Posted on 01/21/2014 9:23:53 AM PST by jimbo123
Edited on 01/21/2014 9:29:35 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
I'm going to wait until I see if the attitude of Heritage changes, and if Stephen Moore is officially an amnesty pimp before I write them off.
Sometimes the tendency to overreact on FR threads (I'm being nice......:-) takes all rationality away.....
A Strategic U.S. Immigration Policy for the New Economy
By Stephen Moore March 2001
America’s workforce ages, we need the infusion of young workers — yes, even unskilled workers fill vital niches in our workforce — to keep our economy prosperous and to avoid the kind of serious demographic crisis that may soon beset most other advanced developed nations. A policy of gradually bumping up quotas from the current level of about 800,000 per year to a range of 1-1.5 million would ensure that we have a steady stream of young workers to keep our economy prosperous when the baby boomers begin to retire.
Immigrants and Welfare
Studies at the Cato Institute, confirmed by other scholars, suggest that immigrants use welfare and other social services at about the same rate that U.S.-born citizens do, despite that the foreign born have higher rates of poverty. The taxes paid by immigrants typically cover the cost of public services used.
Family-Based Immigration
Family immigration is also an imperative of our immigration policy because if immigrant workers cannot get their family members into the U.S., many will not wish to come. If we want skilled immigrants, we need to allow them to bring their families. Although opponents of the family system argue that it encourages “chain migration,” reports by the U.S. General Accounting Office indicate that chain migration is not a major problem.
http://cis.org/articles/2001/blueprints/moore.html
That doesn’t tell me anything about DeMint’s reason for hiring him.
Heritage is the same boiler room operation that designed the cornerstone of romneycare and obamacare. Anyone paying attention has been ignoring anything that has come from them for a long time.
The dig made by Stephen Moore was that he didn’t want Heritage to be seen as, “anti-immigration”, when the issue is not immigration at all, but rather AMNESTY REWARDING ILLEGAL ENTRY.
Why open up his announcement with a dishonest premise?
Why avoid the obvious concern that an invasion from Mexico and South America is a ploy to overwhelm the Republic with socialist/Marxist-Democrat voters coming from the socialist southern hemisphere?
On the face of it, it is most difficult to find much comfort.
“what Jim wants me and others to do is develop a pro-growth immigration policy for the country. I don’t want Heritage to be viewed as anti-immigration. We all know immigration is vitally important to our economy. Our goal will be to develop an immigration policy that’s in the best interest of America, our economy, and allows the United States to get the best and brightest people to come here.”
I’m on-board if this means that only the top foreign scientists and inventors will be invited to immigrate, with such number to be limited to no more than 20 per year. All other immigration to be halted for at least 10 years while we eject the illegals already here and revoke the citizenship of those who came here merely to commit crimes or suck the government teat.
Otherwise, no only “no” but “HELL NO.”
Whatever happened to enforce the laws on the books?
Think tanks are money holes.. and pitstops on the way to the next political opportunity.. or disaster.
Exactly; if we keep alienating friends over one personal relationship even (notice that Jim DeMint) is not mentioned as supporting amnesty.
People get a grip, not everyone is a RINO (there are some that WE must oppose), but the goal is to WIN people and then win elections, not purge everyone!@!
And now you're running down the premier conservative thinktank in the country. Mission Accomplished.
I think DeMint wants to have an answer in place to come back at the Democrats before election time rolls around. It must be a prep for an alternative fiscal approach that addresses the burdensome taxpayer cost of illegals, a jobs plan of sorts that tracks toward capitalism and away from socialism’s foothold. Just a starting guess. ,!
“Scratch Heritage off the list”
I don’t think so. Thats a little too radical.
Hmmm. Will have to find out more about this. I also didn’t realize Heritage had a Spanish site.
The taxes paid by immigrants typically cover the cost of public services used.”
Not true for Texas according to a report from Federation for American Immigration Reform provided to Breitbart News. In 2013 alone FAIR estimated that Texans spent $12.1 billion on illegal immigrants whereas taxes paid were estimated to only be $1.27 billion per year. This did not include the payments of $1.9 billion per year from taaxpayers to fund Medicaid or the $1.1 billion to fund law enforcement efforts associated with illegal immigration.
Maybe you could set aside your wing and a prayer reaction, just long enough to come down to earth and deal with the basics— where simple question needs answer at #25. :)
My attitude is to wait and see.
What good is “winning” elections if the people you elect give you amnesty? You seem personally ok with amnesty and a punishing increase in legal immigration. Well then, put your cards on the table.
Wonder what Heritage thinks of THIS:
snip-”The US plans to resettle 30,000 Syrian Islamists displaced by the Syrian War, according to the Wall Street Journal. That’s not the story.
The story is that it hinges on their “receiving exemptions from laws aimed at preventing terrorists from entering the country.”
Why have counterterrorism laws at all then? If politicians are going to ignore them when taking in refugees from a country overrun by al Qeada, then we don’t need the laws. We should just let anyone come over.”
http://www.independentsentinel.com/here-come-the-30000-syrian-islamists-with-loosened-restrictions/
The individual mandate was a creature of heritage. Your boy romney and that Keebler elf gingrich picked it up and ran with it. If that is the work of the “premier” conservative think tank and two conservative standard bearers in the last election cycle, then you can keep what is passing for “conservative” today. The voters sure as hell aren’t buying it anymore, either.
And let's see you backup what you have to say about Heritage. Links, please.
Whenever they calculate the costs of illegal immigrants they NEVER include ALL the costs. That way they get the number they want.
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