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A new study commissioned by the Chicago Urban League and the Alternative Schools Network reveals the negative impacts of illegal immigration on low-skilled American workers, specifically teens and young adults.

As a result of the study, the group is calling for $1.5 billion of economic stimulus money to help employ young Americans or get them re-enrolled in school. The study found that the unemployment rate among Illinois teens was 20 points below the 2000 level, setting an all-time high. But increased immigration enforcement to root out the estimated 7 million illegal aliens in the U.S. workforce would help free up jobs for America’s lower skilled workers.

Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee Lamar Smith (R-Texas) and Rep. Gary Miller (R-Calif.), who introduced the LEAVE Act that would increase interior enforcement, released a statement about the study’s findings. During the course of the 2007-2009 recession, the employment rate of the nation’s teen[s] feel steeply to 26.2% by October-November 2009, setting new record lows each year. No other age group has experienced employment declines of this magnitude in the current recession. Young adults 20-24 years old in both Illinois and the nation also have been adversely affected by the deterioration in labor market developments in the state and nation in recent years, especially men, Blacks and Hispanics, and non-college graduates.

– Representatives Smith and Miller

In their joint statement, Reps. Smith and Miller said that the jobs these Americans and legal immigrants seek are the same jobs held by illegal aliens.

“The fact is that illegal immigrants take jobs from American workers, particularly poor and disadvantaged citizens and legal immigrants. The best outcome for low-skilled citizen and legal immigrant workers is the removal of the illegal immigrant population. The very jobs that illegal immigrants occupy rightfully belong to out of work citizens and legal immigrants,” Ranking Member Smith added. “With 15 million Americans out of work, we need to enforce immigration laws and oppose amnesty for 12 million illegal immigrants. We must stand up for citizens and legal immigrants.”

“At home in California, almost weekly I hear from my constituents that illegal immigration is exacerbating the unemployment crisis,” Rep. Miller said. “Today’s report that a record number of young Americans are jobless once again highlights the fact that we must enforce our current immigration laws to ensure illegals do not take away jobs that rightfully belong to American and legal workers.”

Reps. Smith and Miller recently formed the Reclaim American Jobs Caucus.

http://www.numbersusa.com/content/news/january-27-2010/new-study-shows-illegal-immigrations-impact-on-young-americans

$50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts
$380 million in the Senate bill for the Women, Infants and Children program
$198 million for Filipino World War 2 vets and their families
$300 million for grants to combat violence against women
$2 billion for federal child-care block grants
$6 billion for university building projects
$15 billion for boosting Pell Grant college scholarships
$4 billion for job-training programs, including $1.2 billion for “youths” up to the age of 24
$1 billion for community-development block grants (ACORN)
$4.2 billion for “neighborhood stabilization activities”
$650 million for digital-TV coupons
$90 million to educate “vulnerable populations”
$15 billion for business-loss carry-backs
$145 billion for “Making Work Pay” tax credits
$83 billion for the earned income credit
$150 million for the Smithsonian
$34 million to renovate the Department of Commerce headquarters
$500 million for improvement projects for National Institutes of Health facilities
$44 million for repairs to Department of Agriculture headquarters
$350 million for Agriculture Department computers
$88 million to help move the Public Health Service into a new building
$448 million for constructing a new Homeland Security Department headquarters
$600 million to convert the federal auto fleet to hybrids
$450 million for NASA (carve-out for “climate-research missions”)
$600 million for NOAA (carve-out for “climate modeling”)
$1 billion for the Census Bureau
$89 billion for Medicaid
$30 billion for COBRA insurance extension
$36 billion for expanded unemployment benefits
$20 billion for food stamps
$4.5 billion for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
$850 million for Amtrak
$87 million for a polar icebreaking ship
$1.7 billion for the National Park System
$55 million for Historic Preservation Fund
$7.6 billion for “rural community advancement programs”
$150 million for agricultural-commodity purchases
$150 million for “producers of livestock, honeybees, and farm-raised fish”
$2 billion for renewable-energy research ($400 million for global-warming research)
$2 billion for a “clean coal” power plant in Illinois
$6.2 billion for the Weatherization Assistance Program
$3.5 billion for energy-efficiency and conservation block grants
$3.4 billion for the State Energy Program
$200 million for state and local electric-transport projects
$300 million for energy-efficient-appliance rebate programs
$400 million for hybrid cars for state and local governments
$1 billion for the manufacturing of advanced batteries
$1.5 billion for green-technology loan guarantees
$8 billion for innovative-technology loan-guarantee program
$2.4 billion for carbon-capture demonstration projects
$4.5 billion for electricity grid
$79 billion for State Fiscal Stabilization Fund

