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Judiciary Subcommittee Helps Draw "Reform Act" Roadmap to Amnesty

Real immigration reform

Selection of links to supporting information concerning the effects of the Illlegal Alien invasion on our USA
Please feel free to choose one or more to be added to your letters.

[quote]1. Americans do not support amnesty; prefer enforcement-only approach

Zogby poll/May 2006-
http://www.cis.org/articles/2006/2006poll.html

2. Since 2000, the US has experienced the highest level of immigration in history, with illegal aliens being almost half of new arrivals
http://www.cis.org/articles/2005/back1405release.html

3. Americans want our borders secured to reduce illegal immigration and to prevent terrorists from entering our country; Americans support construction of the 700 mile border fence

http://www.cis.org/articles/2002/Paper2 ... mendations
http://tancredo.house.gov/irc/images/In ... report.pdf

4. US population will dramatically increase if amnesty is granted and legal immigration continues at present or increased levels - The Heritage Foundation report by Robert Rector (May 2006) projected that if the illegal alien amnesty of Senate immigration bill S.2611 (from the 109th Congress) was signed into law, 103 million people would be added to the US population in 20 years. This projection was based on giving amnesty to ~10 million illegal aliens as well as the huge increase in legal immigration built into this bill. The projected number is likely to be an under-estimate since: (1) the number of illegal aliens present in the US is probably closer to 30-40 million considering the House Committee on Homeland Security's report on border violence from Fall of 2006 states that: 4 -10 million illegal immigrants came to the US in 2005 alone!!!
(2) illegal immigration has continued unabated since the Rector report was issued (3) the new S.9 immigration bill may grant amnesty to all illegal immigrants, not just those who have been in the US for 2 years. With the US population currently at >300 million, and the present number of illegal aliens at as many as 4 times the estimate used by Rector, S.9 is likely to increase the US population far more than S.2611. (potentially double the US population in 20 years?).

Rector report-
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Immigration/wm1076.cfm

House Committee on Homeland Security report on border violence/2006
http://tancredo.house.gov/irc/images/In ... report.pdf


Other related articles-
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Immigration/wm1097.cfm
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Immigration/bg1936.cfm
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Immigration/SR9.cfm
http://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/ed070206a.cfm
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=15610
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=15343
http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty159.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 01181.html

5. Americans do not want continuing large population growth (which is due almost exclusively to immigration); Americans want reduced immigration

http://www.numbersusa.com/hottopic/100306_poll.html

6. The financial cost of amnesty would be enormous, will cripple this country and substantially increase our national debt of $8.7 trillion (estimates vary but could be in the $trillions)

After the S.2611 amnesty bill was passed by the Senate, the Congressional Budget Office projected the costs of this bill to be $127 billion over just the first 10 years. This estimate was based on the legalization of ~11 million illegal aliens. Note that citizenship would not be attained until after year 10, at which time immigrants and their relatives would be eligible for all sorts of entitlements, including welfare, etc. Again, this must be a huge underestimate of the true costs for the reasons cited above, and the fact that costs would increase dramatically after year 10.

CBO report on costs of S.2611-
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/75xx/doc7501/s2611spass.pdf

Importing Poverty: Immigration and Poverty in the United States: A Book of Charts, by Robert Rector
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Immigration/SR9.cfm

Excerpt:
“Massive low-skill immigration works to counteract government anti-poverty efforts. While government works to reduce the number of poor persons, low-skill immigration pushes the poverty numbers up. In addition, low-skill immigration siphons off government anti-poverty funding and makes government efforts to shrink poverty less effective.
Low-skill immigrants pay little in taxes and receive high levels of government benefits and services. The National Academy of Sciences has estimated that each immigrant without a high school degree will cost U.S. taxpayers, on average, $89,000 over the course of his or her lifetime.[3] This is a net cost above the value of any taxes the immi¬grant will pay and does not include the cost of educating the immigrant’s children, which U.S. taxpayers would also heavily subsidize.
In this way, the roughly six million legal immigrants without a high school diploma will impose a net cost of around a half-trillion dollars on U.S. taxpayers over their lifetimes. The roughly five million illegal immigrants without a high school diploma will cost taxpayers somewhat less because illegal immigrants are eligible for fewer government benefits. However, if these illegal immigrants were granted amnesty and citizenship, as proposed by the Bush Administration and legislated in a recent Senate-passed immigration bill (S. 2611), they could cost tax¬payers an additional half-trillion dollars. In total, all immigrants without a high school education could impose a net cost on U.S. taxpayers of around one trillion dollars or more. If the cost of educating the immigrants’ children is included, that figure could reach two trillion dollars.[4]”

7. Amnesty will recapitulate previous amnesties, including the 1986 amnesty, and will stimulate continuing illegal immigration. (The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result!)

