How Bad is the Illegal Alien Amnesty Plan?

Article by Frosty Wooldridge

February 23, 2004

Voltaire said, "The rich will always require an abundance of the poor." That statement brings to mind the accelerating numbers of illegal immigrants pouring into America at unsettling rates of speed. Distressing examples explode in newspapers across our nation--daily.

The entire island of Haiti would relocate to Miami in a heartbeat if they could float enough boats. Mexico already has 1/10 or 9.2 million of its citizens residing in our country. In excess of 1.5 million suffering souls legally land on our shores annually from around the world. Illegals cross our borders at 2,500 plus every 24 hours. If you’re not scratching your head, you better grab your wallet!

Four weeks ago, President Bush offered a ‘guest worker’ program that would allow illegal aliens work permits for three years in our country. Then, they would go back home. What it didn’t do was give any kind of a protocol for stopping the estimated 1 million people illegally crossing our borders annually.

What the plan didn’t tell Americans was the negative impacts to all of us in our own country. Below are a few points Americans must consider if they want this massive flood of humanity on an ongoing basis—without end—as the world adds 80 million people year in and year out.

It’s a sobering reality that 15-18 million Americans are jobless. High school kids can’t find work anymore because illegal aliens have flooded every job in this country. College kids can’t compete with the sheer numbers of aliens already taking jobs. American jobs get ‘colonized’ by illegal aliens. They become so entrenched with their languages and bosses; Americans don’t stand a chance—in their own country.

According to Carrying Capacity Network, each immigrant costs a community $15,378.00 in infrastructure costs. Example: Colorado grew 1.1 million in ten years. It’s why the natural gas prices rose 73% in Colorado last year. It’s why highway construction and home building exploded beyond comprehension annually. We can’t keep up with an average of 6,000 immigrants, legal and illegal, added to the USA daily. What’s it like in your city?

The lifetime fiscal impact after they pay taxes versus services used for an immigrant is a negative $55,200.00 according to the Center For Immigration Studies, 2001. In other words, you and I are footing the bills for their medical, dental, schooling, homes and welfare services. We can’t even take care of our own poor let alone the world’s!

How much of that bill are we footing? All forms of immigration cost Americans $70 billion annually, according to Professor Donald Huddle, Rice University. It means you pull out your wallet and give money away when you could have used it for your own children. You scratch your head as your standard of living dives into the depths of debt. How much debt? Consumer debt is $2 trillion according to January Forbes Magazine. Tom Brokaw noted that credit card debt in America today stands at $12,000.00 per card. As you break into a cold sweat, you’re told the national federal deficit just crossed $7 trillion.

The guest worker program would only benefit the rich corporations at American taxpayer expense. In other words, they sustain their riches while we eat macaroni and cheese. What are the facts of the guestworker program? "Immigration causes American workers to lose $133 billion annually from wage depression and job displacement," said Professor George Borjas of Harvard University. Clearly, immigrants aren’t ‘just’ doing the jobs Americans won’t do. They are working the jobs American ‘will’ do.

Worse, legalization of illegal aliens rewards lawlessness. What would that do? Create more lawlessness! Even with the ‘mention’ of the amnesty, illegal traffic at the border rose 15% daily. The 1986 amnesty for illegal aliens gave us another 13 million illegal aliens and the mess we’re currently suffering.

Finally, every person added to US soil requires a minimum of 1 and as high as 12.6 acres of land to support that person. That depends on how much wealth they accrue and how much they buy. We only have so much water and so much land. We have only so much clean air. Millions already suffer severe air pollution in LA, Chicago, NY, Atlanta, Houston, Detroit and Denver, which equals over 100 million people. What is the point of adding another 200 million people by mid century? Will that give us more clean air? We only have so many rivers and so many lakes. When is it that we, as a nation, and as individuals decide that our quality of life and standard of living are worth more than our degradation of our quality of life and standard of living?

You’ve got to ask yourself what good is this amnesty for you, for America, for the rich, for our debt, for our future, for our children? If we keep importing more immigrants to fulfill Voltair’s quote, in the end, you will be among the poor.

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