To be perfectly honest, I'm at the point where I think we need to pursue all possible courses of action to stem the flood of illegal aliens entering our country.
There is no longer one right way to attack this cancer.
Posted on 12/14/2005 7:08:27 PM PST by LNewman
Column is in response to Costa Mesa Council's decision to train officers to identify immigration status of incarcerated criminals.
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No, the raids didn't work. But if they had tossed his father's butt in prison for about 10 years, the other factory owners might have gotten the message and changed their business practices.
The real answer is imprisoning the criminal factory owner and manager for the crime of hiring the illegals in the first place. And it doesn't take any additional police to accomplish that.
I agree.....
In general, The police are not looking for the drug user.
They want the dealer, Who is making all the money and leaving victims everywhere .
It is highly similar to border control.
To be perfectly honest, I'm at the point where I think we need to pursue all possible courses of action to stem the flood of illegal aliens entering our country.
There is no longer one right way to attack this cancer.
"But I've also read reliable studies that show that the benefits the illegal immigrants bring to our economy offset their cost by a wide margin."
Bogus crap studies he means. There's no comparison, illegals cost MUCH more (I mean BILLIONS) more than their labor contributes. The only beneficiaries are greedy lawbreaking employers, everyone else takes it in the neck.
"Go ahead, seal off the borders if you want. Build a mile-high fence. Put a wall around the city limits. Go ahead, get tough. But be careful what you wish for, for one of the results could be to paralyze some large and small businesses."
My heart bleeds for employers who systematically broke the law, over decades. They'll go under, no more than they deserve, or they'll pay a living wage to legal Americans and survive like the law-abiding employers everywhere.
Agreed. And while he doesn't seem to have a problem calling an illegal a criminal, he paints the employers as savvy business owners.
No you haven't Mr. Smith. There is not one, even on a national level. You're citing thinly veiled diatribes from pro immigration activists. Not a single, scholarly article ties the productivity of imported labor to the immediate cost of the social safety net in California. Starting with the first, comprehensive, study addressing this issue, published by the NIH, existing, credible, published studies show an immediate net deficit or lifetime deficit in public benefit to public cost in this labor class.
American business can solved this problem by moving the factories into Mexico. Making the product there, and shipping it back into the USA. Brilliant!! - Tom
Steve Smith and his father are the problem not the solution and exactly why the country's in the mess it is today.
BS - nothing has changed ...
That's called NAFTA, and CAFTA.
Clever acronyms for 'screw American workers, I need to bump up my stock price by 5% so I get the 100mil. options package'.
Police Officers that aren't allowed to actually ENFORCE the LAW are truly ineffective.
Police Officers that are ENCOURAGED to actually ENFORCE the LAWS that are ON THE BOOKS are.
What part of ILLEGAL ALIEN is so damned hard to understand?
If we don't, we'll probably have another 100 million in ten or twenty years!
Clever acronyms for 'screw American workers...
As we speak US reps are in the Doha Round of WTO meetings in Hong Kong where India is demanding more access to immigrate their professionals here. We can expect thousands additional visas will ultimately be handed out, no doubt that was the master plan when the Senate voted recently to massively expand the H1-b program.
The bottom line is American jobs are just another commodity to be bartered in the global economy.
I am not even particularly against fairly open borders for the labor, but it has to come with no access to any welfare, NO MEDICAL welfare, no schooling without tuition or proof of property ownership and property taxes paid and no automatic citizenship for the babies. The illegals are, in effect, making far more than their factory pittances when all the other benefits that we have to pay for are factored in.
Citizenship should be a possibility but only for those who have demonstrated a profficiency in English and a command of American History the way it was taught in 1950 at the latest, etc. And we have to include strong positive ID for voting in anylocal, state or national election.
Just saying the same thing twice, denying it the first time and affirming it the second time. And if his business is not trying to maximise profits it is failing and will soon go out of business.
It's like the textile industry. We are paying twice for those shirts: once in the store and once again when we pay Uncle the amount of the subsidies and the tariff and the exclusions. THEY ARE NOT COMPETITIVE. These are third world industries and an inefficient use of capital which would otherwise be supporting those jobs and industries at which America is cost-efficient.
try this link
http://www.cis.org/articles/2005/back505.html
In general, it is very negative for immigration with the central tenant being, they get old like everyone else.
But, they do acknowledge this fact
Table 2 shows that in the 2000 Census, 66.2 percent of the nation?s total population was of working age, including immigrants. The working-age percentage for natives is 64.2 percent and for immigrants it was 81.9 percent. Clearly, immigrants are much more likely than natives to be between 15 and 64.
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