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    Santorum: An Immigration Policy For Hard-Working Americans

    by Rick Santorum
    6 May 2015
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    I once asked my father whether he resented being separated from his dad for the first seven years of his life, while he waited to legally immigrate to America. My dad said absolutely not. “America was worth the wait.”

    A common refrain I hear is that immigrants, like my father and grandfather, have a great work ethic or that it would be cruel to separate families. And as a Catholic, I am taught the virtues of love, charity, and compassion. But America’s immigration policy must first be about compassion for hard-working Americans.

    For the past decade-plus, wages for the 74 percent of Americans who don’t have college degrees have been stagnant, and median income has fallen, in part because of a combination of millions of illegal immigrants and new legal immigrants coming to this country per year.

    The impact of this economic stagnation has struck native-born African Americans and Hispanics harder than whites. Since 2000, the employment rate for native-born African Americans has worsened by 9.2 percent and Hispanics by 7.7 percent, while employment for whites has worsened by 6.1 percent. Granting amnesty only exacerbates this problem.

    To me, the solution is clear.

    First, we must secure the border and end the acute border surge. The southwestern border is out of control. The way to bring it under control is more and better fencing and more smartly-deployed manpower. To be effective, a fence needs to be similar to the border fencing that Israel uses – high with barbed wire, a screening fence, and a patrol road along it. The complementary way to achieve operational control of the border is to strengthen the Border Patrol: complete surveillance systems; more manpower, especially in the short-run; and reformed Border Patrol operations.

    Meanwhile, we have acute border surges because the Obama Administration has let unaccompanied minors from countries other than Mexico, and asylum-seekers, be moved away from the border and thus almost never deported. This non-enforcement of the law has encouraged more such border crossings. The way to end these crossings is to never let unaccompanied minors or asylum-seekers move from the border, to increase the resources needed to judge their cases, and to deport most of them.

    Second, all entries and exits should be tracked. Stopping illegal immigrants from crossing the border is just one part of curbing illegal immigration. Very roughly 40 percent of illegal immigrants first enter legally but then overstay their visas (the exact number is unknown). The government’s existing entry-exit tracking system, US-VISIT, does not track 100 percent of entries and tracks few exits. It should be completed and track all of them.

    The burden of eliminating the problems caused by illegal immigration does not only lie at the feet of border enforcement, it is also the responsibility of businesses not to tempt illegal immigrants into our country. This is why I believe the E-Verify system must be made mandatory, apply to existing employees as well as new hires, inform employers if there is no match between the Social Security Number and other information submitted, and inform employees if there is possible identity fraud from excessive multiple use.

    Other enticements to illegal immigration, such as birthright citizenship, should be ended. Only children born on American soil where at least one parent is a citizen or resident aliens is automatically a U.S. citizen. Of developed countries other than the United States, only Canada has birthright citizenship.

    And existing laws should simply be enforced. There should be a sufficient number of immigration judges and a sufficient number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to do so, as well as expedited procedures for removing illegal immigrants who come into the custody of law enforcement.

    Third, we should reduce legal immigration from its current level of 1,050,000 immigrants a year to about 750,000 annually. Our legal immigration system is broken, and we are allowing record-high numbers of legal immigrants to come to America. This has an impact on our economy and American workers who are competing with a million new immigrants each year for jobs.

    To accomplish this, we must first start with eliminating chain migration (the immigration of adult relatives) and the diversity visa lottery (a random global give-away of American citizenship). These policies are antiquated, unfair, out of step with the policies of other developed countries, and not based on the needs of our nation.

    In the one area of our economy where we have a need for immigrants, agricultural, we must establish a workable agricultural guest worker program. This program should be managed by the Department of Agriculture to meet the needs of our farmers.

    Fourth, we should not grant worker permits to illegal immigrants, i.e. amnesty, except to agricultural workers as described above. And we should allow the Obama amnesties (3-year temporary work permits) to lapse naturally by not renewing them.

    I have compassion, respect and admiration for people around the world who want to be Americans. It’s our job to make sure America will always be a place for those immigrants we accept will be able to aspire to freedom and opportunity like my father. We do that by keeping America safe, preserving her values and creating a strong economy for everyone. An immigration policy that prioritizes American’s needs, workers, and families is where that starts.

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    Third, we should reduce legal immigration from its current level of 1,050,000 immigrants a year to about 750,000 annually. Our legal immigration system is broken, and we are allowing record-high numbers of legal immigrants to come to America. This has an impact on our economy and American workers who are competing with a million new immigrants each year for jobs.
    WHAT?! Where's your calculator, Rick. We don't have 750,000 extra jobs sitting around for immigrants. We're already short 20 million for US citizens. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?

