The RAISE Act S354
(Cotton R-AR, Perdue R-GA) is a Good Bill albeit not without flaws.
It would:
¾
Reduce
Legal Immigration by at least half to about 500,000 per year
¾
Require
that Legal Immigrants speak English
¾
Require
that Legal Immigrants NOT receive Welfare for 5 Years
¾
Limit
"Refugees" to 50,000 per year
¾
End
the Visa Lottery, and, above all…
¾
Reduce
Chain Migration from appx 480,000 per year to appx. 88,000 per year by limiting family- sponsored
Immigrants to spouses and minor children of US Citizens or Legal Permanent
Residents.
It is flawed because it
lacks the commanding, coherent logic of the Bill that BALANCE and its ASAP!
Coalition Allies propose, below and many of the RAISE Act’s NGO supporters lack
a Strategy to actually get it passed, a Strategy which BALANCE also describes
below.
But specifically, one
of the Bill's alleged strong points, the Merits-based system for admitting
skilled workers (H1bs) is well-intentioned but would allow far too many
admissions. It is based on flawed data that American workers to not have the
necessary skills, it lends itself to “gaming”, and would result in continuing job
loss and wage depression among American workers.
¾
The
Bill also would allow admission of too many H2b low skilled workers, many of
whose prospective jobs should either go to Americans or are, in any case,
disappearing because of automation. Legitimate needs for Low-skilled workers
could be fulfilled by a revival of the Bracero program.
Finally, the Bill does
not adequately guard against Visa Over-stayers and others. And worst of all, by pushing for an annual level of 500,000 its
supporters are pushing FOR a de facto continuation of Mass Immigration!! —a
Level which is, in no way, acceptable for the medium or long run (see below).
But all in all, the
RAISE Act would be an improvement over what we have now. However...
THE MAJOR CHALLENGE
FOR THE RAISE ACT AND OTHER GOOD REDUCTIONIST BILLS IS THAT MOST OF THEIR
SUPPORTERS DO NOT HAVE A CLUE MUCH LESS A STRATEGY FOR ACTUALLY GETTING THEM
PASSED!
FORTUNATELY BALANCE
& ITS ASAP COALITION ALLIES DO HAVE A STRATEGY WHICH WILL WORK IF ALL
SUPPORTERS OF RAISE WILL BACK IT......The Strategy depends on information and
logic: First, the NET costs of mass immigration to American tax-payers. And
Second, the logic of carrying capacity, that every territory is limited om the
long run by its resources, and that no territory can sustainably support an
unlimited number of people.
Regarding the Logic of
BALANCE's position, first consider excerpts from the article The ASAP!
Coalition circulated a decade ago “The Only Way to Win the Immigration
Reduction Battle,”
by Selwyn Duke.
The Only Way to Win the Immigration
Battle
By
Selwyn Duke
Friday,
September 28, 2007
It's hard to think of
a battle that has been won by being defensive. You may be most skilled at
blocking and slipping punches, but if that is all you do, sooner or later your
opponent will land a few and enjoy victory. This occurs to me as I watch the
latest amnesty battle.
As you may know, the
DREAM Act — the latest Scamnesty scheme — is being debated in Congress at this
moment. And it may be the Mexican dream, but it's our nightmare. But that isn't
what I want to address today.
We may defeat this
proposal as we did the last, but so what?
Are you surprised? Do
I sound overly cavalier or a tad defeatist? Here is my point: Until we
transform this debate and talk about the true remedy for our problem — namely,
halting legal immigration — we will labor in vain.
As I have said before,
illegal immigration isn't the problem, but merely an exacerbation of the
problem. As long as we perpetuate our current immigration scheme — a formula
dictating that 85 percent of immigrants will hail from the Third World and Asia
— the demographic revolution we have witnessed will continue, attended by descent
into Third World status.
This is the third rail
of the American immigration debate, the emperor-has-no-clothes-issue, the
untouchable element. It gets at a truth that no one even dares contemplate
because, by golly, we're a nation of immigrants. That is what we're told and
it's not to be questioned; it is dogma. Why, I can almost hear Zero Mostel
bellowing "Tradition!"
Then again, I can also
hear that apocryphal saying: "The definition of insanity is doing the same
thing over and over again and expecting a different result."
Advocating a
moratorium on legal immigration would be a return to sanity that could turn the
tide. We would finally be taking the offense and proposing a change in the
traditionalist direction, as opposed to making proactivity the province of the
left. We would finally be pushing back, demanding some of the adversary's
territory instead of just defending ours. Of course, we do have one other
choice.
Certain defeat.
We may end this bad
DREAM, but the left will be back, maybe in a few months, maybe in a year. And
then they will return again and again and again and again; they will continue
to make their proposals and propagandize, cajole and coerce, until one of their
nail-in-the-coffin laws passes. It's not a matter of if, only when; one of
those big punches will eventually land. This is the consequence of being
defensive.
Thus, proposing the
elimination of immigration is not only the right thing, it's the only thing.
