Barack
Obama’s Executive Order to suspend deportations of illegal aliens for two years
will act as a magnet to motivate millions of people from around the world to
come to the United States and claim they have been quietly living here with
relatives for the last 5 years. The
legal term for the President’s directive is “deferred action”, which has the
effect of a two-year blanket suspension of INS deportations for most “unlawful”
aliens. This will allow “lawful permanent residents” to work, go to school,
collect welfare benefits and join the direct pathway to citizenship. Although the Form I-551 Permanent Resident” green card has not always been
colored green, President Obama just made a gift of billions of green dollars to
buy the loyalty of tens of millions of future voters and their extended
families.
Aliens who desired the opportunity to come to the U.S. and become lawful
permanent residents have been required to qualify under a preference
system each year for a finite number of visas
set by Congress. Preference was
given to direct family members, then specialty employment skills, and then
political refugees. In 2010 there were
a total of 480,000 green cards issued.
Family-based green cards were issued to 226,000 relatives of citizens
and permanent residents, 150,000 to specialized workers and another 100,000 to
refugees and political asylum seekers.
By law, no nation’s citizens were allowed to receive more than 25,000
green cards.
The Presidential Order implements
most of the Dream Act legislation that pro-immigrant Congressional
Representatives have tried and failed to pass for a decade. President Obama dishonestly claimed his
Executive Order was focused on giving permanent residence status to children
when he said:
“These are young people who study in our schools, they play in our
neighborhoods, they're friends with our kids, they pledge allegiance to our
flag. They are Americans in their heart, in their minds, in every single way
but one: on paper. They were brought to this country by their parents --
sometimes even as infants -- and often have no idea that they're undocumented
until they apply for a job or a driver's license, or a college scholarship.”
But research by the Center for Immigrant Studies determined that of the 1,998,000 individuals expected to be covered by the Dream
Act; 1,139,000 (57%) would have been adults and only 859,000 (43%) would have
been minors.
In the past citizens and permanent residents who applied for direct
family member visas for their relatives to come to the U.S. legally were
required to provide financial sponsorship by signing Form I-864 Affidavit
of Support. This contractual agreement
made the sponsors personally liable to pay back the government if their
sponsored relative became a “public charge” and collected public assistance
benefits based on need. Millions of
lawful permanent residents undoubtedly reapply for green cards on deferred
status to get financial releases for their sponsors.
There are approximately 18.5
million “lawful permanent residents” in the U.S. and 15 million unlawful
permanent residents. No one knows how
many people around the world would like to immigrate to the United States. But each year an average of 15 million people apply for the United States “green card diversity
lottery” to compete for 50,000 visas, with the odds of winning at
300 to 1. Mexicans are not eligible to
participate in the lottery, because more than 25,000 Mexicans enter the U.S.
each year. But if Mexicans, who represent
30.1% of all current U.S. immigrants, had been allowed to apply for the lottery,
the number of lottery participating would have risen to at least 21.5 million
and the odds of winning would have jumped to 428 to 1.
Given there will be no way to prove if a person has been quietly living
in the U.S. for 5 years or just arrived, I estimate at least 6 million people
will eventually apply to become “lawful permanent residents” as a result of the
Executive Order. The flood of new applications
will generate billions of dollars of business for key Obama supporters. For each application, an immigration lawyer
will collect $4000 in fees and a local newspaper will pocket $1000 to publish
the required “legal notices”.
Last year, deportations of U.S. illegal immigrants reached an all-time record high of
400,000. But President Obama described
his suspension of deportations in a speech from the White House’s Rose Garden
as: “It's the right thing to do, period.”
At a time when there are 20 million unemployed Americans, the
President’s Executive Order will act as a magnet to attract millions of aliens
to take American jobs, burden our schools and suck up social welfare benefits,
period!
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