Another Wall Street liberal trying to make an invalid case....
every conservative that uses that service should cancel, TODAY.
If someone wants to come to this country and build a life here, I welcome them. My ancestors did it a few centuries ago (pre-Revolution). My wife's ancestors did it about a century ago. I don't want to "close the door", simply because I'm already here.
But, I expect them to apply for citizenship as soon as they are eligible, or return to their country or origin. You want to live in American, you become an American.
And until you are a citizen, you are on your own. No welfare, no Social Security, no government freebies or benefits of any kind. If you need help, there are many mutual aid societies organized by religion, culture, or nationality.
Until then, you are a guest, and are expected to act like one. If you wear out your welcome, it's time for you to go back to your home.
I’m in favor of immigration when immigration is useful to the American people as a whole. I’m not in favor of immigration for the sole purpose of allowing the CoC to drive down the wages of working class and middle income workers. How in the world can the people push for $15 minimum wages turn around the very next moment and push for 20 million more unskilled workers. The cognitive dissonance seems like it’d be migraine inducing.
"sensible", the Dems' favorite (and among the most deceptive) adjective.
.
No thank you very much.
The highly educated hyphenated idiot author never mentions illegal immigration...Hmmmm I wonder why?
###### Ms. Furchtgott-Roth received her B.A. in economics from Swarthmore College and her M.Phil. in economics from Oxford University.
In a very Sociopathic sense, it does make some sense. If you look at conservatives having their best chances post-collapse, then of course we would want to expedite the collapse.
I’m not a sociopath, so I’m not so keen on that. Collapse will come soon enough. No need to hurry it along.
Heck, I favor immigration.
The LEGAL kind.
A baited hook if I ever saw one in a poor excuse for journalism...
See, the way I see it, the Tea Party is not so much against immigration, its the ILLEGAL stuff that has everyone’s bowels in an uproar...And rightfully so...
I figure in some countries, you get in there illegally they usually shoot you on the spot, leave yer body to rot as an example to others following your path...
But hey, we be a civilized nation of laws here...
Written by a hyphenated name. I don’t trust folks who do that; it screams liberal..
Tea partiers are not against immigration...
We’re against “ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION” and open borders. Legal immigrants who want to become American are more than welcome.
>> Immigrants increase gross domestic product growth.
Enough to cover themselves and the displayed unemployed?
>> Immigration expands the American workforce
According to the bogus unemployment numbers that fail to record indefinite unemployment?
>> and encourages more business startups
By providing off-the-books labor otherwise subject to Min Wage rates that discourage legal labor hiring?
Without controls on immigration, America is in serious danger of losing our character: what makes us distinctly American, as those who have come here overwhelm existing culture and rather than become American become balkanized splinter groups who describe themselves as hyphenated subsets of the population. Not only does this deprive us all of a national sense of purpose and identity, it creates readily exploitable rifts in our population which have been shamelessly used for political ends, to our universal detriment, as those scalywags who would utilize those rifts tear down any sense of national unity.
What is left is a scrum of gibsmedats, scuttling after whatever freebies their political benefactors will throw them, while the nation is thrown into debt to support that largesse.
Some, controlled, immigration is a good idea, but the uncontrolled melee at the borders is far from that.
I favor imigration. Legal, and within limits. What I don’t favor is unchecked and illegal immigration, especially from third-world country immigrants with no respect for anything here. They are net drains on society, not consumers who add to it.