Runaway Immigration, both legal and illegal, has placed America at
risk. This is a national security problem larger than al-Qaeda or
the Iranian nuclear weapon, at least in the short term, and could
easily serve
to topple our social system within a decade.
Here is the first of a multi-part series on the dangers presented by
immigration to this country. This is not just about illegals --
although illegal immigration doubles the problem -- it is only
only half the problem. Legal immigration has gone on unabated and
ignorant of the numbers coming into this country illegally for so long,
that both are way out of control and dangerous.
This first in the series will look at the impact of immigration upon
the U.S. educational system. You should note that statistics are
taken from the U.S. Census Bureau reports either directly or through
calculations made by MILNET or the Center For Immigration
Studies. These are facts, not supposition, mathematics not
guesswork.
Educating Immigrant Children
How do you teach immigrant children a new language called
English? With some difficulty. One of the major complaints
schools make about the "No Child Left Behind" educational law, is the
fact that immigrant children aren't learning English fast enough and
thus the schools fail the testing requirements of the law, not just in
English but in other subjects as well -- the kids aren't learning at a
reasonable pace. This is not hard to understand. For most
immigrant children, they are being taught difficult subjects in a
foreign language. Why is the issue of educating immigrant
children significant? Here are some extremely important statistics --
statistics that left ignored will very shortly mean a whole lot more
than education of a portion of our population's children.
The Statistics
The immigrant population in the U.S. (both legal and illegal) was
estimated by the census bureau and the Center For Immigration Studies
at 35 Million.
During the period between 2000 and 2005, the immigration number
increased 7.9 million (an average of 1.58 million per year).
The Center says about half are illegal immigrants, a figure of
3.5 million illegals from 2000 to 2005 alone.
28 percent of the immigrants make use of one major welfare
program
One third of the immigrants do not have health insurance (mostly
clustered among the illegal population).
The states with the most immigrants are California,
Texas, Georgia, New Jersey, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania,
Washington, Virginia, Arizona, Tennessee, Minnesota, Nevada, New
Mexico, South Carolina, and Mississippi.
Immigration accounts for virtually all of the
national increase in public school enrollment over the last two
decades.
In 2005, there were 10.3 million school‑age
children from immigrant families in the United States and immigrant
growth rates cause a further 1.5 to 3.0 million new school age children
every year and even more as immigrants live and "multiply" hear, that
increase increasing a few percent every year with 1 child born to about
one third of the families every year (due to religious reasons and/or
lack of use of birth control, many of the Immigrant families give birth
to a new child nearly once a year).
58 percent (31 percent from Mexico alone) of all
immigrants in the period 2000 to 2005 were from Latin American,
speaking some dialect of the Spanish language and nearly all
non-English speakers. 18 percent speak an East-Asian language, and
another 18 percent a language from Europe,
Sub-Saharan Africa, or the Middle East.
School Age enrollment for all children in the U.S.
(Census Bureau figures) is 76.6 million, at a cost of $1.11 Trillion.
10.3 million is 13.4 % of the overall school
population for an estimated cost of $148.74 Billion without
consideration for any special language needs.
Planning for Success or Failure - It's Up To You
If you were seriously planning to take care of the
educational needs of the 10.3 million school-age children in just the
16 states with the largest populations of immigrants, you'd have to
have special "English as a Second Language" classes for them plus the
estimated 2 million or so that are added to the system each year.
In addition, it is pretty clear ALL classes taught will have children
from non-English speaking families trying to learn History, Literature,
Social Sciences, Science, and Mathematics, etc.-- all courses which are
essentially being taught in a foreign language to these students.
This state of affairs is just plain stupid and if you are SERIOUS about
education for all children is the U.S., our current system is
criminally negligent
if you do not make changes to the way we teach in these multi-language
populations.
There is no way you can educate the immigrant children in those
conditions without change. And the huge numbers of children who
present this problem means the educational requirement is a major
problem that far exceeds any other in our nation's school systems today.
Decades of inattention to illegal immigration have of course doubled
the number of children in the system who require these special
educational needs and continued political neglect only promises to
continue to exacerbate the problem for decades to come. Every
year we are looking at between 1.5 to 2.0 million new immigrants (legal
and illegal) to further overflow our schools. That must be
stopped of course, however a rational planner cannot ignore that new
injection of "problematic" children into the system as there is
currently no sign the increase in immigrant educational requirements is
going to stop in the near future. The problem itself is hard to
discuss because political correctness makes it even difficult to use
the word "problem" in the same context as latino children who comprise
a huge majority of the immigrant population we must deal with.
