JUDICIAL WATCH
Most of the $33 Billion in Remittances to Mexico Flow Via U.S. Govt.
Banking Program
Though President Trump said he would block money
transfers to Mexico to fund a much-needed border wall, Mexicans in the U.S.
sent a record $33.48 billion in remittances last year and a big chunk of it
flowed through a government program operated by the Federal Reserve. This means
that, amid an onslaught of illegal immigration, the U.S. government is largely
responsible for the billions in remittances flowing south of the border from
illegal aliens. Figures released
by Mexico’s central bank show that 104 million transactions were executed in
2018, nearly six million more than the previous year.
Uncle Sam facilitates the process with a
program called “Directo a Mexico” (Direct to Mexico),
launched by the Federal Reserve, the government agency that serves as the
nation’s central bank, more than a decade ago. President George W. Bush came up
with the idea following the 2001 U.S.-Mexico Partnership for Prosperity to
provide low-cost banking services to illegal immigrants and facilitate the
procedure for those sending money home. In its first year, 2005, remittances to
Mexico topped $20 billion and
the Federal Reserve reports “double-digit percentage growth for the past
several years.” Remittances are transferred through the Federal Reserve’s own
automated clearinghouse linked directly to Mexico’s central bank (Banco de
Mexico). The Trump administration should eliminate it because it undermines our
nation’s immigration laws and is a potential national security nightmare.
Back in 2006 Judicial Watch investigated the
outrageous taxpayer-subsidized initiative and obtained government records that
shed light on how it functions. Marketing materials target immigrant workers in
the U.S.—regardless of their legal status—as well as banks, credit unions and
other financial institutions. The program is promoted as “the best way to send
money home,” offering “more pesos for every dollar.” American financial
institutions are charged $0.67 per item to transfer money from the United
States to Mexican banks, ensuring a “highly competitive rate.” The Federal
Reserve also provides participating U.S. financial institutions with Spanish
language promotional materials to “help get your message out.” The marketing
materials also include the number of Mexican migrants in the U.S. with no
distinction between those here illegally or not. A separate list identifies thousands
of Mexican banks receiving “Directo a México” transfers.
When the program was created Federal Reserve
officials acknowledged that most of the Mexican nationals who send money back
home are illegal immigrants so
a Mexican-issued identification is the only requirement to use the government
banking service. A colorful brochure promoting “Directo a Mexico” offered to
help immigrants who don’t have bank accounts and assured the best foreign
exchange rate and low transfer fees. A frequently asked question section posed
this: “If I return to Mexico or am deported, will I lose the money in my bank
account?” The answer: “No. The money still belongs to you and can easily be
accessed at an ATM in Mexico using your debit card.” In short, the U.S. created
this special banking system specifically for illegal aliens and tens of
billions of dollars have streamed through it.
As a presidential candidate Trump proposed a
plan to get Mexico to fund a border wall by cutting off remittance payments
from Mexican migrants in the U.S. In a memo to a
mainstream newspaper Trump wrote that Mexican migrants send $24 billion in
remittances annually and the estimated cost of a border wall would be between
$5 billion and $10 billion. According to his plan, the U.S. Patriot Act would be amended to block
wire transfers from Mexican nationals using companies such as Western Union.
Nowhere in the document is the Federal Reserve’s special program, which clearly
caters to illegal immigrants. The president is well aware that the overwhelming
majority of remittances to Mexico are sent by those living in the U.S.
illegally. In fact, his proposal was to create a rule that “no alien may wire
money outside of the United States unless the alien first provides a document
establishing his lawful presence in the United States.” The Federal
Reserve’s “Directo a Mexico” has no such requirement as the commander-in-chief
completes his first term.
Exclusive–Steve
Camarota: Every Illegal Alien Costs Americans $70K Over Their Lifetime
JOHN BINDER
11 Apr 20191,671
3:39
Every illegal alien, over the course of their lifetime, costs American
taxpayers about $70,000, Center for Immigration Studies Director of Research
Steve Camarota says.
