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Lautenberg Amendment/Refugee Admissions
Lautenberg Cost Americans $68 Billion On An Immigration Bill
An Immigration Amendment For Russian Jews
First enacted in 1989, the Lautenberg Amendment requires that the
historical persecution of among other Soviet Jews, be considered when
evaluating individual applications for refugee status. Since its
enactment the Lautenberg Amendment has brought more than 500,000
persecuted Jews from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) into the United
States as refugees. However, the amendment must be renewed each year.
In 1999, the Washington Action Office will continue to work with
Congress and the Administration to implement procedures to help
refugees overcome the barriers that have prevented them from leaving
the FSU and join their families, in the United States. We will also
work with members of Congress and the Administration to help ensure
that the U.S. remains a haven for some refugees. The Cost Is $68
Billion Annually
Huddle estimates that immigration costs the public a net $68 billion,
annually, that is, after subtracting taxes that immigrants pay. This
accounting includes (1) programs used by immigrants such as education,
Supplemental Security Income (SSI), health care, welfare, and criminal
justice (25% of the federal prison population is foreign-born); (2)
the social safety net for Americans whom immigrants displace from
jobs; and (3) the net present value of the Social Security liability
that is incurred annually in immigrant accounts.
Even The Refugee's Children Qualify
The United States accepts into its refugee resettlement program
persons who have not been found to qualify as refugees in their own
right, but rather are accepted because they are related to persons who
earlier were accepted as refugees by the United States.
However, unlike the regular immigration family sponsorship provision,
the refugee who sponsors a relative as a refugee accepts no financial
responsibility. The newcomer is in effect sponsored by the American
taxpayer and becomes immediately eligible for public assistance
programs such as food stamps and subsidized housing. Source The
Amendment Is Automatically Renewed
Every year, with absolutely no publicity, Congress votes to re-
authorize the "Lautenberg Amendment." This legislation grants
extraordinary immigration privileges to Jews who live anywhere in the
former Soviet Union. Any member of these protected groups, because
Congress arbitrarily declares them to be persecuted, can claim the
automatic right to enter the U.S. as a "refugee."
Since 1989, when Senator Lautenberg first succeeded in perpetrating
this trick, about 400,000 FSU inhabitants have availed themselves of
this privilege. About 11,000 will come in 2003.
Free Health Care, Social Security, Unemployment Ins, Etc
Refugees, unlike non-refugee immigrants, receive interest- free
government loans for airline tickets to the U.S. They are also, within
30 days of arrival, eligible for welfare on the same basis as an
American citizen. A staggering 38% of refugee households arriving from
the FSU in the last 5 years have one or more members on the life-time
welfare program SSI. (see 1999 HHS Office Of Refugee Resettlement
report to Congress, p. 5 More than half of newly-arrived FSU refugee
households are receiving food stamps and Medicaid.
American Workers Pick Up The Tab
And guess who's paying for it? Another Lautenberg requirement: a
relative in the U.S.- who will be most likely an earlier beneficiary
of the program. That's to keep the program from going totally through
the roof. But, of course, real refugees don't necessarily have
relatives here. 500,000 Jews On The Dole
Senator Lautenberg's real concern in 1989, of course, was the Soviet
Jews. Overwhelmingly, they have been the primary beneficiaries of his
amendment. Including programs that anticipated Lautenberg's
legislation, perhaps 500,000 Soviet Jews have come here in total- a
major population transfer, significantly augmenting the American
Jewish community, which was estimated at only 5.5 million in 1990.
Each ethnic lobby sets its demands at the level attained by previous
beneficiaries. All work together to increase the overall quota, rather
than lowering the quota of one group to accommodate the demands of
another.
Three separate Congressional letters have been sent to President Bush
urging a minimum annual refugee admission rate of 100,000. Obviously,
refugee admission is still an "apple pie" issue to some of its
political supporters who know very little about how the program
actually works.
How nice that Senator Lautenberg is now in a position to help repair
the damage to which his amendment has so contributed.
http://judicial-inc.biz/85lautenberg_amendment.htm
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But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light:
for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. The light shineth in darkness;
and the darkness comprehended it not. The light of the body is the eye:
if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness.
If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead,
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