    We need ZERO IMMIGRATION LEVELS for at least 10 years.

    I have compassion, respect and admiration for people around the world who want to be Americans. It’s our job to make sure America will always be a place for those immigrants we accept will be able to aspire to freedom and opportunity like my father. We do that by keeping America safe, preserving her values and creating a strong economy for everyone. An immigration policy that prioritizes American’s needs, workers, and families is where that starts.
    NO, NO, NO, NO! It is NOT OUR JOB to make sure America will always be a place for any immigrant to aspire to freedom and opportunity. IT IS OUR JOB to make sure America will always be a place for US CITIZENS to aspire to freedom and opportunity.

    WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU recent immigrant descendants who care more about what America is for immigrants and illegal aliens than our own citizens? I'll tell you what's wrong with you, you're all proof we shouldn't have let your pappies and grand-daddies in to begin with. When you decide to change teams, you play for the team you're on, get it? Didn't you learn anything in sports? Don't you know anything about team loyalty, comparative advantage, competition, or how to win?

    Obviously not.

    I'm ready for to vote for anyone from the NBA for President. People who have a plan, who play for their team, who know how to compete, who can perform and execute under pressure, whose minds and bodies are faster than my eyes, who have worked and trained harder for what they do and earn than any politician, businessperson, lawyer, teacher or doctor ever, who never quit, and who know how to win for their TEAM.
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    Well, at least he recognizes the need for E-Verify

    IMO patriots would be wise to support candidates who are focusing on jobs for Americans.
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    Rick Santorum Lays Out Plan To Reduce Immigration By 25 Percent

    by Matthew Boyle
    7 May 2015
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    Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, a likely 2016 presidential candidate and the winner of the 2012 Iowa caucuses, wants to separate himself from the rest of the Republican field. So he’s explaining a specific plan to reduce immigration levels to the United States in order to protect American workers from foreign labor. Santorum also praised Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, another likely 2016 presidential candidate and the current frontrunner according to most polls, for standing with him to protect American workers against a foreign labor increase.

    “I think it’s important if you’re going to talk about an issue—if you look at everything I’ve done in my post-public career, I’ve been very, very specific about not just the rhetoric, but also exactly what policy is behind it,” Santorum said.

    I’ve been talking about this immigration issue for a while and I noticed that Gov. [Scott] Walker has decided to join the discussion of legal immigration and having to reform that—I welcome him to that point of view and I know that’s not a point of view he’s held in the past, but I’m glad he’s adopted that.

    So I thought well it’s probably time we get more specific on where to go with this to set a bar. I always try to set a bar and move people in the right direction—and if you look at the polls, the blue collar conservative message when you talk about manufacturing and things like that, you see a lot more people moving in our direction on how important that is and I have specific policies out there to set the bar
    .

    In an op-ed for Breitbart News on Wednesday, and in this exclusive interview, Santorum said his plan is to reduce immigration from about a million immigrants per year—the current level—down to about 750,000 per year. He said this is part of his effort to help blue collar American workers get back to work and thrive economically.

    “Immigration is very much a part of that discussion—and when you talk about the reduction in immigration, the level of immigration I picked specifically is because that’s the level of immigration that was roughly the amount of people that came in during the great wave,” Santorum said.

    We had about 750,000 people, immigrants, come into this country from the 1880s to the 1920s. That was the highest level of immigration into our country up until the last 20 years. So I thought that’s a good benchmark—and let’s return back to the highest level previous to that [current levels] of immigration.

    Santorum said his position is not “anti-immigrant,” despite what open borders activists claim. “If it this were anti-immigrant, I’d say zero,” Santorum said.

    I’d say someone who wants to double legal immigrants would also be anti-immigrant then—why? Because they’d want to put limits on the numbers too. The question is not whether you’re anti-immigrant or pro-immigrant, it’s what the appropriate level should be. If you were for no limits, then you could make the argument that anyone who’s for any limits is anti-immigrant.

    But that’s not what the argument here is—the discussion here is what is the appropriate level? I don’t think any responsible candidate on the Republican or Democratic side would say we should have no limits and let tens of millions of people into this country. I don’t think people would take that position and if they did I don’t think they would get very far with it. So the question is what is appropriate?


    Santorum said the issue here is that Americans are struggling economically, and there needs to be a focus on getting them back to work first before bringing in new people to compete with them.

    “When you look at the economic situation we’re confronting, there are Americans who are—as I mentioned in the piece, of the 74 percent of the Americans who don’t have a college degree and are competing with the unskilled workers who are coming into this country who are obviously willing to work for less—you’ve got to address that issue,” Santorum said.

