The economic case is clear. Immigrants who become citizens consistently pursue higher-paying jobs and higher education, spend more and provide higher tax revenue. Just imagine what 12 million newly documented Americans could do for the economy. The legalization process also brings economic benefits like the retention of remittances. Reform will reunite families separated by our immigration system and keep monies in the U.S., instead of having workers send substantial portions of their salary to their family members abroad. As an example of the potential, U.S. remittances to Latin America alone totaled almost $46 billion in 2008. Of that, Mexico received almost $24 billion. Reducing remittances offers an obvious potential cash infusion for our economy, as billions of dollars currently being sent overseas would instead be spent in American shops and restaurants, creating jobs and helping to get our economy going.

The current political environment in Congress and in the nation will not support comprehensive immigration reform at this time. 17 million people are out of work. Helping them is the highest priority, and legalizing 20 million undocumented people does not help that goal.

Yes, it is frustrating to see the issue put on the back burner. President Obama is not being dishonest with the Latino community’s pro-legalization faction, he is simply responding to political realities.

To ask President Obama to push reform, right after Senator Brown took the most liberal seat in the Senate, largely on an anti-amnesty platform, means that the views advocated by Rep. Gutierrez are skating on thin ice.

To ask President Obama to push reform right now is equal to asking the Democratic Party to punch a hole in its own political canoe, and allow itself to sink. It will not let that happen, nor should they.

As a long-time advocate-in and friend-of the Latino community, I am sympathetic to the desire or millions of undocumented men, women and children to live a normal life. But now is not the time to push this issue.

In my humble opinion, the Latino community and its organizers need to reflect upon what is happening, with the goal of working to change conditions so that legalization becomes a more attractive idea for the citizens of the United States.

Issues that block American citizen consent for legalization include the following:

1. The anger being expressed at President Obama shows a lack of patience in the Latino community. The African American community had to work for many decades just to achieve a basic level legally recognized respect for their human rights. The U.S. has other priorities right now. Reform is going to have to wait.

2. As anyone who goes to Latin America, or who goes to a community event in a U.S. barrio knows, people ‘disrespect the line.’ That is, people cut in front of others, push each other, and bypass a line altogether and just walk up to a food vendor at a festival, for example, and ask for favoritism. And they get it. Coming over the U.S. border illegally is another form of disrespecting the line. Non-Latinos in the U.S. know this. Do you think that wins the community any friends? No.

3. The Latino community cannot deny, nor can it hide the fact that millions of legal and undocumented immigrants from Latin America now receive some form of public assistance in the U.S. There is no such think as welfare in almost all Latin American nations. If you do not work, they will literally let a person die (as many do). It is OK to come to the U.S. to work. But seeking public assistance is highly offensive, because U.S. taxpayers have to pay for that, to the tune of billions of dollars. I personally know young Latina women who, due to machismo (Latin America’s infamous code of institutionalized sexism), have had 4 or 5 children who are U.S. citizens, through which they get food stamps, free healthcare, housing assistance at a level that really means that they never have to go out and work. Their children’s fathers, also true to Latino code of machismo, have long since abandoned them, and feel that it is their mandate to have as many children as possible, with as many women as possible, and then not to feel any remorse that they then take care of none of those children. Everyone who is Latino here knows what I’m talking about.

4. In 1950, The U.S. and Canada, on the one hand, and all of Latin America, on the other hand, each had a population of about 170 million people.

In the 60 years since 1950, the U.S. and Canada have doubled their population (even with waves of immigration). In those same 60years, Latin America has tripled its population to 560 million.

I attended a recent pre-release screening of the CNN special program Latino in America. After the showing, a panel of Latino leaders and journalists talked with the public. One leader bragged by saying that Latino workers must be allowed into the corporate Board Room (that more Latinos should be running companies, which is fine), because, he said, white Americans have a rate of birth replacement of those who die of 2 to one, whereas Latinos had a ratio of 8 to 1. Sorry brother, that was nothing to brag about, and U.S. citizens don’t think its funny.

By 2050 the population of the U.S. and Canada is projected to reach 400+ million. Also in 2050, the Latin American population is expected to reach 800 to 900 million.

Hmmm…. In 2010 Latin America cannot feed, employ, cloth and house its population. It encourages as many people as possible to migrate to the U.S.

How is Latin America going to support the additional 300 or so millions of people (equal to the U.S. population in right now in 2010)… in the year 2050?

The only possible way to do that is to strip the U.S. for parts.

In the meantime, Representative Gutierrez’s proposal for legalization will make perhaps 20 million undocumented residents of the U.S. citizens. They will then have the right not just to billions in social benefits, but also to bring their extended families to the U.S., totally, over time, perhaps 100 million people. And that population has, as everyone knows, a very high birth rate.
What about the needy from the rest of the world? Would Representative Gutierrez support sending 3 million poor Africans and Asians to Mexico as immigrants, to compensate for the lopsided Latin immigration to the U.S.? Racist Mexico would not consider the proposal even for 2 seconds, despite the fact that their rural towns lay barren from so much migration to the U.S.

