Dan Patrick and Julian Castro Immigration Debate

State Senator and GOP Lt. Governor candidate Dan Patrick faced off against San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro in a televised debate over immigration tonight at 6pm. The debate was moderated by the Texas Tribune's Evan Smith.

Public Health Risk: Federal Infectious Disease
Surveillance Useless Against Illegal Immigrants

EMERGENCY.COM

RISK TO U.S. CITIZENS IMMENSURABLE

http://www.emergencyemail.org/newsemergency/templates/templatestandard1.asp?articleid=91&zoneid=1

Foreign-born persons entering the U.S. legally must go through a health screening process. They must be evaluated for TB and certain other diseases before arriving on U.S. soil. People entering illegally, however, obviously bypass this safeguard to U.S. public health.

U.S. border authorities are responsible for intercepting illegal immigrants entering from Mexico. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) monitors the potential for a more deadly invasion: infectious diseases being carried by undocumented aliens.

CDC Border Infectious Disease Surveillance (BIDS)
Through its Border Infectious Disease Surveillance (BIDS) project, which the CDC began organizing in 1997 in collaboration with Mexican health officials, the agency identified hundreds of persons with hepatitis or a febrile exanthem. The CDC has also observed that “immigrant women may be at risk for diseases such as rubella (due to lack of vaccination) or listeriosis (due to food preparation practices).”

Tuberculosis (TB) is a major threat. The CDC cites foreign-born persons as one of the groups at high-risk for tuberculosis (TB). In 2003, says the agency, foreign-born persons accounted for 94 percent of TB cases among Asians and 74 percent of cases among Hispanics, and six states (California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, New York, and Texas) collectively accounted for 57 percent of the national total number of TB cases.

Moreover, reports the agency, low socioeconomic status—measured by crowding, education, income, poverty, public assistance, and unemployment (with crowding having the greatest impact)—is associated with an increased risk for TB.

The CDC reports that persons born outside the United States accounted for 53 percent of reported TB cases in 2003, and of the five countries of origin that accounted for the greatest number of foreign-born persons with TB, Mexico had the most (26 percent).

The CDC reports that during 1992-2002, an estimated 380,000-536,000 persons entered the U.S. each year as legal immigrants, refugees, or asylees. “In 2002, among the estimated 516,000 persons in those categories, 86.6 percent were from countries with high incidence of TB.”

The CDC says that in Mexico’s six border states, “estimated annual TB incidence is 27.1 cases/100,000 population, compared with 5.1 cases/100,000 population in the United States. In 1999, Mexico was the country of origin for 23% of foreign-born persons in the United States with reported TB, and 75% of those cases were reported from the four U.S. border states. In 1996, those same states reported 83% of TB cases among foreign-born Hispanics. The high rate of TB at the border, the substantial number of border crossings, the substantial geographic area involved, and the prevalent cultural and linguistic barriers make TB control a challenge in this region.”

In addition to TB, Mexico and Central America are known to harbor malaria, yellow fever, food and waterborne diseases, dengue, filariasis, leishmaniasis, onchocerciasis, american trypanosomiasis, and myiasis, according to NBC4.com’s CDC-based map of the world’s exotic diseases.

Who’s responsible for stopping diseases at the U.S. border?
The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services has statutory responsibility for preventing the introduction, transmission, and spread of communicable diseases in the United States. The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, according to Titles 8 and 42 of the U.S. Code and applicable regulations.

Specifically, the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine works through a variety of activities to prevent the introduction, transmission, and spread of communicable diseases in the United States. It operates Quarantine Stations at ports of entry, establishes standards for medical examination of persons headed legally for the United States, and administers interstate and foreign quarantine regulations governing the international and interstate movement of humans, animals, and cargo.

As the CDC’s BIDS project demonstrates, diseases don’t recognize national borders. Even though the U.S. has laws and practices in place to catch infectious diseases hiding in the bodies of persons entering this country, the effectiveness of those laws and practices suffers when people enter illegally.

