Vigil Today Will Focus on Immigration

By • Sep 15th, 2009 • Category: Blog

A 4 pm vigil in McGinley Square (Bergen Avenue and Montgomery Street) today will feature critics of immigration policies, specifically the deportation of immigrant parents of children born in the U.S. The vigils are being held around the state and are timely, considering that several law enforcement institutions in New Jersey, including the Hudson County Jail, have signed on to the Department of Homeland Security’s controversial 287(g) program. Speakers at the event are expected to describe their personal experiences of raids, detentions and deportations.

The vigils are sponsored by a coalition that includes the ACLU-NJ and various immigrant rights and church groups.

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  • Brittancus

    In the issue of illegal immigration and health care, is there any truth that since the outburst of Rep. Joe Wilson the Democrats have added the language that disqualifies illegal foreign nationals? The house Democrats prior to this controversial name calling, had voted down any wording to remove illegal aliens from applying? However, I caught a blog that if one family member is an American citizen (anchor baby) then the entire household will be eligible for coverage? SO IS THIS TRUE? I think the majority of American will want to know? Is this a sly way for the Democratic leadership, have slipped this into the public option package? Any detail in the national media has been subdues or intentionally omitted, as with the crowds of Tea Party opponents. They both have used their political influence in trying to overturn E-Verify. Pro-Illegal alien lawmakers could table it, under the “Sunset Provision” on September 30?

    President Obama’s direction towards an unmentionable path to citizenship for all those who broke our law is abhorrent. After the controversial eruption in the Session of Congress, they surely must be aware that imposing immigration reform on the people could break them? Americans taxpayers are already supporting business welfare? Corporate entities want these destitute people here to exploit, but don’t want to pay for their health care, schooling or towards the massive numbers surviving in prison. They leave that to the fading middle class taxpayers who carry the tax burden? Over a decade has passed since illegal people started coming here in droves and with little or no laws, to blockade their arrival we are now talking over 20 million. Nor does it stop there? Owing to the clarion call of Amnesty ringing out in the slums and ghetto’s of foreign criminals, sick, elderly and those without means, from all over the world will descend on us. IT MEANS OVERPOPULATION?

    Bad as it may be now, who is going to subsidize the new arrivals? Not the business cartels that’s for sure? Once again taxpayers will be heavily taxed to pay for the new shipment of poor, uneducated from every region. How can we expect to have any government public option for our own people, when our gates remain wide open for “Anchor Babies” and the illegal millions expecting a free handout? A nurse in a Nevada hospital indicated they have a row of beds of illegal immigrants on dialysis, which was costing weekly $18.000 dollars for each treatment. Tell me who pays for that? The US government pays a small portion; the rest is acquired from the hospital or taxpayer.

    I want a single payer system for homeless veterans, seniors, single mothers with children and poor American families. But I refuse to pay for everybody who climbs, crawls under the fence or bluffs the Federal officer at shipping ports and airports of entry. It’s not our responsibility. DON’T WAIT! PESTER YOUR SENATOR OR REPRESENTATIVE TODAY AT 202-224-3121? Find true facts by GOOGLING NUMBERSUSA, JUDICIAL WATCH & IMMIGRATION COUNTERS

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