President Barack Obama is already planning his next sweeping change for American society after he gets his Obamacare passed in both houses of Congress: fulfillment of his campaign promise to revamp U.S. immigration policy as part of his fundamental transformation of the United States.
In a blog posted online by The Washington Post, Senators Schumer and Graham stated "our immigration system is badly broken." Graham, who has angered conservatives time and time again, and Schumer outlined plan revamp U.S. immigration policy.
While the proposal for state-of-the-art identification cards are a new development in the Senate, other parts of the Schumer-Graham plan are old hat including a promise to upgrade border security, creating a new process for admitting temporary workers, and implementing a "tough but fair path to legalization for those already here," a euphemism for illegal alien amnesty.
Obama met last week with Schumer and Graham, and the White House said a sweeping agreement dealing with as many as 12 million illegal immigrants was unlikely to get through Congress without support from both parties. Such a measure would have difficulty advancing before November's congressional election especially with the epidemic of violence occurring at the U.S.-Mexico border and reports that Islamic terrorist groups are recruiting and training would-be terrorists in Central and South American countries.
It’s been widely reported that illegal aliens comprise upwards of 27 percent of the US prison and jail population. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection — two agencies within the Department of Homeland Security — claim in several reports that they’ve apprehended over 100,000 criminal aliens whose offenses go far beyond violation of immigration laws and regulations.
Sadly, only about 25 percent of expenses for imprisoning criminal aliens is reimbursed by the federal government to state and local governments. This creates a hardship for taxpayers in states with high incarceration rates for criminal aliens. The proponents of open borders or lax immigration enforcement always point to the benefits derived from illegal immigration such as the amount of taxes they pay into the government system. Evidence, however, exists that refutes those claims. For instance, there is an abundance of anecdotal evidence that suggests a large number of illegal aliens are paid “off-the-books” therefore those wages are not taxed.
The National Research Council has estimated that the net fiscal cost of immigration ranges from $11 billion to $22 billion per year, with most government expenditures on immigrants coming from state and local coffers, while most taxes paid by immigrants who actually do pay taxes go to the federal treasury.
The net deficit is caused by a low level of tax payments by immigrants, because they are disproportionately low-skilled and thus earn low wages, and a higher rate of consumption of government services, both because of their relative poverty and their higher fertility.
This is especially true of illegal immigration. Even though illegal aliens make little use of welfare, from which they are generally barred, the costs of illegal immigration in terms of government expenditures for education, criminal justice, and emergency medical care are significant.
Californian officials have estimated that the net cost to taxpayers in order to provide government services to illegal immigrants approached $3 billion during a single fiscal year. The fact that states must bear the cost of federal failure turns illegal immigration, in effect, into one of the largest unfunded federal mandates existing today.
In addition, according to the Center for Immigration Studies, even with free trade, the United States continues to enjoy a higher real wage than other nations, due to the superiority of US technology. If taken to an extreme and the US removed all barriers to migration, most foreign workers would move to the United States, lured by the higher wages available here; Foreign labor would essentially cease to exist.
However, with all labor now in the United States, the prices of goods would return to their level of self-sufficiency, prior to the opening of trade. That is, perfectly free migration entirely eliminates the gains from trade that US natives had enjoyed. World income rose with the migration, but the natives of foreign countries in this case received more than all of this rise, since the income of US natives declined. With the world’s majority of low-wage workers in the US, there would be tremendous damage to free trade and its benefits, with US middle and upper-middle class workers suffering the brunt of declining wages.
The urge for a utopian state of existence and a desire to make all things equal by the American Left has given way to a desire simply to make all things equal sans utopia. In their passion for a neo-Marxist level for the masses, they’ve decided consciously or subconsciously that if they could not bring the World’s population up to the American level of prosperity and wealth, then they will bring US citizens down to the World’s level of poverty and misery. For this is a result of seeing free trade as a zero-sum entity, and self-alienation of the American Left from their own country, the USA.
