Economy may trump Obama's pledge on immigration

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Dec. 10, 2008 | Tyche Hendricks

[AuntB]

The nation's economic crisis could make it tough for President-elect Barack Obama to deliver on his pledge to overhaul the nation's immigration laws, some analysts predict.

With unemployment rising, foreign workers are less welcome, say immigration restrictionists, who have vowed to oppose offering legal status to the nation's estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants.

"Clearly the economy is job No. 1 for the new administration," said Frank Sharry, director of America's Voice, a pro-immigration advocacy group. "But we fully expect that by the end of year one, that they're going to take a hard run at immigration reform."

..... Yale Law School Professor Peter Schuck, an immigration expert, doubts lawmakers will take up the issue for a couple of years: "It's going to be on the back burner just because everything else is on the front burner. It's a very, very delicate political issue that nobody deals with with eagerness."

The weak economy - the unemployment rate reached 6.7 percent in November, its highest level in 15 years - combined with increased immigration enforcement, appears to be discouraging illegal immigrants from entering the country and impelling others to head home.

"The rule of law and not rewarding illegal behavior is a basic American concept," said Rep. Brian Bilbray, the San Diego County Republican who heads the House Immigration Reform Caucus.

But Bilbray praised Obama for his support of employment eligibility verification .....

"There are 6 million illegal aliens holding jobs in construction, services and manufacturing," said Roy Beck, director of Numbers USA, an immigration reduction organization. "If you have mandatory E-Verify ... and you make it impossible for illegal immigrants to keep those jobs, then you get 6 million jobs that have opened up for the country's 10 million unemployed workers. "

[xcamel]

Good try...
Part of the plan with the next $700 bn “stimulus package” (new deal for roads and schools) is to draw 4-5 million illegals back into the country.

[ckilmer]

yeah a lot of that work will wind up going to illegals who will send the money south of the border by way of remittances.

what the hey.

Your tax dollars at work.

That’s what happens when you have nobody minding the store.

[freedumb2003]

God knows how many illegals voted for the new fuhrer in this election cycle.

No one ever asks, now do they?

[Steamburg]

Just keep trying. When the media selects a race hustling, Chicago thug to the Presidency, the damage to the country is already written. Now, it’s just a matter of time until the pain is great enough that somebody tries to fix it. To repair it, is the American way. I only hope that there are enough Americans left to do the job.
On the other hand, China is beginning to embrace Capitalism and is reducing taxes to stimulate their economy.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

“But Bilbray praised Obama for his support of employment eligibility verification ..... “

Irony intended?

[Regulator]

When do the H-1B's split?

Anyone who says we need these guys with a straight face should move to Hollyweird, because they're a world class actor.

[Travis McGee]

Just what we need: 20 million low wage uneducated non-English speakers!

And in a few years, all of their relatives too!

[CE2949BB]

<sarcasm>Don't touch the H-1B3s!</sarcasm>

[ari-freedom]

“If you have mandatory E-Verify”

better not be another unfunded mandate.

[monkeycard]

With unemployment rising, foreign workers are less welcome, say immigration restrictionists, who have vowed to oppose offering legal status to the nation's estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants.

Undocumented immigration is illegal immigration which is illegal and has nothing whatsoever to do with immigration restriction.

[seekthetruth]

If you have not read information at this web site of Leo Donofrio, please do. Leo talks about the media lies in their few reports concerning the cases before the SCOTUS. http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/

Then please take 90 minutes sometime soon to listen to the video at this link below. At the link click on the video on the left titled: “WTP Obama Citizenship Challenge - National Press Club”. Information the media won’t report.

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=bob%20schultz%20press%20conference&rls=com.microsoft:*:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7GWYF&um=1&sa=N&tab=wv#+

Also go to Freeper Joe Thunder’s web site FreedomMarch.org and read other information on the cases before the courts.
Joe’s program on Plains Radio this evening 12/11 at 9:00PM Eastern will be an update on things going on the media won’t report.
http://freedommarch.org/Home_Page.html

http://www.plainsradio.com/

[B4Ranch]

Now.................

I hope the following 14 reasons are read so many times that the readers get sick of reading them. I have included the URL’s for verification of the following facts.

1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year.
http://tinyurl.com/zob77

2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.(In California, illegal immigrants account for about 1,350 of the 61,000 people on dialysis. Their treatment cost taxpayers $51 million last year).
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that’s two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html

11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroine and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border.

Homeland Security Report
http://www.house.gov/mccaul/pdf/Investigaions-Border-Report.pdf

12. The National Policy Institute, ‘estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.’
http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/publications.php?b=deportation

13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin.
http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm

14. ‘The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States’.
http://www.drdsk.com/articles.html#Illegals

The total cost is a whooping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR !

[ari-freedom]

you see, the govt gives so much welfare to illegals that I wonder why we can’t just go after that instead of employers.

And go after sanctuary cities. And Gov Palin, are you listening?
“Alaska and Oregon both have state-wide policies that forbid state agencies from using resources to enforce federal immigration law.”
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=20547

[B4Ranch]

Let me sit her down and talk to her. I’ll convince her there’s ways to do it without amnesty.