Illegal Immigration Is An Absolute Nightmare For The U.S.

Barack Obama Is Wrong: 18 Facts Which Prove That Illegal Immigration Is An Absolute Nightmare For The U.S. Economy

Barack Obama has declared that 

“immigration reform is an economic imperative“,

and is promising to do his best to get an 

immigration bill pushed through Congress this 

year.  But will “legalizing” all of the illegal 

immigration that has taken place over the 

last several decades improve the struggling

U.S. economy or will it actually make our 

economic problems worse?  One of the favourite

tricks of top politicians is to promise that the 

economy is going to improve if we just support 

what it is that they are currently pushing.  

Hopefully the Americans people will not buy the nonsense that Obama is 

spewing.  The truth is that Barack Obama is wrong about the economic 

impact of illegal immigration.  Illegal immigrants don’t do jobs that 

Americans “don’t want” to do.  

A million Americans recently showed up to apply for a job at McDonald’s.  

That is how desperate Americans are for work these days.  Please don’t 

try to tell me that there aren’t millions of Americans out there that would 

not pick fruit for minimum wage.  The millions upon millions of illegal 

immigrants in this country are stealing jobs, they are depressing wages in 

a whole host of industries and they are a huge factor in the erosion of the 

middle class. 

 Millions of middle class American families can’t afford to provide for their 

families anymore and are losing their homes, drowning in debt or going 

bankrupt.  Rather than what Barack Obama is proposing (which is to 

essentially “legalize” illegal immigration), we need an immigration policy 

that makes sense and that protects American jobs.

Before we go any further, it is important for me to make a few points.  
It is not a bad thing that people want to come to this nation from another 
country.  A lot of people that want to come to the United States are really 
hard working and have really solid character.  This nation has a long 
tradition of immigrants arriving to build a better life here. At different times 
this country will need different levels of immigration, but we will always 
need new immigrants.  People on one side of a border are not more 
“valuable” than people on another side of a border.  There is a reason why 
our founding fathers believed that “all men are created equal”.  In every 
nation on earth there are really wonderful people.  We should love all men, 
women and children no matter where they were born and no matter what 
they look like.  Mother Nature created us all and she loves us all dearly.

The reason I went into all that is because of the way politics is played in 
America in 2011.  The moment that anyone suggests that there might be 
a problem with illegal immigration they are immediately branded with all 
kinds of horrible labels.  To put a horrible label on someone that is completely 
and totally untrue just to score political points is absolutely despicable.

The funny thing is that some of the organizations that denounce others the 
loudest should actually be examining themselves.  For example, one of the 
largest pro-illegal immigration organizations is called “La Raza”, which literally 
means “The Race” (as if we all couldn’t figure it out).  Perhaps it is time for 
them to come up with a new name.

A majority of the American people (yes, that is what the polls show) are not 
against illegal immigration because they “hate” another group of people.  
Rather, they just want all immigrants to go through the “front door” and 
they want the government to be sensitive to changing economic conditions.

The sad truth is that the U.S. government has absolutely refused to secure 
the U.S. border with Mexico for decades, and this has allowed millions 
upon millions of criminals, drug dealers and gang members to cross freely 
into the United States.  In addition, by refusing to secure the border we 
have allowed new diseases to spread unchecked into this country.

Meanwhile, the law abiding people that would like to get into this country 
legally are put through absolute hell.  I used to practice law and I have 
filled out immigration forms.  The process is a complete and total nightmare.

So we have been making it really easy for law breakers to sneak in the back 
door of our country and we have been making it really hard for law abiding
 people to get in the front door.

What in the world could be wrong about wanting to fix that?

Once many illegal immigrants arrive in the United States they either try to 
make a living legally (by directly competing with blue collar American 
workers  for jobs and driving their wages down) or illegally by selling 
drugs or being involved in other kinds of criminal activity.

Apparently Barack Obama believes that this kind of behavior should be 
rewarded with a “path to citizenship”.

The vast majority of illegal immigrants pay absolutely no federal or 
state income taxes and they never intend to.  At the same time, they 
seem more than happy to take advantage of the free social services 
and benefits offered to them.  In fact, stories of how the “good life" in 
America just encourages more and more immigrants to come to the 
United States illegally.