During
an interview with SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart
News Daily, Camarota said his research has
revealed the enormous financial burden that illegal immigration has on
America’s working and middle class taxpayers in terms of public services,
depressed wages, and welfare.
“In
a person’s lifetime, I’ve estimated that an illegal border crosser might cost
taxpayers … maybe over $70,000 a year as a net cost,” Camarota said. “And that
excludes the cost of their U.S.-born children, which gets pretty big when you
add that in.”
LISTEN:
“Once
[an illegal alien] has a child, they can receive cash welfare on behalf of
their U.S.-born children,” Camarota explained. “Once they have a child, they
can live in public housing. Once they have a child, they can receive food
stamps on behalf of that child. That’s how that works.”
Camarota
said the education levels of illegal aliens, border crossers, and legal
immigrants are largely to blame for the high level of welfare usage by the
f0reign-born population in the U.S., noting that new arrivals tend to compete
for jobs against America’s poor and working class communities.
In
past waves of mass immigration, Camarota said, the U.S. did not have an
expansive welfare system. Today’s ever-growing welfare system, coupled with
mass illegal and legal immigration levels, is “extremely problematic,”
according to Camarota, for American taxpayers.
The
RAISE Act — reintroduced
in the Senate by Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR), David Perdue (R-GA), and
Josh Hawley (R-MO) — would cut legal immigration levels in half and convert the
immigration system to favor well-educated foreign nationals, thus relieving
American workers and taxpayers of the nearly five-decade-long wave of booming
immigration. Currently, mass legal immigration redistributes
the wealth of working and middle class Americans to the country’s top
earners.
“Virtually
none of that existed in 1900 during the last great wave of immigration, when we
also took in a number of poor people. We didn’t have a well-developed welfare
state,” Camarota continued:
We’re
not going to stop [the welfare state] tomorrow. So in that context, bringing
in less educated people who are poor is extremely problematic for public
coffers, for taxpayers in a way that it wasn’t in 1900 because the roads
weren’t even paved between the cities in 1900. It’s just a totally
different world. And that’s the point of the RAISE Act is to sort of
bring in line immigration policy with the reality say of a large government …
and a welfare state. [Emphasis added]
The
immigrants are not all coming to get welfare and they don’t immediately sign
up, but over time, an enormous fraction sign their children up.
It’s likely the case that of the U.S.-born children of illegal
immigrants, more than half are signed up for Medicaid — which is our
most expensive program. [Emphasis added]
As Breitbart News has reported, U.S.
households headed by foreign-born residents use nearly twice the welfare of
households headed by native-born Americans.
Every
year the U.S. admits more than 1.5 million foreign nationals, with the
vast majority deriving from chain migration. In 2017, the foreign-born
population reached a
record high of 44.5 million. By 2023, the Center for Immigration
Studies estimates that the legal and illegal immigrant population of the U.S.
will make up nearly 15 percent of the entire U.S. population.
Breitbart
News Daily airs on SiriusXM Patriot 125 weekdays from 6:00 a.m. to
9:00 a.m. Eastern.
///
Who's coming in and getting that instant customer service legal
immigrants don't get? Well, people like Mirian Zelaya Gomez, a single mom with
two kids and a fondness for Instagram luxury-life glamour shots who got her name in the news as "Lady
Frijoles," the Honduran caravan migrant who disdained donated Mexican
food in Tijuana, and who told the press she was migrating to the states to
get free medical care for her kids. She's since been arrested for assaulting a relative who had given her housing
in Dallas. Here she was, being booked:
DACA Amnesty Would Render Border Wall Useless, Cost Americans
$26B
11 Dec 20181,846
5:36
A deal in which President Trump accepts an amnesty for millions of
illegal aliens enrolled and eligible for President Obama’s Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in exchange for minor border wall funding
would be counterproductive to the “America First” goals of the administration,
depressing U.S. wages in the process ahead of the 2020 election.
