Posted on 08/31/2007 10:39:06 AM PDT by bill1952
Legal immigration, I have no problem..Illegals should be expelled from the country
—and I am delighted that I will be long dead-—we should have stopped growth at about 1940 level-—
I feel that way myself. - But I have children.
—and I am delighted that I will be long dead-—we should have stopped growth at about 1940 level-—
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Yes, I feel the same way. A sorry situation.
Legal immigration yes.
Provided “chain immigration” is limited and the practice of “anchor babies”
is removed from the books.
Aspiring immigrants have to prove that they could contribute something from their field of specialization
It's way past time we reform and reduce *legal* immigration to sensible, manageable numbers.
Mexico ‘only’ has 100 million people as it is. That says something about how crappy the country is if 10-20 percent of the population at any given time has smuggled themselves out of the country.
There is no shortage of people in spite of the warnings of those who are worried about falling birth rates.
We should never implement the point-system as our immigration policy..it paid off horribly in Canada
So why do they come here and wave Mexican flags all over the place? If Mexico is so great, why leave?
Maybe we should pay heed to what it really means when you plant your nation's flag somewhere.
Wattenberg is obviously a moron...suggesting that the the US is underpopulated because he doesn’t see enough urban development in the “Flyover States.”
Has he ever heard the term “nation’s breadbasket”?
In the past 10 years I’ve already seen what I consider a disturbing amount of urban and suburban sprawl into what were formerly prime farmlands around Kansas City and Topeka, and a wholesale paving-over of Central Texas.
Yo, Wattenberg...farms DO tend to look like empty land from the air, but that’s where you get your food, fool...and in the future, that may be where you get the fuel for your car.
It's way past time we reform and reduce *legal* immigration to sensible, manageable numbers. We should never implement the point-system as our immigration policy..it paid off horribly in Canada
Never said anything about a point system.
We need to reform and REDUCE legal immigration now. Not later, now.
Did I say now?
Who cares what we want. Ted Kennedy won. We are screwed.
Yecchh, in more ways than one.
The problem is, the numbers are managable, but the illegal immigrants are flooding the market to the point where illegal and legals are taking up resources. The government can’t control the illegal population because they can’t find them, so what will be the eventual victim of illegal immigration are the people that immigrated here legally.
No, they are not. We have too many people, too much traffic, too many lines, jammed classrooms, freeways, our resources in many regions are strained etc etc.
Go to *any* large city in the U.S. and get on the road at 7:30 a.m. and you tell me we need more people.
The life-boat analogy applies. If the boat is full, then it wouldn’t matter who was trying to get aboard. Except that we might dump the criminals overboard and select others to replace them.
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