FIVE MYTHS ABOUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION FROM US GOVERNMENT

By Frosty Wooldridge
May 10, 2010
NewsWithViews.com

In a whopping “Pinocchio’s nose grows longer than a football field”
essay, the Washington Post published a piece by former INS
commissioner Doris Meissner, currently a senior fellow at the
Migration Policy Institute. She wrote: “5 myths about immigration”
5/9/2010.

Once again, ‘experts’ of the U.S. Government fail, and fail miserably,
to engage the American public with integrity, honesty and service to
American citizens.

“Despite the fact that we are a nation of immigrants,” said Meissner,
“immigration continues to be one of America’s most contentious topics.
The new law in Arizona authorizing police to arrest individuals who cannot show documents proving that they are in the country legally
has set off a fresh bout of acrimony. But as in the past, much of the
debate is founded on mythology.”

Reality check: Americans do not question LEGAL immigration although
it proves more methodical at 1.5 million annually and more disastrous as
it drives this nation toward adding 100 million people within 25 years.
Americans resent ILLEGAL immigration. Meissner stands “up and away”
from reality by making such an egregious statement.

THE FIVE MYTHS BY MEISSNER THAT AVOID REALITY

1. “Immigrants take jobs away from Americans”
“Although legal immigrants account for 12.5 percent of the U.S. Population, they make up 15 percent of the work-force,” said Meissner.
“As a result of this growth, economists estimate that wages for the vast majority of American workers are slightly higher than they would be without immigration.”

Reality check:
Over 20 million Americans suffer unemployment with 35 million Americans subsisting on food stamps. Millions of Americans suffer
home foreclosures because they cannot secure jobs. That means those Americans must be supported by working Americans through taxes.

The fact remains:
Immigrants DO take jobs from Americans. Ten to twelve million fully employed illegal alien migrants displace Americans from jobs and they undercut wages as they work off the books. Over 20 million Americans remain unemployed.
But, as Katie Couric announced, the U.S. adds only 95,000 jobs monthly.
However, the U.S. Congress adds 150,000 to 180,000 legal immigrants every 30 days. Therefore, those immigrants take jobs away from Americans and we cannot possibly catch up to hire Americans to create full employment. Ms. Meissner needs to go back to sixth grade math to understand the numbers.

2. “Immigration is at an all time high, and most new immigrants came illegally”
“Today, two-thirds of immigrants are here legally,” said Meissner.


Reality check:
In 2004, Time Magazine’s Pulitzer Prize winning writers Donald Barlett and Jim Steele, wrote, “What happened?” September 20, 2004. They investigated illegal immigration in that year to equal a whopping:
“Three million illegal migrants crossed U.S. borders.
It’s fair to estimate, based on a Time investigation, that the number of illegal aliens flooding into the U.S. this year will total 3 million—
enough to fill 22,000 Boeing 737-700 airliners, or 60 flights every day
for a year.”

Those numbers, because of the economic downturn, dropped to 1.0 million in 2009.
An enormous 40 percent of illegal aliens arrive with legal green cards and visas, but overstay and melt into their racial enclaves to remain illegal for as long as they like.
In order to remain, the women birth ‘anchor babies’ at a cost along with other services of $346 billion annually to U.S. taxpayers.
(Source: Edwin Rubenstein Report, www.thesocialcontract.com)

3. “Today’s immigrants are not integrating into American life like past waves did”
“Today, as before, immigrant integration takes a generation or two,”
said Meissner.

Reality check:
Most Americans must press ‘1’ for Spanish and ‘2’ for English across the country, which shows that not only are immigrants not assimilating,
their numbers accelerate so fast, they refuse to speak English and work within our society as integral aspects.
They remain outside of American life by their linguistic recalcitrant choices.

4. “Cracking down on illegal border crossings will make us safer”
“Since 9/11, we have dramatically strengthened our borders,”
said Meissner.

Reality check:
In four of the past five years, I personally inspected the borders from Brownsville, Texas to San Diego, California. We have done NOTHING
of any significance to secure the borders.
Let me repeat that: NOTHING! Over $75 to $100 billion in drugs
crosses the southern border annually and 700,000 plus illegal aliens
continue to cross our border from Mexico annually.
It’s astounding this lady enjoyed publication in major newspapers of her ‘myths’ by perpetrating outright lies about those myths.

5. “Immigration reform cannot happen in an election year"
“Ruling out immigration reform, whether because Congress has other
priorities or because it’s an election year would be a mistake,”
said Meissner.

Reality check:
To give her the benefit of the doubt, she may be correct.
However, the anger and acrimony in Washington, DC today
over the health care bill being passed—
certainly provides an excoriating environment for immigration reform.

