The costs you cite are chump change compared to the real costs of illegal immigration. In 2010 it was estimated that illegal immigration costs $113 billion a year in just education, health care, and incarceration. This does not include crimes against Americans including murder and robbery. And the costs of legal immigration are exponentially higher. 80% of our population growth is driven by immigration.
I think I live on planet Earth, but I sometimes wonder. I am a Black Conservative. living in Georgia, who is engaged to a Mexican Immigrant. I am Conservative based on my life experience, not by birth or ethnicity. In fact, most of the immigrants I know (a lot of people) are either Conservative or up for grabs (independents), and are hard working, proud, and refuse any form of welfare. Your glass seems to be one-quarter empty. You worry about the 25% of immigrants living in poverty and forget about the 75% who are not.
Your personal experience and anecdotal evidence doesn't square with the facts. Most immigrants, legal and illegal, are natural Democrat constituents. They favor Big Government. I suggest you read this study, "How Mass (Legal) Immigration Dooms a Conservative Republican Party"
Immigration, legal and illegal, is hurting American workers, taking their jobs and depressing wages. Blacks and other minorities are the hardest hit. The figures on unemployment are devastating.
US Civil Rights Commission Members: Amnesty Will 'Disproportionately Harm' Black Community
I worked on and participated in the DC March for Jobs, which was sponsored by the Black American Leadership Alliance We cannot continue to bring in 1.1 million legal immigrants while 21 million Americans are unemployed or underemployed.
You seem preoccupied with America losing its whiteness, or something, whatever that's about, and seem to forget that we already are a nation of immigrants. Race really has nothing to do with it. Again, I will reiterate, "Why are Conservatives worrying about some election ten or twenty years from now, instead of focusing on this year and 2016?"
First, we are not a nation of immigrants. 85% of us were born here. People who say we are a nation of immigrants use it to advocate even more immigration at higher rates. Every nation is a nation of immigrants if you really want to look at the facts. The migration from the Great Rift valley in Africa over 20,000 years ago is where we came from. Even the so-called native American crossed over the Siberian land bridge.
You can pull the race card, but you are missing the point. We are Balkanizing our country along racial, ethnic, and cultural lines by introducing huge, unprecedented numbers of immigrants in a very short period of time. This persistent stream of immigrants, mainly from Latin America, who are not assimilating will have consequences. We have entered an era of tribal politics where 95% of blacks, 73% of Asians, and 71% of Hispanics vote Democrat. They favor Big Government with more services, which we can't afford.
Obama lost the non-Hispanic white vote 59%-39%. So you tell me who is voting more along racial and ethnic lines?
Again, I will reiterate, "Why are Conservatives worrying about some election ten or twenty years from now, instead of focusing on this year and 2016?"
Take a look at the electoral map and tell me what states Hillary will lose that Obama won? Do you think the Reps have a shot at winning CA? Demography is destiny.
