Yes, Amnesty Encourages More Illegal Immigration

To the disappointment of immigration-enforcement advocates, Judge Andrew S. Hanen last week rejected a key argument that Texas raised in its attempt to establish legal standing. Texas tried to show that Obama’s amnesty policies would lead to an increase of illegal aliens in the state and would strain state coffers as a consequence.

To most Americans, amnesty leading to more illegal immigration is simple cause-and-effect logic (much like “increasing the labor supply leads to lower wages”). Our court system, however, doesn’t treat so-called speculative harms very well, no matter how inevitable they seem. Still, the open-borders lobby no doubt breathed a big sigh of relief at Hanen’s rejection, considering the mass of evidence that Texas put forward.

Although it doesn’t take a doctorate to understand that amnesty encourages illegal immigration, Texas had submitted written testimony from Harvard Ph.D. Karl Eschbach, a former demographer for the state and an expert in racial demographic trends, ethnic health disparities, and illegal immigration. With Texas paying out nearly $1.7 billion over the last two years in uncompensated health care linked to illegal aliens, the state needs this kind of expertise.

Unsurprisingly, Eschbach told the court that amnesty policies “encourage those eligible [for it] to stay in the United States and incentivize other ineligible unauthorized immigrants to remain in the United States with the hope that they will be the beneficiaries of a future adjustment of status.” Further, he said, “the effect of DACA and DAPA is to incentivize residents of other countries to come to the United States.”

Judge Hanen in response noted that attorneys for Obama did “not deny that some of [the Department of Homeland Security’s] action has had this effect.” How could they have denied it? We’ve been experiencing “this effect” for decades. In 1986, Congress passed the Immigration Reform and Control Act providing amnesty for 3 million illegal aliens and prohibiting employers from hiring them. We ended up getting the former but not the latter. Since then, our illegal-alien population has quadrupled.

Obama’s stealth amnesty in 2012 and his later promises to go “bigger and bolder” led to Texas’s getting swamped with unaccompanied alien minors (UAMs) last summer. Citing the federal government’s own analysis, Texas stated in its complaint that interviews with apprehended UAMs “showed overwhelmingly” that they were “motivated by the belief that they would be allowed to stay in the United States.” Still, courts call this mere “speculative damage.”

Strangely underutilized by Texas was UAM-surge data from Customs and Border Patrol. From 2012, when DACA was announced, to last year, UAM apprehensions increased 490 percent, 444 percent, and 610 percent for El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, respectively. In the final three months of last year alone, apprehension figures for Guatemalan and El Salvadorian UAMs eclipsed their entire annual average for fiscal years 2009 through 2011 — 2,746 versus 1,399 for Guatemala, and 1,564 versus 1,508 for El Salvador. Even the Congressional Research Service, the Washington Post, and the Soros-funded Migration Policy Institute have made the link between ending the threat of deportation and the rise in illegal immigration.

Further, the federal government itself predicts an ever-bigger surge this year. Officials have stated that apprehensions for 2015 will rise to 127,000, a giant increase from the figures of recent years: 90,000 in 2014, and an average of 7,000 in 2003–11.

For taxpayers, this will be costly. From the Department of Health and Human Services — specifically, from its Office of Refugee Resettlement, just one of the agencies tasked with management of the crisis — come data showing federal grants to states and non-profit organizations rising from the already lofty $136 million in 2011 to over $800 million last year. The Immigration Law Reform Institute (which I work for) has requested, through the Freedom of Information Act, accounting records that will show the whole price tag of the amnesty-induced UAM crisis. By demonstrating that amnesty is more expensive than deportations (and far more expensive than self-deportation), we hope to confirm that the “limited resources” excuse for not enforcing our immigration laws is 100 percent false.

Other countries apparently understand motivating factors better than we do. Japan has one of the highest standards of living in the world and a very selective immigration system. They know that if they told the 300 million living below the poverty line in the Philippines, Indonesia, and Vietnam that they were switching to an open-borders system, Japan wouldn’t be Japan for very long.

It’s hoped Judge Hanen wasn’t pressured by politics when deciding on this issue. The Left’s increasing moralization of immigration policy is pushing out all common sense from its discussion. Given the harms of mass immigration, we need to be as right-minded as possible. Without common sense, it’s the future of the country that’ll become “speculative.”

— Ian Smith is an attorney in Washington, D.C., and blog contributor for the Immigration Reform Law Institute.

ALL ABOARD THE CHEAP LABOR----IN-STATE TUITION----EXPRESS

They're Coming to America but not on the LI Limited. No running water and flush toilets on those trains. How did the "new students" and "employees" handle body wastes atop the train?

