[url=http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1126azimmigration-ON.html]2 out of 3 new Ariz. residents are immigrants[/url]

Associated Press
Nov. 26, 2002 11:05 AM
WASHINGTON - An estimated 130,000 immigrants settled in Arizona since 2000, accounting for two-thirds of the state's growth, but the new residents are likely to live in poverty and lack adequate education and health insurance, a new study says.

[red]Fifty-eight percent[/red] of Arizona's immigrants and their U.S.-born children live in or near poverty, compared to 28 percent of the state's native population and are nearly [red]four times[/red] as likely not to have a high school diploma.

They are [red]two-and-a-half times[/red] as likely to lack health insurance and [red]22 percent[/red] benefit from some sort of government welfare program, compared to 13 percent of native households, according to the analysis of unpublished Census data by the Center for Immigration Studies, a nonprofit group that supports some limits on foreign immigration.
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[red]Local officials and Arizona's congressional delegation have complained the federal government is not doing enough to help pay for services for immigrants. Arizona's border counties have to absorb $31 million annually in uncompensated emergency medical care,[/red] according to a recent report by the U.S.-Mexico Border Counties Coalition.

Another national study by the Urban Institute released Tuesday found that children of immigrants are more likely to live in two-parent families and in poverty than children of parents born in this country.

The Center for Immigration Studies report also indicated that the [red]immigrant influx remained steady since 2000, despite a weak economy.[/red]

Rex said it takes a surprisingly long time for a recession to register in migration statistics, although he anticipates that immigration to Arizona will slow.

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But until then... [b]CLOSE THE F@CKING BORDER!!![/b]


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Immigrants come for the welfare.  Welfare is propagated by the current Republican administration.  Yet you blame Libertarians for the problem?  Whatever.

On the first day of the 104th Congress, the new Republican majority will immediately pass the following major reforms, aimed at restoring the faith and trust of the American people in their government:

First, require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply equally to the Congress;

Second, select a major independent auditing firm to conduct a comprehensive audit of Congress for waste, fraud, or abuse;

Third, cut the number of House committees, and cut committee staff by one-third;

Fourth, limit the terms of all committee chairs;

Fifth, ban the casting of proxy votes in committee;

Sixth, require committee meetings to be open to the public;

Seventh, require a three-fifths majority vote to pass a tax increase;

Eighth, guarantee an honest accounting of our federal budget by implementing zero baseline budgeting.

1. THE FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY ACT: A balanced budget/tax limitation amendment and a legislative line-item veto to restore fiscal responsibility to an out- of-control Congress. (Ruled unconstitutional by SCOTUS)

2. THE TAKING BACK OUR STREETS ACT: An anti-crime package including stronger truth-in- sentencing, "good faith" exclusionary rule exemptions, effective death penalty provisions, and cuts in social spending from this summer's "crime" bill to fund prison construction and additional law enforcement to keep people secure in their neighborhoods and kids safe in their
schools.

3. THE PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY ACT: Discourage illegitimacy and teen pregnancy by prohibiting welfare to minor mothers and denying increased AFDC for additional children while on welfare, cut spending for welfare programs, and enact a
tough two-years-and-out provision with work requirements to promote individual responsibility.

4. THE FAMILY REINFORCEMENT ACT: Child support enforcement, tax incentives for adoption, strengthening rights of parents in their children's education, stronger child pornography laws, and an elderly dependent care tax credit to reinforce the central role of families in American society.

5. THE AMERICAN DREAM RESTORATION ACT: A S500 per child tax credit, begin repeal of the marriage tax penalty, and creation of American Dream Savings Accounts to provide middle class tax relief.

6. THE NATIONAL SECURITY RESTORATION ACT: No U.S. troops under U.N. command and restoration of the essential parts of our national security funding to strengthen our national defense and maintain our credibility around the world.

7. THE SENIOR CITIZENS FAIRNESS ACT: Raise the Social Security earnings limit which currently forces seniors out of the work force, repeal the 1993 tax hikes on Social Security benefits and provide tax incentives for private long-term care insurance to let Older Americans keep more of what they have earned over the years.

8. THE JOB CREATION AND WAGE ENHANCEMENT ACT: Small business incentives, capital gains cut and
indexation, neutral cost recovery, risk assessment/cost-benefit analysis, strengthening the Regulatory Flexibility Act and unfunded mandate reform to create jobs and raise worker wages.

9. THE COMMON SENSE LEGAL REFORM ACT: "Loser pays" laws, reasonable limits on punitive damages and reform of product liability laws to stem the endless tide of litigation.

10. THE CITIZEN LEGISLATURE ACT: A first-ever vote on term limits to replace career politicians with citizen legislators.