    What we’ve talked about is a fairly modest response to that, it’s not a 50 percent cut—it’s only about a 25 percent cut to the amount of legal immigrants coming into this country. If you look at the jobs created since 2000 for people who are age 18 to 65 every single net new job created in America for that workforce is held by someone who wasn’t born in this country.

    There are actually fewer native-born Americans working in this country today than there was in 2000, 18 to 65, and there are 17 million more in the workforce. That to me lays out a problem. I think immigration is a healthy thing for this country, but just like anything else there can be too much of a good thing
    .

    Santorum said that with Walker and now former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee talking about protecting American workers from cheap foreign labor increases, the Republican Party needs to lead and have a frank discussion and open debate about these issues.

    “I think it’ll be—and to look at the issues including this, there aren’t that many issues that will divide the Republican candidates in this race,” Santorum said.

    At least among those who are announced or talking about announcing. You’ve got Common Core, you’ve got the issue of immigration, you’ve got like what Mike Huckabee wants to do a national sales tax, so you do have some issues that are dividing—I’ve taken a focus on manufacturing—but bottom line, there’s not a whole lot of difference on national security. With Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) there’s a big difference, but I think with most of the folks it’s going to be a matter of experience and knowledge rather than it is function. You look at the issues that will separate us, and this is one that will separate.

    With regard to Huckabee’s stance in favor of American workers in his announcement speech in Arkansas earlier this week as well, Santorum said “like I said, imitation is the greatest form of flattery.” Huckabee’s point in his announcement speech was that the Democrats’ big government policies with the so-called “war on poverty” haven’t worked, and a way to fix these problems for all Americans—rural, urban, suburban—is conservative economic populism in the likes of what Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)
    80%
    has been putting forward in Congress. Asked about that idea—the need for economic populism from a conservative perspective—Santorum talked about his book, “Blue Collar Conservatives” and noted that’s “the whole point” of the book.

    Republicans, Santorum said, need to “keep what’s really good about Republican economic policies—which is the fact we’re a pro-growth party and we understand the economics of pro-growth economics and limited government and need to have growth and development.”

    I have a chapter in my book—a Rising Tide Lifts All Boats Unless Your Boat Has a Hole In It—and we have lots of Americans who because of a variety of issues like incarceration or lack of education or mental or physical problems, there’s a variety of issues out there that many of the millions and millions of Americans have that are limiting their opportunities to rise. We have to pay attention to that. We have to look at how we can create opportunities for everyone and that’s why looking at immigration, looking at education, looking at manufacturing, construction, energy—all those things that provide that opportunity for lower-skilled workers has been a focal point of mine in the last campaign and certainly is now.

    Santorum said he’s close to getting ready to announce whether he’ll run again for president in 2016, too.

    “You’ll be hearing some news soon,” he said when asked if he’s close to announcing a run for president again. “You’ll be hearing an announcement here in the next month or so.”

    Santorum will be one of the featured speakers at the South Carolina Freedom Summit this weekend in Greenville, S.C., and came in second place in the Republican nominating contest in 2012–winning Iowa and several other states.

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    by Matthew Boyle
    7 May 2015
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    Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, a likely 2016 presidential candidate and the winner of the 2012 Iowa caucuses, wants to separate himself from the rest of the Republican field. So he’s explaining a specific plan to reduce immigration levels to the United States in order to protect American workers from foreign labor. Santorum also praised Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, another likely 2016 presidential candidate and the current frontrunner according to most polls, for standing with him to protect American workers against a foreign labor increase.

    “I think it’s important if you’re going to talk about an issue—if you look at everything I’ve done in my post-public career, I’ve been very, very specific about not just the rhetoric, but also exactly what policy is behind it,” Santorum said.

    I’ve been talking about this immigration issue for a while and I noticed that Gov. [Scott] Walker has decided to join the discussion of legal immigration and having to reform that—I welcome him to that point of view and I know that’s not a point of view he’s held in the past, but I’m glad he’s adopted that.

    So I thought well it’s probably time we get more specific on where to go with this to set a bar. I always try to set a bar and move people in the right direction—and if you look at the polls, the blue collar conservative message when you talk about manufacturing and things like that, you see a lot more people moving in our direction on how important that is and I have specific policies out there to set the bar
    .

    In an op-ed for Breitbart News on Wednesday, and in this exclusive interview, Santorum said his plan is to reduce immigration from about a million immigrants per year—the current level—down to about 750,000 per year. He said this is part of his effort to help blue collar American workers get back to work and thrive economically.

    “Immigration is very much a part of that discussion—and when you talk about the reduction in immigration, the level of immigration I picked specifically is because that’s the level of immigration that was roughly the amount of people that came in during the great wave,” Santorum said.

