Editor's note: Steve S. Rao is a council member and former Mayor Pro Tem of Morrisville. He also serves on the Board of the New American Economy, a bi partisan
11 May 2021
The federal government can reduce illegal migration by raising legal immigration, says a new pro-amnesty coalition of establishment leaders, including George W. Bush and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
“We can end the cycle of compromising situations at the southern border by ensuring that migrants have appropriate and accessible legal channels to migrate,” the May 11 announcement by the group says.
The legal-ends-illegal claim “is completely absurd unless the position is that there should be unlimited immigration,” Rob Law, the director of regulatory affairs and policy for the Center for Immigration Studies, told Breitbart News on Tuesday.
“There’s no reasonable level of capped immigration that could be set that would satisfy all the [worldwide] demand” for U.S. jobs by would-be-migrants, he said.
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April’s disappointing job numbers suggest the economy is not yet on a path to full recovery. Yet politicians in both parties are ignoring the one obvious improvement they could make to expand the economy rather than fighting over who gets a larger piece of the existing pie.
President Biden has proposed a huge transfer of wealth by raising taxes among the highest earners to pay for new social programs for families and the elderly and added benefits for workers, in addition to investments in higher education, alternative energy and traditional and high-tech infrastructure.
But even some Democrats have qualms about the price tag of his proposals $2 trillion for the American Jobs Plan and $1.8 trillion for the American Families Plan and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has said that the proposals in their current form are unlikely to get a single Republican vote. Meanwhile, immigration reform which has the greatest potential to add jobs to the economy and taxpayers
The Indianapolis City-County Council approved a fiscal ordinance Monday that will allocate $150,000 to pilot an immigrant defense fund. The money will help immigrants in Indianapolis seeking asylum, pursuing citizenship, or those at risk of deportation with legal information, consultations and representation. Local organizations that are already doing this work are maxed out with their caseload, said Jordan Rodriguez, who works in the city s human resources department and is the former director of the city s Office of International and Latino Affairs. So this would basically provide funds to be able to increase perhaps, you know, personnel for those organizations, and also just help with various (immigration process) fees that immigrants have to pay as well.
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