Overall, immigrant households consume 33 percent more cash welfare than American citizen households and 44 percent more in Medicaid dollars. This straining of public services by a booming 44 million foreign-born population translates to the average immigrant household costing American taxpayers $6,234 in federal welfare.
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Progressives Ally to Sneak Illegals into Licensed Jobs
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Millions of illegal migrants and illegal workers should
be allowed to take licensed jobs, such as electrician, welder, lab technician,
therapist, or nurse, according to legislation pushed by progressives,
universities, and business groups.
Their campaign advanced on June 29 when the New Jersey Senate
passed a bill saying illegals
can get trade licenses. “Lawful presence in the United States shall not be
required to obtain a professional or occupational license, provided that the
applicant meets all other requirements for licensure,” according to the bill,
which is numbered S2455.
Some Republicans backed the
Democrat-sponsored bill, but it has not been approved by the House.
The bill “would blur the
distinctions between people who are in the country legally and those who are
here illegally,” said John Miano, an immigration lawyer with the
Immigration Reform Law Institute.
For example, illegals could get
licenses for construction skills, get their work certified by state and local
inspectors, and then get paid in cash under the table by contractors, so
freezing out skilled American workers, Miano said.
Each year, roughly 500,000 foreign graduates work permits via
the federal Curricular Practical Training and Optional Practical Training (OPT)
programs. Many of these migrants work in low-wage software jobs, so forcing
down salaries for American professionals in New Jersey and many
other states. But many more migrants would also be willing to work as licensed
electricians or plumbers before returning home with a fortune in home-country
currency, Miano said.
The list of allowable OPT jobs includes “Electrical,
Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician,” and “Heating,
Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
Technology/Technician.”
The bill “opens the door to
many scams,” Miano added.
For example, many foreign workers would be eager to work part of
each year in New Jersey construction sites and be paid under the table, he
said. If the bill passes, “I can bring in a [foreign] person on B-1 [legal visitor]
who has a plumbing license in New Jersey, and then get six months’ work out of
him because his signed permits would be just as valuable as anyone else’s.”
Millions of foreigners now hold
long-term B-1/B-2 visas, and few are ever inspected — or punished — for illegal work, despite a growing number of little-noticed cases.
The New Jersey bill is boosted
by a roster of progressives, including Make the Road New Jersey, the
ACLU-NJ, New Jersey Policy Perspective, Wind of the Spirit, and academics from
St Peter’s University and Rutgers Law.
“New Jersey stands to benefit when more people are able to work
in health care, education, and other key frontline professions where there are
labor shortages,” said a statement from
illegal immigrant and DACA recipient Erika Martinez, of Make the Road New Jersey.
🚨 BREAKING: The Assembly Judiciary Committee
passes A2445 with a 4-2 vote!
Our fight is headed to the
Assembly floor for a final vote.
Take action with us NOW: https://t.co/bi8wg7mgNN
— Make the Road New Jersey (@MaketheRoadNJ) July 20, 2020
“As New Jersey faces an
unprecedented public health crisis, and a dearth of health care and other
essential professionals to meet the need, it is all the more critical that
S2455 move forward without delay,” said the statement which also included
support from New Jersey Association of Mental Health and Addiction
Agencies, and Rutgers University – Newark.
“This is an important step toward ending discrimination based on
immigration status,” said Vineeta Kapahi, a policy analyst at New Jersey
Policy Perspective.
The push to allow migrants to get licenses jobs is supported by
FWD.us, which is an advocacy group for West
Coast investors, including Bill Gates and Brad Smith, the President
of Microsoft.
“Allowing immigrants to earn appropriate licensure could also
help address worsening labor shortages challenging critical fields
like teaching and nursing, fields in which a
third of DACA recipients want to work,” FWD.us claimed in December
2019.
