Perry Stepping Up On Illegal Immigration?

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The head of an immigration reduction advocacy organization is encouraged that Texas Governor Rick Perry (R) is making an effort to demonstrate his concern about the cost of illegal immigration to the taxpayers of his state.

August 10, just three days before he formally entered the presidential race, Perry sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano asking for nearly $350 million to cover the costs that Texas has incurred for allowing illegal immigrants to enter the U.S. and utilize taxpayer-funded resources, including state prisons and county jails.

Perry has been criticized by border enforcement advocates for being too lenient on illegal immigration issues. Roy Beck is founder and president of NumbersUSA, which recently gave Perry a “D-minus” on its immigration enforcement report card. But he thinks asking for reimbursement is a move in the right direction.

 

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  • jUSTICE4aLL

    There is no doubt that this 2012 election will either bury the U.S. the rest of the way or become the year we regain our GREAT COUNTRY that we were used to. We the people have that choice. It is imperative that we do not give up what is left of our freedoms to the wrong candidate. This can only be assured if we know who these people are and what their true direction is.
    Never again can we allow ourselves to be mesmerized by rhetoric and a toothy smile for hope and change. If we give it up this time, we may not get another opportunity for correction.
    Keep the Faith…This COUNTRY is worth our sacrifice, hard work and tough decisions!

    GOD Bless The U.S.A.

  • jerry1944

    there are citys in texas where if you are a american you may not be understood and he like Bush didnt worry about stopping them and now he says he does hahha sure i belevive it i sticking with Bachmann unless the GOP maybe me go 3nd party

  • themtnman

    Along with his real poor record on ILLEGALS I have a real problem with the fact that when his legislature had worked on and presented him with a law that would have OUTLAWED the ILLEGAL pat downs by the TSA at airports he saw it fit to delay signing it until 1 day after it was to late to become law even after he BRAGGED that he was 100% for it.

    That pretty much says it for what we can expect from him as a president.

    He will tell us what we want to hear then do what ever he wants just like this IDIOT DICTATOR we now have in office.

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  • Brittanicus

    Frosty Woodbridge wrote for News with Views:

    "Your U.S. Congress participates in and supports one of THE most fraudulent taxpayer abuse schemes ever concocted within the Federal Government. It’s time the administration put its foot down rather than allow millions of unlawful immigrants to step onto American soil—while soaking billions out of the U.S. Treasury.

    Since the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) became part of the income tax code in 1975, it has quietly become the largest cash transfer program in the United States. At a cost of more than $44 billion per year, EITC spending dwarfs that of the traditional welfare program—Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)—and food stamps combined. More than 23 million households currently receive the credit.

    Edwin Rubenstein exposed one of the most dramatic tax frauds ever on the American taxpayer: “Defrauding the American taxpayer,” Volume 19, Number 3, spring 2009, Social Contract, “The Earned Income Tax Credit and Illegal Immigration – A Study in Fraud, Abuse, and Liberal Activism.”

    “More than one in four immigrant households received the EITC in 2000—nearly twice the 13.2 percent rate of house-holds headed by Native Americans. And because immigrant households are larger via higher fertility, their EITC payments are larger than those received by native households.

    “Bottom line: Immigrants accounted for about 13 percent of the U.S. population in 2008 but receive an estimated 26 percent of EITC benefits—about $12 billion.”
    The most distressing aspect of EITC stems from unlawful immigrants tapping into the program on a massive scale. For example, in Greeley, Colorado this year, district attorney Buck Young raided a tax filing agency to find over 1,000 fraudulent returns by unlawful workers. While they paid little or nothing in taxes, they received hundreds of thousands in bogus returns, costing taxpayers millions of dollars. That same scam multiplies all over the country.

    “Tax relief" goes to people who never paid a cent in taxes, and may have already defrauded the government of huge sums each year. "EITC scams are common, well-organized, and massive," Rubenstein writes in the report. EITC ranks second out of 57 government programs in fraudulent payments.

