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A Mexican woman who became the poster-child for illegal immigrants following an arrest in 2010 has had her deferred immigration status revoked by lawyers in the Trump administration, opening the door to her possible deportation.

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement stripped 28-year-old Jessica Colotl of her Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals protections earlier this month for lying to police in 2011 following her 2010 arrest.

Following the removal of her deferred status, an immigration judge issued a deportation order for Colotl.

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Colotl was arrested in 2010 and charged with impeding traffic and driving without a license on the campus of Kennesaw State University, where she was studying at the time. Her arrest sparked a political debate over illegal immigration when the school revealed it was charging her in-state tuition. She later became a vocal proponent of immigration reform and a paralegal at Kuck Immigration Partners LLC, an Atlanta law firm specializing in deportation defenses.

Colotl signed a document in 2011 admitting she gave Cobb County law enforcement officers a false home address, for which she was charged with a felony. Although the case was eventually dismissed, Colotls confession was sufficient cause to remove DACA status, according to ICE.

In response to actions by the government, Colotl has sued the Trump administration in federal court, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. In her lawsuit, Colotl argues the governments actions are unwarranted given that her charge was later dismissed.

It is completely outrageous, Colotl told the Journal-Constitution. On Monday when I first found out about this, I felt shock because I didnt know this could potentially happen.

In her lawsuit, Colotl contends the Trump administration is using her as a test case to revoke DACA, exceeding its discretionary authority in an arbitrary and capricious manner, according to the Journal-Constitution.

Indeed, if she is deported because her deferred status was revoked, Colotl would join a small group of about 1,500 mostly violent criminals and gang members who have had their status revoked since the DACA program was implemented in 2012 by former President Barack Obama.

The program allows immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children to apply for two-year work permits and receive deportation deferment, so they could rest easy while living in the U.S. and not be in constant fear of deportation.

President Donald Trump campaigned on ending the program, though he has since softened his rhetoric on the issue. Still, given how the government is handling Colotls case, it remains to be seen what will happen to the other 770,000 DREAMers living in the U.S.

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IMAGEBYSETHWEBER This map shows the estimated amount of illegal immigrants by state as of 2014. Accroding to data from The Pew Research Center, Illinois has the largest amount in the region, with an estimated 450,000 illegal immigrants, followed by Virginia with 300,000, Pennsylvania with 180,000, Michigan with 130,000, Indiana with 110,000, Ohio with 95,000, Kentucky with 50,000 and West Virginia with less than 5,000.

Rhetoric concerning illegal immigration has been in the air as Donald Trump has taken the presidency, which leaves the question of how these policies could affect Seneca County.

Trump has been outspoken about changing the way the U.S. handles immigration, not just to keep out illegal immigrants, but suspected terrorists as well.

Hot topic

Illegal immigration has been a hot topic locally even before Trump took office, as protesters have been known to speak out against those detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In September 2016, The Advertiser-Tribune reported on protesters gathering across the street from a Seneca County Board of Commissioners meeting.

Were here to support (Latino grassroots organization) HOLA protesting the jail here in Tiffin that detains immigrant workers, Baldemar Velasquez, president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, said in The Advertiser-Tribune article. This smacks of business, making money off of the tragedies of these families that are torn apart by unnecessary deportations.

IMAGEBYSETHWEBER This graph shows revenue coming into the Seneca County Jail since 2006. A considerable amount of revenue was lost in 2015 when fewer illegal immigrants were being housed at the jail by Immigration and Custom Enforcement.

Since he took office, Trump has issued executive orders calling for the temporary suspension of immigrants from seven Muslim-majoirty counties while existing screening and vetting procedures were under review, states the text of Executive Order Protecting The Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States. The order since has been delayed by litigation.

This order was discussed by North Central Ohio Conservatives in February, which raised controversy locally. NCOC President Jim Green criticized the pushback against Trumps immigration orders, saying their criticisms sounded like a communist manifesto, and said lock and load, right? This is why we raffle guns, fearing violence from protestors.

Seneca County Democratic Party Executive Committee Chairman Jonathon Puffenberger responded with outrage to these comments.

Jim Greens call to arms against peaceful protest is unacceptable, he said in a February Advertiser-Tribune article. No citizen should fear violence for simply exercising their constitutional right to speech.

