Corporate Sponsorship Of Illegal Immigration

[Miro Satan Fan]

Sigh…

L.A. Times (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/latimests/despiteillegalstatusbuyersgethomeloans) - Each week, Pedro Morlet knocks on doors in the Bay Area, looking for illegal immigrants.

Morlet isn’t an immigration agent. He’s a real estate agent, and he’s scouting for business.

“Do you want a house, work and pay taxes but don’t have a Social Security number?” reads his flier, written in Spanish and tailored to his potential customers. “We can help you LEGALLY!”

Across the country, particularly in Texas and parts of the Midwest, hundreds of illegal immigrants have bought homes using special lending programs that bypass the need for a Social Security number. Now, with backing from some of the country’s largest financial institutions, this newest effort to tap customers for the real estate market is moving to the nation’s largest concentration of illegal immigrants — California.
In short, these lending companies are adding more incentive for border jumpers to commit a crime and cross into this country illegally. We spend tax dollars on border security so that we can keep tabs on the people who come into this country. This is primarily for security reasons, but its also so that we can make sure the people who enter this country fulfill the proper requirements of a) becoming a citizen and b) fulfilling the obligations (like taxes, etc.) that come with being a citizen.

When we tell these illegals that they can come into our country and live like openly as defacto citizens without fulfilling the requirements or obligations of becoming a citizen why shouldn’t they cross our border illegally? And, further, if we’re not going to take border security seriously then why bother paying taxes to guard it at all?

If our politicians were taking border security seriously, if our law enforcement agencies would simply enforce the laws already on the books, these companies will be charged with aiding and abetting fugitives.

Sadly, nobody seems interested in that sort of thing.

[Avid_Liberal_Hater]

Illegal immigration will soon become the predominant political and social issue of our time. As much as businesses and governments encourage Mexicans to sneak in, the majority of us DON'T want them here.

[FKLBRLS]

Well we all no whose side the liberals will be on. They will be on the side of the lenders of course. "these people have a right to do business and these undocumented immigrants (can't call them illegals now) have the right to purchase" That will be the left's BS argument.

[smashmybongos]

actually, no , we liberals love the idea of kicking illegal immigrants out of this coutnry. if anyone would be opposed to the idea, it would be a conservative. their the ones who love the idea of illegals working for them, for low wages. and illegal immigrants ad a burden to the welfare state.

[Miro Satan Fan]

Members of the Left, who would lead us down Hayek's road to serfdom (http://www.mises.org/TRTS.htm), have long rejected the Western notion of sovereignty. In particular, they believe any attempt to exercise control of our own borders is "racist," and possibly even a "hate crime." The Founding Fathers had a different view. In Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, they empowered Congress to "suppress insurrections and repel Invasions." Today it seems America has lost control of its borders thanks to an invasion by illegal immigrants, and the Left continues to oppose American sovereignty for a simple reason: illegal immigration advances socialism.

This becomes apparent when one examines the "social injustices" trumpeted by the Left. Analyze how illegal immigration feeds those perceived injustices. Without hordes of illegal immigrants, the causes celebre of the Left disappear.

The left-wing think tank (a misnomer, as the Left doesn't think; it emotes), California Budget Project, frequently uses the impact of illegal immigration to build a case for mythical social injustices. The CBP's data are often cited by legislators and journalists.

One current cause celebre is the "earnings gap." Another hot topic is socialized health care. Let's take a look at just these two to see why socialists love illegals and abhor sovereignty.

In a January 2003 report, "The Economy Remains Stagnant," the CBP stated, "The number of working poor increased during the recession" (Mar. 2001 until Nov. 2002), and "The hourly earnings of low-wage and typical California workers made little progress over the past decade." Its thinly-veiled solution is for more socialism in the form of welfare programs and regulations on employers.

According to the INS Office of Policy and Planning, the total illegal immigrant population in the U.S. as of 2000 was 7 million, of which 32%, or 2.2 million, resided in California, comprising 6.5% of our total population. These figures do not include children born to illegals, children who were granted citizenship in violation of the intent of the framer of the Fourteenth Amendment who wrote the citizenship clause, Sen. Jacob Howard.

Since education is the best indicator of economic success, let's look at the educational level of immigrants. An analysis of Census Bureau data by the Center for Immigration Studies shows prior to the 1970s, immigrants not only came in much lower numbers, they came with much higher educational levels. Only 17.3 percent had less than an high school diploma, and their median income was slightly higher than that of native Americans. Of those who came in the 1990s, 34.6 percent -- exactly twice the pre-70s level -- did not have a diploma. Immigrants now comprise more than 40 percent of all high school dropouts in the workforce.

This surplus of uneducated, unskilled labor distorts the forces of supply and demand, locking wages at rock bottom. The socialist remedy is a "living wage." Yet a significant portion of the bottom 20 percent of wage earners are uneducated illegals.

Without the negative impact of uneducated illegals on the labor market, the Left's argument vaporizes. The second quintile (21-40 percent) would become the bottom quintile, dramatically lifting the hourly wage of that category. Many of the third quintile would move into the second one, etc. The increasing "earnings gap" and the rationalization for an economically crushing "living wage" would disappear. For those who are here legally, the rich may be getting richer, but the poor are getting richer even faster.

The second cause celebre is health care. Most of the legion of Democrat candidates for president, and many in Congress and state legislatures, are calling for various forms of increased socialized health care. They cite statistics purporting to show more and more people can't afford health insurance. Census Bureau data reveal some dirty little secrets here, too.

It is true since 1989 the national population without health insurance has grown by 7.8 million to 41.2 million in 2001. This is almost exactly the incease in the number of illegals in the U.S. When one counts both immigrants and children born to them, over 95 percent of the increase in uninsureds is the result of immigration, more than half of which (by some estimates, 70 percent) is attributable to illegal immigration.

The root cause of this is the illegals don't have the educational skills to command a job that includes medical benefits. But that doesn't stop the socialists from calling for more federal and state health care programs, more federal and state regulation of the health care industry, more laws requiring employers to provide health insurance, etc., ad nauseam.

The naive are fond of saying cheap illegal labor is good for us, and good for our economy. False. The economic impact of uneducated, unskilled illegal labor fuels the arguments of the Left, and accelerates our journey down the road to socialism.

To stay free and prosperous, Congress needs to live up to its constitutional responsibility to execute the laws of the Union and repel an immigration invasion. In so doing, it would defang the class warfare arguments the Left uses to advance socialism.

[Avid_Liberal_Hater]

actually, no , we liberals love the idea of kicking illegal immigrants out of this coutnry. if anyone would be opposed to the idea, it would be a conservative. their the ones who love the idea of illegals working for them, for low wages. and illegal immigrants ad a burden to the welfare state.

You mistake 'conservatives' with 'businessmen'. Conservates DO NOT want illegals here, no matter how little they earn. Businessmen, and Congressmen, do.

And I have my doubts that libs 'love the idea' of kicking out illegals.

[Wadi66]

And I have my doubts that libs 'love the idea' of kicking out illegals.In light of their efforts to allow people to vote without ID, its hard to believe liberals "love the idea" of kicking out illegals. Why throw away votes??