Posted on 03/31/2006 12:13:03 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez
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.
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."
Total crime and property crime in California are half what they were in 1980; violent crime has fallen more than a third. The state's Hispanic population during that time has increased 120 percent.
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Gingrich just sad that no employer was taken to task last year for employing illegal aliens.
We have a big problem with enforcement.
These are Americans converting.
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Could be, but I said in my #498 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1606994/posts?page=498#498
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"I thought I read some recent statistic/story that Hispanic females, more than other groups, were turning to Islam."
And I gave you the source to support that story:
More Hispanic women coverting [sic] to Islam
10/5/2005
Posted on Wed, Oct. 05, 2005
RAMADAN
http://www.cair-florida.org/ViewArticle.asp?Code=cm&ArticleID=483
A big BUMP to that.
Not true at all.
There's a form that the Feds require to be completed for every employee that establishes legal right to work.
LOL! Good point.
Thanks for posting that.
It's funny how everyone always says that every word CAIR utters is a lie...until what they say suits our purposes.
I agree. But I don't make a claim for the accuracy - in fact, the story itself is meager on data and is anecodtal - I merely gave a source to Luis about Hispanic females converting.
I can guarantee you that no female in my family will convert to Islam.
Their mothers will lock them in a closet until they come to their senses.
You want a fence?
Build a circular one, top it with barbed wire, and drop a few hundred executives whose companies hired illegal aliens inside.
Now THAT'S deterrent.
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Who are you going to attract here?
Eurosocialists?
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Chinese: smart, hardworking, a huge pool of highly educated, a country where we have major trade and investments. India: much the same as China and English speaking. New Europe: Christian post communist - they have felt the boot of statism and did not like it, will likely *not* bring socialism with them.
Compared to Mexico those three groups will likely bring higher skills, better education and probably can assimilate well. We can have immigration that is legal and boosts our human capital, we do not have to center our immigration policy on Mexico.
Actually Gingrich said that going after employers was the key!
Smartest man in politics in my generation period!
As a matter of fact I do know the immigration status of the people detained for the crimes I listed, I was told by BP and local LE after they were caught. I did not list any crimes committed toward me that no one had been caught doing.
I live very isolated and rural, I am sure if the border was really secure- the crime rate where I live would drop to near zero. It matters to me that they were illegal because they had no right to be here to begin with. Not here = not committing crime here.
You may have missed it, but someone on the thread asked if any illegal had committed a crime against someone on the thread. That was the reason I listed the crimes that have been committed against me and my immediate family by illegals. That was also the reason several others listed crimes they knew of by illegals.
Yes indeed, India and Israel must be recognized as world leaders in establishing freedom. For instance they have sacrificed their finest military assets in projecting freedom and democracy to such far-flung places as.......EXACTLY nowhere. You may not be proud of American manifest destiny, yet please do not compare our great country to third world cesspools. The United States of America is much greater than any example that you may bring.
By the way, I still have not seen a posting of the federal law that enables prosecution of people for existing within the United States, its territories and possessions without proper documentation. Surely someone has a bookmark.
"It's funny how everyone always says that every word CAIR utters is a lie...until what they say suits our purposes."
CAIR picked it up from the October 5, 2005 Miami Herald
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12820867.htm
Yes, I caught that yesterday.
When you bring higher-skilled immigrants into the nation, they will compete with our own higher skilled workers for jobs we DO want.
Just keep that in mind.
I would submit as a postulate that Hispanics constituting a fertile petri dish for an ensuing Islamization of the US is one of great non problems of our times. In fact, they might be an anti-Islamic antidote. In fact, Hispanics when they convert, and they do in very large numbers, tend to the tune of about 80% of the converts, to become Evangelical Protestants. Oh the horror! JMO.
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