Illegal Protest

Oh and right on the heels of the story from Wisconsin, I find THIS article published where else? The LA Times. The crux of it is - oh yeah illegal aliens are good for the low skilled native workers because they bump them UP into higher jobs and the crime rate is FIVE times lower among illegal aliens than citizens. How’s that for making shit up?

At the end of this I will find the article about how the crime rate is 2.5 times higher among illegal aliens compared to the native population.

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Immigrants are less likely to go to prison than U.S.-born residents of the same ethnic group and they boost pay for natives, research says.

By Teresa Watanabe, Times Staff Writer

February 28, 2007Two new studies by California researchers counter negative perceptions that immigrants increase crime and job competition, showing that they are incarcerated at far lower rates than native-born citizens and actually help boost their wages.

A study released Tuesday by the Public Policy Institute of California found that immigrants who arrived in the state between 1990 and 2004 increased wages for native workers by an average 4%.

UC Davis economist Giovanni Peri, who conducted the study, said the benefits were shared by all native-born workers, from high school dropouts to college graduates, because immigrants generally perform complementary rather than competitive work.

As immigrants filled lower-skilled jobs, they pushed natives up the economic ladder into employment that required more English or know-how of the U.S. system, he said.

“The big message is that there is no big loss from immigration,” Peri said. “There are gains, and these are enjoyed by a much bigger share of the population than is commonly believed.”

Another study released Monday by the Washington-based Immigration Policy Center showed that immigrant men ages 18 to 39 had an incarceration rate five times lower than native-born citizens in every ethnic group examined. Among men of Mexican descent, for instance, 0.7% of those foreign-born were incarcerated compared to 5.9% of native-born, according to the study, co-written by UC Irvine sociologist Ruben G. Rumbaut.

Both studies are based on U.S. census data, which includes both legal and illegal immigrants. They were released just days before the U.S. Congress is to restart debate on major immigration reform legislation and as numerous states, including Texas, consider harsh measures against illegal migrants.

The authors say their work shows that immigrants clearly benefit U.S. residents and are being unfairly scapegoated for problems they do not cause.

“There are grossly distorted perceptions between what people think about immigrants and the reality,” Rumbaut said. “The old bromide that education is the way to reduce prejudice comes into play here.”

Immigration hawks, however, took issue with both studies.

Steven Camarota of the Washington-based Center for Immigration Studies said the wage study, by examining immigrants only in California, failed to consider their effect on the rest of the country. Immigrants working for lower wages in a California factory, for instance, could keep wages down in a competing enterprise staffed by native-born citizens in another state, he said.

Immigrants, who make up one-third of California’s labor force, could also be discouraging natives from moving to the state and taking advantage of higher-paying job opportunities, Camarota said.

And, by examining only wage effects, the study failed to address the declining percentage of native-born adults working in California, Camarota said. Their share of the workforce declined from 65% in 2000 to 62% in 2005, one of the lowest in the country, which could be caused by competition from immigrants, he said.

“The idea that immigrants compete only with other immigrants is absurd on its face,” he said, adding that no industry in America employs only immigrants.

Peri said, however, that his study’s more detailed analysis of California’s employment trends showed no displacement of native-born workers. Other studies have shown that immigration has had a negative effect on African American high school dropouts. But those conclusions were rooted in different assessments of whether blacks performed the same work as immigrants, he said.

Of the crime study, Camarota said the U.S. government had failed to systematically collect 2000 Census data on immigration status from prisons and other institutions. The study’s foundational data are therefore flawed, he argued.

But Rumbaut defended his study, saying the results were consistent with other research stretching back a century. They include national immigration studies conducted in 1911 and 1994, work by two Princeton economists examining 1980 and 1990 census data and more recent analyses of homicide rates in three border cities.

The co-author of the crime study was Walter A. Ewing, a research associate at the Immigration Policy Center. Among other findings, the study showed that the gap in incarceration rates between native-born and foreign-born men was wider in California. Incarceration rates, which rose the longer an immigrant was in the country, were highest among high school dropouts. Those of Asian descent generally showed lower incarceration rates and higher educational levels than Latinos.

Despite the data [LIES], Rumbaut said, many continue to perpetuate images of crime-prone immigrants.

Last year, the study says, President Bush blamed illegal immigrants for bringing crime to their communities, as did the city of Hazleton, Pa., in passing an ordinance barring them from renting homes or working.

 

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Oh and let’s see.. how objective IS the Immigration Policy Center?

