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Feb. 3, 2021 - Epoch Times
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Biden Wants To Legalize 11 Million Illegals, Who Says There Are Only 11 Million? | Larry Elder
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When it comes to illegal immigration, what a difference an administration makes.
What do you want for your people?
I'll be honest, I'm here today because in my country, with the working that we had, it's kind of terrible.
And we got a president that he's not helping the population.
And we're in a bad situation.
I'm coming from way, way far away from Broughton.
Where is your family?
My family, I left them home.
I know the kind of robbery because I don't have no internet so that they can check me and see how we're doing.
And I'm here today because I'm dreaming to get to the U.S. What is happening now with the pandemic?
Well, the pandemic, it messes up a lot.
I used to work tour guide, tourism.
And on the island, we're not receiving no tourism.
You are from Roatan?
I'm from Roatan.
Born and raised, islander, and that's where I will live.
What do you want for your people?
What I want for my people, I just want patience and peace that we can get to the U.S. because they're having a new president versus Biden.
He's going to help all of us.
He's giving us a hundred days to get to the U.S. and give us legal mental paper so we can get a better life for our kids and family.
You know, you don't even have to be making a partisan statement or a political statement to say that this is common sense consequences of a new administration.
When you've said we're going to end deportations, when you've said we're going to end the migrant protection protocols, which is the remaining Mexico policy while you're seeking asylum, when you're not willing to put the kind of pressure on the government of Mexico that the Trump administration has, when you're willing to give a pathway to citizenship, when you've talked about health care for illegals, all of that adds up to the door is now open.
Let's remember at one time and not very long ago, Democrats sounded just like Trump on the issue of illegal immigration.
They even used the term illegal alien.
Those who enter the country illegally and those who employ them disrespect the rule of law and they are showing disregard for those who are following the law.
All Americans Not only in the states most heavily affected, but in every place in this country are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country.
The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants.
The public service they use impose burdens on our taxpayers.
I think we can enforce our borders.
I think we should enforce our borders.
If making it easy to be an illegal alien isn't enough, how about offering a reward for being an illegal immigrant?
No sane country would do that, right?
We've got a couple of different issues we're talking about.
Do we have a commitment to secure the border?
Yes.
What are the options that we have available to us?
Let's make sure they work.
Because while we need to address the issue of immigration and the challenge we have of undocumented people in our country, we certainly don't want any more coming in.
In approaching immigration reform, I believe we must enact tough, practical reforms that ensure and promote the legal and orderly entry of immigrants into our country.
People who enter the United States without our permission are illegal aliens and illegal aliens should not be treated the same as people who entered the U.S. legally.
To have a situation where 40% of the babies born on Medicaid in California today are born of illegal immigrants creates a very real problem for the state, which is in deficit.
Let me finish.
To have 17% of our prison population at a cost of 300 million a year, the illegal immigrants who come here and commit felonies, that's not what this nation is all about.
We all agree on the need to better secure the border and to punish employers who choose to hire illegal immigrants.
That's why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before.
And the Commission sees no justification to the continued entry of unskilled foreign workers unless the rationale for their admission otherwise serves a significant national interest.
But at the same time, along with that, we have to beef up the border.
So there's some point at which you say, now you're here and these are the people that are here and these are the other people that aren't here.
Because otherwise you have people who are legally trying to get in and they're on a waiting list to get in and then other people are getting in.
It doesn't make any sense.
No sane country would do that, right?
I continue to believe that we need stronger enforcement on the border and at the workplace.
All illegal aliens present in the United States on the date of enactment of our bill must quickly register their presence with the United States government or face imminent deportation.
That means a workable, mandatory system that employers must use to verify the legality of their workers.
We will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace as recommended by the Commission headed by former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan.
I urge the Congress to adopt tough policies needed to verify employment authorization.
When we use phrases like undocumented workers, we convey a message to the American people that their government is not serious about combating illegal immigration.
If you don't think it's illegal, you're not gonna say it.
I think it is illegal and wrong.
If you break our laws by entering this country without permission to give birth to a child, we reward that child with U.S. citizenship.
And guarantee of full access to all public and social services this society provides.
And that's a lot of services.
Is it any wonder that two-thirds of the babies born at taxpayer expense at county-run hospitals in Los Angeles are born?
