Paul Ryan's immigration profile‏ troubling, but...

A very interesting post from www.NumbersUSA.com about Paul Ryan. This follows this post about this week's Unconstitutional Executive Order Amnesty. This follows this post about the Black Caucus hurting Black Americans with their immigration stand. This follows this post about how to Report Illegal Immigrants! For more that you can do to get involved click HERE and  HERE  and you can read this very interesting book HERE!

Paul Ryan's immigration record troubling -- But seems unlikely to pull Romney off good immigration promises



The good news about Mitt Romney's pick to be his vice presidential running mate is that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) doesn't seem to have put a lot of thought into immigration policy and doesn't seem to have deep ideological reasons for his poor immigration record during his 14 years in Congress.



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HALF-GOOD/HALF-BAD



Our Grade Card on Ryan finds that about half the effect of his overall immigration actions has been toward protecting American workers and taxpayers from bad immigation policy -- and the other half has been supporting policies that hurt American workers and taxpayers.



Ryan's Career Grade is a C.



Half-Good/Half-Bad -- that's what a C-Grade means in the NumbersUSA Immigration-Reduction Grade Cards.



BETTER THAN BIDEN



Nonetheless, Ryan's immigration record is significantly better than that of the Democratic Vice Presidential incumbent Joe Biden.



While serving in the Senate, Biden earned a Career D-Grade on immigration issues. That means he usually backed higher levels of foreign workers, including protecting the jobs of illegal aliens and the employers who hire them.



Although Vice President Biden generally has supported legislation to help American workers, he has nearly always on immigration issues backed measures that loosen the labor market, drive down the wages of workers and increase the unemployment of American workers, particularly Black and Hispanic Americans.



Biden earned an F-Grade in 5 immigration categories, a D-Grade in 2 categories and one C-Grade and one B-Grade (averaging to an overall D-Grade).



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MOST NOTABLE FOR LACK OF IMMIGRATION ACTION AND INVOLVEMENT



Ryan seems to have rarely spoken about immigration. And for the most part, he has acted on immigration only when forced to vote, seldom signing on to immigration bills.



I invite NumbersUSA members to submit statements you can find Ryan having made about immigration. I'm not finding much.



Paul Ryan's C-Grade puts him in the worst 10% of all current Republican Members of Congress when it comes to protecting workers and taxpayers from mass immigration and illegal immigration. (The grade is based on all votes in committees and on the floor of the House, and on co-sponsorships of all bills, that would affect the number of legal and illegal immigrant workers and dependents added to the U.S. each year.)



The Republican with the closest grade to Ryan's is Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) who is running for an open U.S. Senate seat this fall.



But I am optimistic that he is much different from Rep. Flake who in actions not graded by our system has for years been something of a publicity leader of the George W. Bush philosophies of amnesty for illegal aliens and expansion in green cards for foreign workers.



An example of how different Ryan is from Flake is that although he has co-sponsored amnesties to give illegal aliens a path to citizenship, I can't find examples of Ryan making speeches, writing op-eds or otherwise publicly advocating for the amnesty.



RECENT IMPROVEMENT



Rep. Ryan's record shows that during most of his time in the House he was more influenced than the average Republican by the mass-immigration desires of 1990s Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and of Pres. Bush 2001-2008.



You can view all of Ryan's immigration actions on this NumbersUSA Scoresheet:



https://www.numbersusa.com/content/my/congress/863/gradescoresheet/recent#tabset-3



You will find co-sponsorships of various amnesties.



And you will also find a peculiar fondness for increasing the number of unskilled and lower-skilled immigrants.



I call this peculiar because Ryan is best known for wanting to reduce the size of government. Low-skilled immigrants place heavy demands for larger government programs and more taxpayer subsidies. A Heritage Foundation study found the typical household with a low-educated immigrant head used about $20,000 more in taxes than it paid. Government statistics this year show that nearly 60% of all immigrant households with children use welfare programs.



However, during this Congress (2011-12), Rep. Ryan appears to have discarded most of his bad immigration habits from the Bush era.



