AMERICA CAN'T AFFORD AN AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.
am·nes·ty -- n. A general pardon granted to immigrants who entered the country illegally. Also known as "regularization," "legalization," or, recently, "earned adjustment."
It doesn't matter what you call it — giving legal status to people who have entered the U.S. illegally is still an amnesty!
Amnesties Encourage More Illegal Immigration.
The 1986 amnesty was supposed to help end illegal immigration. But Immigration & Naturalization Service (INS) estimates show that the 1986 amnesty actually increased illegal immigration, as the relatives of newly legalized illegal immigrants came to the U.S. by the millions.
Today, there are nearly 9 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. — 4 million more than before the 1986 amnesty!
American Workers Will Pay the Cost.
New immigrants take jobs from hard-working Americans, drive wages down, and raise the costs of public services. The 1986 amnesty cost taxpayers $78 billion (for government services provided to newly legalized immigrants, as well as services for American workers displaced by amnesty recipients, minus immigrants’ tax contributions).
In our fragile economy, that’s the last thing America needs.
What About Enforcement?
The 1986 amnesty was supposed to end illegal immigration by including strong enforcement measures, including a ban on employing illegal immigrants. But enforcement has been close to nonexistent.
Granting another doomed amnesty rather than enforcing the law is a slap in the face to all law-abiding Americans.
Immigration is Overwhelming Our Communities.
Immigration is responsible for two-thirds of our population growth, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Communities throughout America are finding that this population growth is overcrowding their children’s schools, threatening the environment, and causing them to spend more time in traffic and less with their families. Road and school construction can’t keep up with population increases, open space is vanishing at an alarming rate, and California-style blackouts are expected to spread to other states.
Americans Have Spoken: NO to Increased Immigration.
By vast majorities, Americans want to cut back drastically on immigration — not bring in new immigrants or legalize those who are already here illegally.
• 77% of respondents in a CNN online poll opposed granting amnesty to illegal immigrants.
• 72% of Americans think immigration should be reduced, according to a Wall St Journal/NBC News poll.
• A Roper poll found that 83% of Americans favor a lower immigration level. 70% favor restricting immigration to less than 300,000 new immigrants a year.