To illegal alien mothers.
So, that's why we need to start by giving agencies charged with border security new technology, new facilities, and more people to stop, process, and deport illegal immigrants.
With tough enforcement and auditing, is necessary to significantly diminish the job magnet that attracts illegal aliens to the United States.
By cracking down on illegal hiring, We also need to crack down on employers that are hiring illegal immigrants.
One of the things that's happening, and I've talked to people in towns in our state where this is happening, is that it almost creates a shadow workforce where employees are illegally employing these people.
They are sadly willing to take jobs that are more unsafe for less wages, and then it hurts our other workers that are here in this country.
So bringing this out of the shadows and making clear who's legal and who's not legal, beefing up the border security is where we need to head.
Right now we've got millions of illegal immigrants who live and work here without knowing their identity or background.
But we are also a nation of laws.
It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop.
When immigrants are less well educated and less skilled, they may pose economic hardships for the most vulnerable of Americans.
Particularly those who are unemployed or underemployed.
We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently, and lawfully to become immigrants in this country.
You know, would we even be having this discussion if the majority of illegals turned citizens turned voters would likely vote Republican?
This union leader, after 2009, laid it out.
If two-thirds of these new voters vote our way, we're going to have a progressive governing coalition for the long haul.
So I think there's two things, very quickly, that matter for the progressive community.
Number one, If we are to expect this electorate to win, the progressive community needs to solidly be on the side of immigrants.
That will solidify and expand the progressive coalition for the future.
And let me tell you, when you are in the middle of a fight for your life, you will remember who was there with you.
And immigrants come to progressives to be able to do that.
Number two, we reformed the immigration laws.
It puts 12 million Note he says 11 million illegal immigrants.
Why is the number always 11 million?
We've got 11 million undocumented people in this country.
Within 100 days, I'm going to send to the United States Congress a pathway to citizenship for over 11 million undocumented people.
We are not going to deport 11 or 12 million people in this country.
Biden introduced legislation to offer legal status and a pathway to citizenship for an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants.
What it is is basically an opportunity for the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States to legalize.
You know, when Ronald Reagan granted amnesty in the mid-'80s, twice as many illegals applied as experts expected.
Why would it be any different this time?
In fact, three Yale professors put together a study, and they say the number of illegal aliens in this country is probably twice the usual 11 million that people throw around.
Conventional estimates provided by both the Pew Foundation and also the Center for Migration Studies suggest that that number is a little over 11 million.
And those figures are arrived at via surveys, where people are actually Question as to whether or not they were born outside of the United States and whether they are citizens.
What we have done is something quite different.
We have not administered surveys.
Rather, we have collected both operational data, such as deportations and visa overstays, and demographic data, such as death rates and immigration rates, and combined these using a Demographic model that follows a very simple logic,
which is that the population at some point in time is equal to whatever that initial population was, plus everyone who came in, minus everyone who goes out.
It's that simple.
That's essentially what the model does.
We discover that the survey-based result that there are 11.3 million undocumented immigrants Seems to fall far short.
We have a conservative estimate that says the number is at least 16.7 million and over 1 million different scenarios accounting for all of the variability in the various parameters that we need for this model.
On average, we're estimating something like 22 million undocumented immigrants in the United States.
Finally, there is no such term in our U.S. code as illegal immigrant.
Undocumented immigrant, undocumented worker.
The term, the precise legal and correct term is illegal alien.
It is gender neutral, race neutral, ethnicity neutral, nationality neutral.
Illegal alien.
In fact, Cindy Rodriguez of the Hispanic Journalists Association says, using words can change how you see an issue.
Does she realize what she's saying?
Here's what she said.
If you can control the words people use, you can frame the issue.
That's how propaganda works.
Repeat the words continually until it reshapes the way people think." When we use phrases like undocumented workers, we convey a message to the American people that their government is not serious about combating illegal immigration, which the American people overwhelmingly oppose.
If you don't think it's illegal, you're not going to say it.
I think it is illegal and wrong, and we have to change it.
Well, that's quite an admission, Ms.
Rodriguez.
Even if you didn't know, you made it.
Illegal alien is not the same thing as an undocumented worker or an undocumented immigrant.
An illegal alien is an illegal alien.
I'm Larry Elder, and we've got a country to save.
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