[mcosta79]

I like your immigration platform, Kabar.

Tell me, how did you arrive at 300,000 legals per year as an ideal intake?

Also, does that figure include all people brought in, or just heads of household?

[kabar]

The Jordan commission in the 1990s recommended around 500,000. Based on my knowledge of the issue as a grassroots activist who lobbies on the Hill and in Richmond, the number of 300,000 seems about right demographically and for assimilation purposes. The number includes everyone, not just heads of household.

Under our current immigration policies of admitting 1.2 million legal immigrants a year--a number that will increase to 1.5 million for various reasons--we will add 130 million people to our population over the next 40 years. 75% will be the result of our current immigration numbers.