George Putnam
Friday, Jan. 27, 2006

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It is this reporter's opinion that HB-4437, passed by the House of Representatives, is a good attempt at putting an end to the real cost of cheap illegal alien labor. Unfortunately, the bill is now headed for the Senate and a guest-worker-amnesty betrayal.

The president appears determined to include a Bush-Kennedy-McCain guest-worker-amnesty program in the Senate bill.

For the first time, we witness big business, the Chamber of Commerce and cheap-labor advocates all in bed together. The Senate is bent on granting guest-worker amnesty, which will give crooked employers an illegal alien work force of some 20-30 million.

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You and I have heard from Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians and activists. Now let's listen to a foreign-born Hispanic legal immigrant who attained naturalized citizenship through the legal process. He favors legal immigration and opposes illegal immigration.

His name is Tony Dolz and he has determined to put his thoughts into action. He is a candidate for the state of California 41st Assembly District. He believes that there is a time when having an opinion is not enough, when demanding accountability from our elected representatives is not enough.

Tony Dolz is aware of California's cheap-labor costs: The average household is paying $1,183 a year for cheap labor; our schools are being dumbed down to accommodate a massive number of non-English speakers; as reported by Dr. Madeleine Cosman, 85 Los Angeles County emergency rooms closed due to uninsured illegal aliens; our highways are clogged with thousands of illegal alien drivers mostly without insurance ...

Tony Dolz tells this reporter: "It is not the first time America turned a blind eye to the exploitation of desperate workers before in its history, when 10 percent of its population were slaves. Many free citizens before the Civil War picked cotton for a fair free-market wage but not for a slave's wage."

Tony cites that the number of illegal aliens in the shadows of our cities, our restaurant kitchens and construction sites is exploding. And still they come. The under-funded Border Patrol arrests over one and a half million aliens every year. Time magazine says 3 million slip through annually and disappear among a massive underclass.

Illegal cheap labor burdens our health care system, giving birth free of charge to hundreds of thousands of "anchor babies" – automatic U.S. citizens. Anchor babies are the illegal aliens' most obvious ticket to taxpayer social-support services costing us billions of dollars.

A new study from the Center for Immigration Studies estimates that households headed by illegal aliens used $10 billion more in government services than they pay in taxes. Among the largest federal costs are the following: