What's up with the Swiss Cheese border?
Answer:
Your question involves two entirely different issues. The first (a) is whether to allow illegal immigrants amnesty and a direct and/or immediate pathway to legal residency. The second (b) is why our border with Mexico has been allowed to remain porous.
(a) Integrating illegal immigrants:
The Senate’s Immigration Bill (S 2611) would boost economic growth by as Much as $1 Trillion over the Next Decade and Improve the Solvency of the Social Security Trust Fund.
The Senate bill contains two types of provisions: (1) enforcement provisions that increase funding for various immigration enforcement measures and personnel, and (2) provisions that create new pathways to legal status, including allowing some currently undocumented immigrants to obtain legal status, reducing current visa backlogs, and providing new visas for certain “guest workers.”
Estimated impact of S 2611 on economic growth:
The immigrant provisions of the bill would add $36 billion a year to GDP on average from 2007 to 2011 and $134 billion a year from 2012 to 2016. Over the next ten years, S 2611 could add more than $1 trillion to gross domestic product.
According to an estimate by the Social Security Administration, implementation of the Senate bill would reduce the projected long-term deficit in the Social Security trust fund. Between now and 2016 alone, the net cash flow of the Social Security fund would improve by $27 billion.
The provisions of the Senate bill that provide new pathways to legal status would boost federal revenues in two ways: (1) the amount of federal taxes paid by immigrants would increase under the bill by about $43.6 billion over the next decade; and (2) the increases in economic growth would increase the federal taxes paid by the (mostly U.S.-citizen) beneficiaries of that growth by about $65.5 billion. Thus, S 2611 would boost federal revenues by $109.1 billion over the next decade.
(b) The North American common market - that being the United States, Mexico and Canada - contains more than 430 million people, with an annual GDP of close to $20 trillion. Hence, one might imagine that our government has not been particularly interested in creating cement barriers along our southern border - rather, it is conducting projects to strengthen rail and road networks.
The southern border has only been raised as a security concern within the last few years, and although it is a valid concern the economic impact of creating an armed, secured border is highly unpopular among business interests in states like Texas, considering Mexico is its largest trading partner.
However, in response to public concern, the Bush Administration ratified the Secure Border Fence Act in 2006, which authorizes the construction of hundreds of miles of additional fencing, vehicle barriers, checkpoints and lighting along the southern border.
Thus far, the Democrat-controlled congress has made no attempt to amend this legislation beyond some calls to route funding to "virtual fencing," that meaning surveillance technology and communications rather than physical walls.
Swiss cheese...that's awesome.
THey do not want to secure the border because all of us on this side of the world need to become REALLY good friends. We are going to need each other.
Peace.
EDIT---yeah the little people are going to get screwed in the deal, but things are going to get nasty and to have the other two largest countries on this side of the world be really close allies, would be a smart move.
Got that right the Rats are all over it, however some have
Kennedy get out of Jail Cards.
I THOUGHT BUSH WAS REPUBLICAN?
President Bush is in favor of an amnesty bill.isn't he a Republican??
Must be so they can get the votes?When Illegals Vote
By Christina Bellatoni
The Washington Times | October 12, 2004
U.S. citizens who go to the polls Nov. 2 to decide local, state and national elections are likely to get more help from noncitizens this year than ever before.
Beyond requiring applicants to sign a pledge on voter-registration forms affirming that they are U.S. citizens, there is no way to prevent the nation's estimated 8 million to 12 million illegal aliens from casting ballots in November, area elections officials said.
Locally, only Virginia requires voters to provide their Social Security numbers, but the state does not require voters to show their Social Security cards.
"There is no way of checking," said Maryland State Board of Elections Administrator Linda H. Lamone.
"We have no way of doing that. We have no access to any information about who is in the United States legally or otherwise."
Does Switzerland border Cheese-land?
Seriously, Republicans are pandering to businesses who rely on slave labor, Dems are pandering to the illegals and latinos. Both parties are screwing us.
Bush doesn't want the borders closed and nether do the Democrats , maybe for different reasons , I don't know . But they are using each other for the same goal . Amnesty for the illegals .
Bush wants his NAU completed and of course The NAFTA Super Highway .
The Democrats want the Latino votes and to help out their Corporate and LaRaza buddies
The bill is a scam perpetrated by both parties that have been corrupted by power.The GOP and the DEMS have similar yet different agendas.The Gop appears to be more naive and dumber in this scenario.As a conservative I'm totally disgusted.These fu*cking politicians will End America as we know it if this piece of sh*it passes.I'm amazed how stupid many of our citizens are.Yes 50 yrs. of dem rule worked wonders by dumbing down our public school system.We have ignorant voters that have no clue and keep electing the same power hungry thieves.Contact your elected officials and make their lives sheer hell so this monstrosity fails.All the points are lies,nothing will be enforced.Only you (the suckers) will wind up supporting these parasites with TAX increases.
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