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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday predicted overwhelming congressional passage of an immigration reform bill.
“I think we are going to have a political breakthrough, that Congress is going to pass immigration reform,” Graham said on NBC's Meet the Press.
He said the Senate will give the reform bill — which currently has a path to citizenship for the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants — overwhelming support. “I think we are going to get plus 70 votes,” he said. “I've never been more optimistic about it.”
http://thehill.com/video/senate/305827-g...r-70-votes
I think the Republicans facing a demographic death spiral are going with a Hail Mary thinking giving illegals the vote will sway them to vote Republican. I think this will backfire and more likely just give Democrats even better numbers for future voters.
Also if these 11 million illegals do become legal how wouldn´t that burden already underfunded programs like Social Security and Medicare? As far as I can tell this bill makes no mention of how they will pay for the benefits to all these illegals.
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Indeed, it is no secret that the employment picture for low-skilled workers is abysmal. The national unemployment rate has been above 7.5 percent for more than four years and millions have dropped out of the workforce entirely. Among those without a high school diploma, the unemployment rate in May reached 11.1 percent, and for blacks without a high school diploma, it is more than 24 percent. The labor-force participation rate is at historic lows and long-term unemployment is the worst since the Great Depression. The workweek is shrinking, as well as wage rates. Barely one in two adult black males has a full-time job. A record 47 million people are on food stamps.
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The bill is structured so that most of the immigrants will be low-skilled. These immigrants will compete with Americans in the low-skilled labor markets. The competition is most fierce in some of the industries in which blacks historically have been highly concentrated, such as construction, agriculture and service. Since the supply of low-skilled workers already exceeds the demand, the massive influx in low-skilled immigrants bodes ill for all such workers
Low wage workers and unskilled workers who are already in pretty bad shape from the recession are going to get another blow to their employment picture if they now have to compete against 11 million now legal low skilled immigrants willing to work longer and harder for less pay. This bill which may pass congress of course get made into law by Obama can´t represent what the vast majority of Americans want. How much more shit will Americans allow their Congressmen to get away with at the expense of the majority of the population?
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