10/26/2005

Minutemen see success

A local chapter of the Minuteman Project in Herndon plan to begin surveillance of local day laborers and their employers in the coming days and report the findings to federal tax and immigration officials. Two dozen people turned out for the group’s first organizational meeting last week at the Herndon Fortnightly Library, where chapter founder George Taplin sought volunteers and donations. Taplin said those who try to come into the county illegally are robbing those that are here legally of valuable resources and services. A Houston chapter of the Minutemen were successfully in closing down two day labor sites.

“The IRS encourages people to call if they see tax fraud. Well, we're actively going to look for it,� Taplin said. “They've said they can't do it all and have asked for help. We're here to help.�

Minuteman volunteers said they will be using cameras to track the comings and goings at day laborer gathering spots. A new center is expected to open in December and will be run by local nonprofit Project Hope and Harmony with the assistance of a Fairfax County grant. Taplin said the Minutemen will follow workers to their job sites to target those who employ illegal aliens for possible tax evasion. In addition, he said, the group will follow the workers to their homes looking for potential zoning violations, primarily based on the number of occupants. Local Minutemen will not be allowed to carry weapons and will be instructed to avoid confrontations. Dean Boyd, a spokesman for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said the agency would accept and investigate information from the Minutemen like it does from the general public.

From anti-immigration and civilian-militia bills that have been introduced in Congress to the countless broken promises by senators. Citizens are just realizing the constant flood of illegal aliens from the southern border and welcoming the Minutemen to Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California and endorsing their plan to patrol the state’s southern border. I believe that everyone who wants to immigrate to this country should follow the rules and enter this country legally.

Tightly securing the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border is not very challenging for the men and women of the U.S. Border Patrol with the help of the National Guard, and it is absurd to suggest that, something less adequate is the only possible answer. The truth is that illegal immigration is on the rise not only because it is possible to get across our border but also because corporations and employers on the U.S. side of the border continue to rely on, exploit, attract and in some cases recruit cheap and illegal labor. Knowing that there is an employer willing to violate U.S. law and hire an undocumented immigrant only serves as an incentive for illegal aliens to cross the border. To this end, we need to introduced legislation that would impose a hefty fine to employers per undocumented worker.

If anti-immigration groups, such as the Minutemen, are truly serious about stemming the flow of illegal immigration, they should also picket and/or boycott the work sites and employers that encourage illegal immigration by hiring undocumented immigrants.

Iran plans to attack Israel

Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today openly called for Israel to be "wiped off the map". "The establishment of the Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world," he told a conference in Tehran entitled 'The world without Zionism'. "The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of a war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land," he said. "As the imam said, Israel must be wiped off the map," said Ahmadinejad, referring to Iran's revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

His comments were the first time in years that such a high-ranking Iranian official has called for Israel's eradication, even though such slogans are still regularly used at regime rallies. Addressing some 4,000 vetted and approved students gathered in an Interior Ministry conference hall, Ahmadinejad also called for Palestinian unity, resistance and a point "where the annihilation of the Zionist regime will come".

"The Islamic umma (community) will not allow its historic enemy to live in its heartland," he said in the fiery speech that centered on an "historic war between the oppressor and the world of Islam". The term “oppressor� is used by the clerical regime to refer to the United States. "We should not settle for a piece of land," he said of Israel's pullout from the Gaza Strip. "Anyone who signs a treaty which recognizes the entity of Israel means he has signed the surrender of the Muslim world."

10/22/2005

Acceptable Reason?

There simply wasn't enough room on the rocky hilltop above Gonbaz village in southern Afghanistan for the U.S. platoon and the corpses of the two Taliban fighters. The Taliban men had been killed in a firefight 24 hours earlier, and in the 90 degree heat, their bodies had become an unbearable presence, soldiers who were present have told TIME. Nor was the U.S. Army unit about to leave — the hilltop commanded a strategic view of the village below where other Taliban were suspected to be hiding.

Earlier, Lt. Eric Nelson, the leader of B Company, I-508 platoon leader had sent word down to Gonbaz asking the villagers to pick up the bodies and bury them according to Muslim ritual. But the villagers refused — probably because the dead fighters weren't locals but Pakistanis, surmised one U.S. army officer.

