Congressman Ted Deutch having a Town Hall Meeting

Congressman Ted Deutch will host a town hall meeting at Lynn University to discuss the latest political developments as well as immigration. His guest will be Congressman Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) who wants a mass amnesty bill. Deutch's office sent out the details:

Monday, April 30 at 2:30 p.m.

Free event. You are all invited and please announce or invite friends. Held at Lynn University at the site of the upcoming October presidential debate.

RSVP online at www.Deutch.House.Gov or contact Cong. Deutch's office at 561-988-6302.

As the Congressman has not replied to requests from NumbersUSA on the issue and even his own political web site offers no opinion on where he stands, I put in a call to his office to find out. Joshua called me back to let me know that Congressman Deutch believes that immigration reform must be solved at the Federal level, not by the states. When I said that Washington was doing a lousy job on immigration reform, he said, "If the states implement their own laws, it would be a patchwork immigration system." That holds true to form for Deutch as he never talks about the illegal immigration situation in Florida and was opposed to Arizona 1070. If we pretend that a problem doesn't exist, it doesn't.

With 950,000 illegals in the State of Florida or 5.2% of our overall population, illegal immigration has cost the residents of this State:

1. $3.4 billion a year to educate illegal immigrant children and the U.S. born children of illegal immigrants.
2. $290 million a year on free health care for illegal aliens.
3. $90 million a year to incarcerate criminal illegal aliens.

The total represents an annual cost to each of Florida’s native-born headed households of $678.

Twenty-five Americans die at the hands of criminal aliens every day in the U.S. (12 murders + 10 drunk-driving fatalities + 3 negligent homicides = 25 deaths every day) In the year 2005, criminal aliens killed more than three times the number of Americans murdered in the terrorist attacks of 9-11 died. 9,125 Americans died at the hands of criminal aliens in 2005, as compared to approximately 3,000 Americans who perished in 9-11.

Politicians are always giving citizens a song and dance about illegal immigration. Aren't you sick of it? Isn't it about high time that political leaders stop the pandering to the illegal immigration lobby and start enforcing laws that serve the interests of ordinary Americans? No more excuses by shoving this all off to the federal government that wants to take the easy way out by doing nothing. Stop the bull.