Thread: Sessions: ‘Gang of 8′ would give legal status to 57 million, including non-immigra​nt

Sessions: ‘Gang of 8′ would give legal status to 57 million, including non-immigra​nt visas

1:06 PM 05/03/2013
Caroline May
The Daily Caller



An analysis of future immigration flow released Friday by Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions shows that more than 32 million immigrants would receive legal status over the next decade and an additional 25 million would be granted non-immigrant work visas under the Gang of Eight’s immigration bill.

On a conference call with reporters about the analysis Sessions explained that number of legal immigrants over the next decade “exceeds the population of California, our largest state, and will have a very significant impact on our economy and the American people.”

According to the analysis presented by the senator, the high immigration estimate derived from visa program proposals in a revised 867-page bill crafted by a bipartisan group of eight senators shows that the bill would vastly increase the level of future “low-skill” immigration.

“[O]ver the first decade, the total number [of legal status] granted will be well over 32 million (not taking into account chain migration from increased legal flow),” the analysis reads. “Adding in all the various categories of nonimmigrant work visas, the number climbs to more than 57 million.”

The 57 million estimate includes the 11.1 million illegal immigrants already in the country, who would receive legal status under the Gang of Eight’s immigration bill.

On the increase of new workers, Sessions did not mince words.

“This large flow of workers will impact working Americans significantly. It will reduce their salaries; dynamic scoring will not change that,” Sessions said, addressing one of the criticisms leveled against past immigration analyses.

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SESSIONS: 57 MILLION NEW PEOPLE TO ENTER AMERICA, COMPETE FOR JOBS



by MATTHEW BOYLE
3 May 2013

Senate Budget Committee ranking member Sen. Jeff Sessions estimates about 57 million new people, immigrants and people with nonimmigrant visas, will be entering the United States to compete with middle class Americans for their jobs if the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill passes.

Sessions’ staff released an analysis detailing how they reached that number on Friday morning.

“This is a number that exceeds the population of the state of California, our largest state,” Sessions said on a conference call with reporters discussing the analysis. “It’s a very, very significant impact on our economy and the American people.”

Sessions argued that ordinary Americans, who are already struggling financially under President Barack Obama’s administration with perpetually high unemployment, will see pay cuts or be unable to find jobs. He said any gains the economy gets from this bill, as estimated by Gang of Eight members and supporters, are actually “paid for” by a “decline in wages, by wage loss” for ordinary Americans.

“We think this is a matter of humanitarian interest,” Sessions said. “It’s an important matter, even, of civil rights. The obligation we have as American policymakers in Congress to consider what is in the long-term national interest of America. We have 90 million people outside the work force, 47 million on food stamps, shouldn’t we be working to make sure every single American citizen now dependent on social services of the government be provided with the first opportunity to achieve a good job with a decent pay with a retirement plan and a healthcare plan? That’s got to be our goal.”

On the conference call with Sessions, Center for Immigration Studies’s Dr. Steven Camarota said that if the bill passes, “we would need to create 35 million new jobs in the next 10 years to accommodate new American job seekers and the new immigrants that S. 744 [the official bill number for the Gang of Eight legislation] admits.”

“The coming decade had better be the greatest jobs bonanza in American history, otherwise we will continue to see persistently high unemployment and, worse, we will continue to see Americans withdrawing entirely from the labor market,” Camarota said.

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Sessions: ‘Gang of 8′ Would Give Legal Status to 57 Million, Including Non-Immigra​nt Visas

By Clash Daily / 5 May 2013 / 4 Comments
“[O]ver the first decade, the total number [of legal status] granted will be well over 32 million (not taking into account chain migration from increased legal flow),” the analysis reads. “Adding in all the various categories of nonimmigrant work visas, the number climbs to more than 57 million.”

The 57 million estimate includes the 11.1 million illegal immigrants already in the country, who would receive legal status under the Gang of Eight’s immigration bill.
On the increase of new workers, Sessions did not mince words.
“This large flow of workers will impact working Americans significantly. It will reduce their salaries; dynamic scoring will not change that,” Sessions said, addressing one of the criticisms leveled against past immigration analyses.
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And they want them to vote too!!! Anyone at all awake in our Government, or are they just seeling our Country and laws down the river to the highest bidder....they need to be arrested for the traitors they are!!!!!