Indeed, the rise of the use of "undocumented immigrants" in place of
"illegal aliens" has created such a furor, our government and
prospective government officials are gun-shy of the entire
communication
process vis-a-vis immigration (illegal or otherwise).
So how do you begin to take care of this problem? You could demand the U.S. receive funds from Mexico
and Latin American nations in order to educate students from illegal
families, but that
is non-starter - there is little leverage the U.S. can apply save for
foreign aid and those funds -- they serve so many other purposes.
For instance, the
U.S. Congress AND the executive branch are not likely to allow tapping
into foreign aid for adjustments to the U.S. school system despite this
is a ready made solution - reduce aid by the amount required to
adequately and properly educate the children of immigrant parents.
Or you could simply not allow students of the illegals or non tax
paying immigrants
into the system. The possibility of doing this in our liberal
society
is nil, so that solution also becomes a non-starter despite its halving
the number of students we must take into account.
Or you can ignore
the problem and just "do the best you can", the liberal establishment's
solution to most problems. Sigh, throw a little money at the
problem without rationale planning, then shrug and forget about
it. This also, by the way allows the school system to hedge on
all educational requirements...unless you carefully define and
segregate the immigrant children educational testing and statistics
from
the non-immigrants, a tactic also unacceptable in our politically
correct
educational system. Despite the facts of the problem, due
to over-sensitivity to race and immigration issues, the school system
and its supporters contend that any reference to the students in the
immigrant category is in-of-itself unacceptable. There are only
students, and unless you are going to give them a benefit, you cannot
distinguish between them by any means...oh, excuse me, violent behavior
will get
attention immediately, for the protection of other students and of
course the teachers and administrators.
The NMLSPP
The most obvious solution is to provide education of these
children in
their native language. Let's call this the "New Multi-Language
Student Population Program" or NMLSPP or perhaps just SPP (pronounced
SiPP to make it easy to say and remember)
By providing NMLSPP classes that teach the entire range of pre college
courses in the Spanish language, the school system will address the
language problems for the vast majority of legal and illegal family's
students. Experiments have been conducted in the California
school system which simply bite the bullet and teach all the children
both
English and Spanish. This slows down the performance of
non-Spanish family based children, however, at least the kids
communicate better with each other and the teachers, who by definition
have to be at least more cognizant of the Spanish language. What
this amounts to is actually conceivably a lot easier than it
sounds. If you need to hire ten new teachers to handle the
swelling school population, you hire ten new Spanish speaking teachers,
assuming you can find that many who qualify. The expense of
course has to be covered regardless if you hire Spanish speaking
teachers are not. You may have to pay a little more for dual
language proficient teachers. And of course, new books. New
books for
every subject taught in our schools and of course, new books to teach
English to spanish speaking students. This is going to cost a LOT
of money.
Now having covered Spanish speaking immigrants, we still have the
problems of non-Spanish AND non-English speaking immigrant
children. 18 percent each in a large number of East Asian
languages
and some scattering of European, Sub-African, African and Middle
Eastern languages. Perhaps the best way to handle this is on a
case-by-case basis, by providing schools with 18 percent of the overall
"new student" funding to purchase materials and hire teachers for the
"new language population" in the school district. You would, of
course, have to carefully audit the use of this discretionary spending
to make sure that these funds were not misused. That will also
add to the cost of this program.
Indeed, NMLSPP funding must be audited carefully to detect misuses of
the huge monies being pumped into our schools. How much is
that? Well, just take the monies going into our school system
today in order to meet the new population and without any of these
special language needs, you already start with a $148.74 billion price
tag. Some percentage of that figure will need to be tacked on for
new books...and you have to pay more for teachers who speak both
English and the target languages. You may also have to add in
some recruitment efforts for those teachers. If books were only 1
percent of the overall educational cost, then you are looking at $1.48
billion dollars just for translated books (this is conservative because
you also have to pay to translate the books -- it would be difficult to
ensure fairness in education if all the students are not using the same
essential texts).
