Abogados de Inmigracion

Here are some things from an article by Rich Lowery in New York Newsday.

The National Research Council reports that legal and illegal immigrants will cost the US tax payer $89,000 over their lifetime.

Immigrants with a high school diploma will cost $31,000

The article focuses on the ideas of a Steve Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies. The illegal immigrants cost the federal government $10 billion in a year and they do not pay nearly enough taxes to cover these costs.

If illegals become legal, the cost would rise to $30 billion a year, taking into account that the Earned Income Tax Credit would increase by a factor of 10.

Camarota it says states that our own people without a high school diploma are being pushed out of jobs. High school dropouts holding a job went down from 53 percent to 48 percent from 2000 to 2005. This is most pronounced in states where there are high amounts of immigrants.

The illegitimacy rate is 40 percent among Hispanics. In Mexico it is one-third and in El Salvador it is 73 percent. So he says we are not importing “social renewal.”

Rich Lowry says the immigrants are the ones themselves who benefit and not us, Mexicans benefiting most of all, and he says our public schools can easily produce the dropouts we need from our own indigenous population.

He does not compare these statistics with statistics from prior generations. Each generation of immigrants has been sharply criticized by Americans in the establishment. Irish, Italians, and Jews were poor, too, and my grandparents were not educated. My father pushed a fruit cart from Brooklyn to Queens in his youth to help his family and he did it in the snow too.

I think about what attitudes the Nazis had as they kept Jews and others enslaved in work camps. I am sure that they said those people contributed very little to society. Of course they were forced to be there because they were not legal in German society. Those Jews had very little hope, just as Hispanics and other illegal immigrants today. The third world society we see in the United States is the fault of all, including the people in power.

Help is on the way though. The United States has had almost 20 million graduates of the GED. A majority of the eighty percent of low educated immigrants may soon earn a GED and future generations of Hispanics may come here with a GED after dropping out of school because of poverty and other conditions. Distance learning by universities in Latin America may soon be available and help raise the educational level of Hispanics. The University of Puerto Rico will be inaugurating a program in New York soon. By revolutionizing the process for Hispanics, they may never be the drain on the American taxpayer that Rich Lowry portrays. His crystal ball is one of negativity, perhaps coated by a desire to criticize and feed racial hatred and stereotypes instead of helping. He can enlist is my revolutionary campaign if he really cares about America. . My crystal ball says the numbers used in Rich Lowry’s article will be wrong. People who pass the GED and go on to higher education usually do not qualify for the Earned Income Credit. I look forward to seeing Rich Lowry write about the GED in an intelligent manner.

He blames the schools. Sure schools are partly to blame but the principals and teachers do not get school girls pregnant, create the racism that cause young people to leave school, do not promote the conditions on the streets of dangerous neighborhoods, do not contribute to the mental problems of so many and their addictions and drinking, do not stimulate domestic violence and gang membership, and other problems. The raising of standards has caused more dropouts. GED policies in Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Illinois, North Carolina, and Puerto Rico have resulted in far fewer diplomas among people from those states. The GED success rates vary annually from 4.6 percent to about 0.5 percent. Gulf region states lag far behind states of comparable size in the issuing of GED diplomas (remember Katrina’s victims). The church is failing people as much as the schools and church desertion is higher than school desertion. A GED Faith Based Initiative is needed badly.

The United States has been helping allies and impoverished nations for many decades. We must stand behind the people here in good times and in bad times. So whatever costs we have to contribute for humanitarian acts will continue. Whether it is Katrina or problems overwhelming people, the United States government must guarantee support to its people in adversities. We may not have another “Great Depression” but we are all in this together and we can find solutions, positive solutions for all. The “remesas” of Latin Americans contribute such enormous funds to those countries that for some of those nations the funds sent are the number one and number two industries of the nation. Americans may lament the loss of the use of that income here in the United States, but the money gets circulated in our global economy creating demand for our products and services and helps keep down the cost of humanitarian aid.

Many illegal immigrants adjust well to the United States and progress. The brother of the President of El Salvador was once illegal and he is successful. There are illegal immigrants that face deportation that are highly respected for their community work where they live. They have achieved success through education and hard work. A little known fact is that many states are making it difficult for Hispanics to earn a GED in Spanish, which violates the rights of Hispanics. Even a Puerto Rican who is an American citizen and has been a citizen since 1917 would find it hard to pass the GED in Spanish in states where administrators do not want to buy the Spanish exam for them to do. We are putting Hispanics under scrutiny when the Americans need to be scrutinized.

A large number of illegal immigrants are abused by Americans who take advantage of their illegal status. They lose income because of American and Hispanic employers. I have met illegal immigrants who have worked seventy hours a week for only two hundred and seventy dollars. The minimum wage has not been respected and it has not been raised in enough places. We may be able to change the Earned Income Credit in the future to please people like Rich Lowry. We can all work together and share ideas and wealth more effectively.

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