If President Barack Obama's expected executive order granting blanket amnesty to millions of illegals isn't stopped now, it will be very difficult for future presidents to quash it, says Roy Beck, executive director of NumbersUSA, an immigrant-reduction advocacy group.
"What we're hearing is that it may be about 5 million people that he is thinking about giving amnesty to, [and] work permits," Beck said Friday on
Newsmax TV's "The Steve Malzberg Show" with guest host Dennis Michael Lynch.
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"Once those people get the work permits, it's going to be very, very difficult for a future president to take that away from them.
"There will almost immediately be probably about 20 million people in their home countries who will line up, who can see through [the] chains of family connections, that they can eventually get into America."
Beck said that doesn't necessarily mean that those from other countries can immediately enter the United States.
"But that's the way people think. Once their relatives are legal and permanent here, there's a chain migration that goes on forever. I'm saying at least 20 million lining up," he said.
Beck said Congress has the power to stop the commander-in-chief's actions.
"Yes. Congress has the power, they have the power of the purse, that's the way the separation of powers works," he said.
"The president is supposed to execute the laws. If the president's doing things that Congress doesn't want the president to do, [it] can just defund."
Beck said that blanket amnesty would have an immediate effect on American workers.
"Right now, there are about 7 million of the 11 million illegal aliens who are in the workforce in some way or another," he said.
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"But because they don't have legal authorization, they are heavily working off the books at very low waged jobs. They are not competing directly, for the most part, for payroll jobs. What this would do immediately is make it possible."
While most of these illegal aliens have limited skills and education, they still hit every level of the job market, he said.
"There are medical doctors who will be competing directly with American medical doctors, there are tech workers, and there are people who are working as drivers, and people in construction, all up and down the line," Beck said.
"There is no job, no occupation in America that won't be affected by this. This money, first of all, instead of going to Americans who need the money, need the jobs, and instead have to go on welfare, it's going to the illegal aliens.
"And … if it were going to the American workers it would be recirculating in the economy. Instead, a good share of the money that's going to the illegal aliens is going to other countries. So it's a double whammy to the American people."