[BW2221]

"You know what's stupidity? Harping on the immigration thing when there's bigger fish to fry -- fish like reforming entitlement programs and agencies that are in serious trouble or that cause serious trouble. Entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Agencies such as the EPA, FDA, DOI, and DOE."

Immigration is going to have a catastrophic effect on things like Social Security, Medicare and Medicade. Unfortunately, when Social Security was enacted in 1933, the average life expectancy in the U.S. was 63 so the government was gambling on the fact that at least half the people wouldn't even be around to collect it and those who did would only do so for a few years. The situation has changed and will change much more with increased immigration. It's something we need to "harp" about.

[LowCountryJoe]

Many illegal immigrants are paying into the social safety net programs, with fraudulent SSNs, and, as it stands now, will not being drawing one red cent from these programs. They're actually helping to try to keep these programs afloat. If you take this -- what I've written -- as truth, why are we not screaming louder about entitlement reforms then we are about the people who are, on net, helping our country economically. Even if you do not buy into that last portion of that last sentence, why are we/were we not in an absolute uproar over this, instead/before this?