Illegal immigration bill

Supporters of Senate Bill 335 are not motivated by race; we are motivated by reality. We are motivated by the reality of the concerted effort to reduce labor costs in everyway imaginable, including the exploitation of illegal aliens, workers in domestic and foreign sweatshops, forced and prison labor camps, and child labor.

Illegal immigration, unfortunately, is just one part of the sordid nature of our economy that those who reap direct benefits from cheap labor or cheap prices (not for long with the falling dollar) chose to ignore.

What also is ignored is the fact that billions of dollars earned by illegal aliens is siphoned from our economy and infused into foreign economies, thereby bolstering their economies while diminishing ours. Meanwhile, the social welfare system of the United States provides an extra incentive for illegal immigrants to violate our laws since comparable safety nets do not exist in their countries. Our social welfare system subsidizes those entities that exploit those workers and flaunt U.S. immigration law.
We can not continue to tolerate the illegal residency of those who decide to violate their visa or enter our country without one. We must decide whether we will be a nation that focuses on “the general Welfare” of “We the People” as specified in the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States, or whether we continue to follow the path of Corporations uber alles.

Senate Bill 335 is just a small step to indicate to the Federal Government that the citizens and resident aliens of the State of Indiana will not continue to tolerate the subversion of our laws and the exploitation of our overly generous welfare system by those who seek to abuse them. It also seeks to ensure that illegal alien criminals, regardless of where they originate from, are identified when and wherever possible. Is that too much to ask?