It was then that Lt. Nelson took the decision that could jeopardize his service career. "We decided to burn the bodies," one soldier recounts, "because they were bloated and they stank." News of this cremation may have remained on these scorching hills of southern Afghanistan, had the gruesome act not been recorded on film by an Australian photojournalist, Stephen Dupont. Instead, when the footage aired on Australian TV on Wednesday, it unleashed world outrage. A Pentagon spokesman described the incident as "repugnant" and said that the army was launching a criminal investigation into the alleged desecration of the corpses, which is in violation of the Geneva Convention on human rights.

Fueling the furor was the fact that the TV report showed that after the bodies were torched, a U.S. Psychological-Operations team descended on Gonbaz in Humvees with their loudspeakers booming: "Taliban, you are cowardly dogs. You are too scared to come down and retrieve the bodies. This just proves you are the lady-boys we always believed you to be."

Muslims traditionally bury their dead, and as one Kabul cleric Mohammed Omar told newsmen, "The burning of these bodies is an offense against Muslims every where. Bodies are burned only in Hell." But as one U.S. officer in Kandahar pointed out, the Taliban and al Qaeda never show any qualms about defiling the bodies of dead Afghan or American soldiers. Afghan President Hamid Karzai, anxious to quell any new wave of protests against the U.S. troops in Afghanistan of the sort that followed allegations of Koran desecration at Guantanamo, publicly condemned the burnings. A statement from the U.S. military command for Afghanistan said, "Under no circumstances does U.S. Central Command condone the desecration, abuse or inappropriate treatment of enemy combatants."

Herndon Residents take a stand

A Hispanic advocacy group is challenging plans by the Herndon Minutemen to videotape and report findings on illegal aliens at the town's day-laborer center, describing such actions as racial profiling. Herndon-area Minutemen plan to videotape and photograph employers hiring illegal aliens at a recently approved day-laborer center, follow them to work sites and report them to the Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and state employment agencies, which is perfectly legal under the current law. The group also plans to monitor zoning violations, identify cases in which absentee landlords rent to illegal aliens and investigate instances of city officials offering public services to illegal aliens.

Modeling their approach on Houston's "Operation Spotlight," the Minutemen aim to hinder illegal immigration in Herndon by cracking down on employers, landlords and city officials who illegally aid aliens. The larger, Arizona-based Minutemen group has thousands of civilian members patrolling borders from California to Texas and in eight northern states this month through the "Secure Our Borders" program.

10/21/2005

Delay case Delayed


U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay appeared in court to face campaign finance charges on Friday, but the session was cut short by his lawyer's charge that the judge was politically biased against the former second-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives. Inside the courtroom, Judge Bob Perkins told defense lawyer Dick DeGuerin that "the best way for me to handle" the request for a new judge would be to defer further proceedings.

State District Judge Bob Perkins was to arraign DeLay on conspiracy and money laundering charges, but postponed the hearing until another judge could rule on a defence motion that argued that he could not conduct a fair trial because he is a Democrat who gave money to Democratic candidates and the activist group MoveOn.org. The charges against Perkins follow DeLay's repeated assertions that Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle, a Democrat who is leading the campaign finance investigation, is out to get him.

He and colleagues Jim Ellis and John Colyandro have been indicted by state grand juries in Austin for conspiracy and money laundering in a campaign-finance scheme conducted through DeLay's political action committee. They are accused of laundering $190,000 in corporate campaign contributions through the Republican National Committee for distribution to Republican candidates for the Texas Legislature. Texas law forbids the use of corporate money in political campaigns. DeLay could face up to life in prison if convicted.

DeLay said Earle targeted him because his political action committee helped Republicans take control of the Texas Legislature for the first time since the post-Civil War Reconstruction era. The legislature, under guidance from DeLay, then conducted a remapping of Texas congressional districts. Prosecutor Ronnie Earle signaled he intends to contest the request for a new judge.

DeLay attorney Dick DeGuerin, one of Texas' most prominent defence attorneys, told reporters after the hearing that Perkins had contributed to MoveOn.org and to Democratic candidates since the case came into his court a year ago. DeGuerin told Perkins that MoveOn.org was selling T-shirts of DeLay's mug shot taken after he turned himself in on Thursday. DeLay, who was fingerprinted and put up bail of $10,000, is smiling broadly in the mug shot.


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10/18/2005

Immigration Reform

Immigration reform is emotional, polarizing and politically tricky as was demonstrated at a Utah forum he hosted, says Rep. Chris Cannon, R-Utah, a man hated by anti-immigration groups because he helps lead the fight for President Bush's immigration-reform proposals.

