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Title: Tax Dollars Fund Advocacy of Illegal Immigration
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Citizens Against Government Waste
URL Source: http://www.cagw.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=9876
Published: May 24, 2006
Author: By: Elizabeth L. Wright
Post Date: 2006-06-06 20:34:10 by DeaconBenjamin
Keywords: Illegals, Taxpayer, Why?
Views: 69
Comments: 2
Citizens Against Government Waste often criticizes nonprofit organizations that use tax dollars for political advocacy. The practice forces taxpayers to support political movements that they may disagree with. Recently, CAGW took a look at some of the groups involved in one of today’s most controversial issues, illegal immigration. There is no question that illegal immigrants are a burden on the taxpayer. Illegal immigrants and their children use government services like Medicaid, food stamps, and public schools. Estimates of the net fiscal cost of illegal immigration range from $22 billion to $70 billion annually. Some organizations that receive government funding advocate for illegal aliens and even helped to coordinate the massive protests against immigration reform, such as the “Day Without Immigrants” held on May 1. The following information was obtained from looking at groups’ 990 tax forms. The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, which helped to organize a huge March 25 rally in Los Angeles, received $495,627 in government funds between July 2003 and June 2004. Tax dollars represent 32 percent of the organization’s $1.56 million budget. The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, which participated in the 400,000-plus rally in Chicago and calls for “legalization for everyone,” received $1.5 million from the government in 2004. The amount represents 56 percent of the group’s total revenue. The New York Immigration Coalition helped to coordinate “human chains” in immigrant commercial districts and calls for extending the right to vote to “lawful permanent residents.” That organization received $341,543 from government sources, 25 percent of their entire revenue of almost $1.4 million. The Latin American Integration Center in Woodside, New York, participated in the May 1 demonstrations and the May 17 “National Lobby Day” for immigration reform. They received $233,817 from taxpayers, 71 percent of their total budget. The Center for Community Change, which helps to fund and organize activities for illegal immigrants, also got help from taxpayers, a total of $621,935 in 2001 and 2002. Casa of Maryland, which actively opposes House immigration bill H.R. 4437 and runs day-laborer centers for illegal aliens, received more than $1 million in government funds, constituting 53 percent of its revenue. The National Council of La Raza, one of the largest organizations engaged in current immigration reform issues, received $4.2 million from taxpayers. The Farmworker Justice Fund, a subsidiary of La Raza, received $692,665 in government funding almost 60 percent of its total revenue. Instead of funding groups that encourage illegal activity, the government should be shoring up its effort to secure the border. Federal authorities recently detained, but then released, eight illegal aliens who were acting suspiciously near the Baltimore-Washington International/Thurgood Marshall Airport. The U.S. Border Patrol is notifying the Mexican government where civilian border patrol groups, such as the Minuteman Project, are located. Most illegal aliens enter the U.S. to seek a better life. But their actions create security and financial problems and undermine the efforts of immigrants who follow proper procedures to become American citizens. The activity calls into question the basic tenet that the U.S. is a “nation of laws.” Polls indicate that a majority of Americans want an end to illegal immigration. Where Americans split on immigration is how to deal with the illegal aliens that are already in the country. At a minimum, tax dollars should not be used to support political advocacy of illegal activity, no matter what side of the immigration debate ultimately prevails.
