Republican bill seeks to ban immigration ‘sanctuary cities’

Did they budget to cover the cost for enforcement? Or are they putting it on our credit card?

The Heritage Foundation, Robert Rector analyst and futurist calculates that for every $1 unskilled workers pay in taxes they receive about $3 to $4 in government benefits, including Medicaid, food stamps, low income housing and other welfare programs. Even the Federal government (GAO) agency has accepted this as a fact. Using data from 2004, (It’s my suggestion that the US Government is not releasing to many statistics, either Liberal-Democrats or Republicans after this decade on this matter?) The report shows the average household headed by a low-skilled worker paid $9,689 in taxes but received $32,138 in benefits a year. The more than $22,000 difference is the “tax burden” which rises to $1.1 million over the worker’s lifetime. How much is being drained from any State or Municipal county and cities funds is anybody’s guess? Because of this, the poor illegal immigrants who enter the United States raise the national poverty rate.

According to FAIR, illegal aliens cost American taxpayers $113 billion annually. Broken down, the direct cost to the US government is about $29 billion, while the states pick up the remaining share of about $84 billion dollars. Illegal’s cost each household in America, meaning the households of citizens-Legal residents who pay taxes, $1,117. The largest expense for illegal’s is educating their American-born children, some $52 billion. Not surprisingly, the states with the highest number of illegal’s also pay the most– to feed, educate, house, medicate, and imprison them; the Sanctuary State of California. This States price tag for its 2.55 million illegal’s (Rough projection), FAIR reports, is $21.8 billion annually. As FAIR concludes, the cost of illegal’s accounts for all of the budget deficits for California and New York are now facing massive financial red ink in 2011.

Those interested in this sickening phenomenon should read this, if the Liberal media allows it? “The Fiscal Impact of Immigration”, by Edwin S. Rubenstein, president of ESR Research, economic consultants, financial analyst. http://tinyurl.com/4tnkjy Investigate further costs and consequences of this issue at http://tinyurl.com/dbcylb at Social Contract Press. We must build the double layer border fence. Eject every anti-sovereignty politician. Revise the instant citizenship amendment law in the 14th Amendment, originally meant for slave emancipation and above all else stop the catering of tax dollars being siphoned to –ALL–foreign nationals, no matter their country of origin. Call your Congress at 202-224-3121 and demand they build the—REAL—FENCE under the 2006 Secure Fence Act. Not just to stop the illegal alien invasion, the criminals and drug traffickers, but the incursion of murderous terrorists with many already here and set up cells. These nutcases fundamentalists are not coming here for a picnic lunch.

It’s simple, really. Although the federal government is responsible for enforcing immigration law, cities and municipalities who pass laws that circumvent immigration law are in violation of federal law and those politicians responsible should go to prison. Not jail, prison, for aiding and abetting a fugitive.

“Liberal-Democrats” “Liberal media allows it …” Such tiresome screechings from those who do not get their way each and every single time!

While illegal immigration is a serious issue, I personally cannot lend credibility to whatever the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank, says given its radical agenda.

To put things in perspective, suppose we did eject each and every single illegal immigrant including his American-born children. We will still have plenty of poor and working poor people that receive government help that exceeds whatever taxes they may have paid in.

Additionally, due to the poor economy of the past two years or so along with tougher stances on immigration, those illegal immigrants have been returning to Mexico in record numbers. Mexico is now experiencing the same set of problems dealing with these people as we have been. Add to this the fact that NAFTA and our commodity-oriented federal farm / food policies have flooded Mexico with our corn putting millions of farmers out of work unable to compete with that cheap corn thus a significant factor in the beginnings of the illegal immigrant crisis here.

Finally, the Heritage Foundation’s funding is rather questionable with significant foreign sources.

I also do not see anything about severely punishing employers including hiring managers and human resources professionals who knowingly hire illegal immigrants including fines, prison time and downright confiscation of business property.

Yep, you’re going to have to come up with something other than Heritage Foundation “facts”. I’m in agreement with Lane that illegal immigration is a serious issue and one that has not been addressed to the extent it needs to be, but once again – Heritage Foundation? Sorry – don’t buy it.

Interesting perspective below:

“Commenting on Heritage’s methods, Slate.com’s Jacob Weisberg wrote in 1998: “Because of its combat mentality, Heritage has never been a place with very high standards. Like other conservative outfits, it loves the lingo of academic life. Its hallways are cluttered with endowed chairs, visiting fellows, and distinguished scholars. The conceit here is that as a PC Dark Age has overcome the universities, conservative think tanks have become the refuge of thought and learning. At Heritage in particular, this is a laugh. … [It] is essentially a propaganda mill. … Heritage is focused on selling and promoting its views rather than on developing thoughtful or nuanced ones. It spends nearly half its $29 million annual budget on marketing. It prides itself on producing reports with concision and speed. According to [author Lee Edwards], one recent innovation is the colored index card summarizing a conservative position in ‘short, punchy sentences.’ According to Heritage’s ‘vice president for information marketing,’ these cards have been ‘wildly successful’ with Republicans in Congress.”