Congress is expected to debate such solutions beginning this fall, with Bush and GOP leaders vowing to pass a comprehensive reform bill within a year. Many states are not waiting for a federal solution and are pushing ahead with steps of their own. For example, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson recently declared a state of emergency in four counties along the border because of violence, drug smuggling and increased numbers of undocumented immigrants. It allowed him to free up extra money for everything from fighting drug smuggling to beefing up state border security. Also, Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. pledged, in a recent visit with Mexico President Vicente Fox, to take a lead with the help of the Western Governors Association to find solutions to immigration issues.

At least 100 bills, designed to solve various aspects of immigration problems, have been introduced in Congress so far this year. Leaders have vowed to try to pass one big comprehensive reform bill within a year. Vowing to pass such a bill is ambitious since voter are going very weak of empty promises.

One idea is to match foreign workers with employers who cannot find U.S. labor to fill their jobs. It would allow aliens, including those already here illegally, to apply for a renewable, legal stay for a certain period. The period varies among proposals between three and six years. Bush has said if foreigners had such a program available, he believes most would enter legally for a time, save up money and then return home. But staying permanently and earning citizenship could also be allowed. Critics say it may simply lead more businesses to seek cheap foreign labor.

Congressman Chris Cannon believes most people want illegals to be able to earn legal status and maybe even citizenship. They also want a system that would allow needed workers to enter the U.S. temporarily. Cannon said discussion among congressional members also indicates that most want to ensure reform will recognize that "being here illegally will not get you at the head of the line for citizenship over those who come later" legally. In short, undocumented aliens would start at the back of the line whenever they come forward to seek legal status.

Some reform already has arrived. Earlier this year, Congress tacked many immigration reforms onto the end of a military spending bill. That included prohibiting states from issuing driver's licenses to illegal aliens; making driver's licenses more counterfeit-proof; making it easier for the Homeland Security Department to waive all legal requirements in order to build barriers along the Mexican border; and making it easier to exclude or deport anyone deemed to be supporting terrorism.

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10/16/2005

Black Gang Violence

In the days leading up to a white supremacist march, ministers pleaded with Toledo residents to stay calm and community leaders organized peace rallies. Authorities even delayed releasing the route so protesters wouldn't know where the group planned to march. It wasn't enough to stop an angry mob that included gang members from looting and burning a neighborhood bar, smashing the windows of a gas station and hurling rocks and bottles at police on Saturday. Twelve officers were injured, one suffering a concussion when a brick flew through her cruiser window. In all, 114 people were arrested on charges including assault, vandalism, failure to disperse and overnight curfew violations.

Much of the anger boiled over because people were upset that city leaders were willing to allow the supremacists to walk through the neighborhood and shout insults, residents and authorities said. Authorities said there was little they could do to stop the group, because they did not apply for a parade permit and instead planned to walk along sidewalks.

A gang member in a mask threatened to shoot him, and others cursed him for allowing the march, the mayor said. He said he didn't know if the man who threatened him was actually armed, but he blamed gangs for much of the violence. The march had been called off because of the crowds, and the white supremacists had left.

The neo-Nazi group, known as "America's Nazi Party," said they came to the city because of a dispute between neighbors, one white and the other black. Police began receiving word midweek from officers on the street that gangs were going to descend on the neighborhood in protest, the police chief said. The disturbances were confined to a 1-square-mile area, but the crowd swelled to about 600 people, overwhelming police.

10/10/2005

Who the hell cares what Ted Kennedy says?

Last week was sadly besmirched by more bile from Ted Kennedy, who’s apparently now taking lessons in bloviation from ex-Klansman Robert C. Byrd. Kennedy loves democracy so much that he wanted to commemorate its historic spread by demanding that 12,000 U.S. troops — or more, for good measure — flee the scene and forget the whole mess ever happened. At least he’s finally started discussing things he knows about.

In truth, the people of Iraq took the election much better than Teddy Kennedy did. Despite the New York Times’ dire warning of “a poorly prepared election conducted in an atmosphere of escalating violence and lawlessness,� Iraqis proved themselves much more resilient than liberals in America expected. Ali Fadel, Baghdad’s new mayor, says he wants to erect a statue to numbskull imperialist cowboy George W. Bush, noting that Bush “is the symbol of freedom." The stupid Iraqi has evidently not yet discovered Washington’s fiendish plot to steal his oil and transform his country into a Jewish paradise.