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#1. To: DeaconBenjamin (#0)
THESE ARE THE SENATORS WHO VOTED TO GIVE ILLEGAL ALIENS SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS. REGARDLESS OF POLITICAL PARTY, THESE POLITICIANS NEED TO BE DEFEATED IN 2006, 2008 OR 2010 WHENEVER THEY COME UP FOR OFFICE. SEND THIS TO ANYONE YOU KNOW IN ANY OF THE STATES LISTED. THE ENTIRE POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES NEED TO KNOW THIS INFORMATION. THAT IS UNLESS THEY DO NOT MIND SHARING THEIR SOCIAL SECURITY WITH FOREIGN WORKERS WHEN AMERICAN CITIZENS ARE BEING LEFT OUT. Grouped by Home State Alabama: Alaska: Stevens (R-AK), Yea Arizona: McCain (R-AZ), Yea Arkansas: Lincoln (D-AR), Yea Pryor (D-AR), Yea California: Boxer (D-CA), Yea Feinstein (D-CA), Yea Colorado: Salazar (D-CO), Yea Connecticut: Dodd (D-CT), Yea Lieberman (D-CT), Yea Delaware: Biden (D-DE), Yea Carper (D-DE), Yea Florida: Martinez (R-FL), Yea Georgia: Hawaii: Akaka (D-HI), Yea Inouye (D-HI), Yea Idaho: Illinois: Durbin (D-IL), Yea Obama (D-IL), Yea Indiana: Bayh (D-IN), Yea Lugar (R-IN), Yea Iowa: Harkin (D-IA), Yea Kansas: Brownback (R-KS), Yea Kentucky: Louisiana: Landrieu (D-LA), Yea Maine: ?? Maryland: Mikulski (D-MD), Yea Sarbanes (D-MD), Yea Massachusetts: Kennedy (D-MA), Yea Kerry (D-MA), Yea Michigan: Levin (D-MI), Yea Stabenow (D-MI), Yea Minnesota: Mississippi: Missouri: Montana: Baucus (D-MT), Yea Nebraska: Hagel (R-NE), Yea Nevada: Reid (D-NV), Yea New Hampshire: New Jersey: Lautenberg (D-NJ), Yea Menendez (D-NJ), Yea New Mexico: Bingaman (D-NM), Yea New York: Clinton (D-NY), Yea Schumer (D-NY), Yea North Carolina: North Dakota: Dorgan (D-ND), Yea Ohio: DeWine (R-OH), Yea Voinovich (R-OH), Yea Oklahoma: Oregon: Wyden (D-OR), Yea Pennsylvania: Specter (R-PA), Yea Rhode Island: Chafee (R-RI), Yea Reed (D-RI), Yea South Carolina: Graham (R-SC), Yea South Dakota: Johnson (D-SD), Yea Tennessee: Texas: Utah: Vermont: Jeffords (I-VT), Yea Leahy (D-VT), Yea Virginia: Washington: Cantwell (D-WA), Yea Murray (D-WA), Yea West Virginia: Rockefeller (D-WV), Not Voting Wisconsin: Feingold (D-WI), Yea Kohl (D-WI), Yea Wyoming:
Here's the latest list of traitors that need to be voted out of office.
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#2. To: DeaconBenjamin (#0)
"Why?" "...H. ROWAN GAITHER was a long-time president of The Ford Foundation, which Rene Wormser called "the gargantuan of philanthropy" in his book "Foundations, Their Power and Influence." (See E-File Number Seven.) In an interview with Dr. Stan Monteith http://(www.radioliberty.com), Mr. Norman Dodd, chairman of the Reece Commission of the House of Representatives that investigated the tax-exempt foundations in the early 1950s, quoted Mr. Gaither as stating to him: "Mr. Dodd, we invited you to come and see us this morning hoping you would off-the- record tell us that why Congress was interested in operations of foundations such as ours. Mr. Dodd, those of us here at the policy-making level have all had experience either with the OSS or the European Economic Administration in operating under directives the origin of which was the White House. We today operate today under just such directives. Would you like to know what the substance of these directives is? The substance of the directives under which we operate is that we shall use our grant-making power so to alter life in the United States that we can be comfortably merged with the Soviet Union." Mr. Dodd remarked to him, "Mr. Gaither, in the light of what you've just told me, many of your grants make sense. I can understand them. But I do not feel that you are entitled to withhold this information from the people of this country to whom you are beholden for your tax exemption, so why don't you tell them what you've told me?" Rowan Gaither replied, "Mr. Dodd, we wouldn't think of doing that." Mr. Dodd wrote on Jan. 15, 1958, "These experiences will illustrate what we should now know: that what has happened to us as a people was condoned by privately owned wealth and for this condition to continue, it is necessary that this knowledge be kept from us. We can anticipate that the power of wealth will continue to employed for this purpose. And since these foundations are tax exempt, thereby placing an added burden on all other taxpayers, it means the whole people are being forced to contribute to the project of the destruction of the American system of private enterprise." ..." http://www.e- files.org/archive/edition10.html "In short, the 'house of world order' will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down. It will look like a great 'booming, buzzing confusion,' to use William James' famous description of reality, but an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault." -- Richard N. Gardner, in Foreign Affairs (April 1974) " penncrier.com NWO Quotes http://www.bluelette rbible.org/kjv/Psa/Psa002.html#3 http://www.bluelett erbible.org/kjv/Mic/Mic004.html#12 But you probably know this.
Citizens Against Government Waste often criticizes nonprofit organizations that use tax dollars for political advocacy. The practice forces taxpayers to support political movements that they may disagree with.
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