White House Pushing Amnesty and National ID Cards

Posted in: Jim Kouri, NewsWire
By Jim Kouri
Saturday, March 20, 2010 - 7:51:20 PM ET

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 hiscampaign promise to revamp U.S. immigration policy as part of his fundamental transformation of the United States.

On Thursday, Obama mentioned a proposal by Democrat SenatorCharles Schumer and Republican Senator Lindsey Graham,tha tfeatures a first-ever national identification card for U.S. citizens and legal immigrants who want a job.

In a blogposted online by The Washington Post, Senators Schumer and Grahamstated "our immigration system is badly broken." Graham, who has angered conservatives time and time again, and Schumeroutlined plan revamp U.S. immigration policy.

While the proposal forstate-of-the-art identification cards are a new development in the Senate,other parts of the Schumer-Graham plan are old hat includinga promise toupgrade 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 Islamicterrorist 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-booksâ€