More Iraqis turned out to vote than anyone expected. Liberals could not possibly have predicted such an overwhelming show of manpower, because they thought all the Iraqis — and all the troops now valiantly protecting them — would be dead by now. Liberals like to pick on Republicans because we said there were WMD in Iraq (there were), but their half-baked predictions are supposed to be forgotten. Note to the Left: they’re not. We remember, even if you don’t.

And the ungodly infatuation with opposing President Bush continues. Columnist Bob Herbert’s still at it, now claiming that, in spite of the lovely little election thingy, “there was no respite from the carnage.� Why is that necessary? Millions of people bravely defied terrorism to exercise their newfound voting rights, and there’s Bob Herbert, hooting at them.

It’s understandable that John Kerry would be a bit soured on this election business (thank you, Ohio), but Harry Reid really has no excuse. Neither does Nancy Pelosi. For these two embarrassments to come out and harangue Bush about an “exit strategy� is outlandish. To repeat: we just had an election in Iraq. Iraq used to be in the “Axis of Evil.� What was once grouped with Iran and North Korea is now grouped with Japan, Russia, and Germany. I believe perhaps Bush’s favorite saying — “freedom is on the march� — may have some truth to it.

Liberals pride themselves on being able to turn to the families of fallen soldiers for political help, but even that hasn’t gone well for them of late. “To see the Iraqi people thumbing their nose at insurgents and terrorists and saying, 'We're going to go vote,'� said Nelson Carman who lost his twenty-year old son in Iraq, “there's a sense of pride and yet it can be sobering."

It’s astounding that a person who lost a child could be more rational than, say, the House Democratic leader. Nancy Pelosi has a job she’ll never lose, money, and fame, but she lacks the sense of Nelson Carman, whose son is now deceased. What, pray tell, does that say about our friends in the Democratic Party? They may be even more unhinged than we thought.

It is a fact, contrary to all the nonsense emanating from liberal circles, that Iraq is an achievement that even Bush couldn’t have imagined. Who would have thought, honestly, that the elections could have possibly gone so well? You can say you were optimistic, but nobody thought 60% would come out to vote. Nobody thought the purple-fingered citizenry would dance merrily in the streets. Nobody thought terrorists would be held back as spectacularly as they were. And nobody thought George Bush would be proved so awesomely right.

One shudders at the prospect of what a President Kerry would have done prior to January 30. Would elections have occurred? Would terrorists ‘round the world be shivering in fear? Doubtful, on both counts. If Kerry was president, we’d be at the U.N.—or a fun summit in France. That’s “democracy� to a Democrat.

10/09/2005

Bolton explains to Yale why U.N. screws America

Anyone who attended this week's Yale Political Union meeting can affirm, there was much to appreciate about Bolton's visit to campus. For the man who addressed a packed crowd of Yalies on Monday night, October 3, Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, was candidly open about failures and flaws of the organization to which he purports to be the United States' diplomat. The ambassador not only addressed some 500 students, but spoke on a very controversial and secretive topic, and answered many feisty questions from the audience directly and forthrightly.

The ambassador's central contention, was that U.N. member states should no longer be required to pay their annual dues -- instead, the United Nations should solicit voluntary contributions for specified projects. He went on, to explain why the United States should not continue to pay 22 percent of the U.N.'s budget when the General Assembly of 191 countries is frequently reckless, irresponsible and even corrupt. "Why shouldn't we pay for what we want, instead of being billed for what we get?" Bolton asked rhetorically at two separate points.

The ambassador's speech was smoothly delivered without any interruptions. Charity organizations all do very well, but the United Nations, as an institution of global diplomacy and government that has been the leading forum for peace talks and peace treaties since 1945 aspires to be a little more than the Salvation Army. It doesn't take a genius to see that if Bolton had his way, corrupt governments would be cut back dramatically, and the United Nations would be gutted of its cancerous tumor that has taken control.

The attitude that we should simply "pay for what we want", should be the U.S. government's official position on foreign affairs. But perhaps I should not be so surprised, during the ambassador's confirmation hearings Democrats tried repeatedly to stall the nomination, and would appease any country, no matter the level of corruption, in hopes of a Walden Utopia. It is, to say the least, very intellectually stimulating to hear Bush's U.N. envoy explaining why the entire premise on which the United Nations is based is flawed and thus why it’s funding should be cut.

