How immigration advocates' "reform" will mean higher legal and illegal immigration
U.S.-born citizens and legal immigrants concerned about double-digit unemployment, rising health care costs, higher taxes, school budget cuts and chronic government budget deficits should pay close attention to the immigration "reform" promoted by President Obama and open border advocates. Their plan, if adopted, will lead to an explosion of legal and illegal immigration.
Even though over 15 million American workers, including legal immigrants, are unemployed, immigration activists demand amnesty and U.S. citizenship for possibly 20 million illegal immigrants, a scheme they term immigration "reform." If amnesty becomes law, millions of legalized people will likely apply for their extended families to immigrate to the United States. These tens of millions of newcomers will also need jobs, health care, education, welfare and many other costly social services. Due to their mostly low incomes, most of these newcomers will not be likely to pay enough taxes to cover even the cost of educating their children which could be as high as $14000 per child per year.
It is to be noted that after the misnamed "Immigration Reform and Control Act" adopted in 1986 amnestied 3 million illegal migrants, our illegal population has more than quadrupled even though it had provisions to secure our borders! Therefore, there should not be any doubt that any "comprehensive immigration reform" which includes amnesty will increase illegal immigration as well: Millions of newly naturalized people will be mobilized by open border activists to vigorously oppose all efforts to reduce illegal immigration in the future. Furthermore, the federal government will have no will to ensure that amnestied people will learn English. Requiring amnesty applicants pay back income taxes will actually increase our fiscal burden because most of them will probably receive Earned Income Tax Credit due to their low incomes!