Legal immigration leads to global competitiveness if harnessed properly. I would prefer a productive immigrant who pays taxes over someone who depends on welfare
I agree. However the current immigration policies do just the opposite. We are importing high school dropouts and poverty. We are not bringing in the people who have the talents and skills necessary to compete in the global economy. Moreover, we are sowing the seeds of our own destruction by bringing in a less diverse immigrant population, which could Balkanize this country along linguistic and cultural lines. By 2050 Hispanics [of all races] will be 24.4% of the population, up from 1% in 1950. And non-Hispanic whites will be 50% of the population down from the 89% they were in 1965. The demographics of this country have been changed dramatically by the Kennedy sponsored Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.