"The Need for Comprehensive Immigration Reform: Serving Our National Economy"

The Cato Institute ^ | May 26, 2005 | Daniel Griswold

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

[Regulator]

Dan Griswold is an idiot.

Period.

[katya8]

The Cato people are so totally wrong and out of reality, it's not funny!

[RegulatorCountry]

"Serving Our National Economy"

Hope it's not a cookbook.

[monkeywrench]

The title is offensive.

[bill1952]

'To serve Man.' Damn right it is.

Of course we need immigrants - /s - and we also need to have a multi cultural diversity viewpoint so that the coming civil war is ensured to destroy this great experiment.

[Rick_Michael]

Cato...I usually like what they write. The arguement shouldn't be for temporary worker programs, rather it should be for enforcement of our current laws and quite possibly depending on the situation a raising of legal immigration.

It really depends on the situation, but not many people here or elsewhere are going to say we want an end to immigration...period. Japan is a clear sign of what no immigration will do ie it eventually leads to a very small productive class within the country.

I say enforcement first, and then reasonable accessement in our immigration policy second. If we need more labor after the illegal work starts going away, then we'll have people come in as permanent residence, not temporary workers.

[cripplecreek]

Once again economy equals nation. What a load.

[dr_who_2]

Evil lazy-fair capitalist crook shill alert! DEFEND AMERICA FROM THE INVADING HORDES! PUT 4,000 MILES OF MINEFIELDS AND CHICKEN WIRE BETWEEN US AND MEXICO NOW!!!!!



Do it for John Wayne!

...apple pie, and corn flakes!!!!

[taxed2death]

"America's recent history confirms that American workers can find plentiful employment opportunities during times of robust immigration. During the long boom of the 1990s, and especially in the second half of the decade, the national unemployment rate fell below 4 percent and real wages rose up and down the income scale,..."

Utter BS.

[dynachrome]

"Reform is not about opening the door to millions of additional foreign workers. It's about legalizing the millions already here and the hundreds of thousands who are coming in each year already. Legalization would raise their wages, benefits and working conditions"

How many lies in that part?

[HiJinx]

John Wayne, Apple Pie, and Corn Flakes Ping!

[glowworm]

Dan Griswold is an idiot. Period.

Now that is inflaatory language :^) In the vein of civility.. I would say more like an empty suit, shiney pants, Washington insider.. There! fixed it......

[Rick_Michael]

What this doesn't put in perspective is the many jobs that illegals are funnelling into now (e.g construction), because our government refuses to enforce the law. So we'll all put on our blinders right now, and actually assume that this will all go well under this line of thinking or we can access reality by looking into it.....which one?

[Regulator]

I would say more like an empty suit, shiney pants, Washington insider.. There! fixed it......

Gosh, thanks! We do appreciate civil discourse hereabouts...

:^)

[Ben Ficklin]

You left out the part about Griswold being an "elite".

[dr_who_2]

Prove it.

[dr_who_2]

Elitist? Hell yes! The sort of person who has actually lived in a different zip code for a significant period of his life.

[dr_who_2]

Now? Roofers have been speaking Spanish/Spanglish for a decade or more. If you've ever had to wait a month or more for someone to fix a leaky roof, that might be an explanation.