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Open records request Carroll County, E-Verify MOU – Re: OCGA 13-10-91
Sent Saturday, AM, Oct. 22, 2022.
Ms. Hyde,.
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“13-10-91. Verification of new employee eligibility; applicability; rules and regulations.
Why Are the Charities Enabling Illegal Immigration Still Tax-Exempt?
A 501(c)(3) designation isn’t a license to break the law.
As the extent of America’s illegal immigration problem under President Biden has become clearer, so has the role played by many of the country’s best-known nonprofits, including Catholic Charities, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, the Red Cross, and United Way. While ostensibly funded to help overwhelmed personnel at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) process the influx of self-declared asylum seekers, these and scores of lesser-known charities have instead worked to increase the number of illegal border-crossers dramatically.
We now know, for example, that as far back as 2019 the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was using the messaging service WhatsApp to update Central American migrants on the safest routes through Mexico to the U.S., the best places to obtain food and water, and how to contact their families. The ICRC was also identifying shelters and help centers along the way to the southern border.
More recently, it has been revealed that few of the charities funded to help legally screened migrants reach their desired destinations in the U.S. ever bother to determine whether the people they transport have actually been processed. “Let’s face it,” said former Department of Homeland Security advisor Charles Marino, “they [the nonprofits] help whoever they encounter. And that includes those that are gotaways, where there are no records of them with CBP [Customs and Border Protection] at all.”
By March 2023, even the Department of Homeland Security had to admit that many of its nonprofit subcontractors were giving just as much assistance to illegal immigrants as they were to those who had been vetted at the border. Two months later, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer of Kentucky, Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs Chairman Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin, and Rep. Jake LaTurner of Kansas jointly condemned the degree to which taxpayer funded charities had become responsible for so many “overwhelmed American communities, from Yuma and El Paso to Martha’s Vineyard and New York City.”
To be clear, there is no problem with any nonprofit expressing sympathy for foreign nationals who want to come to the U.S. or for policies which would help them realize their desire. Under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, which clarifies what tax-exempt organizations are legally permitted to do, educating the public on the pros and cons of almost any policy is considered a legitimate activity, no matter which side of the argument the nonprofit itself comes down on.
Nor, interestingly, does the U.S. tax code prevent a nonprofit from violating the laws of another nation. It has long been recognized that a charity which seeks, say, to care for children in a war-torn or impoverished country might have to bribe certain officials in order to fulfill its mission.
At the same time, there is no special exemption which allows an employee of an American tax-exempt organization willfully to ignore his own country’s laws, as increasing numbers have been doing since Biden’s election. This is true no matter how well-intentioned that nonprofit staffer might imagine himself to be. Or even if, as appears to be the case, that staffer has been collaborating with other nonprofit workers who share the same progressive justification for their illicit behavior—namely, that an open border compensates foreigners whose ancestors were once oppressed by American colonialism.
There is also nothing in the tax code which grants charities the right to perform what they believe to be a humanitarian service, if by doing so they inflict serious pain or loss on third parties who have not agreed to the sacrifice. Much has already been written about the drug smuggling, human trafficking, and crime which accompany the current migrant influx, but this is only part of the unwanted suffering American citizens are being forced to endure.
According to a January 11 report to the Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee, the net cost of assimilating the average illegal immigrant—welfare, education, and medical care minus whatever he or she may ultimately give back in taxes—is $68,390. Multiply that number by just the 1.7 million gotaways known to have entered the country during Biden’s presidency, plus the 2.7 million “inadmissible aliens” who have nevertheless been released over the same period, and the fiscal burden on U.S. taxpayers is over $300 billion. Adjust further for ICE’s estimate of all gotaways, and the country’s involuntarily assumed liability (at a time when both Social Security and Medicare desperately need more funding) jumps to half a trillion.
If the U.S. government cannot bring itself to stop charities from subverting immigration law, it should at least provide citizens with a clear enough picture of what is really happening at the border to make better informed decisions about their personal giving. As Mike Howell, director of the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project, has observed, “A lot of people who donate to these organizations don’t full well know what their money’s going towards.” Many “do a lot of good in certain places,” he adds, “but this is a big bad.”
And yet the Biden administration has gone out of its way to keep such information as hidden from the public as possible. According to Howell, the billions which the charities facilitating illegal immigration get from Washington are filtered through so many federal agencies that an accurate accounting of what each does and how much it spends is almost impossible. Indeed, says Marino, it’s difficult to know even how many are operating along the southwest border.
* The role of nonprofits in fostering illegal immigration is further obscured by channeling their funding through various United Nations agencies under the guise of “foreign aid.” The latest of these UN-camouflaged schemes, as reported by Center for Immigration Studies, aims to “dole out $1.6 billion in cash, debit cards, food, clothing, medical treatment, shelter, and [transportation]” to millions of U.S.-bound immigrants in 2024 alone.
It is only because of the IRS requirement that all tax-exempt groups make public their annual income statements that we have any idea of the extent to which many have become a part of what the Heritage Foundation’s Lora Ries has dubbed the “illegal immigration industrial complex.” A recent analysis… please read the entire essay here.
GA state Senator Mike Hodges (R- Brunswick) on illegal immigration – Scott Ryfun radio show, April 16, 2024 Transcription & audio SB 354
Transcription by Rev.com my cost: $12.00 and about 1.5 hours of my time.
In progress…
Scott Ryfun:
Yeah.
Sen Mike Hodges
… not out of the swamp and, you know, we don’t wanna, we don’t wanna hurt most people either, so, so I think there’s, there’s a solution. I think it’s gonna require a lot of work between a lot of different individuals and organizations and I’ve already started, and there are a number of folks in, in the Senate and the House that feel the same way.
