Derail Amnesty
because illegal immigration is ruining California.
Why Enforcement?  Why Not Amnesty?
What would be wrong about granting residency rights to people who are in the country unlawfully?  Didn't many of them come here to work?  Isn't the U.S. largely composed of people who are the descendants of individuals who came here from other countries? 

Immigration laws exist for valid reasons.  To protect the nation from importing criminals and to ensure that newcomers are benefits to their adopted homeland rather than burdens. Further, immigration regulations exist to shore up the financial health of the U.S. and to guard against excessive demands upon citizen taxpayers.  People don't really have to look any further than California to see what happens when these important statutes, that act as a filtering device to protect the United States, go unenforced. 

In no particular order of importance, the following are the ten best reasons for Californians to oppose another amnesty (referred to by some as "comprehensive immigration reform"):

1.  Many public schools would become viable options again for middle class families living in California's large cities.

Currently, scores of elementary and middle schools in Los Angeles, San Diego and San Jose are simply places where you wouldn't enroll your children because they provide sub-par education.  Such is the price paid for acting as sanctuary cities that attract the poorest and least educated residents who hail from Latin America.  

By enforcing current immigration laws, tens of thousands of English-limited students would no longer attend taxpayer funded grade school campuses in the Golden State. The disappearance of such a sizable chunk of enrollees would allow for teachers to concentrate less on remedial education, and provide more individual attention to the remaining students.

2. Amnesties don't stop illegal immigration.

In 1986, it was predicted that approximately one million illegal aliens would avail themselves of the opportunity to obtain legal residency.  After Ronald Reagan signed the Immigration Reform Control Act (IRCA) it turned out that almost 3 million illegal aliens leapt at the chance to sidestep what had been the laws for living in the U.S.  Of those, 1.9 million were residing in Los Angeles County.

IRCA was designed to end the illegal immigration dilemma and ensure enforcement along our southern border.  Twenty four years later, a conservative guess as to the number of people waiting for "comprehensive immigration reform" is 10.5 million.  

If history has taught Americans anything in the last quarter century, it should be this: Amnesties don't stop illegal immigration.  If anything, they leave future waves of intruders expecting to be eventually told that it's OK to stay in the country, despite their law-breaking conduct.

3.  The tax burden is destroying California's economy.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has reported that 1 in 15 Californians is an illegal alien.  And a larger number of Golden State residents are children of illegal aliens. The Federation of American Immigration Reform reported, 5 years ago, that illegal alien families consume 9 billion dollars more, each year, than they pay in tax money.  In February 2009, the Los Angeles Times reported that California has a current budget shortfall of 16 billion dollars.

It's not rocket science and the truth is in the numbers.

4.  African-American unemployment will substantially decrease.

On the average, blacks complete less formal education than members of any other racial group in America.  Further, they commonly have a higher unemployment rate than members of other groups.  As such, they are in direct competition for manual labor and factory jobs sought by unskilled and uneducated illegal aliens.

Do you live in San Jose, Orange County, San Bernardino or one of California's other major population centers?  When was the last time you saw blacks working on a construction site or in a car wash?

5.  Immigration Law Enforcement will be good for our state's environment.

Excess population means more cars on the road and other sources of emission waste 

In fact, almost 28% of the California counties analyzed in the American Lung Association’s “State of the Air: 2008” report failed to meet National Ambient Air Quality Standards for particle pollution with Riverside, Fresno, Kern and Los Angeles counties leading the way, and almost 47 percent of the counties analyzed for ozone pollution received a grade of “F.”

And air pollution is just one of the environmental ills confronting the Golden State. As a result of rampant population growth, we’re also enduring degradation of our ground water and pollution of our rivers, lakes and streams; destruction of national parks, and natural habitats; wildfires and forest fires—often caused by migrating illegal immigrants; over-consumption of precious natural resources; deadly sewage on our beaches and continually expanding urban sprawl.

Experts agree that the most dangerous problem facing our environment now and in the future—whether local, national, or global—is human overpopulation.

6.  Enforcement of immigration laws will reduce crowding in California's prisons and jails.

As recently as 2007, the federal government has threatened to take control of California's prison system because of massive overcrowding that is said to violate 8th Amendment protections against cruel and unusual punishment.  In response to the overcrowding problem, Governor Schwarzenegger proposed sending our excess prison population to leased facilities in other states.  What he never mentioned is the fact that 30% of the inmates incarcerated in California detention centers are in the country illegally.

7.  Fewer immigrants results in faster assimilation.

There are cities in California where a person can successfully live for decades without learning English or acclimating to U.S. customs and traditions.  In many locations in our state, we're not producing citizens who feel strong ties to America or its culture.  Removing illegal aliens from our country will reduce the need/demand for Spanish language newspapers, television stations, radio stations, advertisements and the dozens of things that make it easier in Los Angeles, Fresno and Ontario to live life as if you were in your country of origin, rather than your new one.

8.  Every adult illegal alien has consciously taken what doesn't belong to him.

Illegal immigration is theft, and not just of hospital medical services and public education.  Every competent adult who remains in this country unlawfully is wrongfully occupying a space in the U.S. that should go to a qualified would-be immigrant overseas who has properly applied to enter our country.  There are lengthy waiting lists in many countries to immigrate to the United States.

Why on Earth should we reward successful theft with an opportunity at citizenship? 

9.  California's major cities will suffer the impact of another amnesty disproportionately, in comparison to other locations in the U.S.

Look at history as a guide.  Over 60% of the illegal aliens given amnesty in 1986 were residing in Southern California.  Which city has a public high school graduation rate slightly over 50%, despite having the highest paid public school teachers in the nation:  L.A. or Norwich?  Which state has seen dozens of public hospitals file for bankruptcy as a result of unpaid emergency room bills:  California or Montana?  What city's major concern is ethnic cleansing of its African-American population by Latino gangs:  Harbor Gateway or Muncie?  

10.  Failing to enforce immigration laws would be squandering a golden opportunity.

California is currently wrestling with a budget shortfall in the neighborhood of 24 billion dollars.  Many of our public grade schools are no man's lands.  Our prisons are stuffed with current and former illegal aliens and their children.  Los Angeles County has a million more residents than it did in 1990 but a quarter million fewer jobs.

What would it mean to have hundreds of thousands of limited-English speaking children and students with delinquency records removed from our public schools?  How would the ability to obtain construction and janitorial jobs in Los Angeles impact the lives of African-Americans in Compton, Fresno and Carson?  Would you like to commute to your job in Orange County or San Diego on freeways that have 15% to 20% fewer automobiles on them?  

Enforcement of current immigration laws would result in an enormous leap in the quality of life for citzens who reside in America's most populous state.  Another amnesty would only make the problems set in motion by the Immigration Reform Control Act of 1986, that have plagued California since that time, permanent.  

Illegal immigration is wrong -- plain and simple. - Senator Charles Schumer
 
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