CCN’s NET Cost of Legal Immigration
Study has facilitated Progress toward achieving reductions in Legal
Immigration. This positive trend follows CCN's widely distributed “NET Costs of
Legal Immigration” Study, which reached the White House, Members of Congress,
and the Media.
The Key Point of the Study is that the
large Numbers of LEGAL Immigrants entering the USA annually — about 1.5 to 1.6
Million — generate Huge NET (i.e., after subtracting Taxes Immigrants Pay)
Costs to U.S. Taxpayers, i.e., $330 Billion per Year. Importantly, that “over
$300 BILLION” Number was noted by Administration sources soon after they
received CCN’s Study.
Remarkably, The Administration’s Team
on immigration, has now focused on the costs of LEGAL Immigrant Numbers/Costs
linkage, as explicitly made by CCN. The White House has made the very
sensible proposal to deny Green Cards (i.e., permanent resident status) to any
immigrant who used taxpayer funded programs, e.g., Health care, Welfare, etc. or is
likely to use them in the future! This brilliantly highlights a Key Question:
Why should the American Taxpayer fund Legal Immigrants if the cost amounts to
about $1000 per year for every existing US Citizen?
Indeed, about two thirds of all legal
immigrants have used or prospectively will use federally (taxpayer)-funded
Programs, many in violation of the conditions they swore to follow on their
applications for visas.
So Carrying Capacity urges you to join
us to continue to intensify our pressure by pushing your Representatives for
BOTH
1) an all-categories-included Zero-Net
Moratorium (which would reduce the USA’s Budget Deficit by over a Half Trillion
Dollars in the next decade, if enacted now) AND for
2) Denial of Green Cards to any
Immigrant who has or is likely to receive taxpayer funded benefits ...Also push
for building The Wall and enacting e-Verify, etc. to keep up the pressure
against illegal aliens entry.
Consider The Open Borders
lobbies Interpretation as reflected in the Mainstream (i.e., Open
Borders) Media:
“… Politico reported yesterday that one
policy proposal aimed at both groups—making it more difficult for immigrants
to get green cards by penalizing those who have previously used any form of
public benefits, including insurance subsidies and tax credits—is already
discouraging immigrants from applying for programs they need before it’s even
on the books….” [Emphasis added, Ed.]
"Stephen Miller's Latest Immigration Scheme Is Already
Hurting Immigrants and Their Children”, Libby
Watson, 9/04/18, Splinter News
The Administration’s response to
critics:
“‘There is no constitutional right for a citizen in a foreign
country who has no status in America to demand entry into our country. Such a
right cannot exist. Such a right will never exist…. This is an ideological
disagreement between those who believe we should have borders and should have
controls and those who believe there should be no borders and no controls.’
[Stephen Miller, in an interview with ABC News].”
By Nahal Toosi, 08/29/2018, via Politico.com
Thus, CCN's NET Costs of Legal
Immigration Study, via the Trump Administration, is beginning to have
considerable impact as the following sympathetic reviews indicate:
“There's been a spate of articles in recent days
complaining that the Trump Administration is moving to prevent welfare
recipients from obtaining green cards. We are in one of those Narrative Shift
moments.
“It seems just yesterday that the Left was arguing that
immigrants don't use welfare [Immigrants
Don't Drain Welfare. They Fund It. by Laura
Reston, The New Republic, September 3, 2015]
“Now, we are being told they do use
welfare. In fact, they desperately need it, and you are a monster if you think
there's a problem with this. [Emphasis added, Ed.]
“A typical passage from Slate:
‘Immigrant advocates immediately raised concern that even
mentioning the proposed new rule could push low-income immigrants to avoid
requesting public benefits out of fear that it could jeopardize their chances
of receiving a green card in the future. Although the move shouldn’t affect
those who already have green cards, advocates are also concerned they will stop
using public benefits to be on the safe side. And those who would most likely
be affected would be children of immigrants who are in the United States
legally….’
[White House Wants to Deny Green
Cards to Immigrants Who Receive Public Benefits, by
Daniel Politi, September 23, 2018]
“And from the National Review:
‘…Special cases such as refugees aside, there is no reason
whatsoever for the U.S. to welcome immigrants who cannot support themselves
without taxpayer subsidies. Current policy does a horrible job of implementing
this principle, and therefore we endorse the Trump administration’s new effort
to tighten the policy up...
‘Our laws say that immigrants are ineligible for visas and
green cards if they are likely to become dependent on the safety net funded by
U.S. taxpayers. It’s time to start enforcing that policy.’
[Immigrants should support
themselves, by The Editors, National Review,
September 24 2018]’
“… Daniel
Horowitz at Conservative Review forcefully
argued last month that even the idea of immigrants receiving welfare would have
been horrifying to the Founding Fathers.
‘Immigration is an elective policy of a sovereign nation.
It should benefit America and never create a public charge. That notion is one
of the most foundational principles of our country. It dates back to colonial
times and has been enforced by the states since the founding and then by the
federal government when it fully reclaimed immigration in the 1880s. That
immigrants shouldn’t be a public charge is still the law on the books, yet it’s
rarely enforced. Now that the Trump administration is seeking to enforce the
law, suddenly the Left is screaming about denying immigrants their rightful
citizenship...
‘It’s quite entertaining to watch the open-borders crowd go
from explaining how these are the most prosperous immigrants of all time to
telling us that the proposal would dramatically cut immigration. Obviously,
this is an admission that for decades they have been lying to us about the
nature of many of the immigrants coming to the country and just how many of
them receive welfare….’
[Welfare for immigrants is alien
to our laws, history, and traditions, August 8,
2018]”
“After 1000 ‘Immigrants Don’t Use Welfare’ Stories, MSM
Outraged At Trump Restricting Immigrant Welfare Us”, James Kirkpatrick, via vdare.com, September 24, 2018
In sum, focusing on the NET Costs of LEGAL
Immigration creates Considerable Additional Leverage to get lower LEGAL Immigration
Numbers.
Immigration and especially The NET
Costs of Legal Immigration has thus
rocketed up to the top issue on the minds of many voters this cycle. So, publicizing the
Study is a Key winning message Immigration Reductionists can disseminate for
the next few weeks to aid in stopping the fleecing of America. SO CONTACT
YOUR REPRESENTATIVES NOW!
And if you can, please help us,
(Carrying Capacity Network) intensify our Activist Mobilization, Media, lobbying
and public education efforts by helping to mobilize our many thousands of
volunteer activists with a one-time tax-deductible donation. Any donation, no
matter how small will be greatly appreciated. And remember that CCN is a
Genuine Mass Immigration Reduction Group, so Donations to CCN have far more
impact dollar for dollar than Donations to Mass Immigration Management Groups
who refuse to support a Zero-Net Moratorium.
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the NET Costs of Legal Immigration Study, please donate by Credit Card at Carrying Capacity Network, Inc. or
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