I have become more suspicious of politicians and the establishment that is constantly being formed. Evermore so since the 2008 Bank Bailout that cost taxpayers $611 billion, $388Bhas been returned. I had very high hopes in this presidency, but somehow Obama has skirted around directly helping me, a black woman heading a household on a part-time income. The suspicious feeling again with a recent meeting in Dallas between Present Obama and Texas Governor Rick Perry, discussing a so-called 'humanitarian situation' involving 52,000 unaccompanied illegal immigrant children crossing the southern border in larger numbers, that have not been deported. Why? I cannot seem to figure that out. It seems entirely possible that most of the children will be deported, which leaves to reson that the bill is more of an amnesty issue for illegals living here already. Almost immediately I felt a little concern and suspicion as the pictures of the children melted my heart. I couldn't imagine my own children living in jails, eating frozen food and being raped.
Imagine my brain trying to connect the dots as to why this situation is being compared to Hurricane Katrina. Although a hurricane helped to break a levy that flooded the homes of those that couldn't afford to leave, chose not to leave or were handicapped and couldn't leave. This immigrant flow has been steady since the 50's Without detour I went to the Immigration Reform bill to see how that has gone over with the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the bill has been parked there for more than a year and is considered dead, despite the amendments to the bill.
"The American people expect to see their President when there is a disaster," Perry told CNN's Kate Bolduan in an interview that aired Thursday, citing Obama's trip to the East Coast to tour damage caused by Superstorm Sandy in 2012. "He showed up at Sandy. Why not Texas?"
-Governor Rick Perry
"There's nothing that is taking place down there that I am not intimately aware of and briefed on. This isn't theater. This is a problem," -Obama
I believe now that the immigrant children are being used as a tool to pass the Immigration Reform Bill or lesser known as S. 744, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act. Before the Child jail photos 'leaked', (wink wink)...Republicans favored deportation 42%, though 80% of democrats feel as though deportation of all immigrants in unrealistic, which it is. We are being told that the issue is the children, but have not heard as much coverage on adults, or in specific #Mexican. We all know the issue is truly Mexican amnesty. Mexican Americans make up more than 50% of our estimated illegal immigrants. This is a really big problem the country is facing, not simply because the government has no knowledge of how many people are in the US, where these people come from, but because of all the tax revenue Uncle Sam is missing out on......Which brings me to my first topic:
Get out of Jail Free CardA little-discussed provision buried in the immigration bill which passed out of the Senate on June 27, 2013 (S. 744) would let employers off the hook for previously hiring illegal immigrants—a Get Out of Jail Free card that could help companies dodge millions of dollars in fines and penalties, legal fees, and evade prosecution or imprisonment for guilty executives. Employers who have allowed illegal immigrants to work off the books can come forward safely and provide their work history without fear of prosecution, and businesses that knowingly employed someone using a bogus or stolen Social Security number likewise would get a pass, according to an analysis of the bill by the Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank that wants a crackdown on immigration.
All this time, employers took fake ssn's and ID's and paid the worker next to nothing, no taxes deducted. However, since the laws have been so unswervingly broken by so many employers over decades, it is time forgive crimes of commerce by selling amnesty. Think about it. Over 600 companies are in support of this bill, big companies such as Apple, Facebook, Google, Hilton, Intel, Marriott, and Microsoft, Caterpillar Inc, The Coca-Cola Co, Motorola Solutions. Read the full list here. Fines for employing an illegal alien can be as high $16,000. Afterall, Obama bailed out the Banks , retailers like Google and Microsoft want a return on campaign contributions (...ahem, $800K+). Millions of dollars being lost in tax revenue that the Government is looking for a way to save big business from fines and taxes. Immigrants will lower the deficit by paying taxes(Current Deficit $16,787,451,118,147 if you needed help on the commas, that 16 trillion dollars). If ever there was a win-win situation.
In 1999, under Clinton, the US collected $3.69 million in fines from 890 companies for employing undocumented workers. In 2004, under Bush, the US collected $188,500 from 64 companies for employing undocumented workers. And in 2004, the Bush Administration levied NO fines for US companies employing undocumented workers. The average fine under Obama ($21,851) has increased about 30 percent compared with the Bush era ($16,666). Criminal arrests of employers have jumped 45 percent since 2008. In the last five years more than 1.5 million undocumented migrants have been deported under the Obama administration. Of the 196 employers arrested last year, 42 have been sent to prison so far, with sentences ranging from time served to 3 1/2 years. Many cases are pending.
This past monday 07132014, The Black American Leadership Alliance protested against immigration reform by march in D.C. They fear that mass immigration and amnesty puts African-Americans from all walks of life out of work and suppresses wages, causing them to compete with aliens willing to work in poorer working conditions for cheaper pay. Walter Ewing, a senior researcher at the Immigration Policy Center disagrees and states, "The fact is that minorities living in high-immigration cities tend to have lower unemployment and higher wages than minorities in low-immigration cities. Immigrants create jobs, they don't steal them."
