Everyone will benefit with immigration reform (III)

by Donna Poisl


Yesterday I listed several areas in which every person in this country will benefit when there is immigration reform which would legalize the millions of people living here illegally; the military, Social Security, our economy, our future economy, education and national security. That column only talked about our economy, this one will continue with the others, starting with Social Security and our military.

We all know the undocumented people living here have broken the law by coming in illegally or overstaying their visa and yet, something has to be done to get them registered and legalized. A majority of our citizens say we should find a way to solve this problem. This country needs them.

One reason we need these undocumented workers to become legal residents is to keep Social Security funded. Fifty or 60 years ago, when Social Security was new, it took 20 workers to keep enough tax money flowing in to keep a retired person on Social Security. Within 25 years, at the rate we are going now, there will only be two workers paying money in to cover each retiree. And in 25 years all the baby boomers will be in that group of retirees and the next generation will be getting ready to retire. Add the fact that people are living much longer than before and it's easy to see why we need more young workers now. We also need a steady supply of young workers coming into the system. The young immigrant workers who are already here may be the answer to the Social Security funding problems of the future.

The reason most of these people came here was for work, because there is no work in their home countries that will support their families. If these millions of workers were suddenly sent back to their countries, it would cripple those economies along with hurting ours. They would be sent to the end of very long unemployment lines and never have any hope of finding work. The money they had been sending home to their families would stop and this would hurt the families and their economy.

When those young people have no job and no hope of getting one, they get angry and are perfect recruits for gangs and the political parties that are becoming increasingly anti-American. Civil unrest and economic hardship in other countries are dangerous for the residents of this country. The radical governments of some Latin American countries would love to have more people in their forces and against us. Especially since they are on our southern border and could manage to get into our country.

About the Author
Donna Poisl is the author of "How to Live & Thrive in the U.S. / Como Vivir y Prosperar en Estados Unidos" and President of Live & Thrive Press. She wrote this reference guide to help immigrants learn our system and succeed in this country. Contact Donna at http://www.howtoliveandthrive.com or Immigrants in USA Blog at http://immigrantsinusa.blogspot.com

Everyone will benefit with immigration reform (II)

by Donna Poisl



Some towns are making it uncomfortable for immigrants to live in them, so the immigrants move and take their labor and buying power with them. Then when these towns want to create new businesses, to replace the ones that closed when all these workers left, they don't have an available work force. It is definitely a vicious cycle.

People who complain about these low skilled and low wage workers insist they have brought wages down for the rest of us, but this is not the main cause of low wages. U.S. companies have to be competitive to get and keep business. Prices of products and services have to be low or customers go overseas to fill their orders. The only way U.S. companies can compete for the business is if they use low wage workers here or outsource the work to other countries.

Look at all the U.S. companies that are using customer service, technical support and data entry workers in India and the Philippines and Mexico. Those workers are higher skilled and still make much less than comparable workers here. People complain about the work going overseas but would not accept higher prices to pay for the work to be done here. They have to understand that they can't have it both ways.

We are all better off when these companies use low wage workers here than we would be if they go off shore to get the workers. We are certainly better off than if they had to close. Every job that is kept here, even if it is a lower wage job, creates more jobs. A manufacturing job creates 3 or more additional jobs in our economy, service jobs create at lease one more. The workers are spending their paychecks to feed, clothe and shelter their families. They are buying things and helping to keep factories, stores and restaurants open. And don't forget, they are paying taxes.

Almost all people working illegally pay taxes. Some file income taxes using Tax ID numbers and many more are using false Social Security numbers. This means the taxes they are paying are going into the system but will never go back to those workers when they retire or are disabled. Even the people using Tax ID numbers won't collect that money when they retire.

If fewer people pay taxes, everyone else will have to pay more taxes to keep the country and military operating. This alone should be a good reason for everyone to want more workers in this country.

At the beginning of this column, I listed several areas in which we will all benefit when there is immigration reform which would legalize the millions of people living here illegally; the military, Social Security, our economy, our future economy, education and national security. This column only talked about our economy, tomorrow's will continue with the others.


About the Author
Donna Poisl is the author of "How to Live & Thrive in the U.S. / Como Vivir y Prosperar en Estados Unidos" and President of Live & Thrive Press. She wrote this reference guide to help immigrants learn our system and succeed in this country. Contact Donna at http://www.howtoliveandthrive.com or Immigrants in USA Blog at http://immigrantsinusa.blogspot.com

Everyone will benefit with immigration reform (I)

by Donna Poisl


Immigration reform is back in the news, and there's a slight chance something can be done about it before fall.

