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May 15, 2006

Heritage Foundation: Senate "Compromise" Means 100 Million+ Guest Workers in 20 Years

"If enacted, the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act (CIRA, S.2611) would be the most dramatic change in immigration law in 80 years, allowing an estimated 103 million persons to legally immigrate to the U.S. over the next 20 years—fully one-third of the current population of the United States," writes Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation.

"Much attention has been given to the fact that the bill grants amnesty to some 10 million illegal immigrants. Little or no attention has been given to the fact that the bill would quintuple the rate of legal immigration into the United States, raising, over time, the inflow of legal immigrants from around one million per year to over five million per year. The impact of this increase in legal immigration dwarfs the magnitude of the amnesty provisions."

"The figure of 103 million legal immigrants is a reasonable estimate of the actual immigration inflow under the bill and not the maximum number that would be legally permitted to enter. The maximum number that could legally enter would be almost 200 million over twenty years—over 180 million more legal immigrants than current law permits."

Sen. Sessions (R-AL) has produced another estimate similar to the one by the Heritage Foundation. His total? 217 million more people over 20 years. "The staff of GOP Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) has completed and released the results of an in-depth impact analysis that shows that if the Senate's Republican immigration bill S. 26 11 should it become law, up to 217.1 million new legal immigrants will be cleared to immigrate into the United States over the next 20 years, a number equal to 66 percent of the total current population of the United States."

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THE PRESIDENT PROPOSES AN INTERIOR ENFORCEMENT SYSTEM WITH NO TEETH AND SPECIFICS AND WORSE YET: A MANDATORY YAHOO BACKGROUND SEARCH FOR $20 IS A BETTER PLAN THAN OUR GOVERNMENT PROPOSES

From the Whitehouse Immigration website:

..."Strengthening Enforcement Of Immigration Laws In America's Interior

The President Is Providing Resources To Strengthen Enforcement Of Immigration Laws. Since President Bush took office, funding for immigration enforcement has increased by 42 percent. These resources have helped agents bring to justice smugglers, terrorists, gang members, and human traffickers. For example, through Operation Community Shield, Federal agents have arrested nearly 2,300 gang members who were in America illegally, including violent criminals like the members of the "MS-13" gang.

Better Interior Enforcement Requires Better Worksite Enforcement. Last year, President Bush signed legislation to more than double the resources dedicated to worksite enforcement. We are working to hold businesses accountable and crack down on document forgery. Next month, the Administration will launch new law enforcement task forces in 11 cities to dismantle document fraud rings...."

Posted by: Softwarengineer on May 15, 2006 04:48 PM

I hope everyone will read this full report. This is a totally crazy plan to ruin our country. The numbers of people coming in here would be disasterous. Why is this administration doing this? It's like that is what they want to do ,destroy this country. We will be like China or India in terms of being packed in like sardines. More crowded roads, more urban sprawl, more pollution, etc., this will effect every aspect of our society.

Posted by: DG on May 15, 2006 05:30 PM

Have any of these Senators had to explain to the American taxpaying public, why this gargantuan increase in immigration is necessary?? There is an evil agenda at work here.

Posted by: Bobby on May 15, 2006 06:15 PM

These idiots in government are just hell-bent on catering to foreigners, under the misconception that we need them to complete globally. At least, that's what I'm told when I ask my senators why we need so many immigrants.
I don't buy it. I think it's more someone is making out on the deal and those in power don't care, because they won't technically have to live with the consequences of the decisions made today.
I am so sick of it all and of what it will inevitably do to the culture of this once great country.

Posted by: Born American on May 15, 2006 06:22 PM

This study is so biased and plain misleading.

Maybe you ought to read "The Honest Truth About Lying With Statistics"

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0398056730/sr=8-1/qid=1147736468/ref=sr_1_1/103-8995625-4664624?%5Fencoding=UTF8

Posted by: Human Being on May 15, 2006 07:46 PM

My Gosh ! WE need to IMPEACH the whole friggin' Senate ! Who are they representing ? Certainly not their constituents !
HOUSE: STAND FIRM !

Posted by: Prayin'ForTheHouse on May 16, 2006 02:36 AM

"This study is so biased and plain misleading".

Human Being, I accept that there is a bias. Any study can be called biased. So what. What 'misleading' do you contend is going on? That increasing the influx of foreigners will increase our population? Who is being mislead? Americans like me who have lived in the same area most of my life and watched the foreign population EXPLODE in the last 10 years?

Posted by: Bill Dexter on May 16, 2006 07:47 AM

Just like the Washington Post article from 2003, the president has followed this plan to accomadate his friend V.Fox for years. His dog and pony show to enforce our borders was preceeded by a phone call to V. Fox to assure him of something. This is bullshit. Fox should be in jail along with Bush for collusion against America. 1 in 20 workers in the U.S. is an illegal. I don't care if he thinks it is wise to deport them or not, we have to deport them. Our government LET them buy houses and get roots here, don't tell me now that it's not nice to make them leave. I, along with the rest of America do not want to live in an over-populated U.S., ration water, ration gasoline, pay higher taxes for healthcare, and insurance, and everything else to accomadate V.Fox. V. Fox is NOT our friend, he wants ME to pay for Mexico's rise to a balanced, successfull country. I will host a televison show: Primetime Crime, showing illegals raping, murdering, robbing, from Americans. There will be a tax revolt. All Congressmen capable of being charged with something, will be charged. Until the ones in Washington understand the pure RAGE we have against Mexico and their Illegal Aliens, we will have no compromise. I've waited for years for the housing boom to end so these toothlesss, T.B. ridden, alcoholic, nail benders would go back to Mexico. Now, Bush wants to change the law so they can stay and get factory jobs. This FOOL wants to give them more than they ever asked for. What has this FOOL got against America? I heard just last week in Tyler Texas they took down the America flag, put up the Mexican flag, and then hung the U.S. flag under it upside down.

