Illegal Immigration Is Costing Us
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- The Los Angeles Times reports that all the applications expected for Obama's executive amnesty will be processed "at an office complex in suburban Washington, with a new staff of 1,000 government workers, supplemented by as many as 1,000 private contractors."
- The Washington Times adds that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Agency is planning to "operate two shifts from 6 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. every workday to keep up with the anticipated workload." The cost: nearly $500 million over three years, if government estimates are correct.
- A new report finds that the number of non-English speaking students in seven school districts in the metro Washington, D.C., area has increased 70% in ten years. Classes for these students "cost an average of about one quarter of each district's budget."
The federal government helps with some of these expenses. But the report notes that "the costs of educating a student who is not proficient in English far exceeds the amount actually allocated."
Where does the difference come from? Other programs get cut and your property taxes go up -- all because the federal government refuses to control the border. - What about all those jobs that Americans won't do? Ask the 500 or so IT workers at Southern California Edison about that. They are being replaced by foreign workers with H1-B visas.
To put it another way, there were two immigrants (legal and illegal) competing for every one new job. What effect might that have on wages? And how compassionate is it to force unemployed or underemployed American citizens to compete in that kind of oversaturated labor market?
Senate liberals are continuing to put their radical pro-amnesty agenda ahead of our homeland security interests. They are holding up funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) because the House-passed bill defunds President Obama's unilateral attempt to rewrite our immigration laws.
With funding set to run out in 16 days, Senate Republicans are getting nervous. Newly elected Senators Cory Gardner (R-CO) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) recently tried to urge their former House colleagues to start over after Senate Democrats filibustered the DHS appropriations bill three times last week.
But Speaker John Boehner isn't budging. In response to a reporter's question this morning, Speaker Boehner said, "The House has done its job, why don't you go ask the Senate Democrats when they're going to get off their a** and do something other than to vote no?"
I bet you won't see that forceful response on tonight's nightly news broadcasts!
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Gary Bauer is a conservative family values advocate and serves as president of American Values and chairman of the Campaign for Working Families
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