Here comes the Immigrant Industrial Complex
Your tax $$ given away đ¸, Your government growing bigger and bigger...đą
Hereâs an âinterestingâ bill that slipped under my radar! Thank goodness for my friend that alerted me to it! HB 2368 creates an âOffice of Refugee and Immigration Assistanceâ within DSHS.
Public hearing in the Senate on Monday 2-19.
Action Items below, but first, letâs take a look at why weâre so concerned.
From the Bill Summary:
This bill create the structure needed to give hard-earned tax dollars to immigrants. These funds would be passed through âcommunity-based organizationsâ. There is often a great deal of graft, corruption, and waste by these organizations.
Can you say âImmigrant Industrial Complexâ? The service providers get paid by creating a bigger and bigger immigrant problem, not by solving and limiting the problem. If you build it, they will come, and come, and come.
Immigrants require things that many CITIZENS cannot afford. Housing. Health care. Employment. Groceries. The government provides these to these immigrants for free. We pay for these services with our tax dollars.
Finally, many immigrants break our laws and hurt our people. This means that our law enforcement system, courts, and jail systems are also going to need extra funding to deal with rising crime.
Encouraging immigration by providing âfree stuffâ and âservicesâ is a slap in the face to hard-working Washington citizens who are barely getting by.
Washingtonâs native peoples and natural born American citizens need to be the top priority for our government services!
How about giving all of the tax payers âfree stuffâ first? If thereâs money left over after providing natural born Washingtonians free health care, free education, free food and free housing, let me know!
This bill needs to be stopped in its tracks.
Government is not the solution to our problems, itâs the cause of our problems.
From the fiscal notes:
(commentary by RS)
WA state is creating a whole new department for this, to receive federal funding but reading between the lines and fine print- there will be state funding/aid as well. Funny that the fiscal notes are curiously devoid of impact COST numbers.....for now. WA state will soon have its own Immigration Department as a Welcome Wagon for border jumpers. Imagine that.
Section 3 requires the department to coordinate state, federal, and local efforts to support the economic and social integration of immigrants and refugees arriving and resettling in Washington.
Section 4 designates the department as the single state agency responsible for the development, review, and administration of the Washington state plan for refugee resettlement, and requires the department to submit the state plan to and seek approval from the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) within the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) according to Title IV of the federal Immigration and Nationality Act.
Section 5 requires the department to provide refugee cash assistance, refugee medical assistance, and refugee support services in accordance with the federal act and the state plan.
Section 6 permits the department to administer services to immigrants who are ineligible for federal services, and permits the department to contract with external agencies, including community-based organizations, to provide services.
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Action Item: Testify CON
Public Hearing on Monday morning at 10:30, so click the button below before 9:30 am 2/19.
I have this ONE BILL on the Mon 2/19 tab if youâd like to testify in person or in writing for the public hearing. The links are ready.
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Action Item 2: Write the Senators (donât wait)
Subject should be Oppose 2368 Assisting Immigrants.
Keep your comments fairly short. Focus on the massive expense, and how the senators should focus on helping citizens and taxpayers.
BCC the senators:
(edit - added these senators) andy.billig@leg.wa.gov, matt.boehnke@leg.wa.gov, john.braun@leg.wa.gov, annette.cleveland@leg.wa.gov, steve.conway@leg.wa.gov, manka.dhingra@leg.wa.gov, Perry.Dozier@leg.wa.gov, phil.fortunato@leg.wa.gov, noel.frame@leg.wa.gov, chris.gildon@leg.wa.gov, Sen.Drew.Hansen@leg.wa.gov, bob.hasegawa@leg.wa.gov, brad.hawkins@leg.wa.gov, jeff.holy@leg.wa.gov, sam.hunt@leg.wa.gov, claudia.kauffman@leg.wa.gov, karen.keiser@leg.wa.gov, curtis.king@leg.wa.gov
patty.kuderer@leg.wa.gov, marko.liias@leg.wa.gov, liz.lovelett@leg.wa.gov, john.lovick@leg.wa.gov, drew.macewen@leg.wa.gov, jim.mccune@leg.wa.gov, mark.mullet@leg.wa.gov, ron.muzzall@leg.wa.gov, joe.nguyen@leg.wa.gov, T'wina.Nobles@leg.wa.gov, mike.padden@leg.wa.gov, jamie.pedersen@leg.wa.gov, emily.randall@leg.wa.gov, ann.rivers@leg.wa.gov, june.robinson@leg.wa.gov, rebecca.saldana@leg.wa.gov, jesse.salomon@leg.wa.gov, mark.schoesler@leg.wa.gov, sharon.shewmake@leg.wa.gov, shelly.short@leg.wa.gov, derek.stanford@leg.wa.gov, Nikki.Torres@leg.wa.gov, yasmin.trudeau@leg.wa.gov, javier.valdez@leg.wa.gov, kevin.vandewege@leg.wa.gov, keith.wagoner@leg.wa.gov, judith.warnick@leg.wa.gov, lisa.wellman@leg.wa.gov, claire.wilson@leg.wa.gov, Jeff.Wilson@leg.wa.gov, lynda.wilson@leg.wa.gov
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