(1) Faced with 7 votes on immigration, he has voted to protect American workers and taxpayers in every one.



(2) He has not co-sponsored any bills that would reward illegal aliens or increase legal foreign workers.



(3) His website takes a fairly strong stand against amnesties.



"However, I do not support amnesty for the millions of illegal immigrants already living in the United States. Any reform proposal must require that those who have disregarded the rule of law are not rewarded for their actions. In the end, I hope that with better border security and a more robust and up-to-date employee verification system, we will be able to stem the flow of illegal immigration and restore the rule of law." -- Paul Ryan website (as of 12AUG2012)



His website expresses some sympathy for the illegal aliens who would benefit from the DREAM Act amnesty but says he opposes the amnesty because it deals with the "symptom" of the problem rather than fixing the problem. He indicates that part of the fix is a reliable workplace verification system.



Nonetheless, his website continues to talk about the need for more guestworkers. This is an incredible blindness to the suffering of 20 million Americans (and their families) who want a full-time job and can't find one.



WASHINGTON POST PROVIDES INSIGHT INTO THE PROBLEM WITH RYAN ON IMMIGRATION



Today's Washington Post offered the first of what I'm sure will be many in-depth stories about Ryan. The story was quite positive overall, and gave some key facts about his adulthood which has been spent almost entirely in Washington D.C.



"He has cited his Catholic faith and author Ayn Rand as major influences on his conservative thinking. -- Washington Post, 12AUG2012



Ayn Rand's writing are often cited by libertarian think tank and other leaders as they argue for virtually open borders.



The Post stated that a big step up the political ladder for the young Paul Ryan in 1993 was a job with Empower America, "a think tank run by former congressman Jack Kemp" (who was the GOP's Vice Presidential nominee in 1996).



NumbersUSA spent many years trying to limit the damage on immigration policy that Empower America and Jack Kemp consistently caused. They preceded and then reinforced the terrible Bush years of immigration policy.



The Post says that when elected to Congress, Ryan didn't spend a lot of time talking with his colleagues in the House.



"Instead, he focused on conservative thinkers outside Congress, such as Paul Gigot, the head of the Wall Street Journal's editorial page, and William Kristol, the editor of the conservative Weekly Standard magazine." -- Washington Post, 12AUG2012



Gigot, Kristol and their publications have been at the forefront for many years in the minority part of the conservative movement that constantly pushes for loosening the labor market with more and more foreign workers -- even during a time of high unemployment.



WHY THE BAD NEWS ON RYAN MAY NOT MATTER MUCH



Of the dozen Republicans touted as potential VP picks, probably only two would have been as good or better than Mitt Romney on immigration.



All the rest would have been as bad as -- and most much worse than -- Ryan on immigration.



That simply reflects the fact that at the top of the Republican Party, the benefits of immigration for a releatively small number of Americans are a more important consideration than the costs to millions of American workers and tens of millions of taxpayers.



Fortunately, Gov. Romney has been making very strong promises on immigration for a year now.



He has made these promises very publicly and repeatedly. I have a great deal of confidence that he will not feel he can politically backtrack on them.



Gov. Romney has promised:



(1) to remove the jobs magnet from illegal immigration,



(2) to promote mandatory E-Verify,



(3) to eliminate legal immigration categories that don't serve the national interest,



(4) to fully implement the border fence and the entry-exit system already passed by Congress.



Although Ryan has not shown much leadership for these, he also hasn't led against them.



And Ryan did step out to help E-Verify at a time he didn't have to in 2008. He signed the Discharge Petition that barely failed to get enough signatures to force Speaker Nancy Pelosi to let the House vote on the SAVE Act, the bill by Democrat Rep. Heath Shuler to mandate E-Verify for all jobs.



Nonetheless, Romney has shown a weakness for listening to business leaders who claim they may need more foreign workers. Ryan's voice in the inner circles will only magnify that weakness.



If Romney and Ryan are elected, we will have our work cut out for us to stop some immigration initiatives that would hurt American workers.



