S.744.IS Immigration Bill - Border Security First

As you know, the Senate’s “Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act,” passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. It is a government scheme that says, legalization first, and  border security later. We already went through a similar scheme in 1986. We were supposed to have border security--never got it.

Click here... for the bill text.

The Heritage Foundation says--

In terms of public policy and government deficits, an important figure is the aggregate annual deficit for all unlawful immigrant households. This equals the total benefits and services received by all unlawful immigrant households minus the total taxes paid by those households.

• Under current law, all unlawful immigrant households together have an aggregate annual deficit of around $54.5 billion.
• In the interim phase (roughly the first 13 years after amnesty), the aggregate annual deficit would fall to $43.4 billion.
• At the end of the interim phase, former unlawful immigrant households would become fully eligible for means-tested welfare and health care benefits under the Affordable Care Act. The aggregate annual deficit would soar to around $106 billion.
• In the retirement phase, the annual aggregate deficit would be around $160 billion. It would slowly decline as former unlawful immigrants gradually expire.

Read more on the costs of illegal immigration and amnesty as compiled by The Heritage Foundation.

Now Obama wants to raise the debt ceiling. We can't even afford ourselves.  I saw one of the Gang of Eight, Marco Rubio, on TV yesterday still promoting the Bill and telling us how wonderful it all is  but he says, without border security first, the Plan will fail.