It is the citizens who control how a representative votes, and if the citizens are softened to the immigration situation, the votes can and possibly would change. Politicians fill the jail for photo opportunities, treating the immigrant children in custody similar to animals in a zoo, and presto...Children are released and the Immigration bill passed with a slew of other laws. Of course, in an 844 page legislation bill, there are plenty laws, but the most notable laws that will go into effect are:
1. E-verify will become required nationwide, persons eligible to work in the US will be issued a number that will allow businesses to determine the eligibility of their employees to work in the United States.
2. Copies of employment records or other evidence of employment provided by an alien or by an alien’s employer in support of an alien’s application for registered provisional immigrant status under section 245B may not be used in a civil or criminal prosecution or investigation of that employer.
2. adding high-tech surveillance equipment and doubling the number of border agents to about 40,000[9] The bill has also passed the Senate by 68-32.
3.In his testimony to the Senate Judiciary, Dr. Ron Hira observed the bill is targeted at reducing cost to corporations by outsourcing USA citizen jobs to lower-cost foreign workers, rather than bringing the best and brightest into the USA. He states “S.744 expands the base cap substantially from 65,000 to 110,000.
4. Other provisions will benefit the nation’s undocumented immigrants, low skilled foreign workers, high skilled foreign workers. The Senate immigration reform bill would raise the H-1B quota. At present, the country grants 65,000 H-1B visas and an additional 20,000 visas for people who hold advanced degrees, per year. If the bill is passed, the H-1B quota will be raised.
5. STEM graduates, (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), A UK based recruitment agency and job board, would become eligible for US Green Cards and the US Congress would issue Green Cards to high-skilled foreign workers. The Senate bill would create a merit based system and issue merit based Green Cards. This system would permit the US Department of Homeland Security to weigh few factors such as education, employment, family ties, etc and issue immigrant visas to foreign nationals based on these factors.
6. DREAMers will become citizens through military service.
Read the comprehensive 844 page, Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013 here.
White House Requests $3.7 Billion To Address Surge Of Young Immigrants Crossing US Border. The Department of Justice would receive $64 million to hire more immigration judges and provide legal counsel to children undergoing removal procedures. The Department of Homeland Security would get $1.1 billion to boost immigration and customs enforcement, and Customs and Border Protection would receive $433 million. $300 million would go to the Department of State to assist Central American countries in repatriating the deported civilians.$1.8 billion, would go to the Department of Health and Human Services for caring for the children.
Obama on the U.S. Mexico Border Fence
“So here’s the point. I want everybody to listen carefully to this. We have gone above and beyond what was requested by the very Republicans who said they supported broader reform as long as we got serious about enforcement. All the stuff they asked for, we’ve done. But even though we’ve answered these concerns, I’ve got to say I suspect there are still going to be some who are trying to move the goal posts on us one more time. You know, they said we needed to triple the Border Patrol. Or now they’re going to say we need to quadruple the Border Patrol. Or they’ll want a higher fence. Maybe they’ll need a moat. Maybe they want alligators in the moat. They’ll never be satisfied. And I understand that. That’s politics.”May 10, 2011, speaking at the Chamizal National Memorial in El Paso, Texas
I am against the bill as it is. It seems that Big companies will not stand for crimes again labor law, that Mexican illegal immigrant hopes for citizenship will be exploited at their own cost and is only a pathway to oppression, and because African Slaves or blacks received no compensation or reparation for 400 years of slavery, which paved the way for US big business. Latinos, hispanic, illegal immigrants must understand any mass move toward citizenship may benefit some of the people but the establishment will benefit far greater.
Here are a few more facts. There are 4,258,356 illegal immigrant children in school, and since 1996 it has costed taxpayers $13,784,719,088. There are an estimated 11.1 million illegal immigrants in America today. If illegal aliens were given amnesty and began to pay taxes the estimated annual net fiscal deficit would increase from $2,700 per household to nearly $7,700, for a total net cost of $29 billion. 3% of Illegal Aliens Do Low-Paid Stoop Agricultural Labor. Households headed by illegal aliens imposed more than $26.3 billion in costs on the federal government in 2002 and paid only $16 billion in taxes, creating a net fiscal deficit of almost $10.4 billion, or $2,700 per illegal household. Among the largest costs are Medicaid ($2.5 billion); treatment for the uninsured ($2.2 billion); food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches ($1.9 billion); the federal prison and court systems ($1.6 billion); and federal aid to schools ($1.4 billion).
Twelve Americans are murdered every day by illegal aliens, according to statistics released by Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa. If those numbers are correct, it translates to 4,380 Americans murdered annually by illegal aliens. That's 21,900 since Sept. 11, 2001. –world net daily.
In 1980, our federal and state prisons housed fewer than 9,000 criminal aliens. By the end of 1999, these same prisons housed over 68,000 criminal aliens. Today, criminal aliens account for over 29 percent of prisoners in Federal Bureau of Prisons facilities and a higher share of all federal prison inmates. These prisoners represent the fastest growing segment of the federal prison population.
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