Senate bill to cut aliens by only 25% [USA = Giant Pinata]

The Washington Times ^ | June 5, 2007 | Stephen Dinan

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

The Senate's immigration bill will cut annual illegal immigration by just 25 percent, and the bill's new guest-worker program could lead to at least 500,000 more illegal aliens within a decade, Congress' accounting arm said yesterday.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said in its official cost estimate that many guest workers will overstay their time in the plan, with the number totaling a half-million in 2017 and reaching 1 million a decade later.

"We anticipate that many of those would remain in the United States illegally after their visas expire," CBO said of the guest-worker program.

In a blow to President Bush's timetable, the CBO said the security "triggers" that must be met before the guest-worker program can begin won't be met until 2010. Mr. Bush had hoped to have those triggers -- setting up a verification system, deploying 20,000 U.S. Border Patrol agents and constructing hundreds of miles of fencing and vehicle barriers -- completed about the time he leaves office in January 2009.

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

The timing of the "triggers" is just a smokescreen.

These illegal foreign nationals will all be made "legal" on day 1, and that is a bell that will not be unrung.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Just say NO to Amnesty!! Before it’s too late!!

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[singfreedom]

You can go to the NumbersUSA website and send faxes to your Senators and Reps free. There are about 350,000 Americans who use the service-—and the cretans in Washington do listen! I would post the link but I don’t know how........

[texastoo]

In a blow to President Bush's timetable, the CBO said the security "triggers" that must be met before the guest-worker program can begin won't be met until 2010. Mr. Bush had hoped to have those triggers -- setting up a verification system, deploying 20,000 U.S. Border Patrol agents and constructing hundreds of miles of fencing and vehicle barriers -- completed about the time he leaves office in January 2009.HAHAHAHGAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHGAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[layman]

500,000 more illegal aliens within a decade

Multiply this by at least twenty and you might be closer to the truth. The government keeps telling us there are twelve million illegals here. That amounts to about four percent of the population. Am I the only one who finds it curious that virtually every customer service system in the country offers Spanish or English .... to accommodate four percent of the population?

[newcthem]

Hell..........when they make all the Mexican Criminals legal...........there ain’t goin to be ANY illegals.

WHAT A F’N CROCK.

[Teacher317]

Heck, if I truly believed that it would send 25% of the illegals home, I'd go for it... as long as we made sure that it was merely a good start!

Sadly, though, even that 25% is a lie.

[CharlesWayneCT]

In the article: The report said the bill would increase discretionary spending by $43 billion over the next decade, but new workers would pump $48 billion into the government, mostly in Social Security taxes, during that time.

Is the CBO stupid? You can't offset the spending for the program with the social security taxes they pay, because the social security taxes are needed to pay their social security, and probably their net effect ON SOCIAL SECURITY is a negative.

In other words, that 48 billion in "new" SS payments probably accrues a much larger than 50 billion dollar LIABILITY. So the 43 billion in costs is real costs, not offset by taxes, except for the fact that we are using the social security taxes to HIDE the deficit.