A reduction in the immigrant inflow is entirely rational. As George Borjas has shown, the current crop of immigrants are MORE likely to receive government handouts than native-born Americans. As the 2000 election returns show, immigrants are MORE likely to vote for liberals than are native-born Americans. As the National Reserach Center showed in the 1990s, we DON'T need mass immigration for econcomic reasons. THE NRC estimated that the net benefit to the economy from mass immigration was on the order of 10 billion dollars, a paltry sum in our 8 trillion dollar economy. And this came at a cost--depressed wages for working class Americans.
As usual, Buchanan has facts on his side, and all the politically correct can do is whine and call him names.
let's just say that pat is pretty much all wet here...