Under the immigration reform bill, some employers would have an incentive of up to $3,000 per year to hire a newly legalized immigrant [illegal alien] over a U.S. citizen....
The key political problem amnesty advocates face is a trust gap. The public, rightly, doesn't believe promises from the political class that they're newly committed to enforcing immigration laws after decades of non-enforcement.
During President Eisenhower’s first term, 60 years ago, the United States faced an invasion across its southern border.
Illegal aliens had been coming since World War II. But, suddenly, the number was over 1 million. Crime was rising in Texas. The illegals were taking the jobs of U.S. farm workers.
Here we go again. The masterminds in Congress come up with a hopelessly complex piece of legislative mishmash, pass it quickly with hardly any scrutiny, defy the public’s skepticism, and wait for it to fail before they finally get their way.
Although Customs and Border Protection officials have halted a proposed series of unpaid furloughs for Border Patrol agents, the union representing agents in the Yuma Sector is concerned such cuts will still be made in the future.
America needs more low-skilled immigrants like Chicago needs more gun laws. But you wouldn’t know that listening to the debate on “comprehensive immigration reform.”
The next amnesty bill ought to be titled, “The American Worker Impoverishment Act of 2013.”
