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"What a country"
Dear Editor:
Here's a forward:
--5 million of our older
Americans have not signed up yet for their Medicare, Part D,
drug plan------they are old and confused. We are not going
to grant them an extension.
However, 12 million
illegal aliens are in our country and we are going to allow
them to stay, protest, procreate, receive support monies,
attend schools, avoid paying income taxes, have our teachers
take 300 hours of ESL (English as a Second Language)
training at our expense, etc.
WE MUST REALLY DISLIKE OUR
OLD PEOPLE.
--State Sen. Jim
Honeyford
Veterans lose out to
illegal aliens
Dear Editor:
Why does the federal
Veterans Administration force honorably discharged veterans
to co-pay for their medications, if these same vets are
lucky enough to receive any health services at all?
Meanwhile illegal alien
women can enter any hospital, have their babies at no cost
to them, obtain free medications, get free food, free
education, free welfare dollars, free shelter, automatic
citizenship for their "anchor baby", and social security
payments.
Are feds stupid? Or are
they so abysmally corrupt that they've become unaware of it?
--A Sunnysider
A
debacle
Dear Editor:
Illegal immigration into
the U.S., mostly from Mexico, has become a 35-year debacle
caused solely by five black-robed rogues on the nine-member
U.S. Supreme Court. These unelected birds are the prime
cause of much misery in the U.S. today. Fie upon them
all.
It's time their
1982 decision
(5-4) regarding illegals is either revisited by today's high
court, or rendered null and void by Congressional
legislation.
A great read on this
monumental topic is available here.
--Name withheld by
request
Illegal
aliens costly to WA taxpayers
From State Sen.
Jim Honeyford responding to a citizen info
request:
Dear
Editor:
According to a King
County Journal article published Aug. 9, 2006, $50
Million has been spent on incarcerating criminal illegal
immigrants (in Washington state). (This is the one in which
the governor sent a bill to the federal government for them
to pay. The federal government is not going to be paying
this.)
•
$10-Million spent on medical and dental care for
illegal immigrant children.
• $420,000
on family planning services for illegal alien
families.
* $28 Million
on non-emergency services for illegal aliens.
• $55
Million on procedures for individuals whose immigration
status had not been determined.
In 2004, some
15,890 illegal aliens received Medicade, which
was a 9% increase from 2003.
According to an
article in the Tri-City Herald: There were 204 students who
enrolled in our higher education institutions that were
undocumented. This is a 55% increase from 2003. These were
mostly community colleges. Only 10 enrolled at four-year
institutions.
Information is not
available on illegal aliens who are in Washington's
K-12 education system. This is due to the fact that
(Washington State) school districts are not allowed
to ask for a person's immigration status. I have put a
call into OSPI (Office of the Supt. of Public Instruction)
to see if they have a rough estimate...but I doubt they
will.
Since the numbers
provided above are for the State of Washington, it might be
worth your time to call DSHS (Dept. of Social and Health
Services) for specific numbers in this area (if they have
figures broken down like that). I'll bet they are higher
than other areas in the state.
---Sen. Jim
Honeyford, 15th Dist., Sunnyside
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Don't ever
underestimate 'em
Dear
Editor: It would appear the strategy of Mexican
Americans
who are standing up for illegal aliens use two exceedingly
clever devices in their battle to help break the law, and
obfuscate the truth.
First and
simply, they brand as racist any white person who raises the
issues of illegal aliens for any purpose, in any public
venue. Any non white who raises the issue is simply an Uncle
Tom. That's how they get people to shut their mouths. We
need to ignore their taunts and open our mouths and speak
up. We need to encourage each other.
Second,
somehow it has crept into state laws that we cannot
determine how much tax money we are spending on illegal
aliens. The Supt. of Public Instruction, for example,
declares we can't ask how many illegal aliens are in K-12
schools. So illegal alien supporters can say, smugly, "Well,
you don't have any statistics to prove what you're saying,
so what you're saying isn't valid." Of course not.
Washington state government at all levels doesn't allow
needed stats to exist. Clever.
This state
of affairs, while infurating, must be handled carefully. In
the past 40 years, stateside Mexican American politicians
supporting illegal aliens and open borders have grown very
savvy. They're damned good. Their formulas for handling
their opponents work well.
Those who
need to come up against them for the good of the country
must contain their fury, and work intelligently to overcome
what any reasonable person would describe as a severe
national crisis. It will take patience, courage, and
determination to overcome.
(Name
withheld by request)
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Dear
Editor:
It
works.
The Hazelton laws need to be approved in towns in the Yakima
Valley.
- (Name
withheld by request)
- Sunnyside
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- State
School Superintendent stone walling public records
request
SUNNYSIDE
(12-11-06)--YVN emailed a public records request to the
Office of the Supt. of Public Instruction Nov. 28, 2006,
requesting "ballpark figures" of the number of illegal
alien children served in Washington's 296 school
districts.
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- Requested were
"ballpark" rather than precise figures because federal
and state policies have not allowed precise information
to exist.
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- Anti-truth policies
are based on a Supreme Court decision that squeaked by
with one vote in 1982, plus wobbly interpretation of a
Washington state law.
