Romney: A GOP Senate to pass immigration, trade

It's amazing how many posting are so ignorance and they are scared of Romney. Romney was right about so many things but a few blow hearts never learned.

“. . .Second of all, to deal with those who come here illegally."

The Devil will be in the details on that one.

It's amazing how many posting are so ignorance and they are scared of Romney. Romney was right about so many things but a few blow hearts never learned.

It’s amazing how many posters could profit from a few courses on English composition, grammar, and spelling...

The law isn’t broken. The enforcement system is. The executive branch has no desire to restrict people coming into this country. That means whatever Congress passes, will make no difference. It will remain broken until the executive branch is made to enforce the law or utter chaos becomes the law.

We don’t need a “guest” worker program. We need encouragement for US citizens to work. The 14th Amendment should apply to the situation it was created for, American slaves, not illegals or other foreigners. So absolutely no anchor babies at all. Streamlining immigration should only be attempted after the executive branch is reigned in. Only people here legally should be allowed to work. E verify should be used and anyone hiring illegals knowingly or without doing diligence to determine legality, should have to pay huge fines. All benefits should be limited to American citizens even if it takes a Constitutional amendment to make that happen.

When goodies and gimme’s are taken away and they can’t get work, they will go home on their own. Once that happens, we can think about working on streamlining legal immigration.

There has to be common ground within our FR family somewhere, yes?? >

I would hope so. The immigration arguments are not all just black and white.

Speaking of costs..

United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) - Report to Congressional Requesters: CRIMINAL ALIEN STATISTICS Information on Incarcerations, Arrests, and Costs

Sixty-five percent of the 249,000 criminal aliens in our study population were arrested at least once for either

a civil or
criminal

immigration violation.

The two types of arrests typically lead to different outcomes:

arrests for civil immigration violations are for the purpose of placing individuals into removal proceedings, whereas
arrests for criminal violations can lead to criminal prosecution.

About 50 percent of the criminal aliens in our study population were arrested at least once for either

assault,
homicide,
robbery,
a sex offense, or
kidnapping.

About half of the criminal aliens were arrested at least once for a drug violation.

Figure 9 shows the percentage of criminal aliens arrested at least once by offense category.

Figure 9: Percentage of Criminal Aliens Arrested At Least Once by Offense Category
Source: GAO analysis of FBI IAFIS data.

Category
Percent
Arson	1%
Kidnapping	4%
Homicide	8%
Property damage	9%
Robbery	9%
Stolen property	10%
Sex offenses	12%
Disorderly conduct	12%
Motor vehicle theft	15%
Burglary	15%
Weapons violations	19%
Larceny/theft	21%
Fraud, forgery,and counterfeiting	21%
Other	31%
Assault	35%
Obstruction of justice	38%
Traffic violations	39%
Drugs	48%
Immigration	65%

Department of Justice’s (DOJ) State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) dollars received by states, counties, etc. to cover part of the costs here You won't believe the extent of the distribution of money to handle this problem. FY 14 SCAAP AWARDS

United States Government Accountability Office GAO Report to Congressional Requesters CRIMINAL ALIEN STATISTICS Information on Incarcerations, Arrests, and Costs March 2011 GAO-11-187

Criminal Alien Statistics Appendix III: SCAAP Criminal Alien Incarcerations in State Prisons and Local Jails (Corresponds to Fig. 4) This appendix provides additional details on figure 4: Number of SCAAP Criminal Alien Incarcerations in Each State.

Table 8: Number of State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) Criminal Alien Incarcerations in Each State

