Posted on 06/14/2013 9:19:10 PM PDT by Windflier
Former Florida governor Jeb Bush (R) argued Wednesday that the United States should pass immigration reform because the U.S. economy needs the labor of young immigrants, and immigrants are “more fertile.”
“Immigrants create far more businesses than native-born Americans,” Bush said at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to the Majority conference. “Immigrants are more fertile, and they love families, and they have more intact families, and they bring a younger population. Immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity.”
Bush said immigrants are an advantage that the United States has over China, Europe and Japan, which don’t have the same immigrant tradition and are struggling to find young laborers.
“If we don’t do it, we will be in decline, because the productivity of this country is dependent upon young people that are equipped to be able to work hard,” Bush said.
Bush, whose wife is a Mexican-born immigrant, has long been an advocate for comprehensive immigration reform.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
A bracero program that socked away 50% of their money to be paid only when they returned to their home country would be a nice change.
To take effect when the US unemployment rate goes below a certain level (say 5%?).
Who's gonna tell him - you or me?
Pathetic, isn't it? I'm almost embarrassed for all of them.
Dunno - doesn't sound legal. Not even ethical, if you ask me.
The right and honorable thing, is for them to be deported upon contact with US law enforcement. And for all the billions of dollars that the IRS is illegally refunding to these people, we could have fully barricaded the southern border by now.
They need to go home and fix the root problems in their own countries that compelled them to escape here in the first place. If we bar the door, perhaps they'll find the courage to do so.
Both LOL
Apparently having the name “Bush” doesn’t equal intelligence.
More whites are dying than being born for the first time ever. Whites under 5 years of age are the minority now. According to stats I just read yesterday.
I think you’re wrong.
“The new census estimates, a snapshot of the U.S. population as of July 2012, comes a year after the Census Bureau reported that whites had fallen to a minority among babies. Fueled by immigration and high rates of birth, particularly among Hispanics, racial and ethnic minorities are now growing more rapidly in numbers than whites.”
The government also projects that in five years, minorities will make up more than half of children under 18. Not long after, the total U.S. white population will begin an inexorable decline in absolute numbers, due to aging baby boomers.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/06/13/us-whites-now-losing-majority-in-under-5-age-group/
Also an excerpt from the article posted:
“A Census report released Thursday showed that, for the first time, white deaths in the United States outnumbered white births. Population grew because of growth among Hispanics, African-Americans and immigrants.”
Sounds to me that Jeb Bush and elitists like him are showing a bit too much bias towards the Mexican race. Geez I feel bad for him that he was born white...the race he thinks isn’t family oriented and doesn’t work very hard.
They seem to get more than their share of Muslims. We get too many of those too.
Sounds like something Biden would say. Maybe he should try for the vice presidential slot instead.
As jmacusa said upthread: "The man is too stupid to be an idiot."
So they shove ‘reform’ through. But are they ready for civiiian life? If Conservatives stayed home last time, wait until Jeb and Marco hear the crickets next time.
Stay out the bushes.....please! we had enough! Lokk what his brother brought us
How’s that contraception workin’ out for ya?
“Immigrants are NOT more fertile than Americans.”
Yes, they are. There’s a reason why the average american chooses to use contraception and chooses not to have children.
The math is really simple. If people want an America that reflects them - they need to have children.
NO MORE BUSHES!
“the race he thinks isn’t family oriented and doesn’t work very hard.”
Would you look at someone like say, Barbra Streisand and say that she’s ‘family oriented’?
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