The problem isn’t about the need for new laws; the problem is about the lack of enforcement of existing laws. The US Constitution provides the executive branch with a number of inherent powers such as the enforcement of immigration laws.
The Constitution also mandates that the President protect American sovereignty and the American people. That is the number one priority for our government — of it should be. And congress is mandated to provide domestic tranquility for Americans. Criminal alien gangbangers do not add to our domestic tranquility.
Why is it suddenly necessary for congress to pass laws on illegal immigration when we haven’t been enforcing the laws that already exist. The executive branch has the power to add border agents, equipment and other resources. The President has the power to use the military if necessary to enhance border protection. Passing laws is an easy, painless process. The trick is to enforce those laws.
And why isn’t the US government arresting illegal aliens while they are protesting in our city’s streets all across the country? The protest organizers, believed to be sponsored by left-wing groups including Open Borders and MEChA, are protesting the border security bill that passed the US House of Representatives in December and is still awaiting passage by the US Senate.
The University of Texas at El Paso recently conducted a study that found the following: Treating illegal immigrants in hospitals accounts for nearly one quarter of the uncompensated costs at border county hospitals in Cochise County. That county in Arizona spends tens of thousands of dollars just picking up trash left at campsites by these illegals. Prosecuting and jailing illegals costs this county an additional $5 million a year. And 25 percent of Cochise County’s budget is paid for health care for the uninsured, the majority of whom are illegally in the country.
In another study of a sample group of 55,000 criminal aliens, it was discovered they accounted for over 400,000 arrests and more than 700,000 criminal acts including felonies. In Los Angeles, the city that’s hosting the protest — which was whole-heartedly endorsed by its mayor — 95% of the outstanding arrest warrants for homicides are for illegal aliens and 65% of all felony warrants are for so-called undocumented immigrants. Are they committing the crimes Americans won’t commit?
Sources: National Criminal Justice Research Service, Department of Justice, The Center for Immigration Studies, National Institute of Justice
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If any amnesty is granted the 2.5 million illegal immigrants in California, the state budget with never recover. Our state has been bankrupt by illegal immigrants and the estimated 9 BILLION spent on them annually here. I can't even imagine what will happen when they ALL become legal. PLUS, with the violence in Mexico, millions more will show up with their hands out too.
USA has been killing the middle class and adding millions of poverty stricken immigrants won't help up.... meanwhile, millions more will just walk through the open borders while our police do nothing.
and to see them bring their sick depraved and racist values. No nice culture to fuse into the USA, as you could see in their TV shows and media that comes here from Mexico. try youtubeing TELMEXUVISION for example..
Obama is from Kenya, Iraq, and also from CUBA! That's why he hates America and Jesus!!! Did you know that he passed a law to give youthinasia to all non Muslin elderly? Everyone who is an illegal is a criminal and hates America.
There are 15 million unemployed Americans looking for work. There are 8 million felon illegal aliens working. Amnesty -NO, Deportaion - YES!!
In truth these morons undermine, compromise any system that actually has a chance of functioning. Its has been a bargaining chip for Illinois Rep. Luis Gutierrez who mysteriously changed his mind for voting the President Obama health Care Reform, after the man in the White House committed himself to another illegal immigrant AMNESTY. If Amnesty passes the American taxpayer is going to be in a whole world of financial hurt. I am already paying my share for foreign wars and yet the IRS will extort money from Americans to support illegal immigrants? Remember today that illegal immigration rallies start, so help stop this travesty and contact your Washington Representative at 202-224-3121
The US government lied to us yet again. The fence that we see in video's is not the original construction designed by Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) Initially his concept was a two-layer fence barrier, that had a no-mans-land in between. It gave the US Border Patrol vehicles rapid transit across the miles, of open desert. Like all forms of serious immigration enforcement it was underfunded by Sen. Harry Reid, Speaker Pelosi and a whole bunch of corrupt politicians, on either side of the aisle. Its all to do with corporate welfare. From any distance all these immigration tools, are--ONLY SEEN TO WORK?
