Immigration reform

Will the Senate's immigration reform plan survive?

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:52:39 GMT

Source: video.foxnews.com --- Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Sen. Marco Rubio defends the bill ...

Austin Faith Groups Call For Immigration Reform

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:24:51 GMT

Source: www.keyetv.com --- Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Local religious leaders from a cross section of faiths launched a campaign Tuesday calling for a comprehensive, compassionate approach to Immigration reform. Members of Austin Interfaith say fair treatment of immigrants is a core value in many religions. ... ...

DeMint, Sen. Flake Square Off on Immigration Reform Bill

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:01:25 GMT

Source: www.newsmax.com --- Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint on Wednesday blasted the sweeping Immigration bill being debated in the U.S. Senate, while one of the bill's sponsors - Rep. Jeff Flake of Arizona - said it would boost the nation's economic growth. ...

Boehner: Border Security & Majority of GOP Essential to Pass Immigration Reform in the House

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:00:51 GMT

Source: www.westernfreepress.com --- Wednesday, June 19, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) made the following remarks on Immigration reform at a press conference earlier today: “Listen, I think this Immigration issue’s been kicked around this town now for 15 years. That’s why I said the day after the election it was time for Congress to do its work. “ I’m increasingly concerned that the White House and Senate Democrats …would rather have this as an issue in the 2014 election, rather than to resolve it. It was the president who said that he wanted a robust vote coming out of the Senate to help move this process along. And yet here’s the president and Senate Democrats working to limit the number of Republican votes that this Immigration bill is likely to get. I think that’s unfortunate. “On the House side, I’ve made clear to our members that we’re going to have a discussion about this on July 10th. We’re going to have a special conference and we’re going to lay all of this out and listen to what the members have to say. “I also suggested to our members today that any Immigration reform bill that is going to go into law ought to have a majority of both parties’ support if we’re really serious about making that happen. And so I don’t see any way of bringing an Immigration bill to the floor that doesn’t have a majority support of Republicans. But I just think the White House and Senate Democrats ought to get very serious. “We know that border security is absolutely essentia ...

Ron Paul's new anti-immigration-reform-bill video is filled to the brim with uns...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:40:00 GMT

Source: www.facebook.com --- Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Ron Paul's new anti-Immigration-reform-bill video is filled to the brim with unsubstantiated and conspiratorial claims: Ron Paul's Immigration Conspiracy Theory www.motherjones.com A new email from the Texas libertarian's Campaign for Liberty warns that "National ID is on the Senate floor." ...

Here Is the Simplest, Most Compelling Economic Case For Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:09:14 GMT

Source: www.theatlantic.com --- Wednesday, June 19, 2013
The Treasury Department has published a handy summary of the CBO's Immigration reform analysis. If tables are too much for you, here's the one-sentence summary: Immigration is good for the economy. As somebody who's pointed out that the CBO cannot perfectly predict the future, let me say, once more: The CBO cannot perfectly predict the future. There is a difference between the best, most trusted, nonpartisan economic modeler we have and an oracle. And yet: The CBO is the best, most trusted, nonpartisan economic modeler we have. And we don't have an oracle. That's why this report really matters to the debate about how this law will affect the economy. From here on, if you want to make the case that comprehensive Immigration reform is bad for the deficit, bad for GDP, or bad for employment, you have to make another very difficult case: That, for some reason, you know something about the future that the Congressional Budget Office doesn't. ...

Experts Dispute CBO Report on Immigration Reform

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:05:21 GMT

Source: freebeacon.com --- Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Immigration experts at the Heritage Foundation disputed claims by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) that the Gang of Eight’s Immigration bill would benefit the nation Wednesday. Giving the current 11 million illegal immigrants’ amnesty would increase the national deficit, said Robert Rector, senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation. “If you take a body of 11 million immigrants who have an average education of 10th grade and give them access to 80 different means-tested welfare programs, Obamacare, Social Security, and Medicare, there’s a huge net cost to that overtime,” Rector said. The CBO concluded that the Gang of Eight’s Immigration reform bill would cut the national deficit, boost the economy, and reduce the number of unauthorized residents by 25 percent. According to the two reports from CBO, through Immigration reform current immigrants residing in the United States would be naturalized, resulting in more working-age legal immigrants coming in the future. The larger the population suggests more opportunities for people finding work, the creation of jobs, and paying taxes. CBO said the national deficit would decrease by $197 billion over the next 10 years. Rector said this was overly optimistic. Rector researched the cost of the amnesty portion of the bill and concluded that legalized immigrants would receive $9.4 trillion in government benefits and pay only $3.1 trillion in taxes over their lifetime. This woul ...

