Posted on 05/15/2006 8:37:59 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) today unveiled an impact analysis that shows the Senate immigration bill – should it become law – would permit up to 217.1 million new legal immigrants into the United States over the next 20 years, a number equal to 66 percent of the total current population of the United States.
Even if the maximum levels are not reached, the increase to the U.S. population caused by S. 2611 will be at least 78.7 million in 20 years, just over 25 percent of the total current population. This lower estimate assumes that the bill's escalating caps on certain visas will not increase at all over the next 20 years; if the bill's caps are hit each year, the total number will be the higher estimate.
“Until now, most of us have focused on securing the border and deciding how to treat the illegal alien population already in the United States,” Sessions said. “Few, if any, of us have looked ahead to see what the long-term numerical impact of the bill would be. My staff and I have just completed such a study, and the results are shocking.”
Sessions discussed his findings at a news conference today, along with Robert Rector, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, who released his own analysis showing similar numbers.
“As we begin debate today on the floor, my goal is to get these numbers before my colleagues so that they can appreciate just how breath-takingly unsatisfactory this 614-page Senate bill is,” Sessions said. “We know that this country is going to treat the illegal alien population fairly. However, if the Senate wants to be successful in passing immigration reform, it should produce a bill that secures the borders and the workplace and establishes a commonsense, carefully thought out, legally enforceable policy for legal immigration in the future. For our immigration system to work, the Senate bill must guarantee that today’s facade of enforcement and illegal immigration flows won’t exist in the future.”
If the current legal immigration level (950,000 a year for 20 years or 18.9 million over 20 years) is excluded from the total, according to Sessions, the Senate bill could be described as increasing legal immigration by 59 million to 198.2 million over 20 years.
“These are actually very conservative estimates,” Sessions said. “For example, for the low end, we assumed the caps would never escalate, and we only added an average of 1.2 immediate family members coming in with each alien worker. Additionally, our numerical analysis did not add in estimates of future illegal immigration flows, or include any estimates for chain-migration – the parents, brothers and sisters that new citizens can bring in on a permanent basis.”
Chain-migration occurs when an immigrant becomes a citizen. Citizens have a legal right to bring in family members other than spouses and children. They can bring in their parents, their adult siblings and the spouses and children of their adult siblings.
“You can see how the potential exponential growth impact of the Senate legislation will cause consternation on the part of Congress and the American people ,” Sessions said.
The Senate bill would increase permanent future immigration into the United States in several ways.
LOW SKILLED PERMANENT IMMIGRATION:
H-2C Workers: By creating a new (H-2C) visa category for “temporary guest workers” (low skilled workers) with an annual “cap” of 325,000 that increases up to 20 percent each year the cap is met, the bill allows at least 6.5 million, and up to 60.7 million new guest workers to come to the United States over the next 20 years. There is nothing “temporary” about these workers. Employers may file a green card application on their behalf as soon as they arrive in the United States, or the worker may self-petition for a green card after four years of work.
H-4 Family Members of H-2C Workers: By creating a new visa category (H-4) for the immediate family members of the future low-skilled workers (H-2C), and allowing them to also receive green cards, the bill would allow at least 7.8 million, and up to 72.8 million immediate family members of low-skilled workers to come to the United States over the next 20 years.
HIGH SKILLED PERMANENT IMMIGRATION:
H-1B: The bill would essentially open the borders to high-skilled workers, as well as low-skilled workers. By increasing the annual cap of 65,000 to 115,000, automatically increasing the new cap by 20 percent each year the cap is hit, and creating a new exemption to new cap for anyone who has an “advanced degree in science, technology, engineering, or math” from any foreign university, the number of H-1B workers coming into the United States would undoubtedly escalate. The 20-year impact of this escalation could be anywhere from 1 million to 20.1 million. H-1B workers are eligible for green cards and would be allowed to stay and work in the United States for as long as it takes to process the green card application.