Hearing Bolton speak was, I hope, a thoroughly healthy experience for all the liberal and moderate Yalies who were in attendance. Primarily, this is because it served as a reminder that, outside of the Yale bubble, the mainstream Middle America hold strong ethical beliefs, and are the true power of this nation. Most ivy leaguers are so high in their ivory-towers that they can’t see what the population is doing and what it wants. After all, this nation was founded for the people, and by the people.

It was also healthy to see Bolton because it provided us with an opportunity to reflect upon why John Bolton, and the president who nominated him, care so deeply about U.N. reform. Does the United Nations have serious problems as an institution? Yes. And is it in desperate need of reform? Of course. But many nations are profiting off U.N. corruption, that a need for change is being ignored. What it will most assuredly do is awaken Bolton's colleagues and dampen evil nation’s chances of looting the United Nations blind.

Bolton's supreme confidence notwithstanding, we can tackle the world's problems on our own, only if we stand united as a country. Having an organization like the United Nations completely dysfunctional is something Americans need to stand up to, and refuse to pay an organization to screws us. If that means we, as the wealthiest state on earth by a long shot, have to refuse to pay dues, then so be it. We can save the money far more easily than we can afford to continue to support a criminal organization like the United Nations.

Howard Dean running his mouth again

Howard Dean, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, in a sick and stunningly opportunistic attempt to profit politically from the recent heinous murders of six immigrant farm workers in Georgia, released a statement yesterday blaming the Minutemen border watch movement for somehow inciting this crime.

In his blatant attempt at race baiting, Dean – carrying on the despicable tradition of racial demagoguery practiced by such Democrats as Bull Connor, Orval Faubus and Rep. Charles Rangel – yesterday accused the Minutemen of “spreading fear and hatred in America.�

Chris Simcox, President of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (“MCDC�), made the following statement: “By Howard Dean’s logic, Dean’s fellow Democrats, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano, are responsible for any hate crime perpetrated against Hispanics in their states, because both Democrat governors have declared states of emergency on their respective borders with Mexico.

“Governors Richardson and Napolitano are not spreading fear and hatred in America, nor are the Minutemen. We are bringing attention to the dire national security crisis, and to an immigration policy that has created a condition of catastrophic lawlessness and vulnerability at our wide-open borders.

“Dean ignores the fact that most crimes committed against illegal immigrants are perpetrated by members of well-established illegal immigrant gangs – run by international criminal cartels ruthlessly trafficking drugs, weapons, and impoverished migrants into our sovereign territory. These gangs prey on illegal immigrants and our citizens alike, in communities all across America. Securing our borders is pro-immigrant. Once the borders are secured, all who come here through legal ports of entry will be required to have legal status thus barring criminals and gang members from entry.

“It is irresponsible rhetoric like Dean’s that makes it more difficult for serious people to remedy a situation that leaves America vulnerable to terrorist attacks and organized crime – which brutalizes, oppresses and violently exploits the least fortunate among us. Dean should leave behind the contemptible race-baiting politics of the 19th and 20th Centuries and join those of us who are trying to solve America’s 21st Century problems.�

MCDC is conducting a month-long border watch program this October called “Secure Our Borders.� An estimated four thousand trained Minuteman volunteers will participate in non-confrontational border watch efforts on America's northern and southern borders. Minutemen act as extra eyes and ears for the Border Patrol and will report directly to authorities any sightings of border crossings at other than legal ports of entry.

10/08/2005

A call to arms

Volunteers in California are one line in the fight against immigration, and have been hitting the streets across California to start gathering the nearly 600,000 signatures of registered voters that will be required by Dec. 12 to put the border police measure on the June 2006 ballot. According to the initiative, officers would be empowered to make arrests and would then transfer the suspects to federal immigration authorities. Generally speaking, the people voting in a primary are more conservative than in a general election, and a more conservative electorate could boost the measure's chances.

George Andrews, executive director for the California Border Police Initiative in Sacramento has been a major driving force for the proposed initiative. Another major contributor is Assemblyman Ray Haynes, who says he is fed up with the droves of people hopping the international border and entering the United States from Mexico illegally. Estimates suggest as many as 10 million people are in the United States illegally, 3 million of them in California. Haynes is proposing to create a state border force of 2,000 to 3,000 agents that would operate on an annual budget ranging from $200 million to $300 million. If passed by voters, the agency could be up and running by the end of next year, he said.

