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Mayor Pete Buttigieg released a series of policy proposals on his website after campaigning on vague campaign themes so far in his 2020 presidential race.
The new policy proposals published on his website include a plan for amnesty for illegal immigrants, the legalization of marijuana nationwide, and the unfettered right to abortion.
“Comprehensive immigration reform must include a pathway to citizenship for immigrants living, working, paying taxes, and contributing to our American story, including DREAMers,” Buttigieg wrote on his website under his immigration proposals.
Buttigieg also called for marijuana legalization as part of his agenda for criminal justice reform.
“For many Black and Brown communities, the criminal legal system has threatened, rather than promoted, safety and security,” he wrote. “Security is not accomplished by racially discriminatory policing.”
He described abortion as a woman’s right to freedom in America.
“The government’s role should be to make sure all women have access to comprehensive affordable care, and that includes preventive care, contraceptive services, prenatal and postpartum care, and safe and legal abortion,” he wrote on his website.
Buttigieg also proposed a military-style “assault weapons” ban and a “nationwide gun licensing system.”
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.
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
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.
Buttigieg: 'Undocumented
Immigrants Are Taxpayers' Who 'Are Subsidizing the Rest of Us'
Mayor of South Bend, Indiana,
Pete Buttigeig is now running for the Democrat presidential nomination. (Photo
by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) - South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg told a
CNN town hall Monday night he doesn't know how the federal government defines
"sanctuary city," but he said the South Bend police force does not
enforce federal immigration law, "so you can call it whatever you
like."
"We're a welcoming city," Buttigieg said, explaining
that South Bend has a "population growth strategy."
While President Trump has tweeted that the United States is
"full," Buttigieg said his city is not:
"I would be delighted to have more people. We only have
100,000 because so many people left after the auto factories collapsed in the
60s. We've got plenty of room for more residents and taxpayers who want to help
fund the snowplowing and firefighters that I've got to have for 130,000
people...with only 100,000 people to pay for it.
"And let us not forget that in many respects, from property
taxes to sales taxes, undocumented immigrants are taxpayers, and the truth is,
in many respects, because they are not eligible for a lot of benefits, they are
subsidizing the rest of us. Which is just one more reason we've got to get this
sorted out."
Buttigieg advocates comprehensive immigration reform with a
pathway to citizenship, not only for Dreamers, but for the millions of other
people who are living here illegally.
"The thing that's incredibly frustrating about this to me
is that there's actually, broadly, an American consensus on what we're supposed
to do about this. You know, leadership is supposed to be about taking issues
that are very divisive and somehow finding a way to unify Americans around
that. That's how a good president earns her or his paycheck.
"But right now we have an issue where there's a pretty
broad consensus, and it's been used to divide us. It's actually a remarkable
feat of whatever the opposite of leadership is. And you can see it because
there have been healthy compromises, bipartisan immigration reforms that have
passed in one chamber --the House or the Senate in Washington -- only to go die
in the other."
Buttigieg noted that the last time the nation passed
"meaningful" comprehensive immigration reform was in 1984:
"So we know the outlines of a comprehensive immigration
reform. A pathway to citizenship for undocumented people in this country. A level
of protection for Dreamers. A set of reforms to clear up the bureaucracy and
the backlogs in the lawful immigration system, which is how my father as an
immigrant came to this country and became a U.S. citizen. And reasonable
measures on border security.
"We know what to do," Buttigieg said. "It's just
that we don't have the leadership in Washington to do it. And I'm afraid one of
the reasons is, we’ve got a White House that has actually computed that it is
better off politically if this problem goes unsolved so that Americans continue
to be divided around it for short-term political gain, and that has got to end
with a new president."
Buttigieg is one of 20 people running for the Democrat
presidential nomination.
Exclusive–Steve
Camarota: Every Illegal Alien Costs Americans $70K Over Their Lifetime
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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.”
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“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.
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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
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