Conversely, the “wrong” immigrants drain the company of vitality and resources.
What these tools always forget is that a nation is more than an economy.
If we slowed or stopped ALL immigration for several years (or decades), the American birthrate would increase. The parties just want cheap, stupid workers & stupid voters.
That is... until they get corrupted by the Liberal agenda with promises of getting something for nothing. Fortunately, we do have some good immigrants. For those who ever watched Undercover Boss, I still love this guy from the 7-Eleven episode.
It seems half the GOPe is playing for Team Dem these days. The Dems love a divided GOP and must be enjoying this immensely.
And, the current crop replenishes the criminal element within the nation.
1. Secure the borders
2. Deport all illegals
3. Prosecute employers who knowingly hire illegals
4. Demand proof of citizenship for all welfare benefits
A sustainable birth rate replenishes our country better than immigration.
Out of curiosity, I recently acquired his follow-up book The End of Affluence. I'm sure it's just as accurate!
Not really true, yet.
Births have been below replacement level for some time in many countries, which means population will eventually start dropping, but it hasn't happened in many countries yet.
It may not be a permanent trend even in those countries. For instance, Russian population dropped considerably after Communism collapsed, but has grown somewhat in recent years.
Japan is one of the few countries with an actual decline going on. South Korea isn't far behind, with population drop expected to start around 2025.
LA and the rest of California are over run with illegals from third world countries who have no education and speak little or no English.
If you engage most anyone who has lived in Cali since the 70s or so in a candid discussion, they will concede that things just don’t work has smoothly or efficiently as they did back then and there is far more graft and corruption than there used to be
IIRC in the 1990s foreign elderly were the largest number on SSI (not SSDI, disability) -- SSI is run by but not part of SS, you need a monthly check you get one whether or not you ever contributed a penny. There was "reform" passed in 1996 which at first reduced the SSI checks -- at least until the parents could become citizens. The housing, food, health care, and more continued to be delivered but SSI was temporarily stopped IIRC.
When the authors at National Review, et al are subject to being replaced by the magnificent immigrants then I'll support NR, et al.
How do the writers explain the FACT that immigrants overwhelmingly vote for the party of big government, and further explain how that will not result in an increasingly overbearing and a freedom-stifling state?
There are things that are not worth a robust stock market. My God given liberties, for one.
Correlation/causation fallacy, anyone?
Consider that just four million babies are born annually in the U.S, Jonathan Last wrote in The Weekly Standard last year. If you strip these immigrants and their relatively high fertility rates from our population profile, America suddenly looks an awful lot like continental Europe.
and if you keep allowing unfettered immigration proceed, well look a lot like Mexico. Great.
In addition, SSAs chief actuary, Stephen Goss, predicted that new legal and illegal immigrants, who currently come to the U.S. at the net rate of 1.08 million each year, will increase the Social Security trust fund by $500 billion over 25 years and by $4 trillion over 75 years.
Wow, the author actually believes that illegal aliens register with the government so that they can pay taxes. This guy really believes that part of the wad of 20s that you hand to the Hernandez crew for a landscaping job ends up in the Social Security trust fund. Mind-blowing ignorance.
We know that were not going to deport all of these people. Why were waiting so long to make these de facto citizens legal makes no political sense. And leaving entire families in limbo as were doing makes no moral sense.
Yes, and the logical progression of such a statement is to ask, Why have border security at all?.
In 2013, our government received 124,000 applications for the H-1B program in four days. But we took 85,000 as a result of a self-imposed cap.
This is just government incompetence on display. How about we put a cap on immigrants from nations that have a cultural hatred of Western values?
No one takes a berth in steerage because he heard that in America the government gives you stuff.
Wow, breath-taking B.S. How do you get so far in life believing such Pollyannish fantasies? For Petes sake, were advertising our social programs in Mexico!
That “huddled masses yearning to breathe free” model is as anachronistic as spats and buggy whips. Today’s immigrants have no desire to assimilate or be productive. They are simply here to harvest the benefits of our successes.
We gain nothing from them except cheap labor.
Ah yes, the bliss of immigration. Sadly the National Review doesn’t have to deal with the immigrants. It just gets to publish propaganda non-stop.
We desperately as a nation need to stop almost all immigration for twenty to thirty years.
We have 25% unemployment. We have regions in this nation that resemble nothing of our own culture. We have regions where our own language isn’t spoken.
Assimilate what we have here now, and then lets move on. And when we do move on, lets use far more common sense than what we have exhibited over the last fifty years, especiall the last 20. What’s going on right now is anything but healthy.
Just how do we know that???...assumptions??
With the right “incentives” illegals will self deport quicker then a speeding bullet....Call it “illegal flight”...similar to “white flight” in the inner cities
"First and foremost are the nearly 12 million undocumented residents
Well at least most of them are Catholics!