CIS Backgrounder, August 31, 2017
https://cis.org/Report/Raise-More-Quarter-Trillion-Dollars-Tax-Revenue-Ending-Tax-Subsidies-Unauthorized-Employment
Excerpt: Aliens enter the United States without authorization for many reasons, but for most of them the goal is to secure employment at much higher wages than are available in their native countries. While breaking the law provides very significant economic benefits to these illegal workers and to the businesses that hire them, it comes at a cost to American workers. According to Harvard economist George Borjas, recent empirical research indicates that American workers suffer a reduction of $99 billion to $118 billion in annual wages because of illegal immigration.1
The economic rewards of unauthorized employment of aliens are not limited to the higher wages of the illegal workers and the lower labor costs of their employers. Unauthorized alien workers and their employers also enjoy multi-billion dollar tax deductions and tax credits that were enacted into law for the benefit of law-abiding workers and businesses.
The Right Way to Save DACA: Now, Congress Must Ensure that E-Verify Goes National, and That Chain Immigration As We Know It Ends
By Mark Krikorian
The New York Daily News, September 5, 2017,
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/save-daca-article-1.3471263
President Trump has arranged a soft landing for the illegal immigrants benefiting from President Barack Obama’s unconstitutional DACA program. Now it’s up to Congress to craft a solution for this unique category of illegal immigrants — in a way that doesn’t do more harm than good.
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program might well have ended abruptly Tuesday, by judicial order, since 10 states had threatened to sue if the administration didn’t act — with a deadline of this week. Instead, the nearly 800,000 illegal immigrants will be able to keep their work permits for up to 21/2 more years, as the program is wound down.
Whatever the merits of the individuals involved — illegal immigrants who sneaked across the border or overstayed a visa before age 16 — the DACA program itself is illegal and had to be ended. No less an authority than Obama said in 2011 that enacting what would eventually become DACA “would not conform with my appropriate role as President.”
BLOG: SEE JUDICIAL WATCH ON ILLEGALS VOTING BELOW
But as the 2012 election neared, his aides saw that Hispanic voter registration numbers were below the 2008 level and panicked. So to energize Hispanic voters to go to the polls and vote for an administration that had not delivered on its immigration promises, Obama decreed DACA.
The program provides more than just a two-year, renewable exemption from immigration law; it also results in a work permit, Social Security number, driver’s licenses, access to the Earned Income Tax Credit welfare program and more.
The question now is, What will Congress do with the six-month grace period before DACA permits start expiring?
The DACAs aren’t just the most sympathetic group of illegal immigrants; they’re a special case. Though almost all are now in their 20s and 30s, they grew up here and have developed their identities as Americans. Some didn’t even know they were illegal aliens until they went to get a driver’s license in high school.
So an amnesty for them — and only for them — can be justified as a prudent act of mercy. There’s a lot of support for amnestying the DACAs, even among immigration hawks like Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.).
But any measure considered by Congress would be harmful unless it addressed the two drawbacks of any amnesty.
One, all amnesties encourage future illegal immigration — by sending the message abroad that crime pays, as it were — and they set in motion future increases in legal immigration, as relatives of the amnesty recipients take advantage of the chain-migration provisions of our current immigration program.
That’s why any legislative solution to this problem must include both enforcement measures and legal immigration cuts. Though the President has made a border wall a centerpiece of his enforcement strategy, he already has all the authority he needs from Congress to build one; he only needs some extra funding, which in and of itself would be an insufficient tradeoff for legalizing DACA.
The chief item the President needs from Congress regarding enforcement is to require universal use of the E-Verify program. This is a free, online system that enables employers to check the information they already have to collect from a new hire (name, age, authorization to work) and to ensure he is telling the truth about who he is.
Last year, roughly half of all new hires were screened through the system, but use of the system is still voluntary. Only Congress can make it mandatory, which would be the single most important step toward weakening the magnet of jobs that drew the parents of the DACAs here in the first place.
The second element Congress must
incorporate in any DACA amnesty is abolition
of the immigration categories that permit
chain migration of an endless procession of
relatives. Fully two-thirds of the million legal
immigrants we take in each year are selected
because they already have relatives here.
After an amnesty for the DACAs, they would be able to bring in their relatives, including the parents who put them in this difficult position in the first place. Cotton’s RAISE Act would, among other things, focus family immigration only on husbands, wives and little kids, ensuring that any DACA amnesty would not create a future surge of immigration.
A stand-alone DACA amnesty would, at least, be legal. But it would be a mistake. These young people must be granted formal permission to stay in a way that limits the harmful
Princeton Economist: Nearly Half of U.S. Men Who Dropped Out of Workforce on Opioid Painkillers
The opioid crisis is growing in America, and it may be the reason many men are dropping and staying out of the workforce, according to a new study.
Nearly half of the men in the U.S. who dropped out of the workforce are on opioid painkillers, Princeton University economist Alan Krueger wrote in a Brookings Institute study released this week.
“The opioid crisis and depressed labor-force participation are now intertwined in many parts of the U.S.,” Krueger wrote in the Brookings Institute study.
Krueger found that nearly half of the men surveyed “take pain medication on a daily basis, and in nearly two-thirds of these cases they take prescription pain medication.”
“Labor force participation has fallen more in areas where relatively more opioid pain medication is prescribed,” he wrote.
