The Business Cost of Immigration Enforcement
Just how much will the government's crackdown on businesses' hiring of illegal immigrants cost? The Chamber of Commerce has an answer. In a new study, a former Office of Management and Budget economist estimates that the government's proposed rules would cost business an estimated $1 billion.
That should be enough for the Department of Homeland Security to re-evaluate its proposed no-match rule, the report stated. The proposed rule would require businesses to fire employees if Social Security cannot find a match between their name and social security number. Though businesses still oppose the rule, the government revised the proposal to offer safe-harbor to businesses that follow the procedures. The move came after the initial proposal was challenged in federal court.
In the past few years the feds have stepped up workplace enforcement actions. Business have hardly been pleased and many say they have suffered greatly because of them. But after the failure of the immigration reform bill last summer, Immigration and Customs Enforcment only reinforced its emphasis on workplace raids.
—Emma Schwartz
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oh well
taes = taxes
oh well
I would rather have my taxes going to enforcement then to entitlement
...would cost business an estimated $1 billion.
...and save the taxpayers $50 billion. Allowing businesses to smuggle in illegal aliens is the most expensive way to subsidize businesses, since the taxpayer has to pick up the tab for pre-natal, obstetrics, post-natal, education, schools, etc., for the millions of jackpot babies, increased infrastructure, massively increased usage of non-renewable resources such a oil, farmland, etc., crime costs of infiltrated criminal aliens, future terrorism costs of all the Arabs that are sneaking in with the Latins, and so forth.
To save money we should prosecute the Coyote-in-Chief, Jorge Bush, and all the corrupt officials in Washington who are on the business pad.
Huh?
This reminds me of the Comcast commercial where the guy says "90% of all statistics can be made to say anything... 50% of the time."
I'd like to see their numbers and where they're getting an "estimated $1B." The fact remains that illegal immigrants are breaking the law. What part of "Illegal" don't they understand? You can say "undocumented" or "migrant" but the fact remains that they're gaming the system.
I've had to go through the immigration system for two people I care about very much. It's not easy but it is doable - without hiring a lawyer.
The sad thing is that both parties are more than willing to slap law-abiding Americans in the face by trying to grant back-door amnesty.
The True Cost Of Amnesty
The infinite cost of illegal’s which is interconnected with the cost of welfare programs, public education, medical care; crime etc. has the most impact on Veterans. It is becoming Veterans vs. Amnesty
Here in Pa. we have Veterans living underneath bridges, and employed illegal’s living in the rental properties! How can our government propose to give amnesty to 20 million low-wage earning illegals, all of whom will then be eligible for free government welfare programs, when they can not help just a few hundred thousand Veterans, many who just need proper medical care or are truly homeless, or unemployed? In Pa. presently there are Veterans living underneath a bridge in the Wilkes-Barre area, while employed illegal aliens are living in our rental properties!
While our troops are bravely fighting for freedom in the Middle East, at home it appears freedom is free for illegals as they invade our great Nation. The Democrats advocating for amnesty are saying that citizenship for illegals will cost them each a $5,000 dollar fee. In reality what these politicians are saying; is that the lives of the brave heroes we lost in this war on terror are each only worth five thousand dollars?
I watched Senator Kennedy (D-Mass) hard at work on C-Span just two weeks ago showing on his charts how 7 million US citizens are presently unemployed. He also showed how presently there are only 4 million jobs available in the United States. How can Democrats push for the amnesty of 20 million illegal aliens, while providing us with the best evidence against it? Now even if the four million jobs available in the US are all “jobs American don’t want to do”, and so we then give amnesty to 20 million low wage earning illegal’s to fill up these 4 million available jobs, what about the 7 million unemployed Americans and the other 16 million (then) naturalized citizens?? Amnesty would make an already bad situation much worst. Only in America: Veterans vs. Amnesty for 20 million illegals. Veterans have a tangible price tag; the cost of amnesty is infinite….
The Cost Is Neverending
Illegals are the biggest contributors to unemployment in the US, and they are forcing many US citizens into early retirement. Two illegals are working for the price of one American and with no employer benefits. They help the employer in the present and future. My school taxes have doubled because of the illegal’s many, many children in our public schools.
A very ex-friend of mine always to bragged about the money he was saving by hiring illegals and (of course) what great workers they are (home-depot regional management). He then arranged for some of them to work on and clean his mother-in-laws small business. Then they where hired to do the lawn work at their homes. Actually the only American they still use is the pool guy, but give the illegal’s a bit more time and they will ‘pool’ enough cash together to invest in some pool cleaning equipment.
At the same time another friend lost her small home cleaning business, two young mothers that were looking for an apartment together so they could move out of the welfare housing project lost also their employment there. You know the job’s Americans don’t want to do?
One year prior to the above another friend lost their family run small landscaping business. You know the job’s Americans don’t want to do?
If all these low wage illegal’s receive amnesty the already filled to capacity low-income welfare housing projects will become a real war zone! I can add many more pages of information . . .
If you’re ever in PA just e-mail me and you can meet all these people, just bring ICE with you. And the reason you don’t see hungry illegal’s is because about 20 live in the same house and that is a lot of cash (billions) that gets sent back into the Mexican economy each year. If illegals do get hungry here they just visit the local Catholic Church and polish a few pews’. Soon the Catholic church is going to run out of free food because people are smarting up, and I am one of many that will no-longer pay church dues.
The Catholic churches and schools are rapidly closing; all these churches where built when our population was much smaller. Illegal’s will save the Catholic Church, because by advocating for them, the Catholic Church knows our public schools will become very over-crowed and middle-class tax-payers will then also pay the Church for a private education for our children.
Once again history will repeat itself and by giving our children a private education, the church will begin to shape the minds of our future voters (our children, our future) from a very young age again. Our forefathers knew so long ago just why it would always be so necessary to maintain the separation between state and church. This is not an anti-catholic statement, I’m still Roman Catholic after 50 years.
What cost?
1 BILLION DOLLARS! Oh my god. What a HUGE cost!!! We should definitely save that to stretch the war in Iraq for 2 more days; or to support the education and medical welfare for the illegals in 2 more cities. That is an unbearable cost!!!
Oh, I have an even better plan. Let's save multiple billions of dollars by releasing the inmates from the prison. After all, the billions savings can be used to build better schools and better hospitals, and the inmates can run the congress, the senate and the government for much lower salaries. What a HUGE saving!!!
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oh well
I would rather have my taes going to enforcement then to entitlement
Apr 25, 2008 16:59:59 PM [permalink] [report comment]