Thread: Sessions - America needs to curb immigration flows

ACTIVISM ALERT: Please contact Senator Jeff Sessions (click here) and offer him your support and encourage him to keep fighting to save America from amnesty and illegal immigration!

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By Jeff Sessions April 9 at 8:17 PM

Jeff Sessions, a Republican from Alabama, is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s immigration subcommittee.

It is time for an honest discussion of immigration.

The first “great wave” of U.S. immigration took place from roughly 1880 to 1930. During this time, according to the Census Bureau, the foreign-born population doubled from about 6.7 million to 14.2 million people. Changes were then made to immigration law to reduce admissions, decreasing the foreign-born population until it fell to about 9.6 million by 1970. Meanwhile, during this low-immigration period, real median compensation for U.S. workers surged, increasing more than 90 percent from 1948 to 1973, according to the Economic Policy Institute.

In the 1960s, Congress lifted immigration caps and ushered in a “second great wave.” The foreign-born population more than quadrupled, to more than 40 million today.

This ongoing wave coincides with a period of middle-class contraction. The Pew Research Center reports: “The share of adults who live in middle-income households has eroded over time, from 61% in 1970 to 51% in 2013.” Harvard economist George Borjas has estimated that high immigration from 1980 to 2000 reduced the wages of lower-skilled U.S. workers by 7.4 percent — a stunning drop — with particularly painful reductions for African American workers. Weekly earnings today are lower than they were in 1973.

Yet each year, the United States adds another million mostly low-wage permanent legal immigrants who can work, draw benefits and become voting citizens. Legal immigration is the primary source of low-wage immigration into the United States. In other words, as a matter of federal policy — which can be adjusted at any time — millions of low-wage foreign workers are legally made available to substitute for higher-paid Americans.

This federal policy continues at a time when robotics and computerization are slashing demand for workers. One Oxford University professor estimates that as many as half of all jobs will be automated in 20 years. We don’t have enough jobs for our lower-skilled workers now. What sense does it make to bring in millions more?

If no immigration curbs are enacted, the Census Bureau estimates that another 14 million immigrants will come to the United States between now and 2025. That means we will introduce a new population almost four times larger than that of Los Angeles in just 10 years time.

The percentage of the country that is foreign-born is on track to rapidly eclipse any previous historical peak and to continue rising. Imagine the pressure this will put on wages, as well as schools, hospitals and many other community resources.

It is not mainstream, but extreme, to continue surging immigration beyond any historical precedent and to do so at a time when almost 1 in 4 Americans age 25 to 54 does not have a job. What we need now is immigration moderation: slowing the pace of new arrivals so that wages can rise, welfare rolls can shrink and the forces of assimilation can knit us all more closely together.

But high immigration rates help the financial elite (and the political elite who receive their contributions) by keeping wages down and profits up. For them, what’s not to like? That is why they have tried to enforce silence in the face of public desire for immigration reductions. They have sought to intimidate good and decent Americans into avoiding honest discussion of how uncontrolled immigration impacts their lives.

But that dam is breaking. The elite consensus is crumbling — and the enforced silence on this critical issue will end.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...f6a_story.html

YES! YES! We actually need a 10 Year Moratorium on Immigration until this whole mess is straightened out, illegal aliens are returned to their home countries, and all Americans are back to work at sustainable wages, real unemployment is below 2% and poverty rates are less than 5%.

Jeff Sessions, you're the best Chairman the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration has ever had, and I thank you, thank you, thank you for all the great work you're doing for the American People.

ACTIVISM ALERT: Please contact Senator Jeff Sessions (click here) and offer him your support and encourage him to keep fighting to save America from amnesty and illegal immigration!

Made the call thanking him for working to stop illegal immigration as well as curb immigration levels and mentioned my preference for a 10 Year Moratorium on Immigration.

This activism alert and article is being linked to in today's email alert going out to the nation found at...
http://www.alipac.us/f8/fight-illega...5/#post1459419

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U.S. To Admit More Legal Immigrants In Decade Than The Combined Population Of 7 Major Cities

by Caroline May
13 Apr 2015

Unless Congress moves to limit current legal immigration rates, the U.S. will add at least 10 million more legal immigrants over the next decade — more than the combined populations of seven major cities, according to GOP staffers on the Senate’s Immigration subcommittee.

