Nothing has
contributed more to the lowering of wages and eradication of benefits for so
many blue collar workers, than our maddening immigration policy. Illegal
immigrants, in particular, have impacted the lower paid jobs to such an extent
now that the mantra “they’e just doing jobs Americans won’t” is accepted by
everyone.
Just recently, the newly minted richest man in the world, Amazon
founder Jeff Bezos, announced that he was giving $33 million of his substantial
billions to the “dreamers,” whose parents entered this country illegally, so
that they could attend college. He didn’t offer $33 for any American-born
“dreamer.”
This is the height of insanity; giving money to people who are
here illegally. Yes,
the word is unkind, but what is the point of having an immigration policy, or
anyone bothering to abide by it, if one can not only avoid deportation, but
actually be rewarded? California Governor Jerry Brown’s act enabling driver
licenses to be used as voter IDs in elections all but granted illegals the
right to vote, since they have long been permitted to get driver licenses.
One of the most prestigious universities in the world, the
University of Chicago, awarded an illegal immigrant $300,000 in scholarships.
It is unclear what this lucky non-citizen will do with the extra $14,000 or so,
as a full ride to the expensive school is some $286,000. Maybe it’s some kind
of new illegal “bonus.”
Both Republicans and Democrats fight fiercely for illegal
immigrants. Some Republican Tennessee lawmaker drafted a bill that would
have allowed about 8,000 qualifying illegal immigrants to pay in-state college
tuition, though it failed to pass. “I did it because it’s the fair
and just thing to do, and I believe these kids will have a huge beneficial
impact on Tennessee’s economy,” stated Rep. Todd Gardenhire. “They’re great
students, perfect citizens, and pay the same sales taxes the rest of us do.”
Note here the over-the-top generalization. So all illegals are “great
students?” And how can they be “perfect citizens,” when they…..aren’t citizens?
Proving that this is just as bipartisan an issue as our all
war/no peace foreign policy is, Democrats in several states have tried to get
the same sort of legislation passed, with the general goal of making financial
aid easier for illegal immigrants. In some cases, this includes set-aside funds
for illegals who “qualify” under DACA.
Former Arizona Governor and Obama Secretary of Homeland Security
Janet Napolitano slid easily into the position of President of the University
of California system. As such, she has decreed that $25.2 million be allotted
for a loan program catering exclusively to illegal immigrants. “This funding
will further strengthen the university’s undocumented student initiative, and
help ensure that these students receive the support and resources they need to
succeed.” Napolitano declared.
“Undocumented student initiative?” This is where the madness
really kicks in. Our leaders know people
who are in an illegal status, or if we must be politically correct,
undocumented. So why aren’t they being documented? What exactly are the
immigration authorities doing here? But then again, what has our border patrol
been doing for more than thirty years, as wave after wave of immigrants have
poured illegally across our southern border?
In New Jersey, in-state tuition is already offered to illegal
immigrants. Considering how in-your-face all this catering to illegal
immigrants is, it’s ironic and laughable that millions of state taxpayer
dollars allotted to illegals under the California Dream Act remain unclaimed,
due to fears that disclosing parental tax information will somehow lead to
deportation. As Don King used to say, “Only in America!” Critics of the measure
concentrated on the fact that many students didn’t meet the grade point
requirements (a messy detail that evidently only applies to citizens), rather
than the fact taxpayer money was openly being doled out to illegal immigrants.
The Ford Foundation is just one of many huge organizations that
award Pre-Doctoral Fellowships to undocumented status students. A naive sort
like myself would suppose that a rational country would address the immigration
status of students when they first enter an American school system. However,
all this was ingrained into law during “conservative” hero Ronald Reagan’s
tenure in office. A 1982 Supreme Court decision mandated that states provide
K-12 public education for students without legal immigrant status.
As far back as 1982, the U.S. Department of Labor sent a memo
out to all state employment security agencies regarding the payment of
unemployment benefits to “illegal aliens,”as they were even more indelicately
referred to then. Citing a study by the Immigration and Naturalization Service,
the memo stated, “The preliminary findings indicate potentially
widespread abuse of the unemployment insurance program by illegal
aliens.” It is impossible to imagine the extent of the “abuse” that must
exist in this area by now.
Ronald Reagan, of course, permitted the disastrous 1986
Immigration “Reform” Act to be passed under his watch. As I’ve noted many times
before, that odious piece of legislation opened the barn door forever,
permitting blanket amnesty and creating what became known as “chain migration,”
which has recently been identified by the mainstream media as roughly the
trillionth example of the systemic “racism” which plagues this country.
The pleas of Snopes and other defenders of the Official Faith
notwithstanding, illegal immigrants qualify for a good deal of government
assistance. Pregnant women, for example, have long been granted free
healthcare, leading to the birth of untold number of “anchor babies,” which is
again yet another of the endless “racist” terms our hopeless society is saddled
with.