Everyone in this country will benefit if a good plan is put into place. This even includes the people who are so completely against doing anything about the issue. The people who say all illegal immigrants and undocumented workers should be "rounded up and sent back where they came from" will benefit just as much as those who say we should find a way to keep them here. Almost every aspect of our lives will be affected positively.

If the President, Senate and House are able to put a comprehensive immigration reform package together, it will almost certainly include a way for most of the people in the country illegally to stay and receive legal status. President Bush, when he was in Yuma Arizona recently, said the idea of finding and deporting all illegal immigrants might sound good, "But it won't happen."

Everyone agrees that people should not be in this country illegally. Everyone agrees that the people here illegally have broken our laws just by being here. Everyone agrees that we have to document the people coming into and leaving our country. Most people admit that we are all responsible: whether we hire the workers; buy what they produce; vote for the people who passed the laws that allowed it to get this far or if we didn't vote at all. And since we are responsible for the problem, we should be responsible and try to fix it.

Even all the polls and surveys lately are showing that the public is between 59% and 78% in favor of giving undocumented immigrants legal status after they meet certain requirements.

The people who are against this should consider that legalizing these people will benefit the whole country; the military, Social Security, our economy, our future economy, education, even our national security.

The most immediate benefit would be to business. Our unemployment rate now is below 4.5%. This means that almost everyone who can and wants to work is working. This includes the fact that there are millions of undocumented workers, or about 10% of our work force. What would happen if these people were suddenly sent away and left the jobs they have now? With so few people out of work now, there would not be enough workers to replace them and many businesses would close.

Every time there is a town hall style meeting, farmers stand up and say that they can't plant part of their crops this year because they know they can't get workers to harvest them. They say the numbers here now are not even enough. Many farmers are struggling (and failing) to find enough workers even with the legal migrant workers (66,000 H-2B visas a year) and it would be a disaster for them if the undocumented workers were not available.

Farmers would have to sell out and we might have food shortages. We would definitely have much higher food prices. Instead of the present amount of our food coming in from other countries, most of it would. This also brings in to play the problems with contamination and unsanitary conditions that have happened recently with foods from developing countries.

Some farmers are hoping the slowdown in the construction industry will convince or force some of those laid off undocumented workers to go back to harvesting crops, but it might not happen. They have had a taste of better paying jobs that are easier than harvesting and might not go back unless they have to financially.

Hotels and motels, restaurants, landscape companies and many other companies that use low skilled workers would have to close because they would have no workers. We hear complaints all the time that these immigrants are taking jobs away from Americans, but there aren't enough Americans to do those jobs. Our birthrate is low, our population is aging and the workforce is shrinking.

We need these workers to fill the jobs or companies will close. The companies who can, will go overseas to get the work done. I guess the workers from all the companies that close could find work with the farmers and harvest the crops, but I doubt that would happen.


About the Author
Donna Poisl is the author of "How to Live & Thrive in the U.S. / Como Vivir y Prosperar en Estados Unidos" and President of Live & Thrive Press. She wrote this reference guide to help immigrants learn our system and succeed in this country. Contact Donna at http://www.howtoliveandthrive.com or Immigrants in USA Blog at http://immigrantsinusa.blogspot.com

What is an immigration test?

by Clint Jhonson


All over the world people are trying to move away from their country and seek another place where they think it will be better for them. The reasons for relocation are various. They can be of political or economical nature or just because they do not want to live there anymore. Whatever the reasons, people do emigrate from their countries daily and they can do it either legally or illegally.

The future of the people that try to do this illegally is very grim. The US is the most likely target and their means to discover illegal immigrants are getting better every year. Why would you risk being submitted to a very unpleasant process like being arrested, deported or who knows what else? There is a better way to do this and stay there for as long as you can.

The legal way for this is by taking an immigration test. This option is available for everyone, but you should keep watch for anyone who is pretending to help you, when in fact they are only after your money. The best place to start looking for information about an immigration test is the internet. For this keep in mind a very easy to remember address: immigrationtest.org.

This immigration test website will provide the answers you need regarding immigration laws, visas or other related subjects. The help you receive through this website is being watched over by Sonia Munoz. She is the president of an immigration specialized law firm. They have handled countless immigrations in the US and internationally. Their goal is to protect the rights of immigrants.

