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Immigration Bills: House vs. Senate
On immigration generally, Americans want less, not more, immigration. Only twenty-six percent said immigrants were assimilating fine and that immigration should continue at current levels, compared to sixty-seven percent who said immigration should be reduced so we can assimilate those already here.
While the Senate is considering various bills that would increase legal immigration from 1 million to 2 million a year, two percent of Americans believe current immigration is too low. This was true for virtually every grouping in the survey by ethnicity, income, age, religion, region, party, or ideology thought immigration was too low.
When offered by itself, there is strong support for the House bill: sixty-nine percent said it was a good or very good idea when told it tries to make illegals go home by fortifying the border, forcing employer verification, and encouraging greater cooperation with local law enforcement while not increasing legal immigration; twenty-seven percent said it was a bad or very bad idea.
Support for the House approach was widespread, with eighty-one percent of Republicans, seventy-two percent of independents, fifty-seven percent of Democrats, and fifty-three percent of Hispanics saying it was good or very good idea.
When offered by itself, there is also some support for the Senate approach, thought not as much as for the House bill: forty-two percent said the Senate approach was a good or very good idea when told it would allow illegal immigrants to apply for legal status provided they met certain criteria, and it would significantly increase legal immigration and increase enforcement of immigration laws; fifty percent said it was a bad or very bad idea.
There were few groups in which a majority supported the Senate plan, even when presented by itself, exceptions included Hispanics sixty-two percent of whom said it was a good or very good idea and the most liberal voters (progressives) fifty-four percent of whom approved of it.
When given three choices (House approach, Senate approach, or mass deportation), the public tends to reject both the Senate plan and a policy of mass deportations in favor of the House bill; twenty-eight percent want the Senate plan, twelve percent want mass deportations; while fifty-six percent want the House approach.
But when given a choice between just the House and Senate approaches, without the choice of mass deportations, the public prefers the House approach sixty-four percent version to thirty percent.
One reason the public does not like legalizations is that they are skeptical of need for illegal-immigrant labor. An overwhelming majority of seventy-seven percent said there are plenty of Americans to fill low-wage jobs if employers pay more and treat workers better; just fifteen percent said there are not enough Americans for such jobs.
Another reason the public does not like Senate proposals to legalize illegals and double legal immigration is that seventy-three percent said they had little or no confidence in the ability of the government to screen these additional applicants to weed out terrorists and criminals.
Public also does not buy the argument we have tried and failed to enforce the law: seventy-one percent felt that past enforcement efforts have been "grossly inadequate," while only nineteen percent felt we had made a "real effort" to enforce our laws.
Oh no!
I live right near Inter-National 40.
Not to worry. This has been in the works from many years now and the Burger Builders, Illuminutties, CFRers, and others must have their way. After all this was projected by President Reagan some years back.... So in essence things are progressing as planned.
From Reagan's 'The Brotherhood of Man Speech'
Bold, my emphasisThe truth of the matter is, if we take this crowd and if we could go through and ask the heritage, the background of every family represented here, we would probably come up with the names of every country on earth, every corner of the world, and every race. Here, is the one spot on earth where we have the brotherhood of man. And maybe as we continue with this proudly, this brotherhood of man made up from people representative of every corner of the earth, maybe one day boundaries all over the earth will disappear as people cross boundaries and find out that, yes, there is a brotherhood of man in every corner.Thank you all and God Bless you all.
But guess what soon will be...your Social Security Fund monies will be going South of the Border by the mega billions. And the Administration is either delusional or knowingly lying about the numbers.
GAO report: Proposed Totalization Agreement with Mexico Presents Unique Challenges (NOTE: The GAO report was published before enactment of the Grassley provision outlined on this page)
Social Security Totalization Agreements,
Committee on Ways and Means Fact Sheet
Mexico Totalization Agreement,
Committee on Ways and Means Fact Sheet
Should there be a Social Security Totalization Agreement with Mexico?
— Hearing before the House Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims (9/11/03)
Should there be a Social Security Totalization Agreement with Mexico? House Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims
Understanding ALL the Facts About a Potential U.S.-Mexico Totalization Agreement: Dear Colleague letter from Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) (rebuttal to the Shaw/Matsui letter below)
Understanding the Facts About a Potential U.S.-Mexico Totalization Agreement: Dear Colleague letter from Reps. Robert Matsui (D-CA) and Clay Shaw (R-FL)
U.S. Social Security Ties with Mexico is Bad for America, by James R. Edwards
Social Security 'Totalization'
Examining a Lopsided Agreement with Mexico, by Marti Dinerstein
Vicente Fox on the Transition, NAFTA, Corruption, Drugs, the Economy...
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