PUT EMPLOYERS OF ILLEGALS IN PRISONS BUILT ALONG THE OPEN BORDER
WITH NARCOMEX AND WE END THE INVASION OF ILLEGALS AND HEROIN
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“Birthright citizenship
should end, and the law against immigrant welfare use must be enforced. But
over the long run, preventing illegal aliens from taking jobs from Americans
and lawful immigrants will be the best means of restoring control of U.S.
borders and sovereignty.” HEATHER MAC DONALD
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“If Trump wants to
demolish the Democrats’ playbook, he should offer to switch
federal funding in this round of budget talks from the wall to E-Verify.
Doing so would force Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer to go on record
opposing a legal workforce.” HEATHER MAC DONALD
November: Foreign Workers See Nearly 5X Job Growth of Americans
YOU EVER
HEARD THE TERM E-VERIFY COME OUT OF TRUMP’S BIG MOUTH?
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“While legal immigrants continued being admitted to the
U.S. to take blue-collar working-class jobs and many white-collar, high-paying
jobs, there remain about six million Americans who are unemployed, 12 percent
of whom are teenagers and nearly six percent of whom are black Americans.” JOHN
BINDER
In
2017, visa overstays outnumbered illegal border crossings, leading many
restrictionists to prioritize policies such as E-Verify that would discourage
overstayers from remaining in the country. THEODORE KUPFER.
WHO REALLY PAYS THE COST OF OPEN BORDERS?
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. JOHN BINDER
Two groups of Central American migrants made separate
marches on the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana Tuesday, demanding that they be processed
through the asylum system more quickly and in greater numbers, that
deportations be halted and that President Trump either let them into the country or pay them $50,000
each to go home. MONICA SHOWALTER
This annual income for an impoverished American family
is $10,000 less than the more than $34,500 in federal funds which are spent on
each unaccompanied minor border crosser.
A study by Tom Wong of the
University of California at San Diego discovered that more than 25 percent of
DACA-enrolled illegal aliens in the program have anchor babies. That totals
about 200,000 anchor babies who are the children of DACA-enrolled illegal
aliens. This does not include the anchor babies of DACA-qualified illegal
aliens. JOHN BINDER
Build the invisible wall to complement the physical one
While a physical border barrier is important, it is even more important to eliminate the incentives to draw illegal aliens even to try to cross the border. Democrats will have a harder time explaining why we shouldn't increase taxes on corporations that hire illegal aliens than why a border barrier is "immoral."
While waiting out the Democrats over the partial government shutdown, President Trump could deliver a digital wall to stem illegal immigration by using a tool already at his disposal: the U.S. Tax Code.
Trump could simply direct the IRS to favor American businesses that hire persons legally permitted to work in the U.S. This policy – call it "affirmative wage deduction" (AWD) – would cause an instant exodus of illegal aliens, potentially recoup billions of dollars in federal tax subsidies, and turn off the employment magnet that now draws thousands of aliens to breach our borders.
To do this, Trump should direct the Internal Revenue Service to redefine the terms "eligible wage and vendor deductions" under the tax code to require verification through an existing online database called the E-Verify System, compiled and operated by the Social Security Administration.
E-Verify contains each enrollee's birth date, place of birth, address, and Social Security number, along with other personal data.
Under the new definition, any employer who wishes to reduce its taxable income by deducting payments to employees or independent contractors would use E-Verify to determine if those payees are "confirmed" or "tentatively non-confirmed" as legally able to work in the U.S.
If the worker is confirmed, then E-Verify could send an authentication code to the employer and to the IRS. When the IRS receives this code, it will get the green light to allow the deduction claimed by employers. If the IRS does not receive this code, it will automatically erect a virtual "wall" to detect non-confirmed labor expenses claimed in the employers' tax returns.
The result: Legal workers are let in, and illegal workers are kept out of the tax equation, with the employer feeling the difference in its pocketbook. The use of cheap and illegal labor to deprive Americans of entry-level jobs will no longer be unfairly rewarding those employers who are the financial beneficiaries of illegal immigration. Best of luck to the Chamber of Commerce Republicans and the open borders Democrats to explain why this would be a bad idea.
