As with any piece of comprehensive legislation, the Senate immigration bill S.744 has winners and losers. The winners are those who benefit from illegal immigration and from a big, ongoing supply of foreign workers. The losers are those who don't.
Winners
Traditional Business (Chamber of Commerce). Perhaps the biggest beneficiary of the Senate's bill is the amoral, profit-above-all, traditional business community that constantly puts its interests ahead of the good of the American people. The same people who brought us the financial meltdown and who hold no allegiance to America get to keep all of their gains from the current system, benefit from a huge new source of foreign labor that replaces American workers, and get to profit from billions of dollars of pork built into the bill.
Organized Labor (Unions). Unions that have been abandoned by Americans get access to millions of potential new members in low-paying jobs. Perversely, the unions support a bill that makes already low-paying jobs even lower paying in order to make workers see how much they need unions in order to improve their wages.
Employers of Illegal Aliens. The law-breaking employers of illegal immigrants receive full amnesty from violations of tax, immigration, and labor laws; from employing illegal aliens using the identifying information of innocent American children; and can keep their illegal alien workers under a system approaching involuntary servitude because of the work requirements in the bill. Employers are also rewarded with a savings of up to $5,000 for each illegal alien employee who gains immediate legal status because of exemptions from Obamacare. In addition, the five-year delay in implementing mandatory E-Verify and phony border enforcement provisions that reduce the flow of illegal immigrants by only 50 percent at best allow employers to hire an entirely new group of illegal aliens to go along with their newly legalized illegal aliens.
High-Tech Industry. High-tech billionaire and millionaire elites who refuse to pay for the education and development of American workers are given access to large numbers of foreign workers who are educated and trained at the expense of taxpayers in foreign countries. The Senate bill also allows high-tech employers to expand their allegiance to the global economy and to further turn their collective backs on the American economy and on American workers.
Organized Religion. Religious leaders focused primarily on membership numbers and the bottom line get to keep their illegal alien members and a big pool of potential converts. Of course this will only last as long as it takes for illegal aliens to receive legal status and fall away from organized religion just like millions of other Americans did when they no longer needed the temporal benefits provided by religion. The Mormon Church and other religious organizations also get to further their interests in foreign countries at the expense of the United States.
Criminals and Intending Terrorists. A superficial U.S. background check coupled with no foreign background checks will allow terrorists, gang bangers, drug dealers, pedophiles, and identity thieves to stay legally in the United States as long as the have not been convicted of their criminal actions in the United States. There are no in-depth interviews to ferret out terrorists already in the United States and drug cartels get immediate legal status for their operatives in the United States.
The Democratic Party. Democrats win whether the bill passes the U.S. House of Representatives or not. If the House passes the Senate bill, Democrats get millions of new voters with the bonus of a new "civil rights" issue for the 2016 presidential election (the demand that millions of newly legalized illegal aliens be granted immediate citizenship because it is unfair to deny them their "civil rights" by relegating them to a second class status for almost 13 years). If the bill doesn't pass the House, Democrats will have a campaign issue for years to come in both presidential and, to a lesser extent, in congressional elections.
Illegal Aliens. Individuals unlawfully in the United States gain immediate legal status coupled with amnesty from felony forgery, tax evasion, Social Security fraud, and identity theft as well as from perjury on I-9 forms. They receive preference in hiring by employers with over 50 employees because they are exempt from Obamacare penalties of up to $5,000 that apply to American workers. In addition, illegal aliens who cheated and jumped the line are allowed to remain in the United States while millions of people who played by the rules are still in their home countries waiting for their turn to come.
Third Political Parties. If the Senate bill passes both Houses of Congress and is signed into law, there may well be mass defections from both the Republican and Democrat parties by Americans harmed by the bill.
Losers
The Rule of Law. S. 744 makes a mockery of the rule of law by rewarding the illegal behavior of illegal aliens and all of those benefiting from their illegal activities (businesses, churches, unions, politicians) while encouraging more of the same. Illegal aliens and their American employers are granted amnesty from their illegal activities, including felonies. This sends the message to newly legalized individuals and to millions of Americans that the way to get ahead in America is to lie, cheat, and steal.
Identity Theft Victims. Millions of Americans, including an inordinate number of American children, who have their identifying information being used by illegal aliens are left holding the bag while illegal aliens get new Social Security numbers and a clean record. The innocent Americans are sacrificed by politicians for the promise of votes and by business, labor, and religious organizations for their selfish benefits.
American Workers. The Congressional Budget Office predicts that the legalization of illegal aliens coupled with more legal immigration will drive wages down for millions of Americans for years to come. In addition, American workers are subject to Obamacare, while former illegal aliens are not, thereby giving them a competitive advantage in employment. If that were not enough, American workers will face competition from millions of new foreign workers brought in by employers who agree with the senior Rubio staffer who said American workers "can't cut it".
The Republican Party. Republican senators, the national Republican Party leadership, and Republican strategists naively believe that they will gain the Hispanic vote if they just pass amnesty, but historical data and recent polling show that this just won't happen anytime soon. In the meantime, Republicans risk seeing Republicans and independents who would otherwise have voted for them staying home or voting for third parties.
Illegal Aliens. Illegal aliens are losers as well as winners. They get legal status, but they are required to be employed in order to retain their provisional legal status. This gives employers great leverage over unsophisticated illegal aliens and makes them virtual indentured servants by leaving them open to exploitation by disreputable employers who will threaten them with termination and the loss of their legal status if they don't do exactly what they say.
Legal Immigrants. Legal immigrants in the United States are treated as suckers for playing by the rules and those who have remained in the home countries are sent the message that the United States rewards illegal behavior — not honesty.