Immigrants Double Per Senate Bill
By J. Grant Swank Jr. (05/15/06)
The Senate now looks at a bill which would double immigrants each year as well as "dramatically lower the skill level of those immigrants," according to The Washington Times’ Charles Hurt.
"The number of extended family members that U.S. citizens or legal residents can bring into this country would double. More dramatically, the number of workers and their immediate families could increase sevenfold if there are enough U.S. employers looking for cheap foreign labor. Another provision would grant humanitarian visas to any woman or orphaned child anywhere in the world ‘at risk of harm’ because of age or sex."
There you have it. The 614-page bill was written hastily.
It’s summer and people are laid back. The public in general is not reading Congressional news. Vacations are top priorities. This is the moment for immigration figures to go crazily upward via Congressional approval with the President agreeing.
Immigrants would increase from 1 million today to 2 million. "These figures also do not take into account the hundreds of thousands of additional immigrants who would be admitted to the U.S. each year under the guest-worker program that is part of the bill."
There are already now 12 million illegals in the US.
Unskilled labors would be given top preference if the bill passes. It would triple. Skilled workers would get 135,000 visas and unskilled 150,000 annually.
Unskilled workers would be costly to the US. "’College-educated immigrants are likely to be strong contributors to the government's finances, with their taxes exceeding the government's costs,’ wrote Mr. Robert Rector, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation who has just completed a study on the impact of immigration and the new Senate bill.
"’By contrast, immigrants with low education levels are likely to be a fiscal drain on other taxpayers. This is important because half of all adult illegal immigrants in the U.S. have less than a high-school education. In addition, recent immigrants have high levels of out-of-wedlock childbearing, which increases welfare costs and poverty.
"’The long-term cost of government benefits to the parents of 10 million recipients of amnesty could be $30 billion per year or more. In the long run, the [Hagel-Martinez] bill, if enacted, would be the largest expansion of the welfare state in 35 years.’"
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