America Faces No Greater Threat Than Joe Biden and the Democrat Party. Their Assault to Our Borders Is As Great As Their Assault to Free Speech and Free Elections
Saturday, March 4, 2023
HOW MUCH DOES ALL THAT 'CHEAP' LABOR COST MIDDLE AMERICA BEYOND OUR JOBS?
THESE FIGURES ARE WAY OFF! CA ALONE HANDS ILLEGALS $40 BILLION YEARLY ON THE STATE LEVEL WITH COUNTIES HANDING THEM MORE. LOS ANGELES COUNTY'S LA RAZA WELFARE COST THAT COUNTY $1.5 BILLION AND THE NUMBERS ONLY GO UP.
Georgia GOP Rep. Champions Transparency Bill for Biden’s Migration
Republican legislators in Georgia may get a chance to vote for some control over — and transparency into — the chaotic flood of President Joe Biden’s illegal migrants into their state.
“Clearly, there is no control of the issue,” said Republican Rep. Jesse Petrea (R-Savannnah), whose draft bill can be voted through the House if it first gets through the House’s rule committee by Monday.
House Bill 136 “is a very simple public safety bill,” he told Breitbart News. “It requires the Department of Corrections to post quarterly on their official website the number of criminal illegals in our Georgia correctional system.”
The critical hurdle is getting approval from the 32-member committee chaired by Rep. Richard Smith (R-Columbus). The committee decides which bills are allowed onto the floor for a vote.
People hold up signs as they protest the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) and the recent detentions of illegal immigrants in Washington, DC on July 16, 2018. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)
“I’ve got to get on and off the House floor and I’ve got to do it by Monday, and I think I can,” Petrea said. “My chances [for passage] in the Senate would be very good,” he said.
However, a similar bill “was stopped in the Republican rules committee of the House in 2019,” said D.A. King, the founder of the New Dustin Inman Society, which seeks to track and reduce the smuggling of illegal migrants into Georgia.
He told Breitbart News:
The resistance from the [GOP] establishment comes from the fact that this bill will create hard, accurate, and official numbers on at least one monetary cost of illegal immigration in Georgia — that being the cost of prison and incarceration.
We have learned in committee that there are about 1,500 criminal aliens in the prison system with ICE detainers [confirmatiom of illegal status by the federal agency]. But we know there are more criminal aliens because, obviously, all criminal aliens in the system do not have ICE detainers. I personally think it could be as high as another third.
We also learned that the cost of prison confinement is $73 per day. If you do the math on the $73 per day times the 1,500 ICE detainers, you come up with about $40 million a year that taxpayers are paying for the incarceration of these undocumented [and undeported] workers. That number will obviously go up.
“The Democrats will vote against this …. [they] holler ‘Racism!’ and ‘Anti-immigrant!'” whenever the bill comes up for discussion, King said
Petrea responded:
Most of the illegal immigrants in our country — even though they’re here illegally — are honest and hardworking people … But when we don’t control illegal immigration, we are going to wind up with some folks who are not good people … who are here to prey upon our families.
“We’re talking about people who illegally came here, and then after illegally coming here, committed a violent or a sexual crime on our people,” he said. Opponents “want to deny that or they want to pretend it isn’t so — knowing it is — and I think that’s inappropriate,” he said.
The opposition is “quite frankly shameful,” he said, adding, “Let’s debate the issue on the facts … we have a subset [of migrants] that are violent criminals.”
“We’re terribly limited with what we can do to control illegal immigration,” said Petrea. “It is a duty of the federal government and is one that you and I know they are failing to do … I believe what we can do is to publicize the information about the degree to which this affects our lives.”
“Representative Petrea deserves praise for his tenacity,” said King. Currently, “it is impossible for us to fully appreciate the [full cost of migration] of human lives and misery in Georgia.”
The national polls are pressuring national GOP legislators to curb illegal migration.