Let's also assume a 1 percent increase in the funding of teachers for
the program, and assume that 15 percent of the cost of education is in
teacher's salary (also very conservative). The math yields (15%
of 1.11 trillion = 166.5 Billion times 1%) a whopping 1.665 Billion for
multilingual teachers to be added to the system. And
our 1 percent increases are baloney. Estimates range far beyond
1%. And we didn't add in increases in the rate...the rate has
been increasing steadily since 2005.
Getting the Money
So now we have over $3.0 billion required to make a "reasonable"
attempt
at educating the children of the immigrants into this nation.
Wow! Unfortunately, $3.0 billion is not available. The Left
will point to the defense department and earmark those funds based on
the assumption we don't need a military -- war is bad -- and our
military
only serves to create more wars. Of course, Middle Eastern
terrorists don't subscribe to that theory so scrapping the military and
the Department of Defense, or making any further cuts for that matter
will decimate a budget already cut too thin for our security. The Iraq
War, whether you agree with it or not, is not like some major campaign
for the U.S., and losses, grievous as they are, are so low as to be
insignificant in the larger scheme of things. And our military is
at the edge of personnel exposure. The gutting of the military
prior to 9/11 and lack of increases since then are criminal...another
topic for another time. Suffice to say, there is no way to look
at the military and Defense Department to find the extra money.
In fact, there is no place to go. The budget is strained to the
max.
Indeed, previous cuts to the military are felt every month. The
Left screams over the costs of campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq, yet
are silent on why the supplemental requests cost so much. The
costs today simply reflect the cuts made in the past when the Left
calmly claimed "We will fund the military when we need to under special
circumstances." Well, now that the circumstances are here, the
political cry is "don't fund", "pull out" or the great euphemism of all
time, "Redeployment".
Critical Problem Exacerbated By
Another
Related Critical Problem
So where do you get an additional $3.0 billion to make a start at
educating our immigrant children? Unfortunately, the funds will
come from programs that were originally intended to help non-immigrant
families. Social programs for American citizens have suffered
since
the sixties and seventies as State and Federal planners realized that
the costs were soaring. Without looking at the reasons for the
soaring costs -- immigration (legal and illegal), they did nothing to
fix the system, they simply "treated" the symptoms -- and their
solution
was to simply provide less funds, produce intrusive anti misuse
measures that do not go far enough to actually catch anyone but the
most
careless of misusers, and whose intrusiveness force many honest but needy folks to refuse
to apply for benefits.
Today's social care system for the poor is so under funded against the
needs that the system cannot pay for the necessary food let alone
housing. A family of two -- mother OR father and son will get
something around $750 a month to eat and to provide shelter and
utilities
in an exceedingly rural area where such costs amount to well over
$1,000. About 75% of the actual existence
requirement. The Federal poverty income is far higher than this level
of existence, yet this is the level of support found in most every
state in the union -- some States only able to fund far less than 75%
of the basic requirements
for living.
And if the needy do manage to find work, that amount
will be reduced if so much as $40 per month is received in
earnings. Obviously the system is broken. It forces the
needy into the streets (if you can't buy food and pay rent, guess what
happens!), or to commit a felony by hiding income to
remain in pretty poor
living conditions without hope of ever getting out. And if the
needy are ejected for missing rent? There is no provision to help
them fund first and last rent, nor moving their meager possessions to a
new
habitat. Housing for those ejected from their living quarters consists
of shelters, with a total lack of privacy. Everyone in the
shelter shares bathrooms and every airborne pathogen and most of the
non airborne as well. This is the dirty secret of the Left's
failed attempt at caring for those who need caring for.
Thus the major crisis for the needy becomes losing their
housing -- which results in losing EVERYTHING, their possessions left
with their formal domicile or worse out on the street where they are
stolen within hours, and their health is at great risk.
And again, this is a problem created by funding going elsewhere as the
State and Federal social system is being forced to fund over 10 million
new school children (increasing about 2 million per year) who come to
us from immigrant families. And why?
Why Do We Face This Problem?
The illegal immigrant problem is obvious, a porous border that at times
appears to be unguarded, and of course immigration quotas that are
totally out of whack. 440 million new immigrants came from Mexico
legally in the period 2000 to 2005. :Did anyone in government
look at their own figures that showed three to five times that amount
were coming in illegally? Did the quota go down? Nope.
