Revision: Dec. 10, 2009, midnight
HCR 22 – AS INTRODUCED
2010 SESSION
05/04
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 22
A RESOLUTION urging Congress to oppose any legislation supporting amnesty or granting lawful status to any person who has entered the United States illegally.
SPONSORS: Rep. Ulery, Hills 27; Rep. Renzullo, Hills 27; Rep. Wendelboe, Belk 1; Rep. W. O'Brien, Hills 4; Rep. Kappler, Rock 2
COMMITTEE: State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
This resolution urges Congress to oppose any legislation supporting amnesty or granting lawful status to any person who has entered the United States illegally.
10-2065
05/04
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Ten
A RESOLUTION urging Congress to oppose any legislation supporting amnesty or granting lawful status to any person who has entered the United States illegally.
Whereas, amnesty was the failed solution of past federal legislation; and
Whereas, amnesty allows for increased cost in all areas of life for legal citizens; and
Whereas, amnesty rewards illegal aliens for breaking our laws; and
Whereas, amnesty would allow illegal-alien gang members, criminals, and terrorists to be eligible to become citizens of the United States; and
Whereas, amnesty would increase the poverty rate and allow more people to collect unemployment benefits; and
Whereas, amnesty would encourage millions more to fraudulently apply for amnesty; and
Whereas, amnesty actually serves to punish those foreign nationals that respect the law and seek to enter the country properly; and
Whereas, amnesty fails to require use of any verification system by employers such as the “Basic Verification System;” and
Whereas, amnesty would increase the number of people eligible for the already financially suffering Medicaid and Medicare systems; and
Whereas, amnesty would allow individuals to become eligible for Supplemental Social Security Income, which is currently in need of much reform; and
Whereas, it costs billions of dollars to educate illegal immigrants and the children of illegal immigrants with a cost of up to $8,500 per child; and
Whereas, the cost of amnesty is estimated in the trillions and would add additional burden onto all state and federally funded programs; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:
That the general court of the state of New Hampshire by this concurrent resolution urges the Congress of the United States to strongly oppose any legislation supporting amnesty or the granting of lawful status to any person that has entered or remained in the United States illegally; and
That copies of this resolution be sent by the house clerk to the President of the United States, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and to each member of the New Hampshire Congressional delegation.