…the administration’s major themes remain unaltered: in a plan that already is producing odd political alignments, the White House would confer eventual legal status on millions of aliens now considered illegals, create a “guest worker” program for Mexicans that some critics are calling “institutionalized serfdom”—and for the first time, penalize employers who break the rules.
The illegal aliens present the thorniest problem. There are now as many as 6 million of them living in the United States, and their ranks swell by 250,000 to 500,000 a year. They provide a vital source of labor for the agricultural, manufacturing and restaurant industries in states where they settle in numbers, yet their status is shadowy—never quite tolerated, never quite rejected. The administration proposes to deal with illegal aliens in two ways. Illegals with 10 years’ continuous residency could become eligible immediately for permanent-resident status. Others would become eligible by degrees, providing they had immigrated before January 1, 1981. The purpose of spacing out the granting of permanent-resident status, officials say, is to soften its demographic and financial impact.
“Dat” would be a deal between Reagan and Tip O’neal. In exchange for border security funding which was to consist of effective physical barriers, monitoring tech, and a major expansion of the Border Patrol as well as creating a large interior immigration enforcement agency similar to ICE that exists today Reagan was willing to grant amnesty to about 3 million illegals.
Reagan did his part but of course the democrats bailed and failed to deliver on their end.
Reagan later told is chief of staff that was the biggest regret of his entire presidency.
Now, what other ancient history would you like to discuss today?
Not true! British armies were successfully defeating the French in battle after battle because they deployed in rank.
The French never learned from experience hence Wellington, despite facing a superior force and absent any support from his Prussian allie, was able to defeat Bonaparte at Waterloo.
Don’t forget the anchor babies provide a channel for providing welfare benefits to illegal aliens. The prohibition against welfare for illegals is circumvented by claiming the benefits are exclusively for the US citizen children when it’s pure idiocy to claim that.
Illegal aliens impose a significant welfare, criminal justice and medical cost burden on US taxpayers. The comparatively crude wall in the San Diego sector reduced illegal crossings by at least 70%. If the vastly more secure wall reduces illegal crossings by only 50% it will be worth the expense.
I’d be willing to bet that these costs are, proportionally, far less than costs imposed by regular American citizens. I’ll see what I can find later today.
But there is this…and many studies to back it up.
If all undocumented immigrants were deported today, next year’s Social Security trust funds would have approximately $13 billion less for benefit payouts. It’s a considerable loss of dollars, especially when it’s projected that the Social Security funds will be depleted by 2034.
According to New American Economy, undocumented immigrants contributed $13 billion into the Social Security funds in 2016 and $3 billion to Medicare. Three years prior, the Chief Actuary of the Social Security Administration, Stephen Goss, wrote a report that estimated undocumented immigrants contributed $12 billion into Social Security.
Let me know if you’d care to read more like this, there’s a huge body of evidence supporting Marketplace.
When illegals are prevented from entering our country, something I fully support by the way, the only crimes committed will be by legals. And the number of crimes committed by natural born Americans dwarfs those committed by illegals.
Why so much pearl clutching and couch fainting over the lesser threat while ignoring the greater threat? Makes no sense.
It is difficult to know whether illegal immigrants are more likely to commit crimes than native-born Americans are. All immigrants have a lower criminal incarceration rate and there are lower crime rates in the neighborhoods where they live, according to the near-unanimous findings of the peer-reviewed evidence. Since 1911, large nationwide federal immigration commissions have asked whether immigrants are more crime-prone than native-born Americans and each one of them answered no, even when the rest of their reports unjustifiably blamed immigrants for virtually every problem in the United States. From the 1911 Immigration Commission, also known as the Dillingham Commission, to the 1931 Wickersham Commission, and 1994’s Barbara Jordan Commission, each has reported that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than native-born Americans.
From that bastion of Liberal/Progressive thinking…
I get it. Lots of good folks looking to make their way here for a better life.
That isn’t my problem, nor do I care. If they gave a crap they’d make their own damn country a better place and give their blood and treasure to do so. We did it. And we ain’t their mommy or their daddy.
There are plenty of AMERICAN citizens being thrown to the wayside including children, the elderly and veterans who deserve every damn dime and effort that is instead being thrown at illegals.