Problems few and far between

Early in his presidency, Trump signed an executive order calling for the construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border, and, more relevant to Seneca County, cooperate fully with States and local law enforcement in enacting Federal-State partnerships to enforce Federal immigration priorities.

Despite this call for local law enforcement to get more aggressive on illegal immigrants, Tiffin Police Department Chief Fred Stevens said their approach towards illegal immigrants will not change. Tiffin police still will detain those whom they discover are illegal immigrants such as during traffic stops but will not go out seeking or investigating illegal immigrants, he said.

Nothing has changed for us here in Seneca County. A crime is still a crime, Stevens said. Were not going out of our way to look for those things, but were not going to not enforce it.

Illegal immigrants do exist in the county, but problems involving them are few and far between, as can be attested by local law enforcement. Stevens and Chuck Boyer, unit coordinator of Seneca County Drug Task Force METRICH Enforcement Unit, have said coming across illegal immigrants has become rare.

Boyer deals with many drug dealers locally, and said most of the dealers they catch usually are from the Toledo, Detroit or Chicago areas if theyre not from north central Ohio.

Its pretty rare that our unit directly deals with (illegal immigrants), he said.

Because of this lack of illegal immigrants, ICE has fewer to house at the Seneca County Jail. ICE, a federal law enforcement agency, uses the Seneca County Jail to detain those suspected of illegal immigration, said Seneca County Commissioner Mike Kerschner.

(Theres a) significant decrease in people being deported, he said.

The significance of the decrease rings true when looking at the federal funds Seneca County was getting from ICE for housing those detained. A report from Seneca County Auditor Julie Adkins stated revenue for Seneca County Jail housing in 2014 stood at $1.8 million. In 2015, when the number of detainees coming into the county decreased, housing revenue dropped to $917,386.

Though Trumps policies may affect future illegal immigrant arrivals and departures in the U.S., Kerschner said hes not sure how it could affect Seneca County.

I think its too early to tell what Trumps policies would do to the volume of detainees, he said.

Kerschner said Seneca County Sheriff Bill Eckelberry helped the jail make up for revenue lost by the lack of illegal immigrants by bringing in inmates from other counties. Eckelberry declined to comment for the story.

With the rising female population in jails, we were able to assist Sandusky Co (sic) for a short time, Adkins stated in an email. In doing so we were able to increase revenue slightly when our detainee population was lower.

This phenomenon is not new, as Kerschner said there are many programs which can generate significant income at the whim of the federal government.

Steadily decreasing

This local trend also can be observed nationally, as arrivals by illegal immigrants began steadily decreasing in 2008, stated a 2014 Journal on Migration and Human Security report by the Center for Migration Studies of New York. Departures, which include adjusting to legal status, removal from the U.S., leaving voluntarily or dying, have conversely decreased.

The illegal immigrant population peaked around 2008, with 12 million illegal immigrants residing in the U.S. In the following year, that number dropped to 11.9 million, with an estimated 385,000 illegal immigrants entering the country and 560,000 leaving.

Seneca County Jail revenue seemed to mirror this decrease, as revenue went from $783,845 in 2005 to a peak of $2,781,421 in 2009. Revenue continued on a downward trend until it recovered slightly in 2016 at $1,302,447.

The Pew Research Center reported in September 2016 the estimated number of illegal immigrants has stabilized and was an estimated 11 million as of 2015. The majority of illegal immigrants reside in coastal and border states, such as California and Texas. As of 2014, Pew reported an estimated 95,000 illegal immigrants lived in Ohio, which makes up less than 1 percent of illegal immigrants in the country.

The Journal on Migration and Human Security report also noted fewer illegal immigrants have been coming from Mexico in recent years. As of 2012, the paper stated an estimated 120,000 illegal immigrants came from Mexico and 240,000 came from other countries.

From 1982 to 1997, the percent arriving from Mexico was consistently just below 70 percent, the paper stated. From 1997 to 2004, the percentage from Mexico dropped gradually, falling to slightly more than half of all arrivals in 2004.

Fewer North and South American illegal immigrants having been coming to the U.S. since a peak around 2000, and illegal immigrants from Asian, African and Caribbean countries have been at an uptick, the paper stated. However, illegal immigrant arrivals from these locations have been in the tens of thousands each year, while North American immigration historically had been in the hundreds of thousands until recently.