    We had about 750,000 people, immigrants, come into this country from the 1880s to the 1920s. That was the highest level of immigration into our country up until the last 20 years. So I thought that’s a good benchmark—and let’s return back to the highest level previous to that [current levels] of immigration.

    Santorum said his position is not “anti-immigrant,” despite what open borders activists claim. “If it this were anti-immigrant, I’d say zero,” Santorum said.

    I’d say someone who wants to double legal immigrants would also be anti-immigrant then—why? Because they’d want to put limits on the numbers too. The question is not whether you’re anti-immigrant or pro-immigrant, it’s what the appropriate level should be. If you were for no limits, then you could make the argument that anyone who’s for any limits is anti-immigrant.

    But that’s not what the argument here is—the discussion here is what is the appropriate level? I don’t think any responsible candidate on the Republican or Democratic side would say we should have no limits and let tens of millions of people into this country. I don’t think people would take that position and if they did I don’t think they would get very far with it. So the question is what is appropriate?


    Santorum said the issue here is that Americans are struggling economically, and there needs to be a focus on getting them back to work first before bringing in new people to compete with them.

    “When you look at the economic situation we’re confronting, there are Americans who are—as I mentioned in the piece, of the 74 percent of the Americans who don’t have a college degree and are competing with the unskilled workers who are coming into this country who are obviously willing to work for less—you’ve got to address that issue,” Santorum said.

    What we’ve talked about is a fairly modest response to that, it’s not a 50 percent cut—it’s only about a 25 percent cut to the amount of legal immigrants coming into this country. If you look at the jobs created since 2000 for people who are age 18 to 65 every single net new job created in America for that workforce is held by someone who wasn’t born in this country.

    There are actually fewer native-born Americans working in this country today than there was in 2000, 18 to 65, and there are 17 million more in the workforce. That to me lays out a problem. I think immigration is a healthy thing for this country, but just like anything else there can be too much of a good thing
    .

    Santorum said that with Walker and now former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee talking about protecting American workers from cheap foreign labor increases, the Republican Party needs to lead and have a frank discussion and open debate about these issues.

    “I think it’ll be—and to look at the issues including this, there aren’t that many issues that will divide the Republican candidates in this race,” Santorum said.

    At least among those who are announced or talking about announcing. You’ve got Common Core, you’ve got the issue of immigration, you’ve got like what Mike Huckabee wants to do a national sales tax, so you do have some issues that are dividing—I’ve taken a focus on manufacturing—but bottom line, there’s not a whole lot of difference on national security. With Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) there’s a big difference, but I think with most of the folks it’s going to be a matter of experience and knowledge rather than it is function. You look at the issues that will separate us, and this is one that will separate.

    With regard to Huckabee’s stance in favor of American workers in his announcement speech in Arkansas earlier this week as well, Santorum said “like I said, imitation is the greatest form of flattery.” Huckabee’s point in his announcement speech was that the Democrats’ big government policies with the so-called “war on poverty” haven’t worked, and a way to fix these problems for all Americans—rural, urban, suburban—is conservative economic populism in the likes of what Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)
    80%
    has been putting forward in Congress. Asked about that idea—the need for economic populism from a conservative perspective—Santorum talked about his book, “Blue Collar Conservatives” and noted that’s “the whole point” of the book.

    Republicans, Santorum said, need to “keep what’s really good about Republican economic policies—which is the fact we’re a pro-growth party and we understand the economics of pro-growth economics and limited government and need to have growth and development.”

    I have a chapter in my book—a Rising Tide Lifts All Boats Unless Your Boat Has a Hole In It—and we have lots of Americans who because of a variety of issues like incarceration or lack of education or mental or physical problems, there’s a variety of issues out there that many of the millions and millions of Americans have that are limiting their opportunities to rise. We have to pay attention to that. We have to look at how we can create opportunities for everyone and that’s why looking at immigration, looking at education, looking at manufacturing, construction, energy—all those things that provide that opportunity for lower-skilled workers has been a focal point of mine in the last campaign and certainly is now.

    Santorum said he’s close to getting ready to announce whether he’ll run again for president in 2016, too.

    “You’ll be hearing some news soon,” he said when asked if he’s close to announcing a run for president again. “You’ll be hearing an announcement here in the next month or so.”

    Santorum will be one of the featured speakers at the South Carolina Freedom Summit this weekend in Greenville, S.C., and came in second place in the Republican nominating contest in 2012–winning Iowa and several other states.

    http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...by-25-percent/
    Well, at least he's talking part of the talk, although as I point out earlier, a 25% reduction is not reduction enough. We need a Moratorium on Immigration for at least 10 years to stop illegal immigration, remove illegal aliens from the country, and reset the system so what's happened never happens again.
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