[LowCountryJoe]

No! It's true of all immigration in the aggregate. Unless, of course, you are going to be stubborn enough to argue with this. This really does need to be read and responded to, if you expect me to discuss this with you further.

[Old_Mil]

No! It's true of all immigration in the aggregate. Unless, of course, you are going to be stubborn enough to argue with this. This really does need to be read and responded to, if you expect me to discuss this with you further.

I am going to be stubborn enough to argue with this. For starters, the initial question is far too broad a grouping that fails to differentiate immigration over a hundred year span. Furthermore, if you add the statistics in the the last question about illegals, almost 1 out of every 4 "economists" polled feel that illegals are a neutral influence, a negative influence, or don't know. Finally, no "poll" like this can pretend to trump the hard economic reality of hundreds of billions of dollars that are drained from the economy through the problems such immigrants cause for the health care, criminal justice, and educational systems within this country. Throw in the social costs and infrastructure and we're back to my original point.