Re: Rector’s “analysis”
“As a general rule, the federal government reaps a net benefit from illegal immigrants in the form of Social Security payments that the workers are never able to collect because they are not citizens; it is the states, in terms of social services, education and medical services, that pay the bulk of costs associated with supporting the undocumented population. Even so, Rector and MacDonald’s claims are disputed by numerous scholars, including even MacDonald’s senior colleague at the Manhattan Institute, Tamar Jacoby. Jacoby, who studies immigration extensively, told the conservative National Review that while individuals might receive more in services than they paid in taxes, “they are growing the [overall economic] pie so significantly that that cost pales in comparison.” Jacoby cited a recent study of immigrants in North Carolina that reported that over the prior 10 years, Latino immigrants had cost the state $61 million in a variety of benefits — but were responsible for more than $9 billion in state economic growth. The same point was made in a 1997 National Academy of Sciences study that found “the less-educated immigrants who impose a fiscal burden are the very same immigrants who provide the economic benefit reported.” A major survey of the net effects of immigration, published in 2006 in The New York Times Magazine, cited only one economist, George Borjas of Harvard, claiming a negative net effect. Many other economists disputed Borjas. “If Mexicans were taller and whiter,” University of California, Berkeley, professor David Card told the magazine, “it would probably be a lot easier” for the public to accept the majority view of economists that the net effects of immigration, which is now predominantly Latino, are positive.”

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2007/summer/paranoid-style-redux/getting-immigrat

Figures. Republicans are all about FEAR.

Hey, we’re not the ones referred to as being the “mommy party” and embracing the “nanny state.” You collectivists huddle together in your unions and co-ops because you fear your own freedom.

What is there to mull over? Any and every elected/appointed official who does not actively and aggressively enforce established immigration law is violating their oath of office and the rule of law. They are blatantly aiding and abetting illegal aliens when any or all do not detain and remove them from society.

It is not the illegal alien nor the corrupt employers who hire them who are at the root of the problem. Rather, it is the elected/appointed officials who allow the corrupt employers to hire the illegals who reside here, with impunity, and both groups that also profit from their presence…..at our expense.

It’s funny how local control and popular decision making vanishes when there are wedge issues to raise, isn’t it?

Kathleen, immigration is a federal law and it is up to the feds to enforce it. Local cops do not enforce federal laws any more than an FBI agent will pull you over for speeding on the highway.

Here is an Idea!! Let’s UNIONIZE our workforce.. Enforce ‘Card Check” and this whole problem goes away…

Because people who don’t believe in Marxism shouldn’t have to live under it.

States with Republican power/control throughout the country are passing “illegals get out” laws.

Therefore, the illegals will be leaving those states, and heading to states where they are provided paradise/sanctuary.

Here is a great site to bookmark

ww.americanpatrol.com

SeanH, you’re blurring the line between LEGAL immigration and ILLEGAL immigration.

Ginny said: “Figures. Republicans are all about FEAR.”

So are Democrats.

“SeanH, you’re blurring the line between LEGAL immigration and ILLEGAL immigration.”

As did Rector, except when he was flat out making stuff up.

Thre are no sanctuary cities for immigrants, they don’t need them.

The sanctuary cities are for illegal aliens.

Illegal alien are not immigrants of any type, they are foreign intruders. Illegal aliens are the opposite of immigrants.

So why does the Independent engage in this big deception? What evil are you attempting to perpetrate with it?

And for all you people who think illegal aliens are such a great thing, give your job to an American who lost theirs to an illegal alien, lets see if you still feel the same way.

@Dennis
“Because people who don’t believe in Marxism shouldn’t have to live under it.”

Unions ELECT thier leaders..
Unions offer classes to enrich job skills and safety ..
Unions in good faith negotiate contracts..
Unions represent their labor force
Unions offer retirements and benefits packages to their members
Unions HIRE legal citizens

MARXISM ???? Lol

No Dumb Ass it’s called DEMOCRACY in the work place…

The endless arguments about taxes etc. are a red herring.

You are losing your country to insurgents.

Helping criminal insurgents, outright or by looking the other way, is treason.

You collectivists huddle together in your unions and co-ops because you fear your own freedom……..

Jesus lived in a collective, he focused on feeding the masses, and inviting those who were fugitives and outcasts.

Was Jesus a coward of his own freedom Dennis?