Immigration & The Government Deficit Crisis

An urgent post from www.NumbersUSA.com about work visas allowing people in to compete against unemployed Americans. This follows this post about immigration bills in Texas and this follows this post which shows that there are 30,000 openly illegal immigrants in the border town of El Paso. On a related note, you can read about Miss Kentucky Latina here, an interesting article about Jessica Alba here or another article about Salma Hayek here. For more that you can do to get involved click HERE and you can read a very interesting book HERE!

Jawboning On 'Radio Row' About Immigration & Government Deficit Crisis



By Roy Beck,  - posted on NumbersUSA






The government-shutdown crisis apparently is over but the search for more and more spending cuts will continue throughout the year. For two days this last week, I talked with radio hosts across the nation about the role of immigration policy in driving up government costs.






Here's the key point that nearly all Members of Congress are missing as they insist on treating immigration policy as separate from their deficit debate . . . . . . .






A lot of future government spending can be reduced by putting Americans back to work in jobs currently held by illegal aliens and in jobs that otherwise will go to new immigrants.






AN EXTRAORDINARY 'RADIO ROW'






The Federation for American Immigration Reform pulled together (for the 5th time) an extraordinary gathering of 47 talk radio hosts from all across the nation in a hotel a couple of block from where Congress was deciding what to do about gigantic budget deficits that threaten to swallow our future.






I was a bit hoarse after going from booth to booth to take the microphone and remind listeners that, while immigration policy did not cause the crisis, changing the policy could bring immediate reductions in government spending. And unlike most other proposed spending cuts, there would be no pain felt by every-day Americans.






SPENDING PROBLEM No. 1: Millions of unemployed Americans currently are dependent on taxpayers because 8 million jobs are filled by illegal aliens.






SOLUTION: Congress by this summer could pass a bill with mandatory E-Verify and Social Security No-Match & Multiple-Match letters which would quickly move millions of illegal aliens out of their jobs and millions of unemployed Americans from dependency into productive labor. Immediately, local, state and federal governments would stop spending immense amounts of money to support these millions of Americans in their joblessness.






PROBLEM No. 2: Perhaps 100,000 Americans each month lose their job or fail to get a job because the government gives out 125,000 new work permits to foreign workers each month. These unemployed Americans remain big drains on government services because the jobs they would have filled are going to the foreign workers getting the new permanent and temporary work permits.






SOLUTION: Pass bills to eliminate the visa lottery and chain migration categories, and allow employment-based visas only under tight safeguards for U.S. workers. While continuing to allow unlimited visas to spouses and minor children, these bills could cut the foreign-labor importation by more than half each month.






With continuing high unemployment among our fellow citizens and with the inability of our governments to maintain previous levels of support to our most vulnerable citizens, isn't it time . . . . . . .






•to stop importing poverty and government-assistance users through massive immigration


•and to stop creating more poverty among our own citizens by giving their jobs to foreign workers?


These points should be brought up at every public appearance of Members of Congress when they return home later this month. Only if you (their constituents) remind them that immigration policy and budget problems are linked will there be a chance for most of them to make the connection and deal with immigration as a jobs and budget issue this year.






ROY BECK is Founder & CEO of NumbersUSA






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