Yet another illegal alien amnesty…
There have been 7 illegal alien amnesties since 1986.
Source: Numbers USA:
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Since 1986, Congress has passed |
| 1. Immigration and Reform Control Act (IRCA) Amnesty, 1986: A blanket amnesty for some 2.7 million illegal aliens |
| 2. Section 245(i) Amnesty, 1994: A temporary rolling amnesty for 578,000 illegal aliens |
| 3. Section 245(i) Extension Amnesty, 1997: An extension of the rolling amnesty created in 1994 |
| 4. Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (NACARA) Amnesty, 1997: An amnesty for close to one million illegal aliens from Central America |
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5. Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act Amnesty (HRIFA), 1998: An amnesty for 125,000 illegal aliens from Haiti |
| 6. Late Amnesty, 2000: An amnesty for some illegal aliens who claim they should have been amnestied under the 1986 IRCA amnesty, an estimated 400,000 illegal aliens |
| 7. LIFE Act Amnesty, 2000: A reinstatement of the rolling Section 245(i) amnesty, an estimated 900,000 illegal aliens |
President Bush is proposing to make it 8.
Our main gripes about this plan:
1. It discourages lawful immigration. Instead it encourages people to take their chances and live illegally in the USA. If you are lucky enough not to be caught before the next Amnesty (we predict one in 2007 at the current rate), then you win. Why wait three years in a foreign country for a visa when you can come here, work illegally and eventually gain residency?
2. It encourages more illegal immigration. See the above reason. Since no provisions are there to tighten the border, what is to stop the influx especially since there is a very large "carrot" out there: precedence.
3. It isn’t fair. By coming here illegally, you are showing your disrespect for the laws which govern our society. Meanwhile, others who share our values of lawful behavior receive nothing.
4. It encourages employers to hire illegals. Why not hire illegals and pay them less if the chances of you being punished decrease every time an amnesty is proposed.
5. It is anti-competitive. If no one wants to do a job, the salary and working conditions will improve until someone is willing to do it. Take trash pickup, for example. Sanitation workers earn a decent living doing something that most people don’t want to do. With importing foreign workers to do this, we remove the incentive to change the conditions. In IT, the H-1b has helped create a spiral of decreasing wages, making it harder for everyone in the job to make a living at it.
Bush is in a position where he feels he can alienate his base without consequences while gaining an issue with Hispanic voters. It’s hard for us to argue that - but we are not going to take issue with Bush. Those opposed to this bill should find out where their local representative stands on the issue, then tell him or her how you feel about the issue. Bush might be in the position to support this bill, but people in his party may not be.
And rest assured, we will be watching those.
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I agree that having so much people crossing the border illegaly is bad for this country as it is for the people who risk their lives tring to cross the border. But, the problem is that some of them are brought here by their parents. These kids grow up with the American Culture and cotribute to the US economy as any other american. What should there kids do when they grow up. I am a US citizen and have been married for 2 years with my wife who was brought here by her mom illegaly at the age of 4. Shouldn’t an American citizen be able to travel with his wife outside of the country?
I think that the President’s plan to give temporary permits to illigal immigrants is great, that way they can go home after their permit expiers. He has made it clear that he is going to offer the jobs to American citizens first and if no American wants to work in Gardening, Washing dishes, Picking up straberries etc.. then he will give the job to someone who doesn’t mind doing it. He also has said that he will fine the employers that hire illigal immigrants so this will DISCOURAGE MORE ILLIGAL IMMIGRATION. So what do you think? Should qualified illigal immigrants (ex. my wife) who have contributed to this economy as anybody else and who has stayed out of trouble be allowed to stay with her family (Me) or not? Should dirty jobs be given to American citizens who won’t take them unless they pay extremely high wages? Remember: that if for example an employer pays 20 dlls for somebody to wash dishes, YOU WILL PAY HIGHER PRICES FOR YOUR FOOD and many other products and services.
Comment by Ricky Ramos — 11/20/2004 @ 11:45 pm
Why not take advantage of the situation. You and I speak good english and most illigal immigrants don’t. So you have better communication skills and they won’t compete with you for any good job, unless you want to flip burgers all the times. Even then you could be the Mc Donald’s magager and boss them around. Some of you say that by improving the conditions and paying better wages to the people who do the dirty work, an american will be able to take the job; it sounds fabulous but who will end up paying for those great benefits? It will YOU AND I and that will create INFLATION. I can almost see your sons and dauthers picking up struberries under the sun, and you doing maintance work. It is easy to say that an American would do the dirty jobs, but WOULD YOU DO IT? You are the American, take advantage of the situation and don’t be lacy. You need to have goals that do not involve doing the dirty jobs.
Comment by Richard R. — 11/25/2004 @ 6:13 pm
I think we do need illigal immigrants because if you study economics you will find out that THEY HELP keep prices down with their cheap labor. It is not affecting you or me because we are not competing with them. Also, they come here and they segregate. Not that we tell them where to live, but they choose to live in hispanic communities not in the white naiborhood. Every politician knows that this country needs illigal immigrants and that is why we have not developed a system that gets rid of them. ILLIGAL IMMIGRANTS HELP KEEP INFLATION LOW. If it wasn’t for them, we would be demanding higher wages for every job, but because they come and get paid less than they would pay a white guy, prices don’t go up. And YOU and I very well know that when prices go up, it takes a while for our wages to catch up.
Comment by Immigration — 12/3/2004 @ 12:57 am