MEDIA ADVSIORY
For Immediate Release
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Contact:
Lee Rech
for Utah Coalition on Illegal Immigration (UCOII)
801.556.8423 – cell
lee@lbrcommunications.com
Legal Immigrants Rights, Child Identity Theft & Family Livelihood
Top Priorities for Utah Coalition on Illegal Immigration
Utah Rep. Stephen Sandstrom’s Illegal Immigration Enforcement Act Addresses Coalition Priorities
WHO Utah Coalition on Illegal Immigration (UCOII) led by member Arturo Morales-Llan, along with other UCOII member groups, Utah Rep. Stephen Sandstrom and Utah Rep. Chris Herrod, to present on the growing number of legal Utah-based immigrants who support immigration reform and reject amnesty. In addition, the coalitions support for immigration reform addressing child identity theft victims due to illegal immigrants and current cost statistics of illegal immigration in Utah will be addressed.
WHAT More than 65 percent of Utahns polled statewide currently support Utah Rep. Stephen Sandstrom’s bill, Utah Illegal Immigration Enforcement Act, including a growing number of Utah’s legal immigrant community and newly formed grassroots coalition “Legal Immigrants for Immigration Law Enforcement,” families and children who have realized loss of income and ID theft respectively due to the influx of illegal immigrants.
A new Facebook support page, “Supporters of Utah Illegal Immigration Enforcement Act,” provides Utah legislators, civic leaders and Utah residents with online access to supporters and current events surrounding the bill. To join the Immigration Enforcement Act Facebook group, go to Supporters of Utah Illegal Immigration Enforcement Act.
To view the Utah Illegal Immigration Enforcement Act sponsored by Rep. Stephen Sandstrom slated for review during the January 2011 General Session, go to “Get the Facts on Illegal Immigration Enforcement Act”
WHEN Wednesday, November 17, 2010
11:45 AM Utah State Capitol
There is no cost to attend public event.
WHERE Utah State Capitol, West Office Building in foyer
120 State Capitol, 350 North State Street, SLC, UT 84114
Parking available on east and north sides of Capitol building; for more parking information, go to http://utahstatecapitol.utah.gov/visitors/parking.html
ABOUT Utah Coalition on Illegal Immigration member groups supporting Sandstrom’s bill include American Leadership Fund, Citizens Council on Illegal Immigration (CCII), CitizensForTaxFairness.org, Legal Immigrants for Immigration Law Enforcement, Restoration of America Foundation, SaveUtah, Utah Constitution Party, Utahns for Immigration Reform and Enforcement (UFIRE), Utah Eagle Forum, and Utah Tea Party
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Doctors Tea Party to Feature U.S. Senate Candidate Sharron Angle
American Association of Physicians & Surgeons (AAPS) Annual Meeting to Gather in Salt Lake City to Discuss Future of Medicine & Alternatives to ObamaCare
SALT LAKE CITY —September 14, 2010—Physicians and citizens concerned about the negative effects of Obamacare on American medicine will gather Saturday, September 18 in Salt Lake City at the Utah State Capitol plaza from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. for a National Doctors Tea Party rally. The tea party rally is being held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), which begins Thursday, September 16 at the Marriott Hotel Downtown Salt Lake. Doctors will assemble from all over the United States to discuss the future of their medical practices and their patients’ quality of care under a universally-failed model of healthcare.
U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle, opposing Senator Harry Reid, will be a featured speaker at the tea party rally along with Utah State Representative Carl Wimmer, the sponsor of Utah’s “opt-out” legislation. Also speaking is Dr. Jane Orient, the AAPS executive director, who led AAPS in exposing the secret meetings and attempt to pass national health care during the Clinton Administration, as well as other prominent opponents of government-run medicine.
Cherilyn Eagar, associate member and AAPS Interim Utah Coordinator, will present a call to action at the AAPS annual meeting on Friday at Noon. In addition, Eagar is currently establishing a Utah AAPS chapter and Coalition for Healthcare Freedom. “We must now focus our energies on stopping the most egregious, unconstitutional and far-reaching Federal grab for power and control that we have seen in our life time. If we value quality of life, health and freedom, we must all get behind U.S. Congressman Steve King’s bill HR 4972 that calls for total defunding and repeal of ObamaCare. We cannot succeed in this endeavor without the collaboration of doctors, nurses, patients and common sense Americans who care about their children’s future.”
