Bill permits 193 million more aliens by 2026

[CharlesCoughlin]

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.

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This is lunacy. What are they trying to do? Destroy America? I have a question and a message to you pro immigration liberals. America is not empty anymore. It is full. We are projected to have 425 million people in America by 2050. This rapid growth is generated from third world immigration. We have had nearly a million immigrants annually for the last 3 decades and how has it benefited us? How is America better? How is favoring third world immigrants benefiting us? Immigration is an investment not a charity case. We had some of the biggest economic growth and prosperity when we only had 300 thousand European immigrants annually in the 1950s. We dont need to have millions of third world people flood our borders and become a public charge. If you want to pay for all of these people and have them transform this country by all means do so but dont be surprised when it collapses. What is wrong with you people? Am I the only sane person here or what? I suppose I am just going to get the mindless liberal garbage "Diversity enriches this country" "this country was built by immigrants" etc.

Newsflash. This country was built by immigrants from developing nations and not third world nations. How has diversity enriched this country? All it has done was divide and deplete our spirit. Instead of moving forward we are so fixed on trying to accommodate all of these third world people and nobody talks against it for fear of being called a racist. I dont give a **** if I am racist we need to do whats in the best interest of the country. The only way to not be racist according to liberals is to let our country be flooded by the hostile third world immigrants with no moderation whatsoever and let them permanently redefine and change the culture and ideals that made them want to come here in the first place. Everyone in this country has had everything handed to them on a silver platter that they have drifted away from the principles and values which allowed them live in such a great country. In order to preserve it we have to be willing to do whats right or else we are going to lose it.

Now instead of getting something from my message you dumb liberals are just going to completely ignore it and just say what a racist I am. This is not getting us anywhere. You dont deserve to be Americans. You all make me sick. Just know that you are all a fiddle to the communists and are all just mindless pawns.

[hvit]

I'm speechless.

Planet Earth is starting to suck.

[Chris Lee]

Originally Posted by MAMMUT

I'm speechless.

Planet Earth is starting to suck.

Hell yeah... time for the BB.com forums to buy an island and create our own country.

[CharlesCoughlin]

I just want to go somewhere where I am left the fu.ck alone from the third world, political correctness, the Jews and their anti racism, anti white, anti Christian, diversity, tolerance, immorality, filth and anti common sense garbage. Being tolerant just means that you dont stand for anything and you are willing to let our values be changed. When someone is proud to be tolerant I just look at them with pity. People are losing their minds. The world is so upside down. I feel sorry for our kids. Its bad enough now i cant even imagine how bad its going to be for their generations.

On the other hand I would be happy to move to the bb.com island

[hvit]

I'd rather just have my own island, there are some people on BB.com that are weird...

[Thinman]

Originally Posted by CharlesCoughlin

I just want to go somewhere where I am left the fu.ck alone from the third world, political correctness, the Jews and their anti racism, anti white, anti Christian, diversity, tolerance, immorality, filth and anti common sense garbage. Being tolerant just means that you dont stand for anything and you are willing to let our values be changed. When someone is proud to be tolerant I just look at them with pity. People are losing their minds. The world is so upside down. I feel sorry for our kids. Its bad enough now i cant even imagine how bad its going to be for their generations.

On the other hand I would be happy to move to the bb.com island

Wow, Strong rant. Maybe you can build a time machine and go back to the 1950s or 60s. You would have loved it back then. Mostly everybody was segregated. Everyone went to church on Sundays. There was no such thing as political correctness. Hollywood produced good wholesome stuff. Gays weren't invented yet. Yes, a totally different time than the one we are in now. Actually, I'm just kidding.

The immigiration issue is going to be a huge problem and you are right, we can't keep letting people flood in here. I'm in favor of some legal immigiration and a path to citizenship, but we have to draw the line somewhere.