Another Wall Street liberal trying to make an invalid case....
Sounds like the phony argument we here in Texas all the time. A state income tax would allow property tax rates to be lowered.
A laughable case.
We should have stopped mass immigration decades ago, JFK wanted it to destroy us as a nation.
Thought this was zot bait at first glance...
It's disgusting that people who got elected as constituional conservatives STILL listen to these treaonous diatribes.
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.
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.
We do favor immigration.
We favor legal immigration under our own terms.
Nauseating bigotry and hatred of Americans.
If “immigrunts” from Mexico are so productive and helpful to an economy, then why is Mexico a desperate, poverty stricken country?
If the answer is “that’s the way their society is”, then when they are able to vote to control our country, won’t it end up looking just like theirs?
Saying that immigrants want a job more than US born Americans do.
It’s basically a bait and switch.
They show you hundreds of bright clean PHDs but they deliver million of campesinos.
Gee, I didn’t realize that we already had legal immigration available to the most innovative and productive individuals of the world. We should create some kind of legal immigration policy or something....
Our current system is only “broken” because the ruling class is not actually enforcing the current system.
I support Ted Cruz’ immigration reform 110%!
Like Tonto said in the old joke: "What you men 'we', Kemosabi?"
I believe the whole debate is over the import of the word "sensible". Some folks fancy that permitting many (if not all) people currently in the U.S. illegally not only to have their presence regularized in some way, but essentially handed Green Cards after a little bureaucratic hassle and put on their way to becoming citizens, is sensible. Others think that tougher enforcement of existing immigration law, including quick deportation of anyone in the U.S. illegally is sensible.
I suspect what is really sensible is somewhere in between. (Personally I like "Red Card" proposals -- a way of granting permanent legal status to remain in the U.S. to some non-citizens that does not put them on a track to citizenship. We can quibble over who should be entitled to such status, but it blunts all the left's humanitarian arguments and would be a way of stopping chain-immigration through family reunion resulting in lots of new 'Rat voters.)
This is exactly the argument a chamber of commerce friend laid on me a few months ago. He’d just retired as CFO of a major American construction company, and he’d been CEO of several large produce and food industry corporations.
His basic argument was that immediate deportation would crash the American economy because the immigrants were ensconced in every work-intensive industry.
His second argument was that immigrants were extremely hard workers away from air conditioning, something he said is not true of Americans anymore.
His 3rd argument was that immigrants disproportionately start up businesses...restaurants, repair shops, etc.
The response of mine that really made him pause was: are all these things not true of LEGAL immigrants as well; why should an illegal steal the place in line of a legal?
He accepted that.
Completely and totally ignorant of the fact that laws addressing the above are already in place and are being ignored and compromised!!!
What makes Diana Furchtgott-Roth think that new laws will not also be ignored and compromised?
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(Yes, I am yelling)
ENFORCE EXISTING LAWS, DAMMIT! YOU WASHINGTON PUKES HAVE PI**ED DOWN OUR LEGS AND SWORN IT’S RAINING FOR SO LONG, AND NOW YOU WANT TO TELL US HOW YOUR SOLUTION IS THE ONLY ONE?!?
/rant