Dr. Wayne Iverson, a San Diego physician and California AAPS Coordinator, is so alarmed by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and the misconception that doctors support it that he is helping Eagar organize the Doctors Tea Party in Salt Lake City. “It is time to let people know why we believe the Obama Administration is taking medicine in the wrong direction,” said Dr. Iverson.
Dr. Grant Fairbanks, President of the Utah State Plastic Surgery Society and the Salt Lake Surgical Society explained, “We want the public to know that the American Medical Association does not speak for all doctors. Currently, only 19 percent of practicing physicians belong to the AMA. A CNN / Opinion Research Survey recently found that 56 percent of Americans oppose the healthcare law. Seventy-one percent of Missouri voters recently rejected the healthcare plan in a statewide referendum representing a broad range of political views. Now, more than ever, doctors must become involved before it is too late.”
A majority of physicians oppose ObamaCare for many reasons and understand if not corrected soon that government bureaucrats, not patients and doctors, will decide what treatment options will be available. Doctors will be forced to accept payments that do not cover the cost of care, driving many out of practice and leaving fewer doctors to see more patients. Patients will face longer wait times for medical care. New regulations will bankrupt insurance companies leaving only a government option. With Donald Berwick, an advocate of government rationing, currently in charge of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, radical changes to Medicare under ObamaCare may hit seniors first and the hardest. Huge cost overruns and diminished access already plague the ObamaCare model for mandatory health insurance in Massachusetts making the highly suspect Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) an international mockery.
‘Saw you on TV this morning. You did a good job. Decker requires management as he interviews. Management coming from the interviewees, that is.
Best wishes from someone who thinks that it is amazing that Yapias gets as much TV time as he does. It appears that the newsrooms at our local TV stations bend over backwards to air his grievances and give just a smidgeon of time to the feelings of legal Utah citizens of the United States.
Sincerely,
Ben Merkley Ph. D. SLC
I would like to voice a couple of serious concerns that need be considered when “reforming” immigration law.
The recent coverage of proposals in the press have focused on the illegal immigration issues of unskilled Mexican Citizens and a need to provide a means of reforming the immigration program to allow these workers to be permitted to remain in the US and to get “right” with the law.
One proposal mentioned by the candidates is the to create a means of allowing foreign nationals to be permitted to obtain a work permit card based on labor needs in each state to be determined by a joint Federal and State organization.
There are real concerns that this strategy will be used by the leaders of our highly skilled industries to influence political leaders to expand the use of this program to allow extensive use of foreign technology workers from China and India.
The software and high technology industries have long solicited the congress to provide expanded quotas on H1B visas because this enables them to hire resources at a much more competitive rate. The problems here are at least two fold:
1) The cost of a high technology eduction in the United States is much higher than it is in India and China. This is forcing a significant reduction in the incentives for our students to pursue technology based jobs. High technology skills in engineering, software and medicine are critical for our nation to remain competitive in the world markets and to keeping our technological industries based here in USA.
http://www.indiaedu.com/study-india/
The existence of the H1B visa program has been exploited by the software and consulting industries to push for higher profits. The purpose of these Visas was to ensure our companies have access to the skills necessary to keep them competitive by providing access to foreign skill sets unavailable here in the US. Instead they have been used as a means of securing higher corporate profits via lower cost labor.
The use of these visas lowers the wages that can be demanded by technically skilled individuals in the US. This generates a disincentive and comparative disadvantage within the US for people to invest in high technology skills. A lack of available skilled technology resources in the US further justifies more H1B visas.
2) Following the dot com bubble there were significant numbers of resources in the US on H1B visa that were required by those laws to return to their country of origin after termination of their employment. These were not enforced and many of these resources remained willing to work for a little as $5-$10 per hour. US Citizens who had made the investment in a high technology education would not be able to support their student loans on such an income had made
Please be very careful when reviewing and “reforming” these laws. I believe this is just a political red herring used to justify a much greater reform than is being presented to our voting citizens.
We being manipulated by the images of poor hardworking individuals who are now afraid because their decision to do something illegal is now being called into question. The press is presenting this as though it is only an issue for poor unskilled workers to illicit a compassionate response in order to gain acceptance of and put through a much broader agenda.
The real potential is that every industry in America from farming to medicine, engineering to accounting could be threatened by the influx of low cost labor from around the world where every nation could send those who are interested in a better life to this country to take away the wealth and opportunity that has been build by our ancestors.