Illegal Immigration
In a recent survey four hundred thousand business executives were asked their opinion on the illegal immigration issue. These executives who are employees of some of the top companies in North America were simply asked if they supported illegal immigration and what should be done about the estimated 12�24 (76,000,000 million by the year 2012) illegal or undocumented immigrants that currently reside within US boarders. Because the mainstream media often claims that business leaders are in favor of illegal immigration because they need the cheap labor, the results were somewhat surprising.
Three-quarters of the respondents answered that they oppose illegal immigration. Of those executives, nearly half believed that immigrants should be immediately deported back to their country of origin. About one quarter supported some form of partial amnesty, while only five percent supported full and total amnesty. In the end, most executives believe illegal aliens should not receive special treatment for breaking the law and that they should go through proper channels and apply for citizenship legally. The minority of respondents believed in some type of guest worker program for qualified applicants.
So what accounts for the massive disconnect between the media perception of business executives and their actual, documented opinions? One reason might be the simple fact that business leaders pay attention to the economy and that they are aware of the increasing costs of illegal immigration. As we speak there are between 12 and 24 million illegal immigrants in the country today. Many of these immigrants do not pay taxes and it is estimated that this costs the government $35 billion a year in income taxes. And who do you think has to cover the cost of that discrepancy?
The truth is that business leaders are often subject to the highest tax rates in the land and they know their rates will only increase as the number of tax cheats increase. At the same time they know that illegal immigrants receive in excess of $30 billion a year in government benefits. You don't need a degree in accounting to conclude that people who do not pay taxes while they receive government benefits are costing the country a fortune. In the end, it is the average tax payer who has to cover the cost of benefits that illegal immigrants cannot or will not pay for.
It is also an undeniable fact that illegal immigration is putting a strain on the public school system. Recent reports tell us that over 96 percent of the increase in enrollment in schools is due to immigration, legal or otherwise. The parents of these new students often do not pay any taxes, which means that they are contributing nothing to the education budget. It also means that these costs are passed along to everyone else in the form of higher property and income taxes.
Illegal immigration is also doing a number on hospitals throughout the US. According to their own reports, hospitals paid over $35 billion dollars in uncompensated healthcare last year. The majority of these unpaid bills can be traced back to illegal immigrants. The hard truth is that illegal immigrants don't have healthcare so they use the hospitals as if they were a doctor's office, and hospitals simply cannot deal with the deluge. In fact, many hospitals in high immigrant states like California and Texas have been forced to close their doors because they can no longer afford to cover the unpaid bills.
In the final analysis, the country simply cannot afford the massive influx of tens of millions of foreigners, most of whom do not pay taxes, do not have health insurance and do not speak the language. Business leaders seem to know this and they are finally making their opinion known.
Three-quarters of the respondents answered that they oppose illegal immigration. Of those executives, nearly half believed that immigrants should be immediately deported back to their country of origin. About one quarter supported some form of partial amnesty, while only five percent supported full and total amnesty. In the end, most executives believe illegal aliens should not receive special treatment for breaking the law and that they should go through proper channels and apply for citizenship legally. The minority of respondents believed in some type of guest worker program for qualified applicants.
So what accounts for the massive disconnect between the media perception of business executives and their actual, documented opinions? One reason might be the simple fact that business leaders pay attention to the economy and that they are aware of the increasing costs of illegal immigration. As we speak there are between 12 and 24 million illegal immigrants in the country today. Many of these immigrants do not pay taxes and it is estimated that this costs the government $35 billion a year in income taxes. And who do you think has to cover the cost of that discrepancy?
The truth is that business leaders are often subject to the highest tax rates in the land and they know their rates will only increase as the number of tax cheats increase. At the same time they know that illegal immigrants receive in excess of $30 billion a year in government benefits. You don't need a degree in accounting to conclude that people who do not pay taxes while they receive government benefits are costing the country a fortune. In the end, it is the average tax payer who has to cover the cost of benefits that illegal immigrants cannot or will not pay for.
It is also an undeniable fact that illegal immigration is putting a strain on the public school system. Recent reports tell us that over 96 percent of the increase in enrollment in schools is due to immigration, legal or otherwise. The parents of these new students often do not pay any taxes, which means that they are contributing nothing to the education budget. It also means that these costs are passed along to everyone else in the form of higher property and income taxes.
Illegal immigration is also doing a number on hospitals throughout the US. According to their own reports, hospitals paid over $35 billion dollars in uncompensated healthcare last year. The majority of these unpaid bills can be traced back to illegal immigrants. The hard truth is that illegal immigrants don't have healthcare so they use the hospitals as if they were a doctor's office, and hospitals simply cannot deal with the deluge. In fact, many hospitals in high immigrant states like California and Texas have been forced to close their doors because they can no longer afford to cover the unpaid bills.
