[hedgetrimmer]

Immigrants become citizens sometimes. What they called the people flooding our country today at the Summit of the Americas is migrants. That means they come here to collect money from us, but never make an attachment to our country and the culture of the Constitution.

The Mexican government opens hometown clubs in every city the migrants concentrate in, to make sure they do not lose affliation with Mexico. In hometown clubs they make sure the remittances are sent to mexico. In hometown clubs they organize the migrants to be a significant political force AGAINST the citizen. They are effective too, look how many cities are trying to give illegal aliens the right to vote in school board elections. They also use their political clout to keep American tax dollars pouring into schools to educate their children, into hospitals and health clinics that cater only to them, and now with banks so they can get home loans to buy houses here.

The lowly citizen appears only to have the right to pay for all this stuff and suffer the environmental stress that the burgeoning population is creating.

Also in switzerland they give you a green card maybe, but you can bet they don't have 14 million illegal aliens floating around their country like we do.

[ConsistentLibertarian]

Immigrants are required to pay state and federal taxes on wages earned in the US at the same rates as US citizens.

Contrast that with products made in the US which are sold overseas. State governments collect no sales tax from products exported to, and sold in, Europe, the far East, etc. (Note to self: double check if that's true) even though the state absorbs "the environmental stress" of producing those goods.

If you're thinking about public finance, free trade in the labor market looks like a win on the revenue side compared to free trade in goods.