Now we know why the amnesty program

[FreakinDJ]

This is the straw that breaks the camel's back and provides Corp. America the means to suppress wages. Sure they grant amnesty to 12 million immigrants and then repeal Social Security, Welfare and medicaid

Amnesty and Continued Low Skill Immigration Will Substantially Raise Welfare Costs and Poverty

An immigration plan proposed by Senators Mel Martinez (R-FL) and Chuck Hagel (R-NE) would provide amnesty to 9 to 10 million illegal immigrants and put them on a path to citizenship. Once these individuals become citizens, the net additional cost to the federal government of benefits for these individuals will be around $16 billion per year. Further, once an illegal immigrant becomes a citizen, he has the right to bring his parents to live in the U.S. The parents, in turn, may become citizens. The long-term cost of government benefits to the parents of 10 million recipients of amnesty could be $30 billion per year or more. In the long run, the Hagel/Martinez bill, if enacted, would be the largest expansion of the welfare state in 35 years.

The education levels of illegal aliens are lower than those of legal immigrants. Half of all adult illegal immigrants lack a high school degree.<10> Among Latin American and Mexican immigrants, 60 percent lack a high school degree and only 7 percent have a college degree. By contrast, among native-born workers in the U.S., only 6 percent have failed to complete high school degrees and nearly a third have a college degree.

Decline in Immigrant Wages

Over the last 40 years the education level of new immigrants has fallen relative to the native population. As the relative education levels of immigrants have declined, so has their earning capacity compared to the general U.S. population. Immigrants arriving in the U.S. around 1960 had wages, at the time of entry, that were just 13 percent less than natives’. In 1965, the nation’s immigration law was dramatically changed, and from 1990 on, illegal immigration surged. The result was a decline in the relative skill levels of new immigrants. By 1998, new immigrants had an average entry wage that was 34 percent less than natives’.<12> Because of their lower education levels, illegal immigrants’ wages would have been even lower.
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Immigration/bg1936.cfm

Brillent

They get cheap labor and put an end to Social programs once and for all

[MichiganVote]

1. Does anyone know how many immigrants, legal or illegal, we have

had enter the country since Reagan's amnesty program?