Posted on 01/08/2014 8:42:19 AM PST by Biggirl
And if pigs had wings, they could fly. Birthright citizenship is the law of the land. US passports are being issued to the tune of 300,000 to 400,000 anchor babies annually. Whether you would like to stop it or not, it is not happening and won't happen any time soon.
But I’m talking about illegals, not young American citizens by current interpretation of our laws.
Illegals or legals, it really doesn't matter in terms of the consequences. We are changing the demographics of this country.
I realized that HYPOCRISY during the debate of the two issues as well!! UGH!!
Rush was talking about it.
It does matter, because if illegals are legalized, the demographic shift will be unsurmountable and our country as founded and we know it will be lost.
I never claimed that the anchor-baby farce will be stopped, I merely stated that I believe it should be stopped.
*insurmountable*
I didnt hear him say that the STD rate was higher in that demographic, though it may be. He just said that this is the reason that people have come up with for increased rates in the general population—that fear of homophobia keeps people from seeking medical attention. This is is ridiculous of course—our silly society is less homophobic than ever before. I think that there are probably a variety of factors myself. First of all, syphilis and gonorrhea were the ones mentioned, not the bigger umbrella of “STD” which can mean herpes, clamidia and all sorts of things. Syphilis is a serious deal—it’s what Al Capone died of, relatively young. It’s a slow death, ending with dementia. A lot of these STDs go hand in hand with AIDs and HIV. A lot of times it has to do with the the part of the body Phil Ribertson got into trouble for talking about. So it’s not surprising that it would happen a lot with homosexuals, especially if they’re promiscuous. Remember that that that part of the body is more subject to tearing and that’s a portal for all sorts of bugs. If those sexual practices get more popular among heterosexuals, and I think they are, that’s a factor. Drugs may be a factor too, especially party drugs that make people reckless. And addictive drugs make people like prostitutes desperate and also compromises their immune systems. I think that immigration from 3rd world countries especially could be a factor. Read Keith Richburgs book Out of America for a discussion of sex practices in some African cultures, for example, that have a bearing on this.
And don’t laugh, but I think that less marriage also has a bearing, because that’s the reason for the blood tests, and I think it helps a little.I assume same sex couples get them too.
Anti-vaxxers would probably say that too many childhood vaccinations might have something to do with it. I wouldn’t know about that.
You are missing the point. Even if the illegals are not legalized, the "demographic shift" has been underway ever since the passage of the 1965 Immigration Act. We are seeing the impact now. Immigration drives 75% of our population growth. We bring in 1.2 million LEGAL immigrants a year compared to about 500,000 or less illegals if you believe the government figures.
Most Children Younger Than Age 1 are Minorities, Census Bureau Reports
"The U.S. Census Bureau today released a set of estimates showing that 50.4 percent of our nation's population younger than age 1 were minorities as of July 1, 2011. This is up from 49.5 percent from the 2010 Census taken April 1, 2010. A minority is anyone who is not single-race white and not Hispanic.
The population younger than age 5 was 49.7 percent minority in 2011, up from 49.0 percent in 2010. A population greater than 50 percent minority is considered “majority-minority.”
By 2019 half of the children 18 and under will be minorities. Every cohort that turns 18 is more minority and more Democrat. On the opposite end of the continuum, each cohort that dies off is more white and more Rep.
An amnesty just hastens the process, but even without one, the result will be the same. The U.S. is projected to become a majority-minority nation for the first time in 2043. While the non-Hispanic white population will remain the largest single group, no group will make up a majority.
I never claimed that the anchor-baby farce will be stopped, I merely stated that I believe it should be stopped.
Hope and change. If the Gang of 8 bill ever becomes law, we will add 33 million legal immigrants over the next decade, which is almost three times higher than the highest decade of immigration in our history--the decade ending in 2010.
I’m curious as to what he wanted to tell that CA farmer women before he ran out of time concerning her need to hire illegals.
If there were no illegal aliens, then the producers would have to pay higher wages, which would be passed on to the consumer. Most Americans would prefer to pay a little more for their lettuce and avoid all of the other costs associated with illegal aliens. It is the old ploy of privatizing the profits and socializing the costs. Illegal immigration costs the US more than $100 billion a year in terms of healthcare, education, and incarceration. And those numbers are very conservative.
Easy fix is to raise food prices that will pay a wage Americans will work for.
If you take the argument “...doing jobs that Americans won’t do” to a logical extension, when are we going to begin restricting military enlistments to illegals?
"A former boss of mine, the late U.S. Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz,1 used to tell people that when there is a mismatch of workers and jobs, employers have two choices: they can adjust the wages offered or they can seek to adjust the work force. Routinely, he said, they chose the latter. That this choice always exists is rarely mentioned by employers, who, instead, argue that there is a "labor shortage", never finishing their thought by adding "at the wages we are willing to pay".
Are there some U.S. skills shortages that cannot be solved by raising wages and changing training patterns? Of course, but they involve thousands of jobs, not hundreds of thousands or millions of them. If a university seeks a professor of Mongolian languages and literature who must have a PhD and a native's skill with that language, the university should be able to recruit overseas; so should a zoo that needs a veterinarian really skilled with the diseases of the water buffalo.
But nonimmigrant worker programs started decades ago to handle such one-off shortages have morphed over time into massive admissions systems that not only fill jobs with aliens that could have been filed by residents (citizens and green card holders) they lower wages for all concerned where they concentrate. Thus, these systems impose both displacement and wage-depression impacts on the U.S. labor markets.
Are There Really Jobs Americans Won’t Do?
Of the 472 civilian occupations, only six are majority immigrant (legal and illegal). These six occupations account for 1 percent of the total U.S. workforce. Moreover, native-born Americans still comprise 46 percent of workers even in these occupations.
Many jobs often thought to be overwhelmingly immigrant (legal and illegal) are in fact majority native-born:
Maids and housekeepers: 51 percent native-born
Taxi drivers and chauffeurs: 58 percent native-born
Butchers and meat processors: 63 percent native-born
Grounds maintenance workers: 64 percent native-born
Construction laborers: 66 percent native-born
Porters, bellhops, and concierges: 72 percent native-born
Janitors: 73 percent native-born
Although illegal immigrants comprise a large share of workers in agriculture, farm workers are only a tiny share of the total labor force. Consistent with other research, just 5 percent of all illegal immigrants work in agriculture.
Yes, it’s bad, but adding the illegals will make it worse.
My original point was that stopping block grant allocations that account for illegals would at least help to increase cooperation for immigration enforcement from states and municipalities.
That goes without saying. If we don't rein in legal immigration (the status quo) we are finished regardless.
My original point was that stopping block grant allocations that account for illegals would at least help to increase cooperation for immigration enforcement from states and municipalities.
We have sanctuary states and cities. We have states that provide in-state tuition for illegal aliens, furnish drivers licenses to illegals, issue local IDs, and provide assistance to illegal aliens, CA being one of the most prominent among them. These states and localities don't want to cooperate with the federal government.
And states like AZ that want to enforce our immigration laws are sued by the federal government. Obama has already by executive order had a backdoor amnesty that legalized Dreamers and issued them work permits. Over 500,000 have been legalized and a million more are anticipated. And the reality is that Obama is deporting far fewer illegal aliens than any other President before him.
Yes, I know all that—and it is infuriating.
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