As
Breitbart News has extensively chronicled, Attorney
General Jeff Sessions ended the DACA program last year, although it’s
official termination has been held up in court by left-wing judges.
Since
then, a coalition of establishment Republicans and Democrats have sought to ram
an amnesty for up to 3.5 million DACA-enrolled and eligible illegal aliens
through Congress, an initiative supported by the donor class.
CLOSE | X
Such a plan, most recently, has been
touted in an effort to negotiate a deal in which Trump receives anywhere
between $1.6 tand $5 billion for his proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall in
exchange for approving a DACA amnesty for millions.
The
amnesty would render the border wall useless, as it would not only trigger
increased illegal immigration at the border — which is already set to hit
the highest annual level in a
decade next year — but increased legal immigration to the country.
Last
year, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen admittedthat even
discussion of a DACA amnesty increased illegal immigration at the
southern border, as migrants surge to the U.S. in hopes of making it into the
country to later cash in on the amnesty.
Kansas
Secretary of State Kris Kobach previously predicted that a
DACA amnesty would trigger an immediate flood of a million illegal aliens arriving
at the U.S.-Mexico border. In 2014, when Obama enacted DACA by Executive
Order, the temporary amnesty caused a surge at the southern border, as noted by the Migration Policy Institute.
In
terms of legal immigration, a DACA amnesty would implement a never-ending flow of
foreign relatives to the DACA illegal aliens who can be readily sponsored for
green cards through the process known as “chain migration.”
According to Princeton
University researchers Stacie Carr and Marta Tienda, the average number of
family members brought to the U.S. by newly naturalized Mexican immigrants
stands at roughly six. Therefore, should all 1.5 million amnestied illegal
aliens bring six relatives each to the U.S., that would constitute a total
chain migration of nine million new foreign nationals entering the U.S.
If the number of amnestied illegal
aliens who gain a pathway to citizenship under an immigration deal were to rise
to the full 3.3 million who would be eligible for DREAM Act amnesty, and if
each brought in three to six foreign family members, the chain migration flow
could range from 9.9 million to 19.8 million foreign nationals coming to the
U.S.
At
this rate of chain migration solely from a DACA amnesty, the number of legal
immigrants arriving to the U.S. with family relations to the amnestied
population would potentially outpace the population of New
York City, New York — where more than 8.5 million residents live.
Should the goal of Trump’s proposed
border wall be to reduce illegal immigration and eventually incentivize
lawmakers to reduce legal immigration levels — where the U.S. imports 1.5
million immigrants every year — to raise the wages of America’s working and
middle class, a DACA amnesty would have the opposite impact, increasing illegal
and legal immigration levels.
The
president has also touted the wall as a benefit to American citizens in terms
of cost. A border wall is projected to cost about $25 million, a tiny figure
compared to the $116 billion that
illegal immigration costs U.S. taxpayers every year.
A DACA amnesty, coupled with a
border wall, would have steep costs for American citizens — wiping out the
cost-benefit to taxpayers of the wall.
For
example, a DACA amnesty would cost American taxpayers about $26 billion, more than
the border wall, and that does not include the money taxpayers would have to
fork up to subsidize the legal immigrant relatives of DACA illegal aliens. And
because amnesties for illegal aliens tend to be larger than initially
predicted, the total cost would likely be even higher for taxpayers.
Additionally,
about one in five DACA
illegal aliens, after an amnesty, would end up on food stamps, while at
least one in seven would
go on Medicaid, the CBO has estimated.
The number of DACA illegal aliens
who will go on Medicaid following an amnesty is likely to be much larger than
what the CBO reports.
Previous research by the Center for Immigration Studies indicates that
the average immigrant household in the U.S. takes 44 percent more Medicaid
money than the average American household. The research also noted that 56
percent of households led by illegal aliens have at least one person on
Medicaid.
Another
study, reported by Breitbart News, indicates
that the CBO estimate of DACA illegal aliens who would end up on Medicaid after
an amnesty is the lowest total possible of illegal aliens who would go on the
welfare program.
