OBAMA IS TRYING TO RUIN OUR MILITARY
Late
Thursday afternoon, the Obama Administration
quietly announced a policy change that will allow
illegal aliens to join the military. The
news broke after evening news programs had
already gone into production and most of the
nation's focus was on the resignation
announcement of Attorney General Eric Holder,
indicating that the Administration is well-aware
of the American people's unfavorable view of
such a policy.
The
change to an existing policy, known as the
Military Accessions in the National Interest
(MAVNI) program, will allow up to 1,500 illegal
aliens who qualified for deferred action under
Pres. Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals (DACA) amnesty to enlist if the illegal
alien possesses high-demand skills, rare foreign
language expertise, or specialized health care
training.
Under
existing law, illegal aliens are forbidden from
joining the military, however, the Secretary of
Defense does have some discretion if it is
"vital to the national interest". But in order
to be eligible for MAVNI, illegal aliens have to
pass a background check, and the woman who
create MAVNI said back in May that DACA
recipients would in all likelihood fail the
background check. We fully expect the
Administration to find a way around it.
WHILE AMERICANS ARE
TURNED DOWN
Sadly,
Pres. Obama's announcement comes at a time when
the military is rejecting Americans for
enlistment more than ever before. A report
published by the Kansas
City Star earlier this year said that as
many as 80% of Americans trying to enlist are
ultimately rejected. Furthermore, Defense
Secretary Chuck Hagel announced plans earlier
this year to draw down the overall number of
troops while the military has been
simultaneously forcing current officers out of
service.
Pres.
Obama had promised to begin granting executive
amnesty to large groups of illegal aliens by the
end of the summer, but a few weeks ago, he
delayed any announcement until after the
November elections after receiving push-back
from Senate Democrats facing tough re-election
bids. While yesterday's announcement only
affects a group of illegal aliens who have
already been granted temporary amnesty by the
President's prior actions, it further shows his
commitment to taking the large executive action
and puts this new group on a path to permanent
amnesty.
THE THIRD GREAT WAVE
OF IMMIGRATION
A
new
report from the Center for Immigration
Studies examines new data from the Census
Bureau's latest release of its American
Community Survey and finds that the U.S.
immigration population reached 41.3 million in
2013. That's the highest level in our nation's
history, and the proportion of the foreign-born
population to the country's overall population
is at its highest level since the Second Great
Wave of the late-1800s and early-1900s.
Just
25 years ago, the share of the immigrant
population was just 7.9%, but it has spiked to
its current share of 13.1% more than doubling
since 1980.
At
the height of the Second Great Wave (1905-14),
the average annual flow of legal immigrants into
the United States was 1.01 million per year. But
since 2001, the annual flow has reached 1.05
million. At all other times in our nation's
history since the end of the Civil War, annual
flows averaged 400,000 per year.
What's
fascinating is that many political and business
leaders alike think we need to further increase
legal immigration and guest-worker programs even
though these levels are at all-time highs. A
report from CIS
back in June found that all net job growth
since 2000 has gone to newly-arrived immigrants
while the number of native-born Americans
holding jobs dropped by 127,000 over the same
period.
Last
week, we told you about how House
Speaker John Boehner told the American
Enterprise Institute that we need to pass
"comprehensive immigration reform" to grow the
economy. And earlier this month, Facebook
founder, Mark Zuckerberg was pushing for more
immigration while hanging out with the world's
richest businessman, Carlos Slim. The
"immigration reform" that both Boehner and
Zuckerberg support would double the current
annual flow of legal immigrants, adding more
competition to the job market for unemployed
Americans and legal immigrants and driving down
wages.
A
report this week from fivethirtyeight.com
included data showing that the median household
income in the United States has become stagnate
over the last 15 years, and today's
inflation-adjusted median household income is at
the same level it was at the end of the Reagan
Administration after growing steadily for
decades. Coincidently, that was the time
Congress granted amnesty to 3-4 million illegal
aliens and increased legal immigration to its
current levels.
| Chris Chmielenski |
| Fri, Sept 26th |
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