In the final analysis, the country simply cannot afford the massive influx of tens of millions of foreigners, most of whom do not pay taxes, do not have health insurance and do not speak the language. Business leaders seem to know this and they are finally making their opinion known.
Govt. to flush out
illegal immigrants
Aliens crackdown
continues
Crackdown on
Foreigners
Uploaded on Jan 20,
2010
The government is talking
tough, insisting that it will not relent in the crackdown on foreigners who are
in the country illegally. Internal Security Minister Professor George Saitoti
and Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere said the operation that has seen over
seven hundred aliens arrested so far will continue for as long as security
operatives deem it necessary. Meanwhile the government has also admitted that
deporting Al Faisal is proving a hard nut to crack, Citizen TVs Associate Editor
Abdi Osman reports.
Ethiopians
charged
Uploaded on Aug 20,
2010
http://www.ntv.co.ke
A Kibera magistrate Grace Nzioka on Friday ordered 89 foreigners who were living in the country illegally to pay a fine of 10,000 shillings each and be deported immediately. The 89 Ethiopians who were arrested mid-week risk a jail sentence of 3 months should they fail to pay the fine and will be deported after serving the sentence. Nimrod Tabu reports.
A Kibera magistrate Grace Nzioka on Friday ordered 89 foreigners who were living in the country illegally to pay a fine of 10,000 shillings each and be deported immediately. The 89 Ethiopians who were arrested mid-week risk a jail sentence of 3 months should they fail to pay the fine and will be deported after serving the sentence. Nimrod Tabu reports.
Deported drug lord arrested in
Nairobi's Eastleigh area
Police
say Solomon Walde Haulu, 76 sneaked back to the country at undisclosed date and
hid in Eastleigh where he was arrested on Thursday night. He had been deported
on June 11 for being in Kenya illegally and over accusations of being a drug
trafficker.
He
was linked to local and international drug trafficking network despite his old
age. He also operated a major gang in Nigeria section of Mathare slums, which
police say is the main supply point of hard drugs in the
city.
According
to police, he sneaked back to Kenya from Uganda through the Malaba border and he
did not have documents at the time of his arrest.Â
Haulu
was expected in court on friday as police continue with their
investigations.
"He
seems to have either used an orthodox route here or he hid the documents to
avoid being known how he came but we will know," said head of Speacial Crimes
Prevention Unit that arrested him following a tip off. He was found in a house
next to the one he used to stay before his deportation.Â
The
man is among close to 30 other foreigners who were deported in June  for Â
alleged involvement in international crimes. Seven out of theforeigners are
believed to be key members of drug cartels operating in Kenya and have in the
past been arrested on narcotic offences.
And
police are yet to trace the whereabouts of a Nigerian national who sneaked back
days after he was too deported.
AnÂ
officer based at the Namanga border post, Edward Kabiu Njau, was charged in
court for unlawfully assisting Eneke Chimenze to enter the country illegally on
July 9. Mr Chimenze had been deported together with the controversial Nigerian
drug dealer Anthony Chinedu.
He
has been on the run since then.
"We
still fear he may harm the officers who participated in his deportation or other
people in general. Efforts to get him are ongoing," said Nairobi Area head of
CID Nicholas Kamwende.
When
they were deported on June 3 they caused drama in Lagos prompting the detention
of their plane for two weeks.
The
Nigerian government came out to declare that it was the one holding the seven
Kenyan government officials and five airline crew who had escorted Mr Chinedu
and his compatriots.
Chinedu’s
deportation caused a diplomatic storm after authorities in Lagos detained a
plane that deported them for days saying it had flouted their aviation
rules.
The
plane and its crew, immigration officials and police were later released on the
intervention of president Goodluck Jonathan
Russian
Kurtasov Andrey, 42 was also deported several days after then acting interior
cabinet secretary Githu Muigai ordered for his
deportation.
They
include Anthony Chinedu, Johnson Obina, Eneke Chimenze, Emmanuel Peter, Paul
Maison, Christopher Nanyelu, John Peter Osinomuno, Ismail Adengule, Michael
Olabaji, Paul Owasene, Adu Kolawale, Kenneth Chikenzi, Johnson Obina, Adebiyi
Oluwatosini, Peter Sessie and Obira Onzama.
Also deported were Diawara Mamady and Komani
Camara (Guinea Bissau); Solomon Haulu ( Ethiopia), Abubakar Toure (Ivory Coast),
Mohammed Dokure (Burundi), Asif Mohammed and Mohammed Khan (Pakistan), and
Mohammed Kamara (Sierra Leone).