• $2 billion earmark to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal power plant in Illinois that the Department of Energy defunded last year because it said the project was inefficient.
• A $246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy motion picture film.
• $650 million for the digital television converter box coupon program.
• $88 million for the Coast Guard to design a new polar icebreaker (arctic ship).
• $448 million for constructing the Department of Homeland Security headquarters.
• $248 million for furniture at the new Homeland Security headquarters.
• $600 million to buy hybrid vehicles for federal employees.
• $400 million for the Centers for Disease Control to screen and prevent STD’s.
• $1.4 billion for rural waste disposal programs.
• $125 million for the Washington sewer system.
• $150 million for Smithsonian museum facilities.
• $1 billion for the 2010 Census, which has a projected cost overrun of $3 billion.
• $75 million for “smoking cessation activities.”
• $200 million for public computer centers at community colleges.
• $75 million for salaries of employees at the FBI.
• $25 million for tribal alcohol and substance abuse reduction.
• $500 million for flood reduction projects on the Mississippi River.
• $10 million to inspect canals in urban areas.
• $6 billion to turn federal buildings into “green” buildings.
• $500 million for state and local fire stations.
• $650 million for wild land fire management on forest service lands.
• $1.2 billion for “youth activities,” including youth summer job programs.
• $88 million for renovating the headquarters of the Public Health Service.
• $412 million for CDC buildings and property.
• $500 million for building and repairing National Institutes of Health facilities in Bethesda, Maryland.
• $160 million for “paid volunteers” at the Corporation for National and Community Service.
• $5.5 million for “energy efficiency initiatives” at the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration.
• $850 million for Amtrak.
• $100 million for reducing the hazard of lead-based paint.
• $75 million to construct a “security training” facility for State Department Security officers when they can be trained at existing facilities of other agencies.
• $110 million to the Farm Service Agency to upgrade computer systems.
• $200 million in funding for the lease of alternative energy vehicles for use on military installations

The amtrack is my personal favorite… think that would be there if Biden wasnt in the picture?

How about …
246 million tax break for Hollywood movie investors in big budget movie projects over an 11-year period…job creating?

Chicago is doing bad in education, pollution, government, jobs, and traffic. Obama’s previous stomping ground of Illinois is not doing well nationally and hasn’t been for a while, so why do we think he is going to fix America. He sure didn’t fix his home state or any of the major cities in it. The latest figure there shows over half the kids in most middle schools won’t pass 8th grade.

P.S. The democratic controlled media brainwashed everyone with humor and brow beating so now we are getting a socialist government and country. The United States Of Full Government Control And Rules. I am going to be a republican now that I opened my sheep eyes to how bad the democrats are. They cause the problems and they blame everything else. When you point a finger you always have 3 pointing back!

…. a little more money …

• $75 million to construct a “security training” facility for State Department Security officers when they can be trained at existing facilities of other agencies.
• $75 million for salaries of employees at the FBI.
• $248 million for furniture at the new Homeland Security headquarters.
• $500 million for state and local fire stations.
• $88 million for the Coast Guard to design a new polar icebreaker (arctic ship).
• $448 million for constructing the Department of Homeland Security headquarters.
• $650 million for wildland fire management on forest service lands.