Of course, we have been fighting that battle for four years against the efforts of Pres. Obama and Vice President Bident, and for eight years against Pres. Bush on the same subject.



We could hope that a Vice President Ryan would start paying more attention to the taxpayer costs of immigration, instead of perhaps bowing to some of the narrower interests of some economic entities that a Congressman always has to consider.



Just as we continue to call on Obama and Biden to put unemployed Americans first in their immigration policies, we will do the same for Romney and Ryan.



And we will continue to watch closely to see who is paying attention.



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Illegal Immigration Costs U.S. $113 Billion a Year, Study Finds

A timely post from www.Alipac.us about immigration's cost. This follows this post analysing the President's amnesty speech and this post about the MURDER of ROBERT KRENTZ, who the protestors and boycotters won't give a solution for, but will call Americans racist for trying to prevent another MURDER, and this post which shows that there are 30,000 openly illegal immigrants in the border town of El Paso. For more interesting stories like this click here to follow this blog.


Illegal Immigration Costs U.S. $113 Billion a Year, Study Finds
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By Ed Barnes Published July 06, 2010 FoxNews.com The cost of harboring illegal immigrants in the United States is a staggering $113 billion a year -- an average of $1,117 for every “native-headed” household in America -- according to a study conducted by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). The study, a copy of which was provided to FoxNews.com, “is the first and most detailed look at the costs of illegal immigration ever done,” says Bob Dane, director of communications at FAIR, a conservative organization that seeks to end almost all immigration to the U.S. FAIR's opponents in the bitter immigration debate describe the organization as "extremist," though it is regularly called upon to testify before Congress. Groups that support immigration reform immediately attacked FAIR's report and pointed out that it is the polar opposite of the Perryman Report, a 2008 study that found illegal immigration was actually a boon to the American economy. It estimated that illegal immigrants add $245 billion in Gross Domestic Product to the economy and account for 2.8 million jobs.
The FAIR report comes as President Obama moves immigration reform to the top of his agenda, and it is likely to be a rallying point for those who oppose the president. At a speech Thursday at American University in Washington, D.C., Obama argued that the entire immigration system is broken and needs sweeping reforms. Among the changes he said are needed is "a path for [farm] workers to earn legal status," which the president's critics called an opening for a new amnesty program. FAIR's report argues that there are two choices in the immigration debate: “One choice is pursuing a strategy that discourages future illegal migration and increasingly diminishes the current illegal alien population through denial of job opportunities and deportations. The other choice,” it says, “would repeat the unfortunate decision made in 1986 to adopt an amnesty that invited continued illegal migration.”
Click here to read FAIR's Executive Summary
The report states that an amnesty program wouldn’t appreciably increase tax revenue and would cost massive amounts in Social Security and public assistance expenses. An amnesty “would therefore be an accentuation of the already enormous fiscal burden,” the report concludes.
The single largest cost to the government of illegal immigration, according to the report, is an estimated $52 billion spent on schooling the children of illegals. “Nearly all those costs are absorbed by state and local governments,’ the report states.
Moreover, the study’s breakdown of costs on a state-by-state basis shows that in states with the largest number of illegals, the costs of illegal immigration are often greater than current, crippling budget deficits. In Texas, for example, the additional cost of immigration, $16.4 billion, is equal to the state’s current budget deficit; in California the additional cost of illegal immigration, $21.8 billion, is $8 billion more than the state’s current budget deficit of $13.8 billion; and in New York, the $6.8 billion deficit is roughly two-thirds the $9.5 billion yearly cost of its illegal population, according to Jack Martin, the researcher who completed the study. “The most important finding of the study is the enormous cost to state and local governments due to lack of enforcement of our immigration laws,” Martin wrote.
The report found that the federal government paid $28.6 billion in illegal related costs, and state and local governments paid $84.2 billion on an estimated 13 million undocumented residents. In his speech, Obama estimated that there are 11 million.
But FAIR's critics said the report wrongly included American-born children of undocumented workers in its study. “The single biggest 'expense' it attributes to unauthorized immigrants is the education of their children, yet most of these children are native-born, U.S. citizens who will grow up to be taxpaying adults," said Walter Ewing, a senior researcher at the American Immigration Council. "It is disingenuous to count the cost of investing in the education of these children, so that they will earn higher incomes and pay more in taxes when they are adults, as if it were nothing more than a cost incurred by their parents." He added that “the report fails to account for the purchasing power of unauthorized consumers, which supports U.S. businesses and U.S. jobs” and that it “ignores the value added to the U.S. economy by unauthorized workers, particularly in the service sector.” Martin said FAIR expected that criticism, but that because the children are a direct result of illegal immigration, their inclusion was both fair and reasonable.
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An analysis on Obama amnesty speech

