Immigration Control

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Rep. J.D. Hayworth, Arizona Republican, ripping apart the White House's immigration policy, National Review Online

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Professor Thomas Sowell made this observation:

Sen. Jeff Sessions Explains His Opposition to Final Passage of the Senate Immigration Bill
Thursday, May 25, 2006

WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) today announced his intention to vote against final passage of the immigration bill. As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sessions will serve on the conference committee that will try to reconcile the separately passed Senate and House immigration bills.

“The American people were counting on us to secure our borders and restore the rule of law to our immigration system,” Sessions said. “Unfortunately, the United States Senate today let the American people down by passing a deeply flawed bill that gives the illegal alien population every benefit this nation can bestow, and increases future legal immigration levels by three to five times the current level. Additionally, the immigration levels for the future ensure that 70 percent of the large influx will be admitted without having to meet any educational, skill or language requirements.”

According to Sessions, the fatal flaws are numerous:

• Border Security: Although I was glad the Senate approved my amendment to increase the amount of fencing and vehicle barriers along our southwest border, the border is not secured by this bill. The border security and immigration enforcement provisions will have to be paid for in the future, not just authorized by this bill. An “enforcement trigger” amendment, which I voted for, but which failed to pass, was needed to ensure that the American people are not promised immigration enforcement that is never delivered.

• Workplace Enforcement: Workplace enforcement is an integral component of effective immigration enforcement. Today, no mandatory workplace verification system exists, and employers know they can get away with hiring illegal workers. This must end. The provisions in the bill that attempt to address the problems in the workplace are deficient and will not work.

• Amnesty: If amnesty means anything, it means giving illegal aliens every benefit that legal immigrants receive. Under the bill, a vast majority of the illegal alien population will be given every benefit our nation can bestow on its citizens, including participation in the Social Security System based on their illegal work histories.

• Temporary Worker Program is Not Temporary: Though it has been sold as a ‘temporary guest worker program’ there is nothing ‘temporary’ about the new guest worker program created by this bill. Almost every new ‘temporary guest worker’ who comes in the future will be eligible for legal permanent resident status (a green card) and put on the path to citizenship.

• Future Immigration Levels: The bill increases future legal immigration at least three times the current level. Instead of 18.9 million people coming in the next 20 years, more than 66 million people will immigrate over the same time period. That number is too high.

• The Needs of the United States: The bill does nothing to ensure that our nation’s future immigration policy reflects our country’s needs. Developed nations have reformed their immigration policies to prioritize high-skilled immigration over large scale low-skilled and extended family chain migration. This bill prioritizes low-skilled and chain migration over skill-based immigration, an approach we should reject.

• Fiscal Impact: No official study has been conducted on the huge adverse financial impact this bill will create in the out years. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the bill will increase direct spending by $54 billion and discretionary spending by $64 billion in just the first 10 years. The Heritage Foundation projects the bill will increase long-term federal spending by at least $50 billion a year. These are staggering numbers that indicate that this bill might have costs as great as half a trillion dollars in any future 10-year period. This bill is a huge, monumental budget buster.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/

THE GOLDEN DOOR

Enforceable, Sustainable, CompassionateOn immigration, it's time to get real.


BY MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG

Wednesday, May 24, 2006 12:01 a.m.

In every decade there is a critical domestic issue that shapes our political life for decades to come. In the 1960s, it was civil rights; in the 1970s, the Watergate crisis; in the 1980s, crime and drugs; and in the 1990s, welfare dependency. Today, it is immigration.

In New York City, 500,000 of our more than three million immigrants are here illegally. Although they broke the law by illegally crossing our borders or overstaying their visas, our economy would be a shell of itself had they not, and it would collapse if they were deported. The same holds true for the nation. Yet in a post-9/11 world, the federal government can no longer wink at illegal immigration. To ensure our national security and keep our economy growing, it is essential that immigration reform embody four key principles:

1. Reduce Incentives. As a business owner, I know the absurdity of our existing immigration regulations all too well. Employers are required to check the status of all job applicants, but not to do anything more than eyeball their documents. In fact, hypocritically, employers are not even permitted to ask probing questions. As a result, fake "green cards" are dime a dozen, and illegal immigrants can easily qualify for jobs.

It is encouraging that a growing number of Democrats and Republicans in Congress recognize the need for a federal database that will allow employers to verify the status of those applying for jobs. The database must identify all job applicants in America based on documentation that cannot be corrupted--fingerprints or DNA, for example. (Social Security cards are just too easy to falsify.) In addition, there must be stiff penalties for businesses that fail to conduct checks or ignore their results. Holding businesses accountable is the crucial step, because it is the only way to reduce the incentive to come here illegally. Requiring employers to verify citizenship status was the promise of the 1986 immigration reform law, but it was an empty promise, never enforced by a federal government pressured to look the other way while workers were exploited. This allowed illegal immigration levels to overwhelm our border control. We must not make the same mistake again.

