The financial repercussions of amnesty

From today's Washington Times:

In an interview and at a press conference Monday with Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama and Sen. Jim Bunning of Kentucky, both Republicans, Mr. Rector made a powerful case that the immigration "compromise" now before the Senate lays the groundwork for a vast expansion of the American economic underclass -- particularly among the elderly. With it there will be perhaps the largest expansion of government since the Great Society. The amnesty bill promises an explosion in federal, state and local spending on public education, subsidized housing and entitlement programs, and extraordinary new fiscal pressure on three of the fastest-growing federal entitlement programs, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. If immigration "reform" is enacted in anything remotely resembling the bill before the Senate, staggering tax increases are inevitable in the decades just ahead. The senators responsible for the debacle won't be seen responsible because they will be safely dead. The largest spending and tax increases demanded by this "reform" will occur decades from now.

The last thing the GOP needs is to be seen as part of the reason for a massive increase in taxes...but that's exactly what many in our leadership are putting us on a path for.