First, be assured I am not a leftist, a Dem, nor am I a proponent of amnesty. Second, again, I can understand your not accepting my premise but despite my conservative inclinations, or the conservative inclinations of the vast majority of us, to agree with a non-amnesty measure(s), the fact remains that amnesty, in some form, is a foregone conclusion...it is a matter of ‘when’ and ‘what form’ than a matter of ‘if’.
Sorry we will agree to disagree. It is not a foregone conclusion and must be fought at every turn. The survival of country is at stake.
Impact of Amnesty: In analyzing the 2007 CIR bill, Robert Rector of The Heritage Foundation stated, “The main fiscal impact…will occur through two mechanisms: (1) the grant of amnesty, with accompanying access to Social Security, Medicare and welfare benefits, to 12 million illegal immigrants who are overwhelmingly low skilled; and (2) a dramatic increase in chain immigration, which will also be predominantly low skilled. The bottom line is that high school dropouts are extremely expensive to U.S. taxpayers. It does not matter whether the dropout comes from Ohio, Tennessee, or Mexico. It does matter that the Senate immigration bill would increase the future flow of poorly educated immigrants into the U.S. and grant amnesty and access to government benefits to millions of poorly educated illegal aliens already here. Such legislation would inevitably impose huge costs on U.S. taxpayers.”
Heritage research has concluded that the cost of amnesty alone would be $2.6 trillion. And the number of additional LEGAL immigrants who would join those who were the recipients of amnesty through chain migration, i.e., family reunification, would approach 70 million over a 20-year period, assuming there are only 12 million illegal aliens. We cannot assimilate such numbers. An amnesty would destroy the United States of America with the stroke of a pen. Amnesty is forever.
Exactly the same thing has been sad about health care, you OK with that too?