Meanwhile, a DACA amnesty would drag increasing U.S. wages down
for the country’s working and middle class, delivering benefits to the business
lobby while squashing the intended goals of the Trump administration ahead of
the 2020 presidential election. The plan is also likely to hit the
black American community the hardest, as
they are forced to compete for blue collar jobs against a growing illegal and
legal immigrant population from Central America.
On Tuesday, Trump said he would be
willing to shut down the federal government in order to secure funding for his
proposed border wall. Democrat leaders Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Rep. Nancy
Pelosi (D-CA) have previously indicated that they would be willing to swap an
amnesty in exchange for funding border “security measures.”
THE INVASION THAT AMERICA INVITED
Simultaneously, illegal immigration next year is on
track to soar to the highest level in a decade, with a potential
600,000 border crossers expected.
*
“More than 750 million people want to migrate to another country
permanently, according to Gallup research published Monday, as 150 world
leaders sign up to the controversial UN global compact which critics say makes
migration a human right.” VIRGINIA HALE
MEXICO WILL DOUBLE U.S.
POPULATION AND BUILD THE WORLDS LARGEST MEXICAN WELFARE STATE
The
nation’s Washington, DC-imposed mass legal and illegal immigration policy
— whereby at least 1.5 million unskilled foreign nationals are admitted to the
U.S. every year — is a boon to corporate executives, Wall Street, big business,
and multinational conglomerates, as America’s working and middle class
have their wealth redistributed to the country’s top earners through wage stagnation.
*
"In the last decade alone, the U.S. admitted ten million legal immigrants, forcing American workers to compete against a growing population of low-wage foreign workers. Meanwhile, if legal immigration continues, there will be 69 million foreign-born residents living in the U.S. by 2060. This would represent an unprecedented electoral gain for the Left, as Democrats win about 90 percent of congressional districts where the foreign-born population exceeds the national average."
"In the last decade alone, the U.S. admitted ten million legal immigrants, forcing American workers to compete against a growing population of low-wage foreign workers. Meanwhile, if legal immigration continues, there will be 69 million foreign-born residents living in the U.S. by 2060. This would represent an unprecedented electoral gain for the Left, as Democrats win about 90 percent of congressional districts where the foreign-born population exceeds the national average."
*
Open the floodgates
of our welfare state to the uneducated, impoverished, and unskilled masses of
the world and in a generation or three America, as we know it, will be
gone. JOHN BINDER
MULTI-CULTURALISM and the
creation of a one-party globalist country to serve the rich in America’s open
borders.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/12/em-cadwaladr-impending-death-of.html
“Open border advocates, such as
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, claim illegal aliens are a net benefit to
California with little evidence to support such an assertion. As the CIS has
documented, the vast majority of illegals are poor, uneducated, and with few skills.
How does accepting millions of illegal aliens and then granting them access to
dozens of welfare programs benefit California’s economy? If illegals were
contributing to the economy in any meaningful way, CA, with its 2.6 million
illegals, would be booming.” STEVE BALDWIN – AMERICAN SPECTATOR
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
What will America stand for in 2050?
The US should think long and hard about the high number of
Latino immigrants.
By Lawrence Harrison
It's not just a
short-run issue of immigrants competing with citizens for jobs as unemployment
approaches 10 percent or the number of uninsured straining the quality of
healthcare. Heavy immigration from Latin America threatens our cohesiveness as
a nation.
MEXICO WILL DOUBLE U.S.
POPULATION
By Tom Barrett
At the current rate of invasion (mostly through Mexico, but also
through Canada) the United States will be completely over run with illegal
aliens by the year 2025. I’m not talking about legal immigrants who follow US
law to become citizens. In less than 20 years, if we do not stop the invasion,
ILLEGAL aliens and their offspring will be the dominant population in the
United States.
