Help Save Maryland - President Trump Keeps the Pressure On
Bans Illegals From 2020 Census Count & Nails MS-13 Leader With Terrorism Charges
President Trump today announced that it is the policy of the United States to exclude from the apportionment base (for assigning numbers of congressional representatives among the states) aliens who are not in a lawful immigration status under the Immigration and Nationality Act. Read the details here, and please publicly support this move, if you can:
Statement from President Trump: https://www.whitehouse.
Presidential Memorandum: https://www.
MS-13 = Illegal Aliens = Terrorists
Federal prosecutors announced groundbreaking terrorism charges against Armando Eliu Melgar Diaz of El Salvador (home base Northern Virginia - compadres with CASA of Virginia?), who ran 20 MS-13 cells from Louisiana to New York - murders and assassinations (many with machetes), drug trafficking and extortion.
Dozens of other participating MS-13 gang members arrested nation-wide.
U.S. Attorney General William Barr - they're "virtually all illegal aliens".
Maryland Supporters of Illegal Aliens Do Their Thing In The Streets of Frederick
Earlier this month, radicals supposedly supporting "Brown lives matter" and opposing Frederick's participation in the Federal ICE 287(g) marched down the streets of Frederick, Maryland. Pray tell we need to keep our illegal alien/MS-13 gang compadres safe from those evil law enforcement officials.
It was a rag tag mob of illegal aliens (bused in), their handlers and frankly the great unwashed protesting everything under the sun from a murdered female soldier at a U.S. military base in Texas, to defunding police in general, to White Supremacy - whatever that is? Many signs and chanting in Spanish (guess they are not familiar with English).
Thankfully a near similar number of Maryland citizens and patriots showed up to welcome these crazies. Frederick Police were out in force as well to keep the crazies from looting and rioting.
Wonderfully biased Wash Post article gives you a flavor of the event.
The best part of this event was that its main goal was to highlight the "huge costs" of Frederick County Sheriff Chuck Jenkins's wildly popular and effective 287(g) Program participation. 287(g) allows Jenkins and his deputies to detain, arrest and remove illegal alien criminals from Frederick County streets.
Radicals have been crying that the 287(g) program costs taxpayers Millions each year, funds that could be used to make illegal aliens even more welcome in Frederick (likely at the expense of needy Black and White citizens). Guess what?
The long awaited audit actually highlighted 287(g) costs at LESS THAN $22K PER YEAR!
It cost more to have Frederick Police on the streets making sure the radical, illegal alien supporting mob didn't loot and burn lovely downtown Frederick for one day then it cost all year to keep Frederick citizens safe under the 287G program.
ACTION ALERT - FREDERICK COUNTY - TONIGHT
Sheriff Jenkins is delivering a report on the 287(g) program to the Frederick County Council's virtual meeting TONIGHT (Wednesday) at 5 PM.
Volunteers are needed to deliver a three minute virtual testimony in support of 287(g) in one of three ways.
Public comments can be submitted via email on the Council's public portal, https://FrederickCountyMD.gov/
Or call 855- 925-2801 and enter the meeting code 8365 to leave a voicemail message in support of 287(g) in Frederick County.
Or, at the 5pm meeting time, dial 855- 925-2801 and the meeting code 8365 to wait in line to deliver your three minute public comment live during the meeting.
Written comments and transcribed voice messages will be included in the Council record and minutes.
The independent audit of the 287(g) program came up with good news on the fiscal costs of the program. Read about it here.
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"Immigration Halt Support" - Letter to the Editor
Maryland's economy is in free-fall. Over 600,000 of the state's three million workers have filed for unemployment since the coronavirus struck.
Despite this widespread joblessness, Maryland's leaders have pressed to bring in more foreign workers. Gov. Larry Hogan has repeatedly urged the federal government to issue more guest-worker visas, especially for our seafood industry, which for many generations depended on locals.
