My local congressman, Elton Gallegly, has been fighting this for years. Sadly, most republicans only pay lip service to the problem, even Bush.
Thank you! Illegal ~~~Ping~~~
It would be nice for the US to stay the same size. But, realistically, does anyone who is concerned about future national security want the US to be a quarter of the size (population-wise) of China 50 years from now? The only way -- only way -- that the US can remain the strongest country in the world is to boost its number of people. Period. Do it legally as much as possible, but don't fret about rest.
I apologize for telling such a truth on Monday morning.
"Assuming these rates of increase do not rise – a tenuous assumption at best – our population will rise by an added 200 MILLION in less than 50 years. "
Ah, linear extrapolations are our friend! :P
There aren't enough Mexicans in Mexico for that to be true!
Then END all such programs - take away that incentive. I have no problem with those that want to enjoy our freedoms, I just don't want to support them to the detriment of my family.
A couple of corrections:
The estimated number of illegal aliens already here is closer to 31 million.
Per Bob Shieffer at the last Presidential debate, some 8,000 illegal aliens per week are crossing the border. That equates to more like 4.16 million new illegals per year.
But, we know they are only coming here to clean toilets at Holiday Inn. What 25 Chechnyans?????
On the bright side, Under Secretary of Homeland Security Department, Asa Hutchinson is shipping 300 per month back to Mexico. So, he's on the problem.
Bump!
Thanks SheLion, but I am hollding off till after the election for this one.
Thanks SheLion, but I am holding off till after the election for this one.
"Assuming these rates of increase do not rise – a tenuous assumption at best – our population will rise by an added 200 MILLION in less than 50 years."
If you think traffic congestion is bad now, just wait. The best part is, most local and state governments can't afford to build new roads, and onerous regulations implemented since the 60s make building new roads even more expensive.
You'll get people saying that we need "smart growth" to avoid these problems--but their idea of "smart growth" has nothing to do with population and everything to do with roads and housing.
Enjoy living in your high-rise chicken coup in 50 years. It'll be fun, won't it?
WEELLLL....we support abortion and abort our future, we support the gay agenda which makes no future. We are eliminating ourselves much to the joy of the world. What do people think is going to happen...duh!!
I think we're past the demographic/social/cultural tipping point, but like you, I'll struggle for our America.
Among the findings:
Illegal alien households are estimated to use $2,700 a year more in services than they pay in taxes, creating a total fiscal burden of nearly $10.4 billion on the federal budget in 2002.
Among the largest federal costs: Medicaid ($2.5 billion); treatment for the uninsured ($2.2 billion); food assistance programs ($1.9 billion); the federal prison and court systems ($1.6 billion); and federal aid to schools ($1.4 billion).
If illegal aliens were legalized and began to pay taxes and use services like legal immigrants with the same education levels, the estimated annual fiscal deficit at the federal level would increase from $2,700 per household to nearly $7,700, for a total federal deficit of $29 billion.
With nearly two-third of illegals lacking a high school diploma, the primary reason they create a fiscal deficit is their low education levels and resulting low incomes and tax payments — not their legal status or their unwillingness to work.
Amnesty increases costs because illegals would still be largely unskilled, and thus their tax payments would continue to be very modest, but once legalized they would be able to access many more government services.
The fact that legal immigrants with little schooling are a fiscal drain on federal coffers does not mean that legal immigrants overall are a drain. Many legal immigrants are highly skilled.
Because many of the costs are due to their U.S.-born children, who are awarded U.S. citizenship at birth, barring illegals themselves from federal programs will not significantly reduce costs.
Although they create a net drain on the federal government, the average illegal household pays more than $4,200 a year in federal taxes, for a total of nearly $16 billion.
However, they impose annual costs of more than $26.3 billion, or about $6,950 per illegal household.
About 43 percent, or $7 billion, of the federal taxes illegals pay go to Social Security and Medicare.
Employers do not see the costs associated with less-educated immigrant workers because the costs are spread out among all taxpayers.
3. Another 1.3 MILLION arrive legally.
Isn't this a contradiction???
Anyway, law enforcement is needed south of the border that doesn't bend to the whims of left-wing illegal alien flooding activists.
A sustainable population in 2050 should be about 420-430M approx. Anything substantially higher or lower would spell doom.
The Democrats have got to stop blaming Bush for our manufacturing jobs going overseas. After all it was the Democrats who brought overseas into the United States to take our jobs. The Democrats started wars in Vietnam, Bosnia, and Somolia then brought refugees by the hundreds of thousands to fill our manufacturing jobs.
So, “Wake up America! Overseas is here, inside our country, taking our manufacturing jobs. Protest that! Protest the issuing of HB1 and HB2 Visas. No more HB1 and HB2 Visas should be issued for at least ten years. Americans need these jobs.”
With the help of our government, they will have turned our elections into a three ring circus, of fraud and corruption. Watch what happens this coming election, and you can imagine what it's going to be like by 2014.
HMMMMmm I just thought of something... If we switch to a national sales tax 15 million illegal aliens WILL be taxes....hmmm
hmmm.... didn't they say the same thing when all those no good Irish, Italian and Polish immigrants came over in the 1800s?