FINISHING AMERICA OFF: THE
FOREIGN INVASION FOR “CHEAP” LABOR
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-fall-of-america-by-invitation-tens.html
Open the floodgates of our
welfare state to the uneducated, impoverished, and unskilled masses of the
world and in a generation or three America, as we know it, will be gone. JOHN
BINDER
But many less-skilled migrants play their largest
role by simply shifting small slices of wealth from person to person, for example,
by competing up rents in their neighborhood or by competing down wages in their
workplace. The crudest examples can be seen in agriculture.
Overall, the
Washington-imposed economic policy of economic growth via immigration shifts
wealth from young people towards older people by flooding the market with cheap white-collar and blue-collar foreign labor.
"Critics argue that
giving amnesty to 12 to 30 million illegal aliens in the U.S. would have an
immediate negative impact on America’s working and middle class — specifically
black Americans and the white working class — who would be in direct
competition for blue-collar jobs with the largely low-skilled illegal alien
population." JOHN BINDER
The U.S.-born baby is, of course, a U.S. citizen,
whose illegal alien parents are eligible to receive, on the baby’s behalf, food
stamps, nutrition from the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program, and
numerous tax benefits, including the EITC.
Most importantly, the newborn is deportation
insurance for its parents. Illegal aliens facing deportation can argue that to
deport one or more parents would create an “extreme hardship” for the new baby.
If an immigration officer agrees, we’ve added a new adult to the nation’s
population. At age 21 the former birthright citizen baby can formally apply for
green cards for parents and siblings, and they, in turn, can start their own
immigration chains.
US now has more Spanish speakers than Spain – only Mexico
has more
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/29/us-second-biggest-spanish-speaking-country
·
US has 41 million native speakers plus 11 million who are bilingual
·
New Mexico, California, Texas and Arizona have highest
concentrations
AZTLAN: THE RISE OF THE MEXICAN FASCIST WELFARE STATE in LOS
ANGELES
formation”
with members placed all over the country, especially in
Southwestern
U.S. cities such as San Diego, Los Angeles, Phoenix,
and El
Paso. UdB sees its members as “Mexicana and Mexicano
freedom
fighters” whose “ultimate objective” is “the national
liberation
and revolutionary reunification of México and the
unification
of our peoples [sic] struggles across Nuestra América."
"La Voz de Aztlan
has produced a video in honor of the millions of babies that have been born as
US citizens to Mexican undocumented parents. These babies are destined to
transform America. The nativist CNN reporter Lou Dobbs estimates that there are
over 200,000
(dated) "Anchor
Babies" born every year whereas George Putnam, a radio reporter, says the
figure is closer to 300,000 (dated) .
La Voz de Aztlan
believes that the number is approximately 500,000 (dated) "Anchor
Babies" born every year."
Professor Predicts 'Hispanic Homeland' ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A
University of New Mexico Chicano Studies professor predicts a new, sovereign
Hispanic nation within the century, taking in the Southwest and several
northern states of Mexico. Charles Truxillo suggests the “Republica del Norte,”
the Republic of the North, is “an inevitability.” He envisions it encompassing
all of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and southern Colorado
Exclusive–Steve
Camarota: Every Illegal Alien Costs Americans $70K Over Their Lifetime
JOHN BINDER
11 Apr 20191,671
3:39
Every illegal alien, over the course of their lifetime, costs American
taxpayers about $70,000, Center for Immigration Studies Director of Research
Steve Camarota says.
During
an interview with SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart
News Daily, Camarota said his research has
revealed the enormous financial burden that illegal immigration has on
America’s working and middle class taxpayers in terms of public services,
depressed wages, and welfare.
“In
a person’s lifetime, I’ve estimated that an illegal border crosser might cost
taxpayers … maybe over $70,000 a year as a net cost,” Camarota said. “And that
excludes the cost of their U.S.-born children, which gets pretty big when you
add that in.”
LISTEN:
“Once
[an illegal alien] has a child, they can receive cash welfare on behalf of
their U.S.-born children,” Camarota explained. “Once they have a child, they
can live in public housing. Once they have a child, they can receive food
stamps on behalf of that child. That’s how that works.”
