President Obama’s green immigration strategy

June 18, 2012

By Chriss Street

President Barack Obama’s Executive Order to suspend the deportations of 800,000 illegal aliens for two years will act as a magnet to motivate millions of people from around the world to come to the United States and claim they have been quietly living here with relatives for the last five years.

The legal term for the president’s directive is “deferred action,” which has the effect of a two-year blanket suspension of Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportations for these “unlawful” aliens. This will allow “lawful permanent residents” to work, go to school, collect welfare benefits and join the direct pathway to citizenship.  Although the Form I-551 Permanent Resident green card has not always been colored green, President Obama just made a gift of billions of green dollars to buy the loyalty of tens of millions of future voters and their extended families.

Aliens who desired the opportunity to come to the United States and become lawful permanent residents have been required to qualify under a preference system each year for a finite number of visas set by Congress.  Preference was given first to direct family members, then specialty employment skills,and then political refugees.  In 2010, there were a total of 480,000 green cards issued.  Family-based green cards were issued to 226,000 relatives of citizens and permanent residents, 150,000 to specialized workers and another 100,000 to refugees and political asylum seekers.  By law, no nation’s citizens were allowed to receive more than 25,000 green cards.

Dream Act

The Executive Order implements most of the Dream Act legislation that pro-immigrant congressional representatives have tried and failed to pass for a decade.  President Obama dishonestly claimed his Executive Order was focused on giving permanent residence status to children when he said:

“These are young people who study in our schools, they play in our neighborhoods, they’re friends with our kids, they pledge allegiance to our flag. They are Americans in their heart, in their minds, in every single way but one: on paper. They were brought to this country by their parents — sometimes even as infants — and often have no idea that they’re undocumented until they apply for a job or a driver’s license, or a college scholarship.”

But research by the Center for Immigrant Studies determined that, of the 1,998,000 individuals expected to be covered by the Dream Act, 1,139,000 (57 percent) would have been adults and only 859,000 (43 percent) would have been minors.

In the past, citizens and permanent residents who applied for direct family member visas for their relatives to come to the U.S. legally were required to provide financial sponsorship by signing a Form I-864 Affidavit of Support.  This contractual agreement made the sponsors personally liable to pay back the government if their sponsored relative became a “public charge” and collected public assistance benefits based on need.  Millions of lawful permanent residents undoubtedly now will reapply for green cards on deferred status to get financial releases for their sponsors.

Mass immigration

There are approximately 18.5 million “lawful permanent residents” in the United States, and 15 million unlawful permanent residents.  No one knows how many people around the world would like to immigrate to the United States.  But each year an average of 15 million people apply for the United States “green card diversity lottery” to compete for 50,000 visas, with the odds of winning at 300 to 1.

Mexicans are not eligible to participate in the lottery because more than 25,000 Mexicans enter the United States each year.  But if Mexicans, who represent 30.1 percent of all current U.S. immigrants, had been allowed to apply for the lottery, the number of lottery participating would have risen to at least 21.5 million and the odds of winning would have jumped to 428 to 1.

Given that there will be no way to prove if a person has been quietly living in the United States for 5 years, or just arrived, I estimate at least 6 million people will eventually apply to become “lawful permanent residents” as a result of the Executive Order.  The flood of new applications will generate billions of dollars of business for key Obama supporters.  For each application, an immigration lawyer will collect $4,000 in fees and a local newspaper will pocket $,1000 to publish the required “legal notices”.

Last year, deportations of U.S. illegal immigrants reached an all-time record high of 400,000.  But President Obama described his suspension of deportations in a speech from the White House’s Rose Garden as: “It’s the right thing to do, period.”

At a time when there are 20 million unemployed Americans, the president’s Executive Order will act as a magnet to attract millions of aliens to take American jobs, burden our schools and suck up social welfare benefits.

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  1. us citizen
    us citizen 18 June, 2012, 10:38

    He actually said……
    “its the right thing to do for Americans”

    Since they are NOT Americans………….I find his actions and words ludicrous. In fact I find his words directly against what the constitution states.

    How is this not against the law and why is congress letting him get away with this?

    This idiot in chief needs to go and so do the congressmen supporting him.

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  2. Rex the Wonder Dog!
    Rex the Wonder Dog! 18 June, 2012, 12:19

    It is laughable- THIS PRESIDENT has had a WAR on legal immigrants, deporting them at twice the rate GWB was. Thi was a attempt at panderign for votes, and the last straw for me with Obama.

    I am voting for ANYONE but Obama, biggest let down of my life.

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  3. Den in NorCal
    Den in NorCal 18 June, 2012, 21:19

    Obama and Congress, both Democrat and Republican, are one and the same, and have already torn up the Constitution and the laws of the land. If it is not apparent by now, then people had better wake up before it is too late because “The Road to Serfdom” by F.A Hayek is upon us.

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  4. Ron Kilmartin
    Ron Kilmartin 18 June, 2012, 22:09

    So it does not apply if they have not graduated from HS, i.e., 18 or over. Voting age? Too bad grade schoolers! Hang on till you are 18 and Obama will take care of you too, if the country does not meanwhile run out of money.

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  5. Burrito Bro
    Burrito Bro 19 June, 2012, 12:07

    Have you ever been hungary? Are you terrified the police my hurt your family? You have no future?

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