Posted on 03/30/2006 10:44:15 PM PST by ncountylee
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Illegal immigration seems to have spawned a dreary debate about the merits of Mexicans, when it should be drawing attention instead to a very different matter: how to build on the luster and wonder of the American dream.
Immigration is not the pox neo-Know Nothings make it out to be. Begin with the astounding influx of illegal immigrants, the vast majority of whom hail from Mexico. While the population includes an eye-popping number of crooks, drug-dealers and would-be welfare sponges, it also provides a helpful prop for sustaining American economic growth and cultural dynamism.
Princeton University sociologist Douglas S. Massey reports that 62 percent of illegal immigrants pay income taxes (via withholding) and 66 percent contribute to Social Security. Forbes magazine notes that Mexican illegals aren't clogging up the social-services system: only 5 percent receive food stamps or unemployment assistance; 10 percent send kids to public schools.
On the work front, Hispanic unemployment has tumbled to 5.5 percent, only slightly above the national average of 4.7 percent and considerably lower than the black unemployment rate of 9.3 percent. Economist Larry Kudlow praises Hispanic entrepreneurship: "According to 2002 Census Bureau data, Hispanics are opening businesses at a rate three times faster than the national average. In addition, there were almost 1.6 million Hispanic-owned businesses generating $222 billion in revenue in 2002."
Skeptics counter that immigrants have clogged our hospitals, which is true -- but primarily in places that offer lavish benefits to illegal immigrants.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
BTW: California's generous welfare state doesn't change the fact that the illegals should have been deported YESTERDAY.
Now don't you feel silly?
How melodramatic.
You complained about getting sick, I suggested you avoid FR if it makes you sick.
Knucklehead.
I don't feel silly, but relieved. I'm glad it wasn't a threat.
Hardly. Staytrue is amusing.
Hardly. Staytrue is amusing.
"...you are saying that you agree with all these illegals flooding into the country day and night, (more than ever now) be given amnesty? "
Good. Hope you feel the same way when you get fired
.......or even worse threaten to shoot one for trespassing on your property and be sued for your "home"."
OR be threatened during the night at your home and "God-Forbid" have to use your gun or weapons to defend yourself and yur family and lose your home in the courts for defending yourself....... as has happened near the Mexican and Texas border recently :
..... and which will be happening more and more if those borders are not better protected soon.
"...you are saying that you agree with all these illegals flooding into the country day and night, (more than ever now) be given amnesty? "
Good. Hope you feel the same way when you get fired
.......or even worse threaten to shoot one for trespassing on your property and be sued for your "home"."
OR be threatened during the night at your home and "God-Forbid" have to use your gun or weapons to defend yourself and yur family and lose your home in the courts for defending yourself....... as has happened near the Mexican and Texas border recently :
..... and which will be happening more and more if those borders are not better protected soon.
More fertilizer logic by so called experts, we could counter this garbage with tons of REAL reasons by experts that PROVE illegals are a detriment affecting our economy as proven by their "great boycott" against AMERICA's economy, actions speak LOUDER than these so called economists OPINIONS, and that is all this is , OPINION of a bunch of pro-illegals.
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