We need your help this week and we need you to follow our activism requests with great energy and attention to detail! Obama's Homeland Security has contradicted our existing federal laws and constitutional form of governance once again to decree more Amnesty for illegal aliens. Your calls for Congress to stop Obama can help us stop the new Amnesty legislation expected to be filed any day now!
Existing federal law says that no illegal immigrants on US soil are allowed to apply for visas. Obama's Law now says they can! Those planning this overthrow of your republic are hoping you will stand down, cower, and retreat in response to their actions. You need to show them instead that your reaction will be a new level of resistance to their efforts!
If you refuse to live in a nation where laws are created by the liar dictators, then stand with us by taking the following steps.
Step 1: Bring yourself up to speed on the situation by reading and sharing this article from the LA Times that seeks to legitimize Obama's Law...
White House Violates More Federal Laws To give More Amnesty to Illegals Without Congress
http://www.alipac.us/content/white-h...migrants-1243/
Step 2: Read and understand and utilize ALIPAC's National Press Release. Please help us distribute this release by posting it to websites you use or your social media and by sending copies to your favorite talk radio shows, national, and local media. ALIPAC distributes this release on our end and having activists send in more copies helps increase our coverage. We must stir up Americans into a fast and furious response to these power grabs within the next 48 hours. Use this release in your efforts please.
ALIPAC's National Release
Calls for National Political Revolt Against New Obama Amnesty Dictates
http://www.alipac.us/content/calls-n...dictates-1258/
Step 3: Help us light up the phone lines in DC today with angry callers demanding opposition to Obama's unlawful Amnesty decrees and opposition to any legislation seeking to help illegal immigrants remain in America! Our allied organizations will be responding soon as well and we all need to work together to get a large wave of calls started today and intensifying into the week.PLEASE REMEMBER THAT YOUR LOCAL CONGRESSIONAL REPS MAY HAVE CHANGED DUE TO ELECTIONS AND REDISTRICTING. Use this link to find our members of Congress and the US Senate to contact them first...
Congress.org – Get informed, get involved
and
U.S. Senate: Senators Home
Remember to call and speak to someone live or leave a voice mail, then reinforce your message with a written copy sent in via email, fax, and or letter.
Here is our sample message but you must A. Personalize this message to each lawmaker you address and B. Write your own distinct message. This is how you actually get your messages through and registered. Trying to send form messages that are not personalized will fail to have much of an impact if any at all.
Sample message
"I am calling/writing today to ask Congressman _______ to take immediate action to stop Obama's illegal Amnesty orders designed to help illegal immigrants remain in the United States! His deferred action orders and new orders allowing illegals to apply for visas if they claim to have relatives in the US are offensive, illegal, unconstitutional, and an insult to Congress and America's citizens. Please take action to reign in Obama's abuses of power and oppose any legislation that would help illegal aliens stay in America to displace American workers, students, and voters. Please insist that the existing immigration and border laws of America be adequately enforced instead."
Please contact as many DC lawmakers as possible today and we will send you updated info as soon as possible.
We need you to follow our instructions with great detail and energy.
Rally to us ALIPACers! Rally and get on the phones with us now!
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http://www.alipac.us/f8/take-action-...6/#post1321228
Let's Roll!
William Gheen and The ALIPAC Team
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NO PRESIDENT IN HISTORY HAS WORKED AS HARD AS OBAMA FOR A FOREIGN
POLITICAL PARTY AS BARACK OBAMA HAS THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA.
OBAMA HAS SQUANDERED BILLIONS
PROTECTING THE BORDERS OF MUSLIM DICTATORS OVER THERE WHILE SABOTAGING HOMELAND
SECURITY OVER THERE TO THE HORDES OF MEXICANS THAT CROSS OUR BORDERS ALONG WITH
THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS!
FROM
JUDICIAL WATCH’S 10 MOST CORRUPT:
President
Barack Obama:
Were there a "Hall of Fame" for broken promises, here is one that would get in on the first ballot: "Let me say it as simply as I can: Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency" (President Barack Obama, January 21, 2009). Instead of transparency and the rule of law over the past four years, we have witnessed the greatest expansion of government in modern political history and, consequently, an explosion of government secrecy, scandals, and abuses of power. Among the low-lights:
Were there a "Hall of Fame" for broken promises, here is one that would get in on the first ballot: "Let me say it as simply as I can: Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency" (President Barack Obama, January 21, 2009). Instead of transparency and the rule of law over the past four years, we have witnessed the greatest expansion of government in modern political history and, consequently, an explosion of government secrecy, scandals, and abuses of power. Among the low-lights:
- Illegal recess
appointments: Perhaps former Attorney General Ed Meese and Todd Graziano
summed it up best in their January 5, 2012, Washington
Post guest commentary: "President Obama's attempt to unilaterally
appoint three people to seats on the National Labor Relations Board and
Richard Cordray to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
(after the Senate blocked action on his nomination) is more than an unconstitutional
attempt to circumvent the Senate's advice-and-consent role. It is a
breathtaking violation of the separation of powers and the duty of comity
that the executive owes to Congress."
