Rep. Davis hosts roundtable on illegal immigration

“If there weren't jobs here, they wouldn't be coming here”

About 30 federal and local law enforcement officials tried to understand each others' responsibilities - while also airing frustrations - about dealing with illegal immigration during a roundtable talk on ... via Times-News Online

[BradleyCounty]

How fortunate for the citizens of Hamblen County that Rep. Davis has chosen to speak up to protect their area. Illegal Immigration is destroying Tennessee and many areas are no longer safe to live and raise families due to the illegal aliens overtaking so many homes and apartments. Housing ordinances are not being enforced and many lower income and elderly have no option to just move away. Nashville, Morristown, Chattanooga, Cleveland, Athens, and on and on are being destroyed by the large number of illegal aliens flooding in.

Write, email or call Rep. Davis and say thank you. Vote against anyone who will not address this issue. Make sure you ask them their views on illegal immigration. Ask your friends and family to do the same.

[Morristown Resident]

In Hamblen/Morristown it seems like our elected officials have turned an blind eye to the illegal immigration problem except for Mel Tucker. He is trying but is having his hands tied by the others. I went to the council about the occupancy codes in Morristown and they passed a loose code that allows 24-25 people in a 2400 square foot house. We should get us some people with more common sense and make codes that are sensible. Define what a bedroom is not use the square footage of a house. Common sense says you don't use a bathroom, front room, dinning room and etc.

We need some new elected officials.

[She Be Me]

Pass E-Verify NATION WIDE!

NO jobs NO Illegals.

[white boy]

E-Verify

E-Verify (formerly known as the Basic Pilot/Employment Eligibility Verification Program) is an Internet-based system operated by the Department of Homeland Security in partnership with the Social Security Administration that allows participating employers to electronically verify the employment eligibility of their newly hired employees.

E-Verify is free and voluntary and is the best means available for determining employment eligibility of new hires and the validity of their Social Security Numbers.

What is to pass about this? But this is what E-Verify is...

[She Be Me]

white boy wrote:

E-Verify
E-Verify (formerly known as the Basic Pilot/Employment Eligibility Verification Program) is an Internet-based system operated by the Department of Homeland Security in partnership with the Social Security Administration that allows participating employers to electronically verify the employment eligibility of their newly hired employees.
E-Verify is free and voluntary and is the best means available for determining employment eligibility of new hires and the validity of their Social Security Numbers.
What is to pass about this? But this is what E-Verify is...

If all States mandated that all companies/employers use E-Verify for all employees, those already hired and new hires Illegal Aliens would not have access to jobs in the United States.

[white boy]

I understand She Be Me. All I was pointing out is that the tools are out there but who are using them. I thought there were laws in place already about who one could hire. If one piles on other laws, the one hiring will continue to break them anyway. Like roaches we are infested with them and someting has to be done. Laws are on the books. They should be enforced.

[white boy]

Also let look at the topic:
I post this in case it get lost.
www.timesnews.net ,

Published 03/07/2008 By Hank Hayes

MORRISTOWN — About 30 federal and local law enforcement officials tried to understand each others’ responsibilities — while also airing frustrations — about dealing with illegal immigration during a roundtable talk on Friday.

U.S. Rep. David Davis hosted the event with officials from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the Morristown City Center in Hamblen County — an illegal immigration flash point in Tennessee.

“There are more illegals in Hamblen County than anywhere else in the world, not just Tennessee or America,” Davis, R-1st District, claimed.“A person who came here illegally 20 years ago started an employment agency. He had billboards south of the (Mexican) border saying ‘If you want to make it in America, come to Morristown, Tenn.’ Now there are generations of people putting a burden on the education system, health system and corrections system. People here aren’t racist, but they are concerned about the rule of law.”

ICE officials explained their abilities to deal with illegal immigration and to show law enforcement officials what they could do to help with enforcement.