First-hand experiences

Carlos Rodriguez, network administrator at St. Francis Senior Ministries, is an immigrant from El Salvador, and has first-hand experiences with the U.S. immigration system.

Rodriguezs parents were involved in Salvadoran Civil War a conflict lasting from 1980 to 1992 and left the country for Mexico when he was 3 years old. He said they continued to be persecuted in Mexico 15 years after leaving El Salvador, so they fled to the U.S.

It got really bad in El Salvador, so they moved from El Salvador to Mexico, he said. When you hear on the news about refugees, thats how my parents got here, he said.

St. Francis took his family into its refugee program. The process wasnt easy, Rodriguez said, as it took a while and a lot of money.

The experience was an adventure for Rodriguez, who did not know any English when he came to Tiffin at 18. Language was the main challenge for Rodriguez, which was made more difficult by the lack of other Latinos in the area.

Rodriguez described his English education like going to preschool, as his learning material was elementary-level. He said childrens movies also helped him get a grasp of the basics of the language.

St. Francis has been known as a refuge for immigrants, and as such, sisters at St. Francis are critical of Trumps executive orders. On the Tiffin Franciscans website, they state their belief that current U.S. immigration law disregards these rights for millions, many of whom are U.S. citizens

Although St. Francis did host refugee families when Rodriguez came, Sister Jacquelyn Doepker said theyve stopped doing so because they dont want St. Francis to be a target for ICE. When St. Francis was a sanctuary campus, Doepker said, the community was very friendly and helpful in helping them with their mission.

Throughout her years of aiding illegal immigrants, Doepker has found many of the immigrant families only concern was for their loved ones.

Every one of them were sending any money at all back to their family, she said.

Sister Margaret Slowick, director of Cuernavaca Childrens Mission in Mexico, has been working among Mexican families for years, and shares Doepkers understanding of life for an illegal immigrant. Slowick said nobody wants to leave their home country, but she finds people feel the need to leave in order to provide for their families.

Theyre just good people who want to send money to their kids, she said. If we poured money into helping people (instead of) pouring money into things like the wall, things would be better.

As someone who is familiar with immigration into the U.S., Rodriguez does not see the point of building a wall across the border.

The wall is stupid. Its a waste of money, he said. Securitys there, but people are always able to make it through. If theres a will, theres a way.

There has not been a consensus on how much the wall would cost, but estimates range from $10 billion to $12 billion an estimate from Trump to upwards of $60 billion, which U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D- Missouri, who sits on the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, estimated.

The DHS budget blueprint for Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 will request approximately $2.6 billion to construct fewer than 75 miles of new border barrier, resulting in a per-mile cost of over $36.6 million per mile, McCaskill stated in a March 2017 letter to Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Acting Commissioner Kevin McAleenan. I am concerned that the per-mile cost derived from information presented in the briefing would result in a total cost of the construction of the border wall of more than $66.9 billion for approximately 1,827 miles of border contemplated for construction.

Although Trump has been hopeful such a wall could stop people illegally crossing the border, research has found many illegal immigrants in the U.S. never crossed the border illegally; they simply overstay their visas, as can be seen in the Journal on Migration and Human Security report.

Far less attention and enforcement funding has been devoted to persons who enter with nonimmigrant (temporary) visas and who overstay their period of admission or otherwise violate the terms of their visas, the paper stated.

In January 2014, a Congressional Research Service report stated 31-57 percent of illegal immigrants overstayed their visas. The exact percentage is not certain because the report stated the Department of Homeland Security does not have reliable data on emigration and nonimmigrant departures from the United States.

Rodriguez may disagree with Trumps policies, but he said practices such as separating families have been around for a while.

The reality is, some of these policies have been around for a long time, he said. Theyre just a little more public now.

He also noted the anger hes seen toward illegal immigrants regarding them not paying taxes. However, Rodriguez insisted this could not be further from the truth, as illegal immigrants often pay taxes on their checks through fake Social Security numbers.

I remember people who, even if they were illegal, they were able to get jobs and they pay taxes on their checks, he said.

Research agrees with Rodriguezs statement, as can be seen in an Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy report from February 2016.

The truth is that undocumented immigrants living in the United States pay billions of dollars each year in state and local taxes, the report stated.