• $2 billion earmark to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal power plant in Illinois that the Department of Energy defunded last year because it said the project was inefficient.
• $650 million for the digital television converter box coupon program.
• $600 million to buy hybrid vehicles for federal employees.
• $400 million for the Centers for Disease Control to screen and prevent STD’s.
• $1.4 billion for rural waste disposal programs.
• $125 million for the Washington sewer system.
• $150 million for Smithsonian museum facilities.
• $1 billion for the 2010 Census, which has a projected cost overrun of $3 billion.
• $75 million for “smoking cessation activities.”
• $200 million for public computer centers at community colleges.
• $25 million for tribal alcohol and substance abuse reduction.

• $500 million for flood reduction projects on the Mississippi River.
• $10 million to inspect canals in urban areas.
• $6 billion to turn federal buildings into “green” buildings.

• $1.2 billion for “youth activities,” including youth summer job programs.
• $88 million for renovating the headquarters of the Public Health Service.
• $412 million for CDC buildings and property.
• A $246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy motion picture film.
• $500 million for building and repairing National Institutes of Health facilities in Bethesda, Maryland.
• $160 million for “paid volunteers” at the Corporation for National and Community Service.
• $5.5 million for “energy efficiency initiatives” at the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration.
• $850 million for Amtrak.
• $100 million for reducing the hazard of lead-based paint.
• $110 million to the Farm Service Agency to upgrade computer systems.
• $200 million in funding for the lease of alternative energy vehicles for use on military installations.
see here.

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/02/gop.stimulus.worries/index.html

added:
The remark against the lead paint thing is incredibly DUMB!!! Are you a repub? “Just don’t use lead based paint?” “Let them eat cake?”
HAVE YOU EVER STOPPED TO THINK ABOUT ALL THE OLD buildings who are covered in lead based paint????
Or don’t inner city buildings factor ever in your life? You know, where mostly black people live?

and nobody thinks to check the link …

LOS ANGELES – An illegal immigrant who sought sanctuary in a Chicago church for a year to avoid deportation and separation from her 8-year-old American son was arrested Sunday, the church’s pastor said.
Elvira Arellano was arrested before 3 p.m. outside Our Lady Queen of Angels church on L.A.’s historic Olvera Street where she had been speaking to reporters, said the Rev. Walter Coleman, pastor of Adalberto United Methodist Church in Chicago where she sought sanctuary.

Coleman said he was with Arellano when she was detained, but declined to provide other details.

“We’re trying to determine her situation right now,” he said.

It was unclear what law enforcement agency had taken Arellano into custody.

A call to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was not immediately returned.

The 32-year-old Arellano arrived in Los Angeles on Saturday, leaving her sanctuary for the first time in a year to campaign for immigration reform.

Arellano has become a symbol of the struggles of illegal immigrant parents and a source of controversy. She had said Saturday she was not afraid of being taken into custody by immigration agents.

“From the time I took sanctuary the possibility has existed that they arrest me in the place and time they want,” she said in Spanish. “I only have two choices. I either go to my country, Mexico, or stay and keep fighting. I decided to stay and fight.”

Arellano came to Washington state illegally in 1997. She was deported to Mexico shortly after, but returned and moved to Illinois in 2000, taking a job cleaning planes at O’Hare International Airport.

She was arrested in 2002 at O’Hare and later convicted of working under a false Social Security number. She was to surrender to authorities last August.

She sought refuge at the storefront church on Chicago’s West Side Aug. 15, 2006. She had not left the church property until deciding to be driven to Los Angeles, Coleman said.Elvira Arellano was arrested before 3 p.m. outside Our Lady Queen of Angels church on L.A.’s historic Olvera Street where she had been speaking to reporters, said the Rev. Walter Coleman, pastor of Adalberto United Methodist Church in Chicago where she sought sanctuary.