While illegal immigration has been viewed strictly as a federal responsibility, federal law now gives state and local law enforcement agencies a broadened scope of authority.

Davis, a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, said local law enforcement has the legal authority to “investigate, detain and arrest” aliens on civil and criminal grounds.

ICE officials said non-U.S. citizens are picked up for everything from cash smuggling to human trafficking.

But Sullivan County General Sessions Court Judge J. Klyne Lauderback suggested federal officials don’t have the manpower to pick up many illegal immigrants who are arrested and detained in local jails.

“Most of them are DUI cases or have no driver’s license,” Lauderback said of the illegal immigrants who come through his court.“We have to let them go because there is no one to pick them up.... If it’s a crime to be here illegally, so what’s the punishment?”

One ICE official noted America’s southern border with Mexico gets more federal manpower.“It’s a resource question,” he said.

Davis noted he has introduced legislation requiring the secretary of Homeland Security to reimburse a state or locality for costs that happen when law enforcement officers receive training related to border security and immigration enforcement functions.

Davis also said that legislation he is sponsoring with U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler, D-N.C., would require employer/employee notification of Social Security number mismatches and information sharing with the Department of Homeland Security.

The bill, called the Secure America Through Verification and Enforcement or “SAVE” Act, would also prohibit employers from deducting wages paid to unauthorized aliens.

“If there weren’t jobs here, they wouldn’t be coming here,” the ICE official said.

According to ICE, more than 270,000 illegal aliens were removed from the United States last year, while about 27,000 were held in custody “on any given day.”

Davis, however, noted that “approximately 10,000 illegal immigrants cross our border” each day.

“Many wind up in East Tennessee, and if you do the math, about 830 illegal immigrants will illegally cross during today’s roundtable...” he said.“Estimates indicate that there are 100,000 to 150,000 illegal immigrants in Tennessee alone. That’s enough to fill up Bristol Motor Speedway.”

For more about ICE go to www.ice.gov .

[white boy]

Oh, One note, where was the local paper to be seen or heard in reporting this? Let us just keep this quite and it will go away? We have taxes to raise and other issues... their were others before Mel and look what happened. Mel a one timer? I hope NOT!

[SGD]

white boy wrote:

Oh, One note, where was the local paper to be seen or heard in reporting this? Let us just keep this quite and it will go away? We have taxes to raise and other issues... their were others before Mel and look what happened. Mel a one timer? I hope NOT!

Mass media doesn't do reports on illegal aliens, at least not when it will make them look bad. They only do news articles about how illegals are helping the community and are valued members of society. Notice how many articles like that you see, like one every other month.

[mo-town]

white boy wrote:

Oh, One note, where was the local paper to be seen or heard in reporting this? Let us just keep this quite and it will go away? We have taxes to raise and other issues... their were others before Mel and look what happened. Mel a one timer? I hope NOT!

the tribune would loose half their carriers, that's why they try no to report anything about illegals..

[Speeders are Murderers]

She Be Me wrote:

Pass E-Verify NATION WIDE!
NO jobs NO Illegals.

I doubt that. If they don't have jobs, they take up crime or go on welfare. We need to do what most countries do and tell the illegals we won't prosecute for crimes committed AGAINST them. They will then have no choice but to self-deport.

[BradleyCounty]

ICE will not respond to repeated calls for help made in Cleveland,TN and Bradley County. That office head needs to be replaced with someone who will answer the calls from citizens and the Bradley County Sheriff's Department where so many illegal aliens are booked and held. Judge Moon in Chattanooga,TN is tough on illegal aliens, but what about Judge Sheridan Randolph in Bradley County. "Catch and Release" is the word of the day in the court room of Bradley County when it comes to illegal aliens according to those who attend court. A revolving door in Sanctuary Bradley County,TN where the numbers of illegal aliens never end and document mills flourish.

[Slothrop49]

Rep. Davis is an idiot to claim there are "There are more illegals in Hamblen County than anywhere else in the world, not just Tennessee or America".

