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Please Don't Sign Anti-Immigrant Initiative Petition

Please Don't Sign Anti-Immigrant Initiative Petition

Please Don't Sign Anti-Immigrant Initiative Petition


Recently, a Tea Party activist got permission from the California Secretary of State to gather signatures on a ballot initiative that would, if approved by the voters, make life much harder for immigrants, and for many other Latino's and Latinas in California.

Supporters of the initiative must gather 433,971 signatures on petitions by no later than April 21, 2011. If they fail to gather that many valid signatures by that date the initiative would not get on the ballot.

If the initiative did qualify for the ballot, and was approved by the voters, it would create a law that does the following things:Please Don't Sign Anti-Immigrant Initiative Petition


- Require all highway patrol, police, sheriffs and other sworn officers to investigate immigration status when they are reasonably suspicious that a person stopped is in the country illegally.

- Authorize legal residents to sue any official or agency that adopts or implements policies that limit immigration enforcement, and specifies a $5,000 per day fine and attorneys' fees for violations. Undoubtably some anti-immigrant zealots would start suing police departments they think are not abiding by the law. (Note: That will push police departments to be more zealous in order to stay out of trouble. Inevitably that means that Latino citizens, and documented US residents, will suffer from a law that, in theory, is not directed at them.)

- Would allow any state or local agency to check the immigration status of any person before providing any public benefit, service or license. This could mean that children would be refused entry to public schools in the state, or adults on limited income might be refused public defenders when charged with a crime, even If it turns out they are innocent. Immigrants could end up being refused services by public hospitals. For example, it seems possible that a woman in labor might be refused admittance to a public hospital while the hospital checks on her immigration status.

-Would create a state law banning the knowing, or negligent, hiring of undocumented immigrants. It would also make it a state crime for an undocumented immigrant to seek work without disclosing his or her immigration status.

It would be hypocritical for Californians to put this on the ballot or to approve it in an election.

Why do I say that? Clearly, California's economy depends heavily on the work of undocumented immigrants. For example, The California Employment Development Department (EDD) estimates that 251,000 people are employed as farm workers and laborers in our state. The US Department of Labor estimates that 53% of farm workers, nationally, are undocumented immigrants. But the figure is higher in California (57%) according to the California Labor Force Overview (page viii of the report).

And those workers receive among the lowest wages of any occupation in the state. For example, according to EDD, Farm Workers and Laborers in California have a median income of just $8.99 per hour and a median annual income of just $18,680. By contrast the median hourly wage of all workers in California is more than twice that, $18.12 per hour.

If all the undocumented immigrant farm workers were forced out of the state, and the farming industry had to replace them with US born people, they would have to pay much higher wages to get these workers to do this back breaking work. That would drastically increase the cost of putting food on your table.

Some say that undocumented immigrants come to this country, not to find work, but just to get the public benefits such as welfare, etc. But the facts contradict this assertion. For example, according to a report from the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), 96% of undocumented men

living in the U.S. are employed. This exceeds the labor force participation rate of legal

immigrants and U.S. citizens by 15%. As George Bush once famously said, "It's the jobs magnet that draws undocumented immigrants into the country".

Some say undocumented immigrants don't pay taxes. In fact all undocumented immigrants pay sales taxes whenever they go to the store. Most have income taxes and social security taxes withheld from their pay. And, in a report cited by NCLR, it is estimated that each undocumented immigrant pays $80,000 per person more in taxes than they use in government services over their lifetime.

We should not be punishing undocumented immigrants in the ways that the proposed initiative would. Please do not sign the petitions to put it on the ballot.

You can see the full text of the initiative, The EDD report on wage levels, the NCLR report and the California Labor Force Overview by clicking on the following link and then clicking on the links at the bottom of the web based version of this article.Please Don't Sign Anti-Immigrant Initiative Petition


Here is the link to get you started:

Please Don't Sign Anti-Immigrant Initiative

Boyce Hinman

California Communities United Institute
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