 7,942!
Godd point Lovisa, but that argument is always ignored here. The next comment is always like this: one is to many because we could have avoided that crime by removing all illegal aliens.
Almost everything seems to be fabricated and there is no dialogue. There are a coupl;e of regulars who are open to hear all popints of vies but is that minority.
So Greg, what do you think about blacks killing blacks? You get rid of all the illegal aliens and what you have: people killing people. I support the arguments against illegal aliens when you talk about the problems of your community.
When you say Greg that “We should not have a single American killed by an illegal alien. Period”, you have a valid point but you don’t seem to say anything about a reality that you also live in this area: the crime associated with the black community.
Why do you have to say something about Carranza in New Jersey and nothing about the blacks or white killing people.
I remeber that some people were saying that the guy who was arrested with explosives in Manssas was probably an illegal alien. When it was found that he was white everything was dismissed and people referred to him as disgruntled kid.
When the crime is committed by an illegal alien is pure evil but when some else is found guilty then we blame external sources.
By focusing on false statistics we are just feeding people with misinformation and distracting them from a reality