FAST TRACK TO CITIZENSHIP Means fast tract to voting and fast track to welfare, food

[LilOlLady]

FAST TRACK TO CITIZENSHIP

Means fast tract to voting and fast track to welfare, food stamps, Medicaid, subsidized housing and all the other benefit that supplements low income earners.
How do Obama plan to pay for Comp. Immig. Reform Amnesty? On the backs of tax payers, seniors, children, disabled and veterans via sequestration cuts?

 

[waltky]

Obama tryin' to make it easier for illegals to cross border, skirt immigration law...

Obama’s budget a blow to immigrant enforcers; funding cut for detentions, states
Thursday, April 11, 2013 - President Obama’s budget would rewrite the federal government’s interior immigration enforcement priorities, cutting funding for states that try to help enforce immigration laws and scaling back the number of immigrants the federal government will detain while they await deportation.

He sent the proposal to Capitol Hill on Wednesday, at a time when congressional lawmakers are trying to write a broad immigration bill to bolster border security and interior enforcement, and to screen millions of illegal immigrants who could gain legal status under the legislation. All of that will cost money, but Mr. Obama’s budget cuts overall funding for the Homeland Security Department. It particularly trims interior enforcement initiatives, such as the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program, which has widespread support among members of Congress.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano defended her budget to Congress on Thursday. She told a House spending panel that she is doing the best she can within a tight budget framework but can’t guarantee that her agency can enforce all the laws it has been delegated to carry out. “While I’d like to give you that assurance and will do everything we can in that regard, I can’t give you a 100 percent guarantee,” she said. Ms. Napolitano’s budget boosts spending by $1.1 billion for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which includes the Border Patrol and officers who watch the ports of entry. But it reduces by nearly $650 million, or 11 percent, funds for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which handles interior investigations and deportations.

Among those cuts, Mr. Obama calls for eliminating support for state and local governments whose police try to assist the federal government with immigration enforcement under what is called the 287(g) program. The president said he wants to reduce the number of illegal immigrants ICE keeps in detention from 34,000 to 31,800. Congress fought hard during the past decade to boost the number of detentions, arguing that those who were allowed back into the general population rarely returned to be deported. The move to reduce detention was made as ICE tries to recover from its announcement earlier this year that it released thousands of immigrants it had been detaining in order to comply with the budget sequesters. The agency had to re-arrest a handful of those it released, saying they were too dangerous to have been let out. Rep. John R. Carter, Texas Republican and chairman of the spending panel, said Thursday that he was “going to be very cautious” about accepting the proposal to cut detention beds.

But Ms. Napolitano said they believe they can keep all high-priority individuals detained with the lower number of beds, while making use of alternatives to track the other people in deportation proceedings. “The 31,800 that we request, we believe, will house all mandatory detainees,” she said. In other action, Mr. Obama called for cutting the 287(g) program that many states and localities have used to help crack down on illegal immigration within their borders. The program trains state and local officers so they can begin to process illegal immigrants they arrest, with the intent of turning them over to the federal government. Mr. Obama has resisted those state efforts, arguing that only the federal government should determine who should be deported.

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[waltky]

“We can barely afford to do that for U.S.-born citizens and for legal immigrants,”...

Giving Illegals Access to Welfare as Part of Immigration Reform ‘An Assault on the U.S. Taxpayer,’ Researcher Says
May 29, 2013 – The Senate immigration legislation that includes access to federal entitlement programs for illegal aliens after a waiting period is a “travesty” and “an assault on the U.S. taxpayer,” Robert Rector, senior research fellow on domestic policy at the Heritage Foundation, said an event on Wednesday at the Bipartisan Policy Center.

CNSNews.com asked Rector and other panelists at the discussion about past U.S. immigration policy when immigrants coming into the country were required to show that they could earn a livelihood and would not become a ward of the state. Rector said in the current welfare state, no one is considered a “public charge” but rather a person in need of government assistance. “The difference is at the time of Ellis Island we didn’t have a $2 trillion redistributive state,” Rector said, adding that the government spends almost a trillion dollars a year helping poor people with 80 different federal assistance programs.

Giving 11 million illegal aliens access to government entitlements is wrong, Rector said. “We can barely afford to do that for U.S.-born citizens and for legal immigrants,” he said. “But to try to apply this massive system of redistribution to people whose only claim to U.S. taxpayer resources is that they came here and broke the law, I think that’s a travesty, and I think it’s an assault on the U.S. taxpayer that’s unmerited.”

But Robert Lynch, visiting senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and professor of economics at Washington College, said giving 11 million illegal aliens “legal status” and a “pathway to citizenship” would help the U.S. economy. “What is indisputable is that undocumented immigrants right now are earning far less, paying much less in taxes, and contributing much less to the economy than they potentially could,” Lynch said in his opening statement. “What we know is if we granted them legal status and a pathway to citizenship, we would see a tremendous increase in GDP, productivity, earnings and taxes paid.”

Steve Camarota, director of research at the Center for Immigration Studies, who was also on the panel, argued that the legislation as written would be extremely costly to U.S. taxpayers. Panelist Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum and former official in the George W. Bush administration and advisor to Republican presidential candidate John McCain, said the immigration reform bill would help illegal aliens and improve the economy.

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[Stephanie]

yep, both of these parties took a OATH to protect and DEFEND our constitution..
you have to love how they are now DEFENDING ILLEGAL immigrants over you legal citizen..

oh well, they need the bodies to take money from so they can run that BLOATED government they belong in, the hell with what you people have to say about it.

 

[Socio]

yep, both of these parties took a OATH to protect and DEFEND our constitution..
you have to love how they are now DEFENDING ILLEGAL immigrants over you legal citizen..

oh well, they need the bodies to take money from so they can run that BLOATED government they belong in, the hell with what you people have to say about it.

Actually there will be no money to take from them, they would generate a lifetime fiscal deficit (total benefits minus total taxes) of $6.3 trillion. which by the way is is based on a 11-million number and there are estimates as high as 60 million floating around.

It is about votes, it is about destroying the middle class, it is about destroying a civilization to bring about a subservient socialist society.

There simply is no other reason for it, as there are no legitimate defensible reasons for allowing continued mass immigration, excuses yes, legitimate defensible reasons, not a one.