According to INS estimates released in October, 2000, the amnesties granted in 1986 as a result of the Immigration Reform and Control Act significantly contributed to an increase in illegal immigration as the relatives of newly legalized illegal immigrants came illegally to the United States to join their family members. In the decade following the 1986 amnesty, illegal immigration increased dramatically.

http://www.cis.org/articles/2000/ins1986amnesty.html

8. Amnesty and/or guest worker programs would harm low-skilled American workers, America’s poor and minorities. They would be forced to compete with the flood of illegal aliens, their wages will be depressed, making it more difficult to improve their socioeconomic condition.

http://www.numbersusa.com/interests/blackamericans.html
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articl ... leID=10967
http://www.socialpolicyandreligion.org/ ... cfm?id=121
http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21PRImmi ... ty506.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la- ... columnists
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07017/754517-28.stm
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/l ... ks12m.html
http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20060523 ... -6327r.htm
http://chooseblackamerica.com/press_may23.html
http://www.numbersusa.com/PDFs/SiliconCeiling6.pdf
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editor ... migration/
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/back304.html
http://www.cis.org/articles/1999/combinednrc.pdf
http://www.cis.org/articles/2003/stevet ... 03003.html

Key Statistics
• Real wages in the US are falling at their fastest rate in 14 years. (Financial Times, May 10, 2005)
• 14 million Americans are unable to find full-time jobs in the current economy. [Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)]
• The unemployment rate among the 12 million American adults who do not have a high school diploma is almost 9 percent. (BLS)
• Forty percent of working-age African-American men are unemployed. (BLS)

Jobs Americans Won’t Do?
• 79 percent of the 23 million workers in service jobs are native-born Americans.
• 81 percent of the 6 million workers in construction jobs are native-born Americans.
• 77 percent of the 10 million workers in production jobs are native-born Americans.


9. Increased violent crime, gang and drug-related violence

GAO Study: 55,322 illegals repsonsible for 700,000 crimes
http://www.cecilwhig.com/articles/2007/ ... lph/64.txt

About half of the nearly 190,000 illegal immigrants deported last year (2006) had criminal records, U.S. authorities said.
http://www.examiner.com/a-542012~More_I ... Jails.html

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlene ... rss&rpc=22

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Murders, robberies and other violent crimes reported in the United States jumped 3.7 percent in the first half of the year, continuing a troubling upswing that began in 2005, the FBI said on Monday.

The FBI said law enforcement agencies reported that robberies soared by a startling 9.7 percent, followed by an increase in murders of 1.4 percent and aggravated assaults of 1.2 percent.

Last year, the number of violent crimes increased by 2.5 percent, the largest percentage gain in 15 years. The increase came after years of declines.

The U.S. Justice Department then announced that it would conduct a study of why the crime numbers are increasing, a study that has yet to be completed.
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10. The population growth due to immigration (illegal and legal) is causing environmental damage, congestion, traffic, sprawl, loss of open space, destruction of wildlife habitat and loss of species
http://www.numbersusa.com/interests/urbansprawl.html


11. The population growth due to immigration (illegal and legal) is causing loss of farm lands needed to support the growing population
The rural area lost to development between 1982 and 1997 is about equal to the entire land mass of Maine and New Hampshire combined.
The rate of rural land lost to development in the 1990s was about 2.2 million acres per year. If this rate continues to the year 2050 – when today’s toddlers are middle-aged – the United States will have lost an additional 110 million acres of rural countryside. That’s about equal to the combined areas of Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Virginia.
Added to the loss of an area equivalent to Maine and New Hampshire, the losses by 2050 will amount to much of the Eastern seaboard.

http://www.numbersusa.com/interests/farmland.html
http://www.farmland.org/programs/protection/default.asp

AG JOBS Resources


Senate and House Re-introduce Massive Amnesty for Illegal Aliens Working in Agriculture

(From NumbersUSA and Center for Immigration Studies)

AgJOBS is an amnesty for illegal alien agricultural workers!

AgJOBS bills, which would provide amnesty to illegal alien farm workers, were re-introduced in the 110th Senate and House.

S. 237, S. 340, and H.R. 371 – sponsored by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA) respectively – would identify “vacant” agricultural jobs that could be filled by as many as 1.5 million illegal aliens and new foreigners over five years.

Under the provisions of these bills, illegal alien farm workers would be able to obtain a “blue card” granting temporary legal status for themselves and their families if they could show they have worked in the U.S. at least 863 hours or 150 work days (5.75 hours constituting a work day) during the preceding two years.

Subsequently, to apply for legal residency, they must demonstrate that they have worked in agriculture here: (1) 100 work days per year each of the first five years following enactment; (2) 150 work days per year each of the first three years following enactment; or (3) over the course of the first four years after enactment, 150 work days per year for three of those years and 100 work days for the other.