- Illegal immigration: In
mid-June, Obama announced that by executive decree - and in apparent
violation of his oath of office - his administration would stop deporting
and begin granting work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to
the U.S. as children. According to The
AP,
"the policy change ... bypasses Congress and partially achieves the
goals of the so-called DREAM Act, a long-sought but never enacted plan
..." Lest anyone doubt that Obama knew he was overriding the law of
the land, in March,
2011, he said,
"There are enough laws on the books by Congress that are very clear
in terms of how we have to enforce our immigration system that for me to
simply, through executive order, ignore those congressional mandates would
not conform with my appropriate role as President."
- Unprecedented secrecy:
Judicial Watch has had to file almost 1,000 Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) requests and nearly 100 lawsuits against the Obama administration
on issues ranging from Obamacare to the continued funding of the criminal
ACORN network; from tracking Wall Street bailout money to the
unconstitutional use of czars; to White House visitor logs; to the attacks
on the integrity of our nation's elections. This president touts
transparency but condones law-breaking of open records laws by his
administration.
- Unconstitutional czars:
As far back as 2009, Reuters reported, "Name a top issue and
President Barack Obama has probably got a 'czar responsible for tackling
it." By the time the Judicial Watch Special Report President
Obama's Czars
was published in October 2011, the number of Obama czars had skyrocketed
to 45. Largely unconfirmed by and unaccountable to the Senate, many of
Obama's czars are often outside the reach of FOIA. Some of these
czars exercise unprecedented and unconstitutional control over major
aspects of government policy and programs. And a number of the czars have
been linked to scandals, thefts and kickbacks, flagrant and offensive
statements, conflicts of interest, and radical leftist political
ideologies and policies.
- Use of Executive
Privilege to protect Eric Holder: On June
20, 2012, Barack Obama acquiesced to a plea from Attorney General Eric
Holder and asserted "executive privilege" to protect the
Attorney General
from being prosecuted for failing to provide Congress with Fast and
Furious documents. On March 22, 2011, when asked by a Univision
TV if
he had been informed of the Holder gunrunning program, Obama bluntly
stated, "Absolutely not. This is a pretty big government, the United
States government. I've got a lot of moving parts." So, as Judge
Andrew Napolitano said on Fox
News,
"They can't have it both ways. If the President was not personally
involved, executive privilege does not apply." To this day,
President Obama refuses to detail the specific documents he is withholding
from Congress.
The
list could go on ad infinitum - with Benghazigate, bailouts, abusing the
perks of office for luxury vacations for his family, and, of course, his
personal involvement in the Solyndra scandal. But the bottom line is this: The
federal government under Barack Obama is off the rails and out of control. And
now, with Obama having been given the "flexibility" of a second term,
it can only be expected to get worse.
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Obama soft on illegals enforcement
Arrests of illegal immigrant workers have
dropped precipitously under President Obama, according to figures released
Wednesday. Criminal arrests, administrative arrests, indictments and
convictions of illegal immigrants at work sites all fell by more than 50 percent from fiscal 2008 to fiscal
2009.
The figures show that Mr. Obama has made good on his pledge to shift enforcement away from going after illegal immigrant workers themselves - but at the expense of Americans' jobs, said Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the Republican who compiled the numbers from the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). Mr. Smith, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said a period of economic turmoil is the wrong time to be cutting enforcement and letting illegal immigrants take jobs that Americans otherwise would hold.
The figures show that Mr. Obama has made good on his pledge to shift enforcement away from going after illegal immigrant workers themselves - but at the expense of Americans' jobs, said Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the Republican who compiled the numbers from the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). Mr. Smith, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said a period of economic turmoil is the wrong time to be cutting enforcement and letting illegal immigrants take jobs that Americans otherwise would hold.