BEWARE THE CASTROS US Cong Julian Castro, San Antonio, his identical twin brother -- San Diego Mayor Julian Castro (now making the rounds of presidential primary states)....and Mamsita Castro---Maria “Rosie” Castro--hardline La Raza activist.

Freshman Cong Joaquín Castro warned last year that if Speaker Boehner adhered to his promise to invoke the so-called Hastert rule, the House will not pass comprehensive immigration reform last year.

So I guess that will put the kibosh to the ambitious Castro family's plans for America, thank God. God only knows how much San Diego tax money and Congressional tax money----from her sons----is going into furthering mamasita's La Raza activities.

San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro---2012 Democrat convention keynoter---genially introduced the twins' mother, Maria “Rosie” Castro to the convention-goers. Mamasita Castro is a radical ethnocentric, anti-assimilationist....a key figure in the activities of the blood-thirsty, tax-funded “La Raza."

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AMERICANS ARE ALREADY FUNDING MAMASITA'S HATE-FILLED ORGANIZATION BIGTIME: In 2005 alone, $7.9 million in taxpayer funding was given to La Raza charter schools in the form of US Dept of Education grants.

LA RAZA schools stress Latino culture, the Spanish language, the re-conquest of the American Southwest, the establishment of the mythical Atzlan on US soil, and even Aztec math.

In addition to using taxpayer funds to enforce the teaching of murder and violence in US public schools, the federally-funded La Raza organization operates 100 charter schools across America.

LA RAZA TEACHES HATE-AMERICA WITH OUR TAX DOLLARS La Raza Studies do not even try to sugar-coat its anti-America agenda and its bloodthirsty plans to kill off Americans: Raza Studies textbook “Occupied America,” by Rodolfo Acuña, includes a violent and blood-curdling speech given by university professor Jose Angel Gutierrez: “We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is, if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him,” (pg. 323). The following is taken directly from La Raza's Occupied America: “.......execute all white males over age 16,” (p 167--AKA the Plan of San Diego).

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La Raza also got Democrat Congressional earmarks and tax dollars for "mortgage counseling." The super-secret Congressional Hispanic Caucus calculatedly launched a housing initiative called "HOGAR"-- Spanish for home. Conspiract and collusion were the watchwords....... race-based "La Raza" was given tax dollars and Congressionsl earmarks to finance its so-called mortgage activities. La Raza's "strategic partnerships” with Wachovia and Bank of America forced the falsifications of mortgage-application and the dumbing down of myge requirements and documentation standards.......which caused taxpayers to be socked w/ billions in bailouts as the US economy tanked.

La Raza aided and abetted risky federal and private-home loans to latinos over the last decade. thanks to the lending industry’s version of “don’t ask, don’t tell.” In addition to millions of federal tax dollars, La Raza also collected a $1 million Democratic earmark that funded “community-development” projects. Analysts report that much of it went to "mortgage counseling."

ILLEGAL Immigrants Receive $Billions Yearly via IRS Loophole

NBC Eyewitness News 13, Indianapolis in Indiana ^ |

Published on May 4, 2012 | Bob Segall

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3145207/posts

“Millions of illegal immigrants are getting bigger tax refunds than you are.”

Fraud is rampant nationwide

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=3eQZoXAU7X0

NBC Eyewitness News 13 in Indiana — yes, Indiana — shows a massive IRS tax loophole which provides over $4 billion per year in tax credits to millions of illegal aliens. In many cases recipients of American taxpayers’ misused monies have never set foot in the United States.

Indiana is approximately 1700 miles northeast of the Mexican border.

A device known as the Additional Child Tax Credit is being used to pay for children living in Mexico — who have never lived here. One thief admitted through an interpreter that his address is being used to file tax returns for numerous children, including multiple nieces and nephews. “If the opportunity is there and they give it [to him] why not take advantage of it?” he asked in Spanish. As a stunning example, thousands in tax credits have been awarded to an illegal alien who claimed 20 children live in a single trailer, that actually housed just one little girl.

The IRS is aware of the magnitude of this fraud yet has done nothing to rectify it. In fact, this is the IRS website giving ten tips on how to apply. The application forms are easily downloadable.

