The median age of immigrants is now older than native Americans. The decade ending in 2010 was the largest in our history--13.9 million even though during the same period we lost a net of 400,000 jobs. There is no correlation between immigration and job needs. And people without jobs don't pay SS taxes. Instead they are on welfare. Milton Friedman said that, “You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.” We have both.
SS has been running in the red since 2010 and Medicare since 2008. They will continue to do so until they run out of IOUs in the trust funds and then by law, must cut benefits. This despite the fact that we had the highest number of immigrants enter this country during the past decade in our history. Moreover, one in 8 in this country is foreign born compared to one in 21 in 1970. So how can increasing the number of immigrants each year help us when our history over the past 40 years shows just the opposite? And we have declining and depressed wages during that period.
FYI: The SS Disability Fund goes broke in 2016, which means that payments must be reduced. What is going to happen is that Congress will authorize SS to shift IOUs from the SSTF to the SS Disability Trust Fund to keep on paper at least, SS disability solvent enough to pay full benefits. In the process, it will reduce the time SS will exhaust its IOUs-now around 2036. Oh, and Obamacare kicks in in 2014, which will no doubt increase USG subsidies to both legal and illegal immigrants.
50% to 60% of the illegal aliens lack even a high school degree. How will an amnesty help us increase revenue? And 25% of the adult legal immigrants who enter annually lack a high school degree. We are importing hundreds of thousands of high school dropouts annually and you are telling me this helps our economy?