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On 16 May 2006 06:05:25 -0700, johnwesley55@lycos.com wrote:

>GD wrote:
>> http://www.washtimes.com/national/20060516-125016-4401r.htm
>>
>> Bill permits 193 million more aliens by 2026
>> By Charles Hurt
>>
>> The Senate immigration reform bill would allow for up to 193 million
>> new legal immigrants -- a number greater than 60 percent of the
>> current U.S. population -- in the next 20 years, according to a study
>> released yesterday.
>>
>>     "The magnitude of changes that are entailed in this bill -- and
>> are largely unknown -- rival the impact of the creation of Social
>> Security or the creation of the Medicare program," said Robert Rector,
>> senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation who conducted the
>> study.
>>
>>     Although the legislation would permit 193 million new immigrants
>> in the next two decades, Mr. Rector estimated that it is more likely
>> that about 103 million new immigrants actually would arrive in the
>> next 20 years.
>>
>>     Sen. Jeff Sessions, Alabama Republican who conducted a separate
>> analysis that reached similar results, said Congress is "blissfully
>> ignorant of the scope and impact" of the bill, which has bipartisan
>> support in the Senate and has been praised by President Bush.
>>
>>     "This Senate is not ready to pass legislation that so
>> significantly changes our future immigration policy," he said
>> yesterday. "The impact this bill will have over the next 20 years is
>> monumental and has not been thought through."
>>
>>     The 614-page "compromise" bill -- hastily cobbled together last
>> month by Republican Sens. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and Mel Martinez of
>> Florida -- would give illegal aliens who have been in the U.S. two
>> years or longer a right to citizenship. Illegals who have been here
>> less than two years would have to return to their home countries to
>> apply for citizenship.
>>
>>     Although that "amnesty" would be granted to about 10 million
>> illegals, the real growth in the immigrant population would come
>> later.
>>
>>     As part of the bill, the annual flow of legal immigrants allowed
>> into the U.S. would more than double to more than 2 million annually.
>> In addition, the guest-worker program in the bill would bring in
>> 325,000 new workers annually who could later apply for citizenship.
>>
>>     That population would grow exponentially from there because the
>> millions of new citizens would be permitted to bring along their
>> extended families. Also, Mr. Sessions said, the bill includes
>> "escalating caps," which would raise the number of immigrants allowed
>> in as more people seek to enter the U.S.
>>
>>     "The impact of this increase in legal immigration dwarfs the
>> magnitude of the amnesty provisions," said Mr. Rector, who has
>> followed Congress for 25 years. He called the bill "the most dramatic
>> piece of legislation in my experience."
>>
>>     Mr. Rector based his numerical projection on the number of family
>> members that past immigrants have sponsored.
>>
>>     Immigration into the U.S. would become an "entitlement," Mr.
>> Sessions said. "The decision as to who may come will almost totally be
>> controlled by the desire of the individuals who wish to immigrate to
>> the United States rather than by the United States government."
>>
>>     Although most opposition has come from conservatives, liberals are
>> growing increasingly uneasy about increasing the competition for
>> American jobs -- especially the low-paying ones.
>>
>>     Sen. Byron L. Dorgan, North Dakota Democrat, said yesterday that
>> he would introduce an amendment to strip out the guest-worker program,
>> warning that the legislation would "pull apart the middle class in
>> this country."
>>
>>     One of the most alarming aspects of the bill, opponents say, is
>> that it eliminates a long-standing policy of U.S. immigration law that
>> prohibits anyone from gaining permanent status here who is considered
>> "likely to become a public charge," meaning welfare or other
>> government subsidy.
>>
>>     This change is particularly troublesome because the bill also
>> slants legal immigration away from highly skilled and highly educated
>> workers to the unskilled and uneducated, who are far more likely to
>> require public assistance. In addition, adult immigrants will be
>> permitted to bring along their parents, who would eventually be
>> eligible for Social Security even though they had never paid into it.
>>
>>     Mr. Rector estimated that the eventual cost of the bill to the
>> American taxpayer would be about $50 billion per year. Mr. Sessions
>> said he hopes to educate his colleagues about what's in the bill
>> before they vote on it, but there's little evidence that they're
>> interested.
>>
>>     Last month, he asked the Senate Judiciary Committee to conduct an
>> in-depth study and hold hearings into the fiscal impact of the bill as
>> well as the impact the bill would have on future immigration. The
>> committee produced no study and held one hearing strictly on the
>> fiscal aspects of the bill. Only three of his fellow panel members
>> showed up, he said.
>
>The worst collection of vermin to infest Washington DC in history;
>Butt-Boy Bush and Senators McCain, Kennedy, Frist, Reid, Graham, to
>name a few.
>
>John

The American Eagle, the only bird that would crap in it's own nest!

Will

http://www.fairus.org/  Federated Americans for Immigration Reform