STEEP INCREASES TO ANNUAL GREEN CARD LIMITS:
Family Based Green Cards: The bill would increase the annual cap on family based green cards available to non-immediate family members (adult sons and daughters, adults siblings, and the spouses and children of adult siblings) by more than 100 percent, upping the current cap of 226,000 to 480,000 a year. Immediate family members are already able to immigrate without regard to the family based green card caps. The 20-year impact of this change would be an increase of 5.1 million non-immediate family member green cards.
Employment Based Green Cards The bill would increase the annual cap on employment-based green cards by more than 500 percent, upping the current cap of 140,000 to 450,000 until 2016 and to 290,000 thereafter and exempting all immediate family members that currently count against the cap today (spouses, children and parents) from the newly escalated cap. The new exemption would result in an average of 540,000 family members receiving green cards each year of the first 10 years, and an average of 348,000 family members receiving green cards each year of the second 10 years. The 20-year impact of this change would be an increase of 13.5 million employment-based green cards, for a total of 16.3 million employment-based green cards issued over the course of the next 20 years.
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These numbers need to be screamed to high heaven.
We are being lied to and sold out from both sides.
Thanks for posting. Excellent information that should concern every American!
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I really respect and appreciate Sen. Sessions for bring this out for America.
Oh Jeeeeze!
This is the 20-year-plan worked out by the Powers That Be to maintain an economic and military advantage over China. Unfortunately, it requires the total surrender of American culture to achieve...a cost which the PTB apparently consider insignificant.
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All this proves is that the W.H. isn't interested in addressing the people's concerns since Sessions was excluded from their meetings with the Senate. The one Senator most responsible on the issue of border enforcement isn't someone they seek the opinion of. The one Senator that is actually working, and digging for the facts to expose the Senate legislation.
If Sessions ran for President he'd have my vote. No other Senator ever will.
Great another 200 million more latinos refusing to assimilate or learn to become Americans.
If this happens I'm through voting for the republicans.
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"We are being lied to and sold out from both sides."
Exactly!
If things get tough economically in the near future, lower income Americans are going to turn on the illegals. Then look out, we'll have riots like you haven't seen before.
I was told none of the Senators who oppose the latest plan were invited to the White House. It looks to me like Frist is cutting his own throat when it comes to getting the Republican nomination. All you need to know is that Specter is leading the charge on this. Our only hope is that the House will reject all of this nation-destroying BS.
I am waiting for the African American community to wake up. Where is Jesse and AL? If they suddenly complain that illegals are taking away jobs from their communities, then the borders will be sealed. No politician will stand up to either's complaints.
And there is nowhere for white Americans to migrate to.
If Japan was foolish enough to create an oriental-minority in Japan, they could still migrate to the US.
There has never been a nation in world history more determined to destroy its culture than today's USA.
Senator Robert Byrd, D-WVA, stopped the last attempt at Amnesty for Illegal Invaders on a technicality (2002). Otherwise, it would have passed and already been signed into law by GW Bush.
Will Senator Sessions or any other Senator, especially one with an R following his/her name, have the gumption to stop any future Amnesty (under any name) for Illegal Invaders? Every Senator, I believe, has the authority to, but does any one have the will to?
Save for transmittal to Representatives, Senators, President. and future ex leaders of the GOP.
Tell the illegals if they are found in this country, they will not only be deported, they'll never be allowed to be citizens of this county - and their children born here will be stripped of US citizenship. Allow illegals 3 weeks to get out of our country... they'll leave on their own.
The illegals who can't fly out will walk out - same as how they got here. Then set up system in Mexico where they can sign up to return as citizens. They'll be put on a list and be considered along with all the other peoples of the world who want to become Americans.
As to the "guest worker" program, fighting for the right to exploit third world people by allowing them to work in our country as second class citizens is sick.
We're better than slavery-lite. It's not our way.
If journalists from India came to the US illegally and offered to write for $6,000 a year, newspapers wouldn't be able to find American journalists to write for them either (at that price)...
American industry needs to socialize the American poor to do these jobs, or pay them enough, or innovate so machines will do the jobs.
The path of least resistance - slavery lite - will not take us where we want to go...
BTTT
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