Implementing the AWD program would require an adjustment period, where legal workers who don't have their paperwork in order with the E-Verify system could rectify any problems before the tax-deductibility of their wages or independent contractor payments is blocked. AWD would require millions of legal American workers to log onto the E-Verify system to ensure that their pay will reduce their employers' taxable income, and no doubt, there will be some horror stories similar to the Obamacare rollout as the E-Verify system is stressed by the initial volume. However, the long-term benefits make this a worthwhile endeavor.
AWD is not a panacea. It doesn't prohibit companies from hiring illegal workers, and many may still find it cost-effective to do so. As proposed here, this system would not be used as a "permission to work program" or a law enforcement tool by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency. It would not affect the gardeners, babysitters, and handymen who are paid cash with after-tax earnings by homeowners, who cannot claim these expenditures as business expenses.
The strategy's effectiveness relies on the profit motive of employers to voluntarily enforce federal immigration laws. This is much less expensive than relying on ICE agents to round up illegals within our borders.
However, AWD is a compelling tax incentive program for businesses that follow the immigration laws and eliminates the competitive advantage enjoyed by employers who flout these laws. At a combined federal and state marginal tax rate of over 50 percent in California, for example, any business-owner would earn greater profits hiring a legal worker at $19 an hour than hiring an illegal worker for $10 an hour.
Why should wages paid to persons who illegally entered or overstayed their visa be allowable deductions any more than parking tickets, currently disallowable deductions according to IRS rules?
BLOG: THE TAX-FREE MEXICAN UNDERGROUND ECONOMY IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY IS ESTIMATED TO BE IN EXCESS OF $2 BILLION PER YEAR!
Within months of adopting this change, millions of illegal ALIENS employed in the hospitality, meatpacking, agriculture, construction, and garment industries would be replaced by citizens without college degrees – the same voters who made up the core of President Trump's voting base.
By the use of the Social Security database, almost all working Americans would participate in AWD, with no subgroups unfairly targeted. Most important for taxpayers and unemployed workers, this digital wall could be built more quickly, at a fraction of the cost of the physical barrier at the border. The Open Borders Democrats won't be able to hurl the "racism" or "wasteful spending" epithets at AWD.
By utilizing an executive order to implement AWD, the president could demonstrate that he will utilize whatever authority is at his disposal to address the problem of illegal immigration, with or without Congress's cooperation, or the need for declaring a state of emergency.
Washington, D.C. (January 8, 2018) – Ahead of
President Trump's speech tonight, where he is expected to call for funding
for border security, new analysis from the Center for Immigration Studies
finds that a border wall would fund itself. This updated analysis indicates
that to pay for the president's $5 billion wall request, a wall would have
to prevent about 60,000 crossings — or 3 to 4 percent of expected illegal
crossers in the next decade.
Steve Camarota, the Director of Research at the
Center and the author of the analysis, said, "While it is true that
more illegal immigrants come through overstayed visas than through our
southern border, the reality is that even if a border wall reduced just a
tiny fraction of illegal crossings, it would pay for itself. Like any
investment, the wall’s costs must be measured against its returns. A
border wall in areas where it is needed, combined with broadly popular
enforcement measures such as E-Verify and the closing of asylum loopholes,
would effectively curb illegal immigration and secure America’s porous
borders.”
View the full analysis: https://www.cis.org/Camarota/Can-Wall-Pay-Itself-Update
Findings
- In a prior analysis we took the likely
education level of illegal border-crossers and applied fiscal
estimates developed by the National Academies of Sciences,
Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) for immigrants by education level —
excluding their children. These estimates indicated an average
lifetime net fiscal cost of $74,722 per illegal crosser — $82,191 in
2018 dollars.
- Analysis by the Institute for Defense Analyses
(IDA) indicates that there are 1.95 to 2.28 apprehensions for every
successful illegal crossing. This translates to about 170,000 to
200,000 successful illegal crossings in 2018, or 1.7 million to two
million over the next 10 years, assuming this level continues.
- The House passed a funding bill before
Christmas with $5 billion for the wall, which means the wall would
have to stop or deter 3 to 4 percent (60,000) of the future illegal
crossers over the next decade to pay for itself.
- If we make conservative alternative
assumptions that illegal crossers cost half what we estimate, and we
further assume the future flows will be only half the 2018 level, then
the wall would have to stop or deter 12 to 14 percent of expected
illegal border-crossers in the next decade.
Important Caveats
- A large share of the net fiscal cost of
illegal immigrants is at the state and local level, not the federal
level. The costs of building the wall will be borne by the federal
government.
