Antonio Villaraigosa's representation of American citizens takes a back seat to his representation of illigal immigrants.
Here are just a few of the many anti-assimilation bills sponsored by the Latino Caucus which Villaraigosa is in full accord with. These bills by their very nature are for the benefit of the mostly undocumented and are designed to encourage yet more massive illegal immigration to California and Los Angeles.
AB 60 (Cedillo) Driver's Licenses for Specific Immigrant Categories Modifies California Drivers License requirements by allowing immigrants who are in the process of applying for "legal status" and who have obtained a taxpayer identification number (not a social security number that only a legal resident can obtain), the ability to apply for a California Driver's License.
A previous mantra chanted by California Senator Hilda Solis was that there was need to grant licenses to "foreigners," because Japanese business men in the U.S. on business had to wait too long to get a California license and it hurt American/Japanese commerce. When I checked with the DMV, they told me that any foreigner can legally drive in California as long as they have a valid driver's license from thier own country. As liberal as the California legislature is, they were smart enough not to buy into Solis's true agenda -- to legalize illegals.
After the Solis bill attempt blew, Cedillo tried his hand at it. Governor Davis reluctantly vetoed Cedillo's original driver's license bill AB 1473, rubber stamped by Villaraigosa, which would have allowed any illegal alien to obtain a driver's license. This "watered down" version (AB1463) is a smoke screen to cover the actual intent -- to allow all illegal aliens to obtain a drivers licenses.
Both Gilbert Cedillo's and Antonio Villaraigosa's principal argument for issuing California driver's licenses to illegal aliens, ostensively, is that it will make our roads safer because they (illegals) would be trained to drive safely and would be able to buy insurance. The intent of Cedillo to issue driver's licenses to illegals, is because he doesn't want illegals to leave California.
But society must assume that anyone who would break the law and drive without a license to begin with, would continue to break driving and other laws even if they were licensed and most would not be safer drivers anyway. It's one thing to look the other way about the presence of people who have broken our immigration laws, but issuing drivers licenses to them legitimizes their illegal presence -- it creates the oxymoron that it is legal to be illegal -- and it sends the message that our immigration laws are meaningless. Moreover, it is laughable to think that illegal aliens are going to run out and buy car insurance. The sales of fraudulent "proof of insurance" documents is now a top seller to illegals.
Villaraigosa favors giving illegal aliens driver's licenses because he knows that it would make it harder to detect illegals and make enforcement of our immigration laws even more difficult. It also "throws in the towel" and sends the wrong message to law breakers that they can change the law simply by breaking the law.
This bill makes it seem as if the license applicant must go through painstaking red-tape to acquire a taxpayer identification number. Actually, illegals who routinely file tax returns using false SS numbers in order to get their tax refunds end up receiving taxpayer identification numbers effortlessly.They need not fear being discoverd using a false SS number because, incredibly, the IRS, does not report the illegals to the INS, but upon discovering the false numbers, automatically accomodates the Illegals by issuing them tax payer ID numbers. Villaraigosa knows that almost all illegals who have been working in the U.S. for at least one tax season, already have a taxpayer identification number.
He also knows full well that any person can easily obtain a false INS acknowledgment of receipt of the I130 document (petition to sponsor an alien to immigrate to the U.S.). The INS acknowledgment is not an approval -- it's just an acknowledgment which the DMV will accept as "proof " that legal status is pending. Villaraigosa also knows that the California DMV already has a license issuing policy that applies to immigrants in process. It works like this: The license applicant goes down to the Social Security office and tells them that they are an immigrant with papers pending. They must show proof of process pending which is verified by the SS office. Using the INS "Notice of Action" receipt number,. the SS office then gives the alien a letter to be presented to the DMV stating that the applicant is not eligible for a Social Security number, but is in fact waiting for papers. The DMV will then issue a drivers license using the INS "Notice of Action" receipt number for identificaiton.
Villaraigosa also knows that one of the main reasons that California wants to have social security numbers as a requirement for a driver's license, is to track dead-beat dads. If the SS requirement is repealed, it will make it difficult to find those irresponsible fathers. But to Villaraigosa, this matters little.
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AB 873 (Villaraigosa) Social services programs: Legal Immigrants This bill would indefinitely extend current programs which require the State Department of Social Services to establish a Food Assistance Program for certain immigrants residing in this state and provide cash assistance to aged, blind, and disabled legal immigrants who are non citizens. Adds Social Services eligibility to immigrants who arrived after 8/22/98.
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AB 2417 (Firebaugh) Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants (CAPI) and California Food Assistance Program (CFAP) Deletes the sunset dates in the California Food Assistance Program (CFAP) and the Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants (CAPI) to make both programs available to eligible immigrants, regardless of date of entry.
Villaraigosa knows that these seemingly innocent bills encourage "chain" immigration and would present a high tax burden to the already overtaxed citizens and legal aliens of California. Under present immigration law, legal immigrants can petition for relatives. Non citizens who are legally in the U.S. can petition for immediate family members such as parents and children, while immigrants who have become U.S. citizens can even petition for siblings of any age. Those family members can in turn petition for other family members and so on (chain immigration), and except for certain contagious maladies, disabilities such as blindness do not disqualify the the relative. After the parents get their papers, they in turn can petition for other sons or daughters. After those sons or daughters get their papers they can petition for even more family members and so on. Chain immigration's noble purpose is to unite families, but under present immigration law, petitioners (called sponsors) must guarantee that the newly arrived immigrants will not be a government tax burden (I know, because ten years ago, I petitioned my Mexican fiance who is now my U.S. citizen wife). What these bills will do, is remove the financial burden from the petitioner and transfer it to the American tax payer.
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SB 269 (Ortiz) Public Health Act of 1999 This bill would enact the "Public Health Improvement Act of 1999," which would increase the basic funding allotment to $100,000 per local health jurisdiction or $0.60 per capita, whichever is greater. The number of infectious diseases newly emerging or reemerging in California has increased sharply in just the past few years. The intent of this bill is to strengthen and enhance local population-based prevention services in California to provide for communicable disease control and community health surveillance activities.
This bill is primarily designed for disease afflicted illegal immigrants.
Anyone who immigrates legally from another country to the U.S., must undergo two medical examinations -- one for obtaining an immigration visa (not a tourist visa) in the country he/she is leaving, by a doctor who is authorized by the U.S. consulate in that country, and again in the U.S. after arriving to satisfy the INS. Each of these examinations include tests for communicable diseases such as tuberculosis. If in the first test, the would-be immigrant has a positive result to any test, they don't get a visa. I'm not sure what action the INS would take if, in the unlikely event the second test showed positive (I do know from what my father and mother who arrived separately at Ellis Island in the '30s told me: that immigrants would be immediately deported just for having bad teeth).
Having said the above, it becomes apparent that the importation of newly emerging communicable diseases is a problem of illegal immigration. This bill, like most legislation approved of by Villaraigosa is indicative of his almost exclusive representation of illegal immigrants, while putting Americans at the end of the line.
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