Posted by: Patriot-L on May 16, 2006 10:23 AM

Just like the Washington Post article from 2003, the president has followed this plan to accomadate his friend V.Fox for years. His dog and pony show to enforce our borders was preceeded by a phone call to V. Fox to assure him of something. This is bullshit. Fox should be in jail along with Bush for collusion against America. 1 in 20 workers in the U.S. is an illegal. I don't care if he thinks it is wise to deport them or not, we have to deport them. Our government LET them buy houses and get roots here, don't tell me now that it's not nice to make them leave. I, along with the rest of America do not want to live in an over-populated U.S., ration water, ration gasoline, pay higher taxes for healthcare, and insurance, and everything else to accomadate V.Fox. V. Fox is NOT our friend, he wants ME to pay for Mexico's rise to a balanced, successfull country. I will host a televison show: Primetime Crime, showing illegals raping, murdering, robbing, from Americans. There will be a tax revolt. All Congressmen capable of being charged with something, will be charged. Until the ones in Washington understand the pure RAGE we have against Mexico and their Illegal Aliens, we will have no compromise. I've waited for years for the housing boom to end so these toothlesss, T.B. ridden, alcoholic, nail benders would go back to Mexico. Now, Bush wants to change the law so they can stay and get factory jobs. This FOOL wants to give them more than they ever asked for. What has this FOOL got against America? I heard just last week in Tyler Texas they took down the America flag, put up the Mexican flag, and then hung the U.S. flag under it upside down.

Posted by: Patriot-L on May 16, 2006 10:27 AM

I agree with Patriot-L. I am sick to death with "our" President and the spineless Senate bending over backwards to accomodate illegals. They are royally screwing us Americans. Bush and his cronies should be thrown in jail with the illegals.

Posted by: Ari K. on May 16, 2006 11:05 AM

If this senate analysis was so in depth, it should be obvious what a detriment this bill will be on the United States in the future. I don't know why anyone would want to project that far ahead. They should be doing a 5-year projection at the most and then re-evaluate (my amateur analysis, if I'm reading this right).
We have to get these idiots out of office. They can't possibly be that dumb. They are hell-bent on doing away with America as we know it.

Posted by: Born American on May 16, 2006 05:57 PM

When this kind of study is mentioned in your local paper, it becomes a golden opportunity to submit a good letter to the editor.

Just for example, in my state of CO there was a recent frontpage news article about a huge aquifer that is drying up. The situation is so dire that the state has ordered farmers to stop using the aquifer for irrigation but these farmers have already invested millions of dollars in seed and fertilizer and untold hours in manpower to plant their crops.

There ARE CONSEQUENCES to population growth at such a dizzying pace. Lakes, streams, rivers, big reservoirs become polluted or unable to maintain their normal flows/volumes.

I read that the Ogallala Aquifer, a gigantic underground pool of stored water, is being quickly depleted. Once that water is gone it will be a disaster for farmers in a number of states.

The energy crises of the future (perhaps near future) are another reason to keep our population in check. Didn't Bush say we are addicted to oil? How does it help the world's supply of fossil fuels to bring immigrants in from countries using very little ff to the U.S. where per capita usage is greater than any other country?

300 million humans in the United States is already double the ideal number of people ecologists have estimated should be living here in terms of long-term carrying capacity.

Infinite growth in a finite world is not possible.

Posted by: Cynthia on May 16, 2006 10:14 PM

Cynthia,

"Infinite growth in a finite world is not possible."

And what do you think stimulates growth beyond the normal balance in nature?

Answer: debt.

How is excess debt created?

Answer: paper money with no real value to back it


Thus what causes excess immigration?

Answer: see previous answers above.


[edited by FAIR]

A Brief History of Money will explain this:

http://www.silverstockreport.com/historyofmoney.htm

Posted by: Shelby Moore on May 16, 2006 11:55 PM

It's obvious to me that both Republicans and Democrats want to drive whites out of "America." It's equally clear that Mexicans and Latin Americans control this country and its immigration policy. They've decided that we must go back to Europe or be slaughtered. The politicians should just say "We hate you whitey and want you gone."

The practical solution is to trade populations with Europe. We could go back to Europe, and our politicians can get their beloved Muslim and African immigrants. There are endless cars for them to burn and many streets for them to riot in. The white liberals can work around the clock to provide the immigrants with their welfare benefits and I'm sure the delightful and braniac immigrants will be appreciative of their efforts (ha ha ha).

Posted by: Terri on May 17, 2006 02:09 AM

People better get the Traitors out or lose they're country. It's TIME!

Posted by: Critter on May 17, 2006 11:52 AM