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- State agencies
traditionally have been directed to respond to public
records requests within five working days. After nine
working days, no response has been forthcoming from
OSPI.
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- Public Records law
says that "The provisions of this chapter (RCW 42.17)
shall be liberally construed to promote complete
disclosure of all information...and full access to public
records so as to assure continuing public confidence of
fairness of ...governmental processes, and so as to
assure that the public interest will be fully protected."
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- Stonewalling makes it
appear the state is hiding information about illegal
aliens' actual costs to Washington taxpayers. The jury
still is out on that possibility.
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- YVN's original public
records request was referred to Leslie Goldstein,
(360)725-6020. She's at OSPI, Old Capitol Bldg. Olympia,
WA 98504, Mailstop 47200.
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- YVN's public records
request to Ms. Goldstein was worded as
follows:
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- Dear
Ms. Goldstein,
- We
understand from OSPI staff that RCW 28a.225.215 makes it
"against the law" to question whether any K12 student is
or isn't an illegal alien. That policy makes it
impossible to obtain statewide statistics regarding the
number of illegal alien children served by our K-12
educational institutions. And it makes impossible further
analysis of those statistics because they simply haven't
been allowed to exist.
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- The
RCW states that:
- (1) A
school district shall not require proof of residency or
any other information regarding an address for any child
who is eligible by reason of age for the services of the
school district if the child does not have a legal
residence.
- (2) A
school district shall enroll a child without a legal
residence under subsection (1) of this section at the
request of the child or parent or guardian of the
child.
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- On the
face of it, this law only outlaws asking for an address,
not whether the child is or isn't a citizen. Perhaps OSPI
has construed the law incorrectly, and subsequently
turned it into policy denying informational
access.
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- At the
same time, each school district receives plus-or-minus
$6,000 in taxes to educate each enrolled
student.
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- The
RCW therefore makes the state complicit in covering up
the amount of annual tax dollars that go to educate
children of illegal aliens. That, in turn makes it
impossible to establish an accurate bench mark, say, from
1967 to the present, regarding the increase in tax
dollars taken statewide to educate illegal alien
children. Nor does it make possible a breakdown of such
stats for each of the 296 school districts.
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- So far
as I can determine, the State Supt. of Public
Instruction's job description states that..."the
powers
- and
duties of the superintendent of public instruction shall
be:
- (1) To
have supervision over all matters pertaining to the
public schools of the state;
- (2)
To report to the governor and the legislature such
information and data as
may be required for the management and improvement of the
schools....("RCW 28A.300.040 Powers and
duties.).
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- In
light of the Superintendent's duties, I am requesting
(for now) OSPI"s ball park estimates regarding the number
of illegal alien children (K-12) served by schools
statewide, the number in each district, and similar
numbers for all years to the present, beginning with
1967.
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- I will
appeal to my legislators regarding an update to RCW
28a.225.215 to make it possible to see precisely how many
illegal alien children are served at the apparaent
expense of American children in Washington
State.
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- It's
not that we don't like the kids. We LOVE 'em. Dearly. But
the people also have a right to know whom they're serving
with their tax dollar and at what price. The
Superintendent owes us that much, according to
law.
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- This
should be construed as a public records request according
to all the laws thereto pertaining.
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- --YVN
staff
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- Legislative
bill would demand education statistics
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- Editor:
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- It's
not known whether the following bill will ever see
daylight, let alone be approved and signed. But the bill
has been submitted to the legislature:
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- Whereas
the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction
(OSPI) has construed RCW 28a.225.215 as making it
against the law to determine whether children served
in Washington's K-12 institutions are children of
illegal aliens, and
Whereas
OSPI cannot because of this policy determine past,
present, and future cost to taxpayers of educating
K-12 children of illegal aliens in Washington,
and
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- Whereas
this state level policy affects the ability of local
school districts to determine what percentage of local
resources must be spent to educate children of illegal
aliens, and
- Whereas
taxpaying citizens of Washington have a clear right to
know the true costs of government expenditures in all
areas of government operations, and
- Whereas
it is self evident that limited educational resources
spent on non-citizen children are resources taken away
from American children to their detriment,
and
- Whereas
RCW 28a.300.400 outlines the legal duties of the
Superintendent of Public Instruction "to report to the
governor and the legislature such information and data
as may be required for the management and improvement
of the schools, and
- Whereas
the following RCW 281.225.215 states that:
"(1) A
school district shall not require proof of residency or
any other information regarding an address for any child
who is eligible by reason of age for the services of the
school district if the child does not have a legal
residence.
"(2) A
school district shall enroll a child without a legal
residence under subsection (1) of this section at the
request of the child or parent or guardian of the child",
and
Whereas
present construction of this rule makes the State of
Washington complicit in the obfuscation of real
information to which the citizens of Washington state
have an uncontested right,
Therefore,
be it affirmed that a Section (3) shall be added to RCW
28a.225.215 that states: "No part of this code shall be
construed as making it illegal for OSPI or local school
districts to determine whether K-12 children are or are
not citizens of the United States, and in fact this part
calls on OSPI to determinate quarterly the number of
illegal alien children it serves statewide and in the 296
local school districts, and henceforth make these
statistics a regular part of the public
record.
- --YVN
staff
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