We need an immigration policy that insists that everyone come in 
through the front door.

Is there anyone out there that cannot agree with that?

We also need to set immigration levels that our economy can handle.

Right now our economy is struggling.  Millions upon millions of Americans 
are out of work.  48 million Americans are on food stamps.  47 million 
Americans are living in poverty.  We just can’t take in a whole lot of 
extra workers right now.

You would think that would just be common sense.

But instead, Barack Obama wants to grant amnesty to all of the illegal 
immigrants that are already here and put them on a path to citizenship.

Wow – do you think that might embolden millions more illegal 
immigrants to come flooding in?

Barack Obama is against a border fence.  He says we don’t need it.

Meanwhile, thousands more illegal immigrants pour into this country 
every single day.

Barack Obama supports all of the “sanctuary cities” that have openly 
declared that they are not going to enforce our immigration laws.

So where do you think illegal immigrants are going to flock to?  The 
truth is that word about these “sanctuary cities” gets around really 
fast.  If you live in one of these cities, then you probably know all about 
it.

If Barack Obama gets his way, nobody will be breaking our immigration 
laws because essentially there will not be any more immigration laws.

Not that George W. Bush was any better.  He was an 
absolute disaster on immigration as well.

The truth is that our immigration policy has been slowly eroding the 
U.S. middle class for many decades.

But according to Barack Obama, we desperately need to implement his 
“immigration reform” plan for the good of the middle class….
“One way to strengthen the middle class in America is to reform the 
immigration system, so that there is no longer a massive underground 
economy that exploits a cheap source of labor while depressing wage 
for everybody else.”

What a joke.  The reality is that illegal immigration hurts that U.S. middle 
class and it is severely damaging to the U.S. economy.  Because of illegal 
immigration, every single day wages are lost, taxes don’t get collected, 
hospitals provide “free health care” for which they are never paid, huge 
criminal gangs of foreigners are roaming our streets and the cost of 
providing social services to illegal aliens is slowly bankrupting state and 
local governments.

The following are 18 facts which prove that illegal immigration is an 
absolute nightmare for the U.S. economy….

#1 Illegal immigrants take jobs away from American citizens. According 
to a review of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census Bureau data, 
legal and illegal immigrants gained over a million additional jobs between 
2008 and 2010 even as millions of American citizens were losing their 
jobs during that same time period.

#2 The majority of our immigrants now sneak in through the “back door” 
that the federal government purposely leaves open.  Thanks to the 
negligence of the federal government, far more people 
move into the United States illegally than come in through the legal 
immigration process.  This has got to change.

#3 Illegal immigrants generally don’t pay taxes.  The vast majority of 
illegal aliens would never even dream of paying income taxes, but 
Mexicans living in America send billions upon billions of dollars out of 
the United States and back to Mexico every single year.

#4 Although illegal aliens pay next to nothing in taxes, they have no 
problem receiving tens of billions of dollars worth of free education 
benefits, free health care benefits, free housing assistance and free 
food stamp benefits.  Many communities in the United States now 
openly advertise that they will help illegal aliens with these things.

#5 The cost of educating the children of illegal immigrants is staggering. 
It is estimated that U.S. taxpayers spend $12,000,000,000 a year on 
primary and secondary school education for the children of illegal 
immigrants.

#6 Thanks to illegal immigration, California’s overstretched health 
care system is on the verge of collapse.  Dozens of California hospitals 
and emergency rooms have shut down over the last decade because 
they could not afford to stay open after being endlessly swamped by 
illegal immigrants who were simply not able to pay for the services 
that they were receiving.  As a result, the remainder of the health care 
system in the state of California is now beyond overloaded.  This had 
led to brutally long waits, diverted ambulances and even unnecessary 
patient deaths.  Sadly, the state of California now ranks dead last out 
of all 50 states in the number of emergency rooms per million people.

#7 It was estimated that there were approximately 7.7 million illegal aliens 
employed by U.S. employers during 2008.  How much better would our 
economy look if all of those jobs were being filled by American workers?

