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Congress mandated in 1986 (the Immigration Reform and Control Act) that in order for immigrants to access social service benefits and drivers licenses the benefit issuing agency had to check with the immigration authorities (now the Department of Homeland Security) to assure that the applicant was legally present and entitled to the benefit.

This resulted in the establishment of the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system. In 2016, DHS responded to more than 20 million SAVE inquiries which demonstrates the enormous size of the immigrant population seeking benefits.

The efficacy of SAVE has been challenged by immigrant defenders often with their major focus on illegal aliens and it has been subject to several studies by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). A follow-up evaluation of SAVE by the GAO, Immigration Status Verification for Benefits, was released in March, (http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-17-204) The report notes that ostensibly, the SAVE system works efficiently, noting that even in cases which required follow-up records verification, DHS reported that its additional verification responses were 99.16 percent accurate. And, any adverse finding remains subject to appeal.

What is noteworthy in the new GAO study is that it found a major share of cases in which DHS informed the requesting agency of the need to submit additional information, because the status of the benefit applicant could not be immediately verified, those requests were being ignored.

The report notes, ,,,in fiscal year 2016, agencies that did not complete additional verification 98 to 100 percent of the time included a state childrens health program, a department of motor vehicles, a state unemployment insurance department, two counties (from the same state) responsible for elections and voter registration, a county property appraisers exemptions investigations unit, and a state health care services department. These seven agencies requested a combined total of over 1.7 million SAVE checks and did not complete additional verification over 245,000 times. In 2016, there were nearly 4 million SAVE inquiries that resulted in follow-up requests for more information, and in nearly 60 percent of those cases further action was not completed.

The GAO faulted DHS for inadequate follow-up in these situations and lack of adequate guidance to users of the SAVE system on the follow-up procedures.

While all of the dropped verification cases are unlikely to result from ineligible applications for benefits, it is probable that there are numerous instances in which immigrants or resident nonimmigrants are slipping through the lax follow-up procedures for benefit screening.

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Immigrants are working jobs that Americans wont touch is one of the anti-borders syndicates favorite rallying cries. First of all, that assumption is disrespectful to immigrants, as it insinuates they occupy a class below American citizens. But more importantly, its a false statement.

Both legal and illegal aliens are often manipulated into working jobs that pay less than market value because of their limited options and skill sets. Even so, the industries where immigrants are most often employed still consist of mostly native workers.

A study conducted by Pew Research found that the top ten industries and occupational groups for immigrants (including illegal immigrants) consist mostly of American natives. For example, the farming, fishing and forestry industries are increasingly occupied by immigrants, but 54 percent of those working these jobs are American citizens.

This doesnt mean that immigrants, especially illegal immigrants, arent increasingly competing with American workers for jobs at a time when the U-6 unemployment rate which includes discouraged workers and those who are working part time for economic reasons remains unacceptably high. In fact, according to the same Pew study, between 1995 and 2014, the share of jobs held by immigrants in the United States rose at least 5 percent. And immigrants, along with their U.S.-born children, are projected to be the leading driver of the working-age population growth through at least 2035. This means American citizens will face even more intense competition for employment.

What these numbers do show is that Americans are still willing to work just about any job despite the fact that the anti-border enforcement camp has deemed them fit only for illegal aliens. With the U-6 unemployment rate at nearly 10 percent, millions of Americans are looking for jobs, and they dont mind honest hard work or getting their hands dirty. In fact, the Federation for American Immigration Reform found that the unemployment rates in states that require use of E-Verify, thereby forcing employers to hire legal U.S. workers, are recovering fastest from the 2008 recession.

Placing American workers first means ensuring they only have to compete with those who are authorized to be employed here. It also means that our immigration system must consider the economic interests of U.S. citizens first. Americans want to work, so new and existing immigration policies must not stifle citizen employment opportunities.

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Are Immigrants Truly 'Working Jobs Americans Don't Want ... - ImmigrationReform.com (blog)

Lindsey Graham, the Republican senator from South Carolina, hasnt given up on immigration reform. He was in the Senate to watch comprehensive bills he favored fall apart in 2006, 2007, and 2013. He was one of the presidential candidates whom Donald Trump beat for the Republican nomination in 2016. Trump won that contest after saying he would deport all illegal immigrants over a two-year period.

But Trump softened on the issue after winning the nomination, and Graham now thinks he can work with him to achieve many of the aims of those earlier bills. He isnt trying to revive comprehensive legislation one more time, but he also rejects the idea of tackling issues a la carte. If Republicans try to enact legislation that only increases enforcement of the immigration laws, he believes Democrats will block it.

Instead, he tells me, he favors a series of discrete deals.

The first one would combine ramped-up enforcement, starting with the bad dudes, and the legalization of illegal immigrants who came here as minors. Republicans are open to that legalization, he said, and it would be hard for Democrats to say no to securing the border and helping these 800,000 kids have a better life.

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The second one would legalize adult illegal immigrants working in agriculture and tourism, and at the same time require employers to use the e-verify program to make sure all new hires are legal workers.

Third, Graham would legalize those remaining illegal immigrants who passed a background check and paid a fine. In return he wants to shift legal immigration toward recruiting people with high skills rather than reuniting extended families. The immigration system of the future would be merit-based, he says.

I opposed the previous bills that Graham supported, and Im not completely sold on this plan. But it has enough attractive elements to make me think that those of us who are more hawkish than Graham on immigration should consider it.

The earlier bills would have substantially increased immigration, and low-skilled immigrants would have made up much of the increase. Most Americans dont want that, and the economic case for it is weak. His current idea would not raise immigration levels.