The federal government is not protecting our border and I am tired of waiting for congress to do anything about it. So I think it's time that we stop hoping for the government to enforce the law, and do it ourselves. Not only do we have to protect ourselves from the invasion of illegal immigrants, we also have to protect ourselves from the Mexican army and government supported smugglers.

When the founding fathers where writing the Bill of Rights a clear picture was given of what a citizen could do. The very first right a citizen has is the freedom of speech. That is how I am able to communicate with you today. In some countries like: Iran, Syria, North Korea, Vietnam, Russia, China, Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela; to name a few, have no protection of speech, so citizens are afraid to speak against the government. The next and very important able given to citizens was the right to a militia. The Minutemen, founded by person x, is a good example of a militia that is guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. This is not something that can be taken lightly or brushed away. If we do not demand access to our rights, they will be taken away.

That is why I am calling every person I can into action. Every able body that can carry a firearm needs to mass on the southern border and stop the incursions by foreign powers. Especially since Mexicans are not the only nationality that is illegally crossing the border. Iranians, Syrians, Lebanese, and Palestinians, have been seen crossing the border. Why does a citizen have to wait for an event to happen before it can see its military spring into action?

Mexican army Ranch Rescue 21 border incursions Arizona Border

10/07/2005

Sandy Berger Facing Another Slap on the Wrest

Less than a month after he was sentenced for stealing and destroying top national security documents, former Clinton National Security Advisor Sandy Berger has been charged with violating the terms of his probation.

Virginia police say the top Clinton aide was nabbed for reckless driving on Sept. 10 after he was clocked doing 88 miles-per-hour in a 55-mile zone on Interstate 66, a major highway going into Washington.

On Wednesday, Berger appeared before U.S. District Magistrate Deborah Robinson, the same judge who sentenced him in the theft case two days before the speeding incident. Judge Robinson told the court that because Berger's new crime had violated the terms of his probation, she's considering increasing his sentence. Before his latest brush with the law, Berger was ordered to pay a $50,000 fine, perform 100 hours of community service and spend two years on probation.

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10/05/2005

Paying for illegal immigrants before disabled Americans

A representative from Athens said he supports a bill to prevent illegal immigrants from attending public universities in Georgia. Sen. Brian Kemp, R-Athens, said he supports Senate Bill 170, which would require people to prove their legal status to receive taxpayer-funded services such as public colleges, welfare and public housing. Sen. Chip Rogers, R-Woodstock, said that under the proposed law, college applicants would have to show a form of identification that proves their status as legal residents, such as a driver’s license, military ID, green card or visa.

The only current requirement for proving Georgia residency is to have a Georgia address, so illegal immigrants in the state can get in-state tuition, he said. Kemp said he supports the bill because Georgia residents already have a difficult time getting into the University, and they should get in before illegal immigrants.

Currently the University has only four undocumented immigrant students, said Provost Arnett Mace.

Salvador Arriola, a senior from Dalton and member of the Hispanic Student Association, said he does not support Senate Bill 170. He said he believes that illegal immigrants should have the opportunity to attend college.

“Maybe it’ll help them in the long run,� he said.

However, Kemp, the vice chairman of the Georgia Senate Committee on Higher Education, said tuition does not pay the entire cost of attendance. “The state pays a good portion of that,� he said. Arlethia Perry-Johnson, spokeswoman for the Board of Regents, said in-state tuition pays about 25 percent and tax dollars pay about 75 percent of students’ cost of attendance.

Out-of-state students pay the full cost of tuition, she said.

Admission to public colleges in Georgia is based on merit, not residence status, and the regents are interested in resident status only to determine tuition, she said. Rogers, who introduced the bill, said that by providing services to illegal immigrants, the state is spending millions of dollars in benefits daily on people who have not paid for them.

He said the state does not have enough money to pay benefits to all disabled residents, yet it spends money on services for illegal immigrants. The government has limited resources, Rogers said, and the purpose of the proposed law is to ensure tax dollars are spent on taxpayers.

“Do we have an unlimited supply of resources? The answer is no,� he said.

He said that it is not the U.S. government’s responsibility to figure out what illegal immigrants can do if they are barred from attending public universities.
“They should return to wherever their home country is,� Rogers said.