“Congress should enact legislation that affirmatively prohibits
the denial of federal and state professional, commercial, and business licenses
based on immigration status,” said a September 2019 report by the
Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration. The 2019 report was
also endorsed by FWD.us and by a progressive advocacy group for DACA
immigrants, dubbed United We Dream.
Congress can expand access to thousands of
jobs by revising outdated licensing laws for work-authorized immigrants like
DACA and TPS recipients. Learn more. https://t.co/gv0PHmU3nV
— Todd Schulte (@TheToddSchulte) December 19, 2019
Business groups have been
quietly pushing this licenses-for-illegals campaign for several years,
according to the Presidents’ Alliance report:
In recent years, Congress
engaged in a variety of bipartisan efforts to expand access to licenses to
non-qualified immigrants. During the Senate Judiciary markup of S.744, the
Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Reform Act of 2013, the
committee, by voice vote and without controversy, adopted an amendment that
would prohibit the federal government and states from denying licenses based on
immigration status to any individual who held an EAD. The KIDS Act of 2014,
then-House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s legislation, to provide relief to
immigrant youth, contained similar provisions. Most recently, H.R.6, the Dream
and Promise Act of 2019 contained language re-affirming that conditional
permanent residents (CPRs) would be eligible for licenses.
The business groups are
making quiet progress amid little pushback from groups that believe they
champion the pocketbook interests of ordinary Americans. The alliance report
said:
At least twelve
states—Arkansas, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Nebraska,
Nevada, South Dakota, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming—enacted legislation to
reduce barriers for immigrants, including DACA recipients, to obtain licenses.
Other states undertook administrative or regulatory action. California expanded
licenses to all undocumented immigrants; Florida and Illinois expanded access
to law licenses for DACA recipients, while Wyoming rescinded that U.S.
citizenship be a requirement for bar admission; Nebraska expanded access to all
occupational licenses for DACA recipients; Indiana expanded occupational
licensing in over 70 professions for DACA recipients; and New York, through the
Board of Regents, expanded professional licenses and teacher certifications to
DACA recipients.
The campaign has advanced in New Mexico, Nevada, New York, and in many other states.
Follow the money & the tweets through
the 'dreamer' and DACA debates, and they lead to the @FWDus advocacy group, which was set up
by West Coast investors to protect and expand their supply of cheap labor. https://t.co/DwL2ny8Sdd
— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) July 17, 2020
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Conservative business owner Lauren Boebert, who ousted Rep. Scott Tipton (R-CO) in Colorado’s 3rd congressional district, says the first step to reforming immigration is securing the United States-Mexico border.
In an exclusive interview with SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Saturday, Boebert said her victory was “an upset for the establishment but a win for freedom-loving patriots who are tired of D.C. politics as usual.”
LISTEN:
Boebert’s campaign against Tipton included slamming him for his support of the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, which would have capped farmworker wages, provided business with an unlimited inflow of H-2A foreign visa workers, and given amnesty to up to 1.25 million illegal aliens.
Boebert, a mother of four boys, said securing the U.S.-Mexico border to cut down illegal immigration is seemingly the step that is skipped in favor of amnesty.
“With the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, it was just a band-aid and our farmworkers didn’t like it,” Boebert said. “They understand that there is a problem with our exit strategy for our migrant workers here and all this did was put a band-aid on it and say ‘Woops, we messed up and now we’re [going to] give millions of illegal immigrants amnesty and not only that, but we need a billion of your taxpayer dollars to provide for their housing.’ So it just was not a conservative stance to take.”
“My hard line is secure the border,” Boebert said. “That is the step that we always seem to skip. The liberals have proven that they want lawlessness and they want open borders. I think we need to build a wall and secure our border. Certainly we need comprehensive immigration reform, but secure the border and then we’ll talk about that.”
Boebert said her victory was a historic win in Colorado where incumbents have for decades won their primaries against challengers.
“This was the first time in Colorado in 48 years that an incumbent has been defeated in a primary,” Boebert said. “The voters here get it. They understand that we need a fighter and if we remain silent on the issues that matter most to us, we lose by default.”
