The Left’s New Immigration Talking Points
Posted May 5th, 2009 at 1.25pm in Protect America, Rule of Law.
The left has learned a lot from their past immigration losses. Responding to Sen. Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) immigration hearing last week, New Democratic Networks’ Simon Rosenberg unveils the left’s new talking points on the issue and they are amazing. We’ve responded to them below:
1) Illegal Immigration and Labor Supply - Rosenberg writes:
Legalizing the five percent of the work force that is undocumented would create a higher wage and benefit floor than exists today for all workers … what you hear from some of the opponents of immigration reform is that by passing reform, all of these immigrants will come and take the jobs away of everyday Americans. But again, the undocumented immigrants are already here, working, having kids, supporting local businesses. Legalization does not create a flood of new immigrants.
Legalization absolutely would create a flood of new immigrants. The 1986 immigration reform granted amnesty to 2.7 million illegal aliens and sent the message that we are not serious about enforcing our immigration laws. By 2006 the number of illegal immigrants in this country had risen to 20 million.
2) Illegal Immigration and Federal Deficits - Rosenberg writes:
Putting the undocumented population on the road to citizenship will also increase tax revenue in a time of economic crisis, as the newly legal immigrants will pay fees and fines, and become fully integrated into the U.S. tax-paying system.
This assumes that these individuals will not take anymore social services than they do as illegals. But with an unemployment rate of 8.5% it is difficult to assume that people that are largely high-school dropouts would be able to get jobs with millions of Americans looking for work. In reality, they are more likely to be on unemployment. Furthermore, statistics that are used to show they would bring more money fail to recognize the cost of providing entitlements like Social Security and Medicare to 11 million more people—already broken systems. Overall, amnesty will cost taxpayers at least $2.6 trillion.
3) Illegal Immigration and Border Violence - Rosenberg writes:
Tackling the growing influence of the drug cartels in Mexico is going to be hard, cost a great deal of money, and take a long time. One quick and early step toward calming the region will be to take decisive action on clearing up one piece of the problem — the vast illegal trade in undocumented migrants.
We do need to reform our immigration system. But not through an amnesty which is what most of the left calls “comprehensive immigration reform.” We need to 1) secure the border and enforce workplace laws (2) support economic development and governance reforms in Latin America (3) reform USCIS (4) strengthen citizenship and (5) improve legal worker programs.
4) U.S.-Latin American relations - Rosenberg writes:
Just as offering a new policy toward Cuba is part of establishing that it is truly a “new day” in hemispheric relations, ending the shameful treatment of Latin migrants here in the United States will go a long way in signaling that America is taking its relations with its southern neighbors much more seriously than in the past.
A fundamentally dishonest immigration policy that claims to legalize only those illegal aliens now here is no way to start a “new day” with Latin America. Building a real US-Latin America Partnership takes patience and time.
5) A Clean Census - Rosenberg writes:
Passing immigration reform this year would go a long way to ensuring we have a clean and effective census count next year.
The census does need to be cleaned up. But cleaning up the census isn’t an excuse for amnesty.
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May 5, 2009 Ledeen, Long Beach CA writes:
This is ridiculous. WE NEED TO ENFORCE OUR CURRENT IMMIGRATION LAWS, PERIOD. Just look at California to see what happens when you allow millions of people to come and use our state and federal resources. Our state and local governments have done everything to invite illegal aliens here, giving them sanctuary.
Now after more than a decade of this behavior by our local officials, over 10% of Los Angeles is on welfare. Over 50% of Los Angeles people don’t have a high school diploma and cannot read or write English.
First and SECOND Generation Mexicans (that is where most of our illegal alien population is from I am not being racists)continue to have over 50% drop our rates from high school and end up in poverty.
The bad area’s of Los Angeles have gotten worse.The good area’s are declining.
More and more US Citizens are leaving due to over crowding and high taxes. And even though we have the highest tax rates in the nation. They just enacted the largest tax increase in our history, and still cannot balance a budget.
I hate it here but cannot move because my house is worse less than my mortgage. I am being held hostage by a state I cannot stand to be in.
Businesses have fled, due to the high taxes and poor worker pool to draw from.
So if you want to see what will happen to the rest of country should they move forward with legalizing the illegals , instead of being adults about this and enforcing the laws of our country and our sovereignty, just look to Southern CA as what will happen to the rest of the country.
Plus California has granted amnesty, and look what happened. It didn’t solve the problem, it only made it much much worse!
I invite everyone to come stay in Los Angeles and see if this is what you want for your city and town!