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Obama Quietly Erasing Borders
(Article)
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OBAMA
EXPANDS LA RAZA SUPREMACY AND FUNDS MEXICAN FASCISM WITH AMERICAN TAX DOLLARS
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HEATHER MAC
DONALD – OBAMA DOES NOT WANT TO ENFORCE ANY LAWS ON LA RAZA ILLEGALS
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JUDICIAL
WATCH – OBAMA’S LA RAZA DEPT. OF JUSTICE – SABOTAGING LAWS ON BEHALF OF OBAMA’S
LA RAZA PARTY BASE of ILLEGALS
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LA RAZA
HILDA SOLIS and the OBAMA DEPT of (illegal) LABOR
OBAMA
PROMISES ILLEGALS AMERICAN JOBS, GRINGO PAID DREAM ACTS and LA RAZA SUPREMACY
FOR THEIR ILLEGAL VOTES
Senators Tell DHS To Stop Ignoring Illegal Alien Sanctuaries
By Judicial Watch Blog
Created 4 Nov 2011 - 12:22pm
While the Justice Department focuses on taking action against state laws to combat illegal immigration, a group of U.S. Senators is asking the Obama Administration to stop ignoring local ordinances that undermine federal laws by offering undocumented aliens sanctuary.
In battling local immigration control measures nationwide, the DOJ has claimed that they conflict with federal immigration law [1]and undermine the government’s careful balance of immigration enforcement priorities and objectives. The Obama Administration has made this argument recently in cases against Arizona and Alabama.
But what is the administration doing about local governments that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities and blatantly ignore the legal status of arrested individuals? A group of Senate Judiciary Committee members posed the question to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano this week.
They specifically mentioned Cook County Illinois where local authorities openly flip the finger at the feds by refusing to report illegal immigrants who come in contact with police, even dangerous criminals. In fact, in 2007 Judicial Watch took legal action [2] against the Chicago Police Department—which has a don’t-ask-don’t-tell immigration policy—after learning of an illegal immigrant sanctuary resolution that was being considered by Cook County’s Board of Commissioners at the time.
In a letter [3] to Napolitano this week, the Judiciary Committee members—senators Chuck Grassley (Iowa), John Cornyn (Texas), Tom Coburn (Oklahoma) and Jeff Sessions (Alabama)—cite a recent meeting with a high-ranking Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official who confirmed that Cook County creates a major problem for enforcement efforts. In fact, the ICE associate director of removal operations said Cook County’s egregious example of sanctuary city policies presents “an accident waiting to happen.”
So the senators ask Napolitano: “We would like to know what specific steps have been and will be taken by your Department to compel Cook County to reverse its policy of ignoring immigration detainers. In addition, we would request an overview of meetings held between federal officials and Cook County, including any emails or other documentation that exist, to understand how the federal government has been or is attempting to rectify the situation.”
Napolitano is urged to take a direct role in the matter by the lawmakers who remind the Homeland Security Secretary that Cook County’s ordinance creates a “serious threat to the public’s safety” that requires Napolitano’s “immediate and personal attention.” It’s a matter of national security, the veteran senators assert.
Americans shouldn’t hold their breath. The Obama Administration is too busy fighting local measures that are viewed as “discriminatory” and “anti-immigrant” by the open borders movement. In fact, the DOJ even created a secret group [4] within the bloated civil rights division to monitor laws passed by states and local municipalities to control illegal immigration.
Judicial Watch has been a frontrunner in the nationwide battle to combat illegal immigration and earlier this year filed a motion [5] on behalf of the Arizona State Legislature in the Obama Administration’s lawsuit challenging its tough law. JW has also sued police departments across the country for practicing don’t-ask-don’t-tell immigration policies and has led an effort to shut down taxpayer-funded day laborer centers. Read all about JW's work involving illegal immigration here [6].
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Obama Administration Refuses to Sue Sanctuary Cities
Less than a week after suing Arizona to block its immigration law, SB 1070, critics are pressing the Obama administration to go after “sanctuary cities” that deliberately look the other way when it comes to illegal immigration. The Department of Justice last week responded that it will not sue these cities, which prohibit local law enforcement from inquiring about an individual’s legal status or alerting immigration authorities when they encounter illegal immigrants, because it believes passive refusal to follow the law is not as egregious as Arizona’s passage of a law that “actively interferes” with federal law. Justice Department spokeswoman for Attorney General Eric Holder inexplicably argued, “There is a big difference between a state or locality saying they are not going to use their resources to enforce a federal law, as so-called sanctuary cities have done, and a state passing its own immigration policy that actively interferes with federal law.” (The Washington Times, July 14, 2010).
Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX), who authored the 1996 federal law which requires states and localities to cooperate with federal authorities on immigration enforcement, criticized the Justice Department’s politically convenient stance on sanctuary cities. "For the Justice Department to suggest that they won't take action against those who passively violate the law …. is absurd," said Rep. Smith. "Will they ignore individuals who fail to pay taxes? Will they ignore banking laws that require disclosure of transactions over $10,000? Of course not." (The Washington Times, July 14, 2010).
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has also noted the irony of the Obama administration’s refusal to sue localities to strike down their sanctuary policies, which she said could also be considered a “patchwork” of immigration laws across the country. (Brewer Statement, July 6, 2010). Senator David Vitter (R-LA) similarly noted, “This administration’s idea of immigration enforcement is to go after the states and local officials actually trying to enforce the laws on the books. They are demonizing those that look to protect our border and end illegal immigration while giving a wink and nod of approval to sanctuary cities that don't enforce our laws.” (Vitter Press Release, July 15, 2010).
Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX), who authored the 1996 federal law which requires states and localities to cooperate with federal authorities on immigration enforcement, criticized the Justice Department’s politically convenient stance on sanctuary cities. "For the Justice Department to suggest that they won't take action against those who passively violate the law …. is absurd," said Rep. Smith. "Will they ignore individuals who fail to pay taxes? Will they ignore banking laws that require disclosure of transactions over $10,000? Of course not." (The Washington Times, July 14, 2010).
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has also noted the irony of the Obama administration’s refusal to sue localities to strike down their sanctuary policies, which she said could also be considered a “patchwork” of immigration laws across the country. (Brewer Statement, July 6, 2010). Senator David Vitter (R-LA) similarly noted, “This administration’s idea of immigration enforcement is to go after the states and local officials actually trying to enforce the laws on the books. They are demonizing those that look to protect our border and end illegal immigration while giving a wink and nod of approval to sanctuary cities that don't enforce our laws.” (Vitter Press Release, July 15, 2010).
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8 New American Gateways For Immigrants
Jun 29th, 2010
The economic recovery may be slow and uncertain. Immigration remains a hot button political issue. But there's one positive trend that will keep benefiting smaller cities in the years ahead: Their growing appeal to immigrant poppulations.
Though New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago and other large U.S. cities remain hubs for immigrants, newcomers from abroad are increasingly settling in smaller communities across the U.S., lured by a lower cost of living, more job opportunities, and a support structure of fellow immigrants. In return, these communities get a rejuvenated work force and a consumer base.
Here are eight rapidly emerging gateway communities for immigrants. All are likely to remain popular with foreign newcomers, despite stepped-up enforcement of federal immigration laws. Some may surprise you.
Benton/Washington Counties, Ark.
Foreign born residents now make up more than 20% of Springdale's population. The area's chicken farms, construction industry, corporate headquarters, and low cost of housing remain a strong magnet.
With Hispanics accounting for most of the increase, the region is seeing more ethnic bakeries, restaurants, media outlets, and other businesses. The once nearly homogeneous local school districts have added English as a second language to their curricula in addition to special programs to help involve parents in their children's education.
Portland and Salem, Ore. (Marion/Multnomah counties)
The growth of the area's technology industry draws highly skilled immigrant workers to northwest Oregon, where they're joining earlier arrivals -- refugees from Southeast Asia, Africa, eastern Europe and Russia.
Fairfax County, Va.
In this large suburban county bordering Washington, D.C., immigrants make up almost 30% of the population. The recession hasn't been felt here as much as it has in other parts of the country and construction, and service jobs are still plentiful. Fairfax County is across the Potomac River from the nation's capital, which, along with other large cities, has long been a draw for immigrants.
There's also a strong immigrant presence among service workers, especially in health care, restaurants, and cleaning services. Nearly 40% of the region's immigrant population arrived within the past decade. Many own their own businesses. And they are encouraging more family members and friends from the old country to join them.
Shelbyville, Tenn. (Bedford County)
Though the foreign born population in Shelbyville hovers around the national average, the small city and its environs have become a mecca for refugees from Egypt, Myanmar (formerly known as Burma), and Somalia. There are jobs in Shelbyville's food processing plants and other factories.
Cape Coral, Fla. (Lee County)
Southwest Florida's Gulf Coast has strong agriculture and service sectors. In 2000, Cape Coral's foreign born population was 8.7%, relatively low compared with national average of 11.1%. In the past decade it has increased by about 250% -- putting it above the national average.