Anyone who believes that has no grasp of reality.

There are less than 60,000 people in Hamblen County and in California alone there are an estimated 2 million illegal immigrants.
Rep. Davis has ZERO credibility.

[BradleyCounty]

Rep. Davis is speaking about the large numbers of illegal aliens that have invaded Tennessee and Hamblen County and he is speaking to his constituents and others who have had illegal aliens flood into their cities and towns. Thousands of illegal alien law breakers is thousands too many and Tennesseans want them to leave. Criminals and criminal activities are part of illegal immigration.

It is well known in Tennessee that Hamblen County has problems with illegal immigration. It is well known about many other areas also. Chattanooga, Cleveland, TN and Bradley County, Nashville, Knoxville, Maryville, Clarksville, Jamestown, Cookeville, Athens, Lenoir City, Oak Ridge, Memphis, the list is endlist.

Rep. Davis wants to protect the quality of life in his county and illegal aliens simply destroy property values, overcrowd and strain all facilities, bring in crime and fill the judicial system. They threaten jobs, wages and cause others to flee their neighborhoods.

[Slothrop49]

So he has to LIE to his constituents? Face facts, people. Illegals are here because Tennessee and Hamblen County business owners want them, hire them and pay them despite what the law says.

If you swill down Rep. Davis' kool-aid, you have no credibility either.

[Ex-Vol in FL]

I don't necessarily disagree with his position or his bill, but why on earth would someone make such a statement - that "there are more illegals in Hamblen County than anywhere else in the WORLD..." I have to admit I stopped reading right there the first time around because that was such a stupid thing to say.

He could make the case that a small county like Hamblen County can't absorb all the illegals that have settled there, and I could even accept that the number of illegals per square mile is higher than in other places, but more illegals than anywhere in THE WORLD?

Anyway, Slothrop49 is exactly right; as long as the business owners hire them, they will come.

[BradleyCounty]

If we turn our words into actions such as calling, emailing, phoning our representatives and then also demand that housing ordinances be enforced in regards to overcrowding, that services not be extended to illegal aliens (except required by law), that employees and others inform on those employers that use illegal aliens to ICE, the IRS for unreported wages, etc., more could be done. We must also pay closer attention to those we elect and question them more. Apathy keeps us where we are. Shining light on the corruption will hopefully change the situation.

When I first read Rep. Davis's statement I knew exactly what he meant. While there was exaggeration, the point was made, Hamblen County, TN has a terrible problem. Bradley County has a terrible problem, and so do many others.

A county and city have only so much money and the money wasted on school overcrowding, unnecessary hospital expenditures, jail housing and the judicial system, plus other services to illegal aliens is money lost to the citizens of any city or county flooded with illegal aliens.

[Morristown Resident]

BradleyCounty wrote:

If we turn our words into actions such as calling, emailing, phoning our representatives and then also demand that housing ordinances be enforced in regards to overcrowding, that services not be extended to illegal aliens (except required by law), that employees and others inform on those employers that use illegal aliens to ICE, the IRS for unreported wages, etc., more could be done. We must also pay closer attention to those we elect and question them more. Apathy keeps us where we are. Shining light on the corruption will hopefully change the situation.
When I first read Rep. Davis's statement I knew exactly what he meant. While there was exaggeration, the point was made, Hamblen County, TN has a terrible problem. Bradley County has a terrible problem, and so do many others.
A county and city have only so much money and the money wasted on school overcrowding, unnecessary hospital expenditures, jail housing and the judicial system, plus other services to illegal aliens is money lost to the citizens of any city or county flooded with illegal aliens.

I totally agree with you. If a person has not been effected by illegals next door to them or having to replace a car due to the fact that they don't have insurance then they really don't know.

[proudredneck]

MEXICANS GO HOME !

[MCSCOOTCH]

must be nice to walk around with blinders on (Note the dripping sarcasm)