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To: Girlene
Why? He’s not stupid.

He is ill-informed or he thinks we are stupid. There are so many falsehoods and Orwellian uses of language in this speech, it is disgraceful. Why is he doing it? Naked political ambition and his libertarian bent that sees the free movement of labor regardless of borders. It is naive and dangerous.

Not to stop most immigrants from coming-we welcome them and in fact should seek to increase legal immigration.

The proposition that we need more legal immigrants while 23 million Americans are looking for jobs is insane. During the decade ending in 2010, we had more legal immigrants enter this country in our history, 13.9 million. During that same period we suffered a net loss of 400,000 jobs.

The U.S. adds one international migrant (net) every 36 seconds. Immigrants account for one in 8 U.S. residents, the highest level in more than 90 years. In 1970 it was one in 21; in 1980 it was one in 16; and in 1990 it was one in 13. In a decade, it will be one in 7, the highest it has been in our history. And by 2050, one in 5 residents of the U.S. will be foreign-born.

The nation’s immigrant population (legal and illegal) reached 40 million in 2010, the highest number in our history. The U.S. immigrant population has doubled since 1990, nearly tripled since 1980, and quadrupled since 1970, when it stood at 9.7 million. Of the 40 million immigrants in the country in 2010, 13.9 million arrived in 2000 or later making it the highest decade of immigration in American history, even though there was a net loss of jobs during the decade.

34 posted on 03/19/2013 7:50:21 AM PDT by kabar
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To: kabar

It is disappointing to hear Paul promote this plan. I just don’t understand why he believes it will work and not further destroy the US.

I had no idea that legal immigration was so high. Thanks for that info.


42 posted on 03/19/2013 8:01:00 AM PDT by Girlene
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To: kabar

Well, since the Primary, I have seen Libertarians flowing out of the cracks here like a flooding trailer house getting fumigated... trying to convince us Conservatives that they are more Conservative than we are, and we need to ‘go with the flow’. I say to the Libertarians, go to a Libertarian site and promote your socialist crap.


54 posted on 03/19/2013 8:35:17 AM PDT by Bikkuri (Molon Labe)
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To: kabar

BTT


97 posted on 03/19/2013 12:12:09 PM PDT by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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To: kabar

That was a hell of a post. Thank you.


100 posted on 03/19/2013 12:15:05 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg ("Don't be afraid to see what you see." -- Ronald Reagan)
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