These immigrants serve to work at
jobs that American workers would not work on at the wages
offered. And they come from backgrounds that make them very easily
swayed to voting liberal. It is just that simple.
Do we punish the American
workers for not wanting to work at a job for what would normally become
a below-the-market wage? That is what is happening. The flood of
workers willing to work below minimum wage or at minimum wage drives
the entire pay scale downward. Two studies came out which dispute
that statement, but looking at the methodology shows them to be almost
comical. More of that funny math and sloppy or non-existent
"science".
Moreover, the costs for schooling
as discussed here drives the available money for other programs down
considerably. It's not like there is a "lockbox" on educational funds
-- state and local governments move money around where they want to and
with little guidance from their constituents despite promises at
election time. The lack of other services -- health care for
instance, or rises in public transportation requirements all contribute
to a decline in available services to the lower paid Americans, forcing
their personal, out-of-pocket expenses to rise sharply each year as
well. And cost of living increases? When hamburger prices
double and then triple per pound, the States don't have enough to pitch
in for an increase of aid benefits...the fail to rise to meet even that
demand.
This spiral will continue unabated until something is done, or a
collapse will occur. Perhaps prior to that collapse, anarchy will
force the issue to the forefront as non immigrants get fed up with a
system that now works for the immigrants and not those who came
earlier, some of them, perhaps, descendant from immigrants of only a decade or two
ago.
Why Is There So Little Said About This
Crisis?
The sad fact is that this is a political crisis in the making and the
politicians in our nations are routinely rewarded for putting off
solutions until they become critical AND the voters let them know
it. Only you can let them know enough is enough.
One cynic remarked to me that "Immigrants from socialist based
countries
also tend to vote for candidates from the Left. Could this
problem be the
effect of the Left wing not wanting to cut off a new source of voters
very likely to vote for them?" I guess that could be a conspiracy
theorist's wet dream. Plausible? Perhaps. A more left
leaning friend, said, "B.S., the immigration, especially illegal
immigration is due to their being in a position to take any work at any
price due to their status is the problem. And that is purely laid
at the feet of U.S. businesses who are exploiting immigrants, legal and
illegal both." Again, one could say that is plausible. Or
perhaps it is a combination of both.
Whatever the causes or underlying agendas, the clear fact is that there
are far more immigrants requiring services than we can provide.
Something must be done and treating just those symptoms is going to
kill us when the disease snowballs into a collapse of the system.
Worse, that time is drawing near. Some believe we've already
arrived, and the collapse is beginning.
We will repeat
this list at the end of each of the articles in this series. You
will note some similarities in each article, with additional specific
"things to do" to match each article's topic matter. Clearly this
is not simple politics, not simple social planning. This requires
thought and patience, but most of all it requires immediate
action. Item number one is an immediate action that MUST be taken
while we figure out what to do. Item number two will relieve many
cities and states of some of the symptoms of the major problem, giving
us room to work on the problem. Items two and three is a logical
thing to do in order to further reduce costs at the border, a rationale
approach to illegal immigration that does not cost us for upkeep of
known illegals -- those caught in the process of crossing.
What Must Be Done
Close the borders and set the legal immigration quota to
zero. We have enough immigrants now, thank you. Maybe we
will open them again in a few decades, but for now, enough is enough.
Do not imprison illegals caught in the process of crossing deport
them immediately. Housing and feeding them is not an option, get
them back across the border on a bus within hours, do not feed them,
give them only water unless their life is at risk. Bill all
medical treatment and bus fare top the nation on the border they are
caught crossing.
Send all illegals packing. Sorry, the legal
immigrants are costing us far too much already, we need to adjust to
our current population first. Try again in twenty years, thank
you. Deport illegals immediately, with their
families, all possessions in the U.S. are forfeit and to be sold at
auction conducted in the area as close to the facing portion of the
housing premises as possible without endangering public safety.
Any landlord who has provided housing to illegal immigrants will
be fined $5000 for the first offense, $10,000 for a second offense, and
$50,000 for the third offense along with receiving a five year sentence
on agricultural prison farms that provide food for America's
needy. Possessions of those convicted will be forfeit if the convicted
cannot pay the fines.
At no time will immigration be allowed without actual funding
existing in an Immigration Funding trust fund (See various sources
listed below).
