Mike Scruggs
President Obama wants a “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” bill
including amnesty for an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants and
a huge new guest-worker program ready to move in the Senate by the week
of April 8. Senator Patrick Leahy, Democrat Chairman of the Senate Judiciary
Committee, has warned over the objections of Republican Senator Jeff
Sessions and five Republican colleagues on the committee that he intends
“to proceed to comprehensive immigration reform with all deliberate
speed.” When politicians want to run “comprehensive reform” legislation
through Congress with “all deliberate speed” it means that powerful
special interests want to jam some questionable special interest legislation
down the people’s throats before they can figure out what is being
done to them. It is a form of deception and corruption that usually
results in irreparable comprehensive damage to the nation for the benefit
of special interests.
Senator Sessions and
his colleagues are objecting because they believe that the legislation
under construction deserves close scrutiny. Past amnesties and guest-worker
programs were good for special interests but extremely damaging to American
workers, taxpayers, many communities, and the rule of law. They have
also been good for leftist issues and the Democrat Party and bad for
conservative issues and Republicans.
Amnesty always begets
more illegal immigration and more uncontrolled legal immigration. A
rule of thumb based on the 1986 amnesty is that 11 million amnesties
will generate 22 to 33 million new illegal immigrants within 10 to 20
years. That would jump our annual net fiscal costs for illegal alien
(undocumented Democrat) maintenance from over $100 billion per year
estimated by fairus.org to between $200 billion and $300 billion per
year.
We now have an enormous
$16 trillion dollar debt and trillion dollar fiscal deficits every year.
The Heritage Foundation estimates that a new amnesty would cost the
taxpayers over $2.5 trillion in the next ten years in increased Medicare
and Social Security costs ALONE. Adding some of the incremental fiscal
costs cited by fairus.org, a minimal cost of amnesty would be $3.0 trillion.
Adding $3.0 trillion to an already staggering $16 national debt is stupid,
insane, and CORRUPT.
Who will gain? Democrats
will gain millions of new voters. More than 75 percent of the new legal
residents on a path to the voting booth will vote Democrat—not because
they are grateful for amnesty, but because they favor big government,
and big social-welfare and healthcare programs by more than 75 percent.
That should put their Republican opposition out of business in half
a decade or less. It is easily predictable that if an amnesty passes,
the Republicans will never win another national election unless they
drop all principles. They will slowly lose most currently Red States,
and Congressional Districts. Those businesses that use cheap illegal
labor and cheap guest-worker labor will continue to reap huge profits.
Who will lose? American workers, taxpayers, and the adherents of Constitutional
government and Judeo-Christian culture. More broadly, greed and
importing a new and more Democrat electorate will triumph over a once
great Republic.
Senator Sessions has
bravely pointed out that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the largest
lobbyist for cheap foreign labor:
“The Chamber’s primary goal has never been to establish a lawful
immigration system and secure our borders, but to get as much cheap
labor as possible—regardless of how it impacts American workers, legal
immigrants, and taxpayers in general.”
The political costs
of amnesty to conservatives are much broader than most people realize.
Once a new, leftist electorate dominates conservative voices, no conservative
issue will be safe, Constitutional or not, and in a few years, few will
be left. How long will the Second Amendment last when the electorate,
Congress, and Federal Courts are stacked against it? Federally
dictated political correctness will effectively replace a dead Constitution.
There are already eight
million illegal immigrants working in the U.S. Yet there are 20 million
Americans who want a full time job and cannot find one. Yet almost all
the media sympathy is lavished on illegal immigrants who enter and stay
in the U.S. by identity theft and document fraud. You cannot be for
American jobs and amnesty or for American jobs and huge guest-worker
programs. The propaganda that illegal immigrants are only doing “jobs
Americans won’t do” has been discredited by competent research.
Amnesties and guest-worker
programs flood the job market with cheap labor and drive American wages
down. Some labor economics studies have shown that for every 100 foreign
workers hired, 60 American workers will be displaced.
The principal legislative
package of amnesty and guest-worker programs is the Senate Gang-of-Eight
proposal, very similar to Obama’s own proposal. Amazingly, four of
the eight sponsors are Republicans: McCain, Graham, Flake and Rubio.
I prefer to call them the Vichy Republicans because they are operating
against their party’s best interests and against the best interests
of the American people. Amnesty is essentially Republican Party suicide,
and the Democrat friendly press is trying to stampede Republicans into
voting for quick extinction.
Several Center
for Immigration Studies academic research articles over the last 10
years have consistently indicated that Republicans CANNOT win Latino
votes by voting for amnesty and other liberal immigration policies.
What will happen is this: (1) Amnesty will bring NO net Hispanic votes
to the GOP. (2) Millions of newly amnestied voters will vote 75 percent
Democrat because 75 percent of them are for big government social-welfare
programs. (3) At least another 10 percent of conservative voters will
stay at home. This would be far greater if voters knew immigration issues
and how candidates stood on them, and if voters developed some discernment
in distinguishing between truth and double-talk.
Republicans need to
get some backbone or they are going to be destroyed by pro-amnesty political
advisors and a media that is trying to stampede them into a suicidal
breach of principles.
I Corinthians 14:8: “For
if the trumpet does not sound a clear call, who shall get
ready for battle?