#8 The region along the U.S./Mexico border is now an open war zone. 
Just across the U.S. border, the city of Juarez, Mexico is considered to 
be one of the most dangerous cities on the entire planet because of the 
brutal drug war being waged there. In fact, Juarez has now become 
the murder capital of the western hemisphere.  Much of that violence 
has begun to spill over into areas of the southwestern United States.

For example, a while back NPR described one incident in the Juarez 
Valley that involved American citizens….
A couple of weeks ago, gunmen in the Juarez Valley killed the Mexican 
relative of a Fort Hancock high school student. When the student’s 
family in Fort Hancock heard about it, they crossed the border at 
10 a.m. to see the body, and took the student with them. “By 10:30,
they had stabbed the relatives that went with him, which included 
his grandparents, with an ice pick,” says school superintendent Jose 
Franco. “My understanding is that the gentleman is like 90 years old, 
and they poked his eyes out with an ice pick. I believe those people 
are still in intensive care here in a hospital in the U.S.”

#9 A substantial percentage of young illegal immigrants end up in 
gangs.  U.S. authorities say that there are now over 1 million 
members of criminal gangs operating inside the United States. 
According to federal statistics, these 1 million gang members 
are responsible for up to 80% of the violent crimes committed 
in the U.S. each year.  Latino gangs made up primarily of illegal 
aliens are responsible for much of this violence.

According to the Center for Immigration Studies, some of the most 
notorious gangs in the country are made up almost entirely of illegal 
immigrants….
“Gang investigators in Virginia estimate that 90% of the members 
of MS-13, the most notorious immigrant gang, are illegal immigrants.”

#10 The “18th Street Gang” is certainly giving MS-13 a run for 
their money.  It is believed that the 18th Street Gang has thousands 
of members in the city of Los Angeles alone. In fact, the gang has 
become so notorious that there are even rumors that some police 
officers in Los Angeles simply will not venture into the areas most 
heavily controlled by the 18th Street gang.

The following is what Wikipedia says about the 18th Street Gang….

A US Justice Department report from 2009 estimates that the 18th 

Street gang has a membership of some 30,000 to 50,000 with 80% 

of them being illegal aliens from Mexico and Central America and is 

active in 44 cities in 20 states. Its main source of income is street-level 

distribution of cocaine and marijuana and, to a lesser extent, heroin 

and methamphetamine. Gang members also commit assault, auto 

theft, carjacking, drive-by shootings, extortion, homicide, identification 

fraud, and robbery.

#11 The “drug war” in northern Mexico is one gigantic bloodbath. 
The Mexican government says that as many as 35,000 people have
been slaughtered by the drug cartels since 2007.  A very significant 
percentage of those deaths have happened in areas right along the 
U.S. border, and yet our federal government still sees no reason to 
get serious about border security.

#12 It is an open secret that Mexican drug cartels are 
openly conducting military operations inside the United States.  
The handful of border patrol agents that we have guarding the border 
are massively outgunned and outmanned.

One agent who patrols the border and who asked to remain 
anonymous told Fox News the following….
“To say that this area is out of control is an understatement.”

A different federal agent put it this way in an email to Fox News….

“Every night we’re getting beaten like a piñata at a birthday party 
by drug, alien smugglers.”

#13 Federal border officials say that Mexican drug cartels have not 
only set up shop on U.S. soil, but they are actually 
maintaining lookout bases in strategic locations in the hills of southern
Arizona.  If you go to Arizona today, there are actually signs that have 
been put up by the federal government warning American citizens not 
to venture into certain wilderness routes that are used by Mexican drug 
cartels to bring in drugs.

#14 The drug war being waged on both sides of the border is so 
violent that it is almost unimaginable.  For example, one very 
prominent Mexican assassin known as “the soupmaker” has 
confessed that he made approximately 300 bodies disappear by 
dissolving them in acid baths.  But right now there is essentially 
nothing that is preventing the next “soupmaker” from crossing the 
U.S. border and moving into your neighborhood.

#15 Arizona police are being openly warned by the Mexican drug 
cartels that if they try to interfere with the drug traffic in their area 
that they will be “taken out” by drug cartel snipers.

