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New ballot initiative targets immigrants

Disappointed that there's no severance tax initiative to get excited about anymore? Don't sweat it: the immigration-obsessed are stepping up to the plate. Stephens Media reports that a group called Secure Arkansas has filed a ballot initiative that would restrict public benefits to immigrants over 13 until their legal status is verified. Exceptions would include emergency medical care, disaster relief, and homeless services. Tuition and routine health care would be a no-no. Dustin McDaniel will have to approve or reject the initiative by Wednesday.

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REJECT, REJECT, REJECT!

Why don't we just call it the KKKids initiative? Aside from the wealthy employers who benefit greatly from assuring a steady future flow of uneducated unhealthy workforce.. only bigots could happily support this type of measure.

Why exactly would employers want people to be unhealthy and uneducated?

WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNTIE!


The leadership of Secure Arkansas is indeed retarded:

"Keeping illegal aliens from getting on public assistance just any time they want to and taking all of our taxpayer funds, that's really what it's all about," Secure Arkansas chairwoman Jeannie Burlsworth..."

She has no idea of the net profit American local, state and federal gubbermints make from illegailies.
They pay in unemployment taxes never to collect them. They pay in state and federal income taxes and never will get a deserved refund. To benefit the graylings of America they pay in Social Security and never will receive benefits.

There's only one hospital in NWA that would be required to admit an undocumented alien and that is Wash. Regional in Fayetteville which is government owned.
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The leadership of Secure Arkansas is indeed retarded:

"Keeping illegal aliens from getting on public assistance just any time they want to and taking all of our taxpayer funds, that's really what it's all about," Secure Arkansas chairwoman Jeannie Burlsworth..."

She has no idea of the net profit American local, state and federal gubbermints make from illegailies.
They pay in unemployment taxes never to collect them. They pay in state and federal income taxes and never will get a deserved refund. To benefit the graylings of America they pay in Social Security and never will receive benefits.

There's only one hospital in NWA that would be required to admit an undocumented alien and that is Wash. Regional in Fayetteville which is government owned.

There is one more approach: Stop flooding Mexico and Central America with cheap, American tax-payer subsidized corn, rice, beans and cotton. Just remove all those welfare payments to farmers of those crops so that we stop putting So.American farmers out of business and they no longer need to migrate to America in order to feed their families.
Then, out of work welfare farmers can work the eviscerating lines and drive Tyson gut trucks.

If people don't want illegal
immigrants in this country
then make the government
enforce the immigration laws.
Trying to make life harder
on those here illegally will
solve nothing. Illegal
immigration will continue
as long as it is tolerated
by the federal governement.

I have friends from Europe
that would like to immigrate
to the US but they can't.
Meanwhile millions of others
are doing it illegally. This
is a problem that needs to
be addressed, but this is not
the way to do it.

"Just remove all those welfare payments to farmers of those crops so that we stop putting So.American farmers out of business and they no longer need to migrate to America in order to feed their families."

People are not coming here
illegally because the price
of grain is cheap. The price
of grain is no longer cheap,
yet illegal immigration
continues.

Do you have any idea what
would happen to this country
if our farmers couldn't earn
a living from farming? They
would sale their land and
invest their money elsewhere.
That would result an economic
disaster and make us dependent
on foriegn food supplies.

Farmers have land and equipment
worth millions of dollars tied
up in their farms, and even with
the government payments, the
return on that investment is the
lowest of any business. If you
want to destroy our economy, then
get rid of thos welfare payments
to farmers, and you'll succeed.

If people can't find the time to
educate themselves on an issue,
they shouldn't spend their time
talking about it. Learn and then
discuss people.

I never would have figured
elwood for a DLC freetrader.
hmmm....

Dont punish the exploited, punish the exploiter. Punish the employer, that employs an illegal without the proper documention. These same employers, if born two hundred years ago, would
be subjecting their workers to the lash.

I never would have figured
elwood for a DLC freetrader.<<

Perhaps your meds need a little adjustment today. It is "free trade" that is toppling Mexican farmers and forcing them northward to earn enough to support their families.

Suppose we had a prolonged drought in our breadbasket states. Then how opposed you would be toward eating imported food vs starving?

Elwood, US grain prices are
at all time highs, so how
exactly are "welfare" payments
to US farmers, and NFTA
hurting Mexican farmers?
Their products are cheaper
than ours so if anything
the opposite would be true.

We already import food from
other countries especially
China. If Mexican farmers
are being hurt by free trade,
it's China not the US that
they can't compete with.

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