Boebert — a staunch advocate of the 2nd Amendment — is the owner of Shooters Grill in Rifle, Colorado, where she and waitresses open carry Glocks on their hips, gaining national attention for being the “safest restaurant in America.”
“Soon after we opened, there was a tragedy that took place and a man was beat to death near my restaurant,” Boebert said. “Now as a 5’0, 100-pound woman, I’m in the restaurant alone a lot and I wondered how I would take care of not only myself but how would I protect my people. And I began to take advantage of Colorado’s open carry laws and I began to open carry.”
“Long story short, my waitresses began to carry after that, we have tremendous training in place … we take gun safety very seriously,” Boebert said. “I believe that mistakes happen either because of ignorance or carelessness. Either you don’t know what you are doing with a firearm or you think you know so much that the basic rules don’t apply to you.”
“Next thing we knew, Nightline’s 20/20 was doing a story on us, calling Shooters Grill the safest restaurant in America,” Boebert continued. “This certainly gave me a platform for the 2nd Amendment.”
In one famous instance, Boebert confronted then-Democrat presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke after he declared to take legal guns away from law-abiding American citizens during a primary debate.
“Beto O’Rourke from the debate stage said ‘Hell yes we’re going to take your AR-15s and your AK-47s,'” Boebert said. “I said nobody else is standing up to this guy so I drove three hours to his presidential rally with my Glock on my hip and I said ‘Hell no you’re not.’ That became a national rally cry for our 2nd Amendment.”
Boebert now heads off against Democrat candidate Diane Mitsch Bush in the solidly Republican congressional district’s general election on November 3.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
State
and Local Politicians Move to Grant Coronavirus Relief to Illegal Aliens
By Matthew Tragesser
ImmigrationReform.com
https://www.immigrationreform.com/2020/04/08/illegal-alien-benefits-states-immigrationreform-com/
Study: More than 7-in-10 California Immigrant
Welfare
More than 7-in-10 households headed
by immigrants in the state of California are on taxpayer-funded welfare,
a new study reveals.
The latest Census Bureau data analyzed by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) finds that
about 72 percent of households headed by noncitizens and immigrants use one or
more forms of taxpayer-funded welfare programs in California — the number one
immigrant-receiving state in the U.S.
Meanwhile, only about 35 percent of households headed by
native-born Americans use welfare in California.
All four states with the largest foreign-born populations,
including California, have extremely high use of welfare by immigrant
households. In Texas, for example, nearly 70 percent of households headed by
immigrants use taxpayer-funded welfare. Meanwhile, only about 35 percent of
native-born households in Texas are on welfare.
In New York and Florida, a majority of households headed by
immigrants and noncitizens are on welfare. Overall, about 63 percent of
immigrant households use welfare while only 35 percent of native-born
households use welfare.
President Trump’s administration is looking to soon implement a
policy that protects American taxpayers’ dollars from funding the
mass importation of welfare-dependent foreign nationals by enforcing a “public
charge” rule whereby legal immigrants would be less likely to secure a
permanent residency in the U.S. if they have used any forms of welfare in the
past, including using Obamacare, food stamps, and public housing.
The immigration controls would be a boon for American taxpayers
in the form of an annual $57.4
billion tax cut — the amount taxpayers spend every year on paying for
the welfare, crime, and schooling costs of the country’s mass importation of
1.5 million new, mostly low-skilled legal immigrants.
As Breitbart News reported, the majority of
the more than 1.5 million foreign nationals entering the country every
year use about 57
percent more food stamps than the average native-born American
household. Overall, immigrant households consume 33 percent more cash
welfare than American citizen households and 44 percent more in Medicaid dollars.
This straining of public services by a booming 44 million foreign-born
population translates to the average immigrant household costing American
taxpayers $6,234 in federal
welfare.
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