COMING TO AMERICA-- murderers, rapists, pedophiles, thieves and drug dealers, paid agents of foreign govt's advocating the overthrow of the US govt. Coming to infest your communities, schools (and workplaces) w/ drugs, crimes and disease.

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Those who advocate open borders should take heed. Huge quantities of heroin and cocaine have flooded across our borders, smuggled by pernicious drug trafficking organizations who've set up distribution networks allover the United States. Tens of billions of dollars from the drug trade, flow into the coffers of transnational drug trafficking organizations and international terrorist organizations.

There have been thousands of accusations of human rights abuse, extortion, and even reports of murder on the freight trains transporting undocumented migrants to the US border.

The real eye-opener is that these freight train companies are involved in the Narco trade, and one report makes it clear that the companies are aware of the abusive practices their train operators are engaging in. The border swarm is all about human trafficking, narco-trafficking, and government collusion.

The trains involved are publicly-traded companies, traded on NASDAQ, with "very influential stockholders", such as the billionaire Clintons and billionaire Mexico resident, Carlos Slim. Other stockholders include,T Rowe Price, Bank of America, and General Electric.

We demand the defunding of Homeland Security --- Secy Jeh Johnson is running DHS as a criminal enterprise. Johnson apparently assumes he and Obama have the authority to nullify federal laws that don't serve their personal agenda.

These govt factotums need to be made to understand that in America the govt conforms to the will of the people---not the other way around.

OBAMA GOVT THREATENS US CITIZENS: DHS Secy Jeh Johnson used his govt office to issue threats that would undermine US ntl security and endanger US citizens----Johnson said if Congress didn’t send President Obama the DHS funding bill that he wanted (rubber-stamping executive amnesty), federal grants allocated to local and state public safety agencies by law would not be delivered –.

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REFERENCE Sheriff Justin Smith, Larimer County Colorado's Facebook post responded to, what he considers, are "veiled threats" issued from the govt office of DHS' Jeh Johnson to all police chiefs and sheriffs around the country.

MEMO TO L/E UNDER DHS THREATS: Sheriff Justin Smith and nationwide L/E, police chiefs and sheriffs due federal grants need to act now:

The Bank Secrecy Act must be mobilized----to follow the paper trail and determine how DHS govt monies changes hands; to determine the scope and dimension of collusion in sub rosa deals (and who might be personally profiting).

<><> L/E needs to examine DHS and its related agencies' bank accounts.

<><> Joint bank accounts might be used to facilitate the transfer funds from one account to another, and/or wire- transferred offshore;

<><> To cover their tracks, DHS insiders might create fake invoices to show that govt money deposited into accounts was being used for legitimate and constitutional purposes.

<><> Financial schemes scheme might be advanced by issuing phony statements of payments from financial sources that actually covered the transfer of funds for insiders' personal use and/or for redistribution schemes.

We take in 1.1 million LEGAL PERMANENT immigrants a year and have been for the past 25 years. 87% of the LEGAL immigrants are minorities. Immigrants and minorities vote more than two to one Dem. Ever since the 1965 Immigration Act, the demographics of this country have been changed forever. Amnesty for illegal aliens just hastens the transformation, but even if we had no illegal aliens, the die has been cast. Legal immigration is far more destructive than illegal aliens.

HISTORY REPEATS ISELF

With over 92 million Americans out of the work force, Obama open the gates to 15 millions new illegal immigrants.

We already have MEXIFORNIA and Obama is advancing the Mexican "Reconquista” of U.S. Very tough times are coming for Black America.

"Those who ignore history are damned to repeat it."

The KKK party against Blacks...Obama is taking out from the Blacks to give it to the illegal migrants.

REAL HOME OF RACISM IS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY

ON THIS DAY IN 1965 – Angry Democrats with Billy Clubs & Dogs Attacked Selma Civil Rights Marchers

Gateway Pundit ^ | 03/07/2015 | staff

On this day in 1965, state police under the command of the Democrat Governor, George Wallace, attacked African-Americans who were demonstrating for voting rights in Selma, Alabama. The rampaging Democrats used billy clubs and tear gas and dogs in their “Bloody Sunday” assault.

A Republican-appointed federal judge, Frank Johnson, soon ruled in favor of the demonstrators, enabling them to complete their march two weeks later.

The epitome of the slavery party: West Virginia's Democratic United States Senator Robert C. Byrd was a recruiter for the Klan while in his 20s and 30s, rising to the title of Kleagle and Exalted Cyclops of his local chapter.

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