When immigrants came to the United States before the creation of the welfare state, they came here with the attitude that they were either going to work their butts off and make a new life for themselves, or they were going to starve.
Today a large number of “immigrants are coming here with the idea that they are going to get all kinds of free benefits paid for by the American taxpayers and if they are successful, they will never have to work a day in their lives. Free food, free education, free housing. None of this was available 100 years ago when we had “open borders”.
As long as we have a liberal welfare state, it is imperative that nobody be allowed to come to this country that will be a burden on the taxpayers.
If they want to see a large migration of immigrants return to their “own country” (that’s the term they use) then all we need to do is to clamp down on birthright citizenship and welfare for people who are not citizens.
But that will never happen. Not with the present Congress or the current crop of politicians. I don’t really see an end to this unless and until the government eventually runs out of other people’s money. When that happens, there will be blood in the streets.
I remember in the 1970’s when the liberals were all decrying the growth in population of the United States. Now these same lefties are calling for millions of new immigrants to come here every year. What happened to all the population control liberals?
They've moved on to "Climate Change/Climate Disruption/Man-made Global Warming."
BUT it's the same con and the same con-men, like the Sixties [Population Bomb] collaborators [50 years of policy making much of it together] Paul Ehrlich, Stanford and John P. Holdren (Obama's long standing Science and Technology Adviser).
I don’t know any techies who want huge numbers of H1b visas handed out. I’ve heard of a few tech company owners who do, but they want to undercut the big salaries these guys command. And they should. They absorb pages upon pages of diagrams, numbers, binary operations, etc.
It is a field for only a very smart, hard-working person.
Our boston bomber recently convicted was sucking with a family a 100 grand out of the welfare state. He wasn’t memorizing thousands of pages of information.
The bomber is the typical immigrant. Next, are the Indian and Pakistan ‘educated’ supposedly capable replacements. They aren’t capable in either the business or in the English language, a fact we know too well.
So, what is the real game here? What is MicroSoft et al really trying to accomplish in the replacement of their workers with immigrants that don’t really fit the need?
Culture change is one possibility, but what would make someone injure their own business? This one is odd.
They froze to death during the 1970s Ice Age while reading “The Population Bomb”