The Real Estate Fraud and Advisory Team now acts as the watchdog for fragile consumers. http://da.countyofventura.org/refraud_unit.htm

See your local supervisors or leadership will consider such a charge. It helps everyone.

First and foremost, why isn’t all this hatred directed toward those who have employed illegals for their own financial gain? People are here because “white people” pay them. Every single person on this post has enjoyed a wide variety of cheap products and services ranging from fresh produce to car washes to landscaping care to trade work to housekeeping services and more. Why don’t you all hate yourselves for being unwilling to pay union scale for what you want?

Even though actual facts do not matter to many people in this discussion there are undeniable truths conveniently overlooked or distorted.

According to US government data since 1983, more than $500 billion in uncredited Social Security wages have been earned by so-called “no match” employees – or those employees’ where names and numbers don’t match. When that happens, no one gets credit for the taxes paid by the worker. REPEAT: $500 billion dollars contributed by those people you want to run out of the United States who are working hard for better life.

PERCEPTION VS. REALITY

This information from the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University that does not advocate a position on immigration issues released a paper on the perceptions and realities of immigration. The report notes 9 common assertions – and whether they are solid, not provable or false.

1) Virtually all Arizonans consider undocumented immigration a threat. REALITY: 70 percent of Arizonans supported a law to authorize police to stop and verify the immigration status of anybody suspected of being an illegal immigrant, according to an April Rasmussen poll. At the same time, 57 percent favored a policy welcoming all immigrants except criminals, those who threaten national security or those here for welfare benefits.

2) Most violent crime is committed by undocumented immigrants. REALITY: That sentiment doesn’t separate types of crime, such as drug cartel violence in Mexico, crime by drug smugglers against their rivals and general crime. Arizona’s crime levels have declined or been level for years. From 1999 to 2006, states with high numbers of immigrants like Arizona saw crime drop more than the national average.

3) Undocumented immigrants are entering Arizona in record numbers. REALITY: The flow peaked about a decade ago. It has slowed or even stopped since the economic decline. The Department of Homeland Security estimated 460,000 undocumented immigrants in Arizona in 2009.

4) Undocumented immigrants are a drain on the economy. REALITY: They contribute sales tax dollars and billions of dollars annually in federal payroll taxes by workers who are ineligible to collect the benefits. They provide cheap labor that reduces costs. However, they hold mostly low-wage jobs, rely heavily on public services and send money to their home nation. It’s probably impossible to calculate the net economic effect in a way both sides would find conclusive.

5) Arizona’s prisons are bursting with undocumented immigrants. REALITY: The Department of Corrections reports 15 percent of inmates are “criminal aliens.” About 19 percent of inmates are undocumented in the Maricopa County Jail system.

6) Stiffer laws and tougher border enforcement will rid Arizona of undocumented immigrants. REALITY: This has begun, with illegal crossers falling from 600,000 in 2000 to 241,000 in 2009. It’s doubtful most undocumented families would leave because they’ve been welcomed over the past decade for their labor and have established their lives here with children who were born as U.S. citizens.

7) Undocumented immigrants flood the public health system. REALITY: Undocumented immigrants have been ineligible for the AHCCCS health care plan for the poor since 2004. But by law, hospitals must treat everybody in an emergency room, which is partially reimbursed by the federal government. Arizona hospitals report losing $24 million a year for treating undocumented patients. That sum is 6 percent of the $392 million lost a year for treatment of all under insured or uninsured patients. Some studies show undocumented immigrants use emergency rooms less than native-born people.

Undocumented immigrants take jobs from native-born Americans and depress wages. REALITY: Undocumented immigrants are overrepresented in the low-skilled workforce because the native population is aging. The upcoming wave of Baby Boomer retirements will likely make immigrants the only source of growth among workers 25 to 55 for decades to come. However, low-wage natives are hurt because immigrants push down wages and create competition for those jobs. Low-wage immigrants also pay low tax rates.

9) The influx of children of undocumented immigrants is overwhelming public schools. REALITY: That number is not counted in Arizona. Sen. Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, pushed a bill to count them but the measure got stalled. Federal law prevents schools from denying education to illegal immigrants. Several foundations calculate 11.9 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S., with 1.5 million undocumented children. About 3.5 million children of illegal immigrants are citizens or here legally. Of Arizona’s 1 million school children, 150,000 are in English Language Learner programs.

In summary, please, wise up before this nation is overrun by people who really do not embrace the best our founding principles that so many have given their lives for us to enjoy. Indeed, a nation divided against itself will not stand.