The Senate passed AgJOBS legislation as part of its “comprehensive” immigration bill (S. 2611) last May, but the measure died when the House refused to take it up before adjournment. In addition, both the House and Senate saw stand-alone AgJOBS measures (H.R. 884 and S. 359) introduced during the 109th Congress.

Widely touted as a “guest worker” proposal, AgJOBS is an amnesty that would reward people who have violated U.S. immigration laws, and it would invite past violators to return to and encourage new illegal aliens to enter the United States. “AgJOBS is unpopular with voters and costly to taxpayers; it will encourage illegal immigration, invite fraud, and overwhelm adjudicators without providing a stable, legal agriculture workforce,” said Roy Beck, executive director of NumbersUSA.

HERE’S WHY AgJOBS WILL BE ANOTHER DISASTER:

Amnesty for estimated 3 million

Of the 1.2 million illegal aliens currently working in agriculture, an estimated 860,000 plus their spouses and children could qualify for this amnesty, so the total could reach 3 million or more. (Dr. Philip Martin, Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics for the University of California, Davis)

(Note: this is the same number of illegal aliens given amnesty under the 1986 Simpson-Mazolli amnesty bill, and AgJOBs is just for agricultural workers!).

Past amnesty for agricultural workers failed to produce a stable, legal agricultural workforce, and stimulates further illegal immigration

The 1986 Special Agriculture Worker (SAW) amnesty proved that amnesty for illegal alien agricultural workers will not result in a stable, legal agricultural workforce. When illegal aliens working in agriculture are given green cards, they leave agriculture for other higher-paying occupations. New illegal aliens are ready and willing to take the available agricultural jobs, thus bringing the industry full circle, to where we are now. AgJOBS will only repeat the cycle. Any form of amnesty entices hundreds of thousands of new illegal aliens, some of whom will work in agriculture, to enter thus continuing to depress wages in all fields including agriculture.

Would doom agricultural workers to poverty

AgJOBS legislation would ensure that agricultural workers will be impoverished and will never be paid more than minimum wage.
Current law requires employers of H-2A workers to pay employees the greater of the “adverse effect wage rate,” the “prevailing wage,” or minimum wage. AgJOBS permits employers to set the wages for the indentured, formerly illegal workers at any level they wish, down to the minimum wage. Since the aliens have to perform agricultural work in order to become permanent residents, they will have no choice but to work at whatever wages and working conditions employers choose to offer.

AgJOBS also freezes wage levels for new, legal H-2A nonimmigrant agricultural workers at the January 1, 2003 level for three years following enactment. After three years, the adverse effect wage rate would be adjusted each year by the percentage change in the Consumer Price Index from UtwoU years prior. Industry-wide wages can be expected to plummet from unlivable to deplorable.

Taxpayers would have to subsidize Ag workers and their families
AgJOBs would ensure that taxpayers continue having to subsidize the workers and their families by providing public benefits of education, emergency health care, and income supplements (including tax refunds) for the workers and their families.

Agricultural workers are already unemployed

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that 107,000 American agricultural workers were unemployed in April 2004. Furthermore, low-skilled workers, many capable of agricultural work, have been the hardest hit by the recent high unemployment. The unemployment rate is almost a third higher for those American workers without a high-school diploma. In February 2004, Alan Greenspan announced that America has an oversupply of low-skilled, low-educated workers. (“Greenspan Calls for Better-Educated Workforce,” Washington Post, 21 February 2004).

AgOBS will undermine homeland security

The AgJOBS amnesty will exacerbate an already untenable flow of illegal aliens, increasing the threat not only to the livelihoods and the quality of life of thousands of U.S. workers, but also to the physical security of all Americans. Amnesty programs are an invitation to fraud. By some estimates, as many as two-thirds of the applications filed for the 1986 SAW amnesty were fraudulent. Among those was one for a New York cabbie named Mahmud Abouhalima who had never worked in agriculture. Nonetheless, his application was approved. In 1993, after receiving terrorist training in Afghanistan, Abouhalima drove a vanload of explosives into the World Trade Center.

The Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services currently has a backlog of over four million pending immigration benefits applications. Adding three million amnesty applications to that backlog would be reckless, at best. Congress should be encouraging adjudicators of immigration applications to be more thorough than ever, not overburdening them to the point that mistakes are inevitable—especially when those mistakes may have devastating consequences.

Resources:

www.numbersusa.com
http://www.numbersusa.com/hottopic/AGJOBS.htm
http://www.numbersusa.com/hottopic/SAWAgjobs.pdf

www.cis.org
http://www.cis.org/articles/2001/back801.html
http://www.cis.org/articles/2000/back400.html

AgJOBS bills at:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:s.00237:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:s.00340:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h.r.00371:

Photo Identification Security Act: H.R. 1314

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