Union of workers who do the screening of new immigrants fears Senate Amnesty likely to force rubberstamping dangerous applicants

SO MUCH FOR THIS BILL SUPPOSEDLY MAKING US SAFER! Remember all the talk about how the amnesty bill would bring 11 million illegal aliens "out of the shadows" and make us safer by running them through thorough background checks? Not going to happen, according to today's bombshell from the head of the union that represents the officers and staff at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) which is responsible for processing immigrants. Here's what Kenneth Palinkas, president of the American Federation of Government Employees Council 119, told Congress and the public today: "The culture at USCIS encourages all applications to be approved, discouraging proper investigation into red flags and discouraging the denial of any applications . . .USCIS has been turned into an 'approval machine.' " The USCIS union today joined the union for ICE agents (Immigration and Custom Enforcement) in opposing the S. 744 amnesty, noting that it fails to provide for necessary in-person interviews and for those who have committed serious immigration and criminal offenses.

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Amnesty for 11 million will increase debt by $6.3 trillion

And that doesn't count costs of 22 million additional legal immigrants in just 10 years!

You've probably heard by now that the Heritage Foundation has determined that the immigration bill's amnesty will add $6.3 trillion to the debt over the life of the amnestied aliens. What you might not have realized is that's only the cost of giving amnesty to 11 million illegal aliens. But the immigration bill would also import an additional 22 million immigrants in the first decade alone -- and millions more guest workers.

The sad truth is that most of the immigrants that qualify under this bill will receive more in benefits than they pay in taxes, despite the bill's attempt to restrict a few benefits within the first ten years. Just imagine the cost of subsidizing the less-educated immigrants and all the displaced American workers!

This is like increasing the U.S. workforce by one third! The highest number of jobs ever created in America in a single decade was 20 million. Already, 20 million Americans can't find full-time work. Just imagine having to find jobs for 40-50 million more workers in just ten years. And that's not even including the millions of graduating students! Imagine how many more trillions of dollars we'll have to spend on social programs for all those jobless workers and working poor! Imagine what will happen to wages when companies can replace nurses, construction workers, engineers and computer programmers with laborers imported from the developing world!