Stick to one topic, changing demographics are not a danger to anyone.
The past twenty years or so, starting with the Reagan revolution has been the greatest period of economic strenght this nation has ever seen, we stand as the lone world superpower. And this "invasion" of dishwashers and room maids was going on all along.
Try doing some research into the declining birth rates and the nose dive the worker to retiree ratio is currently doing as baby boomers retire in incredible numbers, there is no one to replace them in the work force.
Here's a concept that will boggle your mind...we could bring in the entire working age population of Mexico by the year 2050, and they will not be sufficient to maintain the current worker to retiree ratio needed to maintain Social Security checks flowing.
By the way, horse buggy manufacturers were displaced by the auto industry, and the nation survived.
Now, we're having to punish the American consummer and forcing him to pay inflated prices on imprted japanese cars because Detroit can no longer compete. Why?
Higher wages and tens of thousands collecting millions and millions in retirement benefits while Toyota USA has less than twenty people colecting retirement.
Do you know who Viagra's biggest customer is?
Chrysler.
There is no cost of immigration that's negative, you are buying into a bill of goods lock, stock, and sinker.
This contry's potential is limitless, don't understimate it.
Illegal immigration is wrong, but the hysteria about immigration bringing the country down is as old as this country itself.
"We are told that illegal immigration is "cheap labor," but it is not "cheap labor," it is subsidized labor. The National Academy of Sciences has found that there is a significant fiscal drain on U.S. taxpayers for each adult immigrant without a high school education. Illegal immigration is something that benefits a few employers, but the rest of us subsidize that labor through the school system, the health-care system, the courts and in other ways that this form of labor imposes. With school spending of more than $7,000 per student per year, even a small family costs far more than a low-wage family pays in taxes."
". Our social fabric risks becoming undone. It is important to America's future that we look at how Mexican immigrants are doing. Too many of our Hispanic immigrants live in ethnic ghettos. Too many are unskilled laborers, too many are uneducated, too many live in poverty, too many are exploited, too many haven't finished ninth grade, too many drop out of school. The Center for Immigration Studies issued a report last year, which found: "Almost two-thirds of adult Mexican immigrants have not completed high school, compared to fewer than one in 10 natives not completing high school. Mexican immigrants now account for 22 percent of all high school dropouts in the labor force."
You say that no cost of immigration is negative, try this figure: "Immigrant households consume between $11 billion and $20 billion more in public services than they pay in taxes each year. The National Academy of Sciences 1997"
I must say that this has been an interesting exchange and enjoyable. At least we can disagree like gentlemen....