[C. Edmund Wright]

Yes, e verify would be a good addition - but to me, not quite as important as cutting the bennies. This flood now has zip zero nada to do with jobs…this has all to do with freebies, period.

[kabar]

Yes, e verify would be a good addition - but to me, not quite as important as cutting the bennies.

According to federal law, illegals are not entitled to any federal welfare benefits. In most cases the adult illegals get such benefits thru their American born children (aka anchor babies.) The estimated number of anchor babies born annually ranges from 300,000 to 400,000. And even legal immigrants must wait five years before becoming eligible. Legal immigrants use welfare programs to a significantly greater extent than the native born.

The job magnet is the greatest attraction for both legal immigrants and illegal aliens. The fact is that over $120 billion a year is sent from the US to other countries. Mexico tops the list with $22.8 billion a year. Most of the money for the remittances is earned by working immigrants.

The top eleven countries receiving remittances from the US in 2012 are Mexico ($22.8 billion), China ($13 billion), India ($12 billion), Philippines ($10.6 billion), Nigeria ($6 billion), Vietnam ($5.7 billion), South Korea ($5.7 billion), Guatemala ($4.4 billion), El Salvador ($3.6 billion); Dominican Republic ($2.7 billion), and Honduras ($2.3 billion).

The remittances are from both legal immigrants and illegal aliens. $120 billion is being sent out of the US economy to other countries. It dwarfs foreign aid.

$123,273,000,000 in remittances were sent from United States to other countries in 2012.

This flood now has zip zero nada to do with jobs…this has all to do with freebies, period.

Nonsense. First, where do you think the families came up with the money to finance this migration? And close to half of them are joining relatives in the US who presumably have jobs. If you cut off the jobs, you will prevent most illegal immigration.

In a trafficking situation, the child is a victim and an involuntary commodity being moved across the border for an illegal purpose such as servitude or prostitution. But a leaked Immigration and Customs Enforcement intelligence report confirms that most of the children who arrive unaccompanied are smuggled, not trafficked: “Unaccompanied children are typically smuggled to the United States by human smuggling networks through established routes . . . the fees for which are most likely paid for by [their] family members residing in the United States.” The smuggling is a deplorable scenario, but it is not the same thing as trafficking.

The same ICE report reveals that about 43 percent of the unaccompanied minors are reunited with a parent soon after arriving in the United States. Under the law, an unaccompanied child is defined as one who is under the age of 18 and without a parent or legal guardian in the United States to care for him. It can reasonably be argued that upon reunification, the child should again be considered part of a family unit. That means if the custodial parents were to be deported, it would be in the best interests of the child to accompany them back to their homeland.

What we are really seeing is a reuniting of children and spouses with illegal aliens in the US in anticipation of an amnesty, de facto or by law. Obama is getting ready to use "prosecutorial discretion" to provide legal status to more than 7 million using the same rationale he did for DACA. Such a legalization would provide work permits and SSNs, just like for the estimated 560,000 DACA recipients approved to date.

We need to cut off the jobs more than the benefits, which are prohibited in most cases anyway.