Reduce any federal funds to foreign
nations by the amounts that equal the costs of feeding and deporting
(jailers, holding facilities, and flights or buses back to their
country of origin). Use the World Bank if necessary to also
penalize
those nations' whose citizens illegally enter this country.
Build government managed and/or government audited private
immigrant funding foundations and give tax breaks to corporations who
give to them. If the liberal minded REALLY wish to fund
immigrants in this country, then let them do so through non-public
financing -- through donations. The rest of the American people
should not be required to fund immigration that they do not
support. This is a clear case of "Put your money where your mouth
is" and removes taxation without representation for nearly a half of
our population. If the foundations do not receive enough funding,
then it will become quite clear that the American people, left or right
oriented, do not support immigration into this country and will call
for dramatically reduced immigration rates at the time the borders are
opened once again.
Charge countries of origin for benefits given to holders of
student and temporary visa holders who live in this country. If a
country refuses to do so, then immigrants currently in this country who
have arrived from that nation will be deported and not allowed until
their home country complies.
Offer reverse immigration funding that will allow an immigrant
family to go back to their original country with bus or airfare, plus a
bonus of cash equivalent to thirty percent of one years cost to educate
and support the family if their income is below a certain level, and
offer those families priority when the borders open again.
Use the intake of the reverse immigration program to fund
immigrant language centers which accelerates the learning of the
English language so that funding will decrease the funding required to
teach non-English speaking students OR (one or the other please) build
separate immigrant schools whose sole purpose is to take in non-English
speaking students. This will also clearly indicate without
complex calculation the costs necessary for immigrant education and
help us better tune our immigration in the future.
Lower the Immigrant outlay from Social Security by the rate they
have paid into the system as compared to non immigrants. This
corrects an imbalance for those who exceeded the maximum or paid in
their higher percentiles of the Social Security System who will not
collect substantially from a system designed to support the needy
non immigrants.
Institute a Fair Hiring law that requires an employer to track
status - non-immigrant versus immigrant applicants and if the applicant
ratio is not equal within a few percentage points, then the pay scale
for the job must be raised or the position closed without hiring.
This will adjust the market pay rates for jobs and correct an imbalance
in pay scale created by immigrant populations. If the Left is
correct in saying there is no effect on pay, then after a decade of
tracking,
there should be no corrections necessary and the requirement can
sunset.
Close businesses who hire illegal immigrants. Yes, close
them. Enough of this pandering to illegal immigration.
First offense results in a fine of half the previous years income, the
next offense closes the doors and the business will be sold at
auction. The immigration problem is a matter of national security
and we are taking it seriously, so should U.S businesses, large and
small. Sole proprietorships, and Corporate Executives and their
Boards will also be jailed at a minimum of five years and fined 35% of
the previous year's income each.
Those convicted of trafficking in illegals whether it be in
aiding them to cross the border, hiding them in this country, providing
support to them which includes jobs, will be given a $10,000 fine and
five years working on five years at labor on agricultural prison
farms that provide food for America's
needy. More than three offenses will result in mandatory $50,000
fine along with a lifetime sentence working on agricultural prison
farms that provide food for America's
needy. Possessions of those convicted will be forfeit if the
convicted cannot pay the fines. If as the Left contends the
illegal population problem is
driven by U.S. businessmen, then those businessman will vanish from the
business world in a decade.
Any U.S. city that harbors illegal immigrants will receive zero
funds from the U.S. government. None, zip, nada.
Any U.S. city or state government official who defies federal
immigration law (including those enacted to satisfy this set of
provisions) will be fined $10,000 and sentenced to five years at labor
on agricultural prison farms that provide food for America's
needy.
One half the fines and proceeds
from sales of businesses will go into a special fund used to prosecute
and close businesses or seek out those defying the provisions of this
law for the next decade. The other half will go
to special educational needs for immigrant children. After the
ten year period, all the funds derived from these provisions will go to
into a trust fund that
will be used for special educational needs for future immigrant
children and which will be used to gauge (along with the funds from
immigration fund proceeds) the number of immigrants allowed to legal
immigrate into this country.
I believe that the immigration fund's growth from fines,
public auctions of possessions and businesses, as well as the value of
food derived from the prison farms under the provisions above will
surpass the funds provided by donations from those wishing to fund
future immigration to this country.
The chances of even one of the provisions above making into law?
None, zip, nada.