Thankfully, the Trump administration put an end to this madness. The president just signed an executive order suspending the entry of most new foreign guest workers through the end of 2020. The president should get a lot of credit for doing the right thing despite opposition from Silicon Valley CEOs and other corporate lobbyists who yield tremendous influence in D.C. However, a short-term solution will not fix a long-standing problem.
I harbor no hostility towards immigrants. In fact, I'm an immigrant myself. I came to this country legally from Bangladesh in hopes of achieving the American dream. And I have nothing but empathy for others who come here in search of a better life.
But I also have empathy for my fellow Marylanders who have lost their livelihoods. It's time to prioritize the needs of these citizens and legal permanent residents - by ensuring they don't have to compete for scarce jobs with new workers coming from abroad.
Earlier this year, Hogan and Congressman Andy Harris (R), who represents the Eastern Shore, called on the Trump administration to issue additional guest-worker visas for Maryland's crab-picking industry. Even in March, after the coronavirus crisis had already begun, Congressman Harris called the supposed shortage of these H-2B visas - which businesses use to bring in seasonal workers for non-agricultural jobs like construction, landscaping, and meat and seafood processing - a "debilitating issue for the economy."
And the governor warned in January that "local seafood processors will be unable to open for business" if they can't hire guest workers.
These claims are fear mongering, pure and simple. There has never been a shortage of Americans willing to fill such jobs. Fifty-two percent of seafood hand packers and packagers were born here in America. Many of the remaining 48 percent are naturalized citizens like me. Only a relatively small percentage are guest workers.
And especially now, as the unemployment rate soars to levels not seen since the Great Depression, it's ludicrous to claim that businesses can't find enough Americans.
In reality, seafood processors and other businesses clamor for these visas because guest workers will accept lower wages. The average laborer in the meat, poultry, and fish cutting and trimming sector earns $11.39 per hour - but H-2B guest workers in that industry earn just $8.25 per hour, according to an Economic Policy Institute review of federal data from 2012. That means employers increase their profit by $3.14 per hour, a 28 percent discount.
Marylanders face competition not only from guest workers, but also from illegal immigrants. Unscrupulous businesses often hire these vulnerable laborers and treat them terribly. Nearly four in 10 illegal aliens have been paid less than minimum wage.
Too often, Maryland officials turn a blind eye to this problem - or worse, actively abet it. Earlier this year, lawmakers introduced several "sanctuary" bills that would have forbid local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration authorities. Such policies merely encourage more illegal immigration, thus perpetuating a cycle of abuse and wage theft that hurts legal and illegal workers alike. The bills didn't pass, but lawmakers will surely reintroduce them next year.
Maryland's legal residents - both native-born and immigrant - deserve better. In other states, elected officials have already stepped up to protect their citizens.
Many states require some or all businesses to use E-Verify, a free online tool that assesses whether newly hired laborers are authorized to work in the United States. Just across the Mason Dixon Line, for instance, all Pennsylvania construction firms must start using E-Verify this fall, thanks to a bill passed by the Keystone State's Republican legislature and signed into law by its Democrat governor. There's no reason Maryland shouldn't follow Pennsylvania's example.
President Trump did the right thing when he suspended new H-2B and other guest worker visas during the pandemic. That will go a long way to relieve pressure on Maryland's struggling workers.
Hundreds of thousands of Marylanders have lost their livelihoods. In a crisis like this, it's insane that our state officials wanted to continue allowing guest-workers and illegal immigrants to take jobs that'd otherwise go to Maryland's citizens and legal permanent residents.
Shakil Hamid
(The writer is an immigrant from Bangladesh who lives in Gaithersburg, Md.)
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True American Patriots in Action - Blacks, Whites and Hispanics
Female protesters rightly uses paint to cover racist BLM lettering in the streets of NYC - "Refund the Police"!
Another group uses Blue Paint to cover BLM. Murder and crime is way up in NYC, especially in Black neighborhoods.
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Brad Botwin, Director
Help Save Maryland.org
240-447-1884
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