I spent Labor Day with President Obama in Detroit. As we looked ahead to his big speech on Thursday and discussed his plan to put all Americans back to work, he said to me:
"Hilda... as tough as things have been on Latino workers, I know our economic future depends upon them."
I couldn't agree more. Over the next four decades, Latinos are projected to account for more than two-thirds of this country's population growth. Yet the current Latino unemployment rate remains unacceptably high at 11.3 percent. The President and I agreed that Congress must act now to help the nearly one million Latinos who've been looking for a job for six months or more.
The President's jobs plan includes tax cuts to help a quarter million Latino-owned businesses and 25 million Latino workers. It includes skills training and summer job opportunities for Latino youth. And it extends unemployment benefits that will provide a lifeline to more than 1.1 million Latinos pounding the pavement every day looking for jobs.
I was raised in a working-class family. We didn't have much growing up in a small community outside of Los Angeles. We worked for everything we had. We didn't expect our government to solve our problems; we just asked for the chance to work hard to solve our own. That's what the American Jobs Act will mean for millions of Latino families. By letting workers keep more of what they earn, by investing in our youth, rebuilding our schools and not giving up on our unemployed, President Obama is giving Latinos the tools we need to get our economy moving.
Download the fact sheet to see exactly how the American Jobs Act will do that, just as soon as Congress acts.
Original version posted at WhiteHouse.gov.
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Why are you advocating Naturalized U.S. Citizenship to 11.2 million illegals in the USA, as a solution to the illegal immigration problem?
Meanwhile, lets hurry up buildig walls in frontier states
Those that break our laws by coming here illegally diminish our country.
Back in 2006 after the first amnesty attempt failed, economists spent time in Congress talking to our politicians and explaining that if all the illlegals were given amnesty, it would, literrally bankrupt our country. It was estimated that it would cost over 2.2 trillion in unfunded benefits. Everyone would have to pay four times the taxes they do now.
That is why all countries have immigration laws. To allow free immigration would destroy the country.
After that politicians of all stripes started talking about various "conditions" for amnesty, including having been in the US a long time etc. If there was to be any amnesty, they would have to severely limit the number of people eligible. But now they seem to have settled on giving work permits, but no pathway to citizenship.
But the economic fact is that low skilled workers pull more out of our economy than they put in. So the illegals are aleady taking more than they have given in terms of economic benefit to the country and SS payments. In fact, in one year, illegal take more out of the system than they have put it combined over the last 20 years. So they are not losing out. They are making out like bandits.
However, the statistics show that Hispanics have a really, really bad high school drop out rate. It is estimated to be at least 37% in our state. The Pew Hispanic Center did a study a couple of years back and found that while other immigrants take one generation to reach the high school level of education, Hispanics are taking 4 generations.
All of this is very worrisome. Business here in CA is having a fit. They need educated workers and Hispanics will soon be the majority in the state and they are just not getting the education in the numbers needed.
And while there are many, many great Hispanic kids, doing wonderful things, there are far too many Hispanic teenage mothers living off the system and gang banger boys.
Case in point ~
"Individuals Who Are Not Authorized to Work in the United States Were Paid $4.2 Billion in Refundable Credits"
http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/auditreports/2011reports/201141061fr.html
They can deduct the $4 billion from this $7 billion immigrants pay into Social Security and still have everything they pay into Medicare and $3 billion left to pay your SS benefits.
Illegal Immigrants Are Bolstering Social Security With Billions
As the debate over Social Security heats up, the estimated seven million or so illegal immigrant workers in the United States are now providing the system with a subsidy of as much as $7 billion a year.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/05/business/05immigration.html
Well, it is estimated that illegal cost us much per year than they put into SS. So let's give the illegals credit for their SS payments and deduct it from what they have cost us. They will still owe us plenty.
Obama just lost the 2012 election (again).
"DHS confirms cheaper to deport every illegal alien than allowing them to stay"
http://www.examiner.com/immigration-reform-in-national/dhs-confirms-cheaper-to-deport-every-illegal-alien-than-allowing-them-to-stay
FAIR, which Tanton founded and where he remains on the board, has been listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Among the reasons are its acceptance of $1.2 million from the Pioneer Fund, a group founded to promote the genes of white colonials that funds studies of race, intelligence and genetics. FAIR has also hired as key officials men who also joined white supremacist groups. It has board members who regularly write for hate publications. It promotes r@cist conspiracy theories about Latinos. And it has produced television programming featuring white nationalists.
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/publications/the-nativist-lobby-three-faces-of-intolerance
Quoting the DHS official ~
"On December 3, Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs, Nelson Peacock, responding to request from several U.S. Senators, including Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), wrote: “Our conservative estimate suggests that ICE would require a budget of more than $135 billion to apprehend, detain and remove the nation’s entire illegal immigrant population.”"
http://www.examiner.com/immigration-reform-in-national/dhs-confirms-cheaper-to-deport-every-illegal-alien-than-allowing-them-to-stay#ixzz1XawXytwa