[Marine Inspector]

Ping.

[kellynla]

BTTT

[FreedomSurge]

I am thinking of importing 300,000,000 Indian untouchables to the US.

They could do the jobs no one else wants to do like clean by driveway with a toothbrush for 12 cents an hour. I will charge them $1,000 a piece for transit. (Gold jewelry is acceptable in trade)

What I am thinking doing is hiring a fleet of previously mothballed supertankers to transport them here. I think I can load about 10,000 per cargo hold with an acceptable transit loss factor of about 3%.

These people are hard working (unlike native US scum), and love their families.

Anyone who had immigrants for ancestors can't dispute my plan because it would be hypocritical.

[sheana]

Someone needs to put a Money Clock in Times Square so that ALL americans know what this is costing them.
Can't you see it now....tick, tick, tick in $ signs.

[isthisnickcool]

America is a fine bourbon and illegals are water.

Whenever you water down good whiskey it's never the same.

[skeeter]

Socialize the costs, privatize the profits.

Pretty good scam, if you have the conscience & ethics for it.

[blackie]

Hang 'em High!

[Torties]

Wow. 68 billion. We could take out Iran for 68 billion. :p

[jackbenimble]

Yeah, but because of immigration the rich get richer and the Democrats get more Democrats so we need a guest worker program and never mind that the rest of us will be poorer as a result. /sarcasm

[kellynla]

More data from Weinstein & Davis on this study.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2005/back205.html

[Route101]

Welcome to the door mat called America!...who pays???...you do....

[Mind-numbed Robot]

There you have it. The basics of free enterprise at work. No different from trade with China and other third world countries with low production costs. It is the free market at work.

The trick is to change incentives without distorting the market. Taxes and restrictions do not change incentives in a market friendly way, they distort them.

Were we to continue to get our house in order through tort reform (being done but still needs tweaking), changing the tax system (working on it), eliminating unnecessary and harmful regulations (working on it), reducing the power of labor unions (happening on its own), and bringing our education system back to where it was when we were the world leaders in education.

All of the things listed above which need correcting are products of the left. Their desire is to cripple us as an economy, a society, and as a viable country. They have made great strides. Despite all that, we are still the mightiest country in the world. However, if the left is not stopped and their plans aborted, they will eventually succeed.

The Democrats and their handmaidens in the media are the core of the left. We must concentrate on defeating them. Then the rest will fall into place.

[momf]

Would it not help our citizens if we quit supplying free services to illegals; gathered many of them up and sent them back to where they are sending our dollars, became more prudent as to where we sent our tax money, and forced our representatives in D.C. to back away from the hog trough or be replaced. If Congress had to replace the monies they freely spend on new projects into the Social Security system would that solve a lot of our problems? Or is this Pollyanna dreaming?

I understand a few states have citizens with lower I.Q.s, or logic or we would not have to listen to cowards in positions of power. But there are enough folks in flyover country who could help. Just look at Dashel. One down, 60 to go!!

[UseYourHead]

Hey, that equals the total for Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security fraud now.

[tdewey10]

Sorry, I don't buy this.

1. Illegal immigration keeps agricultural costs down.
2. Withough increased immigration we will lose our dominance as a Superpower to China or India in forty years. Currently illegal immigration is all that is keeping our birthrate and population rate up. Without it we'd be going the way of old Europe. Declining in population and power.
3. The cure to illegal immigration is more legal immigration.

[You Dirty Rats]

Since I haven't seen this study, I don't know how valid it is. Usually, though, Freepers are highly skeptical of studies done by economists from Ivy League schools.

Since the authors aren't distiguishing between legal and illegal immigration, it will be interesting to see all of the comments.

My own opinion is that the idea immigrants have detracted from the economic success of this country to be a perfect example of why the "Know-Nothing" party of 150 years ago was the most aptly-named party in the history of the country.

However, if the claim is that the immigrants who came to this country beginning in the 16th Century did very well and the people who lived here at the time did not, I can't argue with that.

[Dante3]

Court TV has a polls on illegals and on the Glendale train derailment in the 13th Juror section.

POLL

[Marauder]

immigrants themselves benefit substantially by coming to America.

Not to mention the benefit enjoyed by Mexico as these people send billions in untaxed money back into that country.

Small wonder Vicente Fox is opposed to our enforcing our immigration laws.

[DoctorMichael]

Bttt