A 2014 study by the Social Security Administration, which was
hardly hostile toward immigrants, came up with a few illuminating conclusions
nonetheless. The study found, “the redistributive nature of Social Security may
mean that many immigrants realize a higher rate of return on payroll tax
contributions than US natives… immigrants who receive benefits are
likely to receive higher replacement rates….immigrants who arrive in the United
States at older ages may have higher employment rates than same-age, native-born workers…”
Illegal immigrants are often hired on the spot, from one of
those convenient cattle-style lines that Americans can now see in virtually all
areas of the country, outside of hardware stores and the like. Needless to say,
these kinds of workers pay no taxes, including the payroll deductions that fund
Social Security. It is impossible to calculate how much potential tax revenue
is lost every year from this kind of informal labor contract, which may only be
for a week or even a day.
A 2013 study by the Heritage Foundation determined that illegal
immigrants impose a fiscal burden of approximately $54.5 billion annually. The
mainstream media never reports it, but illegal immigrants commit a vastly
disproportionate amount of violent crimes. Over 42% of federal kidnappings
involve non-citizens. The U.S. Sentencing Commission found that 75% of all
convicted federal drug offenders were illegal immigrants. Illegal immigrants
comprised 17% of all drug trafficking sentences and one third of all federal
prison sentences. Again, to a novice, it would seem absurd to waste the legal
system’s resources on those who are not in the country legally. And to spend
money to house them in our prison system is absolutely unfathomable.
The U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Sentencing
Commission reported that as of 2014, illegal immigrants were responsible for
over 13% of all crimes committed in the U.S. The General Accounting Office
found that illegal immigrants committed 25,064 murders from
2003-2009. Very conservative estimates indicate that at least 3.5% of the
American population entered the country illegally. But they commit a wildly
disproportionate 22 to 37% percent of all murders.
Between June 2011 and March 2017, over 217,000 illegal
immigrants were arrested and booked into Texas jails alone; they had
jointly committed over nearly 600,000 criminal offenses. California faces the
biggest problems with illegal immigrants, but Governor Jerry Brown is hardly
anxious to address them logically. In 2014, Brown signed a bill that amended a
state statute amending the maximum sentencing for misdemeanor crimes by one day
from 365 to 364 days in jail, which conveniently circumvented current federal
laws that provide for the deportation of illegal and legal immigrants in this
country who have received sentences of 365 days or more.
According to the U.S. Departments of Justice and Homeland
Security, U.S. taxpayers are footing an annual bill of nearly $19 million per day to
house and care for an estimated 300,000 to 450,000 convicted criminal
immigrants who are eligible for deportation and are currently residing in local
jails and state and federal prisons across the country. Remember, all the
“racist” cries against Donald Trump originated when he simply protested the
fact that illegal immigrants who have committed crimes are not being deported
and instead resuming their criminal activities in this country.
The February 7, 2017 edition of The Miami Herald reported that “At least 121
killings within a four-year span were carried out by convicted immigrants who
were not deported, according to a 2015 U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee
document….Every year, federal immigration authorities release foreign nationals
convicted of crimes — including murder — both because the U.S. Supreme Court
has prohibited indefinite detention or because their countries refuse to take
them back even after immigration judges have ordered deportation.”
The immigration boom of the early twentieth century, combined
with large average American families, guaranteed a plentiful population. It
made sense, therefore, for our leaders to issue a veritable moratorium of all
immigration from the 1920s through the 1960s. The new immigration boom, which
really went into overdrive in the 1980s with the vast importation of millions
who illegally crossed the southern border, coincided with a cultural campaign
urging young couples to start smaller families or forego children altogether.
Anyone living in America today obviously knows that we have
enough people. In fact, we have far too many people residing here, which drains
the available resources for all. Merely enforcing our immigration laws would
free up these resources dramatically, not to mention open up untold numbers of
job openings, free up college placement for citizen students, and cut the
average size of classrooms all over America.
Trump’s ludicrous idea of a “wall” means nothing if it serves
simply to wall everyone already here in. Deportations which should have
happened years ago, actual border security, and denial of all government
services to undocumented residents would make such an ugly symbol unnecessary.
But given the prevalence of “sanctuary cities” and the like, it’s clear that a
substantial portion of Americans care more about the rights of these “dreamers”
than they do about all of our civil liberties being trampled upon.
I don’t hate immigrants. It isn’t their fault. It’s
understandable that they’d want to flee their often desperate circumstances and
try to improve their lives. And it’s an irrefutable fact that most of them do,
in fact, see their lives improved in America. But just as we can’t compete with
Third World wages and benefits, we can’t compete with Third World standards of
living or expectations.
The establishment Left is aghast at any efforts to control
illegal immigration because most of these immigrants are nonwhite. I don’t
think there is any doubt that, if most of the illegals happened to be
desperately poor whites trickling across our northern border from Canada, that
they’d be a bit more concerned about their negative impact on blue-collar
workers, even if they had no propensity to commit crime and spoke English
fluently.
The establishment Right objects to any curtailment of illegal
immigration because they want cheap labor. And no labor comes any cheaper than
the kind they can get from these exploited people.
A sovereign country should put its own interests, and its own
people, first. Otherwise, it really isn’t a sovereign country. America First
isn’t about Nazis. It’s about taking care of your own first. Charity begins at
home.