By a factor of more than two to one, Americans agree companies “should raise wages and try harder to recruit Americans even if it causes the prices of their products to rise,” said a July 2022 poll by YouGov.com.
Just 28 percent of registered voters believe immigration has been positive for their local economy, according to an August 12-15 survey of 2,025 registered voters conducted for a pro-migration advocacy group. Only 38 percent say immigration is good for the United States, the poll added.
Migration in Georgia
Business groups want more migrants because it provides them with an alternative source of workers, plus many additional renters and customers.
For example, the Georgia Chamber’s “Global Talent Initiative” claims, “Through strategic, targeted efforts, we can increase the number of skilled workers in our state. this will lead to better jobs, increased economic mobility, and a more prosperous state.”
The inflow of new workers is good for business owners — but it is also bad for ordinary Americans. For example, any flood of foreign workers tends to cut local wages, spike housing costs, and burden communities. Migration also pushes more Americans out of jobs and towards drug addiction and homelessness.
Many business advocates claim there is a shortage of workers in Georgia, despite the state’s huge and growing population of illegal migrants. There are also many Georgians who are not working: the federal reserve says that only 62 percent of working-age Georgians even hold jobs amid the mass inflow of cheap foreign workers. That percentage is sharply down from 68 percent in June 2008, ensuring more poverty and welfare costs.
Despite claims of a labor shortage, wages are also falling in many Georgia districts amid rising inflation, according to the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. Also, Georgia companies are free to hire workers from other employers with the promise of more money or better conditions.
Most migrants prefer to live in big cities in the major states, such as New York City and Los Angeles. That skewed flow of migrants into the major population centers minimizes the free-market pressure on investors and companies to hire Georgians for jobs at worksites in the many poor towns outside Atlanta.
Illegal Immigration Costs American Taxpayers Billions Every Year
Illegal immigration costs American taxpayers and hospitals billions of dollars in medical costs every year, the Federation for American Immigration Reform pointed out.
Last year, when over 98,000 illegal aliens were encountered in the Yuma, Arizona, border sector, the local hospital found itself providing $26 million in uncompensated care to illegal migrants.
CEO of Yuma Regional Medical Center Robert Trenschel pointed out at a Congressional hearing that many migrants come to America with “significant disease,” and often require major medical treatments, ranging from dialysis to heart surgery.
This strain put on the American healthcare system is by no means limited to Arizona, however. Texans paid up to a whopping $717 million on healthcare costs for illegal immigrants, which was administered by public hospitals, in 2021 alone.
One 2018 study found that Americans were spending as much as $18.5 billion a year on health care for illegal migrants.
Meanwhile, some migrants come to America specifically to access healthcare. Monsi Contreras’s family, for example, came to America illegally so that her mother could access “more advanced treatments” in America after suffering a stroke. In Mexico, her father was a banker and her mother was a journalist.
In another instance, a family crossed the Rio Grande at night with one woman who was confined to a wheelchair.
The $18.5 billion annual cost is likely significantly higher now, five years later. FAIR points out that “These must now be considered low-ball figures, given the soaring costs of health care and sharp increases in illegal immigration under the Biden administration.”
In fact, a report from FAIR found that roughly 1.3 million illegal immigrants were released into America in just the first year of President Biden’s administration. The figure is larger than the population of San Jose, California, which had the tenth largest population of any American city in 2022.
But in addition to those who were released into the United States, there were also roughly one million “gotaways,” which leads FAIR to estimate that “Approximately 2.3 million illegal aliens successfully entered the country.” This adjusted figure is larger than the populations of Phoenix, Philadelphia, San Antonio, San Diego, Dallas, and San Jose, the fifth through tenth most populated cities in America.
“Taxpayers may expect migrant healthcare costs to keep climbing along with the unabated surge in border crossings,” the organization also notes.
Spencer Lindquist is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter @SpencerLndqst and reach out at slindquist@breitbart.com
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