A timely post from www.NumbersUSA.com analysing the President's speech. This follows this previous post about the President's immigration speech and this post about the MURDER of ROBERT KRENTZ, who the protestors and boycotters won't give a solution for, but will call Americans racist for trying to prevent another MURDER, and this post which shows that there are 30,000 openly illegal immigrants in the border town of El Paso across from the recent Juarez shooting. For more interesting stories like this click here to follow this blog.

Our take on Obama amnesty speech
MAJOR INSULTS IN THE PRESIDENT'S AMNESTY SPEECH TODAY DEAR FRIENDS,
That was a very sad spectacle at American University this morning. To see all those national leaders of religion, unions, business, etc. applauding the President's appeal for more foreign workers during a time of high unemployment was disheartening.
Be sure to go to your Action Buffet and take all actions that are shown there to protest this constant war by our nation's elites against America's working class, college students and taxpayers. Here are a few of the key signals that I heard the President send today.
You can read my analysis of all of them in my blog.
PRES. OBAMA DOESN'T KNOW THAT AMERICAN COLLEGE GRADS ARE HAVING ONE OF WORST YEARS EVER FOR FINDING A JOB?
"And while we provide students from around the world visas to get engineering and computer science degrees at our top universities, our laws discourage them from using those skills to start a business or power a new industry right here in the United States. Instead of training entrepreneurs to create jobs on our shores, we train our competition."
Read my analysis of this comment here.
JOBLESS AMERICANS ARE A SPECIAL INTEREST WHO MUST BE OPPOSED?
"In sum, the system is broken. And everybody knows it. Unfortunately, reform has been held hostage to political posturing and special-interest wrangling -– and to the pervasive sentiment in Washington that tackling such a thorny and emotional issue is inherently bad politics." Folks, just who ARE the "special interests" who are blocking "comprehensive immigration reform?"
Read my analysis of this comment here.
THE LIE THAT DEMOCRATS ARE UNITED BEHIND AN AMNESTY
Interestingly, Mr. Obama did not turn his speech into the Republican-bashing screed that the open-borders groups had requested. Various political publications had indicated that he had been urged to turn his speech into a major campaign effort to inspire voters to turn on Republicans in the fall congressional elections for having blocked "comprehensive immigration reform." My guess is that the President realized that the truth in what several of those publications suggested -- that there are more votes to be gained this fall by opposing amnesty than by promoting it. Nonetheless, Pres. Obama implied several times in his speech that getting the amnesty through depends totally on Republicans. The further implication in that is that he has the Democrats all lined up.
Read my further analysis of this comment here.
PRESIDENT USES HIS FAILURE AT ENTRY/EXIT SYSTEM AS EXCUSE FOR AMNESTY "In fact, because we don’t do a very good job of tracking who comes in and out of the country as visitors, large numbers avoid immigration laws simply by overstaying their visas." This was one of several references that the President made to his failure to enforce immigration laws already on the books. But instead of pledging to do a better job in the future or acknowledging that as President he has it totally in his power to fix the problem he describes, he says the failure is the reason we must give permanent access to U.S. jobs to all illegal aliens in the country.
Read my analysis of this comment here.
PROF. OBAMA DOES NOT UNDERSTAND IMMIGRATION HISTORY
"Of course, the tensions around immigration are not new. On the one hand, we’ve always defined ourselves as a nation of immigrants -- a nation that welcomes those willing to embrace America’s precepts. Indeed, it is this constant flow of immigrants that helped to make America what it is. . . Each new wave of immigrants has generated fear and resentments towards newcomers, particularly in times of economic upheaval."
Read my short explanation of how Mr. Obama's historical perspective is skewed and non-factual. TOUTING WORKER VERIFICATION WHILE REFUSING TO SUPPORT IT IN CONGRESS "And we’re implementing and improving a system to give employers a reliable way to verify that their employees are here legally. But we need to do more. We cannot continue just to look the other way as a significant portion of our economy operates outside the law. It breeds abuse and bad practices. It punishes employers who act responsibly and undercuts American workers. And ultimately, if the demand for undocumented workers falls, the incentive for people to come here illegally will decline as well." In fact, Pres. Obama continually opposes requiring businesses to verify their new hires. The SAVE Act in Congress dies on the vine even though it would easily pass if Senate and House leaders would allow a vote.
Read my analysis of how he holds verification hostage -- along with border security -- for the ransom of getting amnesty passed.
Despite all the flowery language and his attempts to paint the majority of Americans as immoral because they oppose an amnesty, the President today failed to obscure the fact that our immigration system is broken because the person living in the White House -- as the three occupants before him -- refuses to do his job of enforcing the nation's immigration laws. THANKS FOR HELPING US MEET OUR JUNE FINANCIAL GOAL AND FOR FORCING PRES. OBAMA'S SPEECH TODAY First, 99% of the activists at NumbersUSA express great appreciation to the 1% of you who made donations to meet the June operating budget goal. I wrote to you earlier this week that we were not even halfway to the goal. Several thousand of you stepped up to the bucket and tossed in donations that amazingly brought us up to the goal in a little over 24 hours.
THANKS.
NumbersUSA Action is entirely funded by citizens making small donations. It takes 1% of activists doing so every month. Over a year, 12% of you pay the costs for all 100% to flood Congress and the President with faxes and phone messages. Thanks to all of your faxing and phoning, Pres. Obama has had such a hard time finding interest in Congress to pass his amnesty that he had to resort to the publicity stunt at American University today. Because of the faxing and phoning you will do the rest of this week, most Members of Congress will remain afraid to follow the President on his call for more foreign workers. I don't take victory on this for granted. It will happen only because all of you continue to step forward and act.