State	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Alaska	77	87	-	93	107	101	87
Alabama	98	113	102	214	259	295	313
Arkansas	493	488	486	788	1,007	1,353	1,342
Arizona	10,941	11,985	12,200	13,268	14,613	18,357	17,488
California	85,210	91,614	89,381	93,048	99,189	102,121	102,795
Colorado	5,761	5,857	6,968	6,487	7,174	7,340	7,574
Connecticut	409	422	432	476	469	481	517
District of Columbia	48	107	33	96	168	251	432
Delaware	40	49	99	57	44	38	36
Florida	10,383	11,473	12,416	16,203	15,186	16,935	17,229
Georgia	2,319	2,889	3,075	3,449	4,361	6,062	7,371
Hawaii	101	171	179	174	198	253	286
Iowa	659	591	492	523	691	543	501
Idaho	1,238	1,214	1,315	1,250	1,262	1,134	1,271
Illinois	4,967	7,271	7,528	7,499	8,335	11,114	10,677
Indiana	553	953	1,138	1,410	1,534	1,684	1,793
Kansas	973	1,090	841	1,048	1,043	1,252	1,328
Kentucky	681	652	692	626	623	1,139	1,343
Louisiana	236	213	174	172	228	204	246
Massachusetts	1,897	2,509	2,789	2,778	2,639	2,731	2,523
Maryland	1,730	1,488	1,644	1,635	1,971	2,369	2,710
Maine	35	53	60	119	103	100	406
Michigan	1,723	1,523	1,736	1,831	1,829	1,850	1,700
Minnesota	1,594	1,418	1,049	1,472	1,866	2,193	2,140
Missouri	725	786	607	661	707	805	723
Mississippi	72	66	100	78	78	183	342
Montana	19	41	50	42	54	39	24
North Carolina	4,084	4,753	6,126	6,297	7,439	8,150	8,948
North Dakota	29	28	41	37	55	43	46
Nebraska	1,082	1,064	1,142	737	1,328	1,424	1,754
New Hampshire	167	164	116	106	103	104	185
New Jersey	5,455	5,085	6,006	6,305	8,434	9,693	9,971
New Mexico	1,732	2,220	2,507	2,067	2,021	2,675	2,112
Nevada	4,957	4,923	5,623	5,369	6,605	6,148	6,918
New York	16,130	14,536	14,286	12,962	12,138	13,192	11,096
Ohio	756	792	901	924	1,240	1,777	3,879
Oklahoma	1,751	1,429	1,397	1,993	2,471	4,128	1,666
Oregon	2,056	3,464	3,892	4,307	4,755	5,158	3,609
Pennsylvania	1,414	1,162	1,232	1,516	1,615	2,054	2,169
Rhode Island	663	400	352	402	429	359	421
South Carolina	925	1,117	1,472	1,721	2,649	2,051	3,750
South Dakota	292	267	317	352	486	547	93
Tennessee	764	1,148	1,196	1,409	1,630	2,499	1,993
Texas	32,127	31,047	27,980	30,689	33,221	36,065	37,021
Utah	2,338	2,574	2,316	2,395	2,648	2,018	3,438
Virginia	2,432	2,882	3,743	3,298	4,554	5,819	4,968
Vermont	20	24	25	17	20	28	13
Washington	5,668	5,375	4,891	5,164	6,050	6,384	5,976
Wisconsin	2,174	2,362	2,592	2,724	2,756	2,882	2,690
West Virginia	5	6	8	-	-	22	5
Wyoming	75	63	56	49	59	71	65
TOTAL	220,078	232,008	233,803	246,337	268,444	294,218	295,983

federal prison population Table 1 Prisoners under the jurisdiction of state or federal correctional authorities, December 31, 2000–2011

Year	Total	Federal^*	state	Male	Female
2000	1,394,231	145,416	1,248,815	1,303,421	93,504
2001	1,404,032	156,993	1,247,039	1,311,053	92,979
2002	1,440,144	163,528	1,276,616	1,342,513	97,631
2003	1,468,601	173,059	1,295,542	1,367,755	100,846
2004	1,497,100	180,328	1,316,772	1,392,278	104,822
2005	1,525,910	187,618	1,338,292	1,418,392	107,518
2006	1,568,674	193,046	1,375,628	1,456,366	112,308
2007	1,596,835	199,618	1,397,217	1,482,524	114,311
2008	1,608,282	201,280	1,407,002	1,493,670	114,612
2009	1,615,487	208,118	1,407,369	1,502,002	113,485
2010	1,613,803	209,771	1,404,032	1,500,936	112,867
2011	1,598,780	216,362	1,382,418	1,487,393	111,387
			Percent change
Year	Total	Federal^*	state	Male	Female
Average annual
2000–2010	1.3%	3.3%	1.1%	1.3%	1.7%
2010–2011	-0.9	3.1	-1.5	-0.9	-1.3

Note: Jurisdiction refers to the legal authority of state or federal correctional officials over a prisoner regardless of where the prisoner is held.

^*Includes inmates held in nonsecure privately operated community corrections facilities and juveniles held in contract facilities. Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Prisoner Statistics Program, 2000–2011

federal prison population

Drug offenders still make up more than 46 percent of the federal prison system.

Immigrants are the third-highest category of offenders, at 11 percent.

more than 80 percent of immigration defendants convicted in federal court in 2010 received a prison sentence

Rand Paul's immigration speech
...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.

Unfortunately, like many of the major debates in Washington, immigration has become a stalemate-where both sides are imprisoned by their own rhetoric or attachment to sacred cows that prevent the possibility of a balanced solution.

Immigration Reform will not occur until Conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.

Let's start that conversation by acknowledging we aren't going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.

If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you...

This is where prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society.

Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors.
[Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg]
Rand Paul calls on conservatives to embrace immigration reform
Latinos, should be a natural constituency for the party, Paul argued, but "Republicans have pushed them away with harsh rhetoric over immigration." ...he would create a bipartisan panel to determine how many visas should be granted for workers already in the United States and those who might follow... [and the buried lead] "Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers...
[Posted on 04/21/2013 1:52:42 PM PDT by SoConPubbie]
[but he's not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]