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Illegal workers cost us billions

The most serious consequence is that by flooding the labor market they lower wages, which have steadily declined in real dollars since President Reagan instituted neoliberal policy of undercutting the enforcement of immigration laws.

14 costs of ILLEGAL RESIDENTS

URL's for verification of the following facts:

Source at http://rense.com/general79/seniors.htm

 

 (They are not immigrants, since they haven’t immigrated—filled immigration papers.  The Republicans want to make these unlawful residents immigrants!) 

1. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.[i] http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html  (aired 4/1/06 on CNN)

2. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year. http://tinyurl.com/zob77

3. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens. http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

 4. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.   http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

5. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare and Social Services by the American taxpayers. http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html

6. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English! http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.html

 7. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

 

8. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

 

9. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.  It costs over $50,000 year to house a federal inmate.  http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

 

10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two-and-a-half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US.  http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html

 11.  During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border. Homeland Security Report. http://tinyurl.com/t9sht

 

12. The National Policy Institute, 'estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.' http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf

 

13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin. http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm

 

14. 'The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants in The United States  over a 88 month period by an estimated 240,000 illegals—4 victims per offender.   http://www.drdsk.com/articles.html#Illegals

 TOTAL COST IS A WHOOPING $338.3 BILLION A YEAR!!!


[i] This figure is only a small fraction of the real loss in wages.  Flooding the market with more workers entails fewer jobs for U.S. Citizens.  Thirty years ago most trash collection, construction, restaurant workers where not Hispanic.  And thirty years ago the combination of protective tariffs, fewer than 2 million illegal workers, and a strong labor movement permitted one worker to support a family; today it takes two.  Today the greatest percentage of people lives under the poverty line since the end of World War II (and that number is much greater than our government’s figures for their stats are no more accurate than our President).    

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Some numbers on wages etc

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Sources http://www.cis.org/articles/2001/mexico/wages.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_immigration_to_the_United_States. A carefully researched article with extensive footnotes.  The insurmountable difficulty in measuring the effect is measuring the road not taken:  What would our wages be if they stayed at the pre-Reagan level of illegals—estimated 1.1 million in 1970?  The issues aren’t who would fill those so-called unwanted jobs, but rather its effect upon the job market.  Pay more, and unwanted jobs become wanted—as they were in the 60s. 

 

1.  The median wage of a high school drop out is $350/wk, for a Mexican illegal resident (MIR) is $326.  The competition falls heavies on Negroes and high school dropouts.    

 

2.  Sources Mexico 57%, Central & South America 24%, Asia 9%, Europe & Canada 6%. 

 

3.  Modes of entry:  Non-immigrant Visa overstay 4-5.5 million; border crossing card violation 250,000—500,000; crossing border at location other than check point 6-7 million. 

 

 

 

LAWS:

INA Amendments

1976

Set 20k/country limit on Western Hemisphere aliens

Immigration reform and control act

1986

Started sanctions for knowingly hiring illegals.

Amnesty for illegal who met residency requirements

Immigration Act

1990

Increased immigration ceilings

Tripled the visas for priority workers and professionals

Illegal Immigration Act

1995

Phone verification for worker authentication by employer.*

Access to welfare benefits more difficult

* For decades, immigration authorities have alerted ("no-match-letters")[171] employers of mismatches between reported employees' social security cards and the actual names of the card holders. On September 1, 2007, a federal judge halted this practice of alerting employers of card mismatches. Social Security Administration was to send out 141,000 no-match letters, covering 8.7 million employees. (Wikipedia).  This doesn’t entail that the employeer needs to terminate the illegal’s job, and the risk of prosecution is negligable.  The government responded by vitiating the rule.  There are as of 3/2008 17.8 million discrepancies in the SSA database that would result in no match letters.      

 

Solution, fine the employer:

Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg Poll[211] indicates that 77% of respondents believe employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants should be punished for their actions.(Wikipedia).  Fine them and their won’t be jobs for them. 

 

#211 Section on stolen elections

Dishonorable Mention

 

Chester Trent Lott Sr. (born October 9, 1941) is a United States Senator from Mississippi and a member of the Republican Party. He served as Senate Majority Leader from 1996 to June 6, 2001, interrupted only by a brief period in January 2001, during which he held the position of Senate Minority Leader. After Sen. Jim Jeffords of Vermont left the Republican Party to become an independent in June 2001, giving the Democrats control of the Senate, Lott served as Minority Leader until his resignation from that position in December 2002 due to controversial remarks. The remark in praise of Senator Strom Thurmond, an open racist, highlighted Lott’s own racist voting record.  From 1981 to 1989 he was also a House Minority Whip.  As Majority Leader he played a prominate role in the impeachment trial of Bill Clinton. 

 

David Bruce Vitter (born May 3, 1961) is an American Republican politician, currently serving as the junior U.S. Senator from Louisiana.  He is known for his opposition to same-sex marriage and his support of abstenance sex education.  .  Vitter won a special election to Louisiana's 1st Congressional District in 1999, succeeding Republican Congressman Bob Livingston, who resigned after an adultery scandal.  Vitter in July of 2007 was identified as a client of "D.C. Madam" Deborah Jeane Palfrey's escort service in Washington, D.C.   Vitter appeared with his wife on television following this revelation.  She stated that she forgave him. 

