Our
immigration policies were sabotaged in 1965 and 1986, by abandoning the
principle that the purpose of immigration was to address labor shortages. The
original immigration laws in effect in 1945 limited immigration to only those
who we needed to increase our labor supply and were healthy, sponsored and able
to become self-supporting. During the Great Depression the US shut down all
immigration in the 1930s, because jobs were scarce.
The first
steps in controlling immigration are to build the wall and fix the visa system
to eliminate visa over-stays and tighten the immigration law to reduce all
welfare immigration. We also need to stop accepting welfare refugees and begin
to return them to their home countries. We also need to remove the Lottery,
Chain Migration and Anchor Baby provisions from our immigration law.
The
current immigration mess has decimated working-age Blacks, provided welfare for
immigrants and created unnecessary welfare immigrants costing Billions in
taxpayer dollars. Shutting down immigration is necessary to free up jobs for US
citizens and lift them out of welfare systems.
In the
1970s, companies had to apply for work visas for those non-citizens they wanted
to hire and they needed to prove that no qualified citizen applicants were
available. This practice should be reinstated in the immigration law. All
companies should be required to use E-Verify to ensure that their applicants
and employees are US citizens.
Federal
welfare subsidies for non-citizens should be eliminated. Immigrants and
refugees will need to be sponsored and self-supporting and able to live without
food stamps, rent supports and other welfare programs. Immigration should be
based on merit
The DACA
“Dreamers” and their parents are illegals and there are 800,000 of them. Their
status as “Dreamers” is unconstitutional and was ended by the courts. Trump
said that Congress could offer a solution to legally allow the “dreamers” to
apply for legal guest worker permits and the meeting have begun. The best
Congress can do is to authorize a guest-worker program and have their current
employers apply for their permits. If the most capable 20% should reapply to
have their work permits approved for now as guest workers, but they should go
to the back of the line to be able to apply for citizenship. The others should
consider moving back to their home countries. Before this is done, the Chain
Migration policy needs to be ended.
We’ve
added over 31 million immigrants to the US since the 1970s.
The
immigrant count per year was about 500,000 a year until 1989, when it doubled
to 1,000,000 per year and for several years exceeded 2,000,000 per year. The
end result was the addition of 60 million new immigrants.
The US
population of illegal immigrants varied from 10 million to 20 million.
This all
occurred stealthily during times when the US had high unemployment especially
in the 1970s, after NAFTA in 1993 and after the 2008 meltdown.
Manufacturing
jobs went overseas, we were left with a service economy and household incomes
plummeted.
Job
creation has been largely minimum wage jobs over the past decades and most of
these jobs were given to immigrants and refugees.
We’ve
also added about 3 million refugees to the US since 1989 averaging 100,000 per
year for 27 years.
Our
welfare costs are too high and we need to reduce our immigrant population and
send our refugees back to their home countries. Our labor participation rate is
62.7%. That means 37.3% of working-age US citizens, ages 16 to 65 are
unemployed. That’s about 100 million US citizens we need to free up jobs for.
From 2009
to 2017, the US created 1.9 million low wage jobs per year. But we also
imported 1.9 million immigrants, refugees and illegals per year. And we also graduated 1.9 million students
each year. Most of the jobs went to low
skilled immigrants, refugees and illegals. 60% of our immigrants, refugees and
illegals are on welfare and work minimum wage jobs. I’ve seen quotes that the
cost of immigration is in the $380 billion range, but the article below puts it
at $134.9 billion.
The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on United
States Taxpayers - The Cost of Illegal Immigration to the United States
At the federal, state, and local levels,
taxpayers shell out approximately $134.9 billion to cover the costs incurred by
the presence of more than 12.5 million illegal aliens, and about 4.2 million
citizen children of illegal aliens. That amounts to a tax burden of
approximately $8,075 per illegal alien family member and a total of
$115,894,597,664. The total cost of illegal immigration to U.S. taxpayers is
both staggering and crippling. In 2013, FAIR estimated the total cost to be
approximately $113 billion. So, in under four years, the cost has risen nearly
$3 billion. This is a disturbing and unsustainable trend. The sections below
will break down and further explain these numbers at the federal, state, and
local levels.
We need
to rewrite our immigration laws to only allow self-supporting immigrants to
enter the US. We need the best engineers on the planet coming in via F-Student
and H1b visas and a skilled army of seasonal agricultural workers coming in on
H2a visas and that’s about it.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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