Watch this shocking exposé put together by News 13 investigative reporter Bob Segall. He spent three months looking into this outrage.

The Honorable Russell George, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration says report after report sent from his office has been ignored by the IRS. Here he is in 2009 reporting on more IRS deceit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLUDsA...

The Harvard educated lawyer has the title Honorable before his name. It obviously belongs there.

The IRS sent $45 Million/32,000 EITC refunds to illegals at ONE address.

IRS knowingly sends Billions in Fraudulent Refunds to Illegal Immigrants
Town Hall ^ | Mar 30, 2013 | Bob Beauprez / FR Posted by Texas Fossil

A WTHR-TV Indianapolis investigative report exposes a fraudulent scheme wherein the IRS is sending $4.2 billion per year to illegal immigrants as an "additional child tax credit" for children who don't even live in the U.S. Further, the IRS and Congress have been ignoring the scheme for years. The Inspector General's office has repeatedly identified the problem in audit after audit. The IG, Russell George says, "The magnitude of the problem has grown exponentially," but the IRS is doing nothing to stop it. "It's so easy it's ridiculous," the tax preparer whistleblower who exposed the fraud admits.

Names are simply listed on the IRS form. "The more you put on there, the more you get back." No questions asked…the check's in the mail. Video on youtube of this shocking report. (Excerpt) Read more at finance.townhall.com

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Senator Harry Reid Supports Giving Illegal Aliens Tax Credits for Kids Not Even Living in US
Townhall.com | October 30, 2013 | Mike Shedlock / FR Posted by Kaslin

US Rep. Sam Johnson, R-Texas, wants to end the practice of giving illegal immigrants tax credits for kids, but U.S. Sen.

Harry Reid, D-Nev., won’t let the House-approved measure H.R. 556 through the Senate. "The System is Working Fine" says Senator Harry Reid, even though the Joint Committee on Taxation calculates that enactment of H.R. 556 would save taxpayers $24.4 billion over the next decade.

The House of Representatives repeatedly has passed an IRS bill that could save U.S. taxpayers up to $24.4 billion over the next 10 years — but Harry Reid’s Democratic Senate will not hear it.

The Refundable Child Tax Credit Eligibility Verification Reform Act, or H.R. 556, would require tax filers to provide Social Security numbers to claim child tax credits.

Currently, the IRS allows undocumented residents to collect the $1,000 credits for dependents not even living in the country.

Watchdog reported that illegal immigrants received $4.2 billion from the tax agency in just one year. “My bill (targets) billions of dollars in waste, fraud and abuse. Instead of hitting up taxpayers for even more taxes, Washington needs to go after these billions of dollars,” said Rep. Johnson, R-Texas.

Though the GOP-controlled House has passed Johnson’s measure three times, Senate Majority Leader Reid, D-Nev., refuses to allow the bill to come up for a vote in his chamber. “The IRS has been doling out the credit to tax filers claiming children who do not even live in the country,” Johnson charged.

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Welcome to the Obama culture where falsifying US govt documents for govt freebies is a form of "American assimilation."

Lock-stepping Dems characterize the recent CBO bombshell report---that the poor will opt to work less, and get paid less, so that their living expenses are free (or near free w/ endless govt subsidies.)

Democrats laud this as a "positive" that gives Americans "options." This is Lib/Prog's twisted version of capitalism-----they call it being "economically incentivized!”

Mmmmmmm.....sounds like something Madoff told the investors he was screwing-over.

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Obama to propose expanding EITC and child tax credit in federal budget

SOURCE: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/03/03/breaking-obama-to-propose-expanding-eitc-and-child-tax-credit-in-budget/ ^

FR Posted on Wednesday, March 05, 2014 by kcvl

President Obama’s budget to be released on Tuesday will propose expanding the earned-income-tax-credit and the child-tax-credit....expanding the EITC to benefit the roughly 13.5 million workers who don’t have children. While low-income workers without children are eligible for the tax credit – a kind of cash bonus – it is far more generous for workers with children. (Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...

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