Do blue collar Americans have an obligation to look their jobs, and do all Americans have an obligation to reduce the quality of life for their future generations because Latin America demands the religious right to overpopulate? No.

Does President Obama and the Democratic Party have an obligation to go down in electoral defeat in 2010 and 2012 just to pursue an agenda that everyone knows is not going to work right now? No.

Latino brothers and sisters, please take that angry energy that is now focused on President Obama, and redirect it at: 1) reducing the high birth rate in el Barrio; 2) working to reform the corrupt and misogynous PAN government in Mexico; 3) organizing to bring the explosive rates of homicide, rape and domestic abuse in el Barrio under control – because these facts are also visible to the U.S. public; and 4) start participating-in and adding your collective political weight to promoting programs that help all Americans, not just Latinos.

If ‘mi gente’ (my people) change – to accomplish the above objectives, immigration reform will follow. Until then, you will be fighting a losing battle with an opposition that is not racist (except for a small lunatic fringe). They simply see the realities that I have laid-out here above.

Peace.

Will the politicians that we elect ever carry out the interests of the American people? I read today on the AMERICAN PATROL website that President Obama is in a discussion to cap government money such as cutting back on NASA appropriations the sending men back to the moon in 1020? Yet we are still spending–BILLIONS–on illegal immigrants who have managed to settle here? If we cannot afford to go back to the moon, how can we afford to pay for illegal immigration? Obama can find billions to Prop-up States like Sanctuary States as California to pay for illegal immigrants, but he cannot find the cash to pay for space exploration. How can we allow millions of poor people to continue to cross our borders? So why are taxpayers forced by pariah lawmakers to pay for education, health care and even now anticipating BILLIONS more dollars to enact a ominous Comprehensive Immigration Reform? We all know by now, that this is a very crafty way to pass another AMNESTY. These people who have entered this country without permission? Every time a new immigration enforcement is passed, the open border Liberal-Democrats-Republicans use their influence to water the law down. How many of us know, that the controversial border fence is by law supposed to be–TWO SEPARATE–FENCES? Senator Obama voted for it. more than three years ago, but only 35 miles of double-layered fencing is in place and much of the remaining 360 miles of the border fencing is badly constructed–without real barriers. The Truth is the government is lying to us.

The Secure Fence Act of 2006 (Pub.L. 109-367) was enacted October 26, 2006 in the United States. The act allows for over 700 miles (1,100 km) of double-reinforced fence to be built along the border with Mexico across cities and deserts alike, in the U.S. states of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas in areas that have experienced illegal drug trafficking, human slavery, gun peddling, illegal immigration and the threat of terrorism. Rep. Duncan Hunter of California who was the originator of the double fence, has not seen this happen, nor the complete wall that is just open areas, with the old barbed wire strands. Underfunded from its inception, the border fence was compromised by the open border organization, that includes American business consortium’s. As in Washington today, a team of intelligence operatives stated to Speaker Pelosi that a El Queda attack was imminent within the next 6 months. This is the time to enforce our borders with the National Guard fully armed and obviously apparent along the whole 2000 feet length. The majority of our State economies are broke–with California leading the pack. Arizona lawmakers realizing the main cause of their financial dilemma, the support of illegal workers and their families.

E-Verify is one of the most successful mechanisms to remove illegal workers, but as yet it is not mandatory. It costs nothing to use it and it has been demonized by every pro-illegal immigrant group, along with corrupt politicians and their financial clients in the business consortium’s. E-Verify must be national, with no exclusions. THIS SHOULD BECOME THE No.1 PRIORITY FOR EVERY SMALL AND LARGE COMPANY, THAT KNOWINGLY HIRING A FOREIGN WORKERS CARRIES PENALTIES SUCH AS HARSH FINES AND PRISON SENTENCES. THERE SHOULD BE NO EXCEPTIONS TO THIS RULE?

Our GOVERNMENT HAS SOLD ITSELF TO WALL STREET AND BOTH WALL STREET AND THE UNITED STATES ARE DEBTORS TO COMMUNIST CHINA. We cannot afford to subsidize every illegal family member, every Mother with a child who becomes an instant citizen, when 15 million Americans and residents are jobless, when our own people live in poverty. Yes! We always need exceptional highly skilled engineers and scientists, but not the indigent and desperate that we must endlessly financially support. Not semi-skilled labor that will take less wages, than our own people, who themselves will end up in the unemployment benefits line. Call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 to be connected to your Senator and Congressman and use the voting power of THE PEOPLE. Go to NUMBERSUSA AND JUDICIAL WATCH for more information about this catastrophe that could overwhelm this country in the coming months.
Latest Immigration news: President cuts border security budget
While telling the American people that national security is a priority in his administration, President Barack Obama submitted a 2011 budget proposal that includes cuts to U.S. border security. — The proposed budget cuts include a reduction in Border Patrol agents and a cut in the amount of money allocated for the so-called “virtual fence” on the U.S.-Mexico border..

23 million Americans out of work and 20 million illegal workers, do you think he will push amnest?