Posted on 06/11/2014 10:46:34 AM PDT by illiac
Opinion: Immigrants are productive and make us a richer nation
With House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s primary loss to tea party candidate David Brat, federal immigration reform looks dead. But the Tea Party should favor sensible immigration reform with border controls. It would result in additional economic growth, allowing the government to cut spending and lower taxes — key tea-party demands.
Immigrants increase gross domestic product growth. Immigration expands the American workforce and encourages more business startups. In 2013 the labor-force participation of foreign-born workers was higher than native-born workers (66.4% vs. 62.7%). Their unemployment rate was lower (6.9%, compared with 7.5% for native-born Americans). If people want to come and work, that adds to our economy.
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It’s crazy how DUMB the DC-class of both parties thinks we are. They casually interchange immigration with illegal immigrants and name-call anyone opposing amnesty. Someone opposed to legalizing everyone and keeping porous borders is anti-immigrant.
THEN, you have the same crowd playing word games with the definition of amnesty. Like Brit Hume (who I usually like), completely and purposely redefining anything that is short of just legalizing everyone immediately as ‘not amnesty’. Amnesty is anything giving people here illegally a shortcut or leg up in the naturalization process. That’s a moderate view. A stricter definition is even allowing someone who broke our laws to get here any ability to stay and not be deported.
I see room from some moderate right solution...extending work visas to get people here in a legal stance...but absolutely no path to citizenship related to that new status. Mass roundups and deporting is not politically viable....but we can tighten border security, strengthen employer verification, expand worker visas and fix that system to attract and keep high skill tech workers (which is the main goal of the techie push for comprehensive reform). Personally, I’m fine with that. I’d even give a nod to children who came here at a young age becoming a citizen at 18. Not their families, but just them.
Sounds like the phony argument we here in Texas all the time. A state income tax would allow property tax rates to be lowered.
Question: should we more like Chile ...or Bolivia?
Latinos are already the nations largest identifiable ethnic group. ¿La matemática es misterio a los gringos?
We don’t need 1.1 million PERMANENT LEGAL IMMIGRANTS A YEAR. In addition, we bring in 650,000 guest workers a year on temporary work visas. Legal immigration must be drastically reduced and we need a merit based system, not a kinship one.
After we take the senate and then the White House maybe you’ll have a few ICE agents swoop down on the old homestead?
A laughable case.
Good post ping
We should have stopped mass immigration decades ago, JFK wanted it to destroy us as a nation.
Why reward illegal behavior? You just get more of it.
I am totaly legal.
Thought this was zot bait at first glance...
I’m waiting until the muzlims start dropping their kids off at the border. They know we’ll feed, clothe, house and educate them to the limits of our budget.
Legal is OK, as long as its not H1B wage deflators.
It's disgusting that people who got elected as constituional conservatives STILL listen to these treaonous diatribes.
“Why the Tea Party shouldn’t take advice from anyone with a hyphenated name.”
My thoughts exactly! Just what is “a Fukit-Roth?”
O.M.G. The stupid...
Illegals burden the taxpayer via the emergency room and the schoolroom.
Illegals force down wages for all by working under the table for less.
Illegals bring diseases from nations with lower public health standards, causing increased healthcare costs to all.
Illegals who commit crimes are harder to track, arrest, or prosecute because the are unregistered, causing increased costs to law enforcement.
The net economic value of productive, educated illegals in comparison to the economic drain by low-contributing illegals is impossible calculate because most illegals are unregistered and unstudied.
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Some immigrants are productive and make us richer, but others need to be subsidized in a less than break even capacity. Wall Street should know all about being subsidized. Oh, and don’t look now, but the illegals coming over here now are not the hard working immigrants that came to help granddad get the cotton in. They are more likely to need housing assistance, education for their children, subsidized healthcare, food stamps, and then they are more likely to commit crimes, and spend time in our prisons. They will steal IDs, cars; rape our children; drive drunk with no insurance; break into our homes, and drive up unemployment. But Wall Street will be happy.
Bus a thousand illegals a day to Wall Street and the neighborhoods where liberal bankers and traders live. They would change their corrupt minds.
The logic, Allow migrant workers in to support the non-working Americans.
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