Illegal immigrants pay an estimated $11.64 billion a year in state and local taxes, the report stated. This number breaks down to about $6.9 billion in sales and excise taxes, $3.6 billion in property taxes and $1.1 billion in personal income taxes. In Ohio, the report stated illegal immigrants pay about $84.8 million in state and local taxes.

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Congressional Research Service report

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/RS22446.pdf

Journal on Migration and Human Security

http://jmhs.cmsny.org/index.php/jmhs/article/view/45

Pew Research Center article

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DENVER (CBS4) Two illegal immigrants at the center of a deportation battle are allowed to stay in Colorado for now.

Jeanette Vizguerra left a church in Denver Thursday where shed been staying with her family for months. She was flagged to be deported, but an act of Congress allows her to stay until March of 2019.

Arturo Hernandez Garcia received the same deal. He too spent time living in the same church.

Arturo Hernandez Garcia, left, Jeanette Vizguerra, right (credit CBS)

More churches are going to start offering sanctuary to illegal immigrants.

When Vizguerra needed new sanctuary, Rev. Brian Henderson says his church was a natural home.

One of the things that were realizing is that truthfully to be welcoming and affirming we need to be welcoming and affirming to everyone, Henderson said.

Jeanette Vizguerra (credit CBS)

Henderson says his congregation was looking for ways to help after Homeland Security changed deportation policies to include undocumented residents with any criminal charge. The First Baptist Church just across the street from the state Capitol is now the third in the state giving sanctuary to immigrants they say face unjust deportations.

The movement is growing and people are becoming interested and engaged. Henderson said.

Jeanette Vizguerra (credit CBS)

Eight churches have now part of whats called the Metro Denver Sanctuary Coalition where three churches are offering physical sanctuary and more are considering joining.

Immigrant communities are living in fear for their own safety and as a faith community that is committed to justice every way we can, this was the right thing for us to do, Henderson said.

Support in Hendersons church was not unanimous, but he says the consensus was overwhelming. He doesnt expect all churches to follow his lead and is prepared to answer their criticisms.

Arturo Hernandez Garcia (credit: CBS)

We are doing our best to do justice, to love kindness and walk humbly, he said.

A spokesman with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told CBS4 Vizguerra and Hernandez Garcia were granted stays because lawmakers had introduced private bills naming them and had requested investigations.

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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has deep concerns about the Knox County Sheriffs Offices application into the controversial 287(g) program. Wochit

Knox County Sheriff's Office patrol car.(Photo: File)

Knox County Sheriff Jimmy J.J. Jones has said for months that the county applied for the controversial U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcements 287(g) program to help reduce the countys jail population and to save the county money by holding undocumented immigrant inmates for less time.

While the 287(g) program may accomplish these goals, the county failed to list either as reasons why officials are interested in the program in its needs assessment submitted to ICE in December.

KCSO Capt. Terry Wilshire, who filled out the paperwork, wrote that the program will be used to fight illegal immigration. The application also estimates the 287(g) program will allow the county to process and turn in up to 1,800 aliens to ICE a year.

The application sheds light on the countys plans for the 287(g) program.

Partnership with ICE to combat illegal immigration, especially illegal aliens committing criminal acts with prior criminal records. Assist with identification and removal proceedings of those criminal aliens who have deportation proceedings and are arrested for local crimes, the application states.

Jones, who announced his candidacy for Knox County mayor earlier this month, declined to be interviewed on the phone or in person. He responded Friday to a list of five emailed questions.

"We will talk further about 287(g) when ICE either approves or disapproves the program for Knox County. We have fully vetted the program not only for you, but for all the media outlets. You may recall that I told you that Knox County was approved for the program a few years ago but was told there were no funds available due to sequestration. I talked openly with you about all aspects of the program and will do so again when we have been approved or denied 287(g)," Jones wrote in an email.

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The program deputizes local law enforcement officials to act on behalf of and in place of federal immigration authorities in exchange for training and funding.

Once someone has been arrested, ICE will flag the individualfor removal and decide to request a detainer, or hold, on the person. The 287(g) program allows local law enforcement to decide who goes into deportation proceedings. A federal immigration judge ultimately decides who will be deported.

ICE places detainers on undocumented immigrants who have been arrested on local criminal charges and for whom ICE has probable cause to believe are removable from the United States, according to an ICE spokesperson. The detainers are put in place so ICE can take custody of the individual when he or she is released from local custody.

