Will is bad on immigration. Several years ago we booed him at a CPAC banquet because of his statement that we must accept the fact that the illegals aren't going home. He like others present the false choice of mass deportation versus a blanket amnesty. Attrition thru enforcement works.
Any legislation that legalizes the status of those who broke our laws by entering our country illegally and allows them to stay is amnesty. We must not only prevent the Democrats and some moderate Republicans from hijacking the meaning of the word amnesty, but the public must be made aware about the true impact of an amnesty. The Heritage Foundation concluded that the cost of amnesty alone would be $2.6 trillion in entitlement costs. And the number of additional LEGAL immigrants who would join those who were the recipients of amnesty through chain migration, i.e., family reunification, would approach 70 million over a 20-year period, assuming there are only 12 million illegal aliens. We cannot assimilate such numbers. An amnesty would destroy the United States of America with the stroke of a pen.
Will is totally clueless about the impact of amnesty and immigration on our SS system. We don't need more immigrants to support the system. Immigrants grow old as well. And most contribute less than what they take out.
53% of immigrant headed households are on welfare. Will’s stupid comment that all foreign students getting advance degrees should have a green card attached. That is pure BS. We already bring in more immigrants than the rest of the world combined. Let’s have a merit based immigration system rather than the current kinship system.
Will is bad on immigration. Several years ago we booed him at a CPAC banquet because of his statement that we must accept the fact that the illegals aren’t going home. He like others present the false choice of mass deportation versus a blanket amnesty. Attrition thru enforcement works.
Any legislation that legalizes the status of those who broke our laws by entering our country illegally and allows them to stay is amnesty. We must not only prevent the Democrats and some moderate Republicans from hijacking the meaning of the word amnesty, but the public must be made aware about the true impact of an amnesty. The Heritage Foundation concluded that the cost of amnesty alone would be $2.6 trillion in entitlement costs. And the number of additional LEGAL immigrants who would join those who were the recipients of amnesty through chain migration, i.e., family reunification, would approach 70 million over a 20-year period, assuming there are only 12 million illegal aliens. We cannot assimilate such numbers. An amnesty would destroy the United States of America with the stroke of a pen.
Will is totally clueless about the impact of amnesty and immigration on our SS system. We don’t need more immigrants to support the system. Immigrants grow old as well. And most contribute less than what they take out.
If you look at my exchange with 9YearLurker today, I’d add George Will’s name as a FOUNDING member of the New Left. Will was Bill Kristol before Bill Kristol was Bill Kristol.
And the border/immigration issue is positively existential. The nation ceases to exist if we continue the present policies.
Amen!!!!!!
Part of the reason that we have the divisiveness in America and that we went from a strong America to an indebted America has been the 1965 Immigration Bill sponsored by NY and NE liberals that resulted in excessive immigration from all over the world that was not in the country’s interest. The same “elitists” that were behind the 1965 Immigration Act continue to be for open borders and amnesty.
We were a more unified culture in the 50s and now we are Balkanized, which is exactly what they wanted.