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Illegal immigration has emerged as one of the most important issues in this primary election season. Fair (Federation for American immigration Reform) summarizes some fiscal and employment impacts of illegal immigration:
This report estimates the
annual costs of illegal immigration at the federal, state and local level to be
about $113 billion; nearly $29 billion at the federal level and $84 billion at
the state and local level. The study also estimates tax collections from
illegal alien workers, both those in the above-ground economy and those in the
underground economy. Those receipts do not come close to the level of
expenditures and, in any case, are misleading as an offset because over time
unemployed and underemployed U.S. workers would replace illegal alien workers.
Tomorrow’s
Ohio primary is less than 24 hours away, and here’s a report from Julia Hahn at Breitbart:
With Sen. Marco Rubio
(R-FL)’s presidential hopes diminishing as his personal demons catch up with
him—from his relationship with
billionaire Norman Braman to his role in pushing Obama’s amnesty—the donor
class seems to be turning its eyes to John Kasich’s last stand in Ohio.
The hope seems to be that
a Kasich win in Ohio will not only deny GOP frontrunner Donald Trump delegates,
but will also create a new vehicle for arriving at a contested convention.
Because the Kasich campaign was
largely ignored as a non-factor prior to Rubio’s polling collapse, Kasich
went months with virtually no scrutiny of even his most bizarre
statements on the campaign trail.
However, in recent
days, Trump has increasingly set his sights on Kasich—whether it be
Kasich’s role at Lehman Brothers during the time of the economic collapse, as
well as Kasich’s support for NAFTA and Obama’s Trans-Pacific Partnership
agreement—a deal which Donald Trump and Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) have
warned would destroy Ohio’s auto industry.
In particular, Trump has zeroed
in on Kasich’s heretofore overlooked push for massive amnesty. Though it has
transpired without much attention, Kasich has quietly amassed a string of
bizarre, peculiar, and extreme statements on immigration that places him to the
furthest leftward reaches of not just the Republican President field, but the
Democratic Presidential field as well. This perhaps underscores an element of
seriousness to Kasich’s previous declaration, which he had intended in jest: “I
ought to be running in a Democrat primary.”
Below are just some of Kasich’s
most bizarre and radical statements on immigration, which have flown under the
radar.
1) “God Bless” Illegal
Immigrants . . .
2) “I couldn’t imagine”
enforcing our current immigration laws: “That is not… the kind of values that
we believe in.” . . .
3) Kasich likened deporting the
illegal population to Japanese internment camps . . .
4) Illegal immigrants “are some
of the hardest-working, God-fearing, family-oriented people you can ever meet.”
. . .
5) Allowing ICE officers to do
their jobs is not “humane” . . .
6) America can’t deport
illegal immigrants because they are “made in the image of the
Lord” . . .
7) Kasich has called for
implementing an open borders-style policy where workers can come and go as they
please. . . .
8) Kasich would enact
amnesty within his first 100 days. . . .
9) America shouldn’t
address ending birthright citizenship because it’s “dividing people” . . .
10) Illegal immigrants should
be allowed to stay because “they’re here” . . .
Read
the full report here.
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