First of all, the past four presidents and Congresses failed to enforce
the 1986 immigration amnesty. We do not entertain any chance that
this current president or Congress would enforce our borders after yet another amnesty.
For anyone that might not appreciate HOW deep our predicament,
watch Roy Beck video “Immigration by the Numbers” below for a
look at what we face. His 14 minute video will show you the futility
and insanity of continued mass immigration whether legal or illegal
from a line that grows by 77 million annually of poverty stricken
people searching for a ‘better life’ in America.
You won’t find any media talking about it or addressing it.
They run from, avoid, evade and ignore it at all costs.

But if we ignore it as a civilization, immigration will inject
70 million third world people and their cultures of poverty into this country by 2035—a scant 25 years from now.
We cannot sustain that number and we most certainly will not
survive it with any hope for the continuation of the American Dream
for our children.

States Pondering Arizona-Style Immigration Law

By Fred Lucas,
Staff Writer
CNSNews.com


Several state lawmakers are seeking to apply immigration laws similar
to that passed by the Arizona Legislature, even as the Obama administration
questions the Arizona law’s legitimacy.

At least eight states —
Utah, Oklahoma, Ohio, Missouri, Georgia, South Carolina, Texas, and Maryland —
reportedly are considering legislation similar to the Arizona law, which allows police
to determine a person's immigration status following a "lawful stop, detention, or arrest."

"This legislation mirrors federal laws regarding immigration enforcement,"
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer said when she sign the bill into law.
" Despite erroneous and misleading statements suggesting otherwise,

the new state misdemeanor crime of willful failure to complete or carry an alien

registration document is adopted verbatim from the same offense found in federal statute."

In Ohio, State Rep. Courtney Combs, a Republican, and Butler County Sheriff
Richard Jones wrote to Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland and legislative leaders about
the need for immigration reform in the state, but Strickland, a Democrat, said
he would not sign such a law.

Now Combs and Jones are seeking a ballot measure to let voters decide on an
Arizona-style law for the state. “I get the question ‘why is Ohio concerned about this?’
The answer is that we’re getting the drugs from the illegal immigration,” Combs told

CNSNews.com Tuesday.

Combs said most of those drugs are smuggled into Arizona and then taken to Ohio.

“I have had so many people call and volunteer to help us get this on the ballot,”
Combs said. “I firmly believe if we get this on the ballot, it will pass. That would
be an amazing feat, for the people to override the governor.”

Combs said he is shooting for the November 2011 ballot largely as a matter of
logistics, because it would be tough at this time to collect the 400,000 signatures
needed for a ballot measure and to finalize the legal language for such a law.

Meanwhile, 46 state legislatures have considered 1,180 bills and resolutions relating
to illegal immigration so far this year, with 71 laws enacted, according to the National
Conference for State Legislatures.

The controversial Arizona law mirrors federal law. It requires local law enforcement
officers during a lawful stop to determine the immigration status of an individual by
asking the individual to show identification that residents are already required to carry
by law; and it authorizes law enforcement to securely transfer verified illegal aliens to
federal custody.

The law prohibits racial profiling and gives state residents the right to sue local agencies
for not complying with the state law.

“The purpose of the legislation at the state level is to develop state cooperation with
the federal immigration authorities,” Jack Martin, special projects director for the
Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), which advocates stricter border security.

“The Obama administration and previous administrations have recognized similar
cooperation as important in helping enforcement,” Martin told CNSNews.com

Maryland issues drivers licenses to illegal aliens. Maryland State Delegate
Pat McDonough, a Republican, has introduced a bill that he said is “a copy of
the Arizona law.” He does not believe it could pass until the next legislative session.

He also told CNSNews.com he is going to start a website and mail a survey to every
candidate for state office – from governor to state legislator – to track where each
candidate stands on the matter.

State Rep. Mark Parkinson, a Missouri Republican, believes the measure could pass
the House this year, but with less than a month left in the session, it likely will not pass
the Senate.

“Next year we will be able to start the process a lot earlier of making it illegal in
Missouri to be,” Parkinson said. “The vast majority of the Arizona law copied
federal law. It is already illegal at the federal level. Now it is illegal at the state level.
People are upset that a law might actually be enforced. Without prosecution,
a law is worthless.”

President Obama has questioned the new Arizona law, and the Justice Department
is reviewing whether it is constitutional. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs
said this demonstrates why the federal government must enact comprehensive
immigration reform.

“The president for quite some time has been somebody who has fought for
comprehensive immigration reform. Regardless of what side of the political argument
you’re on, I don’t think there is any doubt that what is happening in Arizona leads you
to understand that this town has to act on something that is comprehensive lest we
have immigration policy by 50 states,” Gibbs said.

Sens. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Robert Menendez (D-N.J.)
last week proposed an immigration reform bill that would establish a
“pathway to citizenship” for the some 12 million illegal aliens in the country now.
Opponents of this legislation call it “amnesty.”

Similar legislation died when it had the support of Republican President George W. Bush
and Democratic leaders in Congress, but this legislation appears unlikely to have any
bipartisan support.

The president indicated reluctance last week to push the issue, saying,
“We’ve gone through a very tough year, and I’ve been working Congress very hard,
so I know there may not be an appetite immediately to dive into another controversial
issue.”