Lee Whitnum
2008
DEMOCRAT FOR CONGRESS
Progress in our state! Finally! I applaud Mayor Boughton and the tough
decision by the Danbury Common Council, for the good of all, to allow
specially trained police officers to enforce immigration. I would work to
include the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE)
throughout Fairfield County.

Also, illegal immigrants must immediately apply for a tax payer
identification, tax payer restitution, and a background check to ensure we are
not harbouring fugitives from other countries. Most illegals make more
hourly than many Americans (waitresses, retail employees, teacher aids and
substitute teachers) but the Americans have to pay taxes.

Also, society pays in other ways:

1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens
each year. http://tinyurl.com/zob77

2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs
such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal
aliens. http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary
school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of
English! http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.html

5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the
American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare
and Social Services by the American taxpayers.
http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html

9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are
caused by the illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's
two-and-a-half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their
children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US .
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html

11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal
aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal
aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth,
heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border.
Homeland Security Report. http://tinyurl.com/t9sht

12. The National Policy Institute, "estimated that the total cost of
mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average
cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period."
http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf

13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to
their countries of origin. http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm

14. "The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex
Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants in The United States ".
http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml <http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml>;*

Total cost is a whooping... $338.3 BILLION A YEAR!!!

Meanwhile my opponent Jim Himes is posting Spanish speaking videos.  We
speak English here Jim. Check it out for yourself:  He'll pander to anyone
for a vote. People like him are part of the problem.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ff9dowh3jNE



When my mother attended school in the 1940s there weren't any bilingual
education programs (see my biography). You HAD to learn English. She  
became fully bilingual
, without an accent, and she eventually earned a
masters degree. Bilingual education is supposed to be a two year transition
program
but this now happens less and less. The child then reaches junior
high or high school and is not equipped to pass the necessary standardized
tests and so, the student drops out. Societally, we get a "dumbed down"
workforce.

No one is served by not encouraging and requiring that immigrants
learn to speak English.





* The aforementioned 14 have not been verified.