 

Here is what they put out as a press release in 2005 that is featured on the Essential Worker Immigration Coalition site:

 

 

May 4 , 2005

NEW RELEASE

THE ECONOMICS OF NECESSITY:Economic Report of the President Underscores the Importance of ImmigrationBy Walter A. Ewing, Ph.D.The 2005 Economic Report of the President illustrates that immigration has become the key to growth of the U.S. labor force and that immigrants provide a net fiscal benefit to the U.S. economy. However, current immigration policies fail to account for either of these facts and set limits on immigration that fall well below actual labor demand. Reforming the outdated U.S. immigration system will entail creating a pathway to legal status for most of the undocumented immigrants already in the United States and expanding the avenues for permanent immigration, as well as crafting tougher wage and labor laws for all workers. Highlights from the report:

• Nearly a quarter of the U.S. population is either foreign-born or the child of someone who is foreign-born.

• In 2004, 14.9% of the labor force was foreign-born, amounting to 21.8 million workers. Between 1996 and 2003, the foreign-born accounted for 58% of the 11 million new workers in the United States.

• In 2003 foreign-born workers comprised 41% of the labor force in farming, fishing, and forestry; 33% in building and grounds cleaning and maintenance; 22% in food preparation and serving; 22% in construction and extraction; 19% in computer and mathematical occupations; and 17% in life, physical, and social sciences. [ And these are not jobs Americans won’t do mind you]

• In the 1996-2002 period, the immigrant share of employment growth amounted to 86% of the 1 million new positions in precision production, craft, and repair (which includes mechanics and construction workers) and 62% of the 2 million new positions in service occupations (such as janitors, kitchen workers, and grounds workers).[ So what happened to the Americans doing those jobs??]

• The fertility rate in the United States is projected to fall below replacement level by 2015-2020, declining to 1.91 children per woman. [oh so they need to replace US?]

• During the 2002-2012 period, the number of workers age 55 and over will likely increase 49.3%, compared to only 5.1% among those 25-54 and 9% among those 16-24.

• During the 2002-2012 period, the number of jobs will likely increase by 23.3% in professional and related occupations and 20.1% in service occupations.

• An increase of 10% in the foreign-born share of the workforce lowers wages for natives less than 1%.

• Over the next 50 years, legal immigrants will add $407 billion to the Social Security system. [ and let’s figure out how much they will TAKE shall we? How about TRILLIONS?]

As of January 2005 there were 271,000 applications for employment-based green cards pending (including a backlog of 191,000 at the Department of Homeland Security) and the Department of Labor had a backlog of 300,000 applications for labor certification.

 

And here is their mission statement from Guidestar

 

Mission

AILF was established in 1987 as a tax-exempt, not-for-profit educational and service organization. Working closely with leading immigration experts throughout the country, AILF has established three core program areas: the Legal Action Center, the Public Education Program, and an Exchange Visitor Program. Through these programs, the Foundation sponsors numerous awards programs, publishes policy reports, engages in impact litigation, and provides policymakers and the public with complete and accurate information about the benefits of immigration.

Yeah.. real objective.. NOT

Oh and this is relevant

Who We Are

AILF promotes public understanding of immigration law and policy through education, policy analysis, and support to litigators. We seek to counter anti-immigrant groups that would close America’s doors to future newcomers, making the case that America is a Nation of Immigrants.

Andrew Prazuch - Executive Director of American Immigration Law Foundation aka Immigration Policy Center
Open Borders Lobby

Andrew J. Prazuch is the executive director of the American Immigration Law Foundation (AILF), a not-for-profit educational institution founded in 1987. The AILF defines its dual mission as “increasing public understanding of immigration law and policy and the value of immigration to American society,” and “advancing fundamental fairness and due process under the law for immigrants.” In truth, the AILF - along with such organizations as the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Lawyers Guild, and the Center for Constitutional Rights- supports the open borders movement that advocates expanded rights and amnesty for illegal aliens residing in the U.S., and the dissolution of all future restrictions on immigration.

Prazuch previously worked as a policy specialist for the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), which also supports expanded rights for illegal immigrants and the erasure of American borders. Composed of approximately 2,000 members, the AILA is directed by some 100 associates who are also members of the pro-Communist National Lawyers Guild, which is in the vanguard of the open borders movement.

And now for the REAL FACTS from the Center for Immigration Studies

Police commanders may not want to discuss, much less respond to, the illegal alien crisis, but its magnitude for law enforcement is startling. Some examples:

• In Los Angeles, 95 percent of all outstanding warrants for homicide (which total 1,200 to 1,500) target illegal aliens. Up to two-thirds of all fugitive felony warrants (17,000) are for illegal aliens.