Krueger said the men surveyed took painkillers either as a result of being out of the workforce for a prolonged period or because they had a condition that required the use of painkillers and could not work because of the condition.
“The results of this survey underscore the role of pain in the lives on nonworking men, and the widespread use of prescription pain medication,” he wrote. “Fully 47 percent of NLF (not in labor force) prime age men responded that they took pain medication on the previous day.”
He added that nearly two-thirds of the men who took pain medication said they were taking prescription meds.
“These figures likely understate the actual proportion of men taking prescription pain medication given the stigma and legal risk associated with reporting taking narcotics,” Krueger said.
NBC News cites data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that show the labor force participation rate, comprised of people who are working or actively looking for work, reached an all-time high of 67.3 percent in the U.S. in early 2000.
The labor force participation rate reached a 40-year low in September 2015, dipping to 62.4 percent, as the American economy grew very slowly under former President Barack Obama.
Krueger said the labor participation rate in the past decade declined faster than the decade preceding it.
“The share of non-college educated young men who did not work at all over the entire year rose from 10 percent in 1994 to more than 20 percent in 2015,” he wrote.
The decline roughly coincides with the beginning of the opioid epidemic, when the number of unintentional overdoses from prescription painkillers quadrupled since 1999, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
A survey from NIDA found that 91.8 million people, roughly one in three Americans, used opioid painkillers such as Vicodin and OxyContin in 2015.
President Trump declared the national opioid crisis a “state of emergency” on August 10 and vowed to “fight the deadly epidemic.”
JEFF SESSION’S LONG BATTLE FOR THE AMERICAN WORKER He is the only one in the country that has consistently spoken out for the AMERICAN WORKER!
Sessions should keep dragging Trump out of his
amnesty closet and build the wall against NARCOMEX!
Los Angeles’ Mexican tax-free
underground economy is estimated to be in excess of $2 BILLION PER YEAR.
JOE LEGAL v LA
RAZA JOSE ILLEGAL
Here’s how
it breaks down; will make you want to be an illegal!
JOBS FOR LEGALS?
95 MILLION LEGALS GIVE UP HOPE FOR A JOB IN
THEIR OWN COUNTRY.
A Nation unravels and Mexico invades, occupies
and loots
AMERICA: NO LEGAL NEED APPLY
REPORT: The assault to finish off the
American middle-class is NOT over
“The report noted
that many illegals don't have jobs or have difficulty in landing
good jobs because of local laws.”
“However, it
identified several states that have begun easing employment laws so
that illegals can get a job.”
JUDICIAL WATCH:
“The greatest criminal threat to the
daily lives of American citizens are the Mexican drug cartels.”
“Mexican drug cartels are the “other”
terrorist threat to America. Militant Islamists have the goal of destroying the
United States. Mexican
drug cartels are now accomplishing that mission – from within, every day, in
virtually every community across this country.” JUDICIALWATCH
HILDA SOLIS WAS BARACK OBAMA’S
SECRETARY OF ILLEGAL LABOR BEFORE MEXICANS VOTED HER IN AS LOS ANGELES COUNTY
SUPERVISOR WHERE SHE IS RAPIDLY EXPANDING THE MEX WELFARE STATE IN LOS ANGELES
COUNTY.
HILDA SOLIS – The Mexican Fascist
Party of LA RAZA “THE RACE” building LA RAZA SUPREMACY over Legals and the
Mexican welfare state in America’s open borders.
“Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, a
former California congresswoman with close ties to the influential La Raza
movement, announced the “We Can Help” project with great fanfare a few days ago.”
HOW “CHEAP” IS ALL THAT INVADING
“CHEAP” LABOR?
Natalio Vitervo-Vasquez was deported twice
but returned to provide “cheap” labor. He can’t read or write and raped his
10-year-old daughter.
“Prosecutors say the girl, who was 11-years-old at the time, went to a
medical center where it was determined she was pregnant. Officials say she
would have conceived the child at ten years of age.”
END THE
MEX INVASION – IMPOSE BORDER to OPEN BORDER E-VERIFY and put EMPLOYERS OF
ILLEGALS IN PRISON!
Notice how we never hear the phony populist
Trump talking about E-VERIFY!
AMERICA: NO LEGAL NEED APPLY!
“The percentage of
foreign-born workers in the U.S. labor force has more than tripled over the
last four decades and while the U.S. represents just 5 percent of the world’s
population it attracts 20 percent of the world’s immigrants, according to a new
report.”
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.
Those most impacted are middle class
and lower middle class. It is they whose jobs are taken, whose raises are
postponed, whose schools are filled with non-English speaking children that
absorb precious resources for remedial English, whose public parks are trashed
and whose emergency rooms serve as the local clinic for the illegal
underground.
THE SECRET REPORT ON ILLEGALS TAKING
MIDDLE AND HIGH END JOBS…. What? You thought they only took the shit jobs?
HERITAGE FOUNDATION:
LOOK AROUND YOU. HOW MANY ILLEGALS IN OUR JOBS? EVER BEEN TO
A FAST FOOD THAT SPOKE ENGLISH? EVER SEEN A CONSTRUCTION SITE THAT HAD LEGALS
WORKING?
Amnesty
would add 100 million more illegals and cost Legals trillions!
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