Drop in Illegal Immigration Opens Door for Real Reform

Townhall.com ^ | July 15, 2011 | Linda Chavez

[Psycho_Bunny]

There is no need for immigration reform.

None.

We have all the laws we need on the books and if they were enforced we’d have almost no problem.

[iopscusa]

BS from Chavez the fake Messian....I though this hag had retired to CO?

[bwc2221]

Linda Chavez is on the board of directors of Pilgrim’s Pride Chicken and ABM Industries, one of the country’s largest janitorial services, so cheap labor means big bucks to Linda.

[bwc2221]

Linda Chavez is on the board of directors of Pilgrim’s Pride Chicken and ABM Industries, one of the country’s largest janitorial services, so cheap labor means big bucks to Linda.

[kabar]

Exactly. There are 25 million Americans looking for fulltime employment and an estimated 8 million illegal aliens holding jobs. There are about 3 million intending immigrants who have completed all of the paperwork and checks waiting their turn to enter the US.

53% of immigrant headed households are on welfare. We don't need to import poverty or unskilled, uneducated workers. We generate plenty on our own.

The Heriage Foundation: The Fiscal Cost of Low-Skill Immigrants to State and Local Taxpayers

[kabar]

Only after years of such activity MIGHT we talk about some sort of amnesty for the most “useful,” least blameworthy of illegals.

No amnesty ever again. We had a one time amnesty in 1986. It didn't work. When you reward something, you get more of it.

Any legislation that legalizes the status of those who broke our laws by entering our country illegally and allows them to stay is amnesty. We must not only prevent the Democrats and some moderate Republicans from hijacking the meaning of the word amnesty, but the public must be made aware about the true impact of an amnesty.

The Heritage Foundation concluded that the cost of amnesty alone would be $2.6 trillion. And the number of additional LEGAL immigrants who would join those who were the recipients of amnesty through chain migration, i.e., family reunification, would approach 70 million over a 20-year period, assuming there are only 12 million illegal aliens. We cannot assimilate such numbers. An amnesty would destroy the United States of America with the stroke of a pen.

[CowboyJay]

It's nice that the rain has slowed to a drizzle, but the basement's already flooded. We need to fire up the sump pump.

Require e-verify for employment and social services. Revoke TIN's & business licences of employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens. Jail and deport illegal aliens who attempt to fraudulently obtain social services. Repeal jus solis citizenship, and require jus sanguis as most of the civilized world does. Build a fence to stop the human trafficking, contraband, and material support for terrorists that is still pouring across our southern border.

On the subject of legal immigration:
The U.S. has not needed mass immigration in at least 30 years. Mechanization and automation have made it obsolete. There are currently fewer than 1 million hourly jobs in agriculture in the entire country, and more than enough able bodies to fill them. The problem is farmers who have become addicted to paying below-market, off-the-books wages which are subsidized by increased social costs to taxpayers.

[SoConPubbie]

Faked, incorrect numbers used by an Open Borders fraud like
Linda Chavez to support Amnesty.

[Will88]

Totally predictable that the open borders crowd will use this ‘claimed’ drop in illegal entries as a justification to again take up comprehensive amnesty for illegal aliens.

There was an article saying the same yesterday and there will be many more.

[Will88]

But the most significant factor is that conditions in Mexico have improved to the point that many Mexicans see a better future for themselves in their homeland.

So, that makes this a perfect time to deport as many illegals as possible since things will be better for them in Mexico (yeah, right).

[TheOldLady]

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[HiJinx]

Ping!

[Nea Wood]

Yeah, Linda, you’d like us to believe that and become complacent. Linda Chavez is an open-borders reconquista.

[Oatka]

They don’t have to have any more come here illegally - they’re dropping kids so fast that I understand the births are now outpacing the illegals coming in.

[montag813]

NYT, then La Raza, then open borders RINOs like Chavez. All based onh the “study” by a left-wing “think tank” likely funded by the Joyce Foundation, or Open Society Institute, or Tides Foundation. Absolutely no proof whatsoever from Border Patrol, DHS or number of weekly apprehensions, all of which show NO decline whatsoever. This is all a coordinated ruse to convince Americans it is safe to give amnesty since “no one else will come in”.

[SUSSA]

A fence and a mine field would work better. We know how to keep illegal aliens out. We’ve been successfully keeping illegal aliens out of South Korea for more than 50 years.

[television is just wrong]

we know how, but won’t employ the methods here because the dems want them here for votes, illegal of course, and everyone else wants them here for cheap labor.