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HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 12

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HJM012.....................................................by STATE AFFAIRS
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION - Stating findings of the Legislature and urging the
President and Congress of the United States to pass the necessary and
appropriate legislation to resolve the illegal immigration crisis.

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  ]]]]              LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO             ]]]]
 Fifty-ninth Legislature                   Second Regular Session - 2008

                                                                       

                              IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                                HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 12

                                 BY STATE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

  1                                   A JOINT MEMORIAL
  2    TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED  STATES  IN  CONGRESS
  3        ASSEMBLED,  AND  TO THE CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION REPRESENTING THE STATE OF
  4        IDAHO IN THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.

  5        We, your Memorialists, the House of Representatives and the Senate of  the
  6    State  of  Idaho  assembled  in  the Second Regular Session of the Fifty-ninth
  7    Idaho Legislature, do hereby respectfully represent that:

  8        WHEREAS, the United States Constitution in Section 8,  Article  1,  grants
  9    the  federal  government  the right to secure our national borders through the
 10    power of Congress to establish a uniform rule of naturalization  and  to  make
 11    all  laws  which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the
 12    powers granted to it; and
 13        WHEREAS, even conservative estimates of the number of  illegal  immigrants
 14    residing  in  the  United  States range from twelve million to twenty million,
 15    with some estimates as high as thirty million; and
 16        WHEREAS, the illegal entry into the United States by tens of  millions  of
 17    illegal immigrants, approaching ten percent of this nation's population, is an
 18    issue that demands immediate attention.
 19        NOW,  THEREFORE,  BE IT RESOLVED by the members of the Second Regular Ses-
 20    sion of the Fifty-ninth Idaho Legislature, the House  of  Representatives  and
 21    the  Senate  concurring  therein,  that  we emphatically urge and petition the
 22    President of the United States and the Congress of the United States and  par-
 23    ticularly  the  congressional  delegation  representing  the state of Idaho to
 24    honor their oath of office to "support and  defend  the  Constitution  of  the
 25    United States" by passing the necessary and appropriate legislation to resolve
 26    the illegal immigration crisis by:
 27        (1)  Securing our national borders;
 28        (2)  Stopping   illegal  immigration,  including  the ending of government
 29        incentives for illegal immigration; and
 30        (3)  Immediately implementing a guest-worker program that requires  guest-
 31        workers  to  apply  for  work  visas  and  that establishes compliance and
 32        enforcement standards.
 33        BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Chief Clerk of the  House  of  Representa-
 34    tives, be, and she is hereby authorized and directed to forward a copy of this
 35    Memorial  to  the  President of the United States, the President of the Senate
 36    and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Congress, and the  congres-
 37    sional  delegation  representing  the  State  of  Idaho in the Congress of the
 38    United States.

Statement of Purpose / Fiscal Impact

                       STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
                                 
                             RS18133
                                 
The purpose of this legislation is to send the message to the Congress
of the United States, and particularly the congressional delegation
representing the State of Idaho that the Second Regular Session of the
Fifty-ninth Idaho Legislature, the Senate and the House of
Representatives concurring therein, that the Congress of the United
States, and particularly the congressional delegation representing the
State of Idaho, are hereby urged and petitioned to "support and defend
the Constitution of the United States" by:

     (1) Securing our national borders;

     (2) Stopping illegal immigration, including the ending of
         government incentives for illegal immigration; and

     (3) Immediately implementing a guest-worker program that requires 
         guest-workers to apply for work visas and that establishes 
         compliance and enforcement standards.



                           FISCAL NOTE
                                 
None.





Contacts
Senator Shirley McKague
Phone: 208 332 1339
Senator Monty Pearce
Senator Mel Richardson
Senator Lee Heinrich
Senator Mike Jorgenson
Representative JoAn Wood
Representative Mary Hagedorn
Representative Phil Hart
Representative Brent Crane
Representative Mark Snodgrass
Representative Eric Anderson
Representative Max Black


                                                     
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/FISCAL NOTE                                 HJM 12