Kenya: Manhunt for deported drugs
suspect; policeman and lover
murdered
Eneke Chimenze alias Anaeke Chimezie was deported together with the controversial Nigerian businessman Anthony Chinedu.
But officials said an immigration officer at the Namanga border point cleared him even after the border control database indicated that the man was a prohibited immigrant.
Police have launched a manhunt for the suspect.
The new director of Immigration Services, Ms Jane Waikenda, visited the the Namanga border post on Saturday where she warned officials that stern action would be taken against those involved.
Meanwhile, an Administration policeman and his alleged lover were murdered in Migori County on Friday night.
The naked bodies of the two were found lying on the roadside in the sugarbelt town of Awendo by residents.
The killers also took the AP’s AK47 rifle loaded with 30 rounds of ammunition.
The woman was raped before being killed and both had their throats slit.
An officer investigating the incident who requested not to be named because of the sensitivity of the matter said the AP had just left a night fundraiser in aid of a colleague who died in a road accident two weeks ago, when he was attacked.
“We are aware he was having an affair with the woman, but we are approaching the investigations with an open mind,” he said.
On Saturday, police officers cordoned off estates in Awendo Town in a bid to recover the stolen firearm.
Four suspects were arrested and were being interrogated in connection with the killings.
“The government apparatus should try their best and recover the firearm because it will be used to escalate insecurity in this region,” said Awendo Town resident Mr Joachim Oloo.
The bodies were moved to the Migori District Hospital mortuary.
Residents protested on Saturday over growing insecurity.
Source: Daily Nation
Another 10 illegal foreigners deported
Updated
Wednesday, June 5th 2013 at 22:11 GMT +3
By CYRUS OMBATI
Those arrested on Tuesday night were from Sierra Leon, Nigeria, Ghana and Congo.
Yesterday, lawyer Cliff Ombeta said the suspects were rounded up from their houses in Nairobi and detained at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) ahead of their deportation.
“I am headed to the airport to see the ten foreigners being detained there before being deported,” said Ombeta.
He complained the suspects’ deportation was not procedural, adding some of them had pending criminal cases in court.
Kenya: Ten more foreigners who have been in the country illegally
were Wednesday deported to their countries.
This brings
to more than 20 the number of aliens sent back to their home countries since
Monday.
Sources said the President had sanctioned the process after it
emerged most of them were involved in ‘dirty businesses’, including drug
trafficking and child molestation.Those arrested on Tuesday night were from Sierra Leon, Nigeria, Ghana and Congo.
Yesterday, lawyer Cliff Ombeta said the suspects were rounded up from their houses in Nairobi and detained at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) ahead of their deportation.
“I am headed to the airport to see the ten foreigners being detained there before being deported,” said Ombeta.
He complained the suspects’ deportation was not procedural, adding some of them had pending criminal cases in court.
But a
senior Government official said the process was in order and Attorney General
Githu Muigai had approved it. “The minister is legally mandated to order
deportation of such people and he
had done that,” said the official.
Controversial Nigerian businessman Anthony Chinedu was deported from
Kenya on Monday.
Ombeta claimed a Kenyan chartered flight
that delivered him to Lagos had been detained there for unclear reasons with
eight police officers and immigration officials on board. We could not verify
the claims but Chinedu, who called Nairobi, said he was free in Lagos but the
plane was detained for flouting rules there.
Kenya court humiliates and deports 89 Ethiopians (video)
EthiopianReview.com | September 24th, 2010
A court in Kenya sentences 89 Ethiopian refugees 10,000 shillings each
and orders their immediate deportation. These Ethiopians went to Kenya to escape
from the fascist junta in Ethiopia led by the despot Meles Zenawi. Kenya court’s
decision is not only immoral, it is also in violation of international law that
call for the protection of refugees. Meanwhile, the despot’s wife is in
Washington DC on a shopping spree with the money she looted from those poor
refugees (see here).
