The state is literally BORROWING AWAY its future, and yet the Globe is promoting STATE AID for ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS!!!!
Meanwhile, WE HAVE SCHOOLS CLOSING and BRIDGES FALLING APART!!
As a taxpayer, I AM OFFENDED!!!!
"Welcomed, wearily; Illinois offered aid to immigrants. Budgets intervened." by Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff | August 13, 2008
MELROSE PARK, Ill. - In a yellow-brick building by the railroad tracks, the Illinois Welcoming Center is the crown jewel of a broad state initiative to help immigrants blend into mainstream America.
Yet the center is also an example of the initiative's disappointments.
Illinois's ambitious effort to lend immigrants a hand as they navigate their new homeland is being held up as a model for Massachusetts, but it has fallen far short of its expectations because of lack of state money. Now Illinois's program also stands as a warning as Massachusetts embarks on its own effort this year - with a billion-dollar deficit looming.
As if this state needed ANY MORE DEBT!!!!
Two years ago, Illinois vowed to aggressively aid immigrants by providing welcoming centers across the state, a massive expansion of English language classes, and more help for immigrants applying for US citizenship.
But FUCK YOU, American people!
But today only one welcoming center is open and no new ones are planned; Illinois has $300,000 to expand English classes, not the recommended $25 million; and a citizenship program has helped less than 10 percent of those who are eligible to apply.
Illinois officials and community leaders said Massachusetts and other states are still right to follow their lead despite the challenges. They say it sets a tone that immigrants are welcome at a time when other states are focused mainly on driving illegal immigrants away.
That is AFTER the TURN-IN, and believe me, the BG KEEPS the ILLEGAL part QUIET!!
That is what is so enraging; I don't care about immigrants if it were not part of the New World Order plan for ECONOMIC INTEGRATION!
That's why the rich and powerful are FOR ILLEGALS!!!!
Illinois had to cut more than $1 billion from its own budget this year.
"Our state government is in really bad shape right now. It affects everything, not just the immigrant initiative," said Ngoan Le, who cochaired a key panel in Illinois that drafted the recommendations. "At least there's a clear agenda that we can rally around."
Yeah, WE KNOW what AGENDA that is, too!!
Last month, Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts rolled out a similar integration initiative. At a naturalization ceremony in Faneuil Hall, he told immigrants to applause that the Bay State stands ready to "help your dreams come true." Like Illinois did, Massachusetts officials and community leaders will study immigrants' needs and draft policy initiatives by July 2009.
Readers and Mass. residents:
The STATE cares MORE about ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS than YOU!!!!!!!
"It's important for everyone to be upfront that there's not likely to be any funding for these initiatives anytime soon," said Michael Widmer, president of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation.
Man, this pro-business, pro-tax guy makes it into nearly every Globe piece!
And he is IN FAVOR of the TAXPAYER-FUNDED programs for ILLEGALS!!!!
Looks like we will be BORROWING THAT $$$, too!!!!
Illinois and Massachusetts officials said they were confident that funding for programs would increase when the economy improves. Or, Massachusetts officials said, they could seek private funding.
With fingers crossed, no doubt!
"Everybody now is hurting for money. That doesn't mean that crafting recommendations and policy isn't productive," said Marcia Hohn, who is on the governor's advisory council that will help oversee the hearings. "I don't see things magically happening, but I think it's laying a good solid foundation for the future."
And ADVANCING that GLOBALIST AGENDA!!!!
In Illinois, officials and community advocates said the demand for services is significant.
Since the Illinois Welcoming Center opened a year ago in Melrose Park, 1,700 people have poured through the glass door on an unobtrusive street in this village of 23,000. The turnout is more than state officials had expected - but far less than the state's nearly 1.8 million immigrants - so officials are now hosting "welcoming days" in other cities to spread around the resources. The center is a one-stop shop where immigrants can apply for state services, get help solving problems, and sign up for English and citizenship classes and an array of other services.
Do YOU get that, American citizen?
After all, these programs are being funded with YOUR TAX MONEY!!!!!!!
I wasn't even eligible for college loans; I had to PAY FOR IT ALL MYSELF!!!!
A visit to the center one day last month revealed the bewilderment that hits immigrants when they venture outside their enclaves. Immigrants shop easily at nearby stores such as Supermercado Torres and Video Puebla. But at the welcoming center, they needed help applying for health insurance, fighting charges on a telephone bill, or battling depression.
Awww, yeah, the POOR ILLEGALS!!!
Never mind the CRIME and DRUGS they bring!!!
After all, it is not like the illegals are gang members, rapists or CHILD rapists, etc.
Also see: The Hard-Working Mexican Immigrant
Yeah, they just hard-working folk looking to put food on the table.
And look at the DRAIN on RESOURCES!!!