- These cost estimates, based on the NAS
research, only include original illegal immigrants, not their children
and grandchildren. In our prior analysis, we found that if the cost of
descendants is included, then the net fiscal drain raises to $94,391 —
$103,826 in 2018 dollars.
- To create its long-term fiscal estimates for
immigrants by education level, the NAS uses the concept of "net
present value" (NPV). This concept, which is common in economics,
has the effect of reducing the size of the net fiscal drain that
less-educated immigrants, which describes most illegal immigrants,
will create in the future. The NAS does this because costs or benefits
years from now are valued less in economics relative to more immediate
costs. If the actual net lifetime fiscal cost of illegal
border-crossers were used it would likely roughly double the lifetime
fiscal drain illegal crossers create. (We have a longer discussion of
this issue in our original report. See the section "Do Net
Present Values Make Sense?" The bottom line is that NPVs do make
sense when thinking about the costs of a wall because the cost of a
wall is immediate and with NPV the fiscal impact of illegal immigrants
is also measured in current dollars.)
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THE
STAGGERING COST OF THE WELFARE STATE MEXICO AND THE LA RAZA SUPREMACY DEMOCRAT
PARTY HAVE BUILT BORDER to OPEN BORDER’
According to the Federation
for American Immigration Reform’s 2017 report, illegal
immigrants, and their children, cost American taxpayers a net $116 billion
annually -- roughly $7,000 per alien annually. While high, this number is not
an outlier: a recent study by the Heritage
Foundation found that low-skilled immigrants (including those here
illegally) cost Americans trillions over
the course of their lifetimes, and a study from the National
Economics Editorial found that illegal immigration
costs America over $140 billion annually. As it stands, illegal immigrants are
a massive burden on American taxpayers.
MARK KRIKORIAN
E-VERIFY – Why both parties hate the word!
Putting employers of illegals in prison would
end the foreign invasion today!
EYE ON THE NEWS
Electronic Barriers
While
the nation squabbles over a border wall, technology could help cut off the
supply of jobs to illegal immigrants.
December
13, 2018
Politics and law
Economy, finance, and budgets
Donald Trump was elected president because a large segment of the
American public was fed up with the government’s failure to stop mass illegal
immigration. Trump’s campaign promise to build a wall between Mexico and the
U.S. drew an ecstatic response from his supporters, long scorned for their
belief that the decision regarding who enters the country belongs to Americans,
not to foreign nationals living outside the country. But the wall has not been
built, and the fight over its funding has sucked political capital from the
pursuit of other, and arguably better, means to deter illegal immigrants.
The most important of those measures is to prevent unauthorized
aliens from getting work, since the jobs magnet is the primary lure for illegal
immigration. Commentators and analysts across the political spectrum have
acknowledged that preventing illegal employment is key to deterring illegal
immigration. The New York Times editorialized
in 1982 that “there can be no effective enforcement of the borders” without
mandatory verification of a worker’s papers. A technology has existed for
decades to do just that. E-Verify, run by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Service, allows employers to check—instantaneously and for free—whether the
work documents presented by a potential employee correspond to an existing
Social Security number or whether they are forged. Universal implementation of
E-Verify has been blocked, however, by employers who prefer to hire illegal
aliens over American workers.
Trump invoked E-Verify during the 2016 campaign but has since
stopped publicly promoting it. Yet E-Verify is more popular with the public
than the wall; at least two-thirds of poll respondents support mandatory
verification of a worker’s lawful status. States that require it (Alabama,
Arizona, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and
Utah) have changed worker behavior. Illegal aliens dropped off the payrolls in
Mississippi, Alabama, and South Carolina, prompting employers to hire legal
workers, according to a 2013 study conducted by Bloomberg Government. A 2017
study by Carnegie Mellon University found that Arizona’s E-Verify law induced
return migration from Arizona to Mexico and decreased illegal immigration into
Arizona from Mexico. A study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas found that
the population of less educated young Mexican and Central American immigrants
dropped in states with mandatory E-Verify, in part because they moved to states
without the mandate and in part because they returned to their home countries.
Wages for low-skilled American and legal-immigrant workers in mandatory
E-Verify states rose between 7 percent and 9 percent, while wages for illegal
Mexican males dropped nearly 8 percent.
