Cheering loudest for the narrow defeat in Fremont, NE last week of a city ordinance that would have required local businesses to comply with US immigration law was Nebraska Appleseed—an illegal immigration advocacy group funded by the Ford Foundation and George Soros, among others, that is part of a "network of 16 public interest justice centers in the U.S. and Mexico".

It was a victory cheer: Nebraska Appleseed played a role in killing the "anti-immigrant" measure, which would have required landlords and employers to use the federal E-Verify system. In written testimony to the Fremont city council, Norman Pflanz, staff attorney for Nebraska Appleseed, argued that since it is well established that immigration is a federal matter "the proposed Fremont ordinance would unlawfully attempt to regulate immigration because private actors (landlords and employers) and city officials would determine who was lawfully present, instead of federal officials."

Here’s the absurdity that Nebraska Appleseed wanted the people of Fremont to swallow:

Because a federal law is a federal law, local officials cannot take measures to increase public participation in a federal program provided by the federal government to the public for the purpose of increasing public compliance with that federal law.

How embarrassing for Fremont that some city council members were actually swayed by this hogwash.

It would be laughable if the flip side weren’t so sinister. For while the Appleseedlings like to pretend the entire federal apparatus and the Constitution itself are threatened if a city council somewhere tries to mandate compliance with federal immigration law, non-compliance with federal immigration law, for Nebraska Appleseed, is entirely a local matter . The Appleseedlings have no problem with private actors not complying with federal immigration law—with millions of them, in fact, from other countries, no less, in blatant individual daily violation of it.

In fact, pushing local policies to help private actors not comply with federal immigration law is this outfit’s raison d’etre.

On its website, Nebraska Appleseed lists some of the other projects that keep the Appleseedlings busy when they’re not poisoning the local democratic process with rent-a-mobs and specious legal arguments:

• Nebraska Appleseed works to separate out immigration law from all the other laws and make immigration law enforcement off limits to law enforcement officers in Nebraska.
• Nebraska Appleseed advises banks and credit unions on how to make it easier for illegal aliens to use financial services in this country.
• Nebraska Appleseed "articulates and publicizes strong regional support for our newest neighbors and for the policy changes necessary to treat them fairly."
• Nebraska Appleseed complains that "Nebraska’s progress in welcoming newcomers and treating immigrant families equitably has been frustrated by the thousands of non-citizens detained in county jails across the state for immigration law violations and facing deportation without legal representation."
• Nebraska Appleseed works to ensure immigrants (to whom most social services and public benefits are denied by federal law) have access to social services and public benefits.
• Nebraska Appleseed works hard "to insure Nebraska is a welcoming state, with policies and practices that do not disadvantage newest Nebraskans."
• Nebraska Appleseed publishes helpful tracts like "Educational Opportunity for Undocumented Students: An Overview of In State Tuition Laws."

That is Nebraska Appleseed—enormous resources being used on one hand to encourage foreign nationals to violate US immigration law while on the other hand to frustrate efforts by citizens to see our immigration laws respected. And that’s what won in Fremont last week—that and George Soros and the enormously guilty Ford Foundation.

That can’t be allowed to win. The 25,000 people living in Fremont, Nebraska need to take that victory away from the Appleseedlings and reclaim their town.

Snatching Victory from Defeat

Fremont is the county seat of Dodge County where there were, in 2002, according to the Census Bureau, 25 gas stations employing 187 people. Imagine what might happen if some Fremonters started leaving e-VeriFILE prod cards with the station attendant every time they filled up their cars.

It’s my guess it wouldn’t be long before a few of those stations signed on to the E-Verify system.

Then imagine if those stations put the e-VeriFILE decal in their windows and on their pumps so that their customers knew that the stations were using E-Verify—so that their customers knew that when they bought their gas there, they were supporting a business that played by the rules.

And imagine if a whole bunch of Fremonters started going out of their way to buy gas from the stations that displayed the e-VeriFILE decal. Well, pretty soon, you’d have more stations signing up, and it wouldn’t be long before 20, maybe all 25, of the gas stations in Dodge County would be using the E-VErify system, hiring all 187 employees legally, and displaying the e-VeriFILE decal in their places of business.

And suppose the same thing happened at the 17 clothing stores in Dodge County with their 204 employees, and at the ten new car dealers with their 311 employees, and at the 36 fast food restaurants and 27 bars.

Pretty soon, every resident of Dodge County would know what E-Verify was. They’d know what the e-VeriFILE decal meant, and they would be able to recognize it at a glance and at a distance.

They would know that there is no excuse for an employer to undercut his neighbors by hiring illegally.

And, especially, they would know which businesses were using E-Verify. They would know which businesses were good neighbors.

Finally, citizens could reward law-abiding employers with their consumer dollars.

The popular will, in other words, could impose its desire that immigration laws in this country be respected. The whole town could begin using the E-Verify system, without any city ordinance, and there wouldn’t be a thing the Appleseedlings down in Lincoln could do about it.

Wouldn’t that be sweet? Let them squawk.

Tomorrow, an ad for e-VeriFILE begins running in the Fremont Tribune. But we need to pour it on, now, so I’m hoping you take action immediately on this:

1. Help us raise the money to promote e-VeriFILE in Fremont. Order prod cards (and use them to get an effort going in your own town).
2. Send a straight donation to get this effort off to the strongest possible start.

Please act today.

By the way, if you don’t think this whole immigration thing has gone far enough, check out this quote from a fellow American as quoted in a news story about the Fremont ordinance battle:

"Thankfully now, I’m a U.S. citizen, and that’s why I’m supporting the illegal immigration,” Fremont resident Gabby Ayala told a local television reporter. Ms Ayala then explained why she opposed the proposed city ordinance. The ordinance "would tear the city apart by making it illegal to harbor, hire, or rent to any illegal immigrants," she said.

She’s one of us?

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