State Senators Inform Public About Illegal Immigration.
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North Charleston, SC - Some Lowcountry lawmakers are taking up the illegal immigration battle and trying to make some changes at the state level.
State senators are holding a public hearing to inform citizens about the bill they are trying to push.
The bill would attempt to prevent employers from hiring illegal immigrants. Lawmakers say they hope this bill will give the jobs back to the citizens.
The Illegal Immigration Reform Act would penalize people who hire illegal immigrants.
One of the bill’s sponsors, Senator Randy Scott of Summerville, is pushing the bill which he says is a step in the right direction.
“This bill actually came about because people of South Carolina are just fed up with illegal immigrants and it’s time to do something about it,” Scott said.
This “something” would not allow state and local governments to contract with businesses that employ illegal immigrants and would allow local governments to detain illegal immigrants and hit the federal government with the bill.
From ABC News 4 in Charleston:
“If you hire somebody, go ahead and be sure that he is legal. [Make sure he/she’s] not an illegal alien standing out on the corner, or 15 or 20 of them, who jump in the back of a truck, work and you pay them cash. That’s over with,” Scott explained.
Senator Chip Campsen of Isle of Palms is also sponsoring the bill and attended the public hearing where he and Sen. Scott hope to get the word out about trying to do something about the problem. A problem some say the federal government has swept under the rug.
The bill, which was introduced in April, and passed in the State Senate and is now sitting in the House Judiciary Committee.
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Thank you Senator Campsen for supporting illegal immigration reform at the state level as well as for supporting Senator McConnell in his bid to bring about a National Constitutional Conveniton to deal with the issue. Illegal immigration costs South Carolina an estimated 186 million dollars annually according to FAIR.
That said, I am also spearheading a push for a National Constitutional Convention whose ultimate aim will be AUTONOMOUS REGIONAL GOVERNMENT. Specifically, amendments would be proposed that dismantle the federal government in its present configuration, and then reassemble it at the regional level. In essence, 10(# flexible) independent republics would be created on American soil(state borders intact), EACH HAVING THE CONSTITUTION AND BILL OF RIGHTS AS THE BASIS OF THEIR NEW GOVERNMENTS. Liken this to the breakup of AT&T into the baby bells some years back. This action has become necessary to diffuse the power of the largely self-serving globalist oligarchy which has hijacked our federal government, bringing this nation to the verge of economic and social ruin, while GREATLY compromising our national security. It should also be pointed out that unfunded FEDERAL mandates currently eat up approximately 7% of the annual South Carolina budget.
See link below for more info:
Thinking small yields small results. Thinking big can bring about GRAND results.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NationalConstitutionalConvention06
i am against illegal immigrants because our government are giving these people benefits that social security does not hestiate to deny american citizens they have denied me benefits four time now yet illegal women come here have babies and given all kind of benefits that help the whole family ssi suppose to be for people with disablity, over 65 or blind these illegals are young healthy women and they children should be finacially supported by they fathers not the us government. thank you