Coleman said he was with Arellano when she was detained, but declined to provide other details.

“We’re trying to determine her situation right now,” he said.

It was unclear what law enforcement agency had taken Arellano into custody.

A call to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was not immediately returned.

The 32-year-old Arellano arrived in Los Angeles on Saturday, leaving her sanctuary for the first time in a year to campaign for immigration reform.

Arellano has become a symbol of the struggles of illegal immigrant parents and a source of controversy. She had said Saturday she was not afraid of being taken into custody by immigration agents.

“From the time I took sanctuary the possibility has existed that they arrest me in the place and time they want,” she said in Spanish. “I only have two choices. I either go to my country, Mexico, or stay and keep fighting. I decided to stay and fight.”

Arellano came to Washington state illegally in 1997. She was deported to Mexico shortly after, but returned and moved to Illinois in 2000, taking a job cleaning planes at O’Hare International Airport.

She was arrested in 2002 at O’Hare and later convicted of working under a false Social Security number. She was to surrender to authorities last August.

She sought refuge at the storefront church on Chicago’s West Side Aug. 15, 2006. She had not left the church property until deciding to be driven to Los Angeles, Coleman said.

Here comes all the “empty suit” references from the rightwing mouthbreathing, knuckledragging squad.
John McCain/Bush stands for a third term of the disasterous Bush administration, the guy should be stuffed and mounted and put in a museum somewhere in South Carolina.

Here are some of Senator Barack Obama’s positions:

Opposed the Iraq war from the start.
Voted to end the war in Iraq.
Supports capturing and killing Osama Bin Laden.
Favors a $1000 tax cut for every working American family.
Will implement tax form simplification to reduce filing time.
Provide tax credit for all middle class homeowners.
Provide a tax cut for all families making less than $75,000 a year.
Amend NAFTA to protect American workers.
Amend NAFTA to strengthen environmental protections.
Providing Flex Ed training accounts for workers.
Extending Trade Adjustment assistance to service workers.
Supported Patriot Employer Act of 2007 that gives tax credits to large companies that keep workers here in America.
Double funds for basic federal research.
Implement a long term research and development tax credit.
Invest in green technologies.
Reduce carbon emission gases.
Tackle the challenges of global warming.
Create an energy focused youth jobs program.
Create Federal Renewable Portfolio Standard.
Extend the Production Tax Credit.
Expand Broadband into every community.
Keep the Internet tax free.
Expand high speed internet access in rural areas.
Fight for passage of Employee Free Choice Act.
Ensure freedom to unionize.
Would overturn “Kentucky River” classifications of Bush’s NLRB
Protect rights of striking workers.
Increase the mininum wage to index it to inflation.
Crack down on predatory lenders.
Provide a universal mortgage tax credit for homeowners who don’t itemize.
Sign the Stop Fraud Act to prevent lending fraud.
Mandate accurate loan disclosure.
Create a fund to protect people from foreclosures.
Close the bankruptcy loophole for mortgage companies.
Establish a credit card rating to improve disclosure.
Ban utilateral credit card charges.
Apply interest rate only to future debt.
Prohibit credit card interest on fees.
Prohibit Universal defaults.
Require prompt and fair crediting of cardholder payments.
Protect working people from unfair bankruptcy laws.
Ban executive bonuses for bankruptcy companies.
REquire disclosure of pension investments.
Cap outlandandish interest rates on payday loans.
Implement legislation to drive unscrupulous lenders out of business
Create a bankruptcy exemption for people that went broke because of medical bills.
Double funding for after school programs.
Extend Family and Medical Leave Act.
Encourage states to adopt Paid leave.
Expand the Child Care Tax Credit
Supports ratification of UN Convention Rights of Persons With Disabilities.
Supports independent, community based living for people with disabilities.
Expand educational opportunites for people with disabilities.
Expand job opportunities for people with disabilities.
Strengthen civil rights enforcement.
Sign into law the Fair Pay Act.
Sign law reversing recent SCOTUS rulings that permitted discrimination against women.
Sign law reversing recent SCOTUS rulings that permitted discrimination against racial minorities.
Strengthen federal hate crimes legislation.
Eliminate the sentence disparities regarding crack cocaines.
Establish drug courts for first time, non violent offenders.
Create a prison to work incentive for those transitioning back into society.
Passed a law to prohibit the practice of racial profiling.
Supported reauthorizing the Voting Rights Act.
Opposes all discriminatory barriers to voting.
Helped reform death penalty system in Illinois to protect innocent people on death row.
Voted to ban cluster bombs.
Provide high quality affordable child care to families.
Will quadrulple Early Head Start funding.
Will increase Head Start funding.
Creates early learning challenge grants.
Abolish overly rigid teach to the test curriculum in schools.
Improve accountability in public schools.
Invest in intervention strategies to reduce dropout rates in schools.
Increase funding for afterschool programs.
Supports Step Up program to increase summer learning opportunities.
Support English language learner programs.
Expand college outreach programs.
Create teacher service scholarships.
Requires all public schools to be accredited.
Create teacher residency programs.
Create the American Opportunity Tax Credit for higher education.
Streamline financial aid application.
Introduced legislation to increase Pell Grant to $5,100.
Reduce carbon emissions by 80% by 2050.
Confront deforestation.
Promote carbon sequestration.
Accelerate commercialization of plug in hybrids.
Promote development of commercial scale renewable energy.
Invest in low emission coal plants.
Transition to new electric digit grid.
Double science funding for clean energy products.
Create Green Jobs Cor

