From the article:
The United States is already evolving into a society much harsher and less hospitable for the less-skilled. Yet American elites seem determined to enlarge and perpetuate a problem they already don’t know how to solve: how to create economic opportunities for the least economically competitive half of the population.
Yesterday, the Center for American Progress released a study of the projected economic effects of the president’s immigration proposals. It asserted that immediate full amnesty - residency plus citizenship - would raise immigrant incomes and thereby government revenues.
Over 10 years, that additional tax revenue would sum to $184 billion—$116 billion to the federal government and $68 billion to state and local governments.
CAP gets its impressive number with a crummy trick: omitting the increased costs of legalization. Previously illegal immigrants will become eligible for Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits, unemployment insurance, food stamps, and other federal and state programs. Because the illegals are predominantly very low-income, their demand on such programs will be heavy - and not only long-term, but likely multigenerational.
Why on earth would we deliberately expand the ranks of the least skilled by tens of millions more people imported from abroad, whose grandchildren and great-grandchildren will still require government aid into the 22nd century? That’s the question to keep in mind as the American elite tumbles its way to unthinking consensus in favor of a second large immigration amnesty in 30 years.
David Frum?? Siding with Mark Krikorian/CIS??? Saying this:
“Things are not improving in the second generation either.
Mexican youth who have left school — native-born and foreign-born alike — have considerably lower levels of educational attainment than their peers, with more than half lacking a high school diploma.
“The fact that native-born Mexican young people are less likely than other Latinos (and other racial/ethnic groups) to attain high school diplomas and enroll in college is extremely troubling,” the report said.......Because the illegals are predominantly very low-income, their demand on such programs will be heavy - and not only long-term, but likely multigenerational...............Why on earth would we deliberately expand the ranks of the least skilled by tens of millions more people imported from abroad, whose grandchildren and great-grandchildren will still require government aid into the 22nd century? That’s the question to keep in mind as the American elite tumbles its way to unthinking consensus in favor of a second large immigration amnesty in 30 years. “
I agree, just wow!
Frum absolutely nails it. Mark Krikorian is a good friend of mine, and he is brilliant on this issue. I am surprised that the normally RINO Frum is on the conservative side on this critical issue, and diametrically opposed to the Bush Clan.
Here is the NY Times report:
Mexican New Yorkers Are More Likely to Live in Poor Households
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/21/mexican-new-yorkers-are-more-likely-to-live-in-poor-households/
[snip]The study was commissioned by the Deutsche Bank Foundation following the publication of an article in The New York Times in 2011 about extraordinarily low educational achievement among Mexican immigrants in New York City. The foundation has also started an initiative intended to improve the educational and economic achievement of the Mexican population in New York City, with an emphasis on children and their families. “
So...their liberal answer is to GIVE THEM MORE! Have any of them ever heard the Milton Friedman phrase, ‘you get more of what you subsidize?’
The sheer huge numbers of Mexican migrants creates this situation. They don’t have to learn English, they don’t have to learn to earn the handouts. They can have their own country within a country. And the liberals can’t figure out why the Mexicans are on the bottom of the rung...they are there because they don’t care! And the pay is good. They make it difficult, even for David Frum and the NY Times to not paint with that BROAD brush!
Wow.
Re: “Previously illegal immigrants will become eligible for Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits, unemployment insurance, food stamps, and other federal and state programs.”
In Washington state, ILLEGAL immigrants are already completely eligible for all the programs listed above!
We require NO proof of legal residence for anyone who applies for the programs listed above.
These SOBs we elected want that for all America. When will we say enough is enough?