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Neg Defense – Amnesty doesn’t Solve Illegal Immigration
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Neg Defense – Amnesty doesn’t Solve Illegal ImmigrationThe ’86 amnesty didn’t end illegal immigration – there are over three times as many people living in the U.S. illegally today. Carafano 9 (James Jay, senior research fellow for national security at the Heritage Foundation, The Washington Times, October 11 2009, M, SUNDAY READ; Pg. 11, LexisNexis Academic) TJN Yes, we need comprehensive immigration reform. But many proponents start with a deeply flawed assumption - that reform must begin with amnesty for virtually everyone unlawfully in the United States. America's immigration and border security problems, they argue, can't be solved without first dealing with the estimated 11 million to 12 million illegally living here. There is no practical or compassionate alternative to just giving them all amnesty, often called legalization, and putting them on the road to citizenship. This kind of thinking is just flat wrong. The first problem with the case for an "amnesty first" approach is that it won't work. In 1986, President Reagan supported similar reforms. At the time, the unlawful population was about 3 million. Now it is more that three times that. **Amnesty Aff Answers**Link Turn – Amnesty Increases WagesExploitation means low wages for everyone Jaynes 7 (Gerald; prof. economics at Yale; May 3rd; House Judiciary Commitie COMMITITIE HEARING, SUBCOMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION, CITIZENSHIP, REFUGEES, BORDER SECURITY, AND INTERNATIONAL LAW, library.cqpress.com) Secondly and lastly, with respect to this idea of compensation and the fact that there are gainers and losers, although the vast majority of we Americans in the economy as a whole gain from immigration, is the idea that there will also be some pockets of labor markets where immigration has a very detrimental effect. There are some industries -- for example, the meat packing, the poultry industry -- where immigration has, indeed, deteriorated the conditions for workers to an extent that I would call it a national disgrace. But one of the major reasons why that occurs is simply because the undocumented workers who now dominate the labor forces in those industries are being exploited by the employers themselves. And if we allow the immigrant workers, documented or undocumented, to be exploited we do, indeed, ensure that some native- born workers are going to be exploited as well. We need to also be talking about the fact that any changes -- temporary workers, guest workers, whatever we might want to call them, are going to have to have important safeguards which attempt to protect the integrity of our low-wage labor market for all workers, native-born, immigrants alike. **Links – Employment Visas** Link - Employment-based visas financial riskAllowing more foreign labor will make US economy vulnerable to Asian financial crisis FAIR 2000 [Federation for American Immigration Reform, January 1 2000, http://www.fairus.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=16826&news_iv_ctrl=-1] Opening the door to increased foreign labor at this time also carries a serious risk of aggravating the unemployment impact of the Asian financial crisis on skilled U.S. workers. The California State Finance Department estimates that the Asian slowdown could cost California alone up to 65,000 non-agricultural jobs this year which would come primarily from the state's hi-technology industry. (See The Washington Post, Feb. 10, 1998) In the current atmosphere of economic uncertainty and confusion stemming from the continuing crisis in Asia, it would be foolhardy for Congress to add to possible severe economic problems that are expected to arise. Link – H1-B Generic Hurt EconomyH1B visas decrease average wage, increase income equality, encourage documentation fraud and make the US economy vulnerable to international finance crises FAIR 2000 [Federation for American Immigration Reform, January 1 2000, http://www.fairus.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=16826&news_iv_ctrl=-1] Despite the economic boom of recent years, average real household income is still 2.7 percent below the level it reached in 1989. (Source: U.S. Census Bureau) Economists from Laura D'Andrea Tyson to Alan Greenspan acknowledge that the size of current immigration has had a significant impact on the supply side of the labor market. According to the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, U.S. income inequality is now at the highest level since World War II. FAIR contends that high levels of immigration, including skilled immigration has played a significant role in these developments. FAIR further believes the proposed increase in H-1B visa levels is unwise for the following reasons: The evidence presented to substantiate the claim that there is an acute shortage of skilled workers in the information technology industry is highly suspect. Government reports show that the H-1B program as it currently functions is being seriously abused and manipulated by employers and immigration system practitioners. There is no consensus in the information technology industry itself that the solution to worker shortages is increased immigration. Increasing the supply of foreign labor will seriously aggravate employment difficulties expected to flow from the Asian financial crisis and which are expected to be felt later this year. The solution to the problem of skilled labor shortages that is in the national interest is to increase the supply of labor qualified for these jobs from domestic sources through education, job training, and better recruitment. The existing ceiling of 65,000 visas in the temporary skilled worker program, if properly administered for the purposes for which the program was created by Congress, are more than adequate for the demonstrable, acute, short term labor needs of industry. H1B visas hurt US economy for several reasons Locke 01 [Robert, Staff Write for Front Page Magazine, January 24 2001, http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=22968] AMERICA'S GENEROUS IMMIGRATION LAWS are increasingly being corrupted and taken advantage of by self-aware economic interests. Take, for example, the H1-B visa program for technical workers, which was recently expanded to 200,000 people per year by the Clinton administration. H1-B allows corporations to bring in cheap foreign technical labor in the computer industry and elsewhere. This is shrinking opportunities for American citizens, driving down their wages, and stunting the production of homegrown talent. Download 0.75 Mb. Share with your friends:
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