Ron Harrison was searching throughout his room on a black October night, in the three room apartment he shared with his best friend on Wonderland Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. A mile away from his low paying job at an Mexican restaurant. The neighborhood has high crime, but people avoid getting victimized by not flaunting wealth. Ron was looking for his wallet, and license, his roommate Alex was waiting for him in his car, but was getting impatient. The pair were two years out of high school, and wanted to do something with their lives that they loved, music. However becoming famous musicians is easier dreamed then lived.

Ron had desperately wanted to leave his parents home, but he didn’t have enough for rent with his job, so with Alex an apartment was affordable. Alex however was more of a drifter, living with friends and family, or moving around cheap hotels, it took a while for Ron to convince him to share an apartment with him. The duo’s friendship began in elementary, and they’ve been close friends since then, although they don’t have a lot in common. But after high school the one thing they did have in common, music, was going to be the path for their futures. They felt the music scene needed a real
rock band, like a new Nirvana.

But Ron was stuck working as a waiter; a job he felt was humiliating for his image, but it was near the apartment so it had its conveniences. His least favorite customers serving were the skin heads; who bounced when it was time to pay the check. People like the skin heads did practically anything they wanted to in the neighborhood. Aside from that it was just an embarrassing job. Now Alex didn’t have a job, he earned money by selling weed on and off, or asking his parents for money. But he hardly had to spend money on himself, if the refrigerator was empty he would go out and pick apples to eat from an apple tree from a nearby park.

I’m a home-schooled sophomore (in high school obviously), planning on going to college for premed. Right now I want to major (maybe double?) in either Biology and minor in communications. The colleges I really like are: Penn State, U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, U of Maryland – CP, U. of Delaware, Ohio State, etc.

Do you think I have what is takes to get in to all of these places? What are my chances? What more can I do?

