Arkansas Immigration update

HB1024, which denies state contracts to companies that hire illegals is on the agenda for Senate Committee on State Agencies and Governmental Affairs.

Tuesday, January 30, 2007
10:00 AM
OSC, State Capitol
Little Rock, Arkansas

Chair:Senator Steve Faris 501-865-3333
Vice Chair:Senator Gilbert Baker 501-327-8653
Senator Ed Wilkinson 479-996-4171
Senator Shawn Womack 870-424-5000
Senator Randy Laverty 870-446-5005
Senator Bobby Glover 870-552-7150
Senator Bill Pritchard 479-442-8611
Senator Jack Crumbly 870-633-7338

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HR1003 has been referred to the STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS Committee and so far is not on any agenda. It should be on an agenda for some time this week. So far, I believe our best effort is to pressure Jim Medley into amending the sections of HR1003 that ask for a Guest Worker Program.

Jim Medley
Business Phone : 479-783-4500
Fax : 479-783-0029
E-mail : medleyj@arkleg.state.ar.us
District : 64, (Fort Smith area)

Some info about Guest Worker Programs:
Although the dictionary definition of guest worker program and amnesty is diffferent. A Guest Worker Program has the same effect on illegal immigration as an amnesty. A WorldNetDaily article recently pointed out that America's ability to track immigrants is already a broken system. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will fall apart trying to check the status of guest workers, and everyone wanting to enter illegally will know it! Here's the article:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53908

Here's what a Guest Worker Program will mean for the Arkansas taxpayer! Currently, Arkansas pays $117 million for illegals. By 2010, it will be $202 million and by 2020, it will be $356 million if a guest worker law is passed. These estimates are done by the researchers at the Federation for American Immigration Reform:

http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer

During the national immigration debate last year, pro-illegal immigration first tried to block the building of a wall, which was the beginning of the pro-illegal protest. Then they tried to add amnesty to the bill that authorized the wall. When that didn't work, they demanded a Guest Worker Program. Because of the problems of Guest Worker Programs and the fact that it is supported by those who want more illegal immigration, any Guest Worker Program has now become a bad idea with an even worse image. Many US citizens and legal immigrants who couldn't go to protest because they worked demanded that immigration reform be done without any compromise. Americans will reject any Guest Worker Program just like they rejected HB1525 in Arkansas!
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I would like to lobby regarding both of these bills on Monday but not by myself. I can be there at about 10am and stay until late evening. Tuesday, I will videotape the Senate Committee meeting at 10am.