The present course of action guarantees eventual defeat, as the traditionalist
side gets worn down through constant attack and people become acclimated to the
idea of scamnesty-by-another-name. But if we finally start making the proposals
— if we finally say to the left, "No! You no longer drive the agenda, we
have a say now" — we'll be pushing back. Then, at worst, maybe we will, to
use apropos terminology, be in a Mexican stand-off. And then perhaps, just
possibly, we will have the time to alter the American consciousness and muster
up the popular will to save our republic.
It's push back or be
pushed around.
End immigration now,
before it ends us.
*********************
Selwyn Duke is a
columnist, public speaker, and Internet entrepreneur whose work has been
published widely online and in print. His articles appear at RenewAmerica, American Thinker, The
Conservative Voice, and Blogcritics,
as well as many other sites. He has been featured in The American Conservative co-founded by Pat Buchanan, on the Rush
Limbaugh Show, and has a regular column in Christian
Music Perspective. Selwyn can be reached at: letters@canadafreepress.com.
Mr. Duke has been proven
right, of course, and his call for pushing a Moratorium as an Essential
Effective Strategy as well as an Excellent Public Policy, has more recently
been echoed by Noted Leaders on the issue.
Indeed, two Decades
ago BALANCE and the 46 other Organizational Members of the ASAP! Coalition laid
out The Strategy for Achieving Substantial Immigration Reduction. These
Organizations all agreed on the following 4 Point Program:
#1 Immigration
Moratorium
ASAP Supports immediate enactment of
a zero-net immigration moratorium with an all-inclusive, firm cap of 150,000
immigrants (including refugees and Asylees) per year.
#2 No More Amnesties
ASAP opposes any more amnesties
granting legal status or citizenship or Extended Voluntary Departure to illegal
aliens. Amnesties reward illegal behavior...
#3 Enforce Immigration Laws
Existing laws requiring apprehension
and deportation of all illegal aliens in the U.S. must be enforced. Officials
failing to enforce our laws must be replaced.
#4 No Citizenship for Illegal Aliens’ Offspring
Offspring of illegal aliens should
not be granted automatic U.S. citizenship. A misinterpretation of the 14th
Amendment leads to granting citizenship to anyone born here. A reading of congressional debate as this
Amendment was being considered shows that the clause, "and under the
jurisdiction thereof...," shows that this stipulation must be given equal
weight with all other language in the Amendment. The Fourteenth Amendment does
not guarantee citizenship to offspring of illegal aliens.
A zero-net
all-inclusive MORATORIUM was and is the First Priority because it communicates
the Necessity of stopping Mass Immigration altogether and maximizes Political
leverage as well.
Amazingly, a couple of
self-styled Immigration Reduction Groups (de facto Mass Immigration MANAGEMENT
Groups) refused then and STILL REFUSE to Adopt The ASAP! Coalition’s
Strategy. Believe it or Not, as Ripley
would say.
And even more Amazing is that the “strategy” these MANAGEMENT Groups did adopt was and still is Counterproductive (Yes, COUNTERproductive!!) as we shall explain, and has therefore undermined the ASAP! Coalition’s otherwise unified Coalition, and helped suffocate any chances for immigration reduction for two decades.
Is it too much to hope
that the utter Failure of their "Strategy" to achieve Substantial
Reductions for over two decades will encourage them as a FIRST PRIORITY to join
ASAP! and push ALL the Key Points of
ASAP!’s 4 Point Program including especially the MORATORIUM, which these
immigration-MANAGEMENT groups have in the last 20 years failed to do. They are hereby invited, again, to join. Shall we hold our breath?!
Indeed, the next few
Months of The Trump Administration may well be our LAST BEST CHANCE (Hello
Management Groups, are you listening?!!) to get substantial reductions. And
here’s how specifically...
Supporting Good Bills
and Actions such as the following eight is important. But pushing those Bills/Actions ALONE has
often been proven to be futile, and will likely continue to be, unless also
COUPLED WITH PUSHING A ZERO-NET ALL-INCLUSIVE MORATORIUM AS FIRST PRIORITY!!
That said, BALANCE
supports:
·
Senator
Cotton's RAISE Act
·
Rep.
Brian Babin’s Criminal Alien Deportation Enforcement Act (HR 82) to enforce the
Deportation of the 820,000 Criminal Aliens which Obama released into American
communities.
·
Rep
Barletta’s bill to Defund Sanctuary Cities (HR 83).
·
Rep.
King’s Birthright Citizenship Act (HR 140) to end Birthright Citizenship and
defeat the Anchor Baby Tactic.
·
Rep.
Culberson’s bill, HR 546 which requires the Director of the Office of Refugee
Resettlement “to obtain the approval of the Governor of a State before placing
or resettling a refugee” with the State.
·
S179
Grassley (R-IA) Mandatory e-Verify Mandatory so employers can be sure they are
hiring only American workers.
·
Rep
Goodlatte (R-VA) and nine cosponsors H.R. 3003
No Sanctuary for Criminals Act which would deny federal grants to sanctuary
jurisdictions, shield local law enforcement who cooperate with federal
immigration detainers, and permit victims to sue for heinous harms caused by
sanctuary policies.
