Immigrants create demand rather than take jobs away Four worries drive most of the opposition to immigration: JOBS: A new immigrant brings with him a need for products and services-which his job gives him the money to buy. So the immigrant has no net effect on the competition for jobs or the level of wages. Immigrants don’t take jobs away from Americans. They increase the demand for labor and they help meet that demand.
CULTURE: The answer to the culture problem isn’t to keep immigrants out, but to restore the America of free individuals, each responsible and self-governing. Immigrants will embrace our culture more quickly when government stops trying to dissolve it.
NOT ENOUGH ROOM: The US is still a country of wide open spaces. America could triple its population without our existing cities growing any faster than they do now.
Maintain open borders; end war on immigration End welfare, so that America attracts productive immigrants, rather than people who want to live off the taxpayers. Maintain open borders and a free market--so that America is a haven for people who want to produce in freedom. Government doesn’t work, and a government War on Immigration will be no more successful than the War on Poverty or the War on Drugs.
I'm not voting for Harry Browne either --- but I don't see Bush putting an end to welfare --- and he hasn't mentioned anything about deporting those immigrants who are living on welfare.
Not all illegals are using welfare benefits --- many do, not all illegals commit felony document fraud --- many do. If Bush would deport all those who are not here to work or who work so marginally they require food stamps, WIC, free health care, and deport all those who used stolen and fraudulent Identification documents, and offered some kind of deal to only those illegals who have never committed any other crime at all --- no shoplifting, no DWI, no unpaid hospital bills, no driving without insurance etc --- it might be different --- but I don't see that this is what it's about.