Immigration proposal would take time to take effect

USA Today has a copy of the White House immigration proposal.  It would allow illegal immigrants to become legal permanent residents within eight years. 

“The plan also would provide for more security funding and require business owners to check the immigration status of new hires within four years.  In addition, the nation’s 11 million illegal immigrants could apply for a newly created “Lawful Prospective Immigrant” visa, under the bill being written by the White House.” 

New Jersey is estimated to be eighth among states with most undocumented immigrants. 

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Jersey may very well be eighth in illegal alien populations—but we certainly are the premier state WRT illegals using forged and faked documents purchased from itinerant document brokers (who set up shop in NJ). “ Impoverished” illegals pay several thousand dollars for forged documents which allows them (a)to vote–and–(b) ride the US gravy train.  Read on:

July 21, 2006—-NJ BERGEN RECORD—Pelcastre brothers, Angel and Jorge, Dallas, Texas, were a walking threat to US national security, expert document forgers who, for a few thousand dollars, could give anyone a new identity, NJ L/E authorities said. 

The Texas brothers were a “one-stop shop” for a myriad of fake US documents, including birth certificates, Social Security cards, driver’s licenses—-for NJ and any state in the US—— including passports and resident alien cards, said state police. 

The Texas brothers turned a NJ hotel room into a business office and were readying a massive cache of fake Social Security cards for delivery to a local NJ identity broker.  Officers happened upon two cars bearing Texas plates in a NJ hotel parking lot. 

The brothers were followed to a NJ office supply store nearby where they purchased computer supplies.  Officers then followed the Texans ta NJ storage facility in Secaucus, NJ, where the Texans loaded several boxes into a car.  One of them stood lookout. 

After a search, to which they agreed, police recovered laminating sheets with built-in security features, pages of blank documents waiting for fake names and information, finished documents, computers and software to create the fake IDs. 

All told, the haul was worth about $500,000 on the street when sold to “impoverished illegals.”  Police also recovered $6,000 in cash, which was the first payment from a NJ fake document broker for a shipment of 500 phony Social Security cards. #### 

Citizenship for young illegals triggers chain migration of extended families. 

The Washington Times | Feb 15, 2013 Editorial
Entitlement spending and immigration are two issues that threaten America’s financial future.  The two controversies meet in the case of the newly arrived elderly, many of whom have discovered they can cash in on an overly generous welfare system. 

The scam is simple.  Senior immigrants typically live with their foreign-born adult children who already have gained their US citizenship.  After five years of green-card status, the parents can apply for citizenship. 

From 2000 through 2011, about a million persons aged 60 or over were granted citizenship, accounting for about 13 percent of total naturalizations. 
Often, the immigrant children are highly educated and quite well off, living in upscale homes and driving expensive cars. 

Their elderly parents’ standard of living is often well above that of most Americans, thanks to their children’s success.  The only factor considered is income, and language and distance barriers render it nearly impossible for U.S.
authorities to verify whether they have income in their home country. 

Medicaid for recent, elderly immigrants is practically a given.  They frequently take advantage of Section 8 housing benefits, which can provide an extra place to stay on weekends after keeping an eye on the grandkids during the weekdays. 

Elderly illegals crowd waiting lists for Section 8 housing to the extent that the lists get closed to new applicants, resulting in a particularly perverse outcome: Many of those shut out are genuinely poor. 

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