Posted on 06/04/2007 11:41:58 PM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
These illegal foreign nationals will all be made "legal" on day 1, and that is a bell that will not be unrung.
Just say NO to Amnesty!! Before its too late!!
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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?
Hell..........when they make all the Mexican Criminals legal...........there ain’t goin to be ANY illegals.
WHAT A F’N CROCK.
Sadly, though, even that 25% is a lie.
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.
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