Neglecting the Suffering of Refugees is Collaborating with Oppressors
May 22, 2010
Neglecting the Suffering of Refugees is
like Collaborating with Oppressors
According to a research done by Advocacy for Oromia
(AFO), an organization that is dedicated to protect the rights,
explore, promote, and disseminate issues related to the Oromo people and Oromia,
the suffering and horrific conditions of Oromo refugees in countries neighboring
Ethiopia and elsewhere is intensifying and their condition is deteriorating. The
evidence we gathered from various sources corroborate that several refugees from
Sudan, Kenya, Punt land (Somalia), and Yemen have been living under continuous
threat and finally deported to Ethiopia, to the same repressive TPLF led
Ethiopian regime they escaped from. Few details of the reports of the conditions
of Oromo refugees AFO received in the last few days are as followsSudan
According to a letter AFO received from our reliable sources, Oromo refugees who were given refugee status and refugee ID card five years ago, are now in panic condition following their refugee status cards have been taken away and forced to deportation to Ethiopia without their willing. The UNHCR representatives in Sudan were asked on this matter and indicated that they “have entered into conflict with Sudanese authorities “because of this illegal deportation which violated international rules for refugees.” Oromo refugees living in Sudan who are subjected to deportation appealed to international community to put pressure on the Sudanese authorities to refrain from deporting Oromo refugees to the brutal regime of Ethiopia they escaped from.
Punt land
Refugees in Punt land (Somalia) also faced a similar situation. According a report by VOL, the radio program of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) broadcast of May 13, 2010, “among 40 Oromo refugees who were to be deported to Ethiopia, three Oromos have been killed by Punt land government forces, three others were severely wounded, three others have managed to escape, and all the remaining have been forcefully deported.” AFO has corroborated the authenticity of the news of VOL from independent sources.
Kenya
Oromo refugees in Kenya live under uncertain conditions. The Kenyan authorities have repeatedly deported Oromo refugees who have escaped persecution back to the Ethiopian government without their consent. In a letter AFO received from Kenya, an Oromo refugee who have been forcefully deported and tortured explains his situation as follows. “My name is Legesse Angessa. Me and some of our friends were released from prison in 2004 by the help of UN personnel and sent to Dhadhab refugee camp. While we were living in Dhadhab, I was abducted from the camp together with my friend whose name is Teklu Balcha Dhinsa, now in Kalitti prison, and deported to Ethiopia. We were transferred to several prisons and severely tortured. Finally, I managed to escape from Ethiopian prison and now I live in Kenya again. While Kenya is supposed to protect the safety of refugees, I am a living testimony that the Ethiopian intelligence and armed personnel freely move in Kenya and abduct any person without any question. I still live in fear in Kenya.”
AFO has made an intensive research on the
condition of Oromo refugees in Kenya. Several Oromo refugees have been abducted
and taken to Ethiopia on several occasions. In 2004 for example, 150 Oromo
refugees who escaped to Kenya and were living in Moyale-Kenya, have been
forcefully deported back to Ethiopia and all have been subjected to prison.
Among those subjected to prison after being deported are: 1) Adunya Dhaba, a
former student of Mekele University, 2) Legesse Abetu, a former student of
Finfinne (Addis Ababa) university, 3) Teshale Tesfaye, a former student of
Finfinne University.
The year 2005 was one of the times in which deporting Oromo refugees to back
to Ethiopia have been intensified. For example among those deported in 2005 the
following are known to be in one of hidden prisons of Ethiopia. 1) Mr. Liiban
Jaarsoo, age 40, 2) Mr. Olqabaa Lataa, age 50, and, 3) Amansiisaa Guutaa, a
former student of Finfinne University.In 2007 two Oromo refugees Tesfahun Chemeda and Mesfin Abebe were abducted from Nairobi, Kenya, and deported to Ethiopia. Both of them were legal refugees registered by UNHCR in Kenya. Their whereabouts remained unknown until October 2008 during which they were taken to Ethiopian court. They were convicted by the the Ethiopian Kangaroo court on March 31, 2010 together with 13 other Oromo civilians by fabricated charges of having relations with the OLF. Mesfin Abdissa is convicted to death and Tesfahun Chemeda is convicted to life.
Reports of the suffering of Oromo refugees
reaching AFO from several parts of the world such as Yemen, Malta, Japan,
Djibouti, etc are similar. Oromo refugees are terrorized from many parts of the
world, and in many instances are forced to return to Ethiopia. UNHCR seems
unable or in some cases unwilling to rescue them. It should be underscored that
the reason for leaving their country is repression, imprisonment, harassment,
torture, and fear of widespread unlawful and arbitrary killing which has been
extensively reported by human rights organizations such as Amnesty
International, Human Rights Watch, U.S. State department human rights report
among others. And yet, international organizations particularly UNHCR chose to
be silent when Oromo refugess are dehumanized and deported to the dictatorial
and brutal regime they escaped from. AFO would like to emphasize that neglecting
the suffering of these Oromo refugees is the same as collaborating with the
reppressive brutal regime in Ethiopia.
Sincerely,Advocacy for Oromia (AFO)
E-mail: advocacyfororomia@gamail.com
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