Juana Solis, a 27-year-old immigrant from Mexico, sat on a cushioned sofa in the lobby and applied for state-funded health insurance for her year-old daughter, who needs vaccines Solis cannot afford. She had no idea that state-funded insurance was available and had planned to pay for the vaccines if the girl got sick and had to go to the emergency room.
"It's so complicated," the housewife and harried mother of two said, speaking in Spanish. "There are lots of services you don't know exist and you don't know how to take advantage of them."
Yeah, TELL ME ABOUT IT!!!!
Inside, tucked into a conference room, a half-dozen women battling depression gathered for a book club. Each felt alone - far from her extended family in Mexico - and all were struggling to deal with deaths, divorce, or raising their children.
"Sometimes you feel like you're drowning," said Rosario Martínez, 39, who recently separated from her husband, as she sat around a cozy table at the book club. "You come here and you feel better."
When 36-year-old Adriana Tafolla arrived at the center last year, she was deeply depressed because several relatives had died. A friend had referred her to the center, which sent her to a therapist and invited her to attend book club every week. Now she is the most bubbly person in the room - and is in charge of organizing the group.
"I would never have done it on my own," she said.
Some in Illinois are critical of state funding for the Welcoming Center and other programs because they serve illegal immigrants as well as those here legally.
Yeah, NOTICE how the fucking AGENDA-PUSHING Boston Globe keeps that QUIET as they PULL ON YOUR HEART STRINGS?!
So, WHEN are they going to start caring about AMERICAN CITIZENS, huh?
The Illinois All Kids program is open to all children, and the state allows illegal immigrant children to pay in-state tuition at state colleges and universities.
And I NEVER GOT a BREAK!!!!!!!
"Why should Americans have to pay for that?" said Rosanna Pulido, the descendant of Mexican immigrants and founder of the Illinois Minuteman Project, which opposes illegal immigration. "If I have tax dollars going anywhere, it's going to be for seniors and veterans who built this country."
Yeah, the ANTI-ILLEGAL, ANTI-New World Order crowd gets ONE PARAGRAOH from the AGENDA-PUSHING BASTARDS!!!!
But others say this can help the state economically.
Yup, KKEP on SHOVING that SHIT, BG!
Oh, and HERE is where the ILLEGALS $$$ is going, America!
So it ain't even staying in country!!!!
Which means IT AIN'T HELPING OUR ECONOMY -- other than LOWERING LABOR COSTS for RICH FUCKS and tossing Americans out of work!!!
Just type in "immigration" to my blog search and see what comes up.
And advocates and state officials credit foreigners for driving labor force growth, building businesses, and buying houses.
Yeah, I just covered that: the ILLEGALS are NOT BUYING the HOUSE HERE!!!!
The BULLSHIT SHOVELING on this particular issue is GALLING and INSULTING, isn't it, readers?
"We are doing what other states are going to have to be doing one day," said José Luis Gutiérrez, director of the state's Office of New Americans. "We are getting ahead."
Yeah, at the EXPENSE of Americans, asshole!!!!!!!!!
Oh, by the way, here is MORE TAX DOLLARS to help the ILLEGALS!!!
Immigrants whose applications for US citizenship or legal residency languished for years because of delays with FBI background checks should wait no longer than a year by November, a top federal immigration official said yesterday.
By next June, 98 percent of new background checks should be finished in 30 days, and the remaining 2 percent will take no more than 90 days, Jonathan Scharfen, acting director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services, told 100 advocates for immigrants and state and federal workers during a visit to Boston.
A federal audit in June found that since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks thousands of immigrants were waiting years for a decision on their applications in part because the FBI was relying on outdated technology and poorly trained workers.
Then HOW COME no "terrorists" slipped through, huh?
He acknowledged an audience member's concern that federal officers are still taking several years to decide a case even after the FBI check is completed.
"The experience you just described should not be happening," he said. Once the FBI check is completed, he said, the immigration officer should "make a decision, one way or the other."
He said the agency is also improving processing times for citizenship and helping hundreds of local organizations prepare immigrants for a new US citizenship test in October.
With YOUR TAX DOLLARS, no doubt, America!!!!
Advocates for immigrants at the meeting praised the progress the agency has made, but cautioned that immigrants are still struggling to pay the fee hikes imposed last summer, prepare for the new citizenship test, and navigate the complex process to apply for legal residency and citizenship.
Getting all this help (taxpayer $$$$) and the ungrateful illegals are still griping!
"My impression truly is that they are trying to do the best that they can do," said Heloisa Galvão, a cofounder of the Brazilian Women's Group, based in Allston. But she added that it is important for federal officials to understand how difficult the process is for immigrants.
"If they're really interested in people becoming citizens they should make the process easier," she said.
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Yeah, make it even easier for them.
Look, I don't want ANYONE SUFFERING; however, when TRILLIONS are going for WARS, BILLIONS for BANKS and ISRAEL, the rest of the money we have is going to be spent on ILLEGALS?!
Sorry, but there is SOMETHING WRONG about that to hard-working, tax-paying Americans!!!!