Urge your Members of Congress to Oppose President Obama's Call for Amnesty

A timely post from www.NumbersUSA.com about the President's immigration speech This follows this previous post about the July 1, 2010 speech on immigration by Barack Obama and this post about the MURDER of ROBERT KRENTZ, who the protestors and boycotters won't give a solution for, but will call Americans racist for trying to prevent another MURDER, and this post which shows that there are 30,000 openly illegal immigrants in the border town of El Paso across from the recent Juarez shooting. For more interesting stories like this click here to follow this blog.

Urge your Members of Congress to Oppose President Obama's Call for Amnesty



Urge your Members of Congress to Oppose President Obama's Call for Amnesty
You can find this fax by proceeding tohttp://www.numbersusa.com/faxes?ID=12328
On July 1, President Obama gave a speech at American University in Washington, D.C., urging Congress to pass a comprehensive amnesty, pass the DREAM Act and AgJOBS amnesties, and increase the number of foreign workers. When talking about illegal aliens, President Obama said:
The overwhelming majority of these men and women are simply seeking a better life for themselves and their children.
Clearly, President Obama is either not aware that, or does not care that, there are 15 million unemployed Americans who are "simply seeking a better life for themselves and their children" by looking for a job. He must also be unaware that 8 million illegal aliens have full-time jobs, thereby keeping 8 million Americans out of work. Any amnestying of these illegal aliens would prevent millions of American families from attaining a "better life."
Please send your Members of Congress a fax and urge them to oppose President Obama's call for these three amnesties and his call for an increase in the number of foreign workers.