And I’ll tell you one good thing about the political pressure from the population at large about the swamp is that it, it brings, it puts the question on the table, it, it, it, it brings people to the table to try to solve it before, um, the legislature just steps up and says, “Look, this is the way we’re gonna do it.”
Scott Ryfun:
Yeah. Give, give, gives, uh, the unelected people a chance to do something first, that’s true.
Sen Mike Hodges
Well, ih- ih- yeah.
Scott Ryfun:
Yeah. Uh, the, eh- the, the us, we, us guys on the street, basically.
—>Um, as far as your term in office so far, wh- were you, were you surprised at how big an issue in the last year illegal immigration has become?
Sen Mike Hodges
Yes and no. Um-
Scott Ryfun:
(laughs) Okay.
Sen Mike Hodges
… I’m, I’m, I mean, well, um, I’ve always, I mean, you know, we’ve only, we’ve got finite resources-
Scott Ryfun:
Yeah.
Sen Mike Hodges
… in the State of Georgia, we got finite resources in the country and, you know, we’ve gotta take care of our folks. Um, wh- what I’ve been surprised at is the vehemence and the, the vehemence of, of, of, um, some folks and the, um, the charges, if you will, of, um, bad behavior by a lotta people in the business community, um, and, um, you know, I’m, I’m there every day. Uh, I’m, I’m in the legislature every day. I’m part of discussions of bills and I never hear anybody say, “Hey, let’s do this this way and we can get free labor.” I mean, I don’t, I don’t hear that. I hear more people saying, “You know”-
Scott Ryfun:
Mm-hmm.
Sen Mike Hodges
… “We need to do something. We need to do something to make illegal aliens less desirable, uh, in tor- Georg- or to make Georgia less desirable for illegal aliens.” I hear a lot more of that than I do, um, um, um, the other side of the argument. So I think there’s, um, I think that there is, um, an effort, you know, to try to, um, to try to deal with that. Um, um, I know that, that it is a single-issue for a number of people.
Scott Ryfun:
Yeah.
Sen Mike Hodges
It is [inaudible 00:03:03] a very important issue but one of a number of important issues for other folks.
Scott Ryfun:
Sure.
Sen Mike Hodges
If that makes sense.
Scott Ryfun:
It does. It does. Um, with regards to your, your time up in Atlanta this year, this session, what are you, what are you happiest about as far as what took place up there and what you’ve helped take place and what are your biggest disappointments out of this session?
Sen Mike Hodges
Well, um, uh, the, this, this past two years I’ve been, um, I’ve been honored to, um, be, uh, one of two Senator leaders for Governor Kemp and I’ve helped pass some legislation of last year and this year, uh, some anti-human trafficking legislation. And, you know, I, I’ve, I’m gonna tell you, I didn’t realize that human trafficking was the problem that it is. You’d think in 2024 we wouldn’t have what amounts to slavery, but we do and, um, I’ve been able to pass two bills, one last year and one this year, to try to help stem human trafficking.
Um, I have, um, sh- I have been able to do some, uh, healthcare legislation, uh, both, um, as the governor’s fore leader, Terry and the governor’s, uh, bills and also, um, some of my own. I’ve gotten, I’m on the Health and Human Services Committee. I’ve gotten involved in, um, with the, um, mental health, um, um, mental healthcare issues and, and, um, and with some issues that I’m familiar with through my service with the hospital, the nursing shortage and healthcare issues. And I’ve been able to pass or get passed legislation that, um, that h- this year, that helps, um, provide more mental healthcare workers and substance abuse counselors and under-served areas of the state. And last year I was able to do the same thing with, um, nursing, uh, t- to help, um, put more nurses, um, out in the economy-
Scott Ryfun:
Yeah.
Sen Mike Hodges
… um, by providing more nurse teachers to get the, the classroom size higher and get the turnout of professional nurses.
But, so, I mean, my, you know, healthcare has been a big deal to me, um, uh, human trafficking, uh, public safety, if you will, has been a big deal. And, um, the, as far as things that we’ve, like this year we didn’t get a couple of things done that I wanted to get done. I, we have a big-time disparity in the way we pay our judges across the, uh, state and, um, I hope that we could-….
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Chicago Public Health Dept ‘Measles Dashboard’: 57 identified illegal alien measles cases
“The recent outbreaks of measles are from the illegal alien community, which has spiked in cities like Chicago in 2024.”
Chicago City Wire
April 8, 2024
The City of Chicago Public Health Department says it has identified 57 “confirmed cases” of measles brought to Chicago by illegal aliens, now living in shelters across the city.
In a weekly “Measles Update,” the department said “the majority” of cases are from an illegal alien shelter in Pilsen, on Halsted Street.
The dashboard reported that 33 of the measles cases are children 0-4 years old, seven are children 5-17 years old, 16 are adults 18-49 years old and one is an adult over 50 years old.
It also reported public “exposure locations” where illegal aliens with measles were confirmed to have been.
They include the Halsted #8 CTA Bus on March 4, March 5 and March 11, The CTA Orange Line on March 22, Pace Bus 379 between Midway Airport and Orland Park on March 22, the Walmart Supercenter in Bedford Park on March 22, The Cook County Health Professional Building on Polk & Damen on March 7, Midwest Express Clinic on Damen on March 23, Hubbard High School on March 18 and March 19, Peter Cooper Elementary Dual Language Academy on March 6, and Armour Elementary School on March 4 and March 5.
According to the CDC, there were at total of 113 active measles cases reported nationally as of April 4, 2024. Last April, there was one case reported.
Measles was officially eliminated from the U.S. in 2000, meaning “doesn’t continuously spread within the country for more than 12 months at a time and new cases are only found when someone contracts measles abroad and returns to the country,” according to the CDC. The recent outbreaks of measles are from the illegal alien community, which has spiked in cities like Chicago in 2024.
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