Cost of comprehensive immigration reform.

[LilOlLady]

COST OF COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM.

What are the costs of comprehensive immigration reform: unemployment, smaller pay checks, illness and higher taxes!
The Cost of Comprehensive Immigration Reform–McCain and Obama Are Hopeless–It is the Economy Stupid! « Pronk Palisades

The evidence that illegal immigration and mass immigration are harming our country is overwhelming and irrefutable. Congestion, environment, crime, health care, education — the costs are too high for the American family to continue to bear.
7 Principles of True Comprehensive Immigration Reform | Federation for American Immigration Reform

Nevertheless, the “economic migrants” crashing U.S. borders are largely uneducated, unskilled workers, who continue to drain education, health care, and social welfare monies from federal, state, and local budgets.
In addition, for those foreign laborers willing to work and pay taxes, the United States needs to modernize a guest worker program. Instead, President Obama has announced plans that would enforce stiff visa quotas on skilled aliens while granting amnesty to unskilled aliens.
Obama?s Tangled Immigration Web


HIghly skilled immigrants would like vote republican because they are not looking for freebies from democrats.

 

[waltky]

Granny & Uncle Ferd would rather push dem Hispexicans over the fiscal cliff...

Fiscal woes threaten US immigration reform
Mon, Nov 26, 2012 - ATTENTION DEFICIT: Analysts say that the upcoming political battles over the ‘fiscal cliff’ will take the US Congress’ focus away from long-promised immigration reforms

US President Barack Obama’s re-election this month gave supporters of comprehensive immigration reform a dose of optimism. They hoped that Obama, bolstered by the 70 percent-plus support he received from Hispanic voters, might now feel ready to champion the cause he largely avoided during his first term. They thought that Republicans, after the thumping they got at the hands of Latinos in the Nov. 6 election, might soften their resistance to reform in order to stay competitive. However, as advocates mobilize for what is likely to be a two-year drive to get an immigration law enacted, their optimism may be tested by a dose of reality.

No matter how sympathetic Obama may be, he will be preoccupied with fiscal battles well into next year and less likely to engage in the kind of salesmanship analysts believe is key to sell broad immigration policy changes to the public. As a group, Republicans in US Congress, may not be eager to reverse long-held and deeply felt positions on immigration in an era when so many are vulnerable to primary election challenges from the right. Plus, they may be just as consumed by fiscal issues as the rest of Washington. Democratic Senator Mark Warner said the so-called “fiscal cliff” — the tax increases and spending cuts set to take effect in January — will suck up Washington’s energy early next year, even as his party wants to use the new US Congress to tackle big issues like immigration, climate change and job creation.

Immigration reform, which has failed repeatedly in Congress over the past decade, aims to accomplish several goals — none of them easy. For Democrats and their labor union supporters, the 11 million undocumented foreigners, many having spent years in the US, should be allowed to come out of the shadows and given a path to citizenship while working in the US legally. Many Republicans say that this approach would reward those who broke the law by jumping in front of those waiting to emigrate legally. The 11 million includes the children of illegal immigrants. Obama, impatient with Congress’ inaction and with an eye on re-election, last June moved on his own to allow some to avoid deportation for two years and obtain work permits.

For Republicans, stronger enforcement measures are necessary to keep more illegals from entering the US through states bordering Mexico, especially if an improving US economy begins creating more jobs. Democrats argue that tough controls are already in place. Both sides want to more efficiently verify legal workers in the US, while the business community wants better access to low-paid farm workers and well-paid high-tech workers on a temporary basis. “At a minimum, they’ll want to have a bill [introduced] by early spring, around April,” said Andrea Zuniga DiBitetto, who follows Congress for the AFL-CIO, the confederation of US labor unions.

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[rdean]

Romney's plan was to bring immigrants who already have degrees here and help them. For his base, well, Santorum said none of them were smart and I suspect Romney agreed.

 

[texasdon]

What immigration reform ( amnesty ) will do is completely negate the "rule of law" and our Constitution.Reagan ( a Republican) gave 3 million illegals amnesty in 1986 --and so doing Reagan is my most hated President of all time. It appears that now the Republicans will join with Democrats to onec again give amnesty to may as many as 30-40 million illegals.The Republican Party --it appears is the Party of amnesty.Once this amnesty is given--two things wiil happen:
1) Republicans will never win the Presidency--or control either the House or Senate again.
2) we will very fast become a poor 3rd world nation

*** right now --I am hoping the Mayans are right and the world ends 12-21-12 --before illegals get amnesty and Obama serves his 2nd term***