• A confidential California Department of Justice study reported in 1995 that 60 percent of the bloody 18th Street Gang in California is illegal (estimated membership: 20,000); police officers say the proportion is undoubtedly much greater. The gang collaborates with the Mexican Mafia, the dominant force in California prisons, on complicated drug distribution schemes, extortion, and drive-by assassinations, and is responsible for an assault or robbery every day in Los Angeles County. The gang has dramatically expanded its numbers over the last two decades by recruiting recently arrived youngsters, a vast proportion
illegal, from Central America and Mexico.

• The leadership of the Columbia Li’l Cycos gang, which uses murder and racketeering to control the drug market around L.A.’s MacArthur Park, was about 60 percent illegal in 2002, says former Assistant U.S. Attorney Luis Li. Frank “Pancho Villa” Martinez, a Mexican Mafia member and illegal alien, controlled the gang from prison, while serving time for felonious reentry following deportation.

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The Institutional Hearing Program, begun in 1988, was supposed to allow the INS to complete deportation hearings while a criminal was still in state or federal prison, so that upon his release, he could be immediately deported without taking up precious detention space. But the process immediately bogged down due to the magnitude of the problem — in 2000, for example, nearly 30 percent of federal prisoners were foreign-born. The agency couldn’t find enough pro bono attorneys to represent criminal aliens (who have extensive due process rights in contesting deportation), and so would have to request continuance after continuance for the deportation hearings. Securing immigration judges was a difficulty as well. In 1997, the INS simply had no record of a whopping 36 percent of foreign-born inmates who had been released from federal and four state prisons without any review of their deportability. They included 1,198 aggravated felons, 80 of whom were rearrested for new crimes in short order.

Sanctuary policies contribute to the terrorization of immigrant communities. By stripping the police of what on occasion may be their only immediate tool to remove a psychopathic gangster from the streets, sanctuary policies leave law-abiding immigrants defenseless against the social and financial devastation of crime and handicapped in the march up the economic ladder. Anyone who cares about their future success should want every possible law enforcement means deployed to protect them. And immigration optimists, who argue that assimilation into American ideals is proceeding just fine and dandily, should take another look: In many immigrant communities, assimilation into gangs seems to be outstripping assimilation into civic culture. Toddlers are being taught to flash gang signals and to hate the police, reports the Los Angeles Times. In New York City, “every high school has its Mexican gang,” and most 12 to 14-year-olds have already joined, claims Ernesto Vega, an illegal 18-year-old Mexican who works at a New York association for Mexican empowerment. Such pathologies are only exacerbated when the first lesson of American law learned by immigrants is that Americans don’t bother to enforce it. “Institutionalizing illegal immigration creates a mindset in people that anything goes in the U.S.,” observes Patrick Ortega, the News and Public Affairs Director of “Radio Nueva Vida” in Southern California. “It creates a new subculture, with a sequelae of social ills.”

Taking immigration law seriously may make a start in combating these worrisome trends. The police should be given the option of reporting and acting on immigration violations, where doing so would contribute to public safety. The decision about when to use immigration rules will be a matter of discretion, but discretion is at the heart of all wise policing. The CLEAR Act, now before Congress, would help by clarifying the authority of local law enforcement to cooperate with immigration authorities. The police should have access to federal databases of immigration violators, an idea that the administration is slowly acting upon, against great opposition from the usual suspects.

And then the successor agencies of the INS should be given the resources they need. More detention space should be built, or contracted through private providers, so that deportable aliens are not released back to the streets. The missing link in workforce law — a fraud-proof work ID — must be created, and then employers must be held responsible for demanding it.

Advocates for amnesty argue that it is the only solution to the illegal alien crisis, because enforcement clearly has not worked. They are wrong in their key assumption: Enforcement has never been tried. Amnesty, however, has been tried — in both an industrial-strength version in 1986, and in more limited doses ever since — and it was a clear failure. Before we proceed again to the ultimate suspension of the nation’s self-definition, it is long past time to make immigration law a reality, not a charade.

 

Well here is Mr Rhetoric himself trying to convince Americans that Congress is going to finally fix the illegal immigration problem. Really? Like you did in 1986? Remember that? One time amnesty? That did such a SWELL job before that it practically quadrupled the number of illegal aliens in our country and that was just with 3 million illegals who were given amnesty. Earth to Senator Kennedy. The American people DO want something done about illegal immigration but they DON’T want to reward them with citizenship! They want them deported. They want the employers fined and properly punished. They want them routed out of their church sanctuaries. They want them to come back and get in line behind LEGAL IMMIGRANTS and for crying out loud they want them to LEARN ENGLISH!

You may need to have a puke bucket handy for this. Thanks to Lone Wolf for capturing this evidence of more LIES from the main traitor himself, Edward Kennedy.