The Knox County Jail takes in approximately 27,000 inmates a year, 1,600 of whom are foreign-born, according to the application. The application estimates Knox County will identify, process and turn over 150 aliensto ICE per month, or 1,800 aliensa year, if approved for the 287(g) program.

The application language from ICE uses the term alien, defined as "any person not a citizen or national of the United States."

Knox County's application states the county currently holds approximately 20 alienson federal detainers for ICE every month, which is about 240 annually. But anApril 20 email fromWilshire to Jones, provided to the Tennessee chapter of the ACLU following the group's records request, said Knox County detained 81 undocumented immigrants in 2016, releasing 75 to ICE. In 2011, the county detained 309, releasing 243 to ICE: in 2015, the county detained 65 and released 59 to ICE.

Seeing those numbers (in the application) is incredibly chilling and will send a very scary message to immigrant families in Knox County, said Stephanie Teatro, co-director of the Tennessee Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition, which helped organize a 287(g) protest earlier this month.

Protesters gather for a rally before marching through downtown Knoxville on Monday, May 1, 2017, to protest the Knox County Sheriff's Office application for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcements controversial 287(g) program.(Photo: BRIANNA PACIORKA/NEWS SENTINEL)

Teatro said Nashville, which has a much larger immigrant population, had 10,000 people deported in the five years the program was used.

The process of taking in and processing undocumented immigrants can take up to three weeks at $100 a day, Jones has said, and the 287(g) program would allow for faster processing times which will save the county money.

Jones, in a May 2 interview with USA TODAY NETWORK-Tennessee,said people wont be asked their immigration status on simple traffic stops.

The top five arrest charges for foreign-born criminals, according to the application, include offenses like driving under the influence, driving without a valid license and public intoxication.

Im not against people coming here to make a better living or to help their families, he said on May 2. What I want them to do is do the same things you and I have to do. We have to follow the law.

The application also estimates there are 100 foreign-born gang members in Knox County including Sureno-13, Mexican Mafia, MS-13, Nortenos, Kurdish Pride, Brown Pride, Asian Pride, Johnny-Boys, Laos Boys, German Outlaw and Triad. The application estimated the county sees approximately 30 fraudulent documents and 30 counterfeit goods (immigration documents, Social Security cards, visas and passports) every month.

Jones also said on May 2that there would be 10-15 officers trained by ICE.

If residents, illegal or not, dont break the law, he said, then they have nothing to worry about under the 287(g) program. Additionally, he said, there will be no task force rounding up immigrants.

Were not looking to split up any homes, he said. This is merely for the jail process; it is monetarily beneficial to the taxpayers of Knox County.

Immigrant rights groups have fought the 287(g) program tooth and nail and have argued it will harm the relationship between local law enforcement and the immigrant and minority communities in Knox County. Groups have also said the program will increase the chance immigrant and other minorities will be racially profiled.

Teatro said the numbers in the application are incredibly high bars to set, and it places fear in Knoxville families.

But Jones has said the countys application is for the 287(g) detention model, and deputies will not be roaming the streets looking for undocumented immigrants.

He said he knows the stigma surrounding the 287(g) program, but said his deputies will not misuse the program as long as he is sheriff.

I would tell you that community trust with any minority is hard for any law enforcement agency to get, Jones said. We work very hard in those communities to gain that trust and I think they trust us. I think they know me, I think they know (Knoxville Police Chief) David (Rausch) and they trust us to do just what I said: be good stewards and make sure there are no shortcuts taken and make sure there are no prejudices, no biases and no racial profiling.

ICE denied Knox Countys first request in 2013, writing in a letter to Jones that the agency had frozen expansion of the program because of the across-the-board federal budget cuts called for under sequestration.

At the time Jones called the explanation a smokescreen and vowed to enforce federal immigration laws anyway.

If need be, he said in a statement, I will stack these violators like cordwood in the Knox County jail until the appropriate federal agency responds.

Currently, there are 41 287(g) agreements across the country, but none in the state of Tennessee. Metro Nashville was previously part of the 287(g) program, but left it in Oct. 2012. Donald Trump signed an executive order reviving the program.

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The Senator is working with the Administration on legislation that addresses border security and interior enforcement only, according to a statement from the Cornyns office. That border focus excludes the basics of immigration law, such as rules for the annual number immigrants and guest-workers, for required skill levels, and rules for integrating into Americans civic society.