Immigration reform faces Senate gauntlet, uncertain House outlook


By Russell Berman - 05/05/13 12:00 PM ET

The push for immigration reform enters a crucial period when Congress returns this week, as Senate legislation faces the gauntlet of a committee mark-up and House negotiators try to complete their own long-awaited bill.

Advocates expect senators in both parties to file hundreds of amendments to the Senate's Gang of Eight immigration overhaul, and they hope the 844-page bill will emerge improved but not dismantled by the red pens of the Judiciary Committee.Senators took their legislation on the road during the congressional recess, and the pressure of conservative opposition appeared to yield early concessions from a key backer, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who said the bill likely couldn't pass the House and may need to be changed even to clear the Senate.
“Since my colleagues and I introduced immigration legislation, intense public scrutiny has helped identify shortcomings and unintended consequences that need to be addressed,” Rubio wrote Friday in an opinion article in the Wall Street Journal.
For President Obama, immigration reform remains his best hope for a major legislative achievement in his second term. He has watched the Senate block his push for new gun restrictions, and his meetings with Senate Republicans on the budget have yet to yield a significant breakthrough.
Playing the role of cheerleader instead of negotiator, the president has given Congress a wide berth to hammer out the details of immigration legislation. He has refused in recent days to weigh in on specific policy disputes, saying that as long as proposals meet his broad criteria he will support them.
“He’s been quite active behind the scenes but not so much in public,” said Brent Wilkes, executive director of the League of United Hispanic Citizens.
At a private White House meeting with Hispanic leaders this week ahead of his trip to Latin America, Obama discussed immigration reform only briefly, Wilkes said.
The president told the group that he would sign the Senate bill in its current form, and he urged the advocates to prioritize passage of the bill over pushing for changes to smaller policy items that could be addressed in future legislation.
“The priority should be to get the framework through,” Wilkes said, summarizing Obama’s message.
During a speech in Mexico City on Friday, Obama said he was “absolutely convinced” immigration reform could get done in 2013.
Republicans have welcomed the president’s limited role in the congressional process, arguing that deeper involvement could further antagonize conservative critics and overly politicize the legislative push.
“As of this point, he’s been irrelevant,” said Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.), one of eight lawmakers trying to negotiate a bipartisan immigration bill in the House. “He might be [relevant] in the future, but for now he isn’t.”
The Senate Judiciary Committee will begin marking up the legislation on Thursday, and at least three other Senate panels have scheduled hearings on the bill.
The legislation aims to enhance border security, create an agricultural guest-worker program, overhaul the legal immigration system and provide a path to citizenship for an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants.
Conservatives have criticized provisions in the bill that would grant provisional legal status to undocumented immigrants before the border security benchmarks are fully implemented.
Immigration reform advocates reacted cautiously to Rubio’s push to strengthen the border security component.
“The border security measures are tough, and in our view, excessive,” said Lynn Tramonte, deputy director of the America’s Voice Education Fund.
The provisions were the product of a compromise between Democrats and Republicans in the Gang of Eight, she noted. “If he’s talking about opening up that discussion, I think that would be a setback,” Tramonte said.
At the same time, advocates say they aren’t opposed to any changes to the measure. “Nobody ever claimed to have the perfect bill,” Tramonte said.
In the House, a bipartisan working group is hoping to finalize an agreement by the end of the month. Diaz-Balart declined to discuss the talks in detail but said the group is on track to have a deal in “the very near future” and that it would be a matter of “weeks, not months.”
An agreement on the scope of a guest-worker program has been holding up the House talks, and negotiators have claimed to be close to an agreement several times since the beginning of the year.
The uncertain outlook in the lower chamber has caused reform advocates to rally around the Senate bill in the hopes that a strong bipartisan vote would pressure House Republican leaders to accept that proposal or one very similar.
That was part of the message Obama delivered to Hispanic leaders at the White House, Wilkes said.
“That would be our preferred path, but I don’t know how realistic it is,” he said.
The House immigration working group is hoping its proposal, when completed, will be the legislative vehicle for the House to negotiate a compromise with the Senate in an eventual conference committee, if both chambers can pass legislation.
If the group can’t seal a deal, the House Judiciary Committee is expected to move individual pieces of immigration legislation, although those are unlikely to win support from advocates of a comprehensive overhaul.


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