Green Cards on the Table
WashingtonTimes.com
The White House intended to remain silent about
its plans for immigration. Revealing a scheme to
open the floodgates of amnesty would be disastrous
on the eve of the critical midterm elections. But
this is the gang that can’t shoot straight.
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on
Friday threw open the door to as many as 100,000
Haitians, who will now move into the United States
without a visa.
That was just the beginning. The immigration
agency earlier this month had solicited a printer
able to handle a “surge” of 9 million green cards
“to support possible future immigration-reform
initiative requirements.”
In an ordinary year, about 1 million green cards are
issued, and over the life of this contract the
company is expected to produce up to 34 million
cards, a figure representing an increase of the
population of the United States by 10 percent.
The cards do not come with automatic voter
registration, but that’s obviously what the scheme
portends. President Obama’s promised “executive
actions” to bring about this enormous wave of
amnesty constitute a transparent and cynical ploy to
expand the Democratic voter base, creating a
permanent majority.
Republicans running for the House and Senate
should demand that Mr. Obama lay his green cards on
the table now, before — and not after — the Nov. 4
elections. No other campaign issue carries as much
of an impact on the future of the nation.
In economic terms, importing millions of unskilled
workers creates competition for the diminishing
number of available jobs. Combine a flooded job
market with the Democratic proposals for a doubling
of the minimum wage to $15 an hour, and millions
more American citizens will be without a job.
Those who do have jobs will pay to provide federal
freebies, from Obamaphones to Obamacare, to the
formerly illegal aliens now with a green card.
As the recent influx of minor children over the
southern border demonstrates, word of amnesty on the
way travels fast. Handing green cards to those who
cheated the system and entered the country illegally
creates an incentive to millions more to follow in
their path, collecting as many benefits as possible
along the way.
It’s a disaster in the making — indeed already here
— for public health and national security, straining
the welfare state to its limit.
Most Americans want no part of this.
A Gallup survey finds that 74 percent of Americans
want the level of immigration to stay where it is,
or reduce it. Mr. Obama has no support for his
amnesty scheme except from those who want to
transform America into a nation that no one would
recognize.
Voters can get to work on stopping the
transformation on Nov. 4.