Immigration reform would cut deficit, CBO estimates

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:58:14 GMT

Source: www.fiercehomelandsecurity.com --- Wednesday, June 19, 2013
The comprehensive Immigration bill under consideration in the Senate would result in $197 billion in deficit reduction in the next decade, according to an estimate that the Congressional Budget Office released June 18. Added revenue from the bill ( S. 744 ) would total $459 billion from fiscals 2014 to 2023, largely from income and payroll taxes. Only about one-fourth of that revenue would come in during the first 5 years though. ...

CBO Gives Ammunition to Immigration Reform Supporters

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:28:00 GMT

Source: spectator.org --- Wednesday, June 19, 2013
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its reports on the Senate’s Immigration reform bill (S. 744) on Wednesday, with several positive predictions for the pro-Immigration crowd. For one, the first CBO report said federal budget deficits will be decreased by $197 billion from 2014–2023, due to “changes in direct spending and revenues.” Specifically this is because of an increase in federal direct spending by $262 billion and an increase in federal revenues by $459 billion – “largely from additional collections of income and payroll taxes, reflecting both an increase in the size of the U.S. labor force and changes in the legal status of some current workers.” In other words, more citizens mean more tax money. An estimated 8 million illegal immigrants would achieve legal status if S. 744 is passed by 2023 – a number which the CBO says won’t affect the U.S. population much, but will certainly affect the economy. Future population estimates from the CBO show that by 2023 there would be a net increase of 10.4 million residents, which includes the addition of 1.6 million temporary workers and their dependents. Overall, the CBO estimates there will be an increase of 6 million workers (about 3.5 percent) by 2023 and around 9 million workers (about 5 percent) by 2033. The overall GDP of the U.S. will be 3.3 percent higher by 2023 and 5.4 percent higher by 2033 if the law passes (compare that to a decrease of 0.7 percent in 2023 if ...

Immigration reform smart

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:23:45 GMT

Source: www.arktimes.com --- Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Arkansas may not be known for its high share of immigrants — they compose only 5 percent of the state's population — but immigrants have begun to play a larger role in both the economic and political landscape of our state. Immigration reform smart Arkansas may not be known for its high share of immigrants — they compose only 5 percent of the state's population — but immigrants have begun to play a larger role in both the economic and political landscape of our state. Immigrants keep Arkansas vibrant and competitive. For every dollar the state spent on services to immigrant households — including K-12 education, healthcare, and corrections — it received $7 in immigrant business revenue and tax contributions in 2010. The economic contribution of immigrants grew from $2.9 billion in 2004 to $3.9 billion in 2010. And this contribution is expected to grow further as immigrants and their children increase their share of the state's total population and workforce. In recent years, one in four of America's new small business owners were immigrants. Forty percent of Fortune 500 companies were started by a first- or second-generation American. Immigration makes us more prosperous. We are a nation of values, founded on the idea that all people are created equal and that all people have rights, no matter where they come from or what they look like. Our Immigration laws must reflect our values, not our fears. Passing Immigration reform is no ...

Backers of immigration reform embrace upbeat economic assessment

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:20:34 GMT

Source: www.reuters.com --- Wednesday, June 19, 2013
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Backers of a landmark Immigration bill voiced confidence on Wednesday that it will pass the U.S. Senate as early as next week, propelled by new evidence that the sweeping legislation would boost the economy and help narrow the government's budget deficit. ...

Immigration reform and technological risk: CBO vs. the robots

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:07:25 GMT

Source: www.aei-ideas.org --- Wednesday, June 19, 2013
The Congressional Budget Office analysis of the Immigration reform bill moving through Congress tells us some important things. Perhaps the newsiest is this: the legislation would save a net $175 billion over a decade and another nearly $700 billion over the decade after that. This is important, too: real GDP — using a midpoint forecast — would be 3.3% higher in 2023 and 5.4% higher in 2033 than it would be without the Immigration overhaul. “S. 744 would boost economic output” is how CBO puts it. Why? Dynamic scoring factors in a number of likely impacts, notes Cato’s Alex Nowrasteh : – Increased size and employment in the economy. – Increased average wages after 2025. – Slightly increased unemployment rate through 2020. – Increased quantity of capital investment. – Increased productivity of labor (due to complementary task specialization). – Increased productivity of capital (due to increase in supply of labor and TFP ). Great news. But a concern: what will be the lifetime net tax rates of these immigrants, particularly low-skill immigrants? This is a calculation that would “look both to the taxes paid over a working life and public expenditures on retirement and health security programs and human capital investment, among other things,” explains Reihan Salam . Certainly, for instance, I would not just assume the influx of new citizens would help the long-term finances of Social Security . And CBO, not surprisingly, makes no eff ...

Immigration reform will cut deficit, but will that sway skeptics?

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:51:47 GMT

Source: www.csmonitor.com --- Wednesday, June 19, 2013
As Senate leaders troll for votes for Immigration reform, a finding by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office that the bill would cut federal deficits could help build momentum. ...

