Senate Bill May Feature Points System
“Senators working on a comprehensive immigration plan are quietly talking about letting people into the United States by giving more weight to potential job skills and less weight to family connections than now exists – a departure from the current system and one sure to rile immigrant advocates while pleasing business interests. The system would award points for a person’s various characteristics, and it would place greater emphasis than the current system on future immigrants’ ability to make long-term economic contributions. The senators hope to introduce a bill next month, but before they can, they have to come to an agreement on how to deal with the United States’ future flow of immigrants,” Kansascity.com reports.
Administration Doesn’t Have a Border Security Metric Two Years After Mandate
“Immigration reform depends on a secure border. Nearly every lawmaker pushing reform, and certainly every Republican, stresses that the border must be proven secure before millions of currently illegal immigrants can be placed on a path to citizenship. But how do you measure border security? For years, the government estimated the number of miles of the border that were under “operational control” and came up with various ways to define what that meant,” says Byron York at the Examiner.
“Then the Department of Homeland Security threw out the concept of operational control, which Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano called “archaic.” The administration promised to create something called the Border Condition Index, or BCI, which would be a “holistic,” and a far better measure of border security.”
“So imagine everyone’s surprise when Mark Borkowski, a top Homeland Security technology official, told Miller that not only was BCI not ready, but that it won’t measure border security and was never meant to.”
Amnesty Impoverishes America
“In 2008, Mark Krikorian published an important new book arguing against permissive immigration. The book’s central idea: what has changed since Ellis Island days is not the immigrants; it’s the society they are immigrating to. In 1913, a Sicilian who migrated to New York City to do manual labor would discover a society willing to pay a high wage for his effort. In 2013 … not so. Yesterday’s New York Times reports on a new study confirming Krikorian’s insight,” says David Frum.
“Other work has found Mexican-American educational deficiencies persisting into the fourth generation after migration. The United States is already evolving into a society much harsher and less hospitable for the less-skilled. Yet American elites seem determined to enlarge and perpetuate a problem they already don’t know how to solve: how to create economic opportunities for the least economically competitive half of the population.”
Green Cards for Sale in Investor Visa Program
“They looked like any other family here in rural Michigan, but they are Dutch citizens. And they are faces of a fast-growing U.S. visa program in which foreigners can gain permanent residence by investing $500,000 in a U.S. project that creates at least 10 jobs. Through the program, known as EB-5, the Dekkers have a half-million-dollar stake in the Marriott Marquis Hotel rising in the District next to the Washington Convention Center,” the Washington Post writes.
“The program has broad bipartisan support in Congress, and key senators who are negotiating an overhaul of the immigration system have said they are leaning toward expanding visa programs that provide an immediate boost to the economy. But others argue that the EB-5 program amounts to buying citizenship, and that it unfairly allows wealthy foreigners to cut the visa line ahead of others who have waited for years.”
Poll Shows Most Want Border Security Before Immigration Deal
“Most voters like finding a way for illegal immigrants to stay in this country but not until the border is secured. However, they remain skeptical about the federal government’s interest in securing the border,” Rasmussen Report says.
“The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 59% of Likely U.S. Voters favor a plan that would legalize the status of those here illegally if they have otherwise obeyed the law – provided the border is really secured to prevent future illegal immigration.” [emphasis added]
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“provided the border is really secured to prevent future illegal immigration.”
Much of the so-called support for legalization is contingent upon illegal immigration being prevented going forward. The amnesty lobby has zero interest in preventing future amnesties. A poll question you will never see asked:
Do you think we should legalize virtually all unlawfully present aliens, give each of them the right to bring their immediate family here immediately with the right to stay forever, and then enforce the law to the degree that the unlawfully present alien population grows into the tens of millions again?
Its not just the Blue States, Texas has been enabler of illegal immirgants unless they committ a crime. Illegal immirgation increase a lot under governor Perry and many illegals found construcation jobs for them since about 38 percent of Texas is is HIspanic but construcation is about 60 percent.
In 2008, Mark Krikorian published an important new book arguing against permissive immigration. The book’s central idea: what has changed since Ellis Island days is not the immigrants; it’s the society they are immigrating to. In 1913, a Sicilian who migrated to New York City to do manual labor would discover a society willing to pay a high wage for his effort. In 2013 … not so. Yesterday’s New York Times reports on a new study confirming Krikorian’s insight,” says David Frum.
“Other work has found Mexican-American educational deficiencies persisting into the fourth generation after migration. The United States is already evolving into a society much harsher and less hospitable for the less-skilled. Yet American elites seem determined to enlarge and perpetuate a problem they already don’t know how to solve: how to create economic opportunities for the least economically competitive half of the population.”
Hades, Points for Skills Needed????
Who are they fooling? The skilled workers are glutted in this country too. We just don’t need more immigrants, period.
softwarengineer we will need in a constant basis high skilled immigrants that is how we became a power from the germans to help us get to the moon to all the electronics and software…………………….if we follow what you say then we will become mediocre….just like you……how do I know that?….. because otherwise you would no say that……..SO responsible high skilled immigration as per our needs……
“The book’s central idea: what has changed since Ellis Island days is not the immigrants, it’s the society they are immigrating to.”
And it’s not just the wages of the low skilled, it’s the fact that those immigrants back then, in spite of the “give me your poor” theme, made it or not on their own. Society did not support them or their families, the immigrants did, no matter how hard they had to work.
Now we have an entitlement society, in which if you are unable to support your family, then the taxpayers will, with food stamps, Medicaid, free school meals, housing assistance, and other programs. And while you can make a case that is alright with American born citizens, why in the world do we allow people to MOVE here and go on assistance programs at a higher rate than native born?
Which brings to mind the news this week about a billion dollar shortfall in the Chicago school budget that may force as many as 50 schools to close. No coincidence that Chicago is a sanctuary city that welcomes illegals. Like California, they insist on importing the poverty of another country and then just cannot figure out why their budgets are in perpetual crisis. A crisis, of course, not to be addressed by stopping the flow of illegals, but insisting that you can tax business and individuals to the point that they simply flee.
Chicago congressman Luis Gutierrez has stated that his sole concern is the immigrant community, legal or illegal. Ok, Luis. You’re not worried about the American citizen whose family goes back generations? Then guess what. They won’t worry about you and your illegal constituents. So don’t come running to Washington for money to bail you out of the consequences of your policies.