Yet enforcement is spotty. Only 2 percent of businesses in South
Carolina were audited in 2017, and 17 percent of that sample were found not to
be using the system. None of the scofflaws, however, were fined. The Cato
Institute has alleged that only 59 percent of Arizona employers checked a
worker’s documents against federal databases in 2017. For E-Verify to work to
its fullest potential, it must be made universal and enforced, so that
employers who use it are not put at a competitive disadvantage against employers
who continue to use cheap (if often more reliable) illegal labor. The House
Judiciary Committee has thrice passed a bill to mandate universal E-Verify. The
most recent iteration, the Legal Workforce Act, sponsored by Lamar Smith and
Ken Calvert and promoted by House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte, phases in
the employer mandate gradually, starting with the largest businesses first. It
gives agricultural companies 30 months to comply. Employers who use E-Verify in
good faith cannot be penalized, even if they receive an incorrect eligibility
verification. Though the Chamber of Commerce has endorsed the Smith-Calvert
bill, the law has stalled, largely because of opposition from western
agricultural interests.
E-Verify is not foolproof. It only catches phony work papers that
are created out of whole cloth. If an illegal alien has acquired a valid but
stolen identity, including Social Security number and driver’s license, he will
pass the eligibility check. One study of employment data from 2008 found that half
of all illegal workers who submitted papers for E-Verify were incorrectly found
to be authorized for work. The reason for that false negative was the
submission of stolen identities. Those false negatives represented 3 percent of
all E-Verify submissions. Recent reports that Trump employed illegal aliens at
a golf club skirted over the fact that the workers presented stolen documents
to get their jobs. Nevertheless, while some illegal workers get through the
system, many others are deterred from seeking a job.
E-Verify can be tightened up. The Citizenship and Immigration
Service has developed a photo tool that compares the worker presenting work
documents with the original photos in driver’s licenses, passports, and
permanent resident cards. At present, the Social Security Administration does
not inform victims of identity theft that their papers have been compromised;
the Legal Workforce Act would require the SSA to notify a Social Security
holder if his number has been used on numerous, mutually conflicting, jobs, and
it allows workers to lock in their Social Security number so that it can’t be
used by anyone else. With such changes, E-Verify’s false positive rate could be
considerably lowered.
If Trump wants to demolish the
Democrats’ playbook, he should offer to switch federal funding in this
round of budget talks from the wall to E-Verify. Doing so would force
Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer to go on record opposing a legal workforce.
Worksite Arrests Up 640
Percent as ICE Cracks Down on Employers of Illegal Immigrants
December 14, 2018 Updated: December 16, 2018
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has ramped up
investigations of employers who used illegal immigrant workers in the fiscal
year 2018, which ended in September.
ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) department arrested more
than 2,300 people in 2018 related to worksite enforcement, including almost 800
criminal arrests of employers and more than 1,500 administrative arrests of
unauthorized workers. That represents an increase in worksite-related arrests
of about 640 percent, compared to the slightly more than 300 made the year
before.
HSI opened more than 6,800 worksite investigations in fiscal 2018—about
four times more than the year before.
“Reducing illegal employment helps build
another layer of border security, and reduces the continuum of crime that
illegal labor facilitates, from the human smuggling networks that facilitate
illegal border crossings to the associated collateral crimes, like identity
theft, document and benefit fraud, and worker exploitation,” HSI Executive
Associate Director Derek Benner said in a Dec. 11 release.
The boosted enforcement didn’t translate into more indictments and
convictions, “but those numbers are also expected to rise due to many ongoing
investigations, which can take months to years to fully develop,” the release
stated. The 72 indictments and 49 convictions in 2018 were little changed from
the 71 indictments and 55 convictions the year before.
The authorities imposed far less in
fines—some $10 million in 2018, compared to nearly $98 million in 2017. That
comparison, however, is misleading because the bulk of the 2017 sum came from
Asplundh Tree Experts, which paid the government $95
million after a six-year HSI investigation
found that the company had knowingly hired and re-hired illegal aliens.
Major Cases
In April, HSI raided a slaughterhouse in Bean Station, Tennessee, and
arrested 104 illegal immigrants. In September, the owner of the company pleaded
guilty to federal charges of tax fraud, wire fraud, and employing illegal
aliens. He has agreed to pay $1.4 million in restitution, but could face
additional prison time and fines when he is sentenced early next year.
In August, HSI busted a trailer manufacturer in Sumner, Texas, and
arrested 160 people on immigration violations, “many who were using stolen
identities of U.S. citizens,” the release stated.