#16 While the U.S. military endlessly hunts for “members of al-Qaeda”
 in the caves of Afghanistan and on the streets of Iraqi cities, a very 
real threat has been building just south of the border.  Over the past 
15 to 20 years, Hezbollah has set up operations 
all over Mexico, Central America and South America.  Hezbollah is 
reportedly making a lot of money in the drug trade and in trafficking 
illegal aliens.  Sadly, our government is largely ignoring this.

#17 Each year, it costs the states billions of dollars to incarcerate 
illegal immigrant criminals that should have never been allowed into 
the country in the first place. It is estimated that illegal aliens make up
approximately 30 percent of the population in federal, state and local 
prisons and that the total cost of incarcerating them
 is more than $1.6 billion annually.

#18 The drug cartels and the gangs always seem to be a couple 
steps ahead of our agents along the border. Approximately 75 tunnels 
along the U.S. border with Mexico have been discovered by law 
enforcement authorities in the last four years alone. The last being 
discovered not far from where Obama gave his "alligator" speech 
this week whilst he was still speaking!

How much do you think all of this crime, gang violence and drug 
cartel activity is costing our economy?

Why won’t the federal government do what the Constitution requires 
and secure the border?

Oh, but Barack Obama says that he has a plan.

He says that he is going to save the day.

The following is how Barack Obama describes his plan…

“We are not going to ship back 12 million people, we’re not going to do 
it as a practical matter. We would have to take all our law enforcement
that we have available and we would have to use it to put people on 
buses, and rip families apart, and that’s not who we are, that’s not what 
America is about. So what I've proposed… 
is you say we’re going to bring these folks out of the shadows. We’re 
going to make them pay a fine, they are going to have to learn English, 
they are going to have to go to the back of the line…but they will have 
a pathway to citizenship over the course of 10 years.”

So how many illegal immigrants do you think are going to step forward 
to pay a fine?

One percent?

How many of them do you think are going to show up for English classes?

Who is going to make them do it?

Obama?

Are we going to have law enforcement officials running around trying 
to collect fines from illegal immigrants and trying to get them to attend 
their English lessons?

According to Obama, the millions upon millions of illegal immigrants 
that are in this country are going to be glad to willingly do the following….

1) Admit they broke the law

2) Pay back taxes and a fine

3) Learn English

4) Be willing to undergo background checks before starting the 
legalization process

Those four points are taken directly from Obama’s plan.

So what are illegal immigrants going to do when this plan is passed?

99 percent of them are going to laugh and they are just going to keep 
on doing what they have been doing.

Large numbers of illegal immigrants are already enjoying the “high life” 
in the dozens of “sanctuary cities” across the United States.

The following is how the Ohio Jobs & Justice PAC defines sanctuary 
cities….
Generally, sanctuary policies instruct city employees not to notify the 
federal government of the presence of illegal aliens living in their 
communities. The policies also end the distinction between legal 
resident aliens and illegal aliens–so illegal aliens often benefit from
 taxpayer funded government services and programs too.

Sounds like a good deal to me.

Can I sign up for that plan?

After all, who wouldn’t want to earn all income tax-free and yet enjoy
unlimited government services?

Today we are being told that we need to make life as comfortable as 
possible for the waves of illegal immigrants that are coming in.  In fact, 
Barack Obama says that all of us need to make sure 
that our kids are learning how to speak Spanish….
“I don’t understand when people are going around worrying about, 
needing to have English only. They want to pass a law, that we want 
English only…Now, I agree that immigrants should learn English. But 
understand this, instead of worrying about whether immigrants learn 
English,  you need to make sure your child can speak Spanish.”

All of this is utter insanity.

The cold, hard reality of the matter is that we have tightly secured 
the border between South Korea and North Korea for over 50 years 
and we could secure our own borders if we really wanted to.

But instead, we continue to leave our border with Mexico completely 
wide open. Thousands of criminals, gang members and drug pushers 
continue to come in completely unchecked every single day.

Meanwhile, the rest of us have to subject ourselves to some of the most 
humiliating “security measures” imaginable before we are even allowed 
to get on to an airplane.

It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, does it? What say you???????