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A Democrat Proposes Immigration Reform
By Greg L | 7 January 2008 | Illegal Aliens, Virginia Politics | 3 Comments
This weekend the MJM published as a letter to the editor an opinion piece by former Democratic member of the House of Delegates George Grayson which had appeared earlier this week in several other papers in Virginia. It demonstrates pretty well that the immigration issue is not the exclusive domain of the Republican Party, and that there’s significant bi-partisan support for policy reform in Virginia. If only illegal alien apologists like Brian Moran would start listening to a little more diversity of opinion from his caucus, we’d have this problem solved in no time.
Here’s Grayson’s proposals, and they’re uniformly excellent:
Washington’s weak-kneed response to illegal immigration must not prevent the Old Dominion from acting. There are initiatives, some already underway, that should be embraced on a bipartisan basis:
·Make it a crime and/or stiffen penalties for those who engage in (1) alien smuggling, document fraud and gang-related crimes.
·Employ Dillon Rule-authority (state control over localities) to ban “sanctuary cities/towns/counties” that roll out the red carpet for illegal immigrants.
·Turn thumbs-down on in-state tuition to unlawful aliens (veterans, police officers, fire fighters, the disabled and their children do not enjoy this benefit).
·Impound the automobiles of unlicensed drivers until they can show a valid driver’s permit and registration document.
·Furnish information to all police and sheriffs’ departments about the Law Enforcement Support Center, operated by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Authority 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (1-866-347-2423), that can supply specific information about properly handling aliens suspected, arrested or convicted of criminal activity.
·Require all public agencies and their contractors to use the free E-Verify Internet-based system operated by the Department of Homeland Security that — in concert with the Social Security Administration — checks the authenticity of Social Security numbers presented by prospective employees.
·Direct public agencies and their contractors to use the SSNUS system, a free service enabling employers to match Social Security numbers with W-2 forms and SSA databases.
·Offer incentives to private firms to participate in E-Verify and SSNUS, while ascertaining that all business-license holders take part in this program;
·Require school systems to determine the number of illegal immigrants in classrooms so that if Washington begins to reimburse states for assuming this educational burden, Virginia’s officials will have hard data to present.
Now jurisdictions like Fairfax County claim ignorance of the full cost of illegal aliens to their citizens, even as they refuse to ascertain the number of such youngsters in their classrooms.
·Take advantage of the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements program (SAVE) to verify the Social Security numbers of all recipients of state social services and when the head of a household is found to be illegal, pro-rate benefits to make certain that he or she does not benefit from breaking the law.
Immigration expert Jessica Vaughn reported that the misappropriation of Social Security numbers by illegal aliens prevented at least 1,000 children in Utah (whose numbers had been stolen) from receiving benefits that they deserved.
Even as U.S. senators and representatives suck their thumbs, we must take decisive action.
The question is, will other members of Grayson’s party be listening? Let’s hope so.
Grayson brings up a fascinating study done by the state of Utah where they took all the social security numbers of children who were on public assistance and ran them through the SSA to see how many of then under the age of twelve had earnings reported against them. Over a thousand of these had, which indicated that those looking to create fake social security cards had stumbled across their social security numbers and used them when creating fake identities. Illegal aliens were the primary cause. Utah also learned that a number of college students were denied student loans because they either had derogatory credit records due to identity theft, or were deemed ineligible for financial aid because of reported earnings.
Virginia should conduct a similar study. Identity theft by illegal aliens is hardly a victim-less crime.
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Fabulous ideas, just one problem - why didn’t Grayson propose any of these ideas when he was a member of the House of Delegates?
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