A chart the committee released Monday reveals that the populations of Atlanta, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Denver, St. Louis, and Dallas together would not equal the number of new immigrants set to be admitted over the coming ten years.

The chairman of the subcommittee, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), has been arguing for a curb to current immigration levels.

“What we need now is immigration moderation: slowing the pace of new arrivals so that wages can rise, welfare rolls can shrink and the forces of assimilation can knit us all more closely together,” Sessions wrote in an op-ed Thursday (emphasis his).



In conjunction with the release of the chart, the subcommittee issued an analysis of the expected flow over the coming ten years, noting that under current policy the U.S. issues “green cards” to about a million new Legal Permanent Residents annually.

“New lifetime immigrants admitted with green cards gain guaranteed legal access to federal benefits, as well as guaranteed work authorization,” the analysis reads. “LPRs can also petition to bring their relatives to the United States, and both the petitioner and the relatives can become naturalized citizens.”

The more than 10 million immigrants expected over the coming decade — as the chart shows — is more than the total populations of Atlanta (447,000), Los Angeles (3.88 million), Chicago (2.7 million), Boston (645,000), Denver (650,000), St. Louis (318,000), and Dallas (1.25 million).

The analysis notes that in the 1950s and 1960s only about 285,000 new permanent residents were admitted annually — or less than 3 million in a decade — and over all the foreign-born population actually declined from the 1950s-1970s.

“During this economic period, compensation for American workers nearly doubled,” the analysis reads. “These lower midcentury immigration levels were the product of a federal policy change—after the last period of large-scale immigration that had begun in roughly 1880, President Coolidge argued that a slowing of immigration would benefit both U.S.-born and immigrant-workers.”

Since the 1970s, however, the report notes that the foreign-born population in the U.S. has quadrupled to 41.3 million in 2013 as the share of working age men (25-54 years old) has tripled since the 1960s. It notes that the 2013 Senate Gang of Eight immigration bill, S.744, would have continued the trend of increased immigration by tripling the number of green cards available over the next decade.

“Finally, it is worth observing that the 10 million grants of new permanent residency under current law is not an estimate of total immigration,” the analysis adds. “In fact, increased flows of legal immigration actually tend to correlate with increased flows of illegal immigration: the former helps provide networks and pull factors for the latter. Most of the top-sending countries for legal immigration are also the top-sending countries for illegal immigration.”

The analysis further noted that visa overstays make up a significant part of illegal immigration and that the Census Bureau is projecting that net immigration will be 14 million by 2025.

“Not only is the population of foreign-born at a record level, but Census projects that, in just eight years, the percentage of the country that is foreign-born will reach the highest level ever recorded in U.S. history, with more than 1 in 7 residents being foreign-born and, unlike the prior wave, surge towards 1 in 6 and continually upward, setting new records each and every year. In 1970, less than 1 in 21 residents were foreign-born,” the report reads, noting that this is occurring as Gallup has shown that a majority of Americans want to see a decrease in immigration rather than an increase.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...-major-cities/

We need a Congressional majority to think like Jeff Sessions but, instead, we have a bunch of sellouts and cowards riding a cushy payroll at our expense. NONE are true Americans and about 98% appear most willing to knuckle under to the Kenyan Illegal in the Oval Office.

Mr. Sessions speaks of periodic waves of immigrants. What he didn't mention is 1) they didn't sneak into our country like thieves in the night, and 2) they were met by authorities who turned back any with contagious diseases and criminal backgrounds. The glaring difference between then and nowadays is that Obama/Soetoro is wholeheartedly ushering in illegals in those two otherwise disqualifying categories.

Worse, we have a Congress that for the most part thinks that "patriotism" is just another word as well as a negotiable commodity. Worst of all, they most willingly turn their heads and sit idly by while Obama/Soetoro repeatedly violates the Constitution and his Oath Of Office, and does all he can get away with to destroy OUR country and overrun us with illegals from Mexico and points further south, many of whom are diseased and criminals.

Yes, all kudos to Jeff Sessions, but that's not enough nor will it ever be. More and more it's coming down to "us" and what we must do - as individuals and in groups - to restore the sanctity of OUR country.