Boise, Id. (Ada County)
Attracted to the area by job opportunities in agriculture and an affordable cost of living, Boise's immigrant population has climbed by more than 50% over the past decade.
Gwinnett County, Ga.
The foreign born population in Gwinnett County has more than doubled since 2000, and now represents about 25% of the county's total population. Drawn to the area by an abundance of jobs in the service sector and the low cost of housing, the immigrants are mostly Hispanic. They are carving out a livelihood in a region where blacks have traditionally been the most visible minority. Gwinnett also has one of the highest rates of illegal immigration in the U.S. -- authorities estimate that half of all foreign born residents of the county are unauthorized.
Raleigh-Durham-Cary, N.C. (Wake/Durham/Chatham Cos.)
North Carolina's 394% immigrant growth rate in the 1990s was the fastest among Southern states, and the trend has continued in the 21st century. The Raleigh-Durham area has been hub to much of this growth.
The draw? Affordable housing and jobs at Research Triangle Park -- one of the country's largest technology development centers -- as well as in the construction and service sectors. The recession and stricter enforcement of immigration laws in the Tar Heel State are slowing immigration growth -- at least for now. But many experts think migration could pick up again as the economy recovers.
Sources: Census Bureau, University of Southern California, Moody's Economy.com
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MEXICO BUILDS THE LA RAZA “THE RACE” WELFARE STATE IN OUR BORDERS
Lou Dobbs Tonight Monday, February 11, 2008
In California, League of United Latin American Citizens has adopted a resolution to declare "California Del Norte" a sanctuary zone for immigrants. The declaration urges the Mexican government to invoke its rights under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo "to seek third-nation neutral arbitration of ....disputes concerning immigration laws and their enforcement." We’ll have the story. Last year, Prince William County, Virginia passed an initiative to allow local police to check the immigration status of anyone in police custody. The county recently held its first immigration training session for local police officers. We’ll have a look inside the training. Mexican President Felipe Calderon is in New York today on the first leg his five-day tour across America to meddle in immigration issues in the United States. This is his first visit to the U.S. since he became President in 2006, but he will not meet with President Bush or any of the presidential candidates, who he has accused of spewing anti-immigrant rhetoric (READ UP ON WHAT MEXICO DOES TO IMMIGRANTS AND ILLEGALS IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY. IT WOULD HAVE MADE THE NAZIS JEALOUS – NEVER UNDERESTIMATE MEXICO’S STAGGERING HYPOCRISY!).
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Slow path to progress for U.S. immigrants
43% on welfare after 20 years
Immigrants lag behind native-born Americans on most measures of economic well-being — even those who have been in the U.S. the longest, according to a report from the Center for Immigration Studies, which argues that full assimilation is a more complex task than overcoming language or cultural differences.
The study, which covers all immigrants, legal and illegal, and their U.S.-born children younger than 18, found that immigrants tend to make economic progress by most measures the longer they live in the U.S. but lag well behind native-born Americans on factors such as poverty, health insurance coverage and homeownership.
The study, based on 2010 and 2011 census data, found that 43 percent of immigrants who have been in the U.S. at least 20 years were using welfare benefits, a rate that is nearly twice as high as native-born Americans and nearly 50 percent higher than recent immigrants.
The report was released at a time when both major presidential candidates have backed policies that would make it easier to immigrate legally and would boost the numbers of people coming to the U.S.
Steven A. Camarota, the center’s research director and author of the 96-page study, said it shows that questions about the pros and cons of immigration extend well beyond the sheer numbers and touch on the broader consequences of assimilating a population defined by tougher socioeconomic challenges.
“Look, we know a lot of these folks are going to be poor, we get it. But don’t tell the public it’s all going great, which is the story line I think a lot of people want to sell,” Mr. Camarota said. “There is progress over time. Every measure shows improvement over time, but still, the situation does not look like we’d like it to look, particularly for the less-educated. They lag well behind natives even when they’ve been here for two decades, and that is very disconcerting.”
Federal law requires that the government deny immigrant visas to potential immigrants who are likely to be unable to support themselves and thereby become public charges.
On Tuesday, a handful of Republican senators wrote to the Homeland Security and State departments asking them to explain why they don’t consider whether potential immigrants would use many of the nearly 80 federal welfare programs when they evaluate visa applications.
Neither department responded to messages Tuesday seeking a response to the senators’ letter.
Expanding legal immigration is a contentious issue for voters, the vast majority of whom tell pollsters that they want the levels either retained or decreased.