Also in August, HSI arrested 17 people connected to an alleged criminal
conspiracy to exploit illegal immigrant workers for profit, fraud, wire fraud,
and money laundering.
“Employers who use an illegal workforce as part of their business model
put businesses that do follow the law at a competitive disadvantage,” said Benner.
“HSI is committed to upholding the laws that govern worksite
enforcement. These laws help protect jobs for U.S. citizens and others who are
lawfully employed, reduce the incentive of illegal migration, eliminate unfair
competitive advantages for companies that hire an illegal workforce, and
ultimately help strengthen public safety and national security.”
Employers are required to verify the identity and work eligibility of
all their hires, and to document that information on the Employment Eligibility
Verification Form (I-9 form), based on the Immigration Reform and Control Act
signed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986.
The brunt of HSI worksite enforcement stems from I-9 audits, where the
authorities send a notice of inspection to employers, who then have three days
to produce the relevant employment eligibility verification forms. ICE then
conducts a compliance inspection, which can lead to civil fines and criminal
prosecution for employers who break the law. Employees who are found to be in
the country illegally are then arrested for deportation.
President Donald Trump has made fighting illegal immigration a priority,
focusing on securing the southern border, busting transnational gangs such as
MS-13, deporting illegal immigrants who commit crimes, and also cracking down
on those who employ illegal immigrants.
Trump already convinced Congress to allocate some $1.6 billion for
border fencing in fiscal years 2017 and 2018. For 2019, the president wants at
least $5 billion more to deliver on his campaign promise of building a border
wall. He has repeatedly expressed a willingness to partially shut down the
government if Congress doesn’t approve the funding.
NumbersUSA’s Rosemary Jenks: E-Verify Ignored in DACA
Negotiations
Because ‘Members of Congress Know It Will Work’
File Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images
Members of Congress broadly oppose a legislative nationwide
E-Verify mandate for employers because “they know it will work,” said
NumbersUSA’s Rosemary Jenks, explaining why E-Verify is not being pushed in
congressional negotiations for an amnesty deal for recipients of the Obama
administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Jenks further
noted that both parties are beholden to special interests supportive of “mass
migration.”
Jenks offered her analysis
during a Monday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart
News Tonight with Breitbart News’s Senior Editors-at-Large
Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.
Mansour asked Jenks why most
Republicans were not supporting a legislative nationwide mandate for E-Verify
use by employers. “Why do you think that this isn’t being pushed, then? It
seems like a no-brainer. Why is this not being included in all the
negotiations?” she said.
“I think [E-Verify] is not
being pushed precisely because members of Congress know it will work,” said
Jenks. “I think that is exactly the reason it’s not being pushed. Democrats,
for sure, don’t want mandatory E-Verify because they know it will discourage
illegal immigration, which will discourage the push for the next amnesty. And,
let’s face it, the establishment Republicans don’t want it because they know it
will be effective and eliminate their cheap labor pools.”
Special interests, including
“big business,” “organized religion,” and “ethnic advocacy groups,” subvert
popular American will via their funding and political agitation, said Jenks,
adding, “It’s about the donors and about the Democrat Party wanting mass
immigration. Those are the two factors that rule every immigration debate. It’s
always the big business donors, organized religion, the ethnic advocacy groups.
All of the money is behind mass immigration, and then, there’s the American
people on the other side. That’s the problem we have had. That’s why we haven’t
controlled immigration in the last five decades.”
Legislating a national mandate
for E-Verify use by employers is more important than construction of a southern
border wall, argued Jenks. “In our view, mandatory E-Verify is more important
than a wall. So that is the one place where we’re hoping that we can move the
administration to saying E-Verify is a must-have.”
Approximately half of “the
illegal population” is composed of foreigners who lawfully entered the homeland
and overstay their visas, said Jenks. An E-Verify mandate on employers, she
added, would “mostly shut down” the lure of employment for illegal aliens.
E-Verify usage by employers
would facilitate more effective enforcement of immigration law by allowing
federal authorities to target businesses abstaining for its use, said Jenks.
“They have a clearer target for enforcement measures.”
Jenks listed the following
elements as “must-haves” for any legislative amnesty proposal: 1) limiting the
amnesty to the DACA population; 2) ending chain migration; 3) ending the
“Diversity Visa Program” lottery; 4) implementation of effective border
security and interior enforcement measures; and 5) implementation of a national
mandate for employer use of E-Verify.
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