·
Suspension
of the UN/US Refugee Program (USRAP) until Congress has a chance to overhaul it.
·
We
support these Bills/Actions and also reiterate that pushing any or all of these
alone is NOT sufficient to get any of them enacted.
ONLY BALANCE and the
ASAP! Coalition’s MORATORIUM Strategy below creates sufficient Political
Pressure NOW to achieve Substantial Reductions in Legal Immigration?
Why?
Pushing a Zero-Net
Moratorium, i.e., (inclusive of all immigrant categories) is key as an
objective because it is reasonable and Essential for long-term Environmental
and Personal Protection and for balanced Budgets, as well as for providing
Sufficient Resources, INCLUDING WATER and FOOD and Money, for Personal and
National survival. For every person added to the U.S. Population One Acre of Prime Farmland or Natural
Habitat is converted to developed uses (Pimentel et al, Cornell).
The World's population
increases by 80 Million per year, and the USA simply cannot accommodate all who wish to come. Today, the USA is in the process of exceeding
our long-term Carrying Capacity and deconstructing our Nation. (Hello,
Management Groups!) We must Reverse Course NOW! Noted author, Ann
Coulter, is correct—Only by enacting “a Moratorium” on Immigration can the USA
survive (see Adios America!, A.
Coulter).
In sum, a Zero-Net
Moratorium is The Necessary Condition for achieving a Sustainable Future by
promoting the goals of U.S. Population Stabilization, long-term Environmental
Protection, Budgetary Solvency in State and Local Government (especially for
our Health Care and Educational Institutions), Tax Reduction, Unemployment
Reduction, Social and Cultural and Environmental Protection and Personal Safety
and protection of our Food and Water Supplies as BALANCE has documented in its
many Alerts!
Mass Immigration is
thus NOT “Just about the Numbers” as one Immigration Management Group
INCREDIBLY claims. Indeed, their goal of
reducing legal immigration to 500,000 per year not only will never achieve
Population Stabilization or long-term Sustainability, nor will it stop
Demographic Aggression (see BALANCE's recent Alert) nor will it stop the Multi-Hundred
Billion$$$ ANNUAL NET costs to Taxpayers. But one must say that their
Ultra-Soft approach appeals to Funders who do not like to take Controversial
Positions.
Worse, Management
Groups’ Target of the RAISE Act's 500,000 per year is COUNTERPRODUCTIVE because
the message it sends is that Mass Immigration is OK if we just cut it in
half. Also, it is COUNTERPRODUCTIVE
because it loses the political Leverage to get lower numbers and good bills
passed. Therefore, any Immigration “Reform” group which refuses to advocate an
Immigration Moratorium cannot really
be serious about reducing Immigration!
In fact it appears they are de facto at the "Beck" and call of
the Open Borders lobby which wants to continue Mass Immigration.
Indeed, it is highly
unlikely we will ever get Immigration Reduction unless all Major Reduction
supporters push for a MORATORIUM.
Are these MANAGEMENT
Groups Bona Fide Washington D.C. "Swamp Critters"?? :):):(:(
Well, BALANCE and our
ASAP! Coalition Allies are no Swamp Critters!
WE ARE FACING A SERIES
OF INTENSE BATTLES ON THESE ISSUES, beginning with the Great Budget Battle
coming in September, 2017 and extending well into 2018.
The upcoming Budget
Battle provides a Unique Opportunity to reduce Immigration because legal
Immigration is so Costly, costing a NET several Hundred Billion$ per year
(National Academy of Sciences Report – Rector et al). So PLEASE Help BALANCE
Intensify our push for a Zero-Net Moratorium and the other Victory Initiative
Positions NOW!
Certain Well-Funded
Cheap Labor Advocates on the Right, and Ethnic Power and Government
Benefits-Recipients and Power-seeking Marxists on the Left, are pushing hard
for further Mass Illegal Alien Amnesties, AND FOR MASSIVE INCREASES IN H1B
visas and LEGAL IMMIGRATION including Refugees and Asylees!
Only our focused
Grassroots Effort can stop them! Phone Calls or Office Visits followed by Snail
Mail letters are most effective (emails are often ignored and fax machines can
be turned off). And please consider that BALANCE is greatly outspent by the
Cheap Labor Lobby and various Ethnic Power Lobbies.
So Please Help BALANCE
MOBILIZE ACTIVISTS to Intensify our push for Zero-Net MORATORIUM, TODAY, NOW!
And whether or not you
donated recently, NOW IS THE TIME TO DONATE FOR MAXIMUM EFFECT.
BALANCE very much
needs you to make a Tax-Deductible Donation TODAY. Dollar for Dollar, Donations
to BALANCE and its ASAP! Coalition Allies who push a Moratorium, create much
more Political Clout than Donations to Mass Immigration Management-only Groups.
We reiterate, Refusal to Push a Moratorium and instead merely pushing for piecemeal Immigration Reductions can be
Counterproductive because it sends the message that Mass Immigration itself is
OK!
So Please DONATE at
our website: BALANCE.ORG or, to donate via U.S mail, please send to:
Population-Environment
Balance | P.O. Box 268 | San Francisco, CA 94104
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