 

New inductees into the Ethics Hall of Shame:

 

Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa

 

Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-W-Va)

 

Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-Ca)

Updated June of 08

 

http://www.cleanupwashington.org/hos/ is a site dedicated to the corruption and malfeasance of our congressional leaders.

Listed there with details are Tom DeLay, Randal Duke Cunningham, Bob Ney, Richard Pombo, Conrad Burns, William Jefferson, and Jack Abramoff.

 

 

 

http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/religion/spurious.htm, about various bible sources, their lack of agreement

 

http://nofreelunch.org/reqreading.htm about drug companies influencing medical decisions. 

 

 

 

 

Senator Ted Stevens (born  November 18, 1923) who has served since 1968 was convicted on 7 counts contected to handling of public funds.

From wikipedia.org: 

On July 29, 2008 Stevens was indicted by a federal grand jury on seven counts of failing to properly report gifts and found guilty at trial three months later (October 27, 2008).  The charges relate to renovations to his home and alleged gifts from VECO Corporation, claimed to be worth more than $250,000.  The indictment followed a lengthy investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for possible corruption into Alaskan politicians and was based on his relationship with Bill Allen. Allen, then an oil service company executive, had earlier pled guilty, with sentencing suspended pending his cooperation in gathering evidence and giving testimony in other trials, to bribing several Alaskan state legislators, including a disputed claim about Stevens' son, former State Senator Ben Stevens. Stevens declared, "I'm innocent," and pled not guilty to the charges in a federal district court on July 31, 2008. Stevens asserted his right to a speedy trial so that he could have the opportunity to promptly clear his name and requested that the trial be held before the 2008 election.

 

Home Remodeling and VECO

May 29, 2007, the Anchorage Daily News reported that the FBI and a federal grand jury were investigating an "extensive" remodeling project at Stevens' home in Girdwood. Stevens' Alaska home was raided by the FBI and IRS on July 30, 2007.  The remodeling work doubled the size of the modest home. Public records show that the house was 2,471 square feet (230 m2) after the remodeling and that the property was valued at $271,300 in 2003, including a $5,000 increase in land value.  The remodel in 2000 was organized by Bill Allen, a founder of the VECO Corporation, an oil-field service company and has been estimated to have cost VECO and the various contractors $250,000 or more.  However, the residential contractor who finished the renovation for VECO, Augie Paone, "believes the [Stevens'] remodeling could have cost ― if all the work was done efficiently ― around $130,000 to $150,000, close to the figure Stevens cited last year.”  In June, the Anchorage Daily News reported that a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., heard evidence in May about the expansion of Stevens' Girdwood home and other matters connecting Stevens to VECO.  In mid-June, FBI agents questioned several aides who work for Stevens as part of the investigation.[64] In July, Washingtonian magazine reported that Stevens had hired "Washington’s most powerful and expensive lawyer", Brendan Sullivan Jr., in response to the investigation.  In 2006, during wiretapped conversations with Bill Allen, Stevens expressed worries over potential misunderstandings and legal complications arising from the sweeping federal investigations into Alaskan politics.  On the witness stand, "Allen testified that VECO staff who had worked on his own house had charged 'way too much,' leaving him uncertain how much to invoice Stevens for when he had his staff work on the senator's house ... that he would be embarrassed to bill Stevens for overpriced labor on the house, and said he concealed some of the expense."

 

Bob Penney

In September, The Hill reported that Stevens had "steered millions of federal dollars to a sportfishing industry group founded by Bob Penney, a longtime friend". In 1998, Stevens invested 15,000 in a Utah land deal managed by Penney; in 2004, Stevens sold his share of the property for $150,000. 

 

Guilty verdict

On October 27, 2008, Stevens was found guilty of all seven charges against him. He is the fifth sitting senator ever to be convicted by a jury in U.S. history, and the first since Senator Harrison A William. (D-NJ) in 1981.  His sentingcing hearing is scheduled for Feb. 25.  However, FBI Agent Chad in February 2009 filed a whistleblower affidavit concerning gross government misconduct (FBI sending back to Alaska a witness who would have undercut their case and other exculpatory materials were withheld),  This  was addressed in  a hearing on Feb. 13.  At the hearing the Judge Sullivan held the prosecutors in contempt for failing to deliver documents to Steven's legal counsel.   

 

 

 

If there lips are moving they are lying (said of politician)
 
 

To understand developments in our political system (both parties) one must understand the role of neoliberalism.  Any analysis which misses this connection is grossly inadequate.  (Neocons follow neoliberalism economic policies). 

 

We have an evil, evil system. Words such as imperialism, greed, corporate greed, neoliberalism, neoconservate, globalism, bought politicians, control of media are descriptive.   There are reasons why the labor movement has collapsed.  It is the politics of neoliberalism, an out growth of corporate greed.  Given how it opposes the public weal, we have devoted a section to expose just what neoliberalism is—a thing that the five corporations which own broadcasting will not do. 

 

THE BRINK OF ECONOMIC COLLAPSE

Things have gotten worse, the hole the neocons has dug is much deeper.  The economic stats are worse than bad:  the trend is toward greater disparity of wealth and on top of that the U.S. is loaded with debt and imbalance of trade.  The debt can through fiscal austerity can be paid off (as some of it was under Clinton), but the trade imbalance will only grow due to the dismantling of are industrial base and the setting up of free trade agreements such as NAFTA.   The current foreign debt is equaled to over 70% of GDP, a ratio unmatched by far among industrialized nations.  To find out what economics is called the dismal science and the role of neoliberalism.