by Phyllis Schlafly Eagle Forum May 22, 2013
The Gang of Eight immigration bill can be summed up
as amnesty now, border closing never. The Department of Homeland Security is
not required to build a fence (which was ordered by the Secure Fence Act signed
by President George W. Bush). DHS is required only to submit a plan.
If the DHS Secretary decides she has not reached 90
percent of border security, a “trigger” kicks in: the creation of a Southern
Border Security Commission empowered (horrors!) to make recommendations. After
six months of pondering its mission, the Commission automatically
self-liquidates, so there will never be border security.
The Gang of Eight bill will give legal residence to
11 million illegal aliens, which is the actual goal for which they undertook
their journey and broke U.S. law. Their new U.S. legality will be concealed
under the pompous bureaucratic title, Registered Provisional Immigrant (RPI)
status.
This amnesty will cost the U.S. taxpayers $6.3
trillion over the lifetimes of the amnestied persons, mostly outside the
10-year window used for CBO calculations. This horrendous sum, which includes
all forms of public benefits less the taxes they pay, was copiously documented
by the Heritage Foundation.
The Gang of Eight authorizes the issuance of 33
million lifetime work permits (for 11 million amnesties plus accelerated chain
migration) over the next ten years. This enormous influx of job seekers will
flood our labor markets and communities, thus continuing the high unemployment
of Americans, driving down the wages of those who do have jobs, and eliminating
their hope of ever rising to the middle class and achieving the American dream.
Every amnestied person will become eligible for
ObamaCare upon receiving a green card, and within five years will be able to
cash in on our 79 means-tested welfare benefits. The timetable for these
generous benefits will almost certainly be advanced because of Senator Chuck
Schumer’s demands, Obama’s executive orders, or lawsuits brought before judges
who believe in a “living” Constitution.
The promises made about E-Verify have a loophole
for existing employees and even for those who steal American identities to get
a job. Members of the Gang of Eight even included special provisions (earmarks)
to import cheap labor to work in their own state’s industries.
The Gang of Eight’s so-called requirement that
those amnestied will have to pay back taxes is a sham. They will be asked to
pay only any taxes already computed and assessed by the Internal Revenue
Service and, since the many years the illegals worked off the books never came
to the attention of the IRS, those years will not be counted.
There are so many loopholes and exemptions to the
so-called requirement that amnestied aliens speak English that it’s a total
farce. All 11 million amnestied
immigrants are supposed to have a background check, but the mere recital of
such a requirement sounds like a joke. Our FBI and CIA missed so many obvious
clues that the Boston Marathon bomber Tamarlan was a potential terrorist that
government background checks on 11 million persons should provoke an “are you
kidding?” laugh.
IRS bureaucrats testified in the congressional
hearing that the IRS was so overwhelmed by the copious paperwork involved in a
few hundred Tea Party applications that the IRS had to perform “triage.” So how
can the IRS cope with 11 million applications for RPI status from people whose
paperwork is mostly forged or stolen?
Any government program managed by the liberals
always includes a “follow the money” segment. The Gang of Eight’s claim to
promote “immigrant integration” is a ruse to give taxpayers’ money to leftwing
and Islamist activist groups such as CASA, La Raza, MALDEF, and CAIR.
The Gang of Eight bill defines these groups as
“nonprofit organizations including those with legal advocacy experience working
with immigrant countries.” They are actually Alinsky-style community organizers
that focus on recruiting and politicizing immigrants.
Current U.S. law provides for the yearly admission
of more than one million persons, more than any nation in the world, and the
Gang of Eight’s bill will double that number. Because of our government’s
failure to enforce so many existing laws, such as using a biometric
entry-and-exit system to track visitors, we should have a pause in legal
immigration until current laws are obeyed.
One big fraud in the current admission of legal immigrants
is illustrated by the entry of the Boston bomber’s family as refugees.
Remember, they were given welfare benefits worth $100,000.
The Gang of Eight bill will reduce Republicans and
conservatives to a permanent minority status. For the last century, immigrants
who came in big waves voted at least 2-to-1 Democratic, in recent years it was
3-to-1, and there is zero evidence that the amnestied persons believe in
Republican principles such as limited government and balanced budgets.
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