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Thursday, May 24, 2007
John Hawkins :: Townhall.com Columnist
5 Big Problems With The Senate's Amnesty Bill
by John Hawkins
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Free lawyers, no back taxes, breaks on tuition, and getting immediate legal status in the United States? Where do American citizens sign up for this deal and why would any foreigners want to bother with following our laws when they'd be better off if they just ignored them, entered our country illegally, and bought some fake documents that show that they were here in December of 2006? When you reward people for breaking the law and punish people for respecting it, don't be surprised if you get a lot more law breaking. That's why this amnesty is expected to cover 12-20 million people when the one in 1986 covered less than 3 million illegals. It's also why the next amnesty, if this bill passes, will probably apply to 30-40 million illegals a couple of decades hence.

5) The price tag for the American taxpayers from this bill will top two trillion dollars! Senator Jim Bunning, step up to the plate and tell us about the cost of "low skill immigrant households,"

"Each of these households pays about $10,000 annually in taxes. That is less than almost every other American household. What is more alarming is how much they are receiving. Each of these households receives an average of $30,000 a year in immediate benefits. That means each low-skilled amnesty household costs the American taxpayer nearly $20,000 each year—twice what they are paying in.

If we look at a breakdown in what they are receiving, that’s $30,000 a year in Social Security, Medicare, transfer programs, cash, food, housing, social services, medical care, public education, and population-based services like police and fire protection. $30,000 seems like a pretty hefty welcome basket just for crossing our border.

Most American families are taxpayers during their working years and tax takers during retirement. Not the low skill amnesty family. The low skill amnesty household takes more from the government than it pays in at every level. Therefore, claims that we can save Social Security and other programs by importing young immigrant workers are simply myths.

The most expensive group, of course, is the 65 and older crowd. They cost the American taxpayer, on average, almost $32,000 per year, every year. If we consider only the illegals given amnesty, those costs will add up to over two trillion dollars – that’s trillion with a “T” – over their lifetime."

In other words, the price for that "cheap foreign labor" that businesses will get out of this deal, aside from lost jobs and depressed wages for American workers, is more than two trillion dollars in debt for the rest of us. That's why anyone who supports this bill has lost the right, now and forever, to call himself a fiscal conservative or claim that he cares about the size of the deficit.

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Contact: Let Freedom Ring America (LFRA)
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Tel: (916) 339-3167 or (281) 354-4346

In a historic event, for the first time Americans are gathering en mass across our Nation to converge upon Washington D.C. and their State capitols. An unprecedented number of groups/organizations and American citizens are marching forth in unity, to bring through united voices a message from the American public to the lawmakers that Americans need and demand the securing and protecting of their borders, legal citizens rights placed first and foremost, and an accurate accounting of illegal aliens within the United
States of America before any comprehensive immigration enforcement can be set in place.

LFRA has published information on their website located at
http://www.lframerica.com/march2.html March For America in regards to this historic event.

"Our Nations borders need securing, our legal citizens protecting, and our Nations Constitution upheld. The American people have for too long been crying for the U.S. government to back them only to be denied at every turn." says Suzanne Wise, of LFRA . "American citizens and those trying to become citizens legally, should never be forced to the back of the bus while those here because they broke and continue to disregard our countries Code of Law are given the front seats."


We, as a nation, we do not need a repeat of history. If this Legislation can not back its legal American citizens and protect this country at its borders, then this Legislation is failing and must be stopped.

The efforts in DC will be supported by American citize ns who are planning to go to Washington D.C, their State capitols, or remaining and offering their support at the home front by the tens of thousands. At present a total of 46 groups and organizations as well as 32 speakers are signed up to be in attendance to offer their aid to the March For America. The events will
begin on Thursday, June 14th in Washington D.C. with the kick off of
Operation Body Count sponsored by Patriot Watchdog and FIRE, and conclude on the 16th with a united march nationwide. In addition radio show hosts and bloggers will be active in keeping American patriots up to date on events and calling for all Americans to join in the efforts to speak up for their country.

The March For America movement is open to any non-racist wishing to participate to come stand side-by-side with such groups as the Minutemen Civil Defense Corp, 9-11 Families For A Secured America, F.I.R.E. Coalition, Grassfire, NY ICE, You Don't Speak For Me, and many others in D.C. and at various State capitols.



Suzanne Wise
CEO/Operations LFRA
swise@lframerica.com
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gun control
There are over 20,000 gun control laws on the books already. A coupla years ago when I checked the bills pending before congress, I counted over 250 gun bills and wasn't even halfway through the list of bills.

The gun control freaks in congress just keep submitting them.
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