Cornyns denial was aimed at a CNN report which declared Cornyn is quietly working on an immigration and border security bill, sources say, in what could be the first credible effort to deliver a legislative win on immigration policy under President Donald Trump.

But Trumps Department of Homeland Security is also downplaying Cornyns own claim that he is working with the agency to draft a new border-security policy.

Were working with many members of Congress to fulfill the Presidents direction in his EO [Executive Order] to plan, design and construct a physical wall along the southern border, using appropriate materials and technology to most effectively achieve operational control of the southern border, said a statement from agency spokesman David Lapan, who added:

The EO mentions technology as well as the physical wall and Secretary [John] Kelly has frequently said the plan also must include people the men and women of CBP and Border Patrol who patrol and protect the border, every day. That is DHSs plan.

The agencys emphasis on a wall is very different from Cornyns record of opposing any wall that might reduce the supply of cheap workers and consumers to Texas businesses.

Cornyns staff declined to offer any details about his secret bill.

During his time in the Senate, Cornyn has downplayed support for a wall and has instead emphasized the use of border patrols and surveillance technology, both of which can be quickly removed by a future president.

I think people would say, if you are talking about a physical wall, it would rate very low in importance, he said in a February radio interview.

Cornyn told Texas reportersin February that I dont think were just going to be able to solve border security with a physical barrier because people can come under, around it and through it. He added:

I believe that successful border security is composed of three components. One is infrastructure, which you could call that a physical barrier, wall, or fencing. Secondly, technology, and third, personnel.

Because if you dont have the people there to detain people trying to illegally enter the country when they come over the wall or around the wall or under the wall or through the wall, it doesnt make much sense. So I really believe that successful border security entails a combination of all three, and each of those will vary a little bit depending on where you are along the border.

Cornyn is working on his secret proposal with Texas Rep. Mike McCaul, who chairs the Houses Committee on Homeland Security Committee.

McCauls office did not respond to emails from Breitbart.

However, McCauls prior legislation on border security has also downplayed the wall. In 2013, for example, he tried to jump-start the Gang of Eight amnesty-and-cheap-labor bill with a bill that reduced border security rules and was embraced by Democratic leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi and other progressives.

In November, McCaul was praised by Jeh Johnson, the former for DHS secretary for former President Barack Obama. I dont know anybody who is stronger on border security in Congress that I have dealt with, Johnson said.

Other Senate legislators are drafting new bills that may be combined later this year into another proposed Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill.

That is a risky strategy for the GOP, if only because Democrats lost nine Senate seats the year after they pushed their Gang of Eight bill in 2013.

One possible element of any new comprehensive bill is GOP Sen. Ron Johnsons unpopular proposal to invite additional500,000 guest workers, plus their families, to take jobs from U.S. workers every year. The federal government already allows companies to import almost 1 million temporary contract workers each year, even though four million Americans turn 18 and beginlooking for jobs each year.

Democratic Senator Dick Durbin is also pushing a BRIDGE Act that would provide amnesty to several hundred thousand illegals who were brought to the United States as children by their parents. Once the beneficiaries receive the amnesty and then citizenship, they can also put their illegal-immigrant parentson track to get residency, citizenship, Medicare and Social Security payments.

Under current policies, federal immigration policy adds roughly 1 millionlegal immigrants per year, who help business groups by serving as lower-wage workers, welfare-aidedconsumers, and as downtown renters.

This legal inflow includes some very skilled workers and some people who become very successful entrepreneurs, but it also dumps a lot of unskilled workers into the country just as a new generation of technology is expected to eliminate many types of jobs. It also lowers salaries so it annuallyshifts $500 billion from employees to their employers and toWall Street, and it forces state and local government to provide $60 billionin taxes to businesses via routine aid for immigrants, it drives up housing costs, and it pushes millions of marginal U.S. workers out of the labor force andinto poverty, crime andopioid addiction.

High immigration also reduces employers need to recruit disengaged Americans, to build new facilities in high-unemployment areas, or tobuy productivity-boosting machineryor to demand that local schools rebuild high school vocational training departments for the millions of youth who dont gain much from four-year colleges.

The resulting poverty and civic conflicts increase ballot-box support for Democrats, ensuring that more states especially high-immigration California are dominated by the Democratic Partys big-government policies.

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