President Barack Obama may have made life easier for hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants when he declared the “Dream Act” by fiat in 2012, in the midst of his re-election campaign. But in doing so, he shoved legal immigrants to the back of the line. Wait times for people trying to enter the country legally, especially for spouses and relatives, have skyrocketed, violating congressional intent and throwing families into turmoil.
Breitbart News first reported this phenomenon in June 2013, noting that call centers were prioritizing illegal immigrants applying for deferred status, rather than legal immigrants. Immigration attorney Gary Chodorow has also been following the story, and has blogged about the long lag times in dealing with those applying to immigrate through the I-130 process for relatives of U.S. citizens, stranding spouses and parents abroad.
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Democrats demand border jumpers made legal for massive voting bloc
May 19, 2013The Heritage Foundation recently issued a comprehensive report showing that Sen. Marco Rubio’s plan to instantly legalize 11.5 million illegal immigrants would add $6.3 trillion to the nation’s budget deficits over the next 50 years. Heritage assumed there are 11.5 million illegals, but other estimates put the number at 33 million, which would mean adding another $18 trillion to the deficit. To put that in perspective, the largest U.S. budget deficit in history was $1.4 trillion in 2009.
Currently, the average illegal alien gets about $24,721 in taxpayer-funded benefits and pays about $10,334 in taxes. After full legalization, they will be eligible for a whole new panoply of government benefits such as direct welfare payments, Obamacare, Social Security and Medicare. Heritage concludes that the total government benefits to these former illegal aliens will then rise to about $43,900 per household, while the taxes paid by them will increase only modestly to around $16,000.
Rubio says Heritage’s report is all wrong because it fails to use “dynamic scoring.”
Border Jumpers tell Border Agents “Obama’s gonna let me go!”
April 12, 2013According to news reports from local radio in San Antonio, Texas, illegal immigration across the Mexican border has jumped this year, with the Obama administration’s clear desire to loosen immigration enforcement a key factor. According to Linda Vickers, a ranch-owner in Brooks County, told WOAI that she watched illegal immigrants taunt border enforcement agents even as they were being arrested: “The Border Patrol agent was loading one man up, and he told the officer in Spanish, ‘Obama’s gonna let me go.’”
Term “Illegal Immigrant” dropped by 22MOON – switching to “Border Jumper”
April 7, 2013After the Associated Press on Tuesday decided to drop the term “illegal immigrant” and expunge it from its style guide (used by nearly every journalist), activists then immediately began to demand other publications follow suit.
Jose Antonio Vargas, the illegal immigrant who has gained publicity in recent years after he revealed that he did not have citizenship or legal status, tweeted, “You’re next, @nytimes, @latimes, @washingtonpost, @WSJ. No human being is illegal.”
11 things King Obama is doing to promote more border jumping
March 11, 2013Why does it seem like Barack Obama has been doing everything that he can to sabotage our border security and promote more illegal immigration? The number one responsibility of the president of the United States is to defend our nation, and yet Obama stubbornly refuses to secure our borders. In fact, he has been doing quite a bit to make it even easier for millions more drug runners, gang members and welfare parasites to enter our country illegally. This is utter insanity.
Amnesty Gang throws legal immigrants Under The Bus
January 30, 2013President Obama and the bipartisan Gang of Eight in Washington who want to create a “pathway to citizenship” for millions of illegal aliens have sent a message loud and clear to those who follow the rules: You’re chumps!
Have you patiently waited for months and years for the State Department and Department of Homeland Security to slog through your application? You’re chumps!
Have you paid thousands of dollars in travel, legal and medical fees to abide by the thicket of entry, employment, health and processing regulations? You’re chumps!
Have you studied for your naturalization test, taken the oath of allegiance to heart, embraced our time-tested principle of the rule of law, and demonstrated that you will be a financially independent, productive citizen? You’re chumps!