On Jul 12, 1:05*am, DemoRat Karma wrote:
http://www.newswithviews.com/NWV-News/news153.htm

While the news media feverishly covered the untimely death of
music icon Michael Jackson and the sex scandal involving a
Republican governor in South Carolina, President Barack Obama on
the same day revealed his plans to reform US immigration policy.
During the course of his televised announcement, Obama used the
term "undocumented workers" and avoided using the terms "illegal
aliens" and "illegal workers."

"While watching President Obama, I kept thinking how we've been
talking and talking and talking about this issue for years and
yet illegal aliens -- many of whom are violent criminals, gang
members and terrorists -- continue to pour across the border.
When will Americans rise up and demand action instead of words
and slogans?" asks New Jersey political strategist Mike Baker

"To be sure, Obama and several powerful lawmakers are on the
same page. For example, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi called
Immigration & Customs Enforcement operations "Un-American,"
while fellow Democrat Congressman Luis Guttierez called Border
Patrol and ICE agents "the Gestapo," said Baker.

Many critics noted that unfortunately for an America chock full
of potential crime victims, not once did the President mention
"undocumented criminals" or "criminal aliens" or even any
mention of crime committed by thousands and thousands of non-
citizen criminals who commit the murders, rapes, robberies and
other offenses that American citizens don't commit. [Read]

It's been widely reported that illegal aliens comprise upwards
of 27 percent of the US prison and jail population. Immigration
and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection -- two
agencies within the Department of Homeland Security -- claim in
several reports that they've apprehended over 100,000 criminal
aliens whose offenses go far beyond violation of immigration
laws and regulations.

Sadly, only about 25 percent of expenses for imprisoning
criminal aliens is reimbursed by the federal government to state
and local governments. This creates a hardship for taxpayers in
states with high incarceration rates for criminal aliens. In
some states, there's even talk of releasing criminal aliens
without notifying the federal authorities.

In Los Angeles, according to police reports, 95 percent of the
arrest warrants for homicides are for illegal aliens. Sixty-five
percent of overall warrants are for "undocumented criminals."

The proponents of open borders or lax immigration enforcement
always point to the benefits derived from illegal immigration
such as the amount of taxes they pay into the government system.
Evidence, however, exists that refutes those claims. For
instance, there is an abundance of anecdotal evidence that
suggests a large number of illegal aliens are paid "off-the-
books" therefore those wages are not taxed.

The National Research Council has estimated that the net fiscal
cost of immigration ranges from $11 billion to $22 billion per
year, with most government expenditures on immigrants coming
from state and local coffers, while most taxes paid by
immigrants who actually do pay taxes go to the federal treasury.
[Read]

The net deficit is caused by a low level of tax payments by
immigrants, because they are disproportionately low-skilled and
thus earn low wages, and a higher rate of consumption of
government services, both because of their relative poverty and
their higher fertility.

This is especially true of illegal immigration. Even though
illegal aliens make little use of welfare, from which they are
generally barred, the costs of illegal immigration in terms of
government expenditures for education, criminal justice, and
emergency medical care are significant. And those who managed to
steal the identities of American citizens do in fact apply for
welfare including food stamps.

Californian officials have estimated that the net cost to
taxpayers in order to provide government services to illegal
immigrants approached $3 billion during a single fiscal year.
And even that figure is suspected of being low-balled for
political purposes. The fact that states must bear the cost of
federal failure turns illegal immigration, in effect, into one
of the largest unfunded federal mandates existing today.

In addition, according to the Center for Immigration Studies,
even with free trade, the United States continues to enjoy a
higher real wage than other nations, due to the superiority of
US technology. If taken to an extreme and the US removed all
barriers to migration, most foreign workers would move to the
United States, lured by the higher wages available here; Foreign
labor would essentially cease to exist.

However, with all labor now in the United States, the prices of
goods would return to their level of self-sufficiency, prior to
the opening of trade. That is, perfectly free migration entirely
eliminates the gains from trade that US natives had enjoyed.
World income rose with the migration, but the natives of foreign
countries in this case received more than all of this rise,
since the income of US natives declined. With the world's
majority of low-wage workers in the US, there would be
tremendous damage to free trade and its benefits, with US middle
and upper-middle class workers suffering the brunt of declining
wages.

The urge for a utopian state of existence and a desire to make
all things equal by the American Left has given way to a desire
simply to make all things equal sans utopia. In their passion
for a neo-Marxist level for the masses, they've decided
consciously or subconsciously that if they could not bring the
World's population up to the American level of prosperity and
wealth, then they will bring US citizens down to the World's
level of poverty and misery. For this is a result of seeing free
trade as a zero-sum entity, and self-alienation of the American
Left from their own country, the USA.

"The problem isn't about the need for new laws; the problem is
about the lack of enforcement of existing laws. The US
Constitution provides the executive branch with a number of
inherent powers such as the enforcement of immigration laws,"
said former NYPD Detective Ben Cardozo.

"The Constitution also mandates that the President protect
American sovereignty and the American people. That is the number
one priority for our government -- of it should be. And congress
is mandated to provide domestic tranquility for Americans.
Criminal alien gangbangers do not add to our domestic
tranquility," said the decorated police officer.

"Why is it suddenly necessary for congress to pass laws on
illegal immigration when we haven't been enforcing the laws that
already exist. The executive branch has the power to add border
agents, equipment and other resources. The President has the
power to use the military if necessary to enhance border
protection. Passing laws is an easy, painless process. The trick
is to enforce those laws," adds Mike Baker.

The University of Texas at El Paso recently conducted a study
that found the following: Treating illegal immigrants in
hospitals accounts for nearly one quarter of the uncompensated
costs at border county hospitals in Cochise County. That county
in Arizona spends tens of thousands of dollars just picking up
trash left at campsites by these illegals. Prosecuting and
jailing illegals costs this county an additional $5 million a
year. And 25 percent of Cochise County's budget is paid for
health care for the uninsured, the majority of whom are
illegally in the country.

In another study of a sample group of 55,000 criminal aliens, it
was discovered they accounted for over 400,000 arrests and more
than 700,000 criminal acts including felonies. Americans are
being hoodwinked by politicians who are squandering the legacy
of future American citizens in the name of charity. And the
blood of citizens killed, brutalized and raped by de facto
invaders is on the hands of our elected leaders. [Read]

Let your folks in Congress know how you feel about the "Immigration
reform" disaster shortly to be considered by the Senate.

contact Congress: http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/

Martin

Martin