But most politicians want legal immigration expanded.
During his time in the U.S. Senate, Barack Obama backed bills that would have dramatically boosted legal immigration, potentially by hundreds of thousands a year. As president, he has called for the same thing.
(LA RAZA DEMS FEINSTEIN AND BOXER HAVE THREE (3) TIMES ATTEMPTED A “SPECIAL AMNESTY” FOR 1.5 MILLION “CHEAP” LABOR ILLEGAL FARM WORKERS. THEY DO THIS ON BEHALF OF THEIR FILTHY RICH BIG AG BIZ DONORS…. DESPITE THE FACT THAT ONE-THIRD OF ALL “CHEAP” FARM WORKERS WILL END UP ON WELFARE! – CA NOW PUTS OUT $22 BILLION PER YEAR IN SOCIAL SERVICES TO ILLEGALS!!! ON TOP OF THIS COUNTIES HAND OUT MORE, WITH LOS ANGELLES LEADING. L.A. COUNTY PAYS OUT $600 MILLION PER YEAR IN WELFARE FOR ILLEGALS, PRIMARILY ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS! NOT ONE AMERICAN (LEGAL) VOTED TO BE MEXICO’S WELFARE STATE! DEMS ARE THE PARTY of ILLEGALS!)
“We need to provide our farms a legal way to hire workers that they rely on, and a path for those workers to earn legal status. And our laws should respect families following the rules — reuniting them more quickly instead of splitting them apart,” Mr. Obama said in a major speech on the subject in El Paso, Texas, in 2011.
His presumed Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, in June called for increasing legal immigration for students who study in high-tech fields and admitting unlimited family members of those who hold green cards.
“Our immigration system should help promote strong families as well — not keep them apart. Our nation benefits when moms and dads and their kids are all living together under the same roof,” Mr. Romney told the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials.
Mr. Camarota’s report took a broad look at the immigrant population and found that immigrants are contributing to major changes in American society, including that one-fourth of public school students now speak languages other than English at home.
It also found that immigrants as a population lead complex economic lives that aren’t easily put into one category or another.
Immigrants made up more than half of all farmworkers, 41 percent of taxi drivers and 48 percent of maids and housecleaners, but they also represented about one-third of all computer programmers and 27 percent of doctors.
The statistics varied greatly by geography. In Massachusetts, native-led households averaged $89,000 in income while immigrant households averaged $66,000.
In Virginia, immigrant-led households averaged $93,000 in income, far outstripping native households’ $80,000 average. Likewise, immigrant families averaged a larger tax burden in Virginia — though they also had higher rates of use of welfare or Medicaid.
The center found that use of public benefits varied dramatically based on where immigrants originated.
Mexicans were most likely to use means-tested benefit programs, with 57 percent, while 6 percent of those from the United Kingdom did. The rate for native-born Americans is 23 percent.
Mr. Camarota said a key dividing line is educational attainment. Immigrants who have been in the U.S. 20 years and who have bachelor’s degrees or higher make slightly more than the average native-born American. But immigrants with only high school educations make less no matter how long they have been in the U.S.
“The fact is the less-educated in particular — they don’t do well over time,” he said. “It’s not reasonable to expect an immigrant who comes to America with only a high school education to close the gap with the native-born.”
Scholars debate whether the current wave of immigrants will assimilate differently from those in the 1800s and at the start of the 20th century.
George Borjas, a Harvard University professor, has argued that second-generation Americans — the children of today’s immigrants — will fall behind in wages by about 10 percent by 2030.
(THE BELOW STATS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH ASSIMILATION! COME TO MEXIFORNIA WHERE 90% OF ALL SERVICE SECTOR AND CONSTRUCTION JOBS ARE HELD BY MEXICANS. YOU WON’T HEAR THEM SPEAKING ENGLISH!)
But in “Assimilation Tomorrow,” a report released in November, Dowell Myers and John Pitkin said immigrants of the 1990s eventually will attain high rates of homeownership and 71 percent will become U.S. citizens by 2030.
Those authors said immigrants were set back by the recent recession but were still on track to follow the same assimilation path as previous waves of immigrants.
(THE THING IS… MOST SOURCES PUT THE NUMBER OF ILLEGALS AT 40 MILLION AND BREEDING FAST! THERE ARE 12 MILLION OF THESE “11 MILLION” ILLEGALS IN SOUTHERN CA ALONE!)
They also said a program to legalize the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. would be critical to helping assimilation.
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