In order to keep the media as up to date as possible regarding the most recent immigration events, they post question and answer columns in a lot of publications throughout the nation. Apart from processing a huge number of visas, their job goes as far as prosecuting the notaries, paralegals or any individual that posed as an attorney, pursuing their own interest and damaging their clients. Even though it seems very cruel and unfair, this sort of thing happens every day.

When pursuing an immigration test, one of the things you need to be familiar with is the immigration law. In this direction, the president of the United States has announced the additional 6000 members of the National Guard that were sent to strengthen the southern border. The method used by the president to enforce the changes within the immigration law is believed to be one of the most technologically advanced in American history. As part of the immigration law, the infrastructure investment at the border will be increased.

Another aspect of the immigration law expands the use of the 'Expedited Removal'. This is the power of the US government to send illegal immigrants home faster. Illegal immigrants are considered to be those people that enter the United States without inspection or those that have overstayed the time that was allotted on their visa. Any of these situations are considered to be a violation of the immigration law.

Considering the illegal immigrants issues, employers that hire them can be held accountable also. Hiring undocumented immigrants is considered a criminal act and will be prosecuted accordingly. The number of people that have been arrested due to such situations has increased significantly. There have been allotted considerable funds in order to toughen the investigations conducted on worksites.

About the Author
Taking an immigration test is the most important first step you must take. This will allow the organizations in the destination country to test your knowledge about their government, Immigration law and other aspects.

Top Immigration Lawyer and immigration solution of NY?

by Karl Garcia


The term Immigration Lawyer is another very common term people are becoming aware of. But most of the detailed processing of Top Immigration lawyer is still not known to common man. An immigration lawyer is someone who possesses the knowledge of various laws pertaining to specifically to immigration. An immigration lawyer is a person who is well aware of various formalities involved into legal immigration from one country to another.He or she may also be called as Legal Representative for Immigration. An Immigration Lawyer thus help any one to immigrate by minimizing the effort and formalities on the applicants side.

An immigration lawyer directory can help you find the kind of lawyer you are looking for. Immigration Lawyer can be searched by state. It is possible to find an Immigration Lawyer in the telephone directory, but searching Immigration Lawyer over the internet search engines offer a better hit chance of gaining broader information coverage. Becoming a citizen is not necessarily an easy process and there is a lot of red tape and documentation one must get through before he or she can become a citizen of a country. Conversely, with the assistance of an attorney the process becomes a bit easier because you will have a skilled Immigration Lawyer working on your behalf to help you become a citizen.

To become a citizen of the United States you must understand what are the required formalities required for the whole Immigration Process. A lawyer will be familiar with the Naturalization Act of 1906, Sec 4 which indicates that an immigrant can only become a citizen after fulfilling certain legal obligations. There are certain time requirements, documents, and oaths that are required before one can become a citizen and an Immigration Lawyer can help you identify your responsibilities and can advise you how to proceed with the process. Moreover, an immigration lawyer can assist you in such a way that they minimize the problems or difficulties while applying for the Immigration formalities..

Although you do not necessarily need a lawyer to become a citizen, it certainly can't hurt. If you are lacking in the understanding of various immigration laws, an Immigration lawyer can assist you with such difficulties and clarify your situation for you. When you have questions you may want somewhere to turn for answers and someone possessing an understanding of the law may be particularly helpful in questions pertaining to immigration. Moreover, an talented immigration lawyer can make the complicated application process turn into much easier task to assist you with filling out your required applications for a student visa, visa, and/or citizenship.

If you are really serious about migrating, you may feel far more comfortable with a immigration lawyer working on your behalf. Without a lawyer to assist you, any immigration dilemmas that arise may prove to be frustrating and finally result in overheads to the whole process or even the failure. Ultimately, the more serious you are willing to migrate, the more seriously they will consider your options. Keep an open mind about your options and consider hiring a competent lawyer to assist you in your citizenship endeavors.

Although anyone can read the migration policies and can understand the issues NY citizenship and formalities within, but it is always better to handover the issues to Immigration lawyer and do their jobs for better results.


About the Author
With 20 year of experience Karl Garcia is a Top immigration Lawyer provided and solution of ny immigration the articles which are helpful of immigration. You can see all of his many information of New York immigration, Lawyer,