If the Fence had been built to the original specifications, with the wide space in between for agent reconnaissance, very few individuals or groups of illegal aliens, drug smugglers, traffickers, terrorists and other criminals would be caught. IN TRUTH THE ONLY LAW THAT WOULD STOP THE ILLEGAL ALIEN INVASION FOR GOOD, IS MAKING ENTRY A FELONY?. NumbersUSA for the real truth.
Behind closed doors away from prying eyes of the general public the cards are already stacked against us. As we have seen E-Verify nearly ended up on the funeral pyre, as with the police apprehension law 287(g). Ice raids have already slowed down and the No-Match letter to employers rescinded. Behind our backs Homeland Security Madam Napolitano has cut budgets for the fence and other needed enforcement. Probably to patronize Mexico whose majority of poor, uneducated population is moving here. If they add-FAMILY UNIFICATION-to the reform, the numbers of family members approval will reach at least 60 million more people to America? This will and and multiply in OVERPOPULATION GROWTH by 2040. Just look around you know at the overcrowded cities, collapsing infrastructure and diminishing livelihood resources?
I agree with a system to import highly skilled workers, scientists, engineers and real PH.d. But we cannot afford to bring in to this country, those who end up on the bread line, expecting American taxpayers to cover their economic problems? The majority that have intentionally slipped through our laughable border defense, through airport control are here to take unfair advantage of Taxpayers. This is displayed negatively in states like New York, Arizona and the refuge illegal alien state of California. California has become a welcoming government welfare state for illegal single females with their infants and millions of others, have sponged off the citizens and legal residents for decades. The Golden State of California is in a state of near--BANKRUPTCY--with other states not far behind.
Google "The Princeton Report Mexico child molestation"
Princeton (University) Study (PDF)
Quote from the report: "The study is limited in that it was qualitative, restricted to low-income Mexico City, and the sample was non-random: we cannot obtain an estimate of levels of abuse (child sexual abuse) in the general population. The young people interviewed were not selected for having had experiences of sexual abuse, nor were they selected from a group with a particular social “problem”. “NEVERTHELESS, A VERY LARGE NUMBER OF CASES WERE REPORTED, DESPITE THE SENSITIVE NATURE OF THE TOPIC, SUGGESTING THAT THE PROBLEM IS WIDESPREAD.”
Google "Study: 1 million sex crimes by illegals"
Study: 1 million sex crimes by illegals
Researcher estimates more than 100 (sex) offenders crossing border daily. About 1/3 of them are child molesters. This means that around 12,000 child molesters are illegally entering the U.S. every year!
Are you listening, mom & dad?
Along with providing citizenship to hardened criminals of all stripes, the plan of Democrats is to swell their voter base dramatically.
It's much more difficult to explain the motives of cockroaches like McCain & Graham.
Our President is trying to hand everyone the "apple" And to those who don't take it, why you are heartless, and you don't care about poor people. All you care about is your livelyhood. And your children's livelyhood. Yea how many millions did we send to Haiti? How often do we help our neighbors out by attending local fund raisers? Does Mexico do that? "We need to bring in Educated people from other countries." Really? my son is taking a college course at a highly accreditd College, from a Saudi immagrant,who doesen't speak English well enough. And I believe my son when he says, the guy really doesn't know what he is talking about. My son, has always been brilliant in school. So it is not a question of my son not agreeing with what the Teacher says. The Teacher either is purposely trying to mislead, or doesn't know crap.
People, take the blinders off. You are not in Kansas anymore, and it won't be America before to long.
What are you talking about... bring kids from other countries because American kids can not do it.... they are too lazy to do any effort. your kid is brilliant for American Schools, and pretty sure he is not so brilliant if you compare it with European kids, Indian kids, Korean ..etc.... AMERICAN KIDS are way behind..... go study more
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