2. Increase Lawful Opportunity. Baby boomers are starting to retire, America's birthrate continues to slow, and our visa quotas remain too low. As a result, we need more workers than we have, and that's exactly why so many people want to come here. In most cases, those here illegally are filling low-wage, low-skill jobs that Americans do not want. Recent studies put the lie to the old argument that immigrants take jobs away from native-born Americans and significantly depress wages. Global economic forces are responsible for the declines in the real wages of unskilled workers and occur regardless of whether immigrants are present in a community. Moreover, any slight wage decline is more than offset by substantial increases in productivity.

To keep people and businesses investing in America, we need to ensure that we have workers for all types of jobs. That means increasing the number of visas for overseas manual workers, who help provide the essential muscle and elbow grease we need to keep our economy running, as well as the number of visas for immigrant engineers, doctors, scientists and other professionally trained workers--the brains of tomorrow's economy. And it means giving all of them, as well as foreign students, the opportunity to earn permanent status, so they can put their knowledge and entrepreneurial spirit to use for our country. Why shouldn't we reap the benefits of the skills they have obtained here? If we don't allow them in, or we send them home, we will be sending the future of science--and the jobs of tomorrow--with them.

3. Reduce Access. Controlling our borders is a matter of urgent national security. As President Bush recognizes, in some areas, particularly in border towns, additional fencing may be required; in open desert areas, a virtual wall--created through sensors and cameras--will be far more effective. However, even after doubling their numbers, border security guards will remain overwhelmed by the flood of people attempting to enter illegally. Only by embracing the first two principles--reducing incentives and increasing lawful opportunity--will the border security so desired by the House become a manageable task.

4. Get Real. The idea of deporting 11 million people, nearly as many as live in the entire state of Illinois, is pure fantasy. It is physically impossible to carry out, though if it were attempted, it would devastate both families and our economy. The Senate's tiered approach requiring that some people "report to deport" through guest worker programs--while leaving their spouses, children and mortgages behind--is no less ridiculous. If this approach becomes law, there can be little doubt that the black market for false documentation would remain strong and real enforcement impossible.

There is only one practical solution, and it is a solution that respects the history of our nation: Offer those already here the opportunity to earn permanent status and keep their families together, provided they pay appropriate penalties. For decades, the federal government has tacitly welcomed them into the workforce and collected their income and Social Security taxes, which two-thirds of undocumented workers pay. Now, instead of pointing fingers about the past, let's accept the present for what it is by bringing people out of the shadows, and focus on the future by casting those shadows aside, permanently.
As the debate continues in Washington, it is essential that Congress recognize the need for an immigration policy that is enforceable, sustainable and compassionate--and that enables the American economy to thrive in the 21st century. But if one principle is abandoned, we will be no better off than we were after passage of the 1986 law. A successful solution to our border problems cannot rest on a wall alone; it must be built on a foundation strong enough to support it, and to support our continued economic growth and prosperity.

Mr. Bloomberg is mayor of New York.

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Something which puts fear into the hearts of immigration agitators is the possibility of making illegal entry into the USA a felony. They also adamantly oppose a physical barrier along the Mexican border. Also on their list of no-no's is strict enforcement of our current laws, making English the official language of our government, abolition of welfare for ALL immigrants, legal and otherwise, identification requirement for voting in federal elections (congress and president) and a few more to numerous to mention in this limited space.

We should take our queue from them and go for those items they complain most loudly about.

Here's a sample of some of their worries: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/14/AR2006051400745_pf.html

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An article in theis morning's Washington Times has the following analysis of the immigration bill being discussed in congress: "The immigration reform bill that the Senate takes up today would more than double the flow of legal immigration into the United States each year and dramatically lower the skill level of those immigrants."

This is not the way to go. Here's the article: http://www.washtimes.com/national/20060515-122825-2467r.htm

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Hard as it may be to believe, the Boston Police Department is cracking down on the illegal alien pick up points for day work in the Boston area. They are focusing on Home Depots. We have had many calls on Saturday mornings informing the world of the problem. There are other locations as well, but this is a start.

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The next time you hear the comment that illegals only do work Americans won't, drive them nuts. Here's how:

Ciao.......Moe

April 3, 2006

From www.charliedaniels.com

Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner

Reprinted from NewsMax.com

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President Bush should heed the message being sent by a number of former supporters:

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The illegals are pawns for all sorts of people. It may well be that those who want them deported are their only friends. The are pawns of major corporations, small companies, sleazy individuals who hire them privately at unconscionable pay rates and no bennies, the Democrat Party, the Republican Party, Vincente Fox, and now some of th emost despicable anti-Americans around. Here's the story from World Net Daily and Jim Corsi:

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Why is America such a magnet. Here's some of the reason: