More Mega-Legislation: Senate Takes Up Immigration "Reform"
By Alan
Caruba
If you
liked Obamacare, you will love the proposed immigration “reform” bill which is
all about the politics of the Left with no regard to the welfare of U.S. citizens
by birth and naturalized citizens. Its final length remains unknown, but it was
more than 1,500 pages by late April. The Senate takes up the bill this week.
The fact
that Congress is revisiting the immigration issue is testimony to the estimated
eleven million aliens illegally here due to law enforcement failures and limitations, and the
political implications of granting them and eventually their families what is
essentially instant citizenship, though fretted with a variety of fines and
other factors.
The
immigration bill gives the finger to those waiting, often for years, to go
through the naturalization process and to the millions of Americans in need of
employment during the worst economic times since the Great Depression.
As Alan
Blinder, a former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, wrote in the June 11
edition of The Wall Street Journal, “Mass joblessness is a shameful waste of
human resources, a source of misery to millions, and now threatens to create an
underclass of long-term unemployed whose skills are atrophying and whose hopes
are vanishing.”
The “gang
of eight” is composed of Senators of the far Left such as Chuck Schumer (D-NY),
Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Bob Menendez (D-NJ), along with RINOs (Republicans in
name only) such as John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC). Others
include Marco Rubio (R-FL) who is either going to vote for it or against it
depending on what day it is. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and Michael Bennett (D-CO)
complete the list.
You can
ignore the promises of increased enforcement of laws to protect our southern
border as these laws have been ignored for years. In January, a federal judge
ruled that ten Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and officers
had the right to challenge the so-called Morton Memo on prosecutorial
discretion and the DREAM directive on deferred action that essentially ordered
agents to violate federal laws for face adverse employment actions against
them. The Memo prohibited ICE agents and officers from arresting or removing,
i.e. deporting, any but the most violent criminal aliens; both initiatives of the Obama administration.
As
NumbersUSA pointed out in May, the U.S. Senate’s S-744 bill “would give
lifetime permits to 33 million more foreign citizens to complete with Americans
for scarce U.S. jobs” over the next decade when the 20 million Americans are currently
seeking work. “That’s like putting the entire population of Canada in line for
American jobs.”
The 33 million new work visas in the
decade ahead would be almost as many as all immigrants who ever entered the
U.S. in its history through to today.
The Center for Immigration Studies says that S-744 “assures the continuation of poverty
for the American underclass for the foreseeable future, noting that in the
first quarter of this year, the “broad unemployment rate for Americans without
a high school degree has reached 30% and is close to 20% for citizens with only
a high school education.”
“There are
now 55.4 million working-age Americans who are not working.”
NumbersUSA
provides another way of looking at S-744, pointing out that it is comparable
to “re-creating ALL of the Top 20 cities in the United States, filling them
entirely with foreign citizens and giving them lifetime work permits to compete
with America’s struggling workers—and in just ten years’ time.”
The bill when it was released in April had approximately 1.14
waivers or exemptions per page. The 2,409 page Obamacare bill had 0.78 waivers
and exemptions. S-744 is filled with 85 mentions of “unless”, 150 uses of
“except”, 18 inclusions of “exempt”, 95 mentions of “waiver”, 47 offers of
“discretion”, 47 uses of “notwithstanding” and 618 uses of “may” in its
original 876-pages. As noted, the bill now has some 1,500 pages. These are the
work of the countless lobbyists who have influenced the bill.
In
addition, the immigration “reform” bill includes two “slush funds”
amounting to $150,000,000 that may be supplemented with additional taxpayer
dollars for years to come. These funds would go to “public or private,
non-profit organizations such as La Raza, Casa de Maryland, and the American
Immigration lawyers Association! These and other organizations are devoted to
helping illegal immigrants apply for legal status.
It gets
worse if that is possible. The bill not only provides amnesty for illegal
immigrants, but does so as well for their employers. As the Center for
Immigration Studies points out, “Illegal aliens will be rewarded for breaking
laws for which American citizens are routinely punished” such as the use of
fraudulent Social Security cards, while imposing a $1,000 penalty that “in many
cases would be waived. Then they would be issued a new Social Security number
without any past bad credit or arrest records.”
The
so-called immigration reform bill is the worst bill at the worst time. It is
an invitation to millions more to illegally enter the United States.
© Alan
Caruba, 2013
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