Thread: Advocates: Sweeping immigration reform an economic boost; op

Advocates: Sweeping immigration reform an economic boost; opponents see disaster
January 14, 2010 11:52 PM
Martha L. Hernández
The Monitor

Capitol Hill will probably not take up immigration reform this year.

Even many in Congress who support reform don’t want to tackle the issue until after what will likely be contentious mid-term elections.

“We are going to go back, finish the healthcare bill, finish the job bill, then of course you have the 2010 election,â€

lets homepage this one when someone gets a chance please.

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The defect in this is argument of McAllen CoC that it non sustainable and requires an ever increasing flow of immigrants.

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http://www.alipac.us/article-4844--0-0.html

I do not believe this. We must not allow illegal aliens stay here. They do not respect immiigration laws. They should leave the country now.

The nonprofit, nonpartisan, pro-immigrant organization established by leaders of the American Immigration Lawyers Association released a report last week that claims legalizing the estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants already in the United States through comprehensive immigration reform would add $1.5 trillion to the nation’s gross domestic product over the next decade, generate billions of dollars in additional tax revenue and consumer spending...

Even if their figures are correct, which I doubt, it would still cost around $2.3 trillion in that same decade to implement the Amnesty. The American taxpayers would still be $800 billion in the hole. (The $2.3 trillion figure is what it would have cost to implement the 2007 Amnesty, if it would have passed).

...and support hundreds of thousands of jobs.

What they avoid mentioning here is that these newly legalized illegal aliens would get to keep these hundreds of thousands of jobs, leaving hundreds of thousands of Americans unemployed.

Undocumented workers often make less than minimum wage

If given amnesty lets say they then make the minimum wage...They still won't be paying taxes and will qualify for the EITC!

The statistics presented indicate the cost per apprehension in 2008 for the Border Patrol was $3,102 — nearly five times the $630 it cost in 2000.

It should and would be a one time cost to American taxpayers if the laws were truly enforced where as the EITC costs to taxpayers would be in perpetuity.