Camarota
said the education levels of illegal aliens, border crossers, and legal
immigrants are largely to blame for the high level of welfare usage by the
f0reign-born population in the U.S., noting that new arrivals tend to compete
for jobs against America’s poor and working class communities.
In
past waves of mass immigration, Camarota said, the U.S. did not have an
expansive welfare system. Today’s ever-growing welfare system, coupled with
mass illegal and legal immigration levels, is “extremely problematic,”
according to Camarota, for American taxpayers.
The
RAISE Act — reintroduced
in the Senate by Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR), David Perdue (R-GA), and
Josh Hawley (R-MO) — would cut legal immigration levels in half and convert the
immigration system to favor well-educated foreign nationals, thus relieving
American workers and taxpayers of the nearly five-decade-long wave of booming
immigration. Currently, mass legal immigration redistributes
the wealth of working and middle class Americans to the country’s top
earners.
“Virtually
none of that existed in 1900 during the last great wave of immigration, when we
also took in a number of poor people. We didn’t have a well-developed welfare
state,” Camarota continued:
We’re
not going to stop [the welfare state] tomorrow. So in that context, bringing
in less educated people who are poor is extremely problematic for public
coffers, for taxpayers in a way that it wasn’t in 1900 because the roads
weren’t even paved between the cities in 1900. It’s just a totally
different world. And that’s the point of the RAISE Act is to sort of
bring in line immigration policy with the reality say of a large government …
and a welfare state. [Emphasis added]
The
immigrants are not all coming to get welfare and they don’t immediately sign
up, but over time, an enormous fraction sign their children up.
It’s likely the case that of the U.S.-born children of illegal
immigrants, more than half are signed up for Medicaid — which is our
most expensive program. [Emphasis added]
As Breitbart News has reported, U.S.
households headed by foreign-born residents use nearly twice the welfare of
households headed by native-born Americans.
Every
year the U.S. admits more than 1.5 million foreign nationals, with the
vast majority deriving from chain migration. In 2017, the foreign-born
population reached a
record high of 44.5 million. By 2023, the Center for Immigration
Studies estimates that the legal and illegal immigrant population of the U.S.
will make up nearly 15 percent of the entire U.S. population.
Breitbart
News Daily airs on SiriusXM Patriot 125 weekdays from 6:00 a.m. to
9:00 a.m. Eastern.
///
Who's coming in and getting that instant customer service legal
immigrants don't get? Well, people like Mirian Zelaya Gomez, a single mom with
two kids and a fondness for Instagram luxury-life glamour shots who got her name in the news as "Lady
Frijoles," the Honduran caravan migrant who disdained donated Mexican
food in Tijuana, and who told the press she was migrating to the states to
get free medical care for her kids. She's since been arrested for assaulting a relative who had given her housing
in Dallas. Here she was, being booked:
DACA Amnesty Would Render Border Wall Useless, Cost Americans
$26B
11 Dec 20181,846
5:36
A deal in which President Trump accepts an amnesty for millions of
illegal aliens enrolled and eligible for President Obama’s Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in exchange for minor border wall funding
would be counterproductive to the “America First” goals of the administration,
depressing U.S. wages in the process ahead of the 2020 election.
As
Breitbart News has extensively chronicled, Attorney
General Jeff Sessions ended the DACA program last year, although it’s
official termination has been held up in court by left-wing judges.
Since
then, a coalition of establishment Republicans and Democrats have sought to ram
an amnesty for up to 3.5 million DACA-enrolled and eligible illegal aliens
through Congress, an initiative supported by the donor class.
CLOSE | X
Such a plan, most recently, has been
touted in an effort to negotiate a deal in which Trump receives anywhere
between $1.6 tand $5 billion for his proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall in
exchange for approving a DACA amnesty for millions.
The
amnesty would render the border wall useless, as it would not only trigger
increased illegal immigration at the border — which is already set to hit
the highest annual level in a
decade next year — but increased legal immigration to the country.
