Grassroots of Yakima Valley

Trying to Save Our Country

 

Grassroots of Yakima Valley is a group of American citizens whose goal is to educate the public about the dangers facing our country because of the failure of our elected officials from the White House down to our Yakima City Council to acknowledge that illegal immigration is a major crisis.

It was a major victory on the part of Grassroots organizations all over the country who called, faxed, and E-mailed members of Congress to defeat The Immigration Reform bill recently voted down by the U.S. Senate. Conservative talk show hosts on radio and TV threw their support and helped lead the charge to defeat this bill.*

The hiring of illegal aliens to fill the jobs that should belong to American citizens has resulted in an overall decline in wages, decline in benefits, loss of jobs, loss of health insurance, home foreclosures, etc. We are subsidizing, through our tax supported local, state and federal benefits, employers who hire illegal aliens at low wages.

It is commonly known that a significant percentage of Yakima County’s population is made up of illegal aliens. These illegal aliens originally came to work in agriculture, but now many have left agriculture and are working in many other occupations. This illegal population is a major contributor to our overcrowded schools, overused hospital emergency rooms, and overburdened social service agencies. This is where your tax dollars are going!!!

In Yakima County, gang membership, drug addiction, car thefts, home burglaries, destruction of property, and graffiti, have increased dramatically as the illegal immigrant population has exploded. Some 1200 to 1400 illegal aliens incarcerated in our state prisons cost taxpayers over $32,000,000 annually. In Yakima County alone the cost to incarcerate illegals is $1,000,000 per year. Your tax $$$ at work.

Illegal aliens get millions of dollars worth of public assistance and social services each year in Washington, state officials agree, according to a recent Yakima Herald story. Some of these benefits are Medicaid, food stamps, health care, WIC, immunizations, family planning, pregnant women’s program, children’s health program, alien emergency medical program, food banks, Consolidated Emergency Assistance Program, childcare, energy assistance, housing assistance, K through 12 education, and in state tuition, scholarship, and grants for college and on and on and on. Your tax $$$ at work.

Be aware of the “Dream Act” which has been introduced in Congress which would lead to citizenship for illegals attending college. Why should any of our tax dollars go to benefit anyone who has broken our law by illegally entering our country?

 

*Watch Lou Dobbs Tonight on CNN 4:00 p.m. M-F and listen to talk radio KIT (1280 AM) and KUSA (980AM).

 

A Grand Scheme to Eliminate Our Borders

NAFTA, NAFTA Superhighway, Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), North American Union (NAU) Have you heard about the move by government and business to unite the United States, Mexico and Canada into one borderless country?  Go to www.rangemagazine.com -- there under Special Reports click on “North American Union.”  You will learn they already have a name for the new country, the North American Union, and the Amero will replace the dollar.  If you have wondered why President Bush had so many meetings with the leaders of Mexico and Canada, this story will tell you what they were doing.  If we allow the NAU to happen, the US will lose its sovereignty as well as its borders.  This process is all being done behind closed doors without Congressional oversight or approval and, in many cases, even without the knowledge of many in Congress.  Unless they listen to Lou Dobbs on CNN, the vast majority of Americans are not at all aware of this issue. Have you heard of President Bush’s plan to allow 100 Mexican trucking companies to operate freely in the US?  (Google “Mexican trucks come to US.”)  Consider the difference in safety requirements, equipment and driver standards, etc. etc. between our countries.  Many of their drivers cannot read or speak English.  How many terrorists and weapons might sneak in if we allow this plan to become a reality?  This would place all those who travel our highways at great risk.  This plan to open our country to Mexican truckers ties in with the NAFTA Super Corridor that is part of the North American Union plan.  This planned toll road from Mexico to Canada is 10 lanes for cars and trucks.  Still more lanes for oil and gas lines and railroad lines are included.  This toll road will be funded by Cintra (a corporation headquartered in Spain), which will collect toll fees for 50 years. Deep ports are being built right now in Mexico.  The plan is for super container ships to offload their cargo at these ports using low-wage Mexican longshoremen, load them on Mexican trucks with low-wage Mexican drivers and transport the merchandise via the toll road operated by Spain, to a huge port of entry in Kansas City, Missouri.  The port and customs will be owned by Mexico and operated and staffed by Mexican officials (yes, within the former U.S. borders).   Yes, you read right, no more United States, only the North American Union.

 

 

Additional Information of Interest

 Americans concerned about the future of our country need to become educated on these issues.  We need to become proactive and let our elected officials (local, state, and federal) know where we stand.  Some do not consider that open discussion of these issues is politically correct, but our and our children’s future depend on our immediate and constant attention to stopping illegal immigration and the North American Union. Attached are web sites you can use to become more knowledgeable.  Also enclosed are telephone numbers for our elected officials. 

Need more information?  Telephone Carl at 509-469-0707.  Grassroots meetings are the 3^rd Wednesday of every month at 6:30 pm at Eagle Lanes, 307½ West Chestnut, Yakima.  Please share this information with your family, friends and neighbors.

NUMBERS TO CALL TO LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD AND COUNTED:

White House - not a toll free number 1-202-456-1111

Capital Hill Switchboard: to call members of Congress - toll free numbers

1-866-340-9281 1-866-220-0044 1-800-862-5530 1-877-762-8762

These numbers will get you the Congress, Senate and House. Tell the switchboard you want to talk to whatever representative you want. When finished talking to that one, ask switchboard to transfer you to the other, and so on. That way you don’t have to hang up and call back each time. Call them at least once a week. You can call Doc Hastings office and ask them to send you a list of all the members of the House of Representatives. You can call Patty Murray’s office and ask them to send you a list of the Senate. Although they say you should only call Hastings, Murray and Cantwell, when it was time to defeat the Senate immigration bill, we called every senator and voiced our opinion. The Capitol Hill Switchboard can be called 24x7 and most congressmen’s phone systems have after hours voice mail which allows you to leave your message at any time.

Washington State toll free Legislative Hotline:1-800-562-6000 8am-8pm during sessions

Senator Curtis King,  PO Box 40414. Olympia, WA 98504-0414 Phone: (360)786-7626

E-mail: www.king.curtis@leg.wa.gov 

Rep. Mary Skinner, 434 John L. O’Brien Bldg. PO Box 40600, Olympia, WA 98504-0600 Phone (360)786-7810 E-mail: skinner.mary@leg.wa.gov

Rep. Charles Ross 418 John L.O‘Brien Bldg. PO Box 40600, Olympia, WA 98504-0600

Phone: (360)786-7856 E-mail: charles@leg.wa.gov

Gov. Christine Gregoire Office of the Governor, PO Box 40002, Olympia, WA 98504-0002 Phone: (360)902-4111 E-mail www.governor.wa.gov

Rep. Doc Hastings 1323 Longworth Bldg. Washington, DC 20515 Use toll free numbers above. Yakima Phone 452-3243 E-mail: www.house.gov/hastings

Senator Patty Murray 173 Russell Bldg. Washington, DC 20510 Use toll free numbers above. Yakima Phone 453-7462 E-mail: www.murray.senate.gov

Senator Maria Cantwell 717 Hart Senate Office Bldg. Washington DC 20510. Use toll free numbers above. E-mail: www.cantwell.senate.gov

Websites for information on illegal immigration issues: www.numbersusa.com (free faxes to Congress here) www.wakeupamerica.com - Other Web sites: www.Saveourstate.com - www.firecoalition.com - www.immigrationcontrol.com -.-contact@mfawash.org - www.fairus.org - www.veteransforsecureborder.com - www.usapac.us - www.notinmycountry.org - www.americanpatrol.com - www.manews.org - www.maia.com - www.mnsirproject.com - www.rightmarch.com - www.vdare.com - www.nafbpo.org - minutemanproject.com

We are going to lose our country unless each and everyone of us makes our elected officials know we are watching, listening and checking their voting records to see that their votes reflect our wishes. They were voted into office and can be voted out.

 

Tom Tancredo 2008 Presidential Candidate U.S. Congressman, ColoradoAuthor: “In Mortal Danger” Published  - 2006Pages 187 - 189; Chapter 17 - Steps For Reform

Grassroots of Yakima Valley fully supports Representative Tancredo’s position on Border Control and Immigration Policy

Fixing Our Broken Borders: Begin Building a Border Security Fence (800 miles of fence was legislated and funded in 2006 but as of July 07 only 12 miles have been built)·         Put troops on the border·         End “catch and release”·         Mandate passport usage for everyone traveling internationally·         Suspend visa waiver program Enforcing the Law Throughout the Country·         Require a federal response when local law enforcement asks to have illegal aliens arrested·         Restrict federal money that goes to local governments that have illegal alien sanctuary policies·         Close the loopholes that allows religious organizations and their agents to be immune from illegal-alien harboring laws·         Make DUI a deportable offense·         Increase penalties for the smuggling of illegal aliens·         Increase penalties for terrorists who are illegal aliens·         Increase penalties for gang members who are illegal aliens·         Draft minimum standards for birth certificates and birth/death registries·         Make unlawful presence in the United States a felony Stopping Businesses from Hiring Illegals·         Make employment verification mandatory·         Eliminate the business write-off for illegal workers·         Increase the penalty for employers who hire illegal aliens·         Make businesses that hire illegal aliens ineligible for future guest workers Reducing the Incentive to Come Illegally·         Disallow all federal funding for states that offer in-state tuition to illegal aliens·         Disallow the matricula consular card as a legal form of identification·         Reform the use of individual taxpayer identification numbers·         Eliminate Social Security totalization for illegal aliens Disentangling Foreign Policy from Immigration·         Block any immigration provisions from trade bills·         Block visas to countries that refuse to take their nationals back·         Reduce the availability of yearly legal visas per country by the number of illegal aliens from such country Restore Meaning of Citizenship·         End birthright citizenship for illegal aliens·         Eliminate duel citizenship·         Make English the official language·         Write the oath of citizenship into law·         Strengthen safeguards against voter fraud Reforming Legal Immigration·         Eliminate the visa lottery·         Eliminate chain migration·         Eliminate H-1B visas (temporary work permits)·         Eliminate unskilled worker green cards·         Create a Department of Immigration or a cabinet-level agency

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