Report: Immigration Reform Would Boost US Economy, Finances

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:48:30 GMT

Source: www.voanews.com --- Wednesday, June 19, 2013
A congressional report estimates that reforming America's Immigration system and legalizing 11 million undocumented immigrants would boost U.S. economic growth and shrink the federal deficit. The report was seized upon by senators debating an overhaul to federal Immigration laws. Legalizing millions of unauthorized immigrants would have an almost entirely positive effect on America’s economic fortunes, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office. The CBO says the ... ...

SEIU: CBO Score Adds Momentum for Immigration Reform

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:46:12 GMT

Source: www.seiu.org --- Wednesday, June 19, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC - Upon careful review of the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) score on the bipartisan Immigration bill currently being debated in the Senate, Eliseo Medina, Secretary-Treasurer of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), issued the following statement: "The CBO score proves that the Senate Immigration bill is good for our economy and that the momentum for commonsense Immigration reform is growing every day. Opponents of reform can refuse to accept the math, but the fact remains that a sensible Immigration solution with a roadmap to citizenship is the gift that keeps on giving, now and in the long term. "Here lies an Immigration bill that can quell the worries about the federal deficit by reducing it by billions of dollars, increase our GDP and enable the American workforce and economy to thrive. It's time to move forward and listen to the growing chorus of Americans who want aspiring citizens to remain in the country and walk the road to citizenship. Their call for reform is not only commonsense, but now justified by the math." ### SEIU: CBO Score Adds Momentum for Immigration reform originally appeared on SEIU.org on Wednesday, Jun 19, 2013. ...

Reid: Immigration Reform Will Reduce The Deficit By $1 Trillion Over Two Decades

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:38:23 GMT

Source: www.realclearpolitics.com --- Wednesday, June 19, 2013
REID: Regardless of how they got here or why they lack the proper documents, these 11 million people play a crucial role in our economy and a vital role in our communities. Mr. President, that was proven last night at 5:00 when the Congressional Budget Office "“this non-partisan arm that we look to for what things cost and don't cost here on Capitol Hill with our legislation "“ they issued a statement yesterday that this bill certainly, it's on the floor today, is good for the economy, as I will say a couple of times during my brief remarks here. Its going, over the next two decades, what's left in this one and the next one, reduce the deficit in America by almost a trillion dollars. ...

CBO says immigration reform would save the government many billions

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:25:55 GMT

Source: blogs.e-rockford.com --- Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Steve Benen has the story HERE : When the Heritage Foundation launched an offensive against comprehensive Immigration reform in early May, it focused its attention almost exclusively on one area: the legislation’s price tag. After all, one of the first questions lawmakers ask in response to any proposal is, “What does it cost?” and if the bipartisan reform bill is too pricey, Congress will have a good excuse to reject it. With that in mind, Heritage, relying on numbers that no one could take seriously, said Immigration reform would cost taxpayers over $6 trillion. Yesterday, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office ... Read more ...

Immigration Reform Advocates Protest Outside Kris Kobach's House

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:00:00 GMT

Source: crooksandliars.com --- Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach doesn't like brown people very much at all, and he dislikes Immigration reform even more. That didn't stop Sunflower Community Action from paying a visit to his home and inviting him to stop spreading his hate. Kobach declined and ramped up the hate meter a few notches in the process: Kobach told Fox News radio host Todd Starnes that he and his family had been out of town at the time, but he was “just appalled” because “they don’t have a right to enter someone’s private property and engage in this kind of intimidation.” “If we had been in the home and not been armed, I would have felt very afraid – because it took the police 15 minutes to show up,” he explained. “It’s important we recognize there’s a reason we have the Second Amendment. There are situations like this where you have a mob and you do need to be able to protect yourself.” “The Second Amendment is the private property owner’s last resort.” Kobach vowed not to let the “illegal aliens” change his mind about opposing comprehensive Immigration reform. Kris, show me in the video where the brown people touched you. It'll be ok. They weren't there to hurt you, just to show you they're people too. The next time Kobach claims he's not racist, please remember his reaction to this incident of peaceful people doing peaceful, lawful things. ...

Need some comic relief from the immigration reform battle? The Daily Show has go...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:57:01 GMT

Source: www.facebook.com --- Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Need some comic relief from the Immigration reform battle? The Daily Show has got you covered. 'The Daily Show' Does The 'Schoolhouse Rock' Version of Immigration reform www.theatlanticwire.com Last night John Oliver, pointing out that he was an immigrant himself, took on the Senate's attempt to pass an Immigration reform bill. But he knows that the bill, with its sad looking Schoolhouse Rock face, will have a pretty hard time becoming a law. ...

FULL INTERVIEW: Sen. Ted Cruz blasts Gang of Eight immigration reform bill on Rush Limbaugh Radio Show

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:50:31 GMT

Source: therightscoop.com --- Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Ted Cruz was on the Rush Limbaugh Radio Show today ... ...