Last
year, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen admittedthat even
discussion of a DACA amnesty increased illegal immigration at the
southern border, as migrants surge to the U.S. in hopes of making it into the
country to later cash in on the amnesty.
Kansas
Secretary of State Kris Kobach previously predicted that a
DACA amnesty would trigger an immediate flood of a million illegal aliens arriving
at the U.S.-Mexico border. In 2014, when Obama enacted DACA by Executive
Order, the temporary amnesty caused a surge at the southern border, as noted by the Migration Policy Institute.
In
terms of legal immigration, a DACA amnesty would implement a never-ending flow of
foreign relatives to the DACA illegal aliens who can be readily sponsored for
green cards through the process known as “chain migration.”
According to Princeton
University researchers Stacie Carr and Marta Tienda, the average number of
family members brought to the U.S. by newly naturalized Mexican immigrants
stands at roughly six. Therefore, should all 1.5 million amnestied illegal
aliens bring six relatives each to the U.S., that would constitute a total
chain migration of nine million new foreign nationals entering the U.S.
If the number of amnestied illegal
aliens who gain a pathway to citizenship under an immigration deal were to rise
to the full 3.3 million who would be eligible for DREAM Act amnesty, and if
each brought in three to six foreign family members, the chain migration flow
could range from 9.9 million to 19.8 million foreign nationals coming to the
U.S.
At
this rate of chain migration solely from a DACA amnesty, the number of legal
immigrants arriving to the U.S. with family relations to the amnestied
population would potentially outpace the population of New
York City, New York — where more than 8.5 million residents live.
Should the goal of Trump’s proposed
border wall be to reduce illegal immigration and eventually incentivize
lawmakers to reduce legal immigration levels — where the U.S. imports 1.5
million immigrants every year — to raise the wages of America’s working and
middle class, a DACA amnesty would have the opposite impact, increasing illegal
and legal immigration levels.
The
president has also touted the wall as a benefit to American citizens in terms
of cost. A border wall is projected to cost about $25 million, a tiny figure
compared to the $116 billion that
illegal immigration costs U.S. taxpayers every year.
A DACA amnesty, coupled with a
border wall, would have steep costs for American citizens — wiping out the
cost-benefit to taxpayers of the wall.
For
example, a DACA amnesty would cost American taxpayers about $26 billion, more than
the border wall, and that does not include the money taxpayers would have to
fork up to subsidize the legal immigrant relatives of DACA illegal aliens. And
because amnesties for illegal aliens tend to be larger than initially
predicted, the total cost would likely be even higher for taxpayers.
Additionally,
about one in five DACA
illegal aliens, after an amnesty, would end up on food stamps, while at
least one in seven would
go on Medicaid, the CBO has estimated.
The number of DACA illegal aliens
who will go on Medicaid following an amnesty is likely to be much larger than
what the CBO reports.
Previous research by the Center for Immigration Studies indicates that
the average immigrant household in the U.S. takes 44 percent more Medicaid
money than the average American household. The research also noted that 56
percent of households led by illegal aliens have at least one person on
Medicaid.
Another
study, reported by Breitbart News, indicates
that the CBO estimate of DACA illegal aliens who would end up on Medicaid after
an amnesty is the lowest total possible of illegal aliens who would go on the
welfare program.
Meanwhile, a DACA amnesty would drag increasing U.S. wages down
for the country’s working and middle class, delivering benefits to the business
lobby while squashing the intended goals of the Trump administration ahead of
the 2020 presidential election. The plan is also likely to hit the
black American community the hardest, as
they are forced to compete for blue collar jobs against a growing illegal and
legal immigrant population from Central America.
On Tuesday, Trump said he would be
willing to shut down the federal government in order to secure funding for his
proposed border wall. Democrat leaders Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Rep. Nancy
Pelosi (D-CA) have previously indicated that they would be willing to swap an
amnesty in exchange for funding border “security measures.”
THE INVASION THAT AMERICA INVITED
Simultaneously, illegal immigration next year is on
track to soar to the highest level in a decade, with a potential
600,000 border crossers expected.
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