On Feb 5, 9:34 pm, "
GeorgeWashingtonAdmi...@adelphia.com"
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guybanniste...@aol.com> wrote:
> Before reading this PLEASE NOTE:
>
> Senate Stimulus: 300,000 Jobs for Illegals? - 1 in 7 New Construction
> Jobs Could Go to Illegal Immigrants
>
> By Steven A. Camarota
> February 2009
>
> WASHINGTON, D.C. (February 4, 2008) — The Senate Stimulus bill
> currently being considered contains about $104 billion in new
> government funding for construction projects with the goal of creating
> jobs for millions of unemployed Americans. Unlike the House version,
> there is no provision in the bill to bar illegal immigrants from
> getting these taxpayer-funded jobs. This could result in several
> hundred thousand illegal immigrants receiving jobs.
>
> The current version of the Senate Stimulus bill (The American Recovery
> and Reinvestment Act) contains $104 billion in construction spending,
> including highways, schools, and public housing.
> Government estimates suggest this spending should create about 2
> million new construction jobs.
> Consistent with other research, the Center Immigration Studies has
> previously estimated that 15 percent of construction workers are
> illegal immigrants.
> This means that about 300,000 of the construction jobs created by the
> Senate stimulus could go to illegal aliens (15 percent of 2 million).
>
> Discussion: The $104 billion figure for new construction is based on
> the current version of the Senate Stimulus bill. Government estimates
> indicate that each $1 billion spent on construction should create
> roughly 19,600 construction jobs, each lasting a year.1 Thus $104
> billion for construction projects should create construction-related
> jobs for about 2.04 million workers over several years. The Center for
> Immigration Studies has estimated that about one out of seven (or 15
> percent) of workers employed in construction in the United States are
> illegal immigrants.2 Thus, if no effort is made to bar illegal
> immigrants from these jobs, it is extremely likely that about 300,000
> will go to illegal immigrants. The House of Representatives version of
> the stimulus package has a provision requiring contractors to use the
> E-Verify system, which enables employers to quickly determine if new
> hires are authorized to work in the United States. At present, the
> Senate has no such provision.
>
> 1 The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) estimates indicate that
> each $1 billion in construction spending directly creates 19,584
> construction related jobs. This number comes from Employment Impacts
> of Highway Infrastructure Investment, April 2008, FHWA. This figure
> does not include jobs indirectly created by construction spending.
>
> 2 Steven A. Camarota, “Dropping Out: Immigrant Entry and Native Exit
> From the Labor Market, 2000-2005,” Center for Immigration Studies
> Backgrounder, March 2006, p. 19. A 2006 Pew Hispanic Center study,
> “The Size and Characteristics of the Unauthorized Migrant Population
> in the U.S.,” estimated that 14 percent of construction workers were
> illegal immigrants; see page 3 of that report. Both the CIS and Pew
> studies were based on the March 2005 Current Population Survey (CPS).
> The March 2007 CPS shows that the illegal share of construction
> workers may have grown to 18 percent, but we use 15 percent in the
> above discussion to be conservative.
>
> # # #
>
> The Center for Immigration Studies is an independent research
> organization that examines the impact of immigration on the United
> States.
>
> Source:
http://cis.org/SenateStimulus> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> What Would America's Founders Do?
> Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
> Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.
> -- Benjamin Franklin
>
> No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
> -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to
> keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves
> against tyranny in government.
> -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and
> silent we may be led, like sheep, to the slaughter.
> -- George Washington
>
> If the representatives of the people betray their constituents,
> there is then no resource left but in the exertion of that
> original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive
> forms of government ... The citizens must rush tumultuously to
> arms, without concert, without system, without resource;
> except in their courage and despair ...
> The natural strength of the people in a large community, in
> proportion to the artificial strength of the government, is greater
> than in a small ... the people, without exaggeration, may be said
> to be entirely the masters of their own fate.
> -- Alexander Hamilton
>
> We in America do not have government by the majority.
> We have government by the majority who participate.
> -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good
> conscience to remain silent.
> -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of
> the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe
> depositories.
> -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now
> let us show them we can fight like men also.
> -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going
> to do.
> -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the
> Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
> -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will
> delineate and define you.
> -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on
> does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which
> they draw their gains.
> -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied
> corporations which dare already to challenge our government to
> a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
> -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our
> liberties than standing armies.
> -- Thomas Jefferson
>
> Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government
> those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations,
> perverted it into tyranny.
> -- Thomas Jefferson
I doubt that any of the spineless creeps infesting Congress would have
the balls
to propose something (deportation) that is rational.
mitch
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