Sunday, April 09, 2006

Fisking the Senate's outrageous immigration bill

Mark Levin at National Review provides us some of the details of what the Senate really tried to do to us with that horrific piece of legislative excrement that nearly made it through on Friday. Send the children to the other room before you visit the link below. I believe it may make the most pious of my readers swear like drunken sailors. For those who don't want to wade through the whole thing, I'll post some of the more heinous points that some Senators, mine I'm sure, do not want you to know.

SENATOR SESSIONS ON SECURING AMERICA'S BORDERS ACT
"I have received just this afternoon in my office some disturbing news in the form of correspondence from the Congressional Budget Office. It suggests a number of areas where the amendment we are talking about here today, No. 3424, the immigration so-called compromise, violates our budget and the rules of the Senate."
I wonder why some Senators were in such a hurry. To whom are they really beholden?
We have now the compromise desperately put together by people — well meaning, no doubt, but none of whom bring any particular experience, knowledge to the problem facing us. And I assure you, if in the 5 days of markup in Judiciary Committee we didn't discuss the actual cost of this program, I am sure, as they worked feverishly into the night last night, they didn't consider it either. They had no idea. But this was a political discussion about how to put a bill together that politically might pass around here regardless of the details of it. Frankly, we are going to have to deal with the specifics of illegal immigration. It is too important to treat it at a superficial level.
"None of whom bring any particular experience!???" Why...it makes perfect sense to let cloistered, effete, gated-community-living elitists, who learn everything they know about "the real world" from US Chamber of Commerce talking points, make decisions as to whether or not America will have a permanent change in character, values and ethos. Right?

Were it not for those like Sessions who somehow can see a bit more clearly despite being too much inside the beltway, we'd have been sunk on Friday. And the damage would have been permanent.
Let me continue now with what we received from the Congressional Budget Office: The figures in this e-mail do NOT include costs associated with the conditional nonimmigrant provisions, which we are still working on. They also do NOT include revenue losses and outlays for the Earned Income Tax Credit, which we will be getting from the Joint Tax Committee and which results largely from the conditional non-immigrant provisions. Those revenue losses and Earned Income Tax Credit outlays may be significant.
Translation: the Senate wants to "penalize" illegal aliens by making them pay $2000 fines, then make the vast majority of them eligible for annual income tax credits of $2400. Isn't the "punishment" supposed to be the means by which this junk bill is officially made "not an amnesty?" Who knew that the real punishment the President and the Senate wants to dole out is aimed at lightening the wallets of everyone who isn't here illegally!
[E]stimated outlays are about $2 billion for the first five years (2007-2011) and $12 billion for the first ten years (2007-2016). The final figures will be bigger than those. Most of those costs are for the Medicaid and Food Stamp programs.
If they have "jobs that Americans won't do" and those jobs are are not compensated at artificially deflated rates, why would there be any need for the CBO to add a single cent for social program spending? I think this makes factual my suspicion that the bill sponsors, and our President, all know that the presence of illegals is a significant net cost to taxpayers and that this cost will not be lessened by granting them any sort of pathway by which they can stay in this nation at all.
I am sharing this with everyone so they can be prepared to think through the consequences of this cost, which has not been discussed whatsoever. In fact, if you listen to some of the proponents of the legislation before us, if we just pass this bill, it is going to make us all rich, everybody is going to do better, for the first time people are going to pay taxes, the economy is going to improve, and the average guy is going to be fine. The reality is, that did not happen in 1986 and it is not going to happen this time because many of these benefits are such that they are not available to people here illegally. Under this law they will become legal.
I want to gouge out my eyeballs.
The very significant factor is that today we now know the Hagel-Martinez amendment violates that Budget Act. I am sure the committee bill also did, but it would appear this may be further along. We have seen amnesty before in our country, in 1986, and the record is clear that American taxpayers did pay the cost of the fiscal deficit created by the 3 million beneficiaries under the 1986 amnesty. Of course, the original estimates were that 1 million, 1.5 million people would qualify for amnesty in 1986. Now they are estimating 12 million. But, in fact, 3 million showed up in 1986 and claimed the benefits of amnesty, many using documents that were dubious.
The more I think about my own Senator Martinez, the more I loathe the fact that we ever let those who were not born here serve in Congress. This SOB does not represent me, or my family. He's more interested in helping the very sort of folks who expected us to assimilate to their culture in South Florida and led us to the conclusion that we had to move from our home town in order to raise our family in a place that had some resemblance to America.

Senator Martinez, your lack of compassion for Americans in deference to aliens who should not be here at all is incredibly insulting. I'd call it UnAmerican, but I doubt that you have within you the capacity to understand what that means.
Under this bill, 75 percent of them, 8.85 million would get to stay and apply for green cards from inside the United States, just like the rejected bill earlier today provided for. And in addition, spouses and children would get those green cards as well. And they, spouses and children, would get green cards even if they are not in the United States.

So if the person came here to work temporarily, planned to go back to his family, didn't have a plan to stay here permanently and intended to go back to his country of origin, make a little extra money to help out the family, now we have encouraged them to go ahead and bring their family here. That would be a large number. That will impact more than the 1.1 million who are covered by the bill, according to the estimates.

They do not count against any family or employment caps or green cards. We do currently have a limit. We are supposed to have a limit on the total number who can come in as permanent workers on the path to citizenship so none of these would count against the caps, out of the 11 to 12 million.
This is not just an Amnesty, it is Amnesty PLUS!!! These son's of bitches need to be strung up! But I mean that in the kindest, most gentle sort of way. Really.
The compromise sponsors will tell you that the people who have been here less than 2 years — that is about 1.2 to 1.7 million — will have to leave immediately or be deported.

First, let me ask how many people are being apprehended and deported today? Who is going to apprehend and deport these people who are here illegally in the last year?
I think we should make it the personal responsibility of anyone who supports this legislation. Let them pay for it. Let them be forced into careers as skip tracers for illegal aliens. If they insist on being so xenophillic, I say let's make them deal personally with the situation for the rest of their lives.

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