    “But enthusiasm for the credit has blinded policy makers to its problems. The EITC program is dominated by fraud. Year after year about one-third of all EITC returns are based on illegal multiple returns, phony Social Security numbers, or claims of non-existent children or spouses. A disproportionate share of illegal alien households receives the benefit.

    “For most poor families, the tax credit check is the largest single sum of money they will receive during the year. Most receive it after filing income taxes. But some need the money immediately, and they can get it—for a price. A niche financial sector thrives by lending EITC recipient’s immediate cash in return for a hefty chunk of their credit check. The cost to the poor of these so-called Refund Anticipation Loans (RALs) has been estimated at 6 percent of the entire EITC program.

    The EITC is the most illegal-immigrant friendly of poverty programs; illegal immigrants constitute a far larger share of the poverty population now.

    Implication: The EITC is a textbook case of unintended consequences. Our economic meltdown may be among them."

    There is only one cure for the corruption in federal agencies and that is joining the TEA PARTY. Thousands of fraudulent programs will be exposed and billions of dollars will be saved. This confronts the rot that has entered the Democratic and the Republican parties, and the astronomical deficit that America is suffering from. Read some unrevealed evidence at Judicial Watch, that is a legal non-profit, being There the opposite to the Communist backed ACLU; a panderer to the illegal alien invaders. In addition, NumbersUSA gives you in depth analysis of costs to taxpayers and insider news from Congress. Lastly, the controversial website of “American Patrol” gives you one-click Bridging editions to the nationwide media, where the truth prevails. It is no wonder that millions of illegal aliens can send $46 billion dollars a year to families, via foreign banks?

    1.Remember illegal aliens do vote in federal elections, and we all need to contact our politicians, to either issue an official to scrutinize voter rolls, or specifically absentee ballots.
    2.ISSUE a mandatory federal ID card, for all Americans.
    3.Make illegal entry punishable as a felony, not a civil offense.
    4.Build the real 2006 Double border Fence.
    5.The TEA PARTY will not tolerate illegal immigration or any form of amnesty, including Sanctuary cities, dream acts or covert enactments by disguising Immigration Reform.
    6.The TEA PARTY will support Arizona, Alabama, Georgia and other states against any retribution by the Democratic or Republican establishment.

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  • Brittanicus

    ILLEGAL ALIEN TAX RETURN FRAUD. THE WORD IS FINALLY OUT..?
    The IRS reported it has issued 10.8 million ITINs (Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers), with a very few being used by celebrities for book signing, foreign investors and whatever other reason? So at the most must leave roughly 10 million illegal aliens as heads of household that have arrived in violation of the law, hired as an infringement of the law, and using ITINs to skirt the law, since the program began in 1976. The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration on Thursday released an account, unveiling that the Internal Revenue Service, returned $4.2 billion dollars in refundable tax credits 2010 to illegal aliens. Using IRS ITIN numbers so illegal aliens are paying into the US taxation system, but are collecting in ‘earned income child tax credits,’ most of this money back. An illegal alien cannot qualify for a legitimate Social Security number, to file income tax returns, so they use the ITIN number issued by the IRS.

    This questionable program was intended to assuage that tax burden on the lowest American income earners, but in recent years has shown to be rife with fraud. President Obama’s stimulus program included tax cuts for low-income workers. Obama’s intention was, to put cash back into taxpayers’ hands, so they will spread it around to heighten the economy. But thanks to the (EITC) Earned Income Tax Credit, the majority of this “tax relief” will go to individuals who have never paid anything in taxes—NOT A DARN CENT—and have already defrauded prior administrations and today’s government in massive sums each year—to Illegal aliens. .” We the taxpayers are the gullible idiots who pay for their squatting here. The Inspector General said that the IRS should require those claiming the credit to prove that they are actually eligible to work here legally? However, IRS management “claims” that they have no legal power to request any proof with the inspection of individual income tax forms. A copy of the Inspector General's report can be found here:
    http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/auditreports/2011re…

    An IRS audit showed that 72 percent of tax returns filed by those using (ITIN) taxpayer identification numbers and not a Social Security numbers claimed the child tax credit. Nearly all ITIN-based returns include W-2 forms that list Social Security numbers, belong to U.S. citizens, IRS data shows. Foreign Nationals use the stolen or fabricated Social Security numbers to gratify the employment necessities of businesses. In violation of the law, the ITIN numbers have also involved in using the IRS number as Identification to open bank accounts and obtain driver’s licenses and to vote.