Under earlier versions of comprehensive reform, illegal immigrants might have gotten legal status before effective enforcement measures were in place - because, for example, those measures were tied up in court. In that case, legalization could have acted as a magnet for more illegal immigration, and we would remain stuck in a cycle of illegal immigration and amnesty. This three-step sequence would reduce this risk, because Congress would enact most of the legalization after enforcement had been implemented.

One reason advocates for illegal immigrants have opposed enforcement-first bills is that they have feared that Republicans would never get around to addressing their concerns once they got those bills enacted. Because Grahams first step would include the legalization of illegal immigrants who came here as minors, though, it might be taken as a sign of good faith.

As leery as congressmen are about trying to address immigration again, Graham believes that the expiration of President Barack Obamas executive order granting quasi-legal status to illegal immigrants who came here as minors will be a tripwire forcing action. Republicans dont want Trump to renew their status they said it was an abuse of power when Obama granted it but fear the political consequences of exposing them to deportation again. So they have an incentive to pass legislation granting legal status, but they will want to get something to make that legislation more congenial to conservatives.

The senator thinks he has one more thing going for him: the president. Heres the key: Trump can do something no other Republican can do on immigration, Graham said. What Trump can do is persuade the voters who are most concerned about illegal immigration that he is enforcing the law, and serious about making sure it is enforced in the future.

The fact that comprehensive reform got as far as it did in the past, Graham added, suggests that congressional majorities could be assembled for many of its components. All in all, he is more hopeful than most observers that a productive immigration compromise, or series of compromises, can be reached. For that to happen, many of the Republicans who blocked previous bills would have to come along.

What are the prospects of that? Grahams judgment: I believe the party will follow Trump if he leads.

Ponnuru is a Bloomberg View columnist. He is a senior editor of National Review and the author of The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life.

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There is a small cabal of ultra-conservative Republican members of Congress that are loudly proclaiming they will not support Speaker Paul Ryans foundational deconstruction of Obamacare as promised by every Republican congressman who has run for office since 2010.

On the Senate side two particular senators are declaring that the Ryan bill is dead on arrival and that House members should vote no on the Ryan Bill.

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Obamacare's demise can lead to immigration reform - Porterville Recorder

As President Trump fulfills his campaign promises to crack down on illegal immigration and consider cuts in legal immigration, his critics responded that his policies will frustrate his promised goal of 3 percent economic growth. In just the last few weeks, establishment media organs have inundated us with headlines like Opposition to immigration is at odds with economic growth (Washington Post), Tighter immigration controls could hurt Trump growth plans (Atlanta Journal Constitution) and Hardline on immigration threatens growth (Wall Street Journal).

It is impossible to overstate how important growth is to economic and political stability in the industrial age in which we live, affecting the economy, in jobs, housing, wages and incomes. If growth required mass immigration, only extreme national security, environmental or cultural concerns would justify restriction.

That impending demographic slowdown set off alarm bells in corporate boardrooms across the country. With population growth slowing, the rising tide that had done so much to raise U.S. corporate growth and profits to record heights was projected to ebb.

The answer was obvious to corporate CEOs: mass immigration. A 1997 Wall Street Journal editorial bewailed the looming shortage of warm bodies, pointedly noting that a drop in births can be compensated by immigration. The Journal did its part by excoriating people like former Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.), who dared to suggest that immigration needed to be controlled, as nativists and xenophobes. The Journals editors declared repeatedly that there should be open borders. The national Chamber of Commerce and other big business lobbies began pressuring their GOP allies in Congress and collaborating with left-wing groups to undermine immigration law enforcement, pass amnesty for illegal aliens and increase immigration by all possible means.

But big business was hardly alone in being alarmed and energized by the looming shortage of workers and consumers. Big government was equally horrified. Why? Slowing economic growth would mean slowing tax revenues, less money for expanding government programs and favored interest groups, and even more importantly, less money to pay the growing cost of a fast-rising national debt. The Wall Street Journal noted that a 0.5 percent reduction in GDP growth reduces federal revenues by a staggering $1.36 trillion over a decade. As former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers pointed out, If we get the growth rate up, the debt problem will stay in control.

Former President Clinton, campaigning for the Senates Gang of Eight amnesty bill in 2013, picked up the theme, saying that if Congress understood what the economic impact of the countrys declining fertility rate would be, they would pass the bill because its the only way to keep our country growing. In another post-Trump scare piece, the Journal laments that an aging population, the physically demanding nature of many blue-collar jobs and the trend toward pursuing college degrees compound the labor shortage. However, as Sen. Tom CottonTom CottonSenators introduce new Iran sanctions Trump should ignore the business lobby and stick to immigration promises McConnell vows Senate will take up ObamaCare repeal next week MORE (R-Ark.) responded, Higher wages for Americans are a feature, not a bug, of reducing levels of legal immigration!

In addition to boosting wages, immigration restriction will lead to lower housing prices, safer neighborhoods and better schools. Trump also promised to reduce taxes and extend maternity leave for working mothers. All these policies will encourage Americans to have more children.

Corporate Americas demand for growth through mass immigration is misguided. If Trump ignores the business lobby and sticks to his campaign promises, he can boost productivity to spur real economic growth, even with lower immigration.

Tom Tancredo served Colorados 6th congressional district from 1999 to 2009, where he chaired the bipartisan 100+ member Immigration Reform Caucus. KC McAlpin serves as the president ofU.S. Inc,a conservative group working for immigration reform.

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