Commissioner Stan Deatherage Presents Resolution: Support Comprehensive Immigration Reform with Securing the Borders First as its Essential Component | Eastern NC Now

    At this upcoming Beaufort County Commissioners general meeting, Commissioner Stan Deatherage will ask them to be resolved to Support Comprehensive Immigration Reform with Securing the Borders First as its Essential Component.

    Whereas, illegal immigrants cost Beaufort County millions of tax dollars every year as county services are exhausted to support those who are here illegally, and,

    Whereas, there is bipartisan motivation afoot in the United States Congress to correct the United States' broken immigration policy by correcting that which is currently unsustainable, that is unwise and that is imprudent fiscally, and, moreover, from a national security perspective, a great hazard, and,

    Whereas, the borders of the United States are porous to a people from countries that are oppressed, impoverished, subjugated by bad policy by chronically corrupt government entities, and, ultimately, are desirous of, often at a terrible cost, the relative personal promise of the United States to better their existence, therefore,

    Be it resolved, that the good People of the Beaufort County, with us as their most local governing body - the Beaufort County Commissioners - do hereby resolve that we support sustainable, wise and prudent comprehensive immigration reform, with the most essential component of that reform being to employ the United States' estimable power to secure our borders first.

    Written by Beaufort County Commissioner Stan Deatherage, and submitted for passage on July 1, 2013. Copies of this ratified resolution to be sent to our congressional delegation, the leadership of the house and senate, and to the president of the United States. Copies to also be e-mailed to all other North Carolina counties.