IMMIGRATION: A bill to detest

Legislation out of D.C. is often jaw dropping to those who want America to survive and thrive as our founders intended. Now cunning senators have crafted special interest legislation opening the flood gates to cheap foreign labor, irrevocably altering America economically, politically and culturally.

According to Sen. Jeff Sessions’ calculations, S744, the 844-page immigration reform bill, increases foreign job seekers by 57 million in the first decade alone. The bill legalizes the 11-plus million illegal aliens plus families through chain migration (including those previously deported) doubles the annual number of legal immigrants plus families, and grants work permits to foreign job seekers at all levels of employment including technical and medical fields. All foreign workers can apply for U.S. citizenship. Sessions also found loopholes in the bill allowing early access to welfare and health-care benefits.

What labor shortages justify insourcing foreign labor? There are 26 million Americans un/underemployed. Wages will collapse even further. Contrary to the open borders lobby, a mere 1 percent of the U.S. labor market is immigrant!

Cloaked in lies about ending “defacto amnesty,” this bill weakens interior enforcement, only promising future border security and mandatory E-Verify.

This bill is a direct assault against Americans, yet where is the outrage from our elected Idaho officials?

DR. DENNIS and CAROLYN COOKE

Coeur d’Alene