o'amnesty - Can't trim Big Gov't unless reduce immigration

From: Roy Beck - NumbersUSA.com  Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010

1/2 immigrant households use welfare -- 23 million added to immigrant households each decade!

ARE YOU CONCERNED ABOUT THE SIZE OF GOVERNMENT AND THE FEDERAL DEBT? NumbersUSA doesn't take a stand on whether government should be smaller or bigger. But we are amazed at the national Republican leaders who criticize Pres. Obama for bloating government but then they do nothing to reduce immigration. In fact, we have learned that GOP leaders in Washington are telling their colleagues that they don't want Congress to do anything about immigration during this election year. They don't want to deal with immigration even though government data shows that ONE-HALF of all immigrant households with kids use the welfare system -- while federal immigration policy adds 23 million people to those households every decade! Here are a few of my points: "For those of you whose primary political interest is stopping the growth of government or even shrinking it, you have to contend with national leaders who say they agree with you but who refuse to deal with immigration. They say immigration is a "social" issue that isn't related to government spending and deficit issues. They couldn't be more wrong." "With one-half of immigrant households with kids being poor enough to use the federal, state and local welfare systems, is there anybody blind enough to think that adding 2.3 million people a year to immigrant households is not driving huge increases in government?" "Republican leaders may say they want to shrink Big Government, but not if it gets in the way of pleasing their cheap-labor corporate donors and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce." "The intent of the Republican leaders is to ensure that 23 million people continue to be added to the heavily welfare-using immigrant households each decade. That is one form of bigger government that the Republican leaders love." YOU DON'T HAVE TO WANT SMALLER GOVERNMENT TO WANT LESS IMMIGRATION . . . . . . BUT YOU HAVE TO WANT LESS IMMIGRATION IF YOU ARE TO HAVE ANY HOPE OF SMALLER GOVERNMENT. P.S. Yes, our Washington-area NumbersUSA offices and staff homes have been encased in the blizzard of the last week. But I'm proud to tell you that our offices have been manned every day. And 100% of our staff have remained on the job throughout, even though the federal government, all schools and most non-profits and businesses have been closed. You don't send donations to pay us to take snow days off while the country daily deteriorates from the 6,300 people who are added to immigrant households EVERY DAY. We continually look for ways that your actions can make a difference. Thanks for all you do. Roy Beck, NumbersUSA.com

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