    Illegal aliens as well as Americans are cheating the rest of the taxpayers, with Mothers filing under their Maiden name for perhaps two children, then the Father filing for the same two children as a different tax return under his family name and both receiving child refund tax return dollars. Of course, as always this is just the tip of the iceberg on fraudulent returns.
    The federal government is fleeced by sending tax checks to P.O. boxes and addresses in foreign countries.

  • toto

    What I want from Perry or any other Republican candidate is a promise that taxpayer funded benefits for all illegal immigrants will stop, period. I can see providing paths to citizenship for those here, with the proviso that they would not be entitled to taxpayer funded benefits for 10 yrs from the date of citizen acceptance. That would definitely separate those who just want the benefits and those who really desire citizenship with the desire to be a contributor. It also separates quite nicely the people I would like to see stay and those I would like to see deported post haste.

  • NCJohn

    Perry is a consument politician and I would not believe a word he says!

  • Billy

    Just 3 days before he announced his run for President,,, OH right. Hypocrite. He loves mexicans. He is for Amenesty. Typical politian. I am for legal immigration. But if you can't follow the rules, we don't need you here. Illegal means Illegal.

  • john

    Fencing the borders first, is AND SHOULD BE THE FIRST step in illegal invasion!!!

    AND THE NEXT IS PUT SECURITY FORCES ALONG EVERY FOOT WITH LIVE AMMO AND ORDERS TO SHOOT FIRST AND ASK QUESTIONS LATER!!!

    Every American should know by taxing the Government to pay illegals expenses, free education, and welfare programs that it will be the innocent LEGAL WORKING Tax payers that will be the ones paying for their asses!!!

    Some more proof that PERRY WILL SUPPORT ILLEGAL IMIGRATION, AND YOU THE STUPID AMERICAN TAXPAYER WILL FOOT THE BILL.

    WAKE UP PEOPLE AND SMELL THE ROSEY SHEET!!!

    VOTE PALIN/BACHMAN OR BE PREPARED TO SUFFER EVEN MORE AFTER 2012!!!

  • john

    Palin / Bachman is really the very last opportunity America has left, please people wake up and realize the NWO extremists have groomed Perry for taking over the reigns from the puppet ovomit.

    They know ovomit will not be their winning canditate in 2012, and they have conviently placed Perry a RINO in the position with exazzarated leading polls to deceive the American public into thinking anyone other than ovomit is a winner, when it is nothing but more of the same……….

    SUPPORT AND VOTE FOR PALIN / BACHMAN OR CONTINUE TO SEE AMERICA FAST BECOME A SOCIALIST THIRLD WORLD NATION!!!

    THE HAND WRITING IS ON THE WALL WAKE UP AMERICA……..

  • Brittanicus

    Nothing wrong with Lama Smiths E-Verify “the Legal Workforce Act." At the very least, it is a step in the right direction. Even if E-Verify has some flaws and some illegal aliens are able to obtain employment, it won't last very long. Those hired illegally will be caught eventually when the irregularities are corrected. It's better to have something as a deterrent, than to have nothing at all.

    Of course the usual radical voices are raised, as critics opposing this Historical Immigration Bill, H.R. 2885 are searching for any loophole to drag it down. They are using what inflammatory rhetoric or lies they can muster against the passage of E-Verify “the Legal Workforce Act." First they contest it that legal American workers could be turned away in being hired. So that person just addresses that grievance by going to their local Social security office; illegal aliens will stay well clear of this agency. None of the media will inform their readership of this? Learn more information at NumbersUSA. Other websites that will deliver the facts about the criminal element, with wide ranging access to the E-media is American Patrol. We can all stand with our fellow jobless countryman by Calling House and Senate Leadership NOW Call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121.

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