From Deseret News archives:
Repeal incentives that attract illegal immigrants
The United States currently allows about a million people a year to take up legal residence in this country. This number is now becoming overshadowed by the massive influx of those who sneak across nearby borders, urged on by the promise of better jobs, government benefits, free education for their children, health care and a better life. By entering illegally, they are basically supplanting many who have waited years to enter this country, including many relatives and friends of U.S. citizens.
Apparently, the Deseret Morning News has adopted Chris Cannon's declaration in 2002, when receiving the "Excellence in Leadership" from the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF), "We love immigrants in Utah. . . . And we don't oftentimes make the distinction between legal and illegal."
UFIRE calls on the state of Utah to continue forward with repealing in-state tuition for illegal aliens and to look for ways to decrease, rather than increase, taxpayer-provided benefits that further attract more illegal immigrants to our state. We also encourage the Legislature to conduct an audit of the true cost of illegal aliens to the taxpayers of Utah to refute the erroneous platitude that "cheap labor" benefits us all. Cheap labor may benefit some employers, but unwarranted benefits parlay the hidden costs to all taxpayers. The United States, and in particular, the state of Utah cannot continue to fund the benefits not provided by employers.
Yes, let us all continue in service to our fellow man but continue to recognize that service needs to come from individual effort, not government handouts. We are all aware that Hispanics are generally industrious people, but perhaps service projects should not be used to enhance a political objective.
Mike Sizer is chairman of Utahns for Immigration Reform and Enforcement.
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