Judicial Watch: Obama Admin. Spending Half a Billion Annually on Executive Amnesty
Mar. 7, 2015
"...while a court has halted amnesty, they’ve learned the true cost. joining us now with the details, tom fitten from washington. thank for coming on this morning. this plan rngs which again is on hold right now, but likely to take effect at some point, has been billed as basically a bill for civil rights. there’s been no attention to its monetary costs. what are they? >> obama’s discretion is going to cost upwards of a half a billion dollars a year. nearly $484 billion a year. by the admission of the obama administration. and a they want to hire 3100 people. they’re paying in one build, $660,000 a month in rent and in the first year, they’ve handled 1.4 million applications. this is a massive amnesty program anthis money again, no authorization and law. >> so, these are direct costs. not taking into account the effect of wages that will be depressed by more low wage immigrants or the competition american born workers will have for jobs. these are just direct government costs. >> and a that’s right. dhs doesn’t have incident spending, even though it is a federal agency, so the money has to come from somewhere and our experience with the last dream act amnesty, which was also illegal, basically, the handling of legal applications for green cards shut down, so if you were a u.s. citizen trying to get your foreign born wife into the country, you had to wait a year, but if you were an illegal alien, you’re stamped right through. >> so, the united states is paying just again, direct costs, many other costs associated, but half a billion dollars to break u.s. law. why? what’s the purpose of this? >> well, the purpose is to enact president’s, the president’s discretion and essentially allow you if you’re here for a certain period of time, to apply for provisional status or legal status and be able to work and the administration’s encouraging you, even if you don’t think you’ll pass and get the application approved, come in and apply any way and you’ll get the benefit of not being deported. essential essentially, would allow virtually anyone who’s here illegally to continue to stay here and as i said, upwards of $484 billion a year, a million dollars a year, but that’s just for the first year. think of it every year from here on in. and of course, it’s going to draw more illegal aliens in, so the cost will just increase over time. >> all democratic voters. the same administration that’s advertiseing for food stamps in mexico. …"
Mar. 7, 2015
"...while a court has halted amnesty, they’ve learned the true cost. joining us now with the details, tom fitten from washington. thank for coming on this morning. this plan rngs which again is on hold right now, but likely to take effect at some point, has been billed as basically a bill for civil rights. there’s been no attention to its monetary costs. what are they? >> obama’s discretion is going to cost upwards of a half a billion dollars a year. nearly $484 billion a year. by the admission of the obama administration. and a they want to hire 3100 people. they’re paying in one build, $660,000 a month in rent and in the first year, they’ve handled 1.4 million applications. this is a massive amnesty program anthis money again, no authorization and law. >> so, these are direct costs. not taking into account the effect of wages that will be depressed by more low wage immigrants or the competition american born workers will have for jobs. these are just direct government costs. >> and a that’s right. dhs doesn’t have incident spending, even though it is a federal agency, so the money has to come from somewhere and our experience with the last dream act amnesty, which was also illegal, basically, the handling of legal applications for green cards shut down, so if you were a u.s. citizen trying to get your foreign born wife into the country, you had to wait a year, but if you were an illegal alien, you’re stamped right through. >> so, the united states is paying just again, direct costs, many other costs associated, but half a billion dollars to break u.s. law. why? what’s the purpose of this? >> well, the purpose is to enact president’s, the president’s discretion and essentially allow you if you’re here for a certain period of time, to apply for provisional status or legal status and be able to work and the administration’s encouraging you, even if you don’t think you’ll pass and get the application approved, come in and apply any way and you’ll get the benefit of not being deported. essential essentially, would allow virtually anyone who’s here illegally to continue to stay here and as i said, upwards of $484 billion a year, a million dollars a year, but that’s just for the first year. think of it every year from here on in. and of course, it’s going to draw more illegal aliens in, so the cost will just increase over time. >> all democratic voters. the same administration that’s advertiseing for food stamps in mexico. …"
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