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http://www.washtimes.com/national/20...5016-4401r.htm

Bill permits 193 million more aliens by 2026
By Charles Hurt

The Senate immigration reform bill would allow for up to 193 million
new legal immigrants -- a number greater than 60 percent of the
current U.S. population -- in the next 20 years, according to a study
released yesterday.

"The magnitude of changes that are entailed in this bill -- and
are largely unknown -- rival the impact of the creation of Social
Security or the creation of the Medicare program," said Robert Rector,
senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation who conducted the
study.

Although the legislation would permit 193 million new immigrants
in the next two decades, Mr. Rector estimated that it is more likely
that about 103 million new immigrants actually would arrive in the
next 20 years.

Sen. Jeff Sessions, Alabama Republican who conducted a separate
analysis that reached similar results, said Congress is "blissfully
ignorant of the scope and impact" of the bill, which has bipartisan
support in the Senate and has been praised by President Bush.

"This Senate is not ready to pass legislation that so
significantly changes our future immigration policy," he said
yesterday. "The impact this bill will have over the next 20 years is
monumental and has not been thought through."

The 614-page "compromise" bill -- hastily cobbled together last
month by Republican Sens. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and Mel Martinez of
Florida -- would give illegal aliens who have been in the U.S. two
years or longer a right to citizenship. Illegals who have been here
less than two years would have to return to their home countries to
apply for citizenship.

Although that "amnesty" would be granted to about 10 million
illegals, the real growth in the immigrant population would come
later.

As part of the bill, the annual flow of legal immigrants allowed
into the U.S. would more than double to more than 2 million annually.
In addition, the guest-worker program in the bill would bring in
325,000 new workers annually who could later apply for citizenship.

That population would grow exponentially from there because the
millions of new citizens would be permitted to bring along their
extended families. Also, Mr. Sessions said, the bill includes
"escalating caps," which would raise the number of immigrants allowed
in as more people seek to enter the U.S.

"The impact of this increase in legal immigration dwarfs the
magnitude of the amnesty provisions," said Mr. Rector, who has
followed Congress for 25 years. He called the bill "the most dramatic
piece of legislation in my experience."

Mr. Rector based his numerical projection on the number of family
members that past immigrants have sponsored.

Immigration into the U.S. would become an "entitlement," Mr.
Sessions said. "The decision as to who may come will almost totally be
controlled by the desire of the individuals who wish to immigrate to
the United States rather than by the United States government."

Although most opposition has come from conservatives, liberals are
growing increasingly uneasy about increasing the competition for
American jobs -- especially the low-paying ones.

Sen. Byron L. Dorgan, North Dakota Democrat, said yesterday that
he would introduce an amendment to strip out the guest-worker program,
warning that the legislation would "pull apart the middle class in
this country."

One of the most alarming aspects of the bill, opponents say, is
that it eliminates a long-standing policy of U.S. immigration law that
prohibits anyone from gaining permanent status here who is considered
"likely to become a public charge," meaning welfare or other
government subsidy.

This change is particularly troublesome because the bill also
slants legal immigration away from highly skilled and highly educated
workers to the unskilled and uneducated, who are far more likely to
require public assistance. In addition, adult immigrants will be
permitted to bring along their parents, who would eventually be
eligible for Social Security even though they had never paid into it.

Mr. Rector estimated that the eventual cost of the bill to the
American taxpayer would be about $50 billion per year. Mr. Sessions
said he hopes to educate his colleagues about what's in the bill
before they vote on it, but there's little evidence that they're
interested.

Last month, he asked the Senate Judiciary Committee to conduct an
in-depth study and hold hearings into the fiscal impact of the bill as
well as the impact the bill would have on future immigration. The
committee produced no study and held one hearing strictly on the
fiscal aspects of the bill. Only three of his fellow panel members
showed up, he said.

The worst collection of vermin to infest Washington DC in history;
Butt-Boy Bush and Senators McCain, Kennedy, Frist, Reid, Graham, to
name a few.

John

The American Eagle, the only bird that would crap in it's own nest!

Will

http://www.fairus.org/ Federated Americans for Immigration Reform