Classes I’ve taken/taking (9th and 10th grade):
-Anatomy and Physiology, Nutrition, Health, Microbiology, Physical Science, Algebra I, Algebra II, Geometry, Trigonometry, Advanced/Honors U.S. History, Advanced/Honors World History, Debate, Human Geography, Biology, Advanced/Honors Psychology, Chemistry, Grammar, Grammar and Composition, Vocabulary, Human Geography, Photography, Keyboarding/computer, Format Writing, Writing, World/English Literature, Introduction to Geography, Consumer Math, Medical Terminology (online and textbook), Art, Anthropology, Advanced/Honors Macroeconomics, Ancient Latin, German language, German history and culture-

Extracurricular Activities: Since I want to go to medical school I volunteer at a hospital (candy striper), shadowed a doctor, German language club, pilates/yoga class-club, YFU volunteer, tutor young kids, and have a job as a waitress (yes, most colleges consider a job an extracurricular). I am taking a lifeguarding class from the Red Cross, I’m planning on doing that as a part time job this coming summer. Now I know this isn’t a lot but I live in a small town in a very rural area so I’m doing the best I can.

Facts:
4.0 GPA (No, my mother does not grade my work, a non-relative does)
Member of the National Home School Honor Society (just like the Nation Honor Society)
PLAN (preliminary ACT) score was 30 out of 32
Over the summer I will be taking Phlebotomy (the person who takes peoples’ blood for tests) at my local community college to become licensed.

BTW: I can NOT take AP classes where I live (they only offer 3 at the Board of Ed. And the tests are over 3 hours away!) but by the time a graduate I will have taken Honors Biology, Honors Chemistry, Honors Physics, Honors Pre-Calculus, Honors Calculus, and Honors German language.

Thanks for all your opinions and advice! I will pick a Best Answer. (:

I’ve noticed fewer job postings for many different types of jobs in Chicago – do you think the recession is cutting back Chicago jobs?

Recently the United States House of Representatives introduced HR 3200, America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009. There are a number of things that disturb me about this bill but the one thing that causes the most concern is that it calls for a STAGGERING $44.9 billion in cuts to Medicare payments to skilled nursing facilities such as The Tillers! By the way, this is in addition to the $16 billion in regulatory cuts already imposed by the centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) effective August 1, 2009.
As an owner and administrator of a skilled nursing facilities with 37 years of experience, let me explain what this means. If these cuts to the Medicare program become reality it will be a devastating blow to our nation’s skilled nursing facilities and to the older adults we serve. I predict that some facilities may have to close their doors because they cannot remain financially viable. The best case scenario is that skilled nursing facilities would have to reduce staff and cut back on services, not just a little, but substantially. Ten of thousands of jobs would be eliminated and the quality of care would go out the window. Our industry is far from perfect, but any positive gains we have made in recent years would be wiped out. The consumer would be the biggest loser. This bill in its current form is a slap in the face to millions of individuals who depend upon the services provided by our nation’s skilled nursing facilities under the Medicare program. It is a form of indirect taxation on any adult who is Medicare eligible.
It is ironic that HR 3200 is titled “Americas Affordable Health Choices Acts of 2009.” There nothing “affordable” about this bill, especially if it means almost $45 billion in Medicare cuts. Health care reform that takes dollars away from one group to give to another is not really health care reform at all. Bills like HR 3200 lack common sense and good judgment. Many people think health care reform is needed, but at whose expense? Our elderly population is the “backbone” of America, they are the HISTORY and FOUNDATION and this bill (if passed) will put them out into the streets along with hundreds of thousands of Healthcare workers – have you seen the staggering numbers of the unemployed? In Illinois it is a little over 12% – that is astronomical. Now I believe in REFORM, but charity begins at home and that is where the American Heart Is, at home, take care of the USA prior to sending billions and trillions of foreign aid, do we get aid from other countries? NO, we allow immigration to our country, our doors are open, our schools are open and it’s time to stop this, I have been trying to get assistance to continue my own education and I cannot even get assistance because I am a woman, living in the USA, divorced, single and living paycheck to paycheck without any government assistance. Sometimes I lay awake at night wondering if I’ll be able to eat or get to work, etc…………..there comes a time when you have to say